Vinyl people, you know who you are. This Saturday the Bklyn Flea Fair returns to Manhattan @nypl_lpa www.instagram.com/p/DU5_DV7jtM...

James Talarico: “This is the party that ran against cancel culture, and now they are trying to control what we watch, what we say, and what we read. This is the most dangerous kind of cancel culture — the kind that comes from the top."

Many mobile apps collect and sell your precise location information without your knowledge. Urge your state leaders to ban the sale of our phone location data. Sign our petition today:

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

So. My partner suffered an accident that resulted in very significant injuries. While he is, thank christ, alright in the broadest sense, I am now an amateur RN/dog minder/kid chauffeur, so! I've restocked some prints to help keep us in pizza and pain meds. www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products

Only thing cooler than a dramaturg is a group of dramaturgs talking about their art (free in NYC) 2026 Love, NYC Dramaturgs Celebration www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-love-...

Hate to sound like I'm begging, but pre-orders are incredibly important for visibility... so, if you're planning to get the latest in the Stella series, please consider ordering it now! Out very soon

Fresh Stella! Look out for The Murder Pool - classic @stellablomkvist.bsky.social with all the twists and double crosses anyone could desire. Pre-order now and get all the previous titles on Kobo, Apple and Amazon amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G7JL3SZ6 www.kobo.com/ww/en/series...

What Shakespeare said of Sir Thomas More and “strangers” as channelled over 400 years, through master and classical stage and film actor, Ian McKellen, in contemplation of our current troubles - youtube.com/shorts/uec_u...

Raven reviews-Paul E. Hardisty-The Hope "I loved this trilogy, not only for its poignancy, urgency and prescient observations, but also for its energy and sense of danger that kept me completely engaged." #PaulHardisty @orendabooks.bsky.social ravencrimereads.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/b...

My latest at Dame. All of this is important. None of it is a distraction. Welcome to the wonderful world of a polycrisis where everyone is mentally and emotionally overwhelmed as our democracy experiences multiple organ failure. www.damemagazine.com/2026/02/04/a...

@samuel-bagg.bsky.social recently wrote a fascinating essay about how the problem with lots of things might be knowledge-based (people believing stuff that’s wrong or dangerous) but the solution is not more knowledge. It’s all about social identity. Watch now:

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There's a predictable approach to denial that we're already seeing, which I call the Four Pillars of Disordered Doubt, which allows actors to constantly question evidence that don't fit their preferred narratives.

“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed, they must rely exclusively on force. And force alone cannot last.” — Hannah Arendt As cruel as all of this feels, & it does. The cruelty is not the point. The corruption is. Keep exposing the fraud, we can topple the force.

The web’s best resource for spotting AI writing has ironically become a manual for AI models to hide it. www.wired.com/story/wikipe...

Artist Virgil Finlay sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/finlay... died on this day, so here's four pieces of his artwork away from the SF magazines: 1 from 'The American Weekly' (1939); 2 from 'Argosy' (1939); 3&4 for a 1939 edition of Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream':

This week's astonishing artifact is a Neolithic sculpture of a mother/goddess/house. 🏺🧪

“What could be more terrifying than a devil who speaks the truth?” (Intan Paramaditha, Apple and Knife) madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/2026/01/10/w...

“A man who doesn't know the truth is just an idiot, but a man who knows the truth and calls it a lie is a crook.” (Bertolt Brecht)

“To translate is not just to haul stories across languages, but to help them remain when everything else falls away. It is a quiet, stubborn refusal to disappear.” #xl8

Translation is a delicate work that requires deep knowledge of both languages. Nuances and subtleties—two aspects of writing AIs are notoriously terrible at—can be lost or deranged if not carefully considered during the translation process.

From Meta to Google to xAI, a team of researchers are using open-source intelligence to map the growth of America’s AI datacenters. @evystadium.bsky.social breaks down how Epoch AI’s map works. Full story by @mjgault.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/researchers-...

Nordic noir? Yes please www.criterionchannel.com/nordic-noir

Smith: He was getting calls from people he trusts, people he relies on—and he still refused to come to the aid of the people at the Capitol. That’s very important evidence for criminal intent in our case.

this collection also looks great www.criterionchannel.com/nordic-noir/...

Amen

Oh but this looks promising

We do not have to consume the shitty cake or crime plots baked for us by corporate entertainment, or live off tragically meagre cultural crumbs. Small presses show us there is so much more out there... 👏👏👏

Re: Epstein Files Leaked GOP memo gives step-by-step instructions on how to use DARVO (deny, attack, reverse victim and offender) a psychological manipulation tactic, to dismiss any Trump wrongdoing, and instead villainize Dems and frame Trump as the victim couriernewsroom.com/news/leaked-...

One of my favorite things is when Criterion shines a spotlight on a genre/movement I had literally no idea was a thing.

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NYPL’s Top Checkouts of 2025 | The New York Public Library share.google/KUU0YPZep6sK...

lmfao for comparison, hello sunshine, my extremely niche gay supernatural horror YA graphic novel about severe mental illness that nobody heard of unless you follow me on bluesky sold half of that its first week in bookstores

It's Mrs. Peabody’s 2025 Christmas list! Eight crime novels set in America, England, Norway, Scotland, Croatia and the former Yugoslavia, with a dash of China, Sweden and Ukraine 💙📚🎄 mrspeabodyinvestigates.com/2025/12/07/j...

Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.

How long before AI gets my obit wrong after mistakenly declaring me dead

TBR heaven for the holidays 📚 📖

The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.

Wow. This hits like a ton of bricks. xkcd.com/3172/

Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS librarytechnology.org/pr/31973

Kindness or goodwill extended to strangers never to be encountered again carries a purity and beauty unmatched in this world. - Hideko Takamine (Japanese actress, 1924-2010)

It's that time of year

The remains of Theia are scattered deep inside the Earth and its satellite. By analyzing these remnants, scientists have proposed an origin.