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Peter Ravn (Danish, b. 1955), Greyhound, 2018. Oil on canvas, 30 x 30 cm.

via grundoonmgnx

[macrolit]

Giveaway Contest: We recently reached 50,000 followers, and as a way of thanking you, we’re giving away FIFTY (50!) vintage paperback classics by Albert Camus, John Steinbeck, Carson McCullers, Toni Morrison, George Orwell, Ray Bradbury, Jane Austen, and so many others! Won’t these look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will choose a random winner on January 20, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

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I’ve already started reading galleys for 2018 mysteries because they’re stacked next to my bed chanting my name and who am I to say no? And I’m ridiculously excited for these 2018 mystery & thrillers so prepare your TBR, reinforce your shelves, whisper to your ereader that it’s about to get fuller, or pre-buy these.

https://bookriot.com/2017/12/19/2018-mystery-thrillers-excited/

[i-am-a-fish]

If net neutrality disappears then that means only rich people will be able to access Tumblr so just to be safe we need to post memes that the rich people will like so we all have a chance at being Tumblr famous after we can’t afford the internet anymore

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U RITE

[i-am-a-fish]

Here, I’ll start us off:

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A few of the final batch of photos from Cassini, featuring Saturn, the rings, Titan, & Enceladus. The probe will burn up in Saturn’s atmosphere in a few hours, after 20 years in space & 13 years at Saturn.

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Fortune's Favour turned 4 today!

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Kermit the Frog & Fozzie Bear Hilariously Engage In Improvised Existential Banter In 1979 Camera Test

[macrolit]

Giveaway Contest: We’ve partnered with Alma Books to give away five of their beautiful Alma Classics Evergreens editions (pictured above)! Won’t these look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will randomly choose a winner on June 4, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, Alma Books has agreed to make this an International giveaway! Good luck!

[asapscience]

“Just keep swimming..” [Via @fuckjerry]

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This never fails to describe my life.

[neaq]

Giant Pacific octopus (Enteroctopus dolfleini)

[americanlibraryassoc]

#TeamALA Staff Profiles

Meet John Amundsen, Program Officer for Communications and Outreach, Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services (ODLOS)

What do you do at ALA?

I’m the program officer for communications and outreach for ALA’s Office for Diversity, Literacy, and Outreach Services, or ODLOS for short.

What is your favorite library memory?

I remember as a kid learning how to use the brand new OCLC computer card catalog, with its amber screen and everything; I was amazed to find anything I wanted, and so quickly (for 1988); also my local library – Wheaton Public Library in Chicago’s suburbs  - had the most mesmerizingly 1970s tri-coppertone striped carpet in the Children’s department.

Why do you think libraries / librarians are important?

As repositories of information for their communities, libraries and the librarians who work in them help people from all walks of life reach their goals, from writing a research paper, finding a great book, starting a new business, looking up local regulations, looking into switching careers, researching colleges, and much more. Besides, I can’t think of any other institution outside of the school system that has such potential to make lives better and help people move forward.  

What do you love about your job?

We have an amazing and large group of members from across the profession and dedicated staff members who are dedicated to making libraries, the library profession, and the communities they serve welcoming places for all; I love that I have a small part in their very important work.

What is something cool you’ve accomplished lately at ALA?

We’ve just launched Intersections, our new blog that gives librarians a platform to share their stories highlighting equity, diversity, and inclusion in libraries and the library profession. BTW, we’re always looking for contributors!

What do you like to do outside of ALA?

I enjoy reading, listening to podcasts, buying gadgets I don’t need, traveling with my lovely girlfriend, visiting microbreweries, and occasionally nurturing my guilty pleasure – model railroading.  I know, I’m a grown person.

What are you reading?

Flash Boys by Michael Lewis, Ill Fares the Land by Tony Judt

What are you watching?

Westworld, Sherlock (series 4), Victoria, Bob’s Burgers, old UK sitcoms (Black Books, the IT Crowd)

What are you listening to?

