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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 11h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 12h

Great library in a beautiful town.

SMConnors 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇵🇹🇬🇧 🗽 #FBR #BlueCrew #NO_KINGS #50501 @gemini618.bsky.social · 13h

How cool is this? My hometown public library.
❤️📚📖

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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 1d

Reading for pleasure has fallen by 40 percent since 2000. This is not progress. You should read because it's good for your brain, your soul. You should read because our freedoms will not long endure in a post-literate world. Most of all, you should read because it's fun.

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blue-in-ak.bsky.social @blue-in-ak.bsky.social · 1d

Homes floating away in Kipnuk, Alaska. (Photographer unknown)

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 1d

"A collection of empty chairs is called an author reading."

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 1d

"A group of people who only remember 'the cover was blue' is called a patron."

Collective Nouns for Librarians

A group of librarians is called a cardigan. A collection of empty chairs is called an author reading. A collection of Eric Carle books covered in s...

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C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 1d

This is a endlessly marketable idea. And for that reason, I'm in.

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C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 1d

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 2d

“No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.”
– Lily Tomlin

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C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 4d

A hundred times this.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 5d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 4d

Can confirm. You should read this, all of you.

Kristin Bair [O'Keeffe] @kristinbairokeeffe.bsky.social · 4d

Men: “This book isn’t for men.”

“CLEMENTINE CRANE PREFERS NOT TO should be required reading for men of all ages.” —C.B. Bernard, Barry Award–winning author of Ordinary Bear [yes, a man]

Be the guy who gets it. Buy the book.

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#booksky #authorsky #booklaunch #5amwritersclub

Clementine Crane Prefers Not To: A Novel

A Novel

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C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 5d

Great town.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 6d

I started Degenerate Art a year ago today, in the last weeks of the before times. Today, I wrote about the most important history and current events I've covered related to our rapidly expanding authoritarianism, and what the future is likely to bring.

State of the Degenerate union

The newsletter turned one today! What's happened and what's next.

degenerateart.beehiiv.com

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C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 5d

Pay your writers. And support @beaujohnson44.bsky.social like he supports so many other writers. The man is a damn gem.

Beau Johnson 🇨🇦 🪓 @beaujohnson44.bsky.social · 6d

Do not buy my books from Amazon or Down and Out Books directly. I will not get paid. I should get paid, as per my contract, but in an email from D&O I’ve been told ‘no further payments will be issued.’
It absolutely blows it is ending this way, but man, pay your authors what they are owed.

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C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 7d

Meanwhile, in the U.S....

Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 7d

Budget 2026: Basic income for artists to become permanent www.rte.ie/news/budget-...

Budget 2026: Basic income for artists to become permanent

The Basic Income for the Arts scheme will be put on a permanent footing in the Budget tomorrow.

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C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 9d

Love spending my entire life devoted to something the culture has spent the same time devaluing.

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels

Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive

www.thetimes.com

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 9d

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels

Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive

www.thetimes.com

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C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 9d

A lifetime ago I was managing editor of the Alaska newspaper at the heart of this. We worked hard, believed in serving our community, and punched above our weight. I'm proud of these journalists for speaking out against corporate cowardice and hypocritical bullies.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

www.nytimes.com

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Chris Bohjalian @chrisbohjalian.bsky.social · 11d

Yes, 19. That is how many of my books Anthropic used to train its AI model. Thank you, Authors Guild, for publishing the complete list on their brand new settlement page. #ai @doubledaybooks.bsky.social @authorsguild.org

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C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 10d

For the #5amwritersclub crowd...

C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 11d

Fun interview with Ali Karim for Shots magazine. We had a wide ranging conversation in which I out myself as a weirdo and shill for @pazsays.bsky.social and @ginphillips.bsky.social, because their books are amazing. Check it out at wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

The Bear Necessities: C.B. Bernard talks to Shots Magazine

Book reviewers can tell you how exciting it is to discover a novel that is ‘different’, that engages the mind and makes one contemplate, p...

wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.com

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C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 10d

Thanks, @pazsays.bsky.social!

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 11d

“I liked the idea of kind of flipping a Jack Reacher story on its head. A giant ex-military type who lives out of a bag and helps someone in need, except he kindda sucks at it.” Go read this interview (not just bc he shills my book!) and then go pick up ORDINARY BEAR!!

C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 11d

Fun interview with Ali Karim for Shots magazine. We had a wide ranging conversation in which I out myself as a weirdo and shill for @pazsays.bsky.social and @ginphillips.bsky.social, because their books are amazing. Check it out at wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

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C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 11d

Writers have to lift each other up, right? Otherwise, what's the point?

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C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 11d

seconded

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C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 11d

Fun interview with Ali Karim for Shots magazine. We had a wide ranging conversation in which I out myself as a weirdo and shill for @pazsays.bsky.social and @ginphillips.bsky.social, because their books are amazing. Check it out at wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

The Bear Necessities: C.B. Bernard talks to Shots Magazine

Book reviewers can tell you how exciting it is to discover a novel that is ‘different’, that engages the mind and makes one contemplate, p...

wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.com

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 12d

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Lydia Mulvey @lydiamulvey.bsky.social · 14d

this is looking pretty appealing rn

A remote lighthouse on a towering column of rock surrounded by rough seas in Iceland.

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