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Book_Gnome (she/they)💀🌈🦄 @bookgnome.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Oh no! I think that was one of the ones I read before my brain broke, because I know I finished it and loved it.
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Book_Gnome (she/they)💀🌈🦄 @bookgnome.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
(The oddest part is when I went on here to mention this, I realized that I already followed @tkingfisher.com prior to reading any works, and I'm a children's librarian and have never read any of your kids work)
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Book_Gnome (she/they)💀🌈🦄 @bookgnome.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Maybe my brain is fixed now, maybe I can try other authors, but for now I'm fully engulfed in @tkingfisher.com 's writing, words, and worlds.
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Book_Gnome (she/they)💀🌈🦄 @bookgnome.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I'm so excited for each new book and I don't know what I'll do when I'm finished all of the books I can get my hands on.
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Book_Gnome (she/they)💀🌈🦄 @bookgnome.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The writing is almost addictive and the characters are so easy to relate to. I read all three of the Sworn Solider Series. I've read the Clocktaur Duology, Swordheart, and The Twisted Ones all over the past 3 months.
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Book_Gnome (she/they)💀🌈🦄 @bookgnome.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Had a few coworkers recommend @tkingfisher.com. They even pointed out the novellas. I started with those...and devoured them.
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Book_Gnome (she/they)💀🌈🦄 @bookgnome.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
During lockdown, at first I read voraciously, and then something just broke in my brain. (I've only been able to read graphic novels since then)
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Book_Gnome (she/they)💀🌈🦄 @bookgnome.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
For the past 2-3 years or maybe more (time, am I right?), my brain would shut down when I'd try to read books that contained large blocks of text. I'd struggle through a chapter and give up.
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Book_Gnome (she/they)💀🌈🦄 @bookgnome.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I would like to thank @tkingfisher.com for restoring this librarians ability to read novels.
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Book_Gnome (she/they)💀🌈🦄 @bookgnome.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...
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Stop New ICE Detention Centers in Pennsylvania
The Department of Homeland Security has plans to open 23 detention centers nationwide. We recently learned that two of them would be in warehouses DHS purchased in Pennsylvania, in Berks and Schuylkil...
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
read @sulliview.bsky.social --> margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/with-democ...
margaretsullivan.substack.com
With democracy in free fall, the media must (finally) wake up
Plus: a piece of heartening news amid the barrage of horrors
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Gisele Navarro @ichbingisele.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
“These findings follow previous research which concluded that the more people learn about how AI works, the less they trust it. The opposite was also true — AI’s biggest fans tended to be those who understood the least about the tech.” 🔗 futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Gisele Navarro @ichbingisele.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
"AI is a direct attack on the way we verify information: AI both creates fake sources and obscures its actual sources. That is the opposite of what librarians do, and teachers do, and scientists do, and experts do." 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I know a lot of people (cough Millennials) feel like they need to START a thing, START a food bank, build a little free food pantry. My friends, my loves, my dears. Don't start. JOIN. These exist. They have community ties! They have some funding! Accountability! Regulations!
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/10/2025
Time Trump magazine cover: “his triumph”
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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Every mention of SNAP being frozen should include this simple fact: TRUMP is CHOOSING TO CANCEL FOOD ASSISTANCE. There are literally emergency dollars available to keep SNAP funded.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Here is a piece I wrote for the Kansas City Star. I’d love for you to read it and share it. www.kansascity.com/opinion/read...
kansascity.com
Young Republican group chat shows JD Vance’s double standard on ‘kids’ | Opinion
To the vice president, men — like the one who worked for Kansas AG Kris Kobach — are men until they do something stupid. Women are women from conception. A new guest commentary from Jess Piper:
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
It does somehow sum everything up neatly. Trashy vulgarian unilaterally decides to tear up an iconic American building as though it’s one of his tacky private clubs, rather than a national monument he has very temporarily (and foolishly) been permitted to inhabit.
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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 21/10/2025
See also: news.artnet.com/art-world/do...
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When Donald Trump Razed the Bonwit Teller Building, He Promised the Met Its Art Deco Friezes. A New Book Details How He Pulverized Them Instead | Artnet News
Read an excerpt from the book 'Art and Crime: The Fight Against Looters, Forgers, and Fraudsters in the High-Stakes Art World.'
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
In some ways, the regime half-assedly tearing off part of the White House without regard for construction protocols might have more of an impact on the offline folks than the past ten months.
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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Saw the Try Guys do a ghost hunt at a historic asylum & Zac’s comments about ghost stories & ableism had me thinking about a fav @nursingclio.bsky.social article, “ghosts are scary, disabled people are not” 🗃️ www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AWJ8KN/
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Let’s talk #disability #history and #haunted asylums this spooky season #historytok #disabilitytiktok @The Try Guys @Zach Kornfeld @Project Fear @Sam and Colby
TikTok video by PhDRachel
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 21/10/2025
Every now and then I go back and read the Citizens United ruling to see if it is as unhinged as I thought, and every time I do that I see it is actually far more deranged than I remembered. levernews.com/book
Supreme Court ruling: "This Court now concludes that independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption. That speakers may have influence over or access to elected officials does not mean that those officials are corrupt. And the appearance of influence or access will not cause the electorate to lose faith in this democracy."
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The White House keeps making a big deal of the fact that the ballroom is privately funded but that’s one of the worst things about it. These people and companies are buying influence. None of this is okay.
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A lot of FAKE OUTRAGE over construction of the big, beautiful (and privately funded) White House Ballroom.
FACT: Presidents have been renovating and expanding the White House for more than 100 years.
In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt built the West Wing.
In 1909, President William Howard Taft added the first Oval Office during a West Wing expansion.
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TRex @rccola668.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
*Attention all who did not hit the streets* "When courts protect protesters' First Amendment rights, they enable the very public mobilization that can, in turn, defend judicial independence. When judges block unconstitutional detention schemes, they preserve the space for democratic organizing."
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
My response to the NYT’s “moderate to win” argument: The data shows the strategy is tapped out. Being seen as moderate by voters doesn’t boost votes, replacing every progressive with moderates would net 0 seats, and the graveyard of defeated D incumbents if full of moderates, not progressives.
data4democracy.substack.com
The New York Times Argues “Moving to the Center Is the Way to Win.” But the Data Shows the Strategy Is Tapped Out.
Democrats already run moderates in nearly every swing district. It's not enough. A data-driven response to the case for centrism as a core electoral strategy.
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 08/10/2025
Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.
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The Case for the Forever Shutdown
Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
This from @kristenarnett.bsky.social's latest "Am I the Literary Asshole" is going to every single artist I know who has even ever been tempted by the machine: lithub.com/am-i-the-lit...
You need to stop putting your work into these platforms, immediately. 

