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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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this is wonderful wonderful news
In my life I've seen treatments for AIDs developed, vaccines for Ebola and malaria, and now this. Medical science is one is the areas that still consistently seems to make these miraculous advances and I'm genuinely grateful to everyone involved.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
this is wonderful wonderful news
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Fluffy chicken bottom on a mug ☕️
September 9, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Fluffy chicken bottom on a mug ☕️
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Well, I'll be damned.
It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up.
newatlas.com/infectious-d...
It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up.
newatlas.com/infectious-d...
The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global
An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark...
newatlas.com
July 27, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Well, I'll be damned.
It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up.
newatlas.com/infectious-d...
It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up.
newatlas.com/infectious-d...
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What's wrong, babe? You've barely touched your soup-on-the-rocks
June 30, 2025 at 11:17 PM
What's wrong, babe? You've barely touched your soup-on-the-rocks
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I'd really love to see more entertainment sites not covering the HP show.
June 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I'd really love to see more entertainment sites not covering the HP show.
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The Left Hand of Darkness
February 6, 2025 at 2:00 AM
The Left Hand of Darkness
#BookSky 💙📚🧵Miscellaneous recent reads: Sylvia Plath's Tomato Soup Cake, a compilation of recipes notable authors shared in their own words with now-defunct or out of print publications. Vintage in both a darling and off-putting way (I will not be trying Noel Streatfeild's beef with bananas)!
February 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
#BookSky 💙📚🧵Miscellaneous recent reads: Sylvia Plath's Tomato Soup Cake, a compilation of recipes notable authors shared in their own words with now-defunct or out of print publications. Vintage in both a darling and off-putting way (I will not be trying Noel Streatfeild's beef with bananas)!
#BookSky 💙📚🧵Recommended: I Shall Never Fall in Love by Hari Conner, a fun and reflective graphic novel of Regency romance interpreted through queer and black characters. Great friendship, sweet romance, very well done emphasis on these experiences not being ahistorical. There's a lot of Emma...
February 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
#BookSky 💙📚🧵Recommended: I Shall Never Fall in Love by Hari Conner, a fun and reflective graphic novel of Regency romance interpreted through queer and black characters. Great friendship, sweet romance, very well done emphasis on these experiences not being ahistorical. There's a lot of Emma...
#BookSky #BookChallenge 💙📚🧵The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley is one of those books I badly wanted to read in part because I'd heard so many conflicting opinions I knew I needed to form my own. I feel mostly positive! You should try it too! It also isn't the book I expected, in many ways.
February 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
#BookSky #BookChallenge 💙📚🧵The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley is one of those books I badly wanted to read in part because I'd heard so many conflicting opinions I knew I needed to form my own. I feel mostly positive! You should try it too! It also isn't the book I expected, in many ways.
#BookSky #BookChallenge 💙📚🧵I loved Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, and checked off a ton of prompts! Book Riot 8) Read literary fiction by a BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and/or disabled author & StoryGraph Genre Challenge 8) A literary or contemporary novel in translation & Popsugar 23) ...
February 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM
#BookSky #BookChallenge 💙📚🧵I loved Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, and checked off a ton of prompts! Book Riot 8) Read literary fiction by a BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and/or disabled author & StoryGraph Genre Challenge 8) A literary or contemporary novel in translation & Popsugar 23) ...
Had a little blip of a couple weeks where I would open this site, think too hard about politics, and immediately close it again, so lol. Not recreating the stress I eventually felt from Twitter does need effort from me, who would have thunk? Too many book posts incoming.
February 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Had a little blip of a couple weeks where I would open this site, think too hard about politics, and immediately close it again, so lol. Not recreating the stress I eventually felt from Twitter does need effort from me, who would have thunk? Too many book posts incoming.
#BookSky #BookChallenge 💙📚🧵Resumed reading the Whyborne & Griffin series by Jordan Hawk with Draakenwood so I could check off BookRiot 11) A work of weird horror and StoryGraph's Genre Challenge 10) Queer horror. Hooray! This is novel 9 of 11, and I'm excited to be getting close to the finale.
January 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
#BookSky #BookChallenge 💙📚🧵Resumed reading the Whyborne & Griffin series by Jordan Hawk with Draakenwood so I could check off BookRiot 11) A work of weird horror and StoryGraph's Genre Challenge 10) Queer horror. Hooray! This is novel 9 of 11, and I'm excited to be getting close to the finale.
#BookSky #BookChallenge 💙📚🧵Checked off Popsugar 50) A book of interconnected short stories with Strange Pictures by Uketsu, newly available in English translation.
This is pitched as "The Japanese mystery-horror sensation," but...I don't agree it's horror, and this elides the puzzle aspect!
This is pitched as "The Japanese mystery-horror sensation," but...I don't agree it's horror, and this elides the puzzle aspect!
January 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM
#BookSky #BookChallenge 💙📚🧵Checked off Popsugar 50) A book of interconnected short stories with Strange Pictures by Uketsu, newly available in English translation.
This is pitched as "The Japanese mystery-horror sensation," but...I don't agree it's horror, and this elides the puzzle aspect!
This is pitched as "The Japanese mystery-horror sensation," but...I don't agree it's horror, and this elides the puzzle aspect!
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If you're at a Southern university/institution that is closing your LGBTQ or DEI/DEIA offices please reach out to us. We are helping people preserve their department's archival history and will work with you to help ensure folks remain anonymous.
January 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
If you're at a Southern university/institution that is closing your LGBTQ or DEI/DEIA offices please reach out to us. We are helping people preserve their department's archival history and will work with you to help ensure folks remain anonymous.
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Bunnies and their little boxes for shipping 💕
January 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Bunnies and their little boxes for shipping 💕
#BookSky #BookChallenge 💙📚🧵So I had something else in mind for BookRiot 4) A book about obsession, but realized I organically filled it by reading Niccolò Rising by Dorothy Dunnett. I read all her Lymond Chronicles last year, liveblogging to some friends and dragging others in my wake and...
January 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
#BookSky #BookChallenge 💙📚🧵So I had something else in mind for BookRiot 4) A book about obsession, but realized I organically filled it by reading Niccolò Rising by Dorothy Dunnett. I read all her Lymond Chronicles last year, liveblogging to some friends and dragging others in my wake and...
#BookSky 💙📚🧵Feeling very grateful for @queerliblib.bsky.social tonight! I got to read a work of graphic nonfiction I'd been mildly interested in for a years through them. I think often about libraries giving me access to items I love, but perhaps they're even more valuable because things that...
January 20, 2025 at 1:23 AM
#BookSky 💙📚🧵Feeling very grateful for @queerliblib.bsky.social tonight! I got to read a work of graphic nonfiction I'd been mildly interested in for a years through them. I think often about libraries giving me access to items I love, but perhaps they're even more valuable because things that...
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Just remembered that The Muppet Show theme song contains the line “it’s time to put on makeup” and it makes me wonder what they look like without it, maybe they look normal
January 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Just remembered that The Muppet Show theme song contains the line “it’s time to put on makeup” and it makes me wonder what they look like without it, maybe they look normal
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The most important thing I’ve ever learned about making something
January 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The most important thing I’ve ever learned about making something
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