The Floating Bookshop
@thefloatingbookshop.com
Downtown OKC's bookstore, featuring zines, puzzles, cards, oddities, and more.
Locally owned and proudly independent
Open 10-6 seven days a week in the 🌈🏡
3 NW 9TH ST • OKC
Locally owned and proudly independent
Open 10-6 seven days a week in the 🌈🏡
3 NW 9TH ST • OKC
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Self-publishers! If you're making comics railing against the horrors of the world around us in 2026 you are eligible for free advertising at Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social for your online store. My e-mail address is here for more details: www.brokenfrontier.com/contact-us/
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Want to contact the Broken Frontier team? Read our staff bios and find the relevant e-mail addresses for your needs here.
www.brokenfrontier.com
January 8, 2026 at 11:45 AM
Self-publishers! If you're making comics railing against the horrors of the world around us in 2026 you are eligible for free advertising at Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social for your online store. My e-mail address is here for more details: www.brokenfrontier.com/contact-us/
Renée Nicole Good’s prize-winning poem from 2020.
May her memory give us strength.
poets.org/2020-on-lear...
May her memory give us strength.
poets.org/2020-on-lear...
2020 Academy of American Poets Prize
On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin
poets.org
January 8, 2026 at 11:09 AM
Renée Nicole Good’s prize-winning poem from 2020.
May her memory give us strength.
poets.org/2020-on-lear...
May her memory give us strength.
poets.org/2020-on-lear...
Show @bookshop.org some love here, folks, so they give the social media platform not owned by billionaires more attention!
You can shop with The Floating Bookshop through bookshop dot org here:
bookshop.org/shop/thefloa...
Or find you local indie bookstore and support them!
You can shop with The Floating Bookshop through bookshop dot org here:
bookshop.org/shop/thefloa...
Or find you local indie bookstore and support them!
If your resolution this year is to support more independent bookstores, hi!👋🏽
We’re Bookshop.org, an ethical alternative to Amazon for buying books online where every purchase supports indie bookstores all over the U.S. 😌📚
(And our CEO has never gone to space, just saying)
We’re Bookshop.org, an ethical alternative to Amazon for buying books online where every purchase supports indie bookstores all over the U.S. 😌📚
(And our CEO has never gone to space, just saying)
January 6, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Show @bookshop.org some love here, folks, so they give the social media platform not owned by billionaires more attention!
You can shop with The Floating Bookshop through bookshop dot org here:
bookshop.org/shop/thefloa...
Or find you local indie bookstore and support them!
You can shop with The Floating Bookshop through bookshop dot org here:
bookshop.org/shop/thefloa...
Or find you local indie bookstore and support them!
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We have run this annual feature every year since 2012! Some unmissable work here.
Celebrating 2025 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!
www.brokenfrontier.com/ten-uk-small...
Celebrating 2025 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!
www.brokenfrontier.com/ten-uk-small...
Celebrating 2025 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own! – Broken Frontier
Our 'Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!' feature returns for its fourteenth annual edition of picks of the year.
www.brokenfrontier.com
January 5, 2026 at 12:41 PM
We have run this annual feature every year since 2012! Some unmissable work here.
Celebrating 2025 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!
www.brokenfrontier.com/ten-uk-small...
Celebrating 2025 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!
www.brokenfrontier.com/ten-uk-small...
The ebook of Staircase in the Woods, one of our favorite books of 2025, is on sale at @bookshop.org for $1.99!
(Get and ebook AND support indie bookstores? HOW COOL IS THAT?)
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
(Get and ebook AND support indie bookstores? HOW COOL IS THAT?)
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
January 4, 2026 at 3:13 PM
The ebook of Staircase in the Woods, one of our favorite books of 2025, is on sale at @bookshop.org for $1.99!
(Get and ebook AND support indie bookstores? HOW COOL IS THAT?)
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
(Get and ebook AND support indie bookstores? HOW COOL IS THAT?)
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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Hate it when I wake up in a wider gyre than the one I went to sleep in
January 3, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Hate it when I wake up in a wider gyre than the one I went to sleep in
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Just once I'd like to wake up to people freaking out for good reasons
January 3, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Just once I'd like to wake up to people freaking out for good reasons
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Believe @readfrontier.bsky.social on this. Data centers are NOT required to use their own power plants. Fact Check: Are claims about Oklahoma data centers holding up? share.google/Pj7oKbpcM0AY...
Fact Check: Are claims about Oklahoma data centers holding up?
