[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @SketchesbyBoze Boze the Library Owl 😴🧙♀️ Boze the Library Owl 😴🧙♀️ posts on X about books, ai, art, if you the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and 1545 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1735442838/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX +57% - X Month XXXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Months XXXXXXXXXX +13% - X Year XXXXXXXXXXX +79% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::1735442838/posts_active)  - X Week XX -XX% - X Month XXX +5% - X Months XXX +105% - X Year XXX +58% ### Followers: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1735442838/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXX +0.41% - X Month XXXXXXX +0.97% - X Months XXXXXXX +5.10% - X Year XXXXXXX +7.90% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1735442838/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [finance](/list/finance) [countries](/list/countries) [musicians](/list/musicians) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [stocks](/list/stocks) [currencies](/list/currencies) **Social topic influence** [books](/topic/books) #749, [ai](/topic/ai) #3396, [art](/topic/art) #2398, [if you](/topic/if-you), [future](/topic/future) #914, [mental health](/topic/mental-health) #396, [health](/topic/health), [culture](/topic/culture) #2889, [6969](/topic/6969) #49, [fear of](/topic/fear-of) #205 **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@ecutruin](/creator/undefined) [@wrenandpaper](/creator/undefined) [@decadentquill](/creator/undefined) [@iconawrites](/creator/undefined) [@joycecaroloates](/creator/undefined) [@agraybee](/creator/undefined) [@raen4657](/creator/undefined) [@explorer09_kc](/creator/undefined) [@nguyenhdi](/creator/undefined) [@rachelxreads](/creator/undefined) [@wuthrinheights](/creator/undefined) [@swannmarcus89](/creator/undefined) [@clairedeluned](/creator/undefined) [@shadowbane1992](/creator/undefined) [@kashifch00](/creator/undefined) [@8bitgandalf](/creator/undefined) [@monizahossain](/creator/undefined) [@tolkienwonder](/creator/undefined) [@talegio212959](/creator/undefined) [@amwilsonopera](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Spotify Technology (SPOT)](/topic/$spot) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "I use AI to make music because it saves time. Time for doing what We're put on this earth to be creative and these losers are letting machines steal the joy of effort the joy of creation & the best hours of their lives. Theyve surrendered the very things we stay alive for" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1994671386712051830) 2025-11-29T07:34Z 243K followers, 165.7K engagements "In honor of my birthday this week I encourage you to get a library card read books of folklore listen to medieval & Tudor Christmas carols watch an old film by Welles or Bergman. Life is not long and we ought to find some beauty in each day. We ought to hold each other close" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1995596233604485578) 2025-12-01T20:49Z 243K followers, 34.2K engagements "I'm afraid the future belongs to those who read widely who can write without a machine's assistance who havent allowed endless slop to kill their creativity & curiosity. Read books. Love learning. Keep your mind sharp or be left behind" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1992364929651982700) 2025-11-22T22:49Z 243K followers, 52.8K engagements "Lot of guys in my replies saying youll be left behind when AI takes over the arts Youre all sad pathetic little men who fancy yourselves geniuses because you can write prompts. You never acquired the work ethic to make real art & now machines have made your brains into goo" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1996317228523041269) 2025-12-03T20:34Z 243K followers, 42.4K engagements "insane to me that the actor who played the ancient banker in Mary Poppins (1964) is still alive" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1996411288977903958) 2025-12-04T02:48Z 243K followers, 8886 engagements "There are exceptions: Infinity Train Gravity Falls. But for example a joke about Proust Barbie was removed from the Barbie movie because test audiences had never heard of Proust. Society gets dumber when media gets dumber" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1996452825602437370) 2025-12-04T05:33Z 243K followers, 21.3K engagements "I listen to Greensleeves eleven months out of the year I aspire to play the recorder I know a disturbing amount about mythical beasts & north European festive traditions I recently thought it was Friday on Thursday. once I acquire a love of beets its over for me I fear" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1998558425283022938) 2025-12-10T01:00Z 243K followers, 2632 engagements "People are only just learning that peter is a verb. Yesterday someone was branded pretentious for using the word foliage. The dangerous thing about not reading is that it limits your communication your imagination and the scope of whats possible. You inhabit a tiny world" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1982518811191623962) 2025-10-26T18:44Z 243K followers, 1.2M engagements "While I think 