Lots of podcasts, including The Bugle, NPR Politics, and Crimetown, among others…

[oilchangeus-blog]

Scientists Protest, Plan to Fight Back Against Trump in Boston

BOSTON— American scientists share the same desires and needs as the rest of us. They’re just folks whose job description includes proving hypotheses and establishing facts based on collecting evidence. After eight years of a government that respected the importance of their work, the incoming administration has proven to be hostile—not only to scientists, but to evidence-supported facts themselves.

“I fear we are in for a very rough ride.”

Text “SCIENCE” to 90975 to get involved. 

[micdotcom]

Queer rapper Mykki Blanco says she was threatened with arrest for boarding a flight

A police officer threatened queer rapper Mykki Blanco with jail time for nothing more than boarding a flight, Blanco claimed this weekend.

According to Blanco, she was napping on board a flight from Toronto, Canada to Detroit, Michigan and awoke to find her co-passenger had called the police to ask why Delta Airlines allowed “someone like me” to sit beside her.

Blanco added the responding officer told her a report would be filed, despite her not actually doing anything criminal. Read more. (2/19/2017 5:22 PM)

[thebooksmith-deactivated2018030]

Regarding Simon & Schuster, Milo Y., and Booksmith

Friends,

We at Booksmith would like to take a moment to address the current controversy surrounding a certain memoir recently acquired by Simon & Schuster.

There have been several responses to the news. The Chicago Review of Books has stated that they will not cover any Simon & Schuster titles in 2017. Others have said they’ll refuse to buy any books from Simon & Schuster going forward. Still others have been flooding S&S inboxes and voice mailboxes with their concern over the acquisition.

While we at Booksmith value free speech and democratizing information at our bookstores, we also believe that this author crosses a line by promoting hate speech & bullying (here is a good article detailing why his isn’t just another conservative voice) and feel compelled to take action. We want to send a message; we also believe that our family of S&S writers should not be harmed by a boycott. So, over the past week, we’ve discussed with our staff and community the pros and cons of various responses at length, and we’re proud to announce our decision.

Booksmith is committed to the following, effective immediately:

We will not be stocking or special ordering Dangerous or anything else from Threshold Editions. No royalty revenue will come from Booksmith.

Booksmith will reduce our orders with Threshold’s parent company Simon & Schuster by 50% in order to communicate pressure to the corporation as a whole. While we respect Simon’s decision to publish any book, we reserve the right to allocate our discretionary inventory dollars with publishers who act with ethical & moral standards consistent with our own.

While we are not enacting a sweeping boycott of all S&S titles, for the foreseeable future, 40% of all S&S sales (which is to say all of our profit) will be turned right around and donated to the ACLU.

We encourage you to join us by making a donation to the ACLU, and by sending your concerns to Simon & Schuster.

Love,

Christin, Amy, Camden, Lauren, and the rest of the Booksmith staff

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President Obama and His Anger Translator Luther Give a Farewell Address and Leave a Note For Trump

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What

[thisiseverydayracism]

Remember this logo. If a book has this logo, boycott it.

That’s the logo for publishing company Simon & Schuster who have given racist sack of shit Milo Yiannopoulos a $250,000 contract to write a book.

Yiannopoulos is the “alt-right” editor at Breitbart News, who was banned from Twitter after launching a widespread attack on actress Leslie Jones.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/milo-yiannopoulos-new-book_us_58653b28e4b0d9a5945a7247

[thecheshirecass-deactivated2018]

If you want to boycott them (which I certainly support) make sure you check out all their imprints and divisions to avoid it ALL:

http://about.simonandschuster.biz/divisions-and-imprints/

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

Okay, everybody. A friend of mine in the publishing industry just shared a post on Facebook about this, and has given me permission to share the information (with her name redacted):

Hi. I’m someone who’s worked in publishing her entire career, and I’m here to explain the Milo Yiannopoulos issue (notorious troll just got a hefty book deal from Simon & Schuster; internet is freaking out) and how to handle it:

BACKGROUND: Let’s get the “free speech” arguments out of the way: Yiannopoulos is an actively dangerous man who leads bullying mobs against selected targets, and spreads hate speech as a life ethos. Even a person as vile as Yiannopoulos has the right to speak his mind, but decent people owe it to the world not to give him additional platforms and the air of legitimacy. That’s doubly the case in this political climate, which insists that all opinions should be valued equally, regardless of whether they’re true or false, and whether they make the world a better or worse place to live in. This is rather like deciding to publish “Mein Kampf” - is that really what you want your legacy to be as an organization?

