Indie bookstores are magical places, and the Binc Foundation is a critical safety net for bookstore owners and employees. 🧡 Here's a great list of ways you can support their work that goes beyond sending money. (Sending money is great, too!)

there is a genre of person who hates AI in *their* field but sees how it could be useful in *other,* less prestigious, fields; ignore them. they are not trying to save the ship. they are just racing you to the lifeboats

<eyes rolling back into skull> ₦Ø₩ ₮ⱧɆ Jł₦₲ⱠɆⱧØ₱ Ⱨ₳₴ ฿Ɇ₲Ʉ₦

*looks longingly at the Dragonriders of Pern series*

*gently pushes towards SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN*

And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.

Not too late to return that David Walliams book to the store and get a new one! There are SO MANY GOOD middle grade books out there. You're missing nothing.

support independent media. idk what else to say right now.

kathy hochul meet me in a parking lot please i just wanna talk

Pound/dollar for pound/dollar, the good people can do in buying and wiping out debt (especially medical debt!) is astonishing, and it baffles me that more people with very medium amounts of wealth don’t do it when it would mean so much to people who are drowning

legitimately love this guy.

I will never use LLM for anything to do with my writing. Even my research is driven by good research practice, not AI. Why would I? I like the work. If you don't like doing the work, ask yourself why you're not actually doing something you do like to do, instead.

My friends, I say this with all the love in my heart: Right now might not be the moment for “But we should be TOLERANT and NUANCED about the plagiarism machines!” Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.

Here's a great offer from @libro.fm: Donate to some of my favorite book organizations, get a free audiobook. What's not to love? ❤️

"we only use AI for coming up with ideas" no you don't. you use AI to come up with the a bland version of other people's ideas. there is currently NOBODY more replaceable than you

probably a good time to quit tiktok if you haven't already bc it is going to warp your mind

everything you use is being taken over by the same group chat

If they want to keep getting work, they can review (=rewrite) the AI slop, for 1/3 of their normal rate (which was already low to begin with) Readers, we HAVE to complain about it, hold the publishers accountable and boycott these books

French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations. All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin

Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all): whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...

hey pw meet me in the parking lot i just want to talk

*gently pushes towards whole recommendation list of short engaging nonfiction audiobooks* libro.fm/playlists/ni...

One of my favorite things to do is stroll into an independent bookstore and listen to one of the booksellers give book recommendations to strangers! Also fun when it’s me, but either way, it’s a love language!

Hey romancelandia and fandom peeps! If you live in the U.S. right now you should know that KOSA (along with a slew of censorship bills) are advancing through congress right now. If you care about spicy books and/or fanfiction you should contact your reps right now and tell them to vote NO on KOSA!

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

My most fundamental belief is that we do not have to live like this.

*gently pushes towards SOUNDS LIKE LOVE and THE EVERLASTING and EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS*

Execs can't seem to get it in their heads that people like good art, and good art sells because people want to support and get more of the thing they like. And you can't create good art if you don't treat workers right. This goes for publishing, video games, comics... every creative industry.

hi, this is super fucked up

Kindle’s New “Ask this Book” Uses Generative AI to Create An In-Book Chatbot — Without Permission or Rights lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/12/kind...

worm for you

manifesting: 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 ai bubble 🕯 🕯 to pop disastrously 🕯 🕯 for all involved 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

this is a VERY good piece!!! harper and harlequin in particular seem quite messy lately! (and, i mean, for harper, always!) but i also wonder how much of the complications around printing (there's almost no book printers in the us; all are overseas and often backed up on work) affected this.

*gently pushes towards Amie Kaufman's entire bibliography*

me when people take photos of books inside indie bookstores only to order them on amazon later

*gently pushes towards LIGHT FROM UNCOMMON STARS and SALTCROP*

Food for thought this holiday season! @libro.fm is a great company that supports indie bookstores, and they make it easy to gift audiobooks or audiobook credits to all the readers on your list.

*gently pushes towards THE EVERLASTING and HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE*

*gently pushes towards JANE STEELE*

*gently pushes towards books by Mona Awad and Madeline Miller*

THE LEGEND OF ELI MONPRESS is a bind-up of the first three books of the eli monpress series and so somehow manages to answer all parts of this question in one go 🥰

*gently pushes towards THE MONSTER OF ELENDHAVEN and THE STARDUST GRAIL and LIGHT FROM UNCOMMON STARS* also a reminder to everybody that you can now buy e-books on @bookshop.org!!! indie bookstores > billionaire companies that disrespect their workers and strive for monopolies!!!

I'm running for president on the platform that anyone who writes a review of a YA book and says something to the effect of "it reads young" is forever banned off the internet.

*gently pushes towards SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN and SCARLET MORNING and THE ANTHROPOCENE REVIEWED*

*gently pushes towards THE EVERLASTING and THE TALENTED MRS. MANDELBAUM and SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN and SISTER OUTSIDER*

i would like to read this!!!

"We acknowledge that AI has a fraught history in its interactions with publishing" ... but you're using chatgpt!!! 👀 edelweiss i know you were just bought out and raised prices and are on thin ice already but this makes the ice thinner!!! just why!!! www.edelweissplus.com/ai-at-edelwe...

“Waugh your work is too long” give it up. The blogs get longer with every complaint. You think I won’t drop a 25,000 word one? And email it to you? You think I won’t print it out and mail it to you? You think I won’t “skibbidi” out of your damn garbage disposal and start screaming it at you?

The truth will outlive and outlast us all. Let that guide you. Now go do something really stupid that you believe in fully and see how it shakes out.

this sort of thing would be my catnip if more journals could fit in my house but since i cannot fit more journals in my house y'all should sign up for yourself in my honor this is not sponsored i just 💛 indie bookstores and stationary