this site has done so many things right when it comes to building tools that allow us to escape some of the worst parts of twitter. I legitimately admire many of the technological choices they've made. but for the love of god, EVERYTHING IN THIS THREAD. go get a communications team!!!!!

I pushed for this, but we ended up wording ours as "preference to human created materials" because "but what if an AI book gets really popular?" (it won't) or "what if it's just the pictures that are AI?" (still bad). But at least we addressed it.

Watched All of You, a love story with a science fiction twist with Brett Goldstein and Imogen Poots this weekend. As much chemistry as the two leads have together, overall the film just didn’t work for me. bookjockeyalex.com/2025/10/06/r...

As a fun reminder, CA is a two-party consent sent state in terms of recording. At worst, this breaks the law, at best it gets right up to the line of legality.

I'm not talking about US politicians I'm talking about normal people. I see people fighting back and organizing every fucking day. ICE hasn't met their recruitment goals. They haven't met their kidnapping goals. That's WHY they keep escalating.

I'm genuinely starting to think that the people who say they want to see American's really fight back are really saying they want a specific kind of visible, stereotypical depiction of protest, and have zero zero tolerance for the kind of groundwork it takes to make change happen.

YES! like, do you want us to fight using every fucking tool we can put our hands on or not?? If we need to learn one thing from the damn GOP, it is their pathological willingness to go "well that didn't work, who has an even weirder idea let's fuckin go"

I'm on a list accusing me of being a Russian troll farm, another accusing me of supporting hamas, and several labeled some version of "AI Hater." Anytime you feel like doing something about them, bsky devs. Anytime.

Poll department about to get locked out of Slack.

I was blocked by a member of Bluesky's staff for asking if a comment made in official capacity as a Bluesky staffer represents the company, which implied that a trans woman would have been harassed by the entire team.

I need this in husky size so I can fight crime at night

just took over bluesky. Expect more arbitrary decisions based on how I'm feeling any given day, but at least not terrible ones

REVIEWERS: I have e-ARC copies of SONG OF SPORES, my weird trans, intersex space opera book coming Nov 4 from Broken Eye Books! You can request a copy here: forms.gle/XZamWpmBUGwH... I will be offline soon for Sukkot, so tell your friends in the meanwhile & I'll respond on Wed night (G-d willing)

Charlatan is probably too harsh for this guy, but it does seem like he wasn't truthful in ways thar mattered. The bigger story to me is that the school district doesn't use E-Verify to background applicants!

OPENAI LAWYER: so how does this sound. 'user x' pays us $3 to generate a video of elsa suffocating him with her ass. from that, you will receive a princely 50¢ DISNEY LAWYER: i am going to shoot you with a gun

Bots write job descriptions. Bots send in applications for the job. Bots review the application. Once a person is hired, they use bots to produce substandard work. Their boss will ask a bot how to improve it. This is all done in the name of "efficiency."

Jesus. This is huge. B&T is, or I guess now was, one of the main library vendors for print books.

You’ll now be able to get an updated coronavirus shot in every state without a prescription, according to the American Pharmacists Association. CVS and Walgreens have stated you won’t need to attest to any underlying conditions and the questions will be removed from their online booking system.

This will go down as the most heartbreaking thing of my career. An absolute Mount Rushmore of manga scholars I was honored to be included with. Everyone included, such as myself and @okazu.yuricon.com did some of the best work of our lives. A brilliant book. Now dead. Because of image rights.

Yep, it's kind of like when Florida insisted on creating as many barriers for young people to use school libraries as possible, it was a teeny tiny fraction of parents who barred their kids from using those libraries. It's all lies and story made up in bigots' brains. bookriot.com/florida-scho...

If I had a dollar for every person who didn’t know Puerto Rico is part of the U.S. I could retire.

LRT about the collapse of Hollywood jobs. Retrospectively, me failing to break into script writing in the mid 2000s was a stroke of luck. As much as I wanted to write TV/movies, I'd be out of a job now. Glad I switched to LIS...a career where an entire political party is trying to throw me in jail.

