Twitter used to be our main marketing tool--the primary way we sold books online and got the word out.

These days, not so much.

Please help support us and our authors with a signal boost! We are an independent publisher based in Chennai with books on folklore from different parts of India, graphic novels, ghost encyclopedias, weird horror, pulp fiction in translation, and some pretty strange little zines.

https://www.blaft.com/collections/new-arrivals

#bookstodon
#indiepublishing

An Iranian writer is sentenced to 12 years after tweeting a dot at the supreme leader.

NPR reports on the case of Hossein Shanbehzadeh, a longtime critic of Iran’s leadership: https://flip.it/yWxAOb

#Iran #FreeSpeech #News #SocialMedia

Modern rodenticides can kill rats with a single dose – but they readily pass up the food chain to larger carnivores, like this bobcat.

They are widely used and largely unregulated.
https://theconversation.com/rat-poison-is-moving-up-through-food-chains-threatening-carnivores-around-the-world-232471
#animals #science #news #wildlife #environment

Today, as I stood in front of millions of Americans to speak about my work prosecuting Trump, I couldn’t help but think about how much YOU made this possible.

Thank you for following me, supporting me and giving me a voice.

I couldn’t do it without you.

Unfortunately, the drug that prevents HIV infection, lenacapavir, is currently unaffordable at $42,250 for the first year. If it were sold by Gilead for $40 per year, it would still yield them a 30% profit. But I guess that’s not how capitalism works.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02493-4