Some absolutely fabulous recs from our fantastic publisher's reps and booksellers on our Elevenses with the Reps @dieselbookstore.com podcast! #BookSky 📚💙

“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪

As a writer, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead was one of a small handful of literary works that opened my worldview and completely shifted my perspective on writing and what could be achieved with language. Just brilliant. Rest well, Tom Stoppard. #BookSky

SPECIES FAIL

Some headlines I have seen the last few days: Is Smoking Cool Again? Is ChatGPT Conscious? (Maybe we should reconsider!) Brazilian Butt Lifts Have a Terrible Smell SPECIES FAIL

They're onto something alright... Also, don't want to be in a plane that this guy is flying.

So, I'm really kind of fucking annoyed and disappointed with Mozilla enabling AI in Firefox by default and not giving users a simple opt out switch. I have disabled it in my firefox via 'about:config' , if you want to too, here's how to disable it completely or enable certain bits you find useful

Check out today's Elevenses @dieselbookstore.com podcast where we talked about everything from niche horror, to the joy of short stories, a cat who hates Christmas, and the great crash of 1929. Full plate! And find all of our Elevenses podcasts here: www.youtube.com/@DIESELBooks... #BookSky 📚💙

If "Ted" was real, not funny in any way, and written by Stephen King on a bad day. Make it stop. #AI

Another exciting Elevenses with the Reps @dieselbookstore.com - we talked about one of my favorite books of the year, Flesh by David Szalay which just won the Booker! And many more. (Plus Ava and I dressed as the aurora borealis Watch here: #BookSky 📚💙

JCO, known for her internet strikeouts, hits this one all the way out of the park. Pinpoint accuracy.

Check out yesterday's Elevenses with the Reps @dieselbookstore.com podcast! Some stunning recs from Scholastic's Kristin Rasmussen and PGW's Andrea Tetrick. Even a couple from me! #BookSky 📚

Wow.

Pretty sure that all my health problems have been caused by years of anxiety over getting, keeping, and affording health insurance.

Truth

This baseball game is gonna go to 11, isn’t it?

Longest World Series in the history of time, world without end.

Longest World Series in the history of time, world without end.

Our reps absolutely shredding it today on Elevenses with the Reps @dieselbookstore.com! #BookSky #indioebookstores

We talked about some really great books on our podcast, Elevenses with the Reps @dieselbookstore.com. Anne Boleyn! David Lynch! Vampires! Watch today's episode below and subscribe/watch past episodes here: www.youtube.com/@DIESELBooks... #BookSky

As a small break from the madness, please enjoy a homemade pumpkin pie slideshow, featuring the spider that bit me, eyes in the trees, monarch butterfly, tree, and souls of the dead. #piesky #pumpkinpie

America's Finest City! ❤️

Seabiscuit The Remains of the Danish Rosemary's Bagel The Bun Also Rises Children of the Cornbread #BookSky

My Buy Nothing group is always a source of fascination for me. There is always a story. This week a woman is slowly giving away a house full of Harry Potter merch. All the books. A blanket. Two wands, one with a magic case and map. “This one really hurts," she wrote. And so say all of us. #BookSky

More Elevenses with the Reps @dieselbookstore.com here: www.youtube.com/@DIESELBooks... #BookSky

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Damn, this piece hits hard. "Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion." www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...

Thank you, as always, @merriam-webster.com ! #booksky

Books that delve into underappreciated art forms, ancient traditions, and unique occupations.

Some good advice from @maris.bsky.social #BookSky

Ruin a book with a car: War and Prius

Yes, but I would add: the only thing they understand or care about is money and where we spend ours (or don't) is the one power we have at this point. Plus, a lot of those lost subscriptions are not coming back.

Why I hate AI and LLMs Part 957 #BookSky www.404media.co/librarians-a...

Well, here we are. All the way down the rabbit hole.

"I am the punctuation mark of human frailty." Yes! #booksky

Here's my book recommendation for today if you need to exit these internets and read; The Woman Dies by Aoko Matsuda, transl. by Polly Barton. #BookSky 📚💙 www.shelf-awareness.com/readers/2025...

I don’t know how Sotomayor, Kagan, and Brown aren’t suffering PTSD at this point. Or how Mitch McConnell sleeps at night. Or… [so many blanks to fill in here, it’s like fascism MadLibs]. #supremecourt

My sister in London just sent me this, seen in the £1 shop on Hounslow High Street.

My name shows up 14 times - hardcovers, paperbacks, even a short story I wrote for San Diego Noir. So that's $42,000 for me, right? Sigh. #BookSky #Anthropic

People keep talking about Idiocracy but we're so far past that now. Our mouth-breathing, barely sentient pile of tacky trash present is what you get when you order Idiocracy from Wish. #idiocracy #whitehousecagematch

We put a lot of muscle—reporting, editing, fact checking, designing, engineering—into this very deep dive on Wikipedia, which is now threatened by Trump, tech billionaires, and AI

What she said. #vaccines

We had an absolutely spectacular group of publisher's reps on Elevenses with the Reps @dieselbookstore.com today. Just outstanding. Check out their recommendations (with links to the books) here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yufR... #BookSky 📚💙 #newbooks

Be sure to tune in to Elevenses with the Reps @dieselbookstore.com at 11 AM today - we have a great show coming up with reps from Simon & Schuster, Random House, Scholastic, and Princeton University Press! Check out the livestream here: www.youtube.com/@DIESELBooks... #BookSky 📚💙

Check out today's Elevenses with the Reps @dieselbookstore.com with Dave from Chronicle and Julia from Hachette. Cooking with The Great Gatsby, Day of the Dead, and much more! Watch the whole episode here and find the books at www.dieselbookstore.com #BookSky www.youtube.com/live/BIlPTYF...

Don't threaten me with a good time! #BookSky

Me, scrolling: Is this a joke? Hell is empty and all the devils are here. Is this a joke??? Hell is empty and all the devils are here. Is this devil joking? Is this Hell? This joke is empty. All the devils are a joke. This is Hell.

This is actually very good news.

My mini review of Deadwood by Peter Cozzens on Elevenses with the Reps @dieselbookstore.com #BookSky 📚

My mini review of Deadwood by Peter Cozzens on Elevenses with the Reps @dieselbookstore.com #BookSky 📚