Now that we've done Mother Ann, can we have a movie about Public Universal Friend?
16.02.2026 19:04
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Now that we've done Mother Ann, can we have a movie about Public Universal Friend?
The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
This article is about exactly what the headline says.
The teacher of a course about how to analyze and compose moral arguments has been instructed to remove readings by Plato that introduce thought exercises that very superficially involve "split people".
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Dry skin is "xeroderma." So, I propose "biblioxeroderma."
The frontispiece and title page of the Pushkin Press English-language edition of... the Malleus Maleficarum. One of the most famous books about witchcraft in the history of ever.
Well. Hello!
We get a notification email when a book sells on our website.
Guess what email came in a minute before midnight on October 31st?
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The Jolly Roger flag
Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull”
First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided.
With me so far? 1/x
Gad bless America! Gad bless us, everyone!
Gad bless America!
Gad bless us, everyone!
Let's do this. One like, one book we love.
Stupid - ignorant - lame - crazy - out of your mind - full of **it - conformist - sheep - ****ing lib - lib**** - hysterical - filthy - fearmonger - uninformed - way behind - inconsistent - inconsiderate - trying to harm me - ****faced - ableist - leftist - Marxist - socialist - fascist - ugly - sta
Outside the front door of the bookshop, looking toward the street: boxes and boxes of used books (there are twice as make as shown, but people were browsing the other half.
PAY WHAT YOU WANT SALE!!!
All money received goes to Antelope Lending Library!
www.antelopelendinglibrary.org
Suggested donation $1/hardcover, 50c/paperback.
A horrific image of a someone who seems to have his hands tied behind his back. A big cat (the predator kind, not the overfed pet kind) has jumped up at him and is devouring his face. Blood splashes on the floor.
For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard.
#MosaicMonday
Remember when Dream had the choice to change or die?
YAY!!!!
I know the majority of people never will but it's been fun hanging out and listening to people reminisce about how the internet and social media used to be.... Forums, affiliate links, webrings, blogs. We had so much control. We really gave it all up
They never wrote articles like this when Kyle Rittenhouse murdered two people.
Remember that.
That feeling when you did your dissertation on a guy from Roman Syria and were hoping one day to be able to visit the ruins of his hometown ... .
Very demure. Very mindful.
I have created a Starter Pack. I tried to design it to appeal to general used and independent bookstores, but with a leaning towards rare and collectible books. Book collectors in general may find it inviting, though. So, please do send it to anyone who fits those criteria: go.bsky.app/DLyksnY
Bakewell, "Mining Plato's cave: silver mining, slavery, and philosophical education," Polis 2023
Finally the article that I'd been hoping someone would write on the Allegory of the Cave has appeared...
