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Beth @bethplusbooks.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Thanks to the miracle of vacuum packing, each of these boxes contains 1 @romancingthevote.com blankie. They have been prepared for their new homes with those who love voting rights in 10 different states, including... 15 minutes from my house! So grateful to be part of this movement. Shipment 1/2!

Two piles of white shipping boxes totaling 14, smaller than one would think could contain a handmade afghan.

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Beth @bethplusbooks.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I have 12 blankets left, 6 round and 6 square! If one of your @romancingthevote.com bids gets overwhelmed by another lover of voting rights, they would make an excellent consolation prize! www.32auctions.com/organization... www.32auctions.com/organization...

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Crocheted Afghans- Round

Auction item 'Crocheted Afghans- Round' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Beth @bethplusbooks.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

And my square blankies are up as well! I'm honored that Mr. Bree insisted @mostlybree.kitrocha.com get one, and want everyone to have voting rights AND cozy blankies! These are a little more chaotic and I love them. @romancingthevote.com www.32auctions.com/organization...

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Crocheted Afghans- Square

Auction item 'Crocheted Afghans- Square' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Beth @bethplusbooks.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Can one or two someones please go buy one of my blankies so @mostlybree.kitrocha.com can go to bed? She does so much for us, let the woman rest! www.32auctions.com/organization...

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Crocheted Afghans- Round

Auction item 'Crocheted Afghans- Round' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Beth @bethplusbooks.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

My most favorite thing about being a Buy It Now donor this year is waiting to see when my Bree decides to unleash my TWENTY FIVE crochet afghans! Will I be a midnight madness drop? Part of an orchestrated daytime maneuver? Or part of an evening of chaos? One never knows!!!

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Rocky Horror: Anticipation

ALT: Rocky Horror: Anticipation

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Romancing the Vote @romancingthevote.com · 01/07/2026

Every year I set the initial goal at $50,000 in honor of our first year where that was our initial goal. We just blew past it just about one hour in. 💓 We can't wait to see how far we can go this year!!!

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Beth @bethplusbooks.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This is 22 blankets, destined to be a Buy It Now item for those who love democracy via @romancingthevote.com. I can't wait to send them to their new homes after the auction in July!

A row of square afghans, in various colors.

Two rows of round afghans in various pride flag colors, hanging on two hammock stands in a sunny backyard.

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Beth @bethplusbooks.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

My feet were chilly and I could do something about it so I made some slippers. We all do what we can. Do what you can and be gentle with yourself. And Fuck ICE.

Crocheted slippers in a variegated yarn of taupe and various blues, with pasty white legs and a messy home in the background.

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Beth @bethplusbooks.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Through no conscious effort, recently I have 1) listened to The Princess Bride audiobook, narrated by Reiner, 2) watched When Harry Met Sally, 3) listened to Cary Elwes' audiobook As You Wish, where Reiner was a contributor, read his excerpts, and obviously was the heart of the story. What a loss.

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 05/11/2025

The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 05/11/2025

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 04/11/2025

I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.

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Beth @bethplusbooks.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

My staff at the library organized a pumpkin-decorating competition. Patron voting starts on Wednesday. Because I have old taste and no chill, here is my submission: #CapsForSale #50centsacap #YesIMadeThoseCaps

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

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Beth @bethplusbooks.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

This is always my "WTF" moment. I am raising my autistic darling as best I can, and cannot fathom them being anything other than themselves as they are, and choosing danger and death over having this delightful creature?! I could never.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

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M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial

: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

More than 300k Black women being pushed out of the labor market while white men gained 365k more jobs is what we mean when we refer to racism as systemic.

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Beth @bethplusbooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Prepare for a guy punch of the best kind, from Scalzi's "Being Poor." He has written many great things, and I agree that it's among the best.

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Beth @bethplusbooks.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Sweet baby jeebus WHY would you want to be paying someone caring for your family LESS?!??? This would simply be a path to more elder abuse and worse outcomes for our most vulnerable.

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Beth @bethplusbooks.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I am 11 crocheted blankets destined to be Buy It Now items for next summer's @romancingthevote.bsky.social auction, because I crochet when I feel helpless or sad or mad. Trans flags, non-binary flags, and just some pretty colors. Wonder how many I'll have by next June!?

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 25/04/2025

I have two things to say about the judge being arrested by the FBI. 1. Obstructing immigration is illegal but also morally correct. 2. I don’t believe a word the FBI or ICE says. They are lying. The judge is innocent.

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Beth @bethplusbooks.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Ohioans, they are coming for our libraries. The state house has passed a budget proposal that removes the PLF and moves libraries to a straight line-item of funding for ~100m loss. The Public Library Fund (PLF) keeps libraries in Ohio independent and they just hate that we aren't under their thumb.