1984 an important book Fahrenheit XXX is the must-read dystopian novel. It foresaw everything: AI summaries robotic dogs flat-screen TV the death of reading in an age of endless amusement. He wrote about EAR BUDS before they were a thing. Its a prophetic text" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1987343096057897023) 2025-11-09T02:14Z 243K followers, 583.9K engagements "Of the 270-plus books Ive read so far this year these four (and various Icelandic sagas) are probably my favorites:" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1993165209121518040) 2025-11-25T03:49Z 243K followers, 61.6K engagements "@zenahitz A few years ago there was a big winter freeze and we lost power for nearly a week. I spent the nights at my high school English teacher's house reading Lord of the Rings by the light of her log fire. I loved the darkness the silence. One of my most magical experiences" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1998156023857889512) 2025-12-08T22:21Z 243K followers, 5985 engagements "@WaxWasps @NineCato begging you to read The Intellectual Life of the Working Classes" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1998649296695308394) 2025-12-10T07:01Z 243K followers, XXX engagements "We went from what good are the humanities to suddenly no one can read in about a year and it's no coincidence that we're suddenly awash in misinformation and lack of critical thinking. This is WHY we need the humanities. This is what they prevent" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1974913690169381167) 2025-10-05T19:04Z 243K followers, 3.1M engagements "I find it bleak that ChatGPT now has more users than Wikipedia. Many people would rather be spoon-fed information by a machine than read and research for themselves. Tech isn't just making us dumber. Worse than that: it's killing curiosity itself and the desire to learn" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1976007152927138012) 2025-10-08T19:29Z 243K followers, 2.5M engagements "Men assume Pride & Prejudice is a Hallmark romance when the plot is driven by the Bennet sisters fear of starvation because they will be homeless when their father dies. Its a book about money about people and those who dismiss it as saccharine fluff are cheating themselves" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1978569027690856743) 2025-10-15T21:09Z 243K followers, 703K engagements "People love to criticize reading in public as performative but I can't stress enough how much it would improve our collective mental health if we all carried books wherever we went" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1979977055958897045) 2025-10-19T18:24Z 243K followers, 1.2M engagements "I think we under-estimate how many people are miserable because they have no enthusiasms no hobbies because they gave up reading and quit learning when school ended. It's shocking how much studying a beloved subject elevates your mood. It will transform your life" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1981963907989467297) 2025-10-25T05:59Z 243K followers, 4.4M engagements "If you're using AI to write essays something everyone was capable of doing until the day before yesterday I think less of you as a person. Surrendering your mental abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and you should be ashamed to admit doing it in public" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1982157682493538309) 2025-10-25T18:49Z 243K followers, 1.8M engagements "A huge factor in the collapse of our collective mental health is the decline in reading for pleasure. Reading lessens loneliness builds community sharpens the intellect. It brings joy. You will be shocked at how much better you feel if you begin to read regularly" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1983570749827985767) 2025-10-29T16:24Z 243K followers, 1.6M engagements "AI companies are posting stealth ads encouraging students not to major in the humanities. More proof if you need it that anti-humanities propaganda is being pushed by the tech world in the hopes of creating a world where most people can neither read nor think" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1984023800779010245) 2025-10-30T22:25Z 243K followers, 1.2M engagements "I'm glad the villain of the new Toy Story is a child's tablet. I hope the film conveys how screens eat up a child's hobbies interests literacy ability to function socially. I hope it provokes millions of parents to think twice before making the iPad a babysitter" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1988366092352581652) 2025-11-11T21:59Z 243K followers, 12.2M engagements "Not joking when I say a huge reason why people feel aimless & depressed is because they stop learning at graduation. They are starving for knowledge. We need to make adult education classes available to everyone. We need to encourage a lifelong love of learning" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1990865053017653755) 2025-11-18T19:29Z 243K followers, 371.4K engagements "Not a single woman. I'm begging you to read The Lottery by Shirley Jackson A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery OConnor The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman. Women have been masters of short