@GraceLP Not all bookstores want to do this but it’s nice to be able to direct readers to an indie AND be able to offer a bookstore guaranteed sales. If the bookstore says yes I always tell readers to email me asap so I know they placed the order and can go in to sign.
@GraceLP If you have fans interested in signed copies, you might reach out and ask if they’d be interested in fulfilling. You might say, I have x readers who are interested in ordering a signed copy, If they place an order w you, could you hold the books so I can sign before shipping?
@ibogost I get the criticisms of the vacuums but the hair styler thing is amazing. It’s much quieter than a regular hairdryer and does the job in half the time.
Imagine: someone finally gets free of the attention-sucking machinations of their phone long enough to look up at the sky… and immediately sees an ad telling them to spend more time looking at their phone.
The commercialization of common places is one of capitalism’s most mundane evils. Advertisers look at the night sky and all they can think of is how to turn it into a billboard.
The sky over New York tonight!
A feat by our team - it’s one thing to get some drones, but another to coordinate with the FAA and the many other local and national regulators and get all the permits and follow all the protocols and look out for wildlife and the environment and
"Joy is not scarce. There is no natural limit on it. It is not a zero-sum game.
When we’re joyful, we increase the chances of those around us feeling joyful as well." @ingridfetell
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The comments are full of things like “you should’ve had them give back to the community” suggesting college students “already do plenty for themselves” and it just hits home for me how much we as a society can’t tolerate people just enjoying themselves.
Our parents were potpourri-loving maximalist clutter freaks so we reacted by painting everything that could be painted white, and everything else we made clean and slick, and now we have to admit: we went too far.
Our spaces are charmless.