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Feathers McGraw @feathersmcgraw.bsky.social · 1h

Just got polled about my feelings about Tom Cotton. That hasn't happened in a while.

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Feathers McGraw @feathersmcgraw.bsky.social · 3h

Can't people get depatriated for doxxing a Senator?

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Feathers McGraw @feathersmcgraw.bsky.social · 17h

Richard Brautigan, Homage to the San Francisco YMCA Borges, Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius Melville, Bartleby Arthur C. Clarke, 9 Billion Names Of God but you should read The Star at Christmas every year. Mark Twain, The War Prayer O’Conner, Good Man Is Hard To Find Kafka, Report To The Academy

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Travels With Brindle is still composing a silent movie score @travelswithbrindle.bsky.social · 22h

Good Country People by Flannery O’Connor The Company of Wolves by Angela Carter The Faery Handbag by @kellylink.bsky.social (which crosses my mind every time I go to the Garment District)

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Feathers McGraw @feathersmcgraw.bsky.social · 18h

For the second time in my professional life a patron has challenged a Miyazaki film. Unfortunately we don’t do anonymous challenges so I won’t even dignify this one with a committee. That said I had 2 staffers volunteering before I even had the incomplete paperwork.

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Feathers McGraw @feathersmcgraw.bsky.social · 20h

Tonight is one of the best nights of the year. I get to stand outside welcoming Friends Of The Library to the members' only sale, inviting them to buy a $5 membership if they haven't so that they can buy books at $0.50 per pound.

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Jared Rutecki @jaredrutecki.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Amazing work by @propublica.org and partners illustrating the lack of regulations around microschools in some states. www.propublica.org/article/prop...

In Arkansas, all it took was a few clicks on the Arkansas secretary of state website, $45 and an American flag to form a bona fide private school with the Arkansas Times.
We established a school with Mountain State Spotlight in West Virginia after filing our new school's name and location with authorities on a piece of notebook paper, then exchanging a few emails.
And with The Assembly in North Carolina, we filed an online notice of intent to open a private school at Ponysaurus Brewing Co. in Durham, while perched on its metal bar stools, eyeing glasses of a crisp kolsch.

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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...

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Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos

Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm old enough to remember smoking on airplanes as a child. I hated it but they made you do it.

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Help me make this year the YEAR OF THE BOG. My passion for boglands featured in the @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o...

nytimes.com

Opinion | Boglands Are Museums That Help Protect Us From Climate Change

Bogs store carbon, and preserve histories too.

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

just secured my first round of funding for my startup! it's called OMELAS. Its goal is to make Omelas in real life

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 30/09/2026

Jesus Christ Cornell

What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.

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Feathers McGraw @feathersmcgraw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If the prediction models hold and we do get rain for the next 3 days, we could be looking at almost half an inch of precipitation.

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Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

***cackling*** Are you guys ready for this??? I have a poem in @strangehorizons.bsky.social and it is called - ahem - "Why you fucked Mothman" strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

strangehorizons.com

Why you fucked Mothman

his wildfire eyes saw the world burning and he could do nothing but tell you

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Feathers McGraw @feathersmcgraw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“We must go forward, not backward. Upward, not downward. And always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.”

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Katherine Thorne @sparklemarkers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

me, in front of the tv

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So much of what we are confronting today is best understood by the actions undertaken by white communities in response to integration orders. White supremacy is a form of democratic nihilism. Every institution, norm, and value of democracy will be sacrificed for it. calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

calendar.eji.org

Sep. 27, 1958 | White Little Rock Voters Choose to Close Public Schools Rather Than Integrate

Learn more about our history of racial injustice

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David Vinjamuri @dwv123.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Saves the Day gets it …

Saves the Day bassist wearing a “What’s more punk than the Public Library “ t-shirt.

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Art by Emily K @museum.of.emilyk.art · 25/09/2026

Chag Sukkot Sameach! Time for my annual airing of "A Charlie Baron Sukkot"

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

do not, my friends, become addicted to lasagna. it will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!

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Feathers McGraw @feathersmcgraw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Because in the spring I read Persuasion with @bsbookclub.bsky.social I picked up Walter Scott’s Marmion, because of the scene where Anne & Captain Benwick bond over Romantic poetry. I knew the Byron they referenced, but not the Scott. I reread the Byron and it was worse than I remembered.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Hannah Alexander Artwork @hannahartwork.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Kiki's Delivery Service, No. 1 in Koriko since 1989 ✉️ 🎁 🍞

An art nouveau style posters featuring Kiki flying on a broomstick with Jiji. The background shows various scenes of bread and pastries, plus the town of Koriko.

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Feathers McGraw @feathersmcgraw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

[Now remembering when my boss made me read It's Not About The Coffee by one of the Howard's, & I said yeah I get that this is library porn, but you know this isn't reality in ANY Starbucks and there are several vital bits here libraries would strain to incentivize.]

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Starbucks launched with the explicit intention to emulate the coffee-n-conversation third space of European-style cafes, and American less-for-more capitalism has whittled it down to a sugar water firehose aimed at customers out of a hole in the wall.

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Rylie Fennec @fennecfoxrylie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Stay mad. 🛫

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's a neat thing! My mom retired after 25+ as a children's librarian at public libraries yesterday. (It was very cool! Hundreds of former Story Hour kids arrived, some as adults!) I let Ed Markey's office know in case they wanted to send a nice email back and they sent this! He's still got it!

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Feathers McGraw @feathersmcgraw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Dolly Day to those who celebrate. The library is setting up a Reading Roundabout with multiple storytimes and activities and fundraising/enrolling for the Imagination Library.

Children's Librarians are always up for doing a bit.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 24/09/2026

Porco Rosso mural, Mexico City

Porco in the cockpit of his plane smoking a cigarette and giving a thumbs up

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/09/2026

every time i see tom cotton i think about the fact that he just buys grocery store birthday cakes to eat as a snack. for most people this would be charming. not for this dude.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026

Hannity's list of "TRUMP'S TOP ACCOMPLISHMENTS" includes restoring Confederate names to military bases and releasing dietary guidelines

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Terry Buckalew @terrybuckalew.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is one of my favorite things to see in Hot Springs! I would make my parents stop when we went to HS & I’ve also visited as an adult.

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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This spectacular two-story mural of author and Merry Prankster Ken Kesey was created in 2015 in his hometown of Springfield, OR. It was designed by Portland artist Craig Ferroggiaro and painted by the Old City Artists based out of Los Angeles.

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Feathers McGraw @feathersmcgraw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Many Charlies Brown have hoes. It’s terrifying.

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shelby @thetrueshelby.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sarah Huckabee Sanders didn’t just welcome data centers. She bragged about “cutting red tape” to make it easier for them to come here. Keep this receipt handy. November is coming.

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Feathers McGraw @feathersmcgraw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is one of those subdivision things where it is named for what you destroyed to build it?

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Feathers McGraw @feathersmcgraw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Weird scenes inside the azalea bushes.

Juvenile possum climbs out of an azalea bush.

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