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DarkLiterata iykyk @darkliterata.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

First time seeing my name on a book...I'm feeling awfully good about it 🥰 Good trouble coming soon! bookstore.emerald.com/critical-rac...

Grey and white cover image for Critical Race Theory in LIS: Challenging White Supremacy in Libraries, edited by Mónica Colón-Aguirre, Nicole A. Cooke, Aisha M. Johnson, and Anastasia M. Collins

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Meri. 😈🤷🏼‍♀️😽 @dresserlook.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Hearing the legend that is Patti LuPone screaming "ELON DON'T TOUCH MY FUCKING MONEY" last night was something I needed. What a queen.

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DarkLiterata iykyk @darkliterata.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

sometimes dissociation is the only reasonable response kids

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DarkLiterata iykyk @darkliterata.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

how much of a stretch would it be to write an article on the immense overlap between kidlit scholars and musical theater fans?

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

This is pure supervillain behavior

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/12/2024

Trans folks held a dance party in the Capitol bathroom to protest the bathroom ban on there.

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Devin Elle Kurtz @devinellekurtz.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

“The river was called… the Kohaku River”

A digitally illustrated fanart painting of Haku and Chihiro from the Ghibli film “spirited away” during the scene where they fall from the sky and float. Haku’s dragon body is evaporating into scales. He and Chihiro face each other in midair and clasp hands. The sun shoots out beams of light in all directions. The colors are blue and gold

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 03/12/2024

1. In a major development, the first national consensus guidelines for trans youth have been released in France. They recommend affirmation and medical care, denounce "wait and see." They refute much of the Cass Review. Subscribe to support my journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-french...

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New French Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Denounce "Wait-And-See" Approach

The new guidelines, published by the French Society of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, create the first French national medical consensus on trans youth care.

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 03/12/2024

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 30/11/2024

Holy buckets, I just passed the 200,000 followers milestone. What a genuinely amazing thing. Thanks to each and every one of you for letting me be a part of your Bluesky experience. To mark the moment, I've made a donation to the Imagination Library. Free books for kids! imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

At least one Democrat should make this a slogan in 2028.

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Djura @djura.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

A meme depicting the DC Comics superhero Batman breaking a gun labeled “misgendering”, with “mis” and “gendering” on separate parts of the broken gun. In it, he says “This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it.”

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 25/11/2024

recreating another twitter thread of mine: stock photo site search results on “librarian” that cause me varying degrees of discomfort 📚

Feminine presenting person wearing a blue blazer and holding nondescript books, gazing intently at the viewer and pointing their left index at a point somewhere above the viewer’s line of sight

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ao3 tags @ao3struggles.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

adult themes such as having a favorite kitchen appliance and back pain

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Fluoridated water 1)Reduces tooth decay by ~25% in kids and adults. 2) For every $1 spent, communities save up to $38 in dental costs. 3) Benefits everyone, regardless of income or access to dental care. 4) Over 75 years of research shows it’s effective and harmless. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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Florida health official advises communities to stop adding fluoride to drinking water

Florida's surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, cited developmental concerns from higher levels of fluoride than are found in most U.S. water supplies.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

India has the greatest units the rest of the world doesnt hear enough about. Nilgai is nice, but the great grand daddy of the genre is the scariest cow on the planet. meet the Gaur. It rhymes with power and it rhymes with sour. Yes that is a full sized tourist bus.

Gaur crossing road as bus approaches. Bloody thing is half as tall as the bus. Never fuck with a gaur.

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 23/11/2024

Did you know there’s a site to search for starter packs of people to follow? Built by @mubashariqbal.com blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

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Bluesky Starter Packs - Bluesky Directory

Browse a list of Bluesky Starter Packs. Discover and connect with your community on Bluesky

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we here®️ @wehere.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

supporting, uplifting, celebrating BIPOC in libraries and archives ❤️‍🔥 go.bsky.app/MpwbvRa

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Contrary to popular belief, there are only four kinds of bats.

Illustrated image divided into four panels, each showing a head of a bat with a text label. Top left: little guy, a regular looking back with a dark face and light colored fur, top right: little guy deluxe, a bat with a mask and large ears alongside a bat with a leaf shaped nose, bottom left: what is even going on here, a visored bat with a large forehead next to a bat with a large, wrinkly nose, bottom right: o hi doggie, a fruit bat with its tongue sticking out.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Welp, guess I'm pulling LOC out of my Z39.50

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

this is amazing oh my god

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DarkLiterata iykyk @darkliterata.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I will never be impressed or amused when presenters don't use an available, functional mic. This is bare minimum accessibility practice, and failing to do it is the fastest way to show that you are unserious regardless of what you have to say

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/11/2024

💀💀💀

The image contains a tweet from Kevin Saucedo-Broach, reading:
"can’t imagine there’s anything more cathartic for a white southern conservative than getting to personally segregate a restroom"

The tweet quotes another post by Rep. Nancy Mace, which states:
"I never thought we would need a sign for this, but women’s restrooms are for BIOLOGICAL women. Not men."

The quoted post also contains a short video clip of a sign being placed that reads, "Women."

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Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Pssst It's Wednesday Have you backed up your novel (and your notes) recently?

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😷 it’s only Wednesday 😷 @diplo-drama.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Good morning! We can get through this.