horror and the short story in general since its inception" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1992098179127669186) 2025-11-22T05:09Z 243K followers, 571.7K engagements "There's an enormous cat who lives a few streets down. She somehow figured out a way to unlatch and open the screen door leading into our bedroom. Every night she breaks into our room curls up on my chest and falls asleep. I've been adopted by a real-life Miyazaki character" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1992352342319198393) 2025-11-22T21:59Z 243K followers, 127.3K engagements "I tell folks who are just getting into the classics to start with this book. Dumas all but invented the comic-book genre (there would be no Batman without Edmond Dantes) and in the process redefined the adventure thriller. No one before or since has done it better" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1992859442631852233) 2025-11-24T07:34Z 243K followers, 294.9K engagements "Less than half of Americans read even a single book in a given year. If youre not reading regularly youll have trouble recognizing misleading rhetoric. You wont have the historical & media literacy needed to distinguish truth from lies. This is why they want you illiterate" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1993411832317657449) 2025-11-25T20:09Z 243K followers, 256.8K engagements "I promise if you don't put your writing & thinking skills into practice they will vanish like a puff of smoke. You really don't want to live in a world in which most people are incapable of forming a sentence. The effects of a billion shrinking brains will be catastrophic" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1994519133904580968) 2025-11-28T21:29Z 243K followers, 207.1K engagements "The new editions of In Search of Lost Time currently being published by @OUPAcademic are a revelation. Proust has often been ill-served by his translators. Astonishing in their clarity weirdness and humor these books are destined to become the definitive English versions" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1994843771260088721) 2025-11-29T18:59Z 243K followers, 53K engagements "No offense but I think we underestimate how many of our current problems both cultural and political are downstream of the decline in reading the decline in learning and the loss of interest in the humanities" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1994848801874743596) 2025-11-29T19:19Z 243K followers, 300.4K engagements "People say AI enables those of us who hate writing to become novelists If you hate writing or making music no one is forcing you to become a writer or musician. Go find another career. All youre doing is destroying the creative arts and degrading what it means to be human" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1995235101748445420) 2025-11-30T20:54Z 243K followers, 194.1K engagements "All art is art. Every medium is valid. Stop using therapy-speak to justify stealing from real artists and wrapping yourself in a glory you havent earned. You havent put in the effort. You havent done the work. You are not an artist. You have created nothing" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1995305564315021553) 2025-12-01T01:34Z 243K followers, 65.4K engagements "Tolkien's own illustrations from Letters from Father Christmas a series of letters he wrote each year for his children. The elaborate mythology he created for the North Pole featuring goblins and wizardly figures would later influence The Lord of the Rings" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1995560998196179173) 2025-12-01T18:29Z 243K followers, 37.4K engagements "@decadentquill In January I discovered an 85-hour playlist of authentic medieval & Tudor Christmas carols and have been listening to it the ENTIRE year haha. Traditional carols are just about my favorite thing in this world" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1995569764429955262) 2025-12-01T19:04Z 243K followers, 115.9K engagements "No one wants to hear this but a huge reason why students are increasingly illiterate is because of grade inflation because parents & admin pressure teachers to pass kids who dont know the material because college has become more about printing diplomas than pursuing knowledge" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1995602537890939011) 2025-12-01T21:14Z 243K followers, 222.1K engagements "Annual reminder that Fanny & Alexander possibly the greatest film ever made is a Christmas movie" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1995923391384355236) 2025-12-02T18:29Z 243K followers, 31.9K engagements "This is the way forward. Ban AI-generated visual art ban AI music ban photorealistic AI images of people. Shame corporations that platform and promote AI artists. Support human writing and human art" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1995951067075674293) 2025-12-02T20:19Z 243K followers, 520K engagements "Im afraid the Christmas season is the time of year when I get most annoying. I love the Dickens readings bells pealing from old English churches Tudor carols garlands of holly and ivy. I love Sir Gawain & the Green Knight We could all use a bit of medieval jollity" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1996336105441144880) 