Had the pleasure of reading an arc generously gifted by the Author of Mr. yay. Emily Jane writes fascinating books exploring big questions. In this case exploring self identity and self evolution via the mandala effect. #booksky #💙📚

I have seen so little about the lived experience of Iranians, & I'm very glad @globalvoices.org was able to publish this piece. If you appreciate these stories, please consider supporting our independent, multilingual, community-driven journalism, always free and ad-free: globalvoices.org/donate/

Anthropic: We lost a contract because we refuse to build Skynet. OpenAI: We'll do it

No one should be using ChatGPT or partnering with OpenAI for anything.

tired: OpenAI has lost the Mandate of Heaven wired: OpenAI has gained the gates of hell

Stay sober. The atrocities of this moment can not be healed with a drink. The answers are not at the bottom of a bottle. The sobriety you fought so hard to have is worth holding on to. Call your sponsor if you have one. There are online meetings you can attend. Talk to someone. Keep fighting!

I'm not familiar with either of these sources, but I am familiar with the VA as a veteran. govsalaries.com/pretti-alex-... bsky.app/profile/dimi...

UPDATE: @startribune.com reports that state records show Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old U.S. Citizen executed by ICE agents this morning in Minneapolis, was issued a nursing license in 2021, and it remains active through March 2026. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

UPDATE: @dropsitenews.com has obtained the very graphic video from the lady in the pink coat, which shows ICE executing yet another person in broad daylight:

A little over a week ago, my ex-wife had a very serious medical emergency and ended up in the hospital, septic. She is home but has a long recovery ahead of her and is going to need some significant help so that she can keep things running while she recovers. Posting links in the comments. Thanks!

I mean I really don't have to spend money anywhere. Hilton is now on the list of do not use.

Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta just knocked Jasmine Throne out of my to 5 books ever. I will post a full review soon, but it is deep, dark, filled with longing and chaotic and lovely and comforting. It is a book worth investing time in #💙📚 #🪐📚

We often talk about the good we would do if we had billions of dollars like the 1%. But we should be talking about how much good we could do if we fought together. Come be a part of our community and help us fight for marginalized authors. Leftunreadbooks.binderybooks.com Discount code: LEFTUNREAD

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

Reactor magazine's reader choice is up. Go nominate cool books ❤️❤️ #💙📚 #💙🪐 reactormag.com/cast-your-vo...

Remember when Amazon held a sale during Independent Bookstore Day in an effort to undercut indie bookstores? We didn’t forget. Support local bookstores during Small Business Saturday and beyond.

For example here are my recs and book links from Bookshop. Free shipping rn! bookshop.org/shop/tjalexa...

Ugh finished A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping last night, and just so many tears...the multiple autistic characters. The multiple characters dealing with trauma and feelings. The healing and the power of people seeing you when you can't see yourself. 😭 just so wonderful. #💙📚

We lost a truly amazing leader. RIP Alice Wong.

Further confirmation that Tr*mp owns the Supreme Court, who are complicit with him starving Americans.

The level of evil on display is mind-boggling

NO KINGS DAY!!!!! When people tell the king what they think of him and he pretends they really hate their own country.

Just got deseret Book ad. An app that promises no surprise spice and curated "clean" romance. Tag line "join your proper romance era". Slut shaming is in I guess. just call them close door romances and stop defining your romance as the morally correct type. #📚💙

My content’s going to be obnoxious today & tomorrow, fair warning. I’m trying to hit my goal of 500 paid subscribers in Bindery for my birthday tomorrow and I am 115 away. So I will be obnoxious as I try to make that happen over the next 48 hours. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Go subscribe: leftunreadbooks.binderybooks.com

I have a few books I'm reading for an upcoming author conversation I get to HOST. (Still not over this) But Luminous by Silvia Park has me by the throat so I'm reading that instead. The human on robot crime has me hoping for an unusual robots win storyline over a Black Beauty ending. 🫣🫣🫣🫣 #🪐📚 #💙📚

Super sick but well enough to read join me on a readathon. Up first, Recipes for an Unexpected afterlife by Deston J. Munden. (128/278) Who would you become if you were released from your previous life? An undead orc knight finds out #📚💙 #🪐📚

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Gliff by Ali Smith is a stunning dystopian. I am clutching nearly every sentence to my chest. Honestly, this is a classic in the making. #💙📚 #📚📚

Started #hammajangluck today and it is a bit of a sucker punch. Heist with heart? Hawaiian cyber punk? Yes please 📚💙 🪐📚

Hey #booksky please consider donating and/or sharing! Michael is a great person who is constantly and consistently showing up for the bookish community. If you are able, let's show him some love and be there for him like he is there for so many others 🫶🏽🫂

Right now, @michaellaborn.bsky.social one of the best humans in our book community, if not everywhere, needs help. If you can, please donate to his go find me to help with bills and housing while his imprint launches and share it. 💙📚 #mutualaid www.gofundme.com/f/aid-michae...

If we're doing groceries and take-out discourse, here's my take: Man-made famines are crimes against humanity. If you can help the World Central Kitchen in Gaza, please do. Donate dollars. Call your reps. Share their story in your communities to invite help.

Someone will probably call this hyperbole. To which I say, you've been calling every true prediction about this hyperbole for years.

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AFTER he was released, instead of an apology: "On Tuesday morning, while boarding his flight to Vermont, Chavarria said he received an email from U.S. Customs and Border Protection: his Global Entry permission had been revoked. No reason was given."

Trying to figure out if putting a bowl of freshly picked raspberries on one of my most-look-forward-to books this year so I can get a better shot Is sacrilegious or not? #meetmeatthecrossroads by Megan Giddings is FIRE. 📚💙

I don’t have the capacity to offer any real thoughts at the moment, but here is a long list of books to help you think about a wide variety of subjects we desperately need to be talking about with our neighbors right now.

We now have a concentration camp in Florida. Stop pretending any of this is normal. If you claim to be a good person and you're not outwardly opposing this regime, you're not a good person. Be human.

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

Anytime the American press uses the word "homeland" a little democracy fairy winks out of existence. #screaningintothevoud apnews.com/article/iran...

"In a previously unreported development, federal agents came to suspect that Bukele and members of his inner circle had diverted US aid funds to the gang." Read the whole investigation, republished from @propublica.org ⬇️

The L.A. protesters have really gone too far this time… 🌼

Better yet we start calling Trump Republicans royalists.

This is sickening. Also if LA needs "liberated", why are women and kids at parks? The cognitive dissonance here is wild.

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.