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David Dennis Jr @daviddennisjr.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Lemme also just shout out ol buddy from Atlantic for not selling the Signal Group Chat for a book deal and waiting two years to reveal what was in it

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Beth @bethplusbooks.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

It's Friday, I've had a week, and I'm warning my staff AND patrons to behave by wearing my Sherlock Holmes T-shirt and @measuredandslow.bsky.social knife earrings. Let's just all be cool today, shall we?

A selfie of a white woman wearing a Sherlock Holmes T-shirt and tiny knife 3D printed earrings

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Beth @bethplusbooks.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

This is fucking AWFUL librarianship. Parental duties to be aware of what their kids are reading and a librarians job to give any patron all the access they want work hand in hand, and should not be substituted for each other. Yuck.

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Beth @bethplusbooks.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I work in a library in a rural, red area, and food insecurity is something that a huge number of my patrons are dealing with. We have a Little Free Pantry outside the library that is filled three times a week with donations from a local grocery store, and it's almost always empty in a day or two.

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Sansa Sandisk @cheatlines.co · 25/02/2025

*frantically smashing answer buzzer* what is, the adult fiction section of your hometown public library when you're 12-14 years old

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Beth @bethplusbooks.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Goodness knows that's where I started!

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Beth @bethplusbooks.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I passed out at 6:30 pm last night. And I woke up at 4:10 am and was just wide awake. I couldn't do noisy things, so I made this, in plans to make pillows for @romancingthevote.bsky.social next auction.

A crochet panel in variegated green and blue yarn that spells "Fuck" in bobble stitches.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 12/02/2025

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

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Beth @bethplusbooks.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

All. Reading. Counts. Jeezy peezy guys, it all fucking counts. This is a gross approach to reading that reflects and amplifies an unhealthy approach to food. 0/10 from this librarian.

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Beth @bethplusbooks.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I just got off a statewide zoom call with 131 library directors in Ohio. While morale is not high, we all ended with the knowledge that we're not going to preemptively comply with anything and will keep on doing everything we can to provide safe, healthy, open, accepting spaces for our communities.

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

if the president can say “i don’t like the department of energy,” and within a week it’s closed, then the constitution means nothing, and the president’s entire claim to power is the loyalty of the military. either he is constrained by the constitution or he’s a dictator, there isn’t a middle ground

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Beth @bethplusbooks.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I have a summons for jury duty next week. I am trying to figure out how I can clearly and concisely explain my total lack of trust in both the police and the legal process, while still remaining just respectful enough that I don't get cited for contempt. Hm.

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Beth @bethplusbooks.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Day after the holidays and I removed my Christmas nails and steered into cozy with my first attempt at plaid nail art!

Amateur nails, done in lavender with black, white, and darker purple plaid pattern. There's good effort but some lines are crooked.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

For profit insurance is immoral. Full stop. An insurers' job isn't to "protect from unnecessary care"; it is to pay for customers care. Every dollar of profit earned is a dollar that didn't provide care to the sick/injured. It is an evil industry captained by the soulless for the sake of the greedy.

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Beth @bethplusbooks.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

In my family, euchre is everything. No child learns until age 7, but very few make it to 9 without being experts. There are some cousins and uncles who aren't allowed to play with anyone under 14 because the urge to shit talk is too powerful.

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Beth @bethplusbooks.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn't a selfie

A meme of a skeleton climbing out of a coffin with text "Me: okay I've complained enough about this to put it to rest. Me, 5 minnies later: actually you know what"

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Beth @bethplusbooks.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

I'm from northeastern Ohio, where we kept a lot of Native American names for things. "Cuyahoga" fucks y'all up something fierce. I also lived in the Florida panhandle for 7 years and picked up "y'all."

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Sarah D(estroy ICE) Bunting @sarahdbunting.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Give yourselves grace, and your enemies nothing.

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Beth @bethplusbooks.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

My dog wanted the couch corner. My son was already there. Please let these sweet faces cleanse your anxiety for 4.3 seconds.

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

White women, bring it in for one last pep talk: DO NOT EMBARRASS ME OR I WILL STEAL ALL YOUR PUMPKIN SPICE. Okay, let’s go TEAM

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/11/2024

My prayer for the day: Oh Lord, make it a long night for the GOP, and a short night for everyone else.

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Beth @bethplusbooks.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

I see my parents on Wednesday evening. For the first time in 6 months. I very dearly want this to all be Decided by then. Kthanxbai.

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Beth @bethplusbooks.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Hi, THIS. I want all people to have nice things. They want my trans kiddo to not exist. That false equivalency blows and I will not be entertaining it.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

These signs should be the whole election

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Beth @bethplusbooks.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

Space - glitter near Dayton, OH.

Black silhouettes of trees in front of pink and purple Aurora borealis.

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Beth @bethplusbooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

I lived in the Florida panhandle for 7 years, ages 25-32, moving back home to Ohio 11 years ago. I picked up "y'all" about three years into Florida living, and have maintained it as the best inclusive plural pronoun.

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