John Glover
@jtglover.bsky.social
Writer, librarian, unhallowed revenant.
[This account reflects my own views and interests, not my employer’s, etc., etc.]
www.jtglover.com
[This account reflects my own views and interests, not my employer’s, etc., etc.]
www.jtglover.com
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Best review of my novella so far: "I was hoping for more heist shenanigans, what I got was philosophy."
THAT'S RIGHT!
Preorder here:
THAT'S RIGHT!
Preorder here:
And Side by Side They Wander
An intergalactic art heist by a ragtag group of underqualified misfits. What could go wrong?For three hundred years, humanity’s greatest works of art have ...
us.macmillan.com
January 18, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Best review of my novella so far: "I was hoping for more heist shenanigans, what I got was philosophy."
THAT'S RIGHT!
Preorder here:
THAT'S RIGHT!
Preorder here:
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$2.99 Kindle deals now through 1/31, worldwide! Philip Ridley's IN THE EYES OF MR FURY is a brilliant magical realist LGBT epic, while Bernard Taylor's SWEETHEART SWEETHEART has been called one of the best horror novels ever written.
January 17, 2026 at 9:27 PM
$2.99 Kindle deals now through 1/31, worldwide! Philip Ridley's IN THE EYES OF MR FURY is a brilliant magical realist LGBT epic, while Bernard Taylor's SWEETHEART SWEETHEART has been called one of the best horror novels ever written.
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This is a great time to invest your money in independent publishers who make marginalized voices a priority.
@valancourtbooks.bsky.social, @tenebrouspress.bsky.social, and @ghoulish.bsky.social, to name a few. 📚🩸
@valancourtbooks.bsky.social, @tenebrouspress.bsky.social, and @ghoulish.bsky.social, to name a few. 📚🩸
Depressing news reported at @lgbtqnation.com:
Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ+ books amid bans & the current GOP president
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/publ...
#kidlit #queerkidlit #lgbtq #booksky
Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ+ books amid bans & the current GOP president
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/publ...
#kidlit #queerkidlit #lgbtq #booksky
Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ+ books amid bans & the current GOP president - LGBTQ Nation
"In the face of so many book bans and so much concern about decreasing school library sales of queer content" publishers are "passing" on LGBTQ+ books.
www.lgbtqnation.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:18 PM
This is a great time to invest your money in independent publishers who make marginalized voices a priority.
@valancourtbooks.bsky.social, @tenebrouspress.bsky.social, and @ghoulish.bsky.social, to name a few. 📚🩸
@valancourtbooks.bsky.social, @tenebrouspress.bsky.social, and @ghoulish.bsky.social, to name a few. 📚🩸
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Edwin Dickinson, Composition with Still Life, 1933-37
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134987
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134987
January 18, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Edwin Dickinson, Composition with Still Life, 1933-37
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134987
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134987
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Let me tell you: some of our countries aren’t where we left them.
Jane Zwart, from her luminous collection ODDEST & OLDEST & SADDEST & BEST
#smallpoemsunday
Jane Zwart, from her luminous collection ODDEST & OLDEST & SADDEST & BEST
#smallpoemsunday
January 11, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Let me tell you: some of our countries aren’t where we left them.
Jane Zwart, from her luminous collection ODDEST & OLDEST & SADDEST & BEST
#smallpoemsunday
Jane Zwart, from her luminous collection ODDEST & OLDEST & SADDEST & BEST
#smallpoemsunday
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daily dose of green/fog, end of day light and fog, does not get much better than this ...
#photography #nature #trees #canada #landscape #fujifilm #forest #rainforest #vancouver #rain #fog
#photography #nature #trees #canada #landscape #fujifilm #forest #rainforest #vancouver #rain #fog
January 14, 2026 at 3:43 AM
daily dose of green/fog, end of day light and fog, does not get much better than this ...
#photography #nature #trees #canada #landscape #fujifilm #forest #rainforest #vancouver #rain #fog
#photography #nature #trees #canada #landscape #fujifilm #forest #rainforest #vancouver #rain #fog
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It finally happened. Someone asked me where the poetry section was in the library!
January 13, 2026 at 10:49 PM
It finally happened. Someone asked me where the poetry section was in the library!
As I read them, the terms of the prompt rule out LANs, USENET, many chat rooms, and many email discussion lists. So… probably the bulletin board run by a guy at my library school, early 2000s. Avatars, sig lines, dopey HTML jokes, ASCII art, all that.