2025-12-03T21:49Z 243K followers, 50.5K engagements "Ray Bradbury; this is the secret to a good life" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1996342404652368253) 2025-12-03T22:14Z 243K followers, 179.1K engagements "A lot of you are under the mistaken impression that progress means advances in tech. Real progress is kids who are literate free meals for public school students a culture in which human art & poetry are celebrated. We're regressing rapidly & the only way forward is to read" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1996351211583475762) 2025-12-03T22:49Z 243K followers, 635.8K engagements "Dick Van Dyke turns XXX on December 13th. Jane Austen turns XXX on December 16th. Jane Austen was only born two and a half Dick Van Dykes ago" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1996410344168886501) 2025-12-04T02:44Z 243K followers, 21.6K engagements "This confirms something I've been saying for a while that recently media for kids has been dumbed down for fear of confusing its audience. We grew up in a golden age of brilliant referential animation and that's how we learned culture. Today's media is teaching kids nothing" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1996451866331476113) 2025-12-04T05:29Z 243K followers, 700.1K engagements "Books have largely disappeared from kids' movies & television because showrunners fear alienating kids who don't read. But I promise you: if you write beloved books into your shows if your characters read for pleasure there will be young viewers who fall in love with reading" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1996650680489312385) 2025-12-04T18:39Z 243K followers, 1.1M engagements "The single best thing you can do for your child's mental health and success in life is to limit their screens and delay giving them phones. Yes they'll complain of boredom. But they will become adults who are literate socially capable and emotionally well-adjusted" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1996684654741770714) 2025-12-04T20:54Z 243K followers, 25K engagements "Call me old-fashioned but I think kids were a million times better off when they grew up reading books with these sorts of illustrations in them" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1996825583507161278) 2025-12-05T06:14Z 243K followers, 497.1K engagements "This is a devastating blow for those of us who value the arts & culture. Netflix has shown zero commitment to the theatrical experience zero interest in preserving & promoting classic films. We're in desperate need of anti-trust legislation to prevent monopolies such as this" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1997031938075598901) 2025-12-05T19:54Z 243K followers, 51.1K engagements "THIS ISNT YOUR GRANDMAS NARNIA I liked my grandmas Narnia" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1997035712999514545) 2025-12-05T20:09Z 243K followers, 410.2K engagements "Thinking of Pope Leo's recent defense of cinema in light of today's news. Conformity-enforcing algorithms and corporate mergers threaten to destroy one of our greatest arts" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1997064652371698096) 2025-12-05T22:04Z 243K followers, 30.6K engagements "Widespread adoption of AI-generated writing is the logical endpoint of everyone now being illiterate. Big Tech spent forty years saying the humanities weren't important & now no one can write. Now they hope to make billions from machines that have the skills they stole from us" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1997211876699394247) 2025-12-06T07:49Z 243K followers, 39.7K engagements "I had a friend in high school who started failing his classes after The Two Towers came out on DVD because he watched it fifty times in as many days and would space out in class playing the entire movie in his head frame for frame" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1998114065345036617) 2025-12-08T19:34Z 243K followers, 108.1K engagements "Why are folks getting dumber Because they dont read. Why arent men as romantic & poetic as they used to be Because they dont read. Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist Because they dont read. Because they dont read" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1998173216519659548) 2025-12-08T23:29Z 243K followers, 1.9M engagements "I find it bleak how un-adventurous people are getting because of algorithms. Theyre content to watch whatever slop the streaming apps throw at them. You need to seek out old films. You need to read great books. To become a really interesting person takes hunger and effort" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1998511701575217418) 2025-12-09T21:54Z 243K followers, 15.1K engagements "Last night my wife said Putting presents under the tree is the best job ever and without a moment's pause I said False. The best job was hunting and gathering during the last ice age. My transformation into Dwight Schrute is nearly complete" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1998558244500037781) 2025-12-10T00:59Z 243K followers, 4385 engagements "Kids are hooked on phones from the crib everything is gambling schools no longer require students to read the creative