Main St. Books Monroe
@mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social
A used and new bookstore in Monroe, Washington since 1995. Woman- and LGBTQIA-owned and operated. Store cat. 110 E. Main St. Monroe WA 98272 📚🌈😺 MainStBooksMonroe.com
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Alright, team Bluesky: US foodbanks are about to have staggering demand when SNAP ends Nov 1st. We need to help them prepare.
I'll match donations: DM or reply with a receipt showing your own donation to a food bank of your choice, and I'll donate to match, up to a total of $500. 💪🥗🍲🥚🥧🥪🥣🥛
#NoHunger
I'll match donations: DM or reply with a receipt showing your own donation to a food bank of your choice, and I'll donate to match, up to a total of $500. 💪🥗🍲🥚🥧🥪🥣🥛
#NoHunger
October 23, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Alright, team Bluesky: US foodbanks are about to have staggering demand when SNAP ends Nov 1st. We need to help them prepare.
I'll match donations: DM or reply with a receipt showing your own donation to a food bank of your choice, and I'll donate to match, up to a total of $500. 💪🥗🍲🥚🥧🥪🥣🥛
#NoHunger
I'll match donations: DM or reply with a receipt showing your own donation to a food bank of your choice, and I'll donate to match, up to a total of $500. 💪🥗🍲🥚🥧🥪🥣🥛
#NoHunger
These are the coolest!
October 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
These are the coolest!
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If you order Good Old-Fashioned Korean Spirit from @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social, they'll ship it to you with signed original art inside!
www.mainstbooksmonroe.com/product/good...
www.mainstbooksmonroe.com/product/good...
October 23, 2025 at 6:55 AM
If you order Good Old-Fashioned Korean Spirit from @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social, they'll ship it to you with signed original art inside!
www.mainstbooksmonroe.com/product/good...
www.mainstbooksmonroe.com/product/good...
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I'm excited to share that we've got another edition of Gender Queer on the way for next spring! This one is annotated by queer and trans authors, comics scholars, and multiple people who appear in the book as characters 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈📚
October 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I'm excited to share that we've got another edition of Gender Queer on the way for next spring! This one is annotated by queer and trans authors, comics scholars, and multiple people who appear in the book as characters 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈📚
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In Mexico, blackouts caused by data centers destroyed people's refrigerators and oxygen equipment in hospitals, and water shortages meant toilets couldn't flush in schools.
AI is another version of colonial extraction.
AI is another version of colonial extraction.
“By 2035, data centers globally are projected to use about as much electricity as India…according to the International Energy Agency. A single data center can also use more than 500,000 gallons of water a day, nearly as much as an Olympic-size swimming pool.”
🎁:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
🎁:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
In Mexico, blackouts caused by data centers destroyed people's refrigerators and oxygen equipment in hospitals, and water shortages meant toilets couldn't flush in schools.
AI is another version of colonial extraction.
AI is another version of colonial extraction.
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you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am
August 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am
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Nope. Nope. Nope.
Not cool.
Not here.
Not ever.
We will keep working with real translators and narrators (and artists and proofreaders and authors and...) without any of this "AI" bullshit.
Not cool.
Not here.
Not ever.
We will keep working with real translators and narrators (and artists and proofreaders and authors and...) without any of this "AI" bullshit.
The 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair heard that developments in AI audiobooks mean publishers will no longer have to decide whether to translate a book, but instead just choose which market to translate into 👇 #FBM25
AI audio means publishers ‘don’t have to choose whether to translate, only which market’, FBF hears
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October 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Nope. Nope. Nope.
Not cool.
Not here.
Not ever.
We will keep working with real translators and narrators (and artists and proofreaders and authors and...) without any of this "AI" bullshit.
Not cool.
Not here.
Not ever.
We will keep working with real translators and narrators (and artists and proofreaders and authors and...) without any of this "AI" bullshit.
