Gretchen Durning
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Gretchen Durning
@gretchendurning.bsky.social
Editor at Putnam / Penguin Young Readers
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Just a reminder that Amazon workers are striking tomorrow through Monday, and that none of the “deals” are good enough to justify crossing the picket line.
November 28, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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🌜✨COVER REVEAL✨🌛
My YA occult thriller, A SPELL TO WAKE THE DEAD, is coming 8/26/25 from Putnam/Penguin Teen. The gorgeous art and design are by Corina Nika (Cocorrina) and Kristin Boyle. Thanks also to @gretchendurning.bsky.social and Kathleen Rushall!
More info: www.penguinteen.com/cover-reveal...
November 27, 2024 at 3:04 PM
aside from AI being a garbage theft machine that destroys the planet…how is this disrupting anything?? there are already too many books for the number of people willing to buy and read them. adding 8,000 more isn’t doing anything new
November 25, 2024 at 7:18 PM
the way the user base talks about this site (the vibes, algorithm, etc.) makes it very clear to me that what you’ve all been yearning for this entire time is literally just post-collapse tumblr
“people who follow you actually see the things you post” is, apparently, a bespoke feature of social media only available here on bluesky
The fact that there’s so much more engagement here than on threads seems to point a real throttling of content
November 18, 2024 at 12:27 AM
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lot of negativity towards AI lately, but consider :

are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No.

*but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no.

*but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no.

maybe you're not being negative *enough*
September 2, 2024 at 12:02 AM