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Libreture - your ebook & comic cloud library @libreture.com · 6h

Thank you!

I'll add your shop to the list asap, @katherinevillyard.com.

Katherine Villyard @katherinevillyard.com · 6h

Don’t forget mine! shop.katherinevillyard.com

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Katherine Villyard @katherinevillyard.com · 6h

Don’t forget mine! shop.katherinevillyard.com

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 9h

We should probably talk about AI being used as a tool to promote anti-Blackness across cultures.

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Libreture - your ebook & comic cloud library @libreture.com · 9h

In case it helps your DRM-free ebook-buying, here's my list of over 500 DRM-free bookshops!

Includes Krista's of course!

You know, in case you need more excuses to buy books. 😉

The Ultimate List of DRM-free Bookshops

A regularly updated list of online shops that sell DRM-free ebooks, digital comics, magazines, and RPGs. Helping hundreds of readers a month discover over 400 DRM-free bookshops.

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Joan Grey @joangrey.bsky.social · 9h

I am not buying on Kindle because they stopped allowing me to download the book files for books I purchased.

Knowing your books are available drm-free means I can buy them and load them into my preferred epub reading app. I'll go check them out.

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Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 11h

Everyone: I AM BOYCOTTING KINDLE

Me: cool, will you buy my books somewhere else at least?

*me looking at my sales report* Ah, I guess not.

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Libreture - your ebook & comic cloud library @libreture.com · 14h

Downloaded my FREE digital copy of SPINE by @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social!

I've also added Backwards Tabletop's Itch store to the list of DRM-free bookshops, so you can mark where you bought or downloaded your own copy and help others discover it for themselves. 💜

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Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 1d

<totters out onto porch>

<settles into rocker>

<thumps cane a few times>

Let's talk about what the process of submitting short fiction used to look like, shall we? And about what it looks like now.

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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 1d

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Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 1d

SPINE is officially available on itch.

Would you help me spread the word one more time?

Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 1d

SPINE has been released on itch! You can download your PDF or a printable booklet today to start playing!

I'm keeping it FREE through the end of October.

backwards-tabletop.itch.io/spine

Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 15d

SPINE is a solo tabletop RPG that looks like a book. It is your anchor to the fictional world, a prop, and a work of art — a keepsake — that you co-create, all in one.

In SPINE, you quite literally embody a researcher who is reading and marking up the physical book in front of you.

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Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 1d

If you're willing to RT or QRT the original post, I'd be grateful.

I'd love for people to get their copy now that it's available for download, and I'd like others to grab it while it's still free.

(And sorry for so much promo recently. It pains me, and I am grateful for everyone's patience)

Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 1d

SPINE has been released on itch! You can download your PDF or a printable booklet today to start playing!

I'm keeping it FREE through the end of October.

backwards-tabletop.itch.io/spine

Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 15d

SPINE is a solo tabletop RPG that looks like a book. It is your anchor to the fictional world, a prop, and a work of art — a keepsake — that you co-create, all in one.

In SPINE, you quite literally embody a researcher who is reading and marking up the physical book in front of you.

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Matt Leone @mattleone.bsky.social · 1d

Big day! Here's the thing I've been working on for the past few months.

Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨🚨

We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site.

• We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon
• Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n
• See more: designroom.site

Design Room

Video game oral histories

designroom.site

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ShortBox Comics Fair @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social · 1d

In a faraway castle, both an unexpected death and a bizarre birth lead the court magician, Bagatto, to navigate the dreams of those who live the castle in order to untangle intrigue, secrets and unknown pasts.
'Bagatto' is a stunning, trippy, unmissable wonder from
sassoraviolo!

