The publishing industry views Bluesky as some tiny unimportant island out somewhere in a far-off ocean. It's not worthy of their attention like Amazon Algoland or The Republic Of Instagram Influencer Collaborativepost is. What they don't realise is just how much the island's inhabitants love books.

....I am really, really tired of hearing men who occupy positions of honor that women have been largely excluded from wax poetic about humility. I think humility is one of the hardest things to talk about in a constructive way. #ParshaChat

I hate to generalize, but we seem to have moved from a WATT (we're all in this together) culture to a YOYO culture (you're on your own). In such a world, people don't see courtesy or humility as useful as they try to gain & keep power. Even scripture is seen as old & irrelevant. #ParshaChat

That's why I remind my students that online discourse is often intended to promote division and distrust, rather than a useful and respectful exchange of ideas. "Who is wise? One who learns from every person." Some folks aren't interested in learning; they just want to dominate. #ParshaChat

May is #MECFSAwareness Month! With our friends at Open Medicine Foundation (OMF) #MEAction Network and Bateman Horne Center#MECFSAwareness#MEActione're promoting education & understanding of this devastating disease. Join us! Add the tag #UnitedForME to all your ME-related posts this month. #MECFSAwareness

So after the downpours in Wellington left Zealandia valley extremely soggy, @carlbergstrom.com was asking if the Takahe were ok. Having got as close to the upper valley trio as I ever have, I can confirm they're doing well! (& just this week got two new elderly takahe neighbors down the valley)

University Claims Withholding Water From Nuclear Weapons Data Center Is 'Unlawfully Discriminatory' to Data Centers www.404media.co/university-c...

When I think about the verses that oppose idolatry, I think about Moses, who was the most humble man on the earth, according to scripture, and who did not want to be worshiped. Contrast that with what's going on today: gold statues, and craven members of clergy defending them. #ParshaChat

And about Falwell and his fellow travelers blaming gay people and God for AIDS. And about various religious misogynists blaming hurricanes on women who wear pants or short skirts. #ParshaChat

Idolatry is not about other people's sanctuaries and sacred sites, we can and should be pluralistic about that sort of thing. And there's also something else that really *is* an affront that should not be tolerated. And the best way to reject this particular form is at the ballot box. #ParshaChat

@pfanderson.bsky.social @drspacejunk.bsky.social @vk2tfg.bsky.social sure. you could look through all of them yourself - it's in the #publicDomain. but do you really? #Artemis2 #ReturnToTheMoon

Maybe they’re buddies #art #ink #doodle #dnd

I've found so many more books and authors here on BSky than on any other social media platform, & I've been a social media consultant, researcher, & instructor for decades. Why? Because the way Bsky has self-organized around niche topics & populations allows me to find books on my topics by my folk

Author, bookseller, and publisher friends: Please keep posting your positive stories about selling books through Bluesky, and I'll package them up and show them to publishers so that we can get more book publishers and even more authors and book conversation here!

There were five “insomnia pickle” quote posts overnight 😂

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Head of Design for @makevisible someone who knows #a11y #ptengagement #epatients and listening please help them makevisible.notion.site/Head-of-Desi...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist @nhannahjones.bsky.social explains why the Supreme Court's gutting of the Voting Rights Act is not just a blow to Black representation. "The loss of this impacts democracy for everyone," she says. #Velshi

It’s patently obvious that by obliterating the Voting Rights Act the Supreme Court unduly restricted the electoral power of Black citizens But since SCOTUS allowed partisan gerrymandering, that also means millions of Americans-in each party-will be disenfranchised Just an unmitigated disaster

A new book from the Internet Archive — Vanishing Culture archive.org/details/vani...

—but present as a definitive record under the rigors of info science— That’s not fulfilling that requirement. You can’t just turn stored records loose. You have to think about the ramifications of doing that. If you claim “these are all the Nazis we have records of”—it sounds pretty final!

This, ladies, gentlemen, and others, is why information science is a formal discipline with a strict ethical requirement. One of the requirements of library/archive professionals is providing accurate information. If you set up something to auto-index that you cannot demonstrate the accuracy of—

You know who HAS been fighting on this front for years? Stacy Abrams. If she said 'she's tired,' this would make sense.

A2: Y'know, I think this story is chosen to imply there *isn't* an absolute hard-line prohibition against blasphemy. If that was the intent, then the blasphemer wouldn't be a marginal individual, it would be a Jew with many family & friends who'd miss him #ParshaChat

By making the blasphemer someone who is marginal & unpopular, the text is signalling that *in practice* blasphemy needn't be a top-level offense. If you want to use it as the pretext for getting rid of someone, sure. But an otherwise useful guy who swears can stay. #ParshaChat

Wow, that's cold. But I can't see any other reason for having the blasphemer be who he is. And also, even in cultures where blasphemy is strongly deprecated, there are people who are allowed to cuss--sailors, large-animal wranglers, etc. #ParshaChat

It feels that way to me too. Do you hear "blasphemy" as a word for expressing a belief that the person who hears it cannot stand? I do, and that seems very different from cursing by the Name we are not even supposed to pronounce! #ParshaChat