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The fact that our next book Telenovela is going to carry a Books By People stamp certifying that it is AI-free has also now been reported around the world in Publisher's Weekly: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Frankfurt Book Fair 2025: Identity Stamps
Two new startups, Books by People and Amlet, aim to certify a book’s authenticity in the AI era
www.publishersweekly.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:21 AM
The fact that our next book Telenovela is going to carry a Books By People stamp certifying that it is AI-free has also now been reported around the world in Publisher's Weekly: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
I didn't get to many bookstores in Jinbocho but I did make a trip just for Anekawa Nyankodo, a store specializing in books about cats <3 As he rang up my stack, I told the shopkeeper I also have a bookstore, in America, and showed him a picture of our store cat.
October 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I didn't get to many bookstores in Jinbocho but I did make a trip just for Anekawa Nyankodo, a store specializing in books about cats <3 As he rang up my stack, I told the shopkeeper I also have a bookstore, in America, and showed him a picture of our store cat.
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1975: Harlan Ellison visits Michael Moorcock in London. The Englishman sits Ellison in front of the TV when Dr Who comes on & insists Ellison “be quiet & just watch”. By the late 1970s,Ellison is such a fan of Dr Who that he’s taunting US scifi fans with declarations of its superiority over US fare.
October 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
1975: Harlan Ellison visits Michael Moorcock in London. The Englishman sits Ellison in front of the TV when Dr Who comes on & insists Ellison “be quiet & just watch”. By the late 1970s,Ellison is such a fan of Dr Who that he’s taunting US scifi fans with declarations of its superiority over US fare.
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A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.
She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!
Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:
She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!
Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:
October 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.
She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!
Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:
She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!
Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:
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New Reading Rainbow with @mychal3ts.bsky.social is here, and HEADS UP fellow kidlit authors! It's filmed in a real library FULL of books, not a set, so hundreds of lucky authors now have their books on Reading Rainbow and don't know it!
Look carefully at backgrounds to see if your book is there!
Look carefully at backgrounds to see if your book is there!
No Cats In The Library 🐱📚 | Reading Rainbow 📖 🌈 | Full Episode | @Kidzuko
YouTube video by Kidzuko
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October 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
New Reading Rainbow with @mychal3ts.bsky.social is here, and HEADS UP fellow kidlit authors! It's filmed in a real library FULL of books, not a set, so hundreds of lucky authors now have their books on Reading Rainbow and don't know it!
Look carefully at backgrounds to see if your book is there!
Look carefully at backgrounds to see if your book is there!
We will be having shorter hours September 15th to October 18th: Mon/Tues/Wed/Sat will be 10:30 to 4:30, and Thurs/Fri will be 2pm to 5pm. If you come in say hi to Steph, who will be watching over the store and of course Miranda!
September 15, 2025 at 7:36 AM
We will be having shorter hours September 15th to October 18th: Mon/Tues/Wed/Sat will be 10:30 to 4:30, and Thurs/Fri will be 2pm to 5pm. If you come in say hi to Steph, who will be watching over the store and of course Miranda!
It's been out just over a year, but Vincent Tirado's We Came to Welcome You.
What are some trad pub SFF/H books that have been out at least a year that you think didn't get enough attention? Adult or YA. Marginalized authors preferred, and small press titles encouraged. Not looking for big bestsellers or award-sweepers.
September 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
It's been out just over a year, but Vincent Tirado's We Came to Welcome You.
I love providing books for harmless pranks amongst family members <3
September 11, 2025 at 6:56 AM
I love providing books for harmless pranks amongst family members <3
I can already tell this Terry Pratchett bio is going to be amazing, from the anecdote of a six year old Terry finding a crucifix in a drawer and exclaiming "Mum! I've found a stick with an acrobat on it." bookshop.org/a/214/978152...
Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes: The Official Biography
The Official Biography
bookshop.org
September 6, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I can already tell this Terry Pratchett bio is going to be amazing, from the anecdote of a six year old Terry finding a crucifix in a drawer and exclaiming "Mum! I've found a stick with an acrobat on it." bookshop.org/a/214/978152...
Throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks in terms of making ANY sales online, I've added a few books to Pango. Enjoy $5.00 off your first purchase when you use our code "MAINSTBOOKSMONROE" at checkout. 📚💙 #booksky pangobooks.com/MAINSTBOOKSM...