arts are being automated and disturbing numbers of people are eager to never think again. The only way forward is to reverse course" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1998568493617443190) 2025-12-10T01:40Z 243K followers, 3920 engagements "Theyre trying to convince people that they cant do the things theyve been doing easily for years . You wont know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you cant do it which is the opposite of what life has to offer. @JustineBateman" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1998647587235406193) 2025-12-10T06:54Z 243K followers, 57.8K engagements "@hairygit @BBCRadio3 My wife and I have been listening to the 160-CD Bach boxed set on spotify. There are few things more festive than the music of Bach at Christmas" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1998837880152850473) 2025-12-10T19:31Z 243K followers, 1165 engagements "People say You hate AI art because youre afraid of everyone being equally talented. No I hate it because you are being robbed of real creativity. I want you to know the satisfaction of putting real effort into something. I want you to be amazed what you can do when you try" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1998845136269451548) 2025-12-10T19:59Z 243K followers, 105.9K engagements "I would rather see Tolkien on a man's bookshelf than XX Laws of Power Rich Dad Poor Dad or any of the other grind-set self-help manuals men are currently enamored of reading" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1998929446041170343) 2025-12-11T01:34Z 243K followers, 125.3K engagements "@decadentquill Steinbeck Sir Gawain & the Green Knight the retellings of Howard Pyle and Roger Lancelyn Green The Dark Is Rising. John Matthews has written a recent series of books featuring some of the more neglected medieval tales. I adored Lev Grossman's 2024 novel The Bright Sword" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1998966230032724305) 2025-12-11T04:01Z 243K followers, 1432 engagements "Great work everyone. Keep the pressure going. We need these companies to know that AI art is an embarrassment and they should feel ashamed of using it instead of paying human artists. We will not go gently into the future of endless slop they are seeking to inflict" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1998999914110660807) 2025-12-11T06:14Z 243K followers, 30.4K engagements "@AhernHerbe8277 Victor Frankl is not in the same category as those other books" [X Link](https://x.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1999190577091608948) 2025-12-11T18:52Z 243K followers, XXX engagements
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@SketchesbyBoze Boze the Library Owl 😴🧙♀️
Boze the Library Owl 😴🧙♀️ posts on X about books, ai, art, if you the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and 1545 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
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Social Influence
Social category influence technology brands finance countries musicians celebrities stocks currencies
Social topic influence books #749, ai #3396, art #2398, if you, future #914, mental health #396, health, culture #2889, 6969 #49, fear of #205
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @ecutruin @wrenandpaper @decadentquill @iconawrites @joycecaroloates @agraybee @raen4657 @explorer09_kc @nguyenhdi @rachelxreads @wuthrinheights @swannmarcus89 @clairedeluned @shadowbane1992 @kashifch00 @8bitgandalf @monizahossain @tolkienwonder @talegio212959 @amwilsonopera
Top assets mentioned Spotify Technology (SPOT)
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"I use AI to make music because it saves time. Time for doing what We're put on this earth to be creative and these losers are letting machines steal the joy of effort the joy of creation & the best hours of their lives. Theyve surrendered the very things we stay alive for"
X Link 2025-11-29T07:34Z 243K followers, 165.7K engagements
"In honor of my birthday this week I encourage you to get a library card read books of folklore listen to medieval & Tudor Christmas carols watch an old film by Welles or Bergman. Life is not long and we ought to find some beauty in each day. We ought to hold each other close"
X Link 2025-12-01T20:49Z 243K followers, 34.2K engagements
"I'm afraid the future belongs to those who read widely who can write without a machine's assistance who havent allowed endless slop to kill their creativity & curiosity. Read books. Love learning. Keep your mind sharp or be left behind"
X Link 2025-11-22T22:49Z 243K followers, 52.8K engagements
"Lot of guys in my replies saying youll be left behind when AI takes over the arts Youre all sad pathetic little men who fancy yourselves geniuses because you can write prompts. You never acquired the work ethic to make real art & now machines have made your brains into goo"
X Link 2025-12-03T20:34Z 243K followers, 42.4K engagements
"insane to me that the actor who played the ancient banker in Mary Poppins (1964) is still alive"
X Link 2025-12-04T02:48Z 243K followers, 8886 engagements
"There are exceptions: Infinity Train Gravity Falls. But for example a joke about Proust Barbie was removed from the Barbie movie because test audiences had never heard of Proust. Society gets dumber when media gets dumber"
