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larocquen.bsky.social
Food. Books. Learning. Kindness. Pets. Trying to put her money where her beliefs are in this capitalist hellscape.
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Well this is positively horrifying. History is important. So are ethics.

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Sen. Mike Lee has introduced the SCREEN ACT, a bill that applies the "harmful to minors" standard used to ban LGBTQ+ books and resources in schools and libraries... and apply it nationally—to the internet. Under the guise of protecting kids from "pornography" www.lee.senate.gov/2025/2/senat...

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Are…you fucking kidding me? Did they witness the same “meeting” the rest of us watched?

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🚨 DELETED FROM WH.GOV The administration just deleted information & resources from its website on the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women & violence against Indigenous women. To the families of missing or murdered women: you will never be erased. Linking resources below, please share:

submitted 5 days ago • 32 comments

Ohhhhhh boy. So excited to start my advanced copy of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones. Also finishing up the audio for Chuck Tingle’s Bury Your Gays and was tickled to hear Jones as the convenience store clerk! @sgj.bsky.social @chucktingle.bsky.social @sagapressbooks.bsky.social

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The Necronomi-coffee! #HorrorSky #Lovecraft

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Nova is dominating the capitalist landscape. #caturday

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All 13 presidential libraries now require administration clearance for book events; three cancelled at Carter library

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.

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MIDNIGHT TONIGHT 2/18/25 The Library of Congress proposing changing names of several subject headings in its catalogue, incl. to the Gulf of America & Mt. McKinley List here: classweb.org/tentative-su... This is open to the public by law - have comments? Email: [email protected] Short🧵below

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Probationary employees are receiving termination notices today at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Notices have already started going out, per agency source.

submitted 12 days ago • 44 comments

Comment period closes TODAY. This is the library of Congress.

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hi friends! the Library of Congress has done something quite shady in releasing a new proposal to change all "Gulf of Mexico" headings to "Gulf of America" and all "Denali" to "Mt. McKinley." deadline to email your comments about this is TODAY so please do email if you have a chance!

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URGENT ACTION: 2/18/25 Changes are being proposed to LoC subject headings for Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali with comment period starting and ending TODAY. Say NO in email comments to: [email protected] SHARE AND ACT! #booksky #libraries #librarysky #books #authors

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Hey #booksky! Annoyed with the government? Love learning and public libraries? Want an actionable item that requires only a few minutes and zero talking on the phone? I’ve got one for you! Changes are being proposed to the Library of Congress subject headings for Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali.

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This is what resistance looks like. #TheatreKids

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I cannot explain how beautiful Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor @nnedi.bsky.social is. The stories within stories. The humanity. The AMAZING slip cover/book cover/fly leaf art. 10/10. Get yourself a copy. #booksky

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from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

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Nova approves of my book selection. And also comfy couch time.

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Highly anticipated book acquired! Commence an actual day off for READING! @nnedi.bsky.social

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@hcrichardson.bsky.social Please share this 👇🏼

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