clearly I am an outlier on this issue but i LOVE standard time. Bright sun to bathe my eyeballs early in the morning and more time to hunker by the glowing TV screen in the dark dark evening.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

❤️ @citylightsbooks.bsky.social

BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes. Please Use it and SHARE! ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

Column: A dispatch from Pete Hegseth to the commander in chief on the battle for a #Florida beach community. "The battle goes poorly. I fear we will not reach Mar-a-Lago and its precious cache of bathroom file cabinets by sunrise." www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/10/03/a...

Been offline for a bit, did that rapture thing happen?

We’re told by each MAGA factotum To mourn Charlie Kirk, but not quote him. Once a patriot’s dead, If you note what he said You’re as bad as the bastard who smote him.

"In spite of ourselves We'll end up a'sittin' on a rainbow Against all odds Honey, we're the big door prize" John Prine's good for what ails you. So are bookstores. John Prine playing in a bookstore? Couldn't be better.

Alligator Alcatraz says open, but Ron has a little problem... "The state can either pass up federal reimbursement for hundreds of millions of dollars spent to build and operate the facility, or take the money and face an environmental review, which would risk halting the center’s operations."

Looking for a covid vax in South Florida? 😷 Selected CVS Minute Clinics have them; no prescrip needed for seniors. Not a senior but have certain health conditions they will give it but will charge your insurance. (per the PA who gave mine today) Publix, Walmart, Walgreens are not giving them yet,

A friend writes (from a bus on the way to a Free DC protest):

A festive window display for the weekend 🎉

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

The subtlety

Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze,

Here’s the link to file claims in the Anthropic case: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

I am a fkng hero. Rat caught in glue trap. I threw a towel over it (much hysterical squeaking from rodent and me) picked it up with a grabber and tossed it outside. In my nightie at 10pm LIKE A BOSS.

bc I am lazy, it's super hot, & going to Home Depot is a nightmare I ordered a pack of 4 lightbulbs, free delivery today. Come home to find 4 60-lb bags of sand on doorstep--w/ a packing slip indicating 4 lightbulbs! HD keep insisting delivery was completed.🙄 Anyone need some sand? Must pick up.

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

Are YOU the most depressing book plate ever? YES, You ARE!

This one’s actually worth watching! 💚

Pranksters put Jeffrey Epstein-themed postcards in the gift shop at Trump Tower in New York City. www.huffpost.com/entry/the-go...

EXCLUSIVE: DeSantis diverted disaster prep resources during hurricane season in the rush to build the "Alligator Alcatraz" detention camp talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/co...

Wouldn’t it be interesting if Florida’s official state tourism agency found out exactly what people thought about their brand new concentration camp? (I made a thing - feel free to copy and share) [ @hcrichardson.bsky.social , you just asked in your video to be tagged in any new memes, right? ]

WELCOME TO THE FREE STATE OF FLORIDA

The builders behind Alligator Alcatraz and other detention sites are top DeSantis donors. They scored no-bid or “emergency” contracts worth tens of millions—while funneling cash into his political machine. Pay-to-play isn’t just speculation—it’s backed by the paper trail. 🧵

Palm Beach County hadn’t even voted on it yet, but Google Maps already shows a portion of Southern Boulevard renamed Donald J. Trump Boulevard.

this week during prime day sales take a moment and think about what you need, how quickly you need it, and where you might be able to get it in your community! It’s surprisingly easy to boycott the crummiest company on earth and there’s no shortage of great reasons to try start trying

The great @pronounced-ing.bsky.social on why you should support the Florida Freedom to Read Project with a donation. Get your activism done for the day and donate here: www.fftrp.org/donate

BREAKING: 1 in 4 nursing homes say they will be forced to close if Republicans pass Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.

Stopped in my tracks by this sign pointing out the IMLS absence from #ALAAC25

Finally a corporation is reacting to what’s happening here. Don’t be surprised that it’s not a car company or a shampoo brand. They’re all still pretending that life is normal. It’s a bookstore. Barnes and Noble fills their store display windows with Orwell’s 1984 and Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale.

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

Tell Gov Ron DeSastrous to stop ICE's plan to build Alligator Alcatraz, and to protect the Everglades! act.sierraclub.org/actions/Flor...

There is always a tweet.

Our colleagues at 27th Letter Books in Detroit won the internet today. www.instagram.com/p/DKxKw67xypM/

Sometimes we all need a gentle reminder that the world looks better unmediated by a screen. That’s why we’ve started encouraging our readers to enjoy the bookshop phone-free and minds open! As Ferlinghetti once said: “Stash your sell-phone and be here now.” #booksky

We’re all gonna die but some of us will die well-read.

After a week+ of being irked by that bright yellow banner insisting I need to back up every. single. file. to OneDrive, I FINALLY figured out how to turn that off. Yay me! and FU Microsoft.

This is really not good news, I use Pocket multiple times a day. suggestions for alternative? www.theverge.com/news/672924/...

End of a New York City bookselling era. I worked there in the '80s, when the original Shakespeare & Co. opened. An amazing time, when you could live on the UWS on a bookseller salary. www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...

Google makes it easier to buy digital books from Amazon than from indie bookstores. (gift link) wapo.st/434v48H

In the 1950s, three planes out of Newark Airport crashed in nearby Elizabeth, NJ, within three months. After those crashes, EWR was closed for nine months. Judy Blume's novel "In the Unlikely Event" recalls the events.

The existence of Chicago Pope implies the existence of MLA Pope and APA Pope

Hey Shake Shack, seize the moment, bring back the Shack-cago dog!

We've been asked this a few times & now have an answer! If you're in publishing, but not author you can join Publishing Professionals Against Book Bans! The group is still in development but you can sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Do you think they played the game/watched the show before they came up with this branding idea? Maybe drinking the mushroom gives you immunity? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A little toasty ode to Independent Bookstores for the day at hand.