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“REE” 👩🏼‍💻Kidlit Author: ASTRID THE ASTRONAUT & SPACE FOR SAFFRON (2026), Aladdin/S&S. Rep: Carrie Pestritto (@ldlainc.bsky.social) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Ally 📚MG/YA Reader 🦻🏻Audiologist 🤟🏻ASL Student 🔗https://linktr.ee/rienealwriter
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Thank you to the Tech Interactive and Silicon Valley Reads for a great time today! Always fun to cheer on fellow space-y kidlit author (and friend) Lindsay Lackey, and it was wonderful to meet Dr. Natasha Schatzman, an aeronautical engineer at NASA Ames (like my grandpa, back in the day!). #kidlit

Hello Flashes/Bluesky! 👋🏻 . My name is Rie (pronounced REE), and I’m a kidlit author living in the SF Bay Area. I write the chapter book series Astrid the Astronaut (Aladdin/S&S), about a plucky 8yo who wants to be the first hard-of-hearing astronaut one day. . Drop a comment to say hi!

And here's info about the 2/28 economic blackout for anyone who's interested. It's a response to the rollback of DEI initiatives sparked by the federal government. www.newsweek.com/nationwide-e...

We are too alike.

Good news! You can search Bluesky #MSWL just as well as Twitter Advanced Search. We recommend searching #MSWL with: * Your genre * Possible comp titles * Date range (if you do frequent searches) * Keywords related to your book Demo here! youtu.be/LnZt1MCjKZE

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

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Heeey, all! It’s UP 🤩🙌🏻

Thank you random Starbucks barista via DoorDash. I needed the reminder today ❤️🥹

Dickheads of Gargantuan Ego (DOGE) have now gained access to the IT servers at the NOAA. They have taken down several department websites, including the website that stores global CO2 data from observations taken in Hawaii. That data is still accessible here. keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

YESSSSS! Finally 🎉🙌🏻

BREAKING: We’re suing the Trump administration to block its executive order attempting to restrict access to gender-affirming care for transgender people under the age of 19 nationwide.

YES 🙌🏻 🏳️‍⚧️

LIVE right now:

On opening up the #aclu town hall (streaming live on YT now), seeing an ASL interpreter on screen and a speaker with they/them pronouns already feels like I’m in the right place ❤️🥰

I talked with @chasestrangio.bsky.social and @shannonminter5.bsky.social about this in today’s Law Dork video discussion: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-anti...

Some fed employees have been advised to download their Electronic Official Personnel Folder (eOPF) because they're hearing OPM is planning to cut off access tomorrow. The folder includes all personal identifying info, performance reviews, benefits selections, raises. Unclear why they'd do this.

Hey, FYI: if you post a screenshot with text, you can usually click the little icon at bottom right (see photo) to highlight all the text. Then you can click "Copy All" and paste it in as alt-text. Takes just a few seconds and makes tour images accessible to more people. Inclusion = good.

PLEASE SHARE 🧪‼️ Since CDC websites and datasets are being taken down by the Administration… The ENTIRE archive of ALL CDC datasets uploaded BEFORE January 28th, 2025 can be found here: archive.org/details/2025...

these are some #fantasybookrecs for #fantasybooks written ny black authors #booksky

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

1. The executive orders did *not* freeze federal funding. 2. The Monday OMB memo *did* freeze federal funding. 3. OMB rescinded Monday’s memo, thereby rescinding the funding freeze. 4. The EOs (which did not freeze federal funding) are still in effect—and, for these purposes, irrelevant. Sigh.

🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo *rescinding* the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs. Full text, per government source:

If you’re trending towards a deep pit of bad feelings tonight like me, please read…