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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

This message is this message is this Pogo approved.

A small brown down is curled up on a pillow.

kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Spent all my spoons seeing Hugh Jackman at radio city tonight. First concert since October 2019 when I saw Sara Bareilles in Chicago. God damn i miss live music and theatre! Also s/o to accessibility at RC. They made it so easy! Even parted the crowds so i could get to the elevator. 🫶🏻

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Reminders: "Concentration camps" aren't the same as "extermination camps." Both were/are horrific. Most Nazi camps were *outside Germany*, away from the eyes of German citizens. Those trains? Were to, uh, deport the category of people whose lives were deemed unimportant. Never again is now.

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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I have 5 medical appointments this week. It's been years since my schedule has been so consumed by appts. This time, its on hard mode b/c I cannot always drive myself to them and I need copious amounts of recovery time before and after. Fuck COVID. #ChronicIllnessSky #DisabledSky

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quietpageturner @quietpageturner.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I’d burn the world for you, but make it siblings #booksky #fantasybooksky #blackbooksky #bookrecs

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Eva Leigh @evaleigh.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Thrilled to announce that my swashbuckling pirate romantasy, THE SEA WITCH, is now available to request on @netgalley.bsky.social! Witch pirates vs. the British navy, with tons of adventure and heat! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

The cover for "The Sea Witch" by Eva Leigh, above the text "Available to request on NetGalley," with decorative sea-themed ornaments like sea serpents and octopods adorning the edges.

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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Update: i picked up and put back a dozen books. Then read the first page of half of them. Then chose assistant to the villain since i figure it’ll have ridiculous humor that im craving RN. Not Kimberly Lemming levels but…

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Disco Barrington 🏳️‍⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I couldn’t get male yearning out of my head after hearing the Hadestown Wait for Me track over and over, so please enjoy my male yearning book recs. 📚💙

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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Just a girl, sitting in front of her book piles, begging one of these books to catch her interest. *aigh*

Photo of five teetering stacks of books on a wood floor

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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Listrn if you’re also a Cardan’s tail is awesome truther, you NEED to read @kimberlylemming.bsky.social’s I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I’m Trapped in a Romcom. Because like…this is what i want from tails tyvm!!!! 🤭 #Booksky

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CJ @cjmerriman.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

💙📚 #booksky

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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I finished #Oathbound and I just... 👏👏👏 I *get* why Bree needed this book. I love how every single book impacts not only what comes next, but also what came before. I cannot wait to reread so many scenes in books 1 and 2 with this *new* knowledge. TY @tracydeonn.bsky.social. TY #Booksky #BreeHive

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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Had a cardiologist tell me today that my HR going to 140 when i shower WHILE SEATED is my heart functioning normally and just going up a little faster. Peak. Weirdo. Behavior. #ChronicIllness

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

This is our gift to YOU. Jolee and I wanted so badly to work together again, and because you kept asking, requesting, hoping, Hachette made it happen. Be loud, proud, and open about your love for your favorite books and book boxes, guys 💜 We couldn't have done this without you!

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When I talk about putting your money where your mouth is, this is a great example:
Because so many readers requested and wanted a matching hardcover edition to SO LET THEM BURN, Hachette reached out to us and figured out a way for Satisfiction to receive the UK dust jackets. This was the first time a major publisher had reached out to do something like this and it’s 100000% because readers wouldn’t stop talking about it. thank you 🥹

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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Ok but abbott’s the contact with everyone? 🥵🧎🏻‍♀️🤭 #ThePitt

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Autumn Wolff | Lesbian Romance Author @autumnwolff.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Life’s too short, girls. Pin her arms up against the wall and kiss her (with consent).

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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

*Finally* reading #Oathbound so this thread will be spoiler filled with reactions. 🫶🏻 Squeee! #Booksky #BreeHive

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Joanna Shupe @joannashupe.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Many states (FL, KS) are rolling back child labor laws to fill the gaps in the workforce caused by immigration crackdowns. Sound familiar? Welcome to the 19th century. I wrote about this in my latest Our Mad Wicked Folly newsletter. Learn more here: subscribepage.io/mad-wicked-folly

Child Labor: Welcome to the
Jungle
Child Labor
In the 19th-century most children were required to earn their keep.
Unless you were of the wealthy class, your family didn't have enough money to feed and cloth you without assistance. Many children held positions in all types of businesses, from manufacturing plants and newsies, to mills and coal mines.
"By 1900, more than 1.75 million American children under the age of 15 worked for wages in industrial jobs. Ten years later, the total surpassed 2 million. That was more than 1 in 5 children under the age of 15."
These numbers didn't include children working in the home or on the family farm.

