There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm - Both mindbendingly absurd and a brilliant page-turnery thriller. Imagine if Douglas Adams had written Slow Horses… 💙📚 #BookReview

My top books of 2025 (details in the alt text).

 "Instead, it presents it [coming out and authenticity] as an ongoing negotiation between safety and truth. Between aspiration and risk. Between what you are allowed to be and what you are willing to sacrifice."

Goliath by @tochitruestory.bsky.social - This tale of racism and gentrification in a near-future post-apocalyptic United States is an uncomfortable but incredible read. Its non-linear plot allows the characters’ stories to unfold and wrap around each other in a very satisfying way. #BookReview 💙📚

Holiday plans (always like a nice bit of Christie and Dickens for Christmas):

“I imagine myself, child and adult, curled up in an armchair, reading and being told (as a child) or invited (as an adult) to go out and do something. I cannot think why a person sitting with evident contentment in an armchair causes the desire in others for their immediate activity.”

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British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo #ShareGoodNewsToo

This. Whenever local government reviews the library budget and asks, "Why should we give you money?" We want the library to be able to say, "Because we provide a valuable service used by many people!" Libraries are like muscles, using them more makes them stronger. 💪

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Give me money and I’ll make Corner Smokes - a Native spinoff of Corner Gas where Davis moves to rez to take over his late aunt’s smokeshop. I’m not saying I’ve written the first episode and show bible, but...

I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen

When you’re an FT journalist but you don’t even need to pretend to care about the UK budget.

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tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

I’ve always watched a lot of US police procedurals, but with all the fascism going on over there, I fancied more non-US tv in my viewing diet. This is an absolute delight!

My energy, always.

This guy was left in the library yesterday. 🪵 We don't know much about him but he keeps telling us 1) that he's Stick Man and 2) that he's trying to get back to the family tree If you left Stick Man behind you can collect him from reception.

“First you get down on your knees, Fiddle with your rosaries, Bow your head with great respect and, Genuflect genuflect genuflect…”

If you need something wholesome tonight, my 11yo found an anime on Crunchyroll called Afterschool Dice Club about a bunch of teen girls who learn a new tabletop game (and the history of tabletop games) each episode while discussing their feelings.

Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists. These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.

The last page of Claudia Winkleman’s book. 10/10

Waited all day to read this and it was even better than promised. And comments that anti-trans panics -- and moral panics in general -- are a way to avoid dealing with the far more endemic sexual abuse of girls and women are spot-on.

"“The first time I caught up to them, I could tell that they already knew who I was,” he told me when we first spoke on the phone in late October. “They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”

A new study pitted Google against ChatGPT as research tools. Across 7 experiments, one pattern held: Knowledge gained from chatbot summaries was shallower compared with knowledge gained from web links. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-chatbots-learning-superficial-llm

Tube Rain 1', Mornington Crescent Station (2015) by John Duffin johnduffin.co.uk ------ 🎵 'Mornington Crescent' by Belle and Sebastian youtu.be/1dVoliKbeng?...

@trampledamage.bsky.social Audiobook recco if you’re looking for something to listen to when you need a break from reading.

I grew up in a village in England and we had a mobile library van to bring us books. Today I learned (from Book Riot) that in the 1930s Appalachian villages had mobile libraries on mules 🤯😊💖

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You know who’s not on the Epstein list? Drag queens who read children stories in libraries - Cheri DiNovo

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

London is a place where people of every creed, colour and culture live together in peace and mutual respect. A city where a council estate kid with immigrant parents can become Mayor. That’s the reason some don’t want our modern, multicultural, progressive metropolis to succeed.

theres a whole bunch of cultures that don't do rings to mark marriage but do do necklaces for the purpose, so do only Christians get to keep wedding jewelry or

I would posit that if the international treaties against torture are what is holding your country back then your country doesn't deserve to get ahead and holding it back is a moral obligation for everyone else

No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.

"you can do it out of spite" 🙏🏻

‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ is one of those song titles that sounds quite comforting until you imagine it as the title of a story in an M. R. James anthology

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

Since we’re talking BUNNICULA I need everyone to know that the audiobook is read by Victor Garber and he truly out-gays himself. Harold and Chester absolutely come across as the fussy middle-aged couple they were obviously meant to be.

Can confirm, I did say this, over on Threads. I stand by it here as well. And everywhere else!

toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'" futurism.com/artificial-i...

Forgot this good advice I gave about throwing sandwiches and felony murder

An older medic with scant resources fights to support her community as they survive life behind the company wall. This novelette is my only near future sf story, inspired by a long-ago convo with my dad & by the activists who never give up. Free to read at reactormag.com/barnacle-kat...

Viv Richards once had a bowler aim at his head with the ball , took a swing and missed and the guy tells him" its round and red, try to touch it", then hit the next one out of the stadium, beckoned the bowler to him and said "you know what it looks like, right, now try and find it"

This is a bit OTT but yeah they would have adored Viv. Man once went out for a toss, lost, the other captain said "we'd like to bat first" and replied by by saying "do whatever you want, it won't matter"

“It's five thousand miles to Rome. We've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.” “Hit it.”

😮 This whole thread! It keeps getting more 😮 as it goes.

“I drove through three states wearing her head as a hat.”

Good morning. This week's theme is London at War. ------ 'London and Wartime: Nocturne' (1918) by Sir Claude Francis Barry (Private collection)