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we've only gotten up to Pope Sixtus V, in case the new guy needs a sign from a lapsed Catholic to pick the coolest name ever

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some personnel news 🥸

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post a picture of the last (baseball) game you were at

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almost forgot my yearly anecdote: the first time the shebelieves cup was announced, I immediately assumed it was an algarve cup type deal in the beautiful region of shebelieves, possibly france

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pregame reading about what she may or may not believe btvc.beehiiv.com/p/5-extremel...

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🚨SOME PERSONAL NEWS🚨

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my extremely aromantic poem has been accepted and will be published in April 💝

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saw a writing job that looked extremely up my alley until

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

submitting an extremely aromantic poem to a bunch of journals today in honor of the holiday 💓

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I wrote for @slate.bsky.social about the insidiousness of Trump’s executive order aiming to ban trans girls and women from sports

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

my parents capped me at two hours a day, which in retrospect was so much for, what, AIM? neopets? message boards? what if I wrote the Walden of spending two hours a day online in 2025

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looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.

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I would like to reiterate that this EO is not law and the NCAA is preemptively complying, as none of the state level sports bans have held up in court!!

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

every time I see "if libraries were proposed today, republicans would HATE them!!!" I wonder if they put together that it's because of RW organizing that librarians are losing their jobs, books are being removed, etc.; that library staff & libraries are not a given just because they currently exist

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

yes this 100% all the overblown and patronizing “librarians are superheroes who will save us all” posts work my nerves want to support us? pay attention. speak out on our behalf. run for or seek appointment on your local library board. pay attention to what’s going on in school libraries.

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Our second newsletter is live! In addition to OKD updates, we're proud to share a lovely feature from our own Jeanette the Writer, OKD Fiction Reader, about gamifying your writing and publishing goals in 2025. Give it a read & subscribe now:

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HELL YEAH

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Ok, we're doing this. Outside The Lines is live! Call it a soft launch: outsidethelines.pub/call-it-a-so...

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in 2018, I got to identify myself with “Mx.” for the first time as a not quite out person, but it was just a ticket reservation and I was just excited I could be “out” somewhere in 2023, I got a new passport and knew identifying myself with an “X” could hurt me soon — gutted, polar opposite feeling

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People love telling you to leave the country. Well, I'm stupid and I don't have enough money, and it turns out nowhere else is interested given those two factors. So cram it

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as an additional FYI, it’s just a couple of taps to clear your Libby activity history and turn off activity recording if that’s enabled: help.libbyapp.com/en-us/catego...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

you ever see a book and go "well I have to read that ASAP" #DHmakes

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