squirrelbrarian.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

I have written, officially, for three age groups: Adult (almost everything), young adult (ALIEN: ECHO), and middle grade (the Up-and-Under). I am also a female author who doesn't write graphic sex. My stuff has a 50/50 chance of being filed in YA, no matter how it's written.

submitted 17 hours ago • 14 comments

“Never vote for someone you hate,” Dugar said. “We like to say: the first choice is the candidate you love. Your second choice is the candidate that you like. Your third and fourth choice is the candidate you like slightly less. And your fifth choice is the candidate you can stand.”

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs. However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!

submitted 126 days ago • 179 comments

The states proposing anti-book ban legislation so far in 2025. If you live in any of them, write and/or call in support. bookriot.com/anti-book-ba...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I’d love to go back to that nerdy, awkward girl and tell her she’d have a wonderful life and create a wonderful family of her own.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

While I'm at it and it's early, I'll also say that FAFO discourse doesn't feel good to me at all. I think that the people who will find out the most are the same people who are always finding out: the most marginalized. I also think that it destroys potential solidarity and solidarity is needed now.

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

If you're new here, there are 4+ years worth of knowledge, resources, research, and action steps to help protect public libraries, public schools, and anti-book censorship efforts in this pinned thread.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Iowa's House File 274, which would criminalize librarians, passes out of the House Education Committee. It can now be heard on the floor. What this bill is, what it would mean for library and school workers, and why it was rushed through. bookriot.com/iowa-rushes-...

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

The scene in “Gender Queer” that these people object to specifically is one about modeling good sexual consent, BTW. It is literally a young person telling another young person that something makes them uncomfortable and their partner listening to them.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

“This is nice behaviour, that I write to you again and again, and you pay no attention to me.” This almost 4,000-year-old Babylonian letter in clay is proof that we have been finding ways to say “per my last email” for some time

submitted 16 days ago • 32 comments

I went to see the new Led Zeppelin film, in a spirit of curiosity rather than avid fandom, was won over by the sound, but came out with thoughts about women and our complicated relationship with rock music

submitted 18 days ago • 20 comments

Posters. Stickers. Flyers. “Handbills” although lol nobody says handbills except in academic text. Marking the public space as the home of the public and not the property of the guys who bought up the buildings

submitted 16 days ago • 26 comments

Wow, a 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian paint box containing its original pigments! Looks similar to a modern-day set! An inscription tells us it belonged to Amenemope, Vizier during the reign of king Amenhotep II. 📷 The Cleveland Museum of Art www.clevelandart.org/art/1914.680 #Archaeology

submitted 17 days ago • 13 comments

Librarians will need some guidance from @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social on this: how do we, as information professionals, vet the authority of information if the authority can no longer be trusted? How do we navigate THE department of health putting out misinformation? 📚 #skybrarians

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

Really weird to see all the dystopian fiction I read over 20 years ago start to become reality.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

What's wrong with this picture? This is NOT how you do the essential work of a children's or school librarian. Instill the JOY of reading, not shame kids for reading what they LOVE and ENJOY? I hope this list gives paper cuts to everyone who wrote it.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Well, this is dystopian... www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

1. Some years back I was taking a cab in Chicago and the taxi driver, discovering I was a writer, complained that all his young son wanted to read was comics. I made the point to him that reading comics was reading, and that his kid was taking pleasure in reading and at his age, that's important.

submitted 20 days ago • 77 comments

As we learned about Covid & airborne spread, we had an opportunity to adapt and limit transmission Adaptation would have made public spaces more inclusive, healthcare settings safer & saved millions of lives Instead we’ve embraced a eugenicist “you do you” approach that could take decades to undo

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

Y’all come quick, the museums are doing super bowls again

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

This. Culturally I think we're embracing NOT NEEDING OTHER PEOPLE AT ALL except we still live in a society that requires maintenance even if we choose not to interact with it often.

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

no shut up this doom won’t scroll itself

submitted 23 days ago • 12 comments

I blame dystopian fiction for the expectations I am seeing. Ironically, those books largely come after 50 years (or more) for a reason. You think the revolution is immediate because that's when you're brought into the story. But if the fall took decades, the revolution also took decades.

submitted 23 days ago • 133 comments

A shadow war on libraries Some Canadian politicians and influencers, inspired by an American-born movement, are trying to roll back 2SLGBTQ+ rights in Canada — one book at a time. www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...

submitted 24 days ago • 29 comments

Positions of NYC mayoral candidates on a mask ban: AGAINST mask ban - Zohran Mamdani, Michael Blake, Jessica Ramos AGAINST mask ban, but support additional penalties for people who commit crimes while wearing masks - Brad Lander, Zellnor Myrie SUPPORT mask ban - Scott Stringer, Whitney Tilson

submitted 25 days ago • 14 comments

Oh I love this framing

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Waking up every day for the last two weeks like

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Same vibe

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Look at this. The MAJORITY of working US journalists have permanently lost their jobs or left the industry in the past 20 years.

submitted 26 days ago • 13 comments

AI is taking a toll on society that its wealthy creators don’t bear

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

"God saw that Phil Collins was good, and he separated Phil Collins from the other members of Genesis. God called Phil Collins 'Phil Collins,' and the rest of the band he called 'The other members of the band, I think that one guy’s name is Tony?'"

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

If in this moment there are too many disasters for you to keep track of them all, remember, what matters in this moment for you is to not lose track of your sense of empathy.

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

Not surprised. Just sad and scared.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books. bookshop.org/ebooks

submitted 34 days ago • 148 comments

How much of the current "should adults read YA?" conversation could be re-formulated as "should adults read books that challenge them intellectually?" if the people asking realized these are two completely different questions.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Just a reminder that you can't bootstraps your way out of systemic issues. Thank you.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

It's insane that the quality of life for every single person on the plant would be significantly improved if the current iterations of AI simply ceased to exist And it's being constantly shoved down our throats

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

Now more than ever 🏳️‍⚧️

submitted 43 days ago • 42 comments

If you care about public health, start wearing an N95 mask and turn those air purifiers back on. Egg prices are about to become the least of our problems.

submitted 36 days ago • 4 comments

Proposing a MALA movement—Make America (fucking) Literate Again.

submitted 36 days ago • 3 comments

1000% this. Public libraries are actually pretty radical--free to all, and based on the idea that info should be available to all. Get a library card! Use your library! Those numbers often play into their funding.

submitted 36 days ago • 35 comments

submitted 37 days ago • 5 comments

Aren't you

submitted 42 days ago • 16 comments

🎯🎯🎯

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

When exchanging your @signal.org contact info over an insecure channel (like a text message or DM), it's a good idea to generate a Signal link (URL) from the app, then you should RESET that link after you connect with the other person on Signal. Thanks to @micahflee.com for reporting.

submitted 38 days ago • 52 comments