Monica Wilcox
@monicawilcox.bsky.social
Contributing author for the 365 Soul Book Series, guided by a festering curiosity, can often be found on a backcountry trail.
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December 8, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Cities like Paris are showing that urban greening thru street & place transformation is just COMMON SENSE, for cooling cities that are getting hotter due to the #ClimateCrisis, and for reducing emissions, cleaning the air, and improving quality-of-life!
#ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social
#ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Cities like Paris are showing that urban greening thru street & place transformation is just COMMON SENSE, for cooling cities that are getting hotter due to the #ClimateCrisis, and for reducing emissions, cleaning the air, and improving quality-of-life!
#ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social
#ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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November 28, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 11:48 PM
November 28, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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UwU
November 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
UwU
November 23, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The 12 Days of Bookmas is a really fun gift to give and to receive
(I’ve done both).
#books #Christmas #booksky
(I’ve done both).
#books #Christmas #booksky
November 14, 2025 at 10:47 PM
The 12 Days of Bookmas is a really fun gift to give and to receive
(I’ve done both).
#books #Christmas #booksky
(I’ve done both).
#books #Christmas #booksky
November 10, 2025 at 2:10 AM
October 31, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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October 27, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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😳
Vadim Makhorov
Photographer, Director, Producer
Walrus on Ratmanov Island
"Imagine animals this big - up to 4m in length and up to 1.5t in weight - immovable on land, but they're quick and agile in water! No aggression was felt from them, only curiosity, because not often someone visits them."
Vadim Makhorov
Photographer, Director, Producer
Walrus on Ratmanov Island
"Imagine animals this big - up to 4m in length and up to 1.5t in weight - immovable on land, but they're quick and agile in water! No aggression was felt from them, only curiosity, because not often someone visits them."
October 23, 2025 at 1:15 AM
😳
Vadim Makhorov
Photographer, Director, Producer
Walrus on Ratmanov Island
"Imagine animals this big - up to 4m in length and up to 1.5t in weight - immovable on land, but they're quick and agile in water! No aggression was felt from them, only curiosity, because not often someone visits them."
Vadim Makhorov
Photographer, Director, Producer
Walrus on Ratmanov Island
"Imagine animals this big - up to 4m in length and up to 1.5t in weight - immovable on land, but they're quick and agile in water! No aggression was felt from them, only curiosity, because not often someone visits them."
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Whenever people ask me if I'm a gifted artist.
January 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Whenever people ask me if I'm a gifted artist.
October 19, 2025 at 12:24 AM
“The data that everyone needs to know is that 96% of debut authors will sell less than 5,000 copies. . .The data also shows that the best seller, or that breakthrough book, comes between the 3rd title & the 5th.”
#writers #WritingCommunity #books
aliahabib.substack.com/p/merchants-...
#writers #WritingCommunity #books
aliahabib.substack.com/p/merchants-...
Merchants of Culture: A Conversation With S&S Editor Yahdon Israel
We’re talking about what it means to be in an industry where we’re not allowed to discuss the very thing that makes us professionals, which is money.
aliahabib.substack.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
“The data that everyone needs to know is that 96% of debut authors will sell less than 5,000 copies. . .The data also shows that the best seller, or that breakthrough book, comes between the 3rd title & the 5th.”
#writers #WritingCommunity #books
aliahabib.substack.com/p/merchants-...
#writers #WritingCommunity #books
aliahabib.substack.com/p/merchants-...
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That time traveling portal is closer than you think.
#art- Marija Kes
#books #booksky #WritingCommunity #library
#art- Marija Kes
#books #booksky #WritingCommunity #library
October 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
That time traveling portal is closer than you think.
#art- Marija Kes
#books #booksky #WritingCommunity #library
#art- Marija Kes
#books #booksky #WritingCommunity #library
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Warsaw opens metro station ‘express’ library to get commuters off their phones
Warsaw opens metro station ‘express’ library to get commuters off their phones
Metroteka aims to encourage people to read more in country that lost majority of libraries in second world war
www.theguardian.com
September 7, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Warsaw opens metro station ‘express’ library to get commuters off their phones
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From the Editorial Board:
Neuroscientists have found that when people read, their brains don’t just process words — they simulate the story world.
By contrast, social media rarely demands such deep simulation.
Neuroscientists have found that when people read, their brains don’t just process words — they simulate the story world.
By contrast, social media rarely demands such deep simulation.
Editorial: A society that stops reading stops thinking
Daily reading for pleasure in the U.S. has fallen more than 40% over the past 20 years — roughly 3% per year, according to researchers at the University of Florida and University College London.
trib.al
October 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
From the Editorial Board:
Neuroscientists have found that when people read, their brains don’t just process words — they simulate the story world.
By contrast, social media rarely demands such deep simulation.
Neuroscientists have found that when people read, their brains don’t just process words — they simulate the story world.
By contrast, social media rarely demands such deep simulation.
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The Harbour in Trieste (1907) by Egon Schiele
September 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The Harbour in Trieste (1907) by Egon Schiele
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New York 1956
Ernst Haas
Ernst Haas
September 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
New York 1956
Ernst Haas
Ernst Haas
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$200k to hang out with dogs. amazing
IG gabriel.desanti, barkandburn
IG gabriel.desanti, barkandburn
October 4, 2025 at 1:47 AM
$200k to hang out with dogs. amazing
IG gabriel.desanti, barkandburn
IG gabriel.desanti, barkandburn