bug_gwen 🪲

I know that the Long S is common in historic printing and writing, but GOSH I just can't stop giggling when I read Fingular Fymptoms from Fwallowing.

The latest in a series of big busts in ant smuggling. Yes. Ant Smuggling 🐜 . Big 💰 https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/kenya-arrests-man-trying-smuggle-over-2000-live-ants-his-luggage-2026-03-12/

Have you got a non-fiction book proposal that you need a push to get done? I highly recommend this Boot Camp: https://christieaschwanden.com/the-book-proposal-boot-camp-spring-2026/

This is mind blowing. A map of how 100s of publishing houses were assimilated into just 5 massive US book publishers. https://almossawi.com/big-five-publishers/

Fantastic news! The Field Museum will host Biodiversity Heritage Library's servers after they were cut loose by the Smithsonian last year. https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/transition-update-8-field-museum-to-host-technical-infrastructure.html

Yes to everything in this. If you want to "save the bees" don't take up honey beekeeping. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/05/19/urban-beekeeping-save-wild-bees/