X Link 2025-12-04T05:33Z 243K followers, 21.3K engagements
"I listen to Greensleeves eleven months out of the year I aspire to play the recorder I know a disturbing amount about mythical beasts & north European festive traditions I recently thought it was Friday on Thursday. once I acquire a love of beets its over for me I fear"
X Link 2025-12-10T01:00Z 243K followers, 2632 engagements
"People are only just learning that peter is a verb. Yesterday someone was branded pretentious for using the word foliage. The dangerous thing about not reading is that it limits your communication your imagination and the scope of whats possible. You inhabit a tiny world"
X Link 2025-10-26T18:44Z 243K followers, 1.2M engagements
"While I think 1984 an important book Fahrenheit XXX is the must-read dystopian novel. It foresaw everything: AI summaries robotic dogs flat-screen TV the death of reading in an age of endless amusement. He wrote about EAR BUDS before they were a thing. Its a prophetic text"
X Link 2025-11-09T02:14Z 243K followers, 583.9K engagements
"Of the 270-plus books Ive read so far this year these four (and various Icelandic sagas) are probably my favorites:"
X Link 2025-11-25T03:49Z 243K followers, 61.6K engagements
"@zenahitz A few years ago there was a big winter freeze and we lost power for nearly a week. I spent the nights at my high school English teacher's house reading Lord of the Rings by the light of her log fire. I loved the darkness the silence. One of my most magical experiences"
X Link 2025-12-08T22:21Z 243K followers, 5985 engagements
"@WaxWasps @NineCato begging you to read The Intellectual Life of the Working Classes"
X Link 2025-12-10T07:01Z 243K followers, XXX engagements
"We went from what good are the humanities to suddenly no one can read in about a year and it's no coincidence that we're suddenly awash in misinformation and lack of critical thinking. This is WHY we need the humanities. This is what they prevent"
X Link 2025-10-05T19:04Z 243K followers, 3.1M engagements
"I find it bleak that ChatGPT now has more users than Wikipedia. Many people would rather be spoon-fed information by a machine than read and research for themselves. Tech isn't just making us dumber. Worse than that: it's killing curiosity itself and the desire to learn"
X Link 2025-10-08T19:29Z 243K followers, 2.5M engagements
"Men assume Pride & Prejudice is a Hallmark romance when the plot is driven by the Bennet sisters fear of starvation because they will be homeless when their father dies. Its a book about money about people and those who dismiss it as saccharine fluff are cheating themselves"
X Link 2025-10-15T21:09Z 243K followers, 703K engagements
"People love to criticize reading in public as performative but I can't stress enough how much it would improve our collective mental health if we all carried books wherever we went"
X Link 2025-10-19T18:24Z 243K followers, 1.2M engagements
"I think we under-estimate how many people are miserable because they have no enthusiasms no hobbies because they gave up reading and quit learning when school ended. It's shocking how much studying a beloved subject elevates your mood. It will transform your life"
X Link 2025-10-25T05:59Z 243K followers, 4.4M engagements
"If you're using AI to write essays something everyone was capable of doing until the day before yesterday I think less of you as a person. Surrendering your mental abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and you should be ashamed to admit doing it in public"
X Link 2025-10-25T18:49Z 243K followers, 1.8M engagements
"A huge factor in the collapse of our collective mental health is the decline in reading for pleasure. Reading lessens loneliness builds community sharpens the intellect. It brings joy. You will be shocked at how much better you feel if you begin to read regularly"
X Link 2025-10-29T16:24Z 243K followers, 1.6M engagements
"AI companies are posting stealth ads encouraging students not to major in the humanities. More proof if you need it that anti-humanities propaganda is being pushed by the tech world in the hopes of creating a world where most people can neither read nor think"
X Link 2025-10-30T22:25Z 243K followers, 1.2M engagements
"I'm glad the villain of the new Toy Story is a child's tablet. I hope the film conveys how screens eat up a child's hobbies interests literacy ability to function socially. I hope it provokes millions of parents to think twice before making the iPad a babysitter"
X Link 2025-11-11T21:59Z 243K followers, 12.2M engagements
"Not joking when I say a huge reason why people feel aimless & depressed is because they stop learning at graduation. They are starving for knowledge. We need to make adult education classes available to everyone. We need to encourage a lifelong love of learning"
X Link 2025-11-18T19:29Z 243K followers, 371.4K engagements
"Not a single woman. I'm begging you to read The Lottery by Shirley Jackson A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery OConnor The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman. Women have been masters of short horror and the short story in general since its inception"
X Link 2025-11-22T05:09Z 243K followers, 571.7K engagements