From the state’s ‘Behind the Meter’ power law to promises about electric bills and transparency, The Frontier reviewed the facts behind recent statements on data center development.
share.google
December 30, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Believe @readfrontier.bsky.social on this. Data centers are NOT required to use their own power plants. Fact Check: Are claims about Oklahoma data centers holding up? share.google/Pj7oKbpcM0AY...
What’s up with the reigning champs not posting anything for over a year?
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✔ Find your early voting location from now until Saturday: hosting.okelections.gov/earlyvote.html
✔ View a sample ballot:
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✔ See the election list:
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January 3, 2026 at 1:28 PM
What’s up with the reigning champs not posting anything for over a year?
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2026 has been a long year.
January 3, 2026 at 10:07 AM
2026 has been a long year.
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The vibe for 2026 courtesy of our resident fiends at @thefloatingbookshop.com!
January 2, 2026 at 9:49 PM
The vibe for 2026 courtesy of our resident fiends at @thefloatingbookshop.com!
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Met this very careful little cross-eyed kitty on my daily walk here in Portugal.
Happy new year / feliz ano novo
Happy new year / feliz ano novo
January 1, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Met this very careful little cross-eyed kitty on my daily walk here in Portugal.
Happy new year / feliz ano novo
Happy new year / feliz ano novo
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What were the book censorship trends in 2025? Here are the highs and lows, as identified by five organizations doing the work.
💙📚 #booksky
bookriot.com/book-censors...
💙📚 #booksky
bookriot.com/book-censors...
2025 Book Censorship Wrapped: Trends, Challenges, and Successes Over The Year
What were the book censorship trends in 2025? Here are the highs and lows, as identified by five organizations doing the work.
bookriot.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
What were the book censorship trends in 2025? Here are the highs and lows, as identified by five organizations doing the work.
💙📚 #booksky
bookriot.com/book-censors...
💙📚 #booksky
bookriot.com/book-censors...
Happy 2026, #booksky!
Do you like scrappy little indie bookshops?
We’re a home for poetry, horror, libros en español, queer books, science writing, ttrpgs, fantasy, scifi, book clubs, zine making, author events & much more in downtown OKC
We’re helping build the kind of culture we want in the city
Do you like scrappy little indie bookshops?
We’re a home for poetry, horror, libros en español, queer books, science writing, ttrpgs, fantasy, scifi, book clubs, zine making, author events & much more in downtown OKC
We’re helping build the kind of culture we want in the city
January 1, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Happy 2026, #booksky!
Do you like scrappy little indie bookshops?
We’re a home for poetry, horror, libros en español, queer books, science writing, ttrpgs, fantasy, scifi, book clubs, zine making, author events & much more in downtown OKC
We’re helping build the kind of culture we want in the city
Do you like scrappy little indie bookshops?
We’re a home for poetry, horror, libros en español, queer books, science writing, ttrpgs, fantasy, scifi, book clubs, zine making, author events & much more in downtown OKC
We’re helping build the kind of culture we want in the city
It’s the last day of the year and our STAYING PUT sale!
We’re open 10-6 today and all hardbacks are 20% off and pretty much everything else is 10% off.
Thank you, dear readers, for an amazing year.
We’re looking forward to 2026 on the best little street in OKC.
be kind.
stay weird.
happy new year.
We’re open 10-6 today and all hardbacks are 20% off and pretty much everything else is 10% off.
Thank you, dear readers, for an amazing year.
We’re looking forward to 2026 on the best little street in OKC.
be kind.
stay weird.
happy new year.
December 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It’s the last day of the year and our STAYING PUT sale!
We’re open 10-6 today and all hardbacks are 20% off and pretty much everything else is 10% off.
Thank you, dear readers, for an amazing year.
We’re looking forward to 2026 on the best little street in OKC.
be kind.
stay weird.
happy new year.
We’re open 10-6 today and all hardbacks are 20% off and pretty much everything else is 10% off.
Thank you, dear readers, for an amazing year.
We’re looking forward to 2026 on the best little street in OKC.
be kind.
stay weird.
happy new year.
Another point for Ireland.
Fewer Irish people using ChatGPT than in other countries, OpenAI told Taoiseach
Fewer Irish people using ChatGPT than in other countries, OpenAI told Taoiseach
Micheál Martin was told application had been rolled out to all secondary school students in Estonia ‘to complement the curriculum’
www.irishtimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Another point for Ireland.
Do publishers strong-arm authors into promoting the preorder sale from that chain bookstore owned by the hedge fund?