WHAT NOT TO DO: No “I’m going to boycott Simon & Schuster” talk unless you are a published author and you’re talking about not contracting with them. This is not like buying toilet paper or leather jackets - they sell the work of real, living, struggling authors who really really want you to read what they’ve labored over for years, and it’s unfair to penalize them because their publishing company is being dumb. Print media is a fragile industry these days, and that’s why we’re seeing these big stupid controversial book deals - it’s because we no longer have a world where people walk into their local independent neighborhood bookstore and let the kindly old cashier recommend you a book of poetry with a 500-copy print run that speaks perfectly to your reading sensibilities. You gotta have your crossover blockbusters or the whole enterprise crosses the December finish line in the red. Insisting on a boycott just makes people who haven’t bought a book since college want to run out and pre-order this to spite you. Simon & Schuster knows you “I love books, here’s a shared image macro about how I would literally make gentle love to a piece of printed paper if it were socially acceptable” folks get all your books used from Amazon for $3.99 + shipping, anyway, so they don’t care whether you’re their friend. This is for the business traveler with gross views who needs something entertaining for the plane flight to the Atlanta conference. You gotta convince them not to sell to THAT guy.

WHAT TO DO: Write them letters, hard-copy ones that need a stamp and an envelope. At any major publishing house, the people at the bottom are mostly clever, thoughtful, progressive gals who don’t like this sort of thing any more than you do. They want to be able to go to their bosses’ bosses’ bosses with a massive stack of post and say, “Hey, this is the only reader correspondence we’re getting now,” because that wastes time, and the easiest way to piss off a publishing house is to waste their employees’ time. Wasting time = less time for making books. Remember also that everybody who gets into publishing does it because fundamentally they love to READ, they READ anything that is put in front of them, even the guys at the top who spend more time on the phone and at cocktail parties than working with text believe in words as a magical conduit of ideas, and if you write them a long heartfelt letter, they may scoff at it but they will read it, and if they have 1000 heartfelt letters a day, then sooner or later all those words will sink in.

This is not a plastics manufacturer, this is not a bank. This is a book company. Write to the people who are in the business of reading.

CONTACT INFO:

Corporate Headquarters SIMON & SCHUSTER, INC. 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 PHONE: [phone] And individual contacts here, best to address it to someone in particular: http://about.simonandschuster.biz/leadership/ Normally, the best tactic is to write directly to a specific editor or the imprint, but Threshold is conservative, so they may not care. Still, perhaps try: Threshold Editions General Phone: [phone] General Fax: [phone] Jennifer Robinson Vice President, Director of Publicity [email protected] And make the point that the views of this author are not conservative views, they are fundamentally hateful and aggressive views which seek to undermine the rights of other citizens. He did, after all, help lead the hate mob against Leslie Jones that got her hacked - they should ask themselves whether that’s something with which they want their otherwise respectable work to be associated, especially since the published book may end up becoming associated with additional hate crimes should readers take it too literally. Surely they don’t want their book to start making news for being repeatedly found in the homes of every homegrown militant for the next 10 years.

I’ll also add that Louise Burke is president and publisher of the Gallery imprint, which Threshold falls under, so you could send to her as well.

[wombatking]

Good advice. A boycott in this case would be counterproductive. Milo is being published through a “conservative imprint” that has already published the likes of Dinesh D’Souza and Glenn Beck. However, Simon and Schuster has dozens of other imprints, many of which are rather progressive, and they actually have a strong reputation as a company that supports LGBT themes. 

A boycott would drive down sales for those progressive lines - while not affecting the sales for the conservative imprint at all. S&S would potentially take that and double down on this kind of disgusting content. 

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Write letters. WRITE LETTERS.

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