💯 here for it all day. In fact I should probably be here a bit less and get back to my IRL responsibilities lol. But it’s so nice here. Who’d of thought there’d be a place online where you do t have to get yelled at or made fun of.
Honestly, this is the only real drawback to living in the sticks. I have to drive an hour or more to get to a bookstore, especially one with a coffee shop. I have to try to create that ambiance at home. Someone needs to create a candle that smells like Bookstore Coffee Shop. ☕️📚🕯️
And a pet sanctuary, a gallery, a very large garden, wood shop, darkroom, kitchen, archeological discovery site, assembly hall, advice corner, dance area, nightclub, everyone’s favorite chair, and sportsball on the tellies with scrolling text instead of sound. And it smells like old books.
I know, right??? I'm ready to get my sketchbook out and draw every day again...writing at the same time, as it used to be. Even though I was 'happy' with my life, I knew I needed an incentive to draw and paint more (admittedly I play music and sing...blah blah), and this is proving to be it.
We just need to keep the place tidy -- keep on top of blocking/reporting the trolls/scammers/engagement farmers. Starve them of oxygen and attention. 😊
Reminds me of my bohemian days. Hanging out at traditional downtown coffee place. Writing in journals, smoking fancy cigarettes and waiting for any of my other unemployed "artists" to show up.
Wow, yes it does doesn't it?! Great description! No wonder I love it so much!
Spent many a day & night at an old coffee shop bookstore called Kaldi's in Cincinnati! Lived almost across the street from it & it was my home away from home! Especially since I didn't have AC or good heat! But they did! 🤗
Ooooh we talkin' books and not being authoritarian a-holes?
How Fascism Works - Jason Stanley
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America by Kurt Andersen
Kleptopia - Tom Burgis
On all fronts - Clarissa Ward
No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power by Jane MacAlevey
A Collective Bargain - Jane MacAlevey
Come for the coffee, stay for the rabbit holes where science fiction meets science facts in an exploration of what it means to be human. https://www.thesingularitychronicles.com
Facts. Kinda feels like you walked into a room where you don’t know anyone, but everyone makes room for you at the table. 👏🏾 I’m not by any means referring to my childhood, adolescent, teenage, or young adult years. Just purely making an observation. 👀😂
There’s still plenty of snarky 💩-posting (still great in moderation), but there seems to be far more interesting discussions not being buried by an engagement-driving algorithm.
There’s a great indie book store in Kingston, NY that has a bar inside. You can get coffee, beer, fresh bread, and books. The necessities of life. I fell in love when I visited, even with the name … Rough Drafts.
For now. All new social media kinda starts this way. But soon people will start working out how to monetize their presence and it will start eroding. Hopefully the tools they've provided can help slow that erosion, but they won't be able to prevent it.
Seaport Village in San Diego used to have a coffee bar inside a bookstore. It's been so long I forget its name...but we always enjoyed it! I checked with hubby. It was "Upstart Crow".
I picture it like sitting in the background of the cafe in Frasier. Just listening to idle intellectualism peppered with smart insights and occasionally witnessing the stupidest things I have ever seen.
I love that, was just talking to my husband about something like this. Reminiscing how I used to study with a little coffee upstairs at B&N when I was in college...late 90's. Good times.
So glad to be here. This small team is just killing it — especially with the huge influx of ppl.
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That's what I am loving about this. New and unexplored and not yet dominated by predatory algos. Digital meadow, at least for now. the book challenge rocks.
My anxiety levels and blood pressure have lowered considerably since I abandoned the dark side and came here. I wish my posts had more engagement, but I still find Bluesky much richer and more pleasant than most social media, Facebook included.
If you're in LA, near Culver City, there is a coffee shop inside a bookstore next to the corner to the police station off the 405 Culver Blvd exit. You can bring your own book. They have parking and extra seats outside
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Bookstore had become my favorite 3rd space. They are offering therapeutic craft classes. Every time I go, I meet great people.
Spent many a day & night at an old coffee shop bookstore called Kaldi's in Cincinnati! Lived almost across the street from it & it was my home away from home! Especially since I didn't have AC or good heat! But they did! 🤗
Bluesky is a privilege.
How Fascism Works - Jason Stanley
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America by Kurt Andersen
Kleptopia - Tom Burgis
On all fronts - Clarissa Ward
No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power by Jane MacAlevey
A Collective Bargain - Jane MacAlevey
'The Conscience of Conservatism'
The Theory of Justice - John Rawls
David Petraeus - Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Simon Shuster - The Showman: Inside the Invasion that Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky
Mick Ryan - The war for Ukraine: Strategy and adaption under fire.
Some books you just have to get in a certain headspace, and know what and who you are reading, so ya don't get sucked into some falsity.
Books like these take a long time for me to read, because you need to research and fact check, to stay on the straight an narrow.
No politics in my feed, no engagement bait, no entirely-too-long-posts and videos to cater the algo
Just people sharing interesting random stuff again
https://www.thesingularitychronicles.com
Keep X out
(With a few assholes who we can yeet out the airlocks.)
There’s still plenty of snarky 💩-posting (still great in moderation), but there seems to be far more interesting discussions not being buried by an engagement-driving algorithm.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2012/mar/09/keep-calm-and-carry-on-secret-history
they voted brexit
but .. I guess their all racists?
I think England needs more Africans and Indians, only then can we outbreed the horrible racist English
Shalom !
Ooh, I just looked down ... I'm wearing my favorite slouchy sweater and my coolest cargo pants.
Damn. I'm nearly as cool as this cozy bookstore inside a (local) bookstore.
Perfection...
Really need an edit option.
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'The Art of The Deal' does not count.
Give it time x
https://husmalsogmenningar.is/
edit....
My neighborhood one in Pacific Grove means a lot to me.
#vibes