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Christine Roca

@cr0ca.bsky.social
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IBCLC 🤱 Historical costumer 🪡🧵 Neurospicy ✨ she/her 💙: Libraries 🎧📚 Puzzles 🧩 Knit/Crochet 🧶

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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
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Hello, World - NASA
NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft's window after completing the translunar injection
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I missed the green theme for #showmeyourknits so here’s my transitional offering of green #colourwork - the Kermit sweater. Thanks @septhermitknits.bsky.social for directing me to this pattern - Edinburgh Seamless Dog Sweater.
Small black cockapoo stands outside in the sunshine wearing a green knit sweater. His mouth is open just enough to see his bottom teefers and his tail is mid-wag. Green knit dog sweater with yellow-green colorwork collar inspired by Kermit the Frog
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
I’d rather be in Ireland. ☘️ Happy St Patrick’s Day
A view through the ruins of Dunamase Castle reveals a cloudy sky, green rolling hills, and a stone church in the distance.
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
A bit later than usual but these little pops of sunshine are most welcome in my yard #bloomsky #bloomscrolling #crocus #microdosehope
3 purple crocus flowers bloom betwixt dried brown leaves and green vinca leaves
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Slower reading month for February but finished strong with some of my favorite authors. 💙📚 #worldbookday #booksky
StoryGraph cover collage of books read in 
February:
Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
The Berry Pickers
Cinderella is Dead
Symphony of Secrets
Razorblade Tears
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
January’s reads. Quantity is a direct correlation to the state of my mental health. Thank goodness for good books. #worldbookday #booksky
January:
My Dark Vanessa
Half Truths
Even Though I Knew the End
Clap When You Land
Good Spirits
When the Wolf Comes Home
The White Hot
Katabasis 
The Silent Companions
Wintering
Woodworking
When the Harvest Comes
Love is a War Song
Bunny
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Current WIP for #showmeyourknits - Keats & Shelley Poets’ Gloves by Lynne Vogel. I was halfway done with the pair when the discrepancies between the two became abominable. So I frogged them both to start anew. The yarn is lambswool that was salvaged from a thrifted sweater. #knitsky #upcycle
The cuff portion of a mitt knit in green yarn features cables and a chevron design. Bright pink yarn is threaded through the top row as a placeholder since I only have 1 set of DPNs in this size. To the right of this cuff is its counterpart, still on the needles, and only about 2” long.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
January 9, 2026
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January 9, 2026
Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S.
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Got back on track with reading this month. Even managed to finish a print book!
StoryGraph cover collage of books read in 
December:
I’ll Make a Spectacle of You
Future Boy
Nocticadia
Something in the Walls
An Elderly Lady Must Not be Crossed
Cry, Voidbringer
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
So much love to all of my fellow radical left scum…
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Air Force One is circling my house right now. Passed by twice so far
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Super slow reading season and I still have another month before most of my Libby holds are ready. Zero expectations for December.
StoryGraph cover collage of books read in 
November:
Saltcrop
Esperance
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
The Everlasting StoryGraph cover collage of books read in 
October:
The Poison Thread
The Byways
King of Ashes
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Áine ☽𖤐☾ @whoa-magic.lol · 19/11/2025
#NASA confirms #Earth has a new 'mini #moon' that will accompany us for the next 50 years www.earth.com/news/nasa-co...
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NASA confirms Earth has a new 'mini moon' that will accompany us for the next 50 years
Astronomers detect the new quasi-satellite 2025 PN7, a small asteroid that will accompany Earth until 2083.
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
#northernlights in eastern PA!
A pink sky to the left, 
a green sky to the right, 
swirls of hazy purple in between
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
When you can’t attend the local #nokings event because you’re working at a historic site… We denounce kings like it’s 1775
A white woman dressed in an 18th century gown hangs a portrait of King George III upside-down in protest of the tyrant.
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I forgot how fun it is to preorder books! Just when you’ve totally forgotten about it, a surprise package arrives at your door! 📚 #booksky
Photo of “Cry, Voidbringer” by Elaine Ho. The white book with black lettering stands against a green background. The edge of a gold frame and a green glass jar appear in opposite corners of the photo.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words. The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
A slower reading month than I would’ve liked, but once again, I’m proud of myself for reading so many physical books.
StoryGraph cover collage of books read in 
September:
The Serviceberry
Parents Weekend
It Rhymes With Takei
Caught Up
The God of the Woods
Victorian and Edwardian Fashion
Atmosphere
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
“Facism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology” 🎯
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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Procession carries 3 fallen York County police officers to LVHN
The three Northern York County Regional Police Officers are identified as Detective Isaiah Emenheiser, Detective Mark Baker, and Detective Sergeant Cody Becker.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Why are we not talking about Nepal? And why did I first hear about it from my GenZ kid and not from any major news source?
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
One of many bees feasting on the sedum in my backyard.
Closeup of a bee on a pale pink sedum flower.
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Monday mood
A sleepy black cockapoo puppy rests his head on a pink axolotl squishmallow.
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
August was a busy month for books, thanks to having a challenging 2000pc puzzle to work on while listening. #audiobooksarebooks
StoryGraph cover collage of books read in 
August:
The Secret Garden
After Taste
Yellow Jessamine
What Does It Feel Like?
Chef’s Kiss
A Botanical Daughter 
Care Work
The Book of Madness and Cures
Automatic Noodle
The Deep
Forbidden Alchemy
Everything is Tuberculosis
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
2000 pieces 8 audiobooks 3 weeks (+1 day) of escapism Not too shabby for a 99¢ thrift shop find
Jigsaw puzzle of Monet’s Garden
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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
It’s a @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social kind of week! I’ve waited months for Chef’s Kiss on Libby and now it’s here - the same week that A Gentleman’s Gentleman appeared on my library’s shelf. Perfect distractions for these days.
Screenshot of Chef’s Kiss on Libby bookshelf. Aftertaste by Daria Lavelle appears underneath. Library copy of A Gentleman’s Gentleman is held in the right hand of a white woman
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titsay 𓆏 @titsay.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Time to put on my IBCLC hat to share that #WorldBreastfeedingWeek starts today! This year we focus on creating sustainable systems to support breastfeeding/chestfeeding and pumping families. Feeding babies is no easy feat! Families deserve better.
Multicolored line drawing of 2 adult figures cradling an infant. They are encircled by a green arrow. Text underneath says “Prioritise Breastfeeding; Create sustainable support systems; WABA | World Breastfeeding Week 2025”