"There's an enormous cat who lives a few streets down. She somehow figured out a way to unlatch and open the screen door leading into our bedroom. Every night she breaks into our room curls up on my chest and falls asleep. I've been adopted by a real-life Miyazaki character"
X Link 2025-11-22T21:59Z 243K followers, 127.3K engagements
"I tell folks who are just getting into the classics to start with this book. Dumas all but invented the comic-book genre (there would be no Batman without Edmond Dantes) and in the process redefined the adventure thriller. No one before or since has done it better"
X Link 2025-11-24T07:34Z 243K followers, 294.9K engagements
"Less than half of Americans read even a single book in a given year. If youre not reading regularly youll have trouble recognizing misleading rhetoric. You wont have the historical & media literacy needed to distinguish truth from lies. This is why they want you illiterate"
X Link 2025-11-25T20:09Z 243K followers, 256.8K engagements
"I promise if you don't put your writing & thinking skills into practice they will vanish like a puff of smoke. You really don't want to live in a world in which most people are incapable of forming a sentence. The effects of a billion shrinking brains will be catastrophic"
X Link 2025-11-28T21:29Z 243K followers, 207.1K engagements
"The new editions of In Search of Lost Time currently being published by @OUPAcademic are a revelation. Proust has often been ill-served by his translators. Astonishing in their clarity weirdness and humor these books are destined to become the definitive English versions"
X Link 2025-11-29T18:59Z 243K followers, 53K engagements
"No offense but I think we underestimate how many of our current problems both cultural and political are downstream of the decline in reading the decline in learning and the loss of interest in the humanities"
X Link 2025-11-29T19:19Z 243K followers, 300.4K engagements
"People say AI enables those of us who hate writing to become novelists If you hate writing or making music no one is forcing you to become a writer or musician. Go find another career. All youre doing is destroying the creative arts and degrading what it means to be human"
X Link 2025-11-30T20:54Z 243K followers, 194.1K engagements
"All art is art. Every medium is valid. Stop using therapy-speak to justify stealing from real artists and wrapping yourself in a glory you havent earned. You havent put in the effort. You havent done the work. You are not an artist. You have created nothing"
X Link 2025-12-01T01:34Z 243K followers, 65.4K engagements
"Tolkien's own illustrations from Letters from Father Christmas a series of letters he wrote each year for his children. The elaborate mythology he created for the North Pole featuring goblins and wizardly figures would later influence The Lord of the Rings"
X Link 2025-12-01T18:29Z 243K followers, 37.4K engagements
"@decadentquill In January I discovered an 85-hour playlist of authentic medieval & Tudor Christmas carols and have been listening to it the ENTIRE year haha. Traditional carols are just about my favorite thing in this world"
X Link 2025-12-01T19:04Z 243K followers, 115.9K engagements
"No one wants to hear this but a huge reason why students are increasingly illiterate is because of grade inflation because parents & admin pressure teachers to pass kids who dont know the material because college has become more about printing diplomas than pursuing knowledge"
X Link 2025-12-01T21:14Z 243K followers, 222.1K engagements
"Annual reminder that Fanny & Alexander possibly the greatest film ever made is a Christmas movie"
X Link 2025-12-02T18:29Z 243K followers, 31.9K engagements
"This is the way forward. Ban AI-generated visual art ban AI music ban photorealistic AI images of people. Shame corporations that platform and promote AI artists. Support human writing and human art"
X Link 2025-12-02T20:19Z 243K followers, 520K engagements
"Im afraid the Christmas season is the time of year when I get most annoying. I love the Dickens readings bells pealing from old English churches Tudor carols garlands of holly and ivy. I love Sir Gawain & the Green Knight We could all use a bit of medieval jollity"
X Link 2025-12-03T21:49Z 243K followers, 50.5K engagements
"Ray Bradbury; this is the secret to a good life"
X Link 2025-12-03T22:14Z 243K followers, 179.1K engagements
"A lot of you are under the mistaken impression that progress means advances in tech. Real progress is kids who are literate free meals for public school students a culture in which human art & poetry are celebrated. We're regressing rapidly & the only way forward is to read"
X Link 2025-12-03T22:49Z 243K followers, 635.8K engagements
"Dick Van Dyke turns XXX on December 13th. Jane Austen turns XXX on December 16th. Jane Austen was only born two and a half Dick Van Dykes ago"
X Link 2025-12-04T02:44Z 243K followers, 21.6K engagements
"This confirms something I've been saying for a while that recently media for kids has been dumbed down for fear of confusing its audience. We grew up in a golden age of brilliant referential animation and that's how we learned culture. Today's media is teaching kids nothing"
X Link 2025-12-04T05:29Z 243K followers, 700.1K engagements
