This is subtly one of the funniest suggested google searches I’ve ever seen.

"Birth of a Nation" premieres tonight at 8 p.m. ET, just as our Founding Fathers predicted. Watch live. https://youtu.be/_cTi_vTwwmU

"A congressional district should look unlike any shape you’ve ever seen on Earth."

“Is this a riddle? If I get this right, will I wake up?”

After never having encountered the word "recrudescence" once in my entire life, I've now seen it twice in one week.

Netgalley question. Is there anyway to see ALL of the books categorized as Teens & YA then sort those by publication date? I only see options for smaller lists like Read Now (which has hardly any books in it), Recently Added Books, Most Requested Books, and sponsored or featured titles.

Vultures were circling the library this morning when I came in. I'm sure it's not an omen or anything

Thursday Afternoon Update with new Tornado Watches up for the greater WMass region: westernmassweather.com/weathernut-r...

Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

The Lost Button is my favorite of all the Frog & Toad stories

This is really good news!!! Alzo!!!!

"The difference between didactic and non-didactic is the difference between telling and showing. Explaining vs exploring."

“If the only way for me to not end up with a mistake ever again is to literally stop using AI, that's just not realistic." YES IT IS!!!!! It's how things worked until literally two years ago! Since FOREVER #NoAI

@novicsara.bsky.social Thank you for writing MOTHER TONGUE. What a deeply thoughtful and important book. I loved it.

listen up graduates

@katemessner.com 4th grader's essay after reading History Smashers :-)

"Reading is not just an academic skill; it is a relationship-building act." knowledgequest.aasl.org/when-the-amb...

"Traditional search forced users to think. AI search increasingly asks users to trust." www.inc.com/connor-jewis...

She NEEDS to wake us up at 6am because CHIPMUNKS EXIST and that is NOT OKAY

why do all the apps now have to act like the creepy guy who interrupts you at the library to ask you what you’re reading, who wants this

"Reading books taught me how to write them." -Lauren Wolk @fuse8.bsky.social afuse8production.slj.com/2026/05/19/w...

"Four thirty in the afternoon, as pleasant as it may be, does not constitute a good morning." Someone just told me to "have a good night." It's 2pm.

"Frankly, I'm inclined to believe that the lesson here is that the human brain is a Rubik's Cube that occasionally solves itself after a good night's sleep."

Now some middle grade... #BeAnAmbassador #WeNeedDiverseBooks Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All, Red White and Whole, A Sea of Lemon Trees, Ghost, A Kind of Spark, Amari and the Night Brothers, Brady Mason's Perfect Fit, The Queen Bees of Tybee County, Merci Suarez Changes Gears, How to Say Goodbye in Cuban

100 Chapatis, Chooch Helped, Federico and the Wolf, Home in a Lunchbox, Dim Sum Palace, Dancing Hands, While We're Here, and Song in the City I could do this ALL DAY. #BeAnAmbassador #WeNeedDiverseBooks

Thoughts on gatekeeping, children's books, diverse voices, and how you can create a picture book that somehow, remarkably, gets everything right, all at once. I review the latest from @annewynter.bsky.social & Micha Archer: #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2026/05/08/r...

"I cannot imagine poison would taste worse than this. It tasted like the ink from a pen used to sign a death certificate."

"And if we want today’s youth to be tomorrow’s adults who still read for pleasure, then we have to allow for reading to be about pleasure in childhood as well."

Recently someone compared searching email to asking AI ("the info's there, it's a database!") and wow it turns out there is a records manager inside me and she says "bruh no fucking way are those the same"

A Queen of YA Is Back: Sarah Dessen on Nostalgia, Teen Jobs, and More bookriot.com/sarah-dessen...

We *know* that AI products like ChatGPT cause harm. Just like we *know* fossil fuel companies are responsible for climate change, pollution, and premature deaths. And yet these are both industries the US government, across state and federal levels, keeps trying to protect from any liability.

"Yoda...once said: "Do or do not. There is no try." But that's bullshit. He was a senile old cucumber who happened to be magical. Try is all there is. It's all try."

Unsolicited writing advice, no.19: Ask yourself: why do I read? Then ask yourself: why do I write? If there's no intersection between your answers, then maybe reconsider what it is you're writing.

Thanks to @silverunicornbooks.bsky.social for another fabulous Kids Graphic Novel Fest, and especially @dansantat.bsky.social for making the trip. Looking forward to more books with @laurelsnyder.bsky.social and @bottomshelfbks.bsky.social !

Happy #IndependentBookstoreDay!

@fuse8.bsky.social Is it spring?

still can’t believe that given the choice between “bountiful, free, clean energy from the earth, wind, and sun” and “poisonous dead animal sludge price sensitive to global politics” we keep choosing the latter

"My message to our legislators has been: If we want our kids to be better readers, then every kid needs access to a fully funded library and access to a certified librarian." -Cherity Pennington, school librarian @slj.com (April issue, p. 5)

"An answer economy without strong habits of verification is not a more informed society." news.virginia.edu/content/qa-a...

Founded in 1965 as a campus determined to "radically reimagine liberal arts education," the small liberal arts college started facing significant financial headwinds seven years ago. It failed to find a "strategic partner" to help afford its operating expenses.

I emailed someone and THEY CALLED ME instead of emailing back (it was not time-sensitive)

"I guess, if I had to nutshell them, I’d say that Cake is like They Might Be Giants if they were trying harder to get laid and didn’t care about teaching kids about science."

The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit

See, this is why literature and the freedom to read is important. He clearly didn't read DON'T EAT BEES by @devpetty.bsky.social! theonion.com/swollen-rfk-...

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

Also? It's weird to talk about anyone using AI to write "their book." If you used AI to write it, friends, it's not actually "your book." It's a book created by an LLM that was trained on stolen stories. You didn't write a book. You wrote some prompts.