Guy saying what a week, man replying capitán it’s Wednesday. Dog drinking a beer

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 19/11/2024

A brief thread on alt-text. Alt text is descriptive text that conveys the meaning of an image. It's designed to make visual content accessible to people with vision disabilities. When a person uses assistive technology such as a screen reader, the screen reader will read the onscreen text aloud 1/7

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DarkLiterata iykyk @darkliterata.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Trans Day of Remembrance Nov 20, 2024 art by Gracie Lee Art www.instagram.com/gracieleeart...

A woman in a white dress holds up a lit white candle. Her expression is solemn with eyes closed. A blue, pink, and white cloud billows up from her candle's flame. She is surrounded by pink and blue flowers, a peace symbol, other hands (white, pink, and blue) also raising white candles, and the Transgender Flag. Words around her say "Transgender Day of Remembrance" and "End the Violence."

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Even beyond preorders local bookshop/ indie bookstores have been keeping my books alive? I didn't see any main stream anybody go all out on me? The badass indie booksellers who take chances on queer, anticapitalist, anticolonial, antiracist works have been there for me. So I am there for them.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

"The Quilt Index is an open access, digital repository of thousands of images, stories and information about quilts and their makers drawn from hundreds of public and private collections around the world." (via The Syllabus Project) quiltindex.org

Screenshot of the Quilt Index website, featuring a quilt overlain with a text block featuring the site's title

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DarkLiterata iykyk @darkliterata.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

What stage of chronic onlineness is it when every meme reads you for filth?

A meme with a European Renaissance-style Jesus Christ holding a baby and blessing a kneeling woman, who is hiding her face in her hands.

Jesus is captioned: "Me at 06:00 a.m."

The shining light of blessing is captioned: "'You are allowed to sleep for 15 more minutes'"

The kneeling woman is captioned: "Me at 06:00 a.m."

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DarkLiterata iykyk @darkliterata.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I always appreciate these breaths from Black Liturgies

Instagram deck from @BlackLiturgies:

"For when you can no longer hear yourself"

"On silence and staying human"

Instagram deck from @BlackLiturgies:

"For those of us who have known a silence that wasn't chosen but was demanded or imposed, it can be difficult to consider it as healing. But some silences are defiant.

"In a world whose noise will not relent, silence is both a mercy and portal.

"Some silence carries you home to yourself."

Instagram deck from @BlackLiturgies:

"How good it is to center down!
To sit quietly and see one's self pass by!
The streets of our minds seethe with endless traffic;
Our spirits resound with clashings, with noisy silences,
While something deep within hungers and thirsts for the still moment and the resting lull."

-Howard Thurman

Instagram deck from @BlackLiturgies:

"Inhale: I listen for my voice

Exhale: Silence is a portal"

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

All of this.

Tweet that says if your concern with trans women is that men might claim to self-ID as trans to gain access to women’s spaces and assault them, then your problem is actually with predatory men and not trans women.

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DarkLiterata iykyk @darkliterata.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Literally led with "unbothered." What's not clicking?

Screenshot of a Tumblr thread.

The original post is an image of a happy Dragonite and several other Pokémon sitting in a small river. Off to the right, a Pikachu appears to be struggling in the water. A caption describing the happy Dragonite reads: "unbothered. moisturized. happy. in my lane. focused. flourishing."

Reply from user i-am-the-fourth-heat: "pikachu is drowning"

Reply from user colourofthekites: "This ain't about him"

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 18/11/2024

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

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Action Intent Links | Bluesky

Authors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu...

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The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 19/11/2024

You don't have to defend every book on the list. You have to object to the government telling you which ones you're allowed to see. And in Iowa, you have to object to the ban being expanded from school libraries to public libraries and bookshops. www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/...

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Iowa Legislature - BillBook

Information pertaining to the Iowa Legislature as well as the Executive and Judicial branch in as much as they relate to the legislative branch

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M. Kirin 📶⚡ @mkirin.itch.io · 16/11/2024

"i hope this site doesn't end up like the last one :(" Hope has nothing to do with it--DO YOUR PART! Twitter & Truth Social are dying. Their users are used to farming outrage for engagement. Don't give them any! 🚫 Don't argue with them! 🚫 Don't quote them! ✅ #BlockAndMoveOn

A poster showing a weeping skull wearing a red hat. The skeleton is holding a smartphone that is showing no comments, shares, or likes, as though no one is interacting with its posts. The text on the poster reads "This account does not feed trolls. Block and move on."

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Simon Groth @simongroth.com · 17/11/2024

Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement? Me: Definitely. How specific can we get? Publisher: As specific as you like.

The copyright statement from Ephemeral City which reads in part: No part of this book may be used as data for ‘training’ any large language model or as part of any machine learning or neural network architeture. Human creaivity cannot be replicated by doing maths with stolen art. Altman, Andressen, and all their cronies can get fucked. Enquires should be made to the publisher.

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John Breen @breen.tech · 18/11/2024

“Everything is public on Bluesky” does not mean you should scrape people’s post without their permission. Especially if they have the “I would rather people not see my stuff without logging in” box checked.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens. Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”

Post from Latino pollster Mike Madrid:

“Doing some research for an upcoming article on the last “mass deportation” of Mexicans during the 1930’s.

Over half of those deported were US citizens.”

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