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So much love and endless kisses between tapir baby Ume and momma Yuna! 🥹 📹: Keeper Chrissy

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Since Jeff Bezos has hopped on the MAGA train to hell, you might want to bookmark this list of ethical alternatives to Amazon (which according to inside sources will soon be renamed Trumpazon.) bit.ly/4i8QHcp

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Movie you’ve watched more than 6 times, gifs only

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For those who need it, I've updated my #Uplift feed: bsky.app/profile/debb... Also some salad #micropoetry: We were sworn foes until he decreed, "Lettuce be friends!" and I agreed.

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Pepper 🐕‍🦺 Young female Terrier mix Adoptable from Diamonds in the Ruff (Goldsboro, NC) https://www.petfinder.com/dog/pepper-75282357/nc/goldsboro/diamonds-in-the-ruff-nc513/

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🖤 Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/b...

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A gift for you! Get a free, exclusive download of our new double-A sided single stelluB at www.TMBGshop.com right now. You saw it live, now enjoy it forever. (Note: not on streaming sites. 2nd note: there is vinyl) The weekend is here! Tell everyone you know!

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Need inspiration? Evidence of #resistance working? Follow this feed to get your resistance motor recharged! #WeCanDoIt blueskyfeedcreator.com/p/bookshople...

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In Asheville today, people showing up protest the firing of federal workers. The hiring freeze and firings are expected to have major negative consequences for our Parkway and Pisgah National Forest. Really great to see people braving the cold for this.

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How's my Friday? Well, the pipes froze overnight. Anyone have a small dragon 🐲 I can borrow?

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Lots of folks are feeling overwhelmed and scared right now and say they don’t know what to do. Wear your masks, y’all. It’s one of the easiest, radical anti-fascist acts you can do.

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Never, ever, ever use AI for anything you are writing, or for any part of your writing. If you would not plagiarize, which you should not, and you should know you should not, do not use the plagiarism machine that is AI. Thanks!

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Join us for a new series of free online workshops, “Defending the Freedom to Read 101: Workshops for Organizers and Authors.” Our first four sessions cover digital safety and disinformation - learn more and register: pen.org/defending-th...

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NYC showing up to defend US research.

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The ACES National Grammar Day poetry contest is now accepting entries! You have until the end of the day on Feb. 28 to submit your limerick, haiku, or other poem about LANGUAGE. 🧵

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Let's celebrate a win! @authorsabb.bsky.social organized a letter writing campaign that kept books on the shelves in a library system in Florida. Read about it here: lithub.com/authors-agai...

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It's Tuesday again so it's #kidlitchat night again - not a quirk but a design choice! Join your #kidlit pals tonight at 9PM Eastern/6 PM Pacific/Your Equivalent Time for an hour of chatting, community, and the occasional pun, poem, and pie. You'll be glad you joined us... and so will we!

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getting bad news blasted at our eyeballs 24 hours a day is not the way. bring back town criers. little news alerts shouted periodically from the street. oh your window was closed? you have no idea sentient toilet sponges have stolen all your personal data. you’re so happy.

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Updated my Unofficial Guide To Bluesky to reflect the enhanced Settings options (thanks, Bluesky!): publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/bl... #BlueSkyTips

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Brrr #DogsOfBluesky

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Wolves are loyal. Wolves are loving. Wolves take care of each other. Be like a wolf 🐺

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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as allude to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

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Top Hat is one of my favorite movies of all times. The Venice set never fails to amuse me.

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I just updated the #WeCanDoIt feed that shares actions you can take and examples of people resisting. Find helpful info here without the doomsayers interrupting.

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I just updated the #WeCanDoIt feed that shares actions you can take and examples of people resisting. Find helpful info here without the doomsayers interrupting.

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Announcement! All the practical stuff in #kidlit publishing, coming up 3/16 + 3/18! Join me for a jam-packed 2-night course covering everything from book types to contracts and the publishing process—plus a chance to ask your pressing questions! More details: tinyurl.com/mtadfe5u Please repost.

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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

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Want to help our nonprofit build a school library?

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Want some context, advice, or inspiration to fight book bans? This list is a great place to start. #WeCanDoIt #Resist bookshop.org/lists/fight-...

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What the...🤬? Are they claiming they are doing this with consent? I doubt that their clients would agree to this. Ugh. #kidlitart #kidlitillustration

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Happy book launch week to my friend @elliearscott.bsky.social, whose book with Tamara Levine, THE WARMEST BLANKET IN THE WORLD is out from @secondstory.bsky.social! #CanKidLit #PictureBooks #KidLit

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Calling all Los Angeles authors and illustrators! 📣❤️‍🩹

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Okay, agent friends, it's #MSWL time! I'm an Associate Editor at Penguin Workshop, looking for middle grade and YA, as well as graphic novels in both categories. I love historical fiction, fantasy, and mysteries, and if you have something that combines those elements in a clever way, send it to me!

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Cosigned

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"Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me." - Judy Blume (whose birthday 🎂 is today!) #Freadom #BannedBooks #Edusky

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Calling agents seeking (human) #KidLitArt talent! Do browse this thread of art samples from #KidLit illustrators who are actively seeking representation: debbieohi.link/illustrators... To others: Pls help boost, esp if you have agents following you? It's a tough time for freelance illustrators.

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Letters to the editor for local papers

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This👇would be a good opportunity for @rachelmaddow.bsky.social to invite @jay.bsky.team or another staffer to talk about the very real differences, which would also provide a little orientation for her viewers. 🤞

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Can you imagine how adult readers would respond to this? "Sorry...no more mysteries or romance novels until you polish off Crime and Punishment..."

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Public health PSA frens as botulism can paralyze and kill you: Tuna Recall Hits Costco, Trader Joe's, and More Over Botulism Risk www.eatthis.com/tuna-recall-...

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