Clear stretches of path for kilometres, then this one fruit-bombed area under this one tree where a cow is feasting. This cow clearly has a Gary Larson Cow Tool hidden in the bushes that it uses to shake the fruit off the branches when humans aren’t looking.

@nic These stories seem to be coming quick and fast from all over the place. Not rare cases, it seems. In the story about the Kennys case, Tomás Kenny talks about booksellers he knows in Sweden and Germany who are experiencing this too.

@studiolo_rb Ah I see! Yes, there are surely other good, non-mega-corporation Kennys'es in different countries and we should support them all.

@rgarner Hahaha - now I'm imagining Brad twirling his moustache as he destroys books, except that would make him interesting which he is not.

@venetiana That doesn't sound at all absurd - that resonates! You and me and others I've talked with recently are all saying things like this - that the AI mess has made us more aware of non-digital pleasures - of our CDs, our hard-copy books etc. The older ones especially, as you say.

@studiolo_rb I don't need to 'go find' it, I don't need mail order from my local independent bookseller. I just walk in and buy the books myself in the shop while chatting to the nice people who run it.

If by this, you meant to direct me to buy locally, not shop online: I get English-language books that I can't get on the shelf in Denmark from Kennys. I buy Danish-language and other on-the-shelf books from my (equally excellent) independent family-run bookshop around the corner where I live.

@malte Very small, tiny little humans - sounds right to me, that's them. These small tiny tiny-minded mediocrities of humans doing this work as their job.

@j_g_fitzgerald They're great

@fgraver Ah Ennis! Kennys has an art gallery as well as the bookshop - well worth a visit and there are often special events, author talks, art exhibitions etc.

These miserable fuckers who work for these miserable AI companies, doing this miserable work. Miserable human fuckers, clocking into work to plan worldwide book-destroying raids, placing these veiled orders with bookshops, watering their office plant, picking collection points, signing a Happy Birthday! card for Brad, picking up the books, stopping for coffee, posting the books to the US, scanning them, signing up for office bowling night, ripping off the covers, destroying the books. Fuck them.

”Galway bookseller suspects 'scattergun' order is for AI”

"There was everything from History of the Caribbean to Rules of the Road to Internet Explorer for Dummies to books on health & medicine, just no particular genre and very strange."

'They believe they may be getting picked up at collection points in Europe & shipped to the US where so-called "fair use" policies make it legal to slice the spines. The books are scanned using the text to train AI, then destroyed.'

https://www.rte.ie/news/connacht/2026/0810/1587288-galway-books-ai/

For about 20 years since, any time somebody online asks ’can anyone recommend a bookshop that posts internationally?’, I leap in like an excited child to recommend Kennys. Without fail, other people leap in to add their own recommendations and reader’s love letter to Kennys, both the bookshop and the family and staff who run it.

Anyway.

About 20 years ago, I sought an alternative to Amazon. A friend recommended Kennys.ie. A physical bookshop with the oldest book webshop in the world. A family-owned, family-run, tax-paying bookshop. New and used books. An independent bookshop in Galway, beloved for supporting authors and the local arts. The first books I ordered arrived with a bookmark and a handwritten note signed by one of the Kennys. I swear I could smell the Atlantic Ocean waft out of the parcel. The opposite of Amazon.

@jakobtougaard
'kraft-ædemig' really is quite the curse.

@gnate @MiaMarkTwo @eclectech

@MThaastrup Øv, sikke en øv-start til ugen. God bedring!

@petherfile Now I want to use the literal version in English. A monotone 'what kind of cholera is this?' could be so expressive, dripping with disdain.

@eclectech

@ccferrie @MiaMarkTwo @eclectech Thanks. It's not the most phonetic of words right enough, even by Irish standards

@jwcph They are! I want to see them all. I need to do the Tour de Boble next time it's offered.(I festugen, mig bekendt)

@Koefoed Det er desværre helt korrekt iagttaget. De sidder fast i, at selve en helbredstruende ekstrem hedebølge er 'dejligt vejr'. Bare solen kan ses.

@Trine_DK @SorenMRiis @Camlarsch

@Trine_DK @SorenMRiis @Camlarsch

'Lad det endelig sile' — det burde vi brodere på viskestykker. Klimakrisen har forvandlet det fra en forbandelse til en velsignelse.