Hi, I’d like to return these turtles. They don’t do karate

But I was told this technology was the future and if I refused to adapt to it I’d be left behind

"Do not expect too much of the end of the world." ― Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Unkempt Thoughts #BookSky

“No one had taught us how to be free. We had only ever been taught how to die for freedom.” ― Svetlana Alexievich, Secondhand Time: An Oral History of the Fall of the Soviet Union #BookSky

"L’espace m’a toujours rendu silencieux." (Space has always reduced me to silence.) ― Jules Vallès, L’enfant #Poetry #Photography Bernard Plossu, from his 'Voyages Italiens'.

#Photography Ernst Haas

A Movable Book a Week: WHAT’S BELOW? (2017), paper engineer uncredited. #movableaweekin2026 #movablebooks #popupbooks #paperengineering #popdown #clivegifford #katemclelland #egmontuk #kanemiller #edcpublishing #booksky

A Movable Book a Week: MAXFIELD PARRISH POP-UP BOOK (1994), paper engineer John J. Strejan. #movableaweekin2026 #movablebooks #popupbooks #paperengineering #johnjstrejan #maxfieldparrish #jilllanderson #pomegranateartbooks #booksky

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WTF did I just read?? 📚💙

There's a book chat at Daily Kos tonight, come chat about #books. #booksky www.dailykos.com/story/2026/3...

Just finished my first book of 2026. A real beast. Great read for a Beatles fan, can’t imagine what a non-Beatles fan would make of it. It really picks up in the last 400 pages. #booksky 💙📚

God Angry After New Construction Blocks View Of Creation https://theonion.com/god-angry-after-new-construction-blocks-view-of-creation/

You can now shop my art online. Original paintings, prints, and future commissions are available in my Ko-fi shop. ko-fi.com/lisamuellerf...

The current world order is not built on USA's hegemony but on Israel's 'right' to attack, occupy & kill without any limits. If a genocide is committed, if entire world economy suffers, if 45 million more fall into acute hunger, then that's how it's going to be because world revolves around Israel.

Stolen is a compelling, thriller-type novel about the discrimination & oppression faced by the Sami people in rural Sweden. Like our indigenous peoples in Canada, the Sami face a myriad of challenges: racism, violence, cultural genocide, encroaching climate change, & a disappearing way of life. 🖋️📚💙

Interesting debut novel with such an original protagonist. Gloria is a young woman with a learning disability, living in London at the turn of the millennium. Lonely, she’s befriended by Jack (he’s bad news). I appreciated experiencing her perspective in descriptive, rhythmic prose. #books 💙📚🖋️

📚 We'll Prescribe You a Cat by: Syou Ishida Tucked away in an old building at the end of a narrow alley in Kyoto, the Kokoro Clinic for the Soul can only be found by people who are struggling in their lives and genuinely need help. The mysterious clinic […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Wow. Sometimes a book flows so easily and beautifully that the writing itself is a pleasure. This is one such book. Also: Black literature is American literature, and Black history is American history. If you don’t know them, you don’t know the whole story. #BookSky #litfic #literaryfiction

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Kimbers and I, downsizing our library, selling off at knockdown prices. Subjects include: craft, horror, graphic novels, children's fiction, folktales, theatre and science. My eBay here: www.ebay.co.uk/usr/jasonbuckstoryteller #books

Seeking connections with writers & readers passionate about Science Fiction, Solarpunk, Hopepunk, Silkpunk, Steampunk, CliFi, Found Family, Post-Apocalyptic tales, British Sci-Fi, & UK Authors! Follow, DM, let's build our network! #Writing #ScienceFiction #Solarpunk #UKAuthors #LetsConnect

And now we've got the first issue of a brand-new magazine, OTHERSIDE, @othersidespec.bsky.social, a quarterly literary magazine that publishes speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ writers and artists. Looks amazing: weightlessbooks.com/category/for...

"What It’s Like To … Build Space for African Speculative Fiction from Nairobi" www.okayafrica.com/what-its-lik...

Today's note of praise is for Leslie Marmon Silko's knockout novel CEREMONY, which is often - and obviously correctly - thought of as a powerful and evocative expression of the place of indigenous tradition in modern American society, but I also think should take its place among the great WW2 novels

"This article describes the emergence of a novel form of capital—which I call 'cosine capital'—that finds objectified form in the 'embedding' structures of large language models." doi.org/10.1177/2053...

From the Archive: Mark Elam, 'Living Dangerously with Bruno Latour in a Hybrid World' - critically engages with the work of Bruno Latour and, in particular, his book 'We Have Never Been Modern'. (1999) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Me inching from literary to legal journalism . . .

Q: You don’t regret that people might’ve lost important income to support their lives? A: No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit. Q: Ok. Did you reduce the federal deficit? A: No, we didn’t.

The irony that the people who don’t mask in order to be accepted by society and their social circles—knowing they’ll be shunned for masking because they shun those who mask—will end up abandoned by society and their social circles when they inevitably get Long Covid because they don’t mask.

This is why we are so vocal about it. Because it can happen to you & no one else is warning you unless you read medical studies.

your moment of calm punctuated by PARDON ME?!

Holy wind, batman.. 😬 At least the kit kats are taking refuge in the garage. It was mid 80s today before the cold front and tonight will be around freezing. Next week we’ll be in the 90s (ick too soon!). This is exhausting. I have to prepare things outside for all seasons..

And some of us who are chronically ill but not with long covid are doing the same because - get this - We know what it's like to be really sick and disabled by illness and we don't want that for anyone else and we certainly don't want for ourselves to get even sicker!

This book in particular, a collection of essays from an old man angry at George W. Bush, is distressingly full of these. Another choice bit that seems to echo particularly true in this age of LLM proliferation:

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

The news I read is bad, but this fox sparrow I saw is good. #birds

I hate everything today but I took this closeup of an axolotl

This is VERY important 👇 Pete Hesgeth is threatening @anthropic.com He’s trying to force them to allow the Pentagon to use their AI models for: Mass domestic surveillance Killing without a human in the loop This is real. Aaron Parnas and others are covering it. This is a HUGE THREAT 1/2

He threatened to blacklist @anthropic.com if they don’t comply What can we do? 1. Call your congressional reps NOW Demand that they STOP the EXTORTION MASS DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCE IS TERRIFYING! 2. Contact [email protected] THIS MUST NOT HAPPEN! Tell #Anthropic DO NOT COMPLY Pls reshare!

"She’s a great reminder that to make good art, you have to take big risks.” Huge thanks to PBS Chicago for chatting with me about A DANGER TO THE MINDS OF YOUNG GIRLS. www.wttw.com/playlist/202...

In actual good news: Bret Anthony Johnston—an immeasureably talented writer & also my friend—has a new book out TODAY!—a beautiful story collection called Encounters with Unexpected Animals. It's brilliant, as is Bret, & you should check it out. www.austinchronicle.com/arts/bret-an...

Man, I needed to read this.

Just got this in the mail today and I’m so excited to read it. And I got the signed version, so I can finally add Ani’s autograph to my collection of favorite musicians. ❤️

This is where I've landed with this difficult to discuss topic. I am for the right to die. But we cannot ethically have a right to die until/unless we fully have the right to live. That has to come first and for so many of us - particularly poor and disabled folks - we're not there, yet.

good update on what's going on and Amazon lists if you follow this thread. if you can reskeet this and/or send a contribution big or small or donate from the lists,it would be greatly appreciated. all the best to my friends 💗