Hopefully we see similar energy this year from them for indie bookstore day.
Hopefully we see similar energy this year from them for indie bookstore day.
December 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Do publishers strong-arm authors into promoting the preorder sale from that chain bookstore owned by the hedge fund?
Hopefully we see similar energy this year from them for indie bookstore day.
Hopefully we see similar energy this year from them for indie bookstore day.
Still have a few SLINGSHOT planners left, but if you want one, HURRY!
2026 is a year to ORGANIZE, and we’ve got a few Slingshot planners left to help do it.
While supplies last, you can save 10% on these radical planners.
Plus most everything else is 10% off, AND all hardbacks are 20% off through Wednesday, December 31!
be kind.
stay weird.
organize.
While supplies last, you can save 10% on these radical planners.
Plus most everything else is 10% off, AND all hardbacks are 20% off through Wednesday, December 31!
be kind.
stay weird.
organize.
December 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Still have a few SLINGSHOT planners left, but if you want one, HURRY!
We FINALLY got copies of Daggerheart
They were supposed to be here before Black Friday, then before Christmas… but at least they made it in time for the STAYING PUT sale!
Come get the Daggerheart Core Set while supplies last and experience the ttrpg from Critical Role that everyone is talking about!
They were supposed to be here before Black Friday, then before Christmas… but at least they made it in time for the STAYING PUT sale!
Come get the Daggerheart Core Set while supplies last and experience the ttrpg from Critical Role that everyone is talking about!
December 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
We FINALLY got copies of Daggerheart
They were supposed to be here before Black Friday, then before Christmas… but at least they made it in time for the STAYING PUT sale!
Come get the Daggerheart Core Set while supplies last and experience the ttrpg from Critical Role that everyone is talking about!
They were supposed to be here before Black Friday, then before Christmas… but at least they made it in time for the STAYING PUT sale!
Come get the Daggerheart Core Set while supplies last and experience the ttrpg from Critical Role that everyone is talking about!
2026 is a year to ORGANIZE, and we’ve got a few Slingshot planners left to help do it.
While supplies last, you can save 10% on these radical planners.
Plus most everything else is 10% off, AND all hardbacks are 20% off through Wednesday, December 31!
be kind.
stay weird.
organize.
While supplies last, you can save 10% on these radical planners.
Plus most everything else is 10% off, AND all hardbacks are 20% off through Wednesday, December 31!
be kind.
stay weird.
organize.
December 28, 2025 at 10:27 AM
2026 is a year to ORGANIZE, and we’ve got a few Slingshot planners left to help do it.
While supplies last, you can save 10% on these radical planners.
Plus most everything else is 10% off, AND all hardbacks are 20% off through Wednesday, December 31!
be kind.
stay weird.
organize.
While supplies last, you can save 10% on these radical planners.
Plus most everything else is 10% off, AND all hardbacks are 20% off through Wednesday, December 31!
be kind.
stay weird.
organize.
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"By having creatures with disabled-like features bond with actual disabled humans, I’m letting the metaphor for the thing meet the thing."
Don't miss @allisonwyss.bsky.social's conversation with @wiswell.bsky.social on his novel WEARING THE LION. buff.ly/7DwUstz
Don't miss @allisonwyss.bsky.social's conversation with @wiswell.bsky.social on his novel WEARING THE LION. buff.ly/7DwUstz
December 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"By having creatures with disabled-like features bond with actual disabled humans, I’m letting the metaphor for the thing meet the thing."
Don't miss @allisonwyss.bsky.social's conversation with @wiswell.bsky.social on his novel WEARING THE LION. buff.ly/7DwUstz
Don't miss @allisonwyss.bsky.social's conversation with @wiswell.bsky.social on his novel WEARING THE LION. buff.ly/7DwUstz
Rick Steves is among the best of us.
If you get a chance, I highly recommend his book “Travel as a Political Act: How to Leave Your Luggage Behind”
If you get a chance, I highly recommend his book “Travel as a Political Act: How to Leave Your Luggage Behind”
December 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Rick Steves is among the best of us.
If you get a chance, I highly recommend his book “Travel as a Political Act: How to Leave Your Luggage Behind”
If you get a chance, I highly recommend his book “Travel as a Political Act: How to Leave Your Luggage Behind”
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Happy winter solstice ! ❄️🌞
December 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Happy winter solstice ! ❄️🌞
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I don't want gen AI in my browser
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life
December 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I don't want gen AI in my browser
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life
Well this is disturbing.
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
December 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Well this is disturbing.