Okay, let's get nostalgic
What was the VERY FIRST online platform that you became addicted to posting on?????
What was the VERY FIRST online platform that you became addicted to posting on?????
January 17, 2026 at 11:20 AM
As I read them, the terms of the prompt rule out LANs, USENET, many chat rooms, and many email discussion lists. So… probably the bulletin board run by a guy at my library school, early 2000s. Avatars, sig lines, dopey HTML jokes, ASCII art, all that.
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Once wiped out in the wild, China’s milu (Pere David’s deer) has staged one of the world’s great wildlife recoveries. From just 39 animals reintroduced from British zoos in 1986, the herd at Dafeng Milu National Nature Reserve is now 8,500. buff.ly/6JL2X2c #ShareGoodNewsToo
We studied 900+ endangered species across 20 years and this Chinese wetland's resurrection miracle changed everything we thought we knew about conservation
Journee-Mondiale > Travel
buff.ly
January 14, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Once wiped out in the wild, China’s milu (Pere David’s deer) has staged one of the world’s great wildlife recoveries. From just 39 animals reintroduced from British zoos in 1986, the herd at Dafeng Milu National Nature Reserve is now 8,500. buff.ly/6JL2X2c #ShareGoodNewsToo
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"Oglala Sioux Tribe says three tribal members arrested in Minneapolis are in ICE detention"
"Homeland Security refused to release more information, unless the tribe “entered into an immigration agreement with ICE.”"
apnews.com/article/ice-...
"Homeland Security refused to release more information, unless the tribe “entered into an immigration agreement with ICE.”"
apnews.com/article/ice-...
Oglala Sioux Tribe says three tribal members arrested in Minneapolis are in ICE detention
The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota said three of the four tribal members detained by ICE agents in Minneapolis last week have been transferred to an ICE facility and called for th...
apnews.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:49 AM
"Oglala Sioux Tribe says three tribal members arrested in Minneapolis are in ICE detention"
"Homeland Security refused to release more information, unless the tribe “entered into an immigration agreement with ICE.”"
apnews.com/article/ice-...
"Homeland Security refused to release more information, unless the tribe “entered into an immigration agreement with ICE.”"
apnews.com/article/ice-...
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My first publication of 2026 is an essay. Read "Home is Where..." at Ergon: Greek/American* Arts and Letters, which is part of the "Voices of the Other Greek America" series.
*There's some exhausting academic reason why it's not Greek-American or Greek American.
*There's some exhausting academic reason why it's not Greek-American or Greek American.
Nick Mamatas,
Home is Where...
My Greek is terrible, but it was good enough to say, “I am not a tourist. I
am a visitor,” when I was walking through the anarchist neighborhood of
Exarchia in Athens, where graffiti r...
ergon.scienzine.com
January 14, 2026 at 6:02 PM
My first publication of 2026 is an essay. Read "Home is Where..." at Ergon: Greek/American* Arts and Letters, which is part of the "Voices of the Other Greek America" series.
*There's some exhausting academic reason why it's not Greek-American or Greek American.
*There's some exhausting academic reason why it's not Greek-American or Greek American.
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ARTISTS! It's a grim time so let's support each other!
If you are open for private commissions post your work and your rates here! I want to boost you and get you some work!
Anyone feel free to share this thread!
If you are open for private commissions post your work and your rates here! I want to boost you and get you some work!
Anyone feel free to share this thread!
January 14, 2026 at 12:33 AM
ARTISTS! It's a grim time so let's support each other!
If you are open for private commissions post your work and your rates here! I want to boost you and get you some work!
Anyone feel free to share this thread!
If you are open for private commissions post your work and your rates here! I want to boost you and get you some work!
Anyone feel free to share this thread!
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Hi hey my new book comes out on Jan 20, and she's real pretty, and there's a giveaway of ten of these shiny sprayed hardcovers on GR, otherwise you can ask your local bookstore for one and that would mean the world to me!
www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ni...
www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ni...
January 7, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Hi hey my new book comes out on Jan 20, and she's real pretty, and there's a giveaway of ten of these shiny sprayed hardcovers on GR, otherwise you can ask your local bookstore for one and that would mean the world to me!
www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ni...
www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ni...
I am a research librarian. I do not use ChatGPT for research. I help people learn how to unfuck the work that they have fucked up by using inferior tools that serve up shit.
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
January 14, 2026 at 1:46 PM
I am a research librarian. I do not use ChatGPT for research. I help people learn how to unfuck the work that they have fucked up by using inferior tools that serve up shit.