I think rather than blasphemy per se as something done in community, I do think it is good to have a concept of a baseline respect due to sacred tangibles -- we do not cut down spirit trees nor spit on divine statues, we treat with respect the materia of the divine, it CAN be disrespected.

for me, it gives the whole situation a *really* bad smell. Because it sure *sounds* like he was picked on for being different, swore in the heat of the fight, then that was used as an excuse for judicial murder. #ParshaChat

And, I think that the problem in how this stuff tends to be addressed is less that it's only seen as a problem when low status people do it, and more that it's only seen as a problem when low status people do it *to high status people*. #ParshaChat

Eg: People who say "boys will be boys" to excuse the conduct of boys towards girls would not generally allow those boys to behave that way towards adult men. #ParshaChat

A2: I *do* find the possibly-related concept of hillul hashem very useful. That means, roughly, bringing God into disrepute by doing awful things in God's name. #ParshaChat

Then, when the son tries to join the tribe of Dan, they refuse. Tribal affiliation goes by the father. He is not one of them. Infuriated by not belonging anywhere, he gets into a fight and curses God! The moral: as a society, we have some responsibility for people we refuse to include. #ParshaChat

We often study difficult or problematic texts together, and we have a norm that it's ok not to rescue the text. #ParshaChat

#ParshaChat is an LGBTQ+ affirming space, and that's not up for debate here. (We're not rigid about people using highly specific language or whatever, but there are certain debates that tend to come up in a lot of spaces in ways we don't do here. Happy to clarify if that's unclear.)

I'd also add a couple things: People bring different kinds of knowledge, and that's ok. It's ok to use words that some people might not know; it's also ok (and encouraged!) to ask for clarification. #ParshaChat

Welcome to #ParshaChat, a Jewish space for discussion of the weekly Torah reading (and sometimes other things!) This week we are studying: Emor Leviticus 21:1-24:23 www.hebcal.com/sedrot/emor-...

Our current theme for #ParshaChat text study is reading the text with the assumption that we are supposed to care about people. If you have questions about #ParshaChat or how to participate, please feel free to @ or DM Rabbi @RutiRegan.bsky.social with questions!

So Eric Trump is now threatening to sue MeidasTouch because our editor-in-chief simply reported on the massive amounts of money he and Don Jr. are making off government contracts. File the lawsuit Eric. We’d love to put you under oath. Our message: www.meidasplus.com/p/trump-fami...

Last night House Republicans passed a budget bill that gives ICE & CBP $140 billion to continue their campaign of terror & violence against our communities. Unconscionable. I voted NO & will keep fighting to abolish ICE, end qualified immunity, & hold this lawless agency accountable.

@pfanderson.bsky.social @drspacejunk.bsky.social @vk2tfg.bsky.social OTD 28 Apr 2001, Dennis Tito became the first self-funded astronaut on board the ISS, travelling up to it by Soyuz and spending several days in orbit before returning with a bigger mind (1/2)

David Allan Coe dies at 86 The Music Universe can confirm that country music legend David Allan Coe passed away today (Wed, Apr 29th) in the hospital. He was 86 years old. Coe was the writer of “Take This Job And Shove It” among others. One of his biggest hits was “The Ride”. tinyurl.com/rUmWg4

“Yes, I’ll haul your ashes back to Oklahoma, … We aim for that dent in the dust where your pa was born in a sod stable and your ma minced a snake with a garden hoe; that place the trappers named Beaver, not thinking, for once, of women.” www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Happy Earth Day! 🌎 🌍 🌏 To mark this special day, we’re tuning in to Sen, the world’s first continuous 4K video livestream from space. Sen’s cameras are hosted on our Columbus module of the ISS, with data delivered via the Airbus platform. Watch Earth from above, just like an astronaut 📹 Sen

@pfanderson.bsky.social @drspacejunk.bsky.social @vk2tfg.bsky.social Ah yes, i want to enjoy the remote possibility of Elon Musk murdering me randomly with a truck every day, even without Cybertrucks being allowed into my local area. thenarwhal.ca/space-junk-f...

This is important. “More than 100 retired NASA astronauts have banded together to form a new nonpartisan organization…its members “believe deeply in the principles that have propelled our nation for 250 years,” such as the rule of law, checks and balances and the peaceful transition of power.”

(Wincing) Who decides what you should read next? The AI, course. Right? clearshelf.xyz/the-libraria... #medlibs

A first-author slot on an article sold by a paper mill costs a median value of nearly US$800. Price range from $57 to > $5,600. @miryamnaddaf.bsky.social in @nature.com on @reeserichardson.bsky.social, @abalkina.bsky.social analysis of thousands of papermill ads www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The range is as fascinating as the top end....

“The autonomic nervous system is the conductor of the orchestra of physiological recovery. However, the conductor is drunk and the orchestra has become poorly coordinated in ME/CFS.” likeannopeningbandforthesun.substack.com/p/in-pursuit... #mecfs #longcovid