Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Please tell yours senators to oppose “Lee Amendment" 3972. It strips national park funding and sets up a framework for their sale. Lee tried this a while back and it *failed* bc of public outcry. A vote is expected this week. Use 5calls.org or democracy.io to easily find and contact your reps. 021
Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Very excited to see the first Samhain issue from Inglenook Lit. If you are craving to read - or write - surreal, witchy, divine, gutting, dreamy, magical stories, please check them out. Sasha Bailyn is tending a wonderful hearth here for witch and witch-adjacent writers. They are taking submissions. 020
Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 20/12/2024(I also, of course, humbly suggest this for any book lover on your holiday shopping list. It's on Amazon, if it's not at your local bookstore). 010
Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 20/12/2024I realize we’re close to Christmas, but as I try to build my following here, I’d like to gift three of these hardcovers from my own personal stash. Leave a comment here, telling me about your favorite library or library memory. I’ll use an RNG to pick winners <3 420
Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Or the Horse Library in Ethiopia, where librarians saddle up crates of books on literal horses to deliver them to kids who live nomadically in the hills. There was a civil war in Ethiopia from 2020-2022. They didn't stop. (The below is Legesse Janfa, a librarian with Ethiopia Reads). 210
Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Some of these libraries restored my faith in humanity, like the one run by Jose Alberto Gutierrez, a man in Bogota who made his neighborhood's first library out of books he found (and cleaned) while on his day job: collecting garbage. 110
Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 20/12/2024There’s something so tantalizing about the idea of a rack of knowledge just sitting out there, that only a rare few souls have accessed. It’s a bibliophile's dream to come upon such a place. The Sakya Monastery in Tibet contains books that are thousands of years old, but have never been translated 110
Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Some were easy to find; mysterious, but historically significant, like the Vatican Secret Archives. Others had me hunting for info on people who, I realized, didn't want to be found (or couldn't be, such Bruno Shröder, who died before he could name an heir to his, ah, "eccentric" home library) 240
Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 05/12/2024I would like to genuinely applaud all serious news outlets for their impartial coverage of this historic event. 040