ON TOP of the ethical reasons to not use AI, it's also 1) bad at what it does 2) literally makes you stupider 3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.

🚨 The EU is trying to quietly weaken nature laws during summer break. We have 10 days to stop this. Don't let them destroy our forests, rivers & wildlife in silence. #HandsOffNature www.wwf.eu/campaigns/it...

"This bill highlights a truism: In the United States, racism has always gone hand in hand with the concentration of wealth among the very richest people."

➡️ "This fascist regime requires our capitulation to enact their agenda." — Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social Teachers continue to teach truthfully, encourage critical thinking, & refuse to capitulate. They need our loud & visible support. Join the #TeachTruth Day of Action on June 7 ⬇️

Happening this weekend! www.literaturszene.berlin/en/industry-...

Tonight from 19.30 Propeller Publishers and The GAF proudly present: HEY-HO! HERE ARE SPARROW and VIOLET SNOW Two absolutely amazing personalities from the core of New York underground are visiting Berlin with a stop at ivallan’s.

A shout-out to all of us who cry in public! 😘🥲

What fresh garbage is this on this Monday morning...?🤢 “[…]stories by new male authors are often overlooked, with a perception that the male voice is problematic”, according to Cook. […]Cook told The Bookseller: “There has never been an independent publisher that champions literary fiction by men.”

Everybunny needs a bun for a pillow

Happy Independent Bookstore Day!

Help us reach 10K followers on Bluesky. We provide free people's history lessons, Teach the Black Freedom Struggle classes, Teaching for Black Lives study groups, book giveaways, this day in people's history posts, & we organize to defend the right to teach truthfully. www.zinnedproject.org

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

Glasgow people amass!

Feeling the love for slowpoke writing.

Join us in Berlin for Introduction to Trans Literature for Writers with the brilliant Lukas Reimann 🌈✍️ 📅 April 26th. Still spots available. 🔗 www.thereaderberlin.com/weekend-work... #TransLiterature #WritingWorkshop #BerlinWriters #TheReaderBerlin

Searching train ticket prices to Paris - definitely don't want to miss this. #davidhockney www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

More stories being erased, today in Magdeburg, Germany. The Stolpersteine, which remember the Jewish families at the homes where they lived before their expulsion and murder by the Nazis, are being stolen. Donations to the www.stolpersteine.eu can help to replace them. #Germanhistory

The erasure continues...

Mark my words and please understand: They erase your history so that they can erase your rights.

An image of and quote from Harriet Tubman have been removed from a National Parks webpage about the “Underground Railroad,” following several prominent changes to government websites under the Trump administration.

The 30th #WomensPrize for Fiction shortlist is here! We are thrilled to bring you six brilliant books that explore the need for personal freedom and human connection, illustrating the ways in which autonomy, love, and friendship can act as a salve to life’s challenges. Learn more: bit.ly/4ceZ5oY

"DARKNESS CANNOT DRIVE OUT DARKNESS; ONLY LIGHT CAN DO THAT. HATE CANNOT DRIVE OUT HATE; ONLY LOVE CAN DO THAT." We stand committed to accurately portraying American history, with empathy and inclusion and respect and truth and love.

We're doing a lil improvised, sing-a-long Little Shop of Horrors in Berlin this weekend. Can't wait playing the role that inspired my (persisting!) dentist phobia.

As Mariam Kaba said, "hope is a discipline." As Václav Havel said (well before he helped liberate his country from totalitarianism), “Hope is … is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something is worth doing, regardless of how it turns out.”

NEW: Elon Musk’s X has suspended accounts of Turkish opposition groups, suppressing footage of anti-government protests. So, best we share all the footage we can here! This was last night’s massive demo against Erdogan’s government, which follows the arrest of his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu. 🇹🇷 #Turkey

Morgen ist wieder #Indiebookday! Ihr sucht noch Inspiration für euren Einkauf? Vielleicht ist ja bei den 47 Indiebooks aus insgesamt 32 verschiedenen unabhängigen Verlagen, die seit dem letzten Indiebookday bei uns in der Lettrétage vorgestellt wurden, genau das richtige für euch dabei!

You want to see an octopus riding a shark. 🎥: University of Auckland www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/s...

Still time to apply for our supernerdy translation week in a castle. You have to bring along a translation to workshop (de<>en) and have two previous publications. Everything is free, baby, including travel. www.toledo-programm.de/projekte/5/v...

"The military story of Jackie Robinson, who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball after serving as a 2nd lieutenant in the Army, no longer exists on the Department of Defense’s website..."(NBC News)

This month we have a real treat for you! Writer Margarita Meklina (winner of a ruble, an apple and a bottle of vodka) and composer and pianist Maja Elliott will be performing together at Ivallan’s! March 31st at 19.30. Our space is small so arrive on time to get a spot.

"Segregated facilities are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts." No words...just shame.

The already legendary @resistancerangers.bsky.social have a website now! Make sure to check their "events" page for upcoming rallies, protests, teach-ins, and other actions to help protect our public lands and support park rangers! #protectpubliclands #protectourparks #rehireparkrangers

Code Talkers were Indigenous Americans who used codes based in their native languages to transmit messages during WWII. 👉 Under Trump's orders, their stories are disappearing...don't let Trump erase the people who mean so much to us and our history...!

I can't recommend @victoriagosling.bsky.social enough! Absolute love her writing classes! So excited about this opportunity with @arvonfoundation.bsky.social in Shropshire!

Retired service band members united to play in concert with young musicians after their show was canceled due to President Trump’s executive order ending DEI programs. https://cbsn.ws/4iaHcKm

ONE parent. And in Florida, ONE man is responsible for 40% of all book challenges in the state. The book banners are a tiny minority. Make that clear by speaking up in favor of the freedom to read. (Email your school board!)

#IWD2025 Oranienstrasse, Berlin

@taz.de doing a great series of articles this week around intl women's day...

My hometown of Waterloo, Iowa canceled its African American Read-In after Trump’s anti-diversity directives. So i got together some writer friends and I’m holding it instead.

Iris the Nebula Octopus 🐙🌌 Sculpted from clay and lovingly painted 🎨💕 #Sculpture #Art #Octopus #Invertebrates #Wildlife #OnlyBeautifulThings #ArtYear #ArtSky 🐡🦑

Anyone in Ohio or surrounding states ready to spread the word about @heyjane.com and the access they provide to #reproductivehealth services? #ohio #westvirginia #kentucky #indiana #reproductivefreedom

Yes!

The 2025 #WomensPrize for Fiction longlist. Which ones are you excited to read first?

“The best thing about heroes is that they always win at the end. And if they aren’t winning, then it’s not the end.” —Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in Kyiv

Winter melts and heavy rains at Chagrin Falls...

This is a full purge of every single LGBTQ employee at the NSA. Rufo is falsely mischaracterizing a LGBTQ employee resource group as a "sex chat" to create pretext to fire every single member in it. This is a playbook they will run to purge the entire federal government.

I really enjoyed this course with @girlhermes.bsky.social ! Her next course starts in May...

So thankful for the @thediasporist.bsky.social’s forum on the German elections. A necessary intervention. Here Simon Strick breaks down how in today’s Germany, sadly, historical memory is threatening to calcify, dangerously, into the rationale for ethnonationalism: thediasporist.de/no-wall-only...

My new book is out today. It’s rather lovely. #WomansHour www.penguin.co.uk/books/436987...

THE RESIST LIST IS HERE. Proud my team just started this @resistlist.bsky.social, which will list actions that happened and that are slated to happen.