"Books have largely disappeared from kids' movies & television because showrunners fear alienating kids who don't read. But I promise you: if you write beloved books into your shows if your characters read for pleasure there will be young viewers who fall in love with reading"
X Link 2025-12-04T18:39Z 243K followers, 1.1M engagements
"The single best thing you can do for your child's mental health and success in life is to limit their screens and delay giving them phones. Yes they'll complain of boredom. But they will become adults who are literate socially capable and emotionally well-adjusted"
X Link 2025-12-04T20:54Z 243K followers, 25K engagements
"Call me old-fashioned but I think kids were a million times better off when they grew up reading books with these sorts of illustrations in them"
X Link 2025-12-05T06:14Z 243K followers, 497.1K engagements
"This is a devastating blow for those of us who value the arts & culture. Netflix has shown zero commitment to the theatrical experience zero interest in preserving & promoting classic films. We're in desperate need of anti-trust legislation to prevent monopolies such as this"
X Link 2025-12-05T19:54Z 243K followers, 51.1K engagements
"THIS ISNT YOUR GRANDMAS NARNIA I liked my grandmas Narnia"
X Link 2025-12-05T20:09Z 243K followers, 410.2K engagements
"Thinking of Pope Leo's recent defense of cinema in light of today's news. Conformity-enforcing algorithms and corporate mergers threaten to destroy one of our greatest arts"
X Link 2025-12-05T22:04Z 243K followers, 30.6K engagements
"Widespread adoption of AI-generated writing is the logical endpoint of everyone now being illiterate. Big Tech spent forty years saying the humanities weren't important & now no one can write. Now they hope to make billions from machines that have the skills they stole from us"
X Link 2025-12-06T07:49Z 243K followers, 39.7K engagements
"I had a friend in high school who started failing his classes after The Two Towers came out on DVD because he watched it fifty times in as many days and would space out in class playing the entire movie in his head frame for frame"
X Link 2025-12-08T19:34Z 243K followers, 108.1K engagements
"Why are folks getting dumber Because they dont read. Why arent men as romantic & poetic as they used to be Because they dont read. Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist Because they dont read. Because they dont read"
X Link 2025-12-08T23:29Z 243K followers, 1.9M engagements
"I find it bleak how un-adventurous people are getting because of algorithms. Theyre content to watch whatever slop the streaming apps throw at them. You need to seek out old films. You need to read great books. To become a really interesting person takes hunger and effort"
X Link 2025-12-09T21:54Z 243K followers, 15.1K engagements
"Last night my wife said Putting presents under the tree is the best job ever and without a moment's pause I said False. The best job was hunting and gathering during the last ice age. My transformation into Dwight Schrute is nearly complete"
X Link 2025-12-10T00:59Z 243K followers, 4385 engagements
"Kids are hooked on phones from the crib everything is gambling schools no longer require students to read the creative arts are being automated and disturbing numbers of people are eager to never think again. The only way forward is to reverse course"
X Link 2025-12-10T01:40Z 243K followers, 3920 engagements
"Theyre trying to convince people that they cant do the things theyve been doing easily for years . You wont know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you cant do it which is the opposite of what life has to offer. @JustineBateman"
X Link 2025-12-10T06:54Z 243K followers, 57.8K engagements
"@hairygit @BBCRadio3 My wife and I have been listening to the 160-CD Bach boxed set on spotify. There are few things more festive than the music of Bach at Christmas"
X Link 2025-12-10T19:31Z 243K followers, 1165 engagements
"People say You hate AI art because youre afraid of everyone being equally talented. No I hate it because you are being robbed of real creativity. I want you to know the satisfaction of putting real effort into something. I want you to be amazed what you can do when you try"
X Link 2025-12-10T19:59Z 243K followers, 105.9K engagements
"I would rather see Tolkien on a man's bookshelf than XX Laws of Power Rich Dad Poor Dad or any of the other grind-set self-help manuals men are currently enamored of reading"
X Link 2025-12-11T01:34Z 243K followers, 125.3K engagements
"@decadentquill Steinbeck Sir Gawain & the Green Knight the retellings of Howard Pyle and Roger Lancelyn Green The Dark Is Rising. John Matthews has written a recent series of books featuring some of the more neglected medieval tales. I adored Lev Grossman's 2024 novel The Bright Sword"
X Link 2025-12-11T04:01Z 243K followers, 1432 engagements
"Great work everyone. Keep the pressure going. We need these companies to know that AI art is an embarrassment and they should feel ashamed of using it instead of paying human artists. We will not go gently into the future of endless slop they are seeking to inflict"
X Link 2025-12-11T06:14Z 243K followers, 30.4K engagements
"@AhernHerbe8277 Victor Frankl is not in the same category as those other books"
X Link 2025-12-11T18:52Z 243K followers, XXX engagements