URGENT! The Massachusetts House just passed a "social media ban" that would force YOU to upload a government ID or submit to a face scan to post online. CALL YOUR STATE SENATORS! 978-485-4694

Okay bluesky I need your help

I live in Massachusetts. You might think we're a bastion of lefty intellectualism but our state government a clusterfuck of post-puritan real estate bros

Reskeet this. Text it to your "friends from home"

Help this find every masshole poster who will know what to do

Athens bookstore challenges Gwinnett County jail over mail policy • Georgia Recorder An Athens-based bookstore is challenging a Gwinnett County jail policy that bars independent booksellers from mailing books to prisoners.

Well, I love Avid Bookstore in Athen, GA more than ever now! georgiarecorder.com/2026/04/10/l... #BookSky 📚 💙

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Saving local news means saving our shared memory. When archives disappear, communities lose their history. Learn about the librarians & archivists helping safeguard local history, & the collaboration between @archive.org, @poynterinstitute.bsky.social, & @ire.org that’s providing tools & training ⬇️

Fantastic book. Everyone should read it.

An outlet that would publish this take is either gaslighting for clicks or too dumb to read. Either way, it's an easy unfollow and block.

How ‘A Pox on Fools’ by Thomas Levenson Got Made An inside look at the publication process for the science writer’s latest book

Time for book promotion!

A Pox on Fools is a historical indictment of RFK Jr. & his anti-vax allies. I believe it's an important work; advance praise has been great, & I'll be posting examples at regular intervals.

For now, check out this lovely Publishers Weekly piece on how the book came to be:

who has a book coming out that people can preorder so they have something to look forward to and then be pleasantly surprised when the book just shows up on their doorstep

Pablo Picasso, Text with double page decoration (folios 14 verso and 15) from the illustrated book Divers Poèmes du Livre Ouvert, 1941 #pablopicasso #museumarchive

Image shows a book cover, mostly black, featuring a color photograph of a city street seen through the front window of a fire truck. The title of the book is at the top and reads: Engine 8, Ladder 2: Philadelphia Fire Fighters at Night. Photographs by Ted Lieverman

Our new release is up on our website:
Ted Lieverman spent a total of 45 nights embedded with Delta Platoon at the fire house known as Engine 8, Ladder 2. The images here offer insight into what it means to live as a fire fighter, whether rushing toward danger or quietly preparing for it. #Philly

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

Reposting this again because it's wonderful.

My favorite thread ever!

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

John Singer Sargent, "Blue Gentians"; watercolor on paper (1905)

Thanks to all who expressed such affection for and interest in Amherst Books, now for sale.
For those of considering making an offer, I found the asking price: $400,000

Amherst Books (Amherst, MA) For Sale - New England Independent Booksellers Association
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
-Ursula K. Le Guin

Satellite proposals threaten the night sky In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations…

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
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The Authors Guild is allowing more writers to certify their books are AI-free. The Authors Guild is expanding its Human Authored certification program to allow publishers and non-Guild members certify that their work is untainted by AI, according to the Guild and Publishers W…

The program allows authors to verify that their books are written completely by a human and not generated by software, and then gives them a trademarked seal to signal that the book is human authored.

The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans of Dozens of Art Historical Objects The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Open Access Initiative expands with three-dimensional renderings of significant pieces—most of which are free to download.

The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans of Dozens of Art Historical Objects, including Egyptian temples, Greek oil flasks, van Gogh paintings, and cuneiform tablets. [thisiscolossal.com]

@bethkephart.bsky.social always beats me to the post! I am so incredibly happy that Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday's News is a finalist for this award. A huge thank you to #ForewordReviews. Brava, dear Beth!

On my drive this morning, I passed an old American Legion post that had a little dropbox out front, rusted at the edges, the paint all flecking off, with the words DISPOSE FLAGS HERE stenciled in large print.

Throwing that out there for anyone writing a screenplay about this moment.

Lovely.

Patterns on mammoth tusks help to retell history of writing Scientists believe they have found evidence of written thoughts of Stone Age people on ancient objects.

Writing earlier than we thought: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Let's try this again 👋

Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA.

I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study finds Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers

The study points to using libraries and visiting museums as bringing these enormous brain health benefits ... who would have thought? Well, librarians and museum folk for a start ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Four Freedom to Read Bills to Follow Right Now: Book Censorship News, February 6, 2026 Updates on four freedom to read bills at the state level right now, as well as the voices of students advocating for their right to read.

Four state-level right to read bills are on deck right now. Here's what they are, why one of them is not being actively endorsed, and how you can get involved.

The teen letters here are outstanding, too.

That, plus a deeply frustrating roundup of book censorship news: bookriot.com/freedom-to-r...

Mackenzie Scott will not save the Washington Post. It's done. A billionaire murdered it and billionaires will not save us.

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