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@gabliotecaria.bsky.social

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🇵🇷 in 🇬🇧. She/her. Proud trade union organiser and former public library worker. Views here are my own, not my employer's.

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Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · Sep 11

If you want to know how AMAZING @wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social is, they somehow *knew* I'd be wearing this top on Loki release day and wrapped the book to coordinate. If you want to know how BRILLIANT @louiestowell.bsky.social's book is, just look at Godzilla trying to escape the frame to grab it!

I'm wearing the loudest hot pink Hawaiian shirt (it literally says Hawaii with illustrations of a sandy beach and hot pink and white clouds) and amazingly the ribbon wrapping my copy of Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Causing Chaos is white, pink, blue, and orange, matching it PERFECTLY. Best bookshop EVER!

I'm holding up my copy of Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Causing Chaos next to my canvas Godzilla poster so it looks like he's excitedly stomping through the waves to grab it off my hand. He would, too, if he wasn't a painting.

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GONZO the Ghoastly 👻 @gonzo.bsky.social · 10h

Latenite archival babbyGonz time!

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 29m

Here more than 5,000 people answered the question below (more than 4,200 via quote replies & >800 comments). Lots of interesting stories!

On X, 15 people replied to the same query.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 4d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 6h

This is it. I didn’t find it at all difficult to leave Twitter in the end: it stopped being fun and became boring and depressing. Whenever I opened it I’d see things that were obnoxious or upsetting. It was a relief not to do that.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 9h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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GONZO the Ghoastly 👻 @gonzo.bsky.social · 18h

Yez

Orange and white cat stares in the foreground. Behind him, an orange cat blurrily naps in a window basket. Text reads, "our enemies are cowards and we are going to defeat them."

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Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · 5h

NUNS
Sister, in my studies I have inventede a Niewe Letter
Indeede sister
It is to Followe the Letters U and W. I call ite The Triple-U
Uuu
Exactlie

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Deborah Timms @deborahtimms.bsky.social · 19h

💙💙💙

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Claire Linney Author @clairelinney.bsky.social · 2h

Day 12 of my month of Black kids books. This is The Tunnels Below by Nadine Wild Palmer. A wonderful, slightly surreal fantasy adventure set in a hidden world beneath London. Cecilia finds herself working to save her new friends from a tyrannical overlord. Original and brilliant.

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花房＊関西コミティアI-21 @hanabusayuu.bsky.social · 4h

ハロウィンパーティに行こう！※再掲

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 2h

It’s really important that this story is in People magazine. It’s really important that this representation of ICE violence against a clergy person is in a very “mainstream” outlet that reaches people who may not consume political media.

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 2h

“‘I am grateful to show up with these protesters—people who deeply believe in democracy and are bringing peaceful and moral witness against what the Trump administration is trying to do in Chicago,’ Black told CNN.” people.com/pastor-claim...

Pastor Claims He Was Praying When ‘Laughing’ ICE Agents Shot Him in the Head with Pepper Ball During Protest

A pastor, who was captured on video being allegedly shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents during a protest, claimed that the officers were laughing and were indiscriminate in their use of ...

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Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 2h

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 2h

Literally THE OPPOSITE of what Dr Manhattan said.

Also, Moore didn't see this as an ideal solution. Moore literally negates the plan in the last panel.

This fucking guy....

Why the hell does he get oxygen to spout word salad?

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 4h

Not only is this explanation great, I also know 5,271,009 people whose lives would be changed for the better by taking it on board.

Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 10d

This Tumblr user summarizes something I've been feeling/doing lately. Against everything going on, it somehow feels helpful.

User homoquartz writes: as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. it’s just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. we’re small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, “i’m not here to hurt you. here’s something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know we’re on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. i’m being light-hearted and non-threatening right now."
Small talk isn't to get to know a person. It's just a greeting to affirm you're buddies in the universe. I am motivated by wanting the other person to know I am friendly, so I have gotten pretty decent at small tall when I used to hate it.

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Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 2h

"two week indicative ballot"

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 11h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 11h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 9h

They did a licensing deal with the Devil.

Rob T @thexclaim6.bsky.social · 20h

Debenhams is selling idols of Pazuzu, in case you were wondering what stage of late capitalism we’re in…

Pazuzu idol pendant for sale at Debenhams

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Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 3h

When the timeline delivers these two posts in a row

Screencap from a headline post on The Onion: "Entire precinct made up of loose cannons"

Post by Best for Britain: "What is it they say about bad apples and spoiling barrels?" In reference to a Guardian headline: "Farage insists ex-Reform UK Wales leader convicted of bribery is 'bad apple' "

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Jason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social · 15h

Have you ever been lost in a video game level, wandering empty halls, until you know you're going the right way because you finally run into enemies? Because you don't know what to do without conflict? Well some people live their real lives that way

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Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 3h

This came up in our excel course because WordArt lives forever and is still there so we spent a good 5 minutes explaining "graphic design is my passion" to the younguns 😂😂😂

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 4h

DRINK WATER FROM THE SKULLS OF YOUR ENEMIES! IF YOU HAVE CRUSHED THEIR SKULLS, USE A GLASS.

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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 5h

more spooky birds for spooky season

#art

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Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 5h

The Salvation Army really is the epitome of a certain kind of white conservatism

They prey on the most vulnerable. They happily leave the sort of people they don't like to die in the streets

But they smile a lot and don't cuss and say "Jesus", so they get to be respectable

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Helen Simmons (She/Her) @littlehen.bsky.social · 4h

Hey fellow veggies. Tell me what your go to recipes are for meaty tastes and textures when you’re craving something solid and iron dense. I’m not super keen on fake-meat so more interested in recipes or ingredients that can feel ‘meaty’ without being meat.

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 4d

Just been made aware that the new documentary The Librarians is available for free on BBC iPlayer for the next 12 mths. It investigates what librarians in the US are going through right now as they unite to combat book banning & defend free speech. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Storyville - The Librarians

A Storyville documentary that explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 5h

THE RESIGNATIONS OF PRIME MINISTER LECORNU WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 6h

French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu appointed by Macron for the second time yesterday is already threatening to resign if “conditions are no longer met”. (France Elects)

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Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 5h

Currently reading my first e-book from them!

( @freyamarske.bsky.social's Cinder House )

The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 5h

ICYMI: Bookshop.org has launched a new e-book platform, enabling indie bookshops to access the growing e-book market in the UK 👇 #BookSky

Bookshop.org launches new e-book platform for indie bookshops

ebx.sh

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Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 7h

If I get it you won't even have to post them! 😂 Canterbury is just down t'road from me (we can meet for coffee or something if you like)!