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RVA friends and readers, I’m chatting with Con Lehane about his fantastic new historical crime novel, The Red Scare Murders at Fountain Bookstore, Inc. this Wednesday, 1/14 at 6:00 PM.
Don’t miss it! Free registration below
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Don’t miss it! Free registration below
withfriends.co/event/269842...
1/14 - The Red Scare Murders with Con Lehane by Fountain Bookstore
Get tickets and support Fountain Bookstore by becoming a member
withfriends.co
January 11, 2026 at 8:07 PM
RVA friends and readers, I’m chatting with Con Lehane about his fantastic new historical crime novel, The Red Scare Murders at Fountain Bookstore, Inc. this Wednesday, 1/14 at 6:00 PM.
Don’t miss it! Free registration below
withfriends.co/event/269842...
Don’t miss it! Free registration below
withfriends.co/event/269842...
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if you need it
on web: Settings > Content & Media > Autoplay media and GIFs (Off)
on web: Settings > Content & Media > Autoplay media and GIFs (Off)
January 9, 2026 at 7:23 PM
if you need it
on web: Settings > Content & Media > Autoplay media and GIFs (Off)
on web: Settings > Content & Media > Autoplay media and GIFs (Off)
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a lot of people traumatized themselves consuming a ton of horrific content over the years and they want to think that pain meant something or serves some greater purpose but it doesn’t and didn‘t. it just left you broken and shitty at performing your ostensible goal of liberation
reminder that the concept of "bear witness" as in "gotta watch all the bad videos yourself" is a goofy byproduct of the video age, and would be absolutely inscrutable to most people before like the 20th century
January 8, 2026 at 9:35 AM
a lot of people traumatized themselves consuming a ton of horrific content over the years and they want to think that pain meant something or serves some greater purpose but it doesn’t and didn‘t. it just left you broken and shitty at performing your ostensible goal of liberation
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I’m so excited to be in conversation with Anthony Award–winning author Olivia Blacke about her new mystery, Death at the Door—we’ll be talking all things mystery, hauntings, and ghostly crime solvers. 👻📚
RVA friends, swing by!
RVA friends, swing by!
January 6, 2026 at 10:18 PM
I’m so excited to be in conversation with Anthony Award–winning author Olivia Blacke about her new mystery, Death at the Door—we’ll be talking all things mystery, hauntings, and ghostly crime solvers. 👻📚
RVA friends, swing by!
RVA friends, swing by!
What can change the nature of a man?
January 5, 2026 at 11:49 PM
What can change the nature of a man?
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Love this from Guillermo del Toro
January 5, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Love this from Guillermo del Toro
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This poem is dedicated to anyone heading back into work and having to endure dull conversation about what they got up to during the Christmas holidays.
January 5, 2026 at 8:18 AM
This poem is dedicated to anyone heading back into work and having to endure dull conversation about what they got up to during the Christmas holidays.
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A book is not a fruit, it doesn't rot. It's meant to last a long time, to be found on a shelf somewhere, to be a surprise, a discovery or rediscovery.
For the sake of the presses & distributors, awards, critics, the ecosystem of culture, the birth matters, but it's only the beginning, not the end
For the sake of the presses & distributors, awards, critics, the ecosystem of culture, the birth matters, but it's only the beginning, not the end
January 1, 2026 at 5:53 PM
A book is not a fruit, it doesn't rot. It's meant to last a long time, to be found on a shelf somewhere, to be a surprise, a discovery or rediscovery.
For the sake of the presses & distributors, awards, critics, the ecosystem of culture, the birth matters, but it's only the beginning, not the end
For the sake of the presses & distributors, awards, critics, the ecosystem of culture, the birth matters, but it's only the beginning, not the end
2026 not even a day old, and already I've grumbled my first "man, who slapped the THIS CAN BE LIKE TWITTER IF WE JUST TRY HARD ENOUGH banner on Bluesky?"
January 1, 2026 at 2:52 PM
2026 not even a day old, and already I've grumbled my first "man, who slapped the THIS CAN BE LIKE TWITTER IF WE JUST TRY HARD ENOUGH banner on Bluesky?"
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One of the most unforgettable images capturing the vibrant promise of the new year, by the great Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy: 7 A.M. (New Year's Morning), c. 1930 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
January 1, 2026 at 11:59 AM
One of the most unforgettable images capturing the vibrant promise of the new year, by the great Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy: 7 A.M. (New Year's Morning), c. 1930 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
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