A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

Rare copies of Pushkin's publications are going missing across Europe -- to what extent is Russia involved? Are they simply happy looking the other way, or are these state sponsored/encouraged heists? www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Art crime! Art crime! Someone's doing an art crime!

With Banned Books Week coming up, does anyone know of a searchable database of banned books? I would love to figure out what I've read this past year that's been banned. #AmReading

"It was difficult to understand why someone would want to organise an exhibition of such low-value works.” SCATHING statement by the Italian art police: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

"It was difficult to understand why someone would want to organise an exhibition of such low-value works.” SCATHING statement by the Italian art police: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

A bat recently hit my friend in the head, then flew around and hit her again. At the hospital, they told her that they couldn't find a visible wound in her hair, and therefore her insurance wouldn't pay for the rabies vaccine. Did she still want the vaccine? It would cost her $30,000 out of pocket.

This is an incredible poster

What I like about manicules is that they're marks of what readers find interesting. Like, oh, you think this section is important? Point to it! You think this section is stupid? Point to it!

👉 I wrote about the small pointing hands you see doodled in medieval manuscripts (and if you look closely, some of them have six fingers)! 👈 #MedievalMonday #ArnamagnæanInstitute manuscript.ku.dk/motm/pointin...

@morganrichter.bsky.social Just finished The Understudy! I liked how I couldn't trust anything anyone said. Now I want to watch a Barbarella opera...

In other news, German police investigate reports of teenagers playing ding-dong-ditch only to discover the culprit was a slug 🐌 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

In other news, German police investigate reports of teenagers playing ding-dong-ditch only to discover the culprit was a slug 🐌 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Usually I have at least one long backpacking trip every summer. This year, it was through the eastern Sierra Nevadas. I got to revisit some of the trails I did on the JMT, and climb new mountains. My happy place :)

Occasionally this is simply a bird stan account

This is beautiful

All of us judges spent the last year watching hours upon hours of films to select the very best for you. As you can imagine, this took up a good part of my time and I’m not ready to let it all go. Stick with me as I shout about some of the films you might have seen (or missed!) this last week! 2/13

Does anyone have speculative fiction (or mystery) magazine recommendations that offer PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS? The last bit is a sticking point, I'm afraid.

I hope that everyone got a chance to drop in on the WorldCon Film Festival we had @seattlein2025.org This was my first time ever being involved with a film fest and I had no idea what to expect. Before time entirely slips away, I want to revel some more in the films. They were all great! 1/13

I hope that everyone got a chance to drop in on the WorldCon Film Festival we had @seattlein2025.org This was my first time ever being involved with a film fest and I had no idea what to expect. Before time entirely slips away, I want to revel some more in the films. They were all great! 1/13

What a good birb

@kamakru.bsky.social I was outbid on your dragon print! But nice to meet you -- and congrats on the award!

Holy moly, after five days of #WorldCon, I went to bed early and slept till 10am. It was glorious (and so, so needed).

Congrats to all the Hugo winners! It was my first time attending the #HugoAwards and there was something special about seeing the community come together to support each other. locusmag.com/2025/08/hugo...

just saw someone sincerely arguing that they need AI bc they don't have "natural" artistic talent and idk how to make you understand that nobody comes by this shit naturally. it's just...work. it's being bad at it for a really, really, really long time. it's intention, pursued over time! wtf!!!

My first ever author reading went well today! Thank you to everyone at WorldCon for coming out to support my story of an alien encounter 👽☎️

I'm up this morning at WorldCon! Come hear me read "The Emergency Contact" in room 428. @seattlein2025.org 👽

Here's my schedule for WorldCon this week! See you there?

Hello Writer Friends! Do I know anyone who will be at WorldCon this coming week? If so, say hi!

Hello Writer Friends! Do I know anyone who will be at WorldCon this coming week? If so, say hi!

Rewrote the opening to Novel #2. It's definitely catchier now. I doubt this is the permanent opening but it feels like I'm on the right track #AmWriting

I need everyone to admire this massive slab of bog butter (and it's still edible!) www.irishnews.com/news/ireland...

As someone who's seen all these films, believe me, you don't want to miss this block!

Having not had quite enough sleep this weekend, I strongly identify with the drawing in this medieval manuscript.

Having not had quite enough sleep this weekend, I strongly identify with the drawing in this medieval manuscript.

Incredibly important report on AI training & copyright released today by the European Commission. It gets lots right, slamming the idea that creators should be required to opt-out of having their works used for free by AI companies. It says: - Generative AI must be based on opt-in consent 🧵 1/n

Pretty sure there's a man haunting this manuscript

Pretty sure there's a man haunting this manuscript

Check out this prize-winning essay by postdoc @djenetbousbaine.bsky.social on her work with @mfgrp.bsky.social @stanford-chemh.bsky.social 👏

Happy Friday, everyone! #MedievalManuscript

Today's manuscript find is this medieval doodle of a man with his back turned to the legal text, doffing his hat at the empty margins.

Today's manuscript find is this medieval doodle of a man with his back turned to the legal text, doffing his hat at the empty margins.

Working away on the eternal question of marginalia, today I'm admiring these tiny fish in the sea, and horses with trees and people that someone drew around 1470. #Medieval

You don't have time for your bullshit! And yet you do your bullshit all day! Go write your book!

Baby Kestrel (2025) Humphrey Ocean, RA Royal Academy of Art, London, United Kingdom

Every time a friend has a kid, I give them Wanda Gág's Millions of Cats (and without fail, they've never heard of it)! What's a book—or series of books—that you loved as a kid that almost nobody seems to read or even remember nowadays?

Victor Hugo: Writer, Artist, and Ocean Man file770.com/victor-hugo-...

In 1885, over 2 million people lined the streets of Paris for Victor Hugo’s funeral. The man was a writer, politician, and...artist? I wrote about his drawings, which are currently exhibited at the @royalacademyarts.bsky.social. @file770.bsky.social file770.com/victor-hugo-...

Hver by har sin heks og hvert sogn sine trolde 🎶 Happy Midsummer, everyone! #SanktHansAften

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.