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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 9h

Merit has little to do with why books go out of print and writers get forgotten. Every reader has the capacity to become a champion and help enrich the canon.
www.bbc.com/news/enterta...

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BOO-iest👻 @mooiest.bsky.social · 1h

Brand new soft cover book that smells like an ancient leather-bound tome and just a small whiff of the medicinal species of lavender.

The sequel will be a hand bound with handmade paper illuminated-manuscript style that smells like a brand new geography textbook, with a touch of play dough.

L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 4h

What would *your* book smell like if you engaged in a mega weirdo scented pages promotional campaign?

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 10h

you can read absolutely anything: good books, silly books, pulp, comics, magazines—it doesn't have to be good, well-written, or well-regarded; it doesn't even have to be interesting to anyone else. it can still bring you joy to dip into another world and come out seeing your own a little differently

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 15h

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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BOO-iest👻 @mooiest.bsky.social · 4h

I was there that day, it was like a daydream suddenly came true

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Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 6h

How do you solve a problem like Antifaaaaa

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 6h

album cover with sound of music biking scene and the text

Meet The radical Cyclists.
no helmets - no lights - no hi viz - riding in a pack - distracted - taking the lane.

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BOO-iest👻 @mooiest.bsky.social · 9h

Hmm… do I really want to get that close to ID…

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BOO-iest👻 @mooiest.bsky.social · 9h

One day I’ll spit on Orrin Hatch’s grave

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 13h

i was surprised to learn that bc most protein powders are considered dietary supplements, they basically fall into a regulatory grey area

there's no federal limit on the amount of lead they can contain and neither manufacturers nor the FDA have to prove these products are safe before they're sold

Protein powders and shakes, like all dietary supplements, fall into something of a regulatory gray area.

There is no federal limit specifying the amount of lead allowed in protein powders. And while the FDA requires that manufacturers keep their products free of harmful contaminants, it largely leaves it up to companies to decide what counts as harmful and test their own products for compliance.

Before 1994, manufacturers had to prove herbal products were safe before selling them. That changed after Congress passed the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. The law sharply limited the FDA’s authority, leaving supplements far less regulated than drugs.

Today, supplements are “presumed safe unless found otherwise,” says Cohen at Harvard Medical School, and most products face scrutiny only after reaching the market—meaning unsafe or contaminated supplements can reach consumers before problems are caught.

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BOO-iest👻 @mooiest.bsky.social · 14h

Our bigger storms will make what we usually call a pond or a lake in the little retention basin/storm drain outside our window, but we got an ocean this time

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Yes, you should be surprised and horrified by secret federal police running around our city kidnapping immigrants, crashing cars, launching chemical weapons and shooting and killing people. This is a thing you should be *perpetually* shocked by. We lose when we become numb to it.

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BOO-iest👻 @mooiest.bsky.social · 15h

“When! When! Blast it all, WHEN!”

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

A double surge of tropical moisture from former hurricanes Priscilla and Raymond turned deserts into rivers, unleashing flash floods and forcing water rescues across the Southwest.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 15h

Watching people being brutalized by the state, secure in the knowledge that I'm safe because I don't do anything wrong. And the best part? The state can't suddenly and arbitrarily redefine what "wrong" means

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior.
To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also.
Sick.

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Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Happen Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Screenshot includes an AI generated image of what looks like a human cross between Daenaerys Targaryen and Marilyn Monroe on the back of a dragon.

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Slam @slamastack.bsky.social · 18h

Do yourself a favor and spend the morning reading his apple reviews

Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 2d

The apple reviews continue because they must to fulfill the ancient bargain.

Today: this affable dipshit of an apple, the Suncrisp.

Apple Review #12: Suncrisp

Yes, I have seen Apple Rankings, the website. No, I didn’t write it. (It’s written by comedian Brian Frange.) No, I don’t like it. Yes, I don’t like it because in part he st…

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BOO-iest👻 @mooiest.bsky.social · 18h

Oops all bubbles

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 18h

JPMORGAN EXEC SAYS WE HAVE A LOT OF ASSETS OUT THERE ENTERING BUBBLE TERRITORY

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Cold🪦Sam @pdfmerchant.bsky.social · 1d

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 1d

It’s even worse. It’s reversing 400 years of Anglo-American constitutional development going back to Charles I’s personal rule when he refused to consult Parliament over spending and governance. Trump and his GOP lackeys are undoing stuff the Founders saw as fundamental to our system.

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 1d

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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ceej @ceej.online · Dec 8

it is so important to my children that I am never comfortable

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 1d

I always say it and I'll keep saying it, people. We have a moral, spiritual obligation to each other as human beings to learn how to do and be better for and by each other. We are neighbors, relatives, kindred. We must do better for each other, especially in these dangerous times.

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Jan 27

Sean Gallagher (@WhatAboutClass) on twitter:

"hard for me to see gender as biological if it requires a police state to enforce it"

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BOO-iest👻 @mooiest.bsky.social · 1d

I bet it’s perfect for very specific needs, I just don’t have them lol

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BOO-iest👻 @mooiest.bsky.social · 1d

Subaru Bajita

A Mini Cooper that has been modified be cutting the cab short to place a giant can of Red Bull on the back. It looks like a little Subaru Baja

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matthew @pahuski.com · 1d

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 1d

This is such a good article btw - I really buy this as a theory of contemporary US politics

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous People's Day

BOOOOlioraptor, PhD (spooky version) @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 1d

Janet saying: Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 2d

I didn't know that Ivar "torture the queer and autism out of them" Lovaas, the monster who invented conversion "therapy"/ABA, was also a literal Nazi, but this is the least surprising fact ever.

H.S. Kallinger (he/they) @xakana.bsky.social · 2d

"Lovaas was a member of the NS Youth League, patterned after the Hitler Youth and named after the Norwegian Hirden paramilitary organization... Both he and his father are listed in Norway's "National Treason" files documenting Nazi collaboration."

He also said the Nazis inspired him to behaviorism.

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