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It would be so funny if it happened tonight

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Vonnegut, always 🎨 Nancy Hill 📚💙 www.instagram.com/hazelandviolet

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📣 New zine! "Radical Books That Aren't a Slog : Leftist Book Recommendations for Newly Radical Folks." If you're a baby leftist looking for a place to start imagining new possibilities, here's 17 books to get you started! violetbfox.info/radicalbooks/ 📚

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Everything feels especially bad today

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I continue to believe that a densely organized library workforce is essential to winning the world we need. Pulling together a Labor Notes training for library workers on the Thursday of annual. Watch this space!

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Y’all, @haymarketbooks.org is offering 40% off their Black Liberation books—including my new book, “Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education” and the book I coedited “Balck Lives Matter at School.” www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/65-40-...

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Can they put tariffs on AI

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Folks will need these words defined for them. This is where popular education is helpful. Create some quick two pagers explaining what all three of these things mean and get them out everywhere. Invite regular folks to use this month to run workshops, discussions, etc... on these ideas.

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Reminder that if you see someone trying to figure out how to contact their reps, you now have the INCREDIBLY easy to remember URL to give to them: reps.fyi Tell your friends! Tell strangers! Print stickers and put them on things! Crash every voicemail every day. ❤️ (thank you @gregpak.net!)

submitted 145 days ago • 15 comments

I would like more StoryGraph friends please! 📚 💙 #booksky app.thestorygraph.com/profile/rest...

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Take yall children to those black history events that will be held at some local libraries. It starts at home

submitted 146 days ago • 133 comments

Volunteered at the community garden today and I hate to admit it but literally touching grass really helps the ol mental health

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Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books. bookshop.org/ebooks

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If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... They need to hear from you.

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#Booksky: If you haven’t already, export your data from Goodreads (an Amazon company) and import it into StoryGraph, a book-tracking app founded and led by a Black woman.

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JAN 29: Interference Archive’s Library Cataloging Party, 314 7th St in #Brooklyn. 6:30-8:30PM. Help catalog the book collection at this radical archive and community space in Park Slope. No experience needed. To RSVP, see the post at the link: www.instagram.com/interference... #critcat #critlib #NYC

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Everyone, everywhere, regardless of their age, background, or political views, deserves access to information from a wide range of perspectives and books that reflect their lived experiences @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social www.ala.org/news/2025/01...

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At my first national library conference as an Emerging Leader and ended up having dinner with a retired librarian and ALA vet. It felt like a very cool passing the torch moment and reminder of the good work we’ve always done and will continue to do. #librarians #booksky

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i see eggs benny i order eggs benny

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If you are a visa holder/temp resident in the U.S., and your child was born here and doesn't have a passport, GET A PASSPORT FOR THEM IMMEDIATELY. Like, make the appointment this week. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...

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TikTok is back lol

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Now that I’ve gone social media lite, I’ve discovered my reading slump was just a social media addiction. I’ve read 10 books this year 🤯 📚 💙

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🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

submitted 169 days ago • 578 comments

Today I ate an orange while I took a bath and chucked the rinds into the bath with me. I’m calling it a Capybara Bath and this is the energy I’m bringing into 2025. 🍊 🛁

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Every year I draw all the books I read. Here’s the books I read this year. 📚💙

submitted 176 days ago • 4 comments

Libraries are so cute. Please get the Libby and Hoopla app on your phone and the Kanopy app for your TV. It makes the libraries so happy and you can access books, movies, magazines, audiobooks, tv shows, and joy. YOU GET FREE JOY

submitted 190 days ago • 329 comments

Currently reading two water books 📚💙

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 5 💙📚 #booksky #books #bookchallenge

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 4 💙📚 #booksky #books #bookchallenge

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 3 💙📚 #booksky #books #bookchallenge

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This is such a perfect, no skips album. I get so hyped and blown away every time I listen to it. It’s highly praised, but still not talked about enough.

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 2 💙📚 #booksky #books #bookchallenge

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 1 💙📚 #booksky #books #bookchallenge

submitted 199 days ago • 1 comment

New book club idea just dropped 📚 💙

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