Pangobooks - MAINSTBOOKSMONROE
Enjoy savings with promo code MAINSTBOOKSMONROE on Pangobooks
pangobooks.com
September 6, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks in terms of making ANY sales online, I've added a few books to Pango. Enjoy $5.00 off your first purchase when you use our code "MAINSTBOOKSMONROE" at checkout. 📚💙 #booksky pangobooks.com/MAINSTBOOKSM...
If you are a "go to the bookstore and fill a basket" kind of person (as you should be!) what is an ideal basket shape? These are ours, and I've never been thrilled: if you insert the books spine up the handle gets awkward.
September 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
If you are a "go to the bookstore and fill a basket" kind of person (as you should be!) what is an ideal basket shape? These are ours, and I've never been thrilled: if you insert the books spine up the handle gets awkward.
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Happy September, everyone! It's time once again to start soliciting sponsorships for 2026. If you are a publisher, you can see sponsorship information at the link. If you are an author, bookstore, or other interested entity, you can DM or email info AT bookstoreromanceday DOT org for information.
Benefits of Sponsorship 2026
Become a Bookstore Romance Day Sponsor All sponsors pledging $250 or more will receive: Dedicated social media announcement Logo and link to their website on bookstoreromanceday.org Logo and link in...
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September 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Happy September, everyone! It's time once again to start soliciting sponsorships for 2026. If you are a publisher, you can see sponsorship information at the link. If you are an author, bookstore, or other interested entity, you can DM or email info AT bookstoreromanceday DOT org for information.
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This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.
The AI boom has created a new type of work: fixing botched AI. Designers are being hired to remake wonky AI art. Writers are asked to make ChatGPT’s writing sound more human. Even software developers are tasked with fixing buggy vibe coding.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy
In the age of automation, human workers are being brought in to fix what artificial intelligence gets wrong.
www.nbcnews.com
September 2, 2025 at 11:12 PM
This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.
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Will you be at Bloody Scotland next week? If so, do come along to our Fatal Folklore event! Details below including link to tickets — just a few left, I’m told!
bloodyscotland.com/booking/6015...
bloodyscotland.com/booking/6015...
September 3, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Will you be at Bloody Scotland next week? If so, do come along to our Fatal Folklore event! Details below including link to tickets — just a few left, I’m told!
bloodyscotland.com/booking/6015...
bloodyscotland.com/booking/6015...
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Will I have eyes at the bottom of the sea, supposing I descend those endless stairs?
September 3, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Will I have eyes at the bottom of the sea, supposing I descend those endless stairs?
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As we showed in Banned Book Club, indie booksellers saved Korea. So for our follow-ups, we encourage you to order from your local bookshop by giving art with your order!
@possumpunks.com @escapepodcomics.bsky.social @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social @outsidercomics.com @samizdatbookstore.bsky.social
@possumpunks.com @escapepodcomics.bsky.social @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social @outsidercomics.com @samizdatbookstore.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 11:11 AM
As we showed in Banned Book Club, indie booksellers saved Korea. So for our follow-ups, we encourage you to order from your local bookshop by giving art with your order!
@possumpunks.com @escapepodcomics.bsky.social @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social @outsidercomics.com @samizdatbookstore.bsky.social
@possumpunks.com @escapepodcomics.bsky.social @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social @outsidercomics.com @samizdatbookstore.bsky.social
I GOT THREE @LIBRO.FM ARCS AT MIDNIGHT AND THIS MORNING I HAVE AN IMPOSSIBLE DECISION TO MAKE.
September 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I GOT THREE @LIBRO.FM ARCS AT MIDNIGHT AND THIS MORNING I HAVE AN IMPOSSIBLE DECISION TO MAKE.
My brain did not compute whose face the lipstick was on for a second and thought, "relatable, I too would kiss Dr. Tenma on the face."
September 1, 2025 at 5:26 AM
My brain did not compute whose face the lipstick was on for a second and thought, "relatable, I too would kiss Dr. Tenma on the face."