I think the weak jobs numbers we are seeing now are just the beginning. We are only just starting to see indirect effects of mass layoffs in government, tech, now entertainment. So many service jobs are downstream of these relatively stable, relatively high-wage ones. www.wsj.com/business/med...

Got my finished copies of Dead & Breakfast!! They are so cute and I’m obsessed with the spine! Have you pre-ordered yet? Remember you can grab a signed copy with preorder goodies (stickers) from Always Here Bookstore! www.alwaysherebooks.com/product/dead...

Australians, please raid your Uncle's old PC in his shed, and help me find a copy of this to archive. #Australia #AFL #DOSGaming #Wolfenstein #RetroGaming #MSDOS #RetroComputing

Really want to encourage libraries - especially school libraries - to put no-AI content into your collection development policy. At the very least, if you have a clause in there about requiring accurate information, you can use that to weed out or prevent genAI purchases.

Watched All of You, a love story with a science fiction twist with Brett Goldstein and Imogen Poots this weekend. As much chemistry as the two leads have together, overall the film just didn’t work for me. bookjockeyalex.com/2025/10/06/r...

I had a liberal centrist — a professional — once tell me that they engage with more diversity at a Bari Weiss dinner party than they do in any mainstream media event. I mention this because, just as it is true in politics at the moment, some of the calls are coming from inside the house.

You know, of all the things Link has done with his platform, this stands out as one of the most altruistic. Just a straight up act of kindness.

every author in this video has had their books banned #BannedBooksWeek #UniteAgainstBookBans get involved to stop the attacks on our freedom to read: uniteagainstbookbans.org

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends tech weirdo: and shitheads np: no just my friends tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender? np: we just want to hang out and goof around tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then np: no shitheads tw: not following

The first part of this had me cackling in agreement, while the rest brought me to tears

he got banned for alt text saying "a negative consequence follows" REALLY????

now you can lie instantly with zero effort! also introduces random errors automatically

The thread broke so here's more books by living marginalized authors that are banned! Girl In Translation by Jean Kwok Of course we ban the books about Chinese-American sweatshop workers! bookshop.org/p/books/girl...

Reminder from your resident high school lubrarian: if you plan to do a Banned Books Week display and programming, prioritize living marginalized authors. Use this time to help those who need it the most.

Nope. Not an outlier at all bsky.app/profile/cand...

Another—I am not an outlier among Black women reviewers of this film :)

I hadn’t seen this review from @brookeobie.bsky.social until it was just dropped in the replies but I’m moving it up because I think it’s worth reading how someone who is a Black women critic is responding to this film

I saw One Battle After Another and did not enjoy it. I am clearly the outlier but I thought the sexual politics of the film were bad. The representation of Black women revolutionaries was painful and I think the fixation on interracial sex and a mixed race character is a hackneyed trope.

Karen over at Capitol Resource/Take Back the Classroom (a non-professional BookLooks/RatedBooks wanna be) is having her book banning posse share images of banned book displays across the country as a means of . . . what, I'm not sure. But heads up if you see/hear more complaints than normal.

I would watch this in thirty-minute increments for two straight days

Hey, Mo’s on the front line, this is a nice way to help out for those of us out of state.

199 years after the last one, way to string along your fanbase, Ms. Shelley

Amazed at the number of guys who are willing to give interviews about how since they didn’t find love with women they found love with the computer that’s poisoning people in black neighborhoods

I don't usually get too worked up about book covers, but this edition of RF Kuang's Katabasis is stunning. Picked this up at my local indie bookstore recently and wow!

The Memory Hunters by Mia Tsai is fascinating look at archival work through a speculative lens. reactormag.com/book-review-...

“THE QUEEN OF SATURN AND THE PRINCE IN EXILE is an intriguing coming-of-age science fiction novel.” @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social (@QueenOfRats) reviews @erricknunnally.bsky.social

“Nearly 30% fewer movies and TV shows with budgets of at least $40 million began shooting in the U.S. in 2024 than in 2022”