[HIGHLIGHTED]I could get up on a high horse and give you a million reasons why you should not ever, under any circumstances be doing this when it comes to the greater collective (theft of others work and effort and time, the fact that it depletes our natural resources). But I only need tell you that you are ruining your chance at creative happiness. It’s ruining your brain. I know this because it’s making you bleed joy.[END HIGHLIGHTING]

Your letter troubled me, friend. I worry that you have decided to just let go of all thought and let a computer think for you. That’s not what writing and passion and creativity is about. It’s not art. You do not need generative AI to give you story ideas. You do not need a robot to tell you whether your work is good. Only you can do that. Stop roadblocking your own writing life.
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
A few AI-designed drugs have made it to clinical trials, but none have been approved. Here are the fundamental issues of AI drug discovery, and what the future might look like. 💊
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AI Was Supposed To Discover New Drugs. Where Are They?
While some AI-designed drugs have made it to clinical trials, none of them have been approved. Why has it been harder than experts thought?
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
In Blasphemous, your character is wearing a tall pointy hat called a capirote that actually exists irl Notably, the KKK appropriated it *because* it was a Catholic symbol and they hated Catholics. They thought it was funny, a fun joke like calling each other wizards. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capirote
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Capirote - Wikipedia
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Brit Williams, Ph.D. @drbritwilliams.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
I’m currently building an HIV and STI education website for AMERICAN COLLEGE WOMEN and have more links to Planned Parenthood Canada than I ever envisioned when I started this 2 years ago.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Posting with alt text
Screenshot of a list that reads: Office of Communications and Outreach (OCO):
State and Local Engagement

Office of Post Secondary Education (OPE):
Student Support Services (TRIO)
Institutional Service (HBCUs, HSIs, Tribal Colleges, ANAPISI)

Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS):

Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)
Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA)

Office of Civil Rights (OCR)
Enforcement Offices

Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development (OPEPD)
Budget Seryice

Screenshot of list that reads: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
OESE):

Office of Innovation and Early Learning
Office of School Community Improvement Programs
Well Rounded Education Division (Arts Education)
Charter Schools Program
Office of Safe and Supportive Schools
Program and Grantee Support Services
Comprehensive Literacy State Development
JAVITS (Gifted and Talented)
School Support and Accountability
Office of Formula Grants
Office of Migrant Education
Effective Educator Development Program
Innovation and Early Learning Programs
Effective Development Division
Program and Grantee Support Services
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
As librarians, we hold more power than we think. It's why bigots go after us and our collections. Use that power to help those who benefit the most from it. Orwell doesn't get anything from more attention but a midlist marginalized author benefits greatly from it. If nothing else, be efficient.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Reminder from your resident high school lubrarian: if you plan to do a Banned Books Week display and programming, prioritize living marginalized authors. Use this time to help those who need it the most.
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Book_Gnome (she/they)💀🌈🦄 @bookgnome.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..” @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Malinda Lo @malindalo.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Last week, PEN America released its fourth annual report on the state of book banning and censorship in America, and I learned that Last Night at the Telegraph Club was the fourth most banned book in schools during the 2024-25 school year. How do I feel about it? www.malindalo.com/blog/2025/10...
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Telegraph Club is the 4th most banned book in America — Malinda Lo
Last week, PEN America released its fourth annual report on the state of book banning and censorship in America, and I learned that Last Night at the Telegraph Club was the fourth most banned book...
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Drift0r @drift0r.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Imagine paying $1,800+ for a smart refrigerator only to have it deliver advertisements based on your personal data. Anytime you're not using the screen, it's showing you advertisements #technology
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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Buddy your state ranks dead last in education quality nationwide maybe focus on literacy and arithmetic first
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Oklahoma official says all high schools will have Turning Point chapters after Charlie Kirk killing
Conservative youth group chapters will counter ‘woke indoctrination’, says Ryan Walters
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
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Gay Breakfast @ Nekocon @gaybreakfast.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Great way to find your local nonprofits.
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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Gentle reminder that in the late '50s, the U.S. government did not censor comics. Comics companies censored themselves. Not sure why that crossed my mind today but there it is...
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Gay Breakfast @ Nekocon @gaybreakfast.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Canceling subs is just a start. Put the expendable $$ towards: 🧑‍💼ACLU, Lambda Legal 🏳️‍⚧️Your local Trans nonprofits 🏳️‍🌈 Supporting queer artists under the crosshairs of censorship. Every little bit helps more of the community outlast this regime.
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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Trans people are under attack by an administration looking for scapegoats. Besides this list of organizations, donate to individual trans folks asking for help and contact your reps to tell them you won't support anyone who doesn't support trans rights. www.them.us/story/orgs-f...
them.us
How to Support Trans People in All 50 States
A curated list of 100 organizations supporting trans rights and livelihood to which you can donate.
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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Everything is really scary and chaotic for Trans individuals right now. Regardless of whatever lies and fear that is spread, we know that the world is better with Trans people in it. You are all worth fighting for, and we will continue to advocate for your rights and your safety.
An illustration decorated with smiling pansies and leaves that says "Trans rights are human rights. We will love and protect each other "
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Gay Breakfast @ Nekocon @gaybreakfast.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
👀 Do you want your own ✨🌈🐈‍⬛Chaotic Queer Cat?🌈🐈‍⬛✨ www.kickstarter.com/projects/gay...
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Coming soon: Chaotic Queer
Plush, Dice, Pins, and more in 12+ flags!
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18/09/2025
The Jimmy Kimmel firing, Colbert's show, what's happening at WaPo, CBS... legacy journalism is slowly but surely coming under state control. It is more important now than ever before that we support the independent journalists out there doing the work not beholden to a fascist's bidding.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
This is the biggest story in America right now. Coffee up 20.9% year-over-year Steaks up 16.6% Apples up 9.6% Bananas, 6.6%. www.axios.com/2025/09/11/t...
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Grocery prices rise at the fastest pace since 2022 as Trump tariffs bite
On the campaign trail, Trump promised lower grocery prices.
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