ok so I want to do two threads about @blipstress.bsky.social PLASTIC PRISM VOID and this is the first and it is about BOOK DESIGN so if you are a NERD then buckle up. My basic positon, as the dummy who got roped into typesetting this book, is it is an amazingly rare thing: something actually new.

how your emails find me

canva dot com is not doing these new bookstores any favors

Spent this morning building planters with @ericshonkwiler.bsky.social. Turned out pretty good I think.

We shared 10 of our favorite @asterismbooks.bsky.social distributed titles: asterismbooks.com/blog/post/to..., featuring books published by @sublunary.bsky.social, @spurleditions.bsky.social, @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social, & more.

Good lord man

my biggest takeaway from the Incredibly Long Post is that Helen DeWitt could benefit from a wifi hot spot or a phone that doesn't use minutes

Israel strikes central Beirut without warning https://aje.news/ygb521

gotta be real—deactivating ig has been great for my brain but bad for my enjoying being very specifically advertised to

The revival of romance books would be so much cooler if publishers ditched those awful cartoon covers and reimagined the 70's small trim sized paperbacks.

We are honoured to announce that ON EARTH AS IT IS BENEATH has been shortlisted for the 2026 International Booker Prize! Our huge congratulations to author Ana Paula Maia and translator Padma Viswanathan, and to all the other shortlistees. Available here: charcopress.com/bookstore/on...

I came to know of what fine steel the head of a harpoon is made, and how exceedingly sharp the long straight edges are always kept.

trying to understand mesh nodes with @ericshonkwiler.bsky.social

black sun #16 by søren solkær.

🚨Sick deal alert 🚨

I get people have reasons for saying they don’t think this platform is engaged enough or w/e but from my perspective (which does not matter, to be clear) I was on Twitter for a long time cuz I liked to talk nonsense to like, 10 I knew in real life and maybe 10 ppl I knew from forums etc.

From a certain point of view, a good bookstore is at least mildly antagonistic toward popular culture.

This gives real @colonellovely.bsky.social vibes.

It’s hard to sow seeds when Nature is closing down. —Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume

In 17 years of working in books I have never been to a single book club meeting. Pretty sure that merits some kind of reward.

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well well well if it isn’t the blowjob brothers

One of my favorite things about my dilettantism is when real specialists come in and think “somebody really knows a lot about x.” We’ve heard this about our small architecture section before. But nope … clueless. Utterly. Just love beautiful books.

There have been two hosts in the history of Reading Rainbow. The Legend of Literacy, LeVar Burton! And... me, Mychal Threets, a librarian 🥹🤯 I am a reader, a librarian because LeVar Burton and Reading Rainbow made us believe and see we belong in books, we belong everywhere ✨ youtu.be/e7es7qdWVnU

We mean this in the least threatening way possible...but SOME OF YOU BITCHES HAVE A MAILBOX TO CHECK NEXT WEEK

A portrait I did for my bud @colonellovely.bsky.social. For his new business cards with the awesome folks at @abrahamassefa.bsky.social Congrats my dude. prismacolor on paper

Always wanted a Larry Law / Abraham illustration. Larry really captured my anguish.

hoping the rapture happens so I don't have to see a bunch of y'all anymore

Watched a movie about a bunch of rich British people tonight just to piss @colonellovely.bsky.social off

This database cool is seriously the coolest thing. When I read “every fire you tend” and “the last pomegranate tree” I thought — I’d really like to learn more about Kurdish literature — and now!!

part of being a food delivery driver is blasting your phone calls on speakerphone at a volume not yet understood by mankind

same

“I don’t claim to have many answers. I have pain, I have grief, and I have questions.” Newly relocated to Columbus, @dannycaine.com will celebrate the release of his most recent chapbook with a reading at @twodollarradiohq.bsky.social tonight (Tuesday, Aug. 12). matternews.org/culture/word...

*action bronson voice* on the corner of Sharon and Weisheimer communicating with the local fauna and spreading diseases previously unheard of by man

Very cool to see these early poems bundled together by Gnomon Press -- doing the good work, over there. www.ohioswallow.com/978091778843...

Happy 91st birthday to Wendell Berry, who once wrote to me when I was feeling very alone and homesick for Kentucky: "Feeling far from home, I think, is probably a sign of good health."

Midnight blessing.

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Radio boyz +honorary radio Nora Lange⚡

yes this was also my intention

let's start smoking cigarettes again

was just ordering food at Cane's and forgot the word "slaw"????? but don't worry I opted for "little vegetable cup" and now I'm going to kill myself !

Blocked by Zibby Owens 🫡

Zibby Owens crying about Zohran Mamdani makes it so much better

fuck this dumbass country and every person who falls for this genocidal nonsense and calls it patriotism

Tomorrow night!

Laid my big ass in a casket for a music video a couple weeks ago.

Our next Community Conversation is set for Thursday, June 19, at Two Dollar Radio HQ. Facebook event link: www.facebook.com/events/58056...

Shout out to the college kids who tossed out this perfectly good wood

we got a new fridge at the bookstore and it feels like christmas