From who.int -
Invest in breastfeeding, invest in the future

World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated every year in the first week of August, championed by WHO, UNICEF, Ministries of Health and civil society partners around the globe. It’s a time to recognize breastfeeding as a powerful foundation for lifelong health, development, and equity.

Under the banner of WHO’s ongoing Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures campaign, World Breastfeeding Week will shine a particular spotlight on the ongoing support women and babies need from the healthcare system through their breastfeeding journey.

This means ensuring every mother has access to the support and information she needs to breastfeed as long as she wishes to do so - by investing in skilled breastfeeding counselling, enforcing the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes, and creating environments—at home, in healthcare, and at work—that support and empower women.
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I’m really proud of how much I read this month. 4 physical books in 1 month might be a new record for me! (The rest are audio) All books were from my local libraries and Libby.
StoryGraph cover collage of books read in July:
Against Technoableism
Tender Is the Flesh
Winter Rose
Tilt
A Week in Winter
The Witching Tide
Out of the Woods
I Can’t Even Think Straight 
Something in the Water
Detained
All the Sinners Bleed
The Garden of Small Beginnings
Bloom 
Wild Dark Shore
The Little Coffee Shop of Terrors
I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Fuzzy bumble hard at work this evening. #bloomscrolling
A fuzzy bumblebee gathers pollen from a coneflower.
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Manny Voices @itsdrlittle.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
"Jack of all trades, master of none..." finish the sentence though
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Hello there, Susan! #bloomscroll
Overhead view of a black-eyed Susan flower in bloom amid a bed of green leaves and closed buds.
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
First coneflower blooms of the season #bloomscroll
Purple coneflower petals with green centerPurple coneflower petals with orange centerPurple coneflower petals with green and orange center
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Itty bitty list of books read in June. “The Summer I Turned Pretty” was a Mother’s Day gift from my teen with specific instructions to read it on our vacation. 🥹 Which I did.
StoryGraph cover collage for June:
The Summer I Turned Pretty 
One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This 
Intermezzo
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Rainy day reminder that you can borrow puzzles from the library!
“Mosaic Tree of Life” 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle centers a black tree with sinewy branches on a glowing background of white, yellow, and red. Colorful orbs with spiral or bullseye designs are interspersed among the branches.
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Somebody’s afraid of thunderstorms
A small black cockapoo hugs his stuffed lamb while lying at his owner’s feet and looking upward with sad eyes
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.
"There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. ..
It was an
extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?"
It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.
It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
The
GREAT GATSBY
FITZGERALD
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
February’s reads. 📚 Everything was from my library/Libby and the timing worked out on a few of them, allowing me to enjoy the print and audio versions concurrently!
StoryGraph cover collage for February 2025 featuring the following titles: So Let Them Burn, Shopkeeping, Black Sun, House of Bone and Rain, How We Learn to Be Brave, Wandering Stars, Death of the Author, The Black God’s Drums, That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon, All Fours, and Soil.
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Love our local children’s book authors! 📚 www.wfmz.com/news/sunrise... @playbooks.bsky.social @veronicahmoore.bsky.social
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Black Children's Book Week
Events planned all week at The End: a bookstore in Allentown
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
For some reason, that extra little heart in my cappuccino is the bit of joy I needed today. 💕
Cappuccino art design of a tulip with an adjacent floating heart.
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
A bright spot to this dismal week. Now we wait.
Screenshot of Libby notices showing 3 copies of Mariann Edgar Budde’s “How We Learn to Be Brave” newly added to the Free Library of Philadelphia.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20/01/2025
‘Knitting is a lifeline’: young people turn to craft to cast off gloom
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‘Knitting is a lifeline’: young people turn to craft to cast off gloom
A new generation of enthusiasts say they are putting down their phones and picking up needles Eleanor Eden, 24, recently swapped a “pretty chronic social media addition” with crochet and knitting. During the Covid pandemic, it became “easy to spend all…
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Christine Roca @cr0ca.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Look at the moon! 🌕
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Do me a kindness! Share this if you love and support your local library & librarians (and remember: that includes your school library & school librarian) 😊📚 Thank you libraries & library workers… for everything ✨💚
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