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General Witchfinders @generalwitch.bsky.social · 1d

Really sorry - cost to send zines to USA have gone up AGAIN . Almost double what it was a month or so ago - all down to the ‘beautiful tariffs’

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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 1d

It’s publication day! Our children’s book, *Fearless Benjamin: The Quaker Dwarf who Fought Slavery*, co-written with Michelle Markel and illustrated by Sarah Bachman, is out today with @pmpress.bsky.social. Use BEN! at checkout for a 20% discount. Help spread the word!

pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

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Libreture - your ebook & comic cloud library @libreture.com · 1d

If this isn't a dog-whistle to anyone with a reasonably good singing voice and a love of Warhammer, I don't know what is!

the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · Aug 14

People are always rightly pointing out that Warhammer contributes more to the British economy than the fishing industry, but the problem is that there just aren't very many folk songs about Warhammer

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 1d

Not that *I* find it unhinged, but some people do:

There is no inherently superior form or genre of literature. You can find crap in all of them and absolute masterworks too.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 1d

AI tech will be the asbestos of the 21st century, digging it out of the software it's embedded in will become a well paid job for some. The hideous grinning forced optimism of the AI bubble, however, will disappear with the stock market crash.

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Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 1d

SPINE has been released on itch! You can download your PDF or a printable booklet today to start playing!

I'm keeping it FREE through the end of October.

backwards-tabletop.itch.io/spine

Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 15d

SPINE is a solo tabletop RPG that looks like a book. It is your anchor to the fictional world, a prop, and a work of art — a keepsake — that you co-create, all in one.

In SPINE, you quite literally embody a researcher who is reading and marking up the physical book in front of you.

Embody the researcher who is reading and marking up the physical book in front of you.

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Libreture - your ebook & comic cloud library @libreture.com · 1d

Remember that we have server maintenance planned for this Friday night.

Download any ebooks, comics, magazines, etc. you plan to read, before 11pm (BST). 😉💜

Server Maintenance on 17th of October

Libreture's server will be upgraded on the 17th of October, with some downtime.

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Libreture - your ebook & comic cloud library @libreture.com · 1d

This!

Just remove "the shit everyone hates that you added for no reason".

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 2d

boost your user satisfaction and growth with this one weird trick (removing the shit everyone hates that you added for no reason)

r/SaaS
u/soasme
I deleted ALL AI features... and user growth went UP.

Everyone's busy adding Al to everything.
I did the same for indie10k.com but it didn't work.
I removed all of fancy Al stuff - Al coach, Al growth ideas, Al "personalized" advice - everything.
Guess what?
I see more registered users and higher retention.
That actually make me wonder why now i have one page with one button, without all that Al thingy, but it does better?
Here's my question:
Is Al feature actually helping SaaS grow?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

it is more important to read books you actually enjoy reading than books that are Literature

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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shazleen @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social · 2d

I am organising direct action against Reform UK to fight against their racist misinformation. Posted more about it over on my insta, but here's the main bits!

Find out more: www.instagram.com/sticker_up_f...
Grab a PDF of the zine: www.shazleenkhan.shop

too many people i love are being victimized by nigel farage and i am going to mobilise the entire uk comics industry to fucking defeat him and protect myself, immigrants and refugees

our target is the 2026 local council elections. through targetted sticker and flyer campaigns i aim to destroy reform UK's momentum in vulnerable constituencies throughout the UK

this is a link to resources. I am sorry people who use screen readers I am not able to transcribe everything. I am one guy and I am doing this on voluntary basis. if you use a screen reader and have mates who would be willing to help me convert my text posts into readable formats please link us up

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Don Dechert @dondechert.bsky.social · 2d

I worked with a reserve Army Intelligence officer who was an engineer and also a ChatGPT evangalist to a degree that every use of ChatGPT that he recounted was in a tone of gee whiz amazement that was hard to take seriously.

Probably makes sense.

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2d

“These findings follow previous research which concluded that the more people learn about how AI works, the less they trust it. The opposite was also true — AI’s biggest fanboys tended to be those who understood the least about the tech.”

The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It

A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.

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Libreture - your ebook & comic cloud library @libreture.com · 2d

Heading back to the fair for more amazing comics?

For five years the ShortBox Comics Fair has featured amazing comic artists from all over the world. Selling their never-seen-before digital comics in DRM-free formats for an entire month. 💜

ShortBox Comics Fair 2025 is open!

ShortBox Comics Fair, the innovative digital comics fair showcasing all-new, original comics from artists around the globe, is hitting its fifth year!

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