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bluestockingbook.bsky.social
Millennial, queer, romance-reading, chaos-coordinating, target-on-my-back bookshop owner, building diverse, accessible, inclusive, informed community in Holland, MI. Let's do this thing. 📚🗳
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As a retail shop owner, we've decided that the boomer version of asking "who did you vote for" covertly is to comment about the pennies situation.

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At yesterday's event, we remembered the theory of crowd attractiveness when watching a group of groomsmen wandering a vendor hall.

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The issue with doing vendor events is that you end up buying things from all the other vendors, so you come home having made negative money. #SmallBusinessLife

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Protect your LGBTQIA+ friends no matter what.

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I'm not normally a "chocolates for arbitrary holiday" person, but I am definitely still thinking about the bite-sized Dubai chocolates we picked up a Costco last week... 😋🍫

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I mean I'm on board with this idea.

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Just convinced a 7yo to watch #DoctorWho because of our Vashta Nerada space helmet. My job today is done. #BookshopLife

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This or That Thursday: It's the age old question... Hardcovers or paperbacks? Go ahead, fight it out in the comments. 😏 📚🩵#BookSky

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What I say: "I need a snow day tomorrow so I can clean my house." What I mean: "I need a snow day so I can sit on the couch and read." 📚🩵 #BookSky #Michigan

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Hitchhikers Guide is not supposed to be that kind of dystopian sci-fi. #SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish 🩵📚

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Evidently I am building my algorithms well enough as a former theatre kid living in the Midwest. I didn't even know there was a game until the feeds were full of Kendrick Lamar.

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Welp... you know those dreams where you're working the most stressful job you've ever had, and you wake up feeling like you've just worked a double shift at that job? And you get up, realizing you have (basically) a double shift at your current job you love? Welcome to 2025 energy.

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Anniversary conversation with the #HusBrit H: Have you- wait, never mind, I don't need to ask that question. Me: What question? H: I was going to ask if you checked your washer fluid, but I know the answer to that. 3 years and he knows me so well. 😆

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I went to my Congressman's local office today. First off, they were surprised that I was there. They said they had been getting phone calls, but I was the first walk-in. That said, the phones were not ringing off the hook. If the DC phone lines are busy, try calling the local office.

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Here we go with year two of my brain only having the bandwidth for #romance and #youthfiction. #booksky

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Sometimes resistance is simply continuing to do the work that you were already doing which aligns with your values.

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#HusBrit: You can take it back to the shop now. Me:*confused look* Him: You know how you went to bed early...? #all-nighter

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Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.

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#DivaDog says it is after dinner time. Therefore she is entitled to her #littletreat. If you are family to a dog, you can probably hear this picture.

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When I get home from the bookshop, the #HusBrit hugs me and tries to guess what fragrances were used at the bar. Today it was frankincense and jasmine.

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I freaking love owning this bookstore. Already today, I've had 4 customers come in to talk about their work with marginalized communities and voter education and how the bookshop space helps their organization. #MissionAccomplished #TheWorkIsNeverDone #ThirdSpaces

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Can someone point me to queer-signaling clothing that is femme, business casual for mom bodies? Some of us aren't cool enough for the indie-artist LGBTQIA+ trends, and graphic tees just aren't my style. If not, there's your million dollar business idea.

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When did press releases start sounding like clickbait articles? www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

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Upon hearing that the bookshop's name is being trashed, I am reminded: "If people talk behind your back, remember it only means you are two steps ahead." #FannieFlagg #booksky

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Fourth day home and I've started rewatching #Bridgerton. #cabinfever I forgot how awful Anthony is in season one. He and Kate are my favorite (which surprises no one who knows me) but omg is he terrible.

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Seriously, I'm about to start rearranging furniture. #cabinfever #snowday #imtiredofthisgrandpa

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Am happy to share that Bishop Budde's book is on backorder status.

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As best you can, ignore him.

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Just got an icky comment on our FB post for the shop this morning, so I'll just be over here trying not to dwell on it by dissociating into books. #kthxbye

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Me: *in response to executive orders being signed* This is why I avoid headlines, because now all I can think about is what I need to do. HusBrit: Win. That's what you need to do. Me: Yeah, thanks. No pressure. 🙄 #Dems #TheFightContinues

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Thank you, Michigan winter, for giving me a much needed chores day tomorrow. #snowday

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Today I am sitting in the perspective that the people doing #goodwork for good change are hated while doing said work. They are only celebrated, success only comes, after hate wins. #MLKDay

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Reminder, an app being unavailable doesn't pause your subscription payments.

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Got home from work and the Brit is watching Infinity War. Didn't know when I got up today we were going to end the day crying.

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Absolutely the fuck not. When these are the stories being marketed to Christian fiction readers, is there any doubt they all grew up accepting a life of nonconsent? 🤮 #usedbookshops

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Do you know how many books get printed, purchased, read once, then shelved until they get dumped off at a thrift store who will THROW THEM AWAY if they don't sell? Books are the OG reusable gift. Reduce, reuse, and read on. 🌎📚

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Entirely relatable romance novel moment: getting halfway into fun time, then braking hard once they realize they're in bed with a Republican. 🫢 (I wouldn't want to anymore either...)

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Just got the application for vending at a Galentines event, bringing our custom fragrance line, Blind Date books, and my asst manager is SO EXCITED for the road trip. 😆😍🥰

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Indie #bookshop hauls > big box store hauls.

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