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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

No but tell me why my brain fully blocked the ending of this book from me b/c its so painful. *sobs* #booksky #BreeHive

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Gabe Cole Novoa @thegabecole.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

trans author with trans characters, you say? #TDOV THESE VENGEFUL GODS is out May 27th starring an all-queer main cast & chronically ill trans protagonist! if a gladiator-like deadly competition in a world of magic and gods is your jam, you can pre-order here: tinyurl.com/bdet4wfw

These Vengeful Gods by New York Times Bestselling Author Gabe Cole Novoa. Dystopian fantasy, disabled trans protagonist, all-queer main cast, magic and gods, deadly competition. Preorder now. Out May 27.

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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Lowkey think i have PTSD from Bloodmarked bc my anxiety is through the roof and i cent stop shaking. But reading is relaxing they said!!! 😭😭😭

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Kimberley | Noriboo reads @noribooreads.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Happy Trans Visibility Day, lovelies 💜 You are seen. You are valid. You are loved. Trans rights are human rights 🫶🏾 🏳️‍⚧️📚

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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Welp it happened and it was even more devastating than i expected. How is the reread worse than the gut punch of the first read?! 😩

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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Maturing is overrated bc wdym im not simping for the angsty, all black wearing, full of sass Merlin anymore?! 😭 Like he just caused a scene at the bar and i let out a disgruntled mom noise a la “here he goes *again*”. 😩 Pls respect my privacy as i mourn. #Bloodmarked #BreeHive #Booksky

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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Knowing what Sel is hiding from Bree makes so many moments and conversations in #Bloodmarked so much more devastating. 😭 It hurts and I’m only barely to the halfway point. #BreeHive #Booksky

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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Needed this today. Happy Opening Day!

Photo of a Yankee Stadium’s baseball field from behind the third base line

Kait smiles with the yankee stadium field in the background.

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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Does anyone have experience with laryngeal nerve injections? I am fully freaking out at the thought of needing to have this done. (Left vocal cord paresis thanks to vagal neuropathy thanks to covid) #ChronicIllness #LongCOVID

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The Dragon Queen @novelkc.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

The Plot Thickens! My April template packs are nearly ready to go and I am slightly obsessed. As usual it's 2 packs, one pack of 15 Insta Story size (1080px x1920px) and 15 Insta Post size (1080px x 1350px) Will be available to all Patrons and listed on Ko-Fi on March 31st!

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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I think...I've become Team Nick somehow?! Devastated. #BreeHive

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meyo 🌸 @meyoco.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

witch’s desk ✨🌿

Artwork of a witch working on a desktop computer decorated with lots of potted plants, books, and tiny windows and doors.

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skelliefranky @skelliefranky.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Jurdan ❤️❤️❤️👑

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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Fasting (pre-8am) bloodwork when you’re a night owl is fucking brutal. 😭 #ChronicIllness

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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

God it’s just so much chiller over here. 🥰 I’ve been super lower energy the last day after over exerting on Thursday and was eating up the ARC shitshow with popcorn but today i found out the ARC person is a literal child so… *blcoked* #Booksky

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🌾Beau Van Dalen | Author, 30+ Novels 💕 @beauvandalen.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

With the #transrightsreadathon coming up, it is important we remember how we can make this a safer space for trans authors to avoid forced outings! ❤️ A thread 🧵⬇️🏳️‍⚧️

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kris/KM Fajardo | Preorder LOCAL HEAVENS 💎 @kmfajardo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I wrote a book and it comes out 10/14! it’s a queer dystopian love story with a bi 🇵🇭 MC + a cyberpunk Gatsby reimagining + it’s about capitalism & technology & yearning & rich ppl who suck !! and my ARC finally came in <33

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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Why is zofran—a medication used to treat nausea—so nauseating to take?! 😭 #ChronicIllness

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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I finished a book. 😭😭😭 It took me two weeks to reread legendborn, reading in 20-30 min chunks to avoid triggering PEM. I know reading isn’t a competition but I miss being able to lose myself in a book. This is my most devastating post-C0VID symptom (not being able to drive is the most limiting).

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rocio📚 @rocioreads.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Update as of 9:20am CT $234 raised, only $66 left is needed! Please repost & consider sending $1-2 to one of the three options below, that’s it. Please don’t stand by - every action matters.

Title of the post: HELP SAVE A FAMILY OF 9 IN GAZA.
Photo of family of 9 below. 3 small children with their dad, grandparents and their daughters.
HAVE TO RAISE
$300 ASAP TO EVACUATE BEIT HANOUN

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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Rereading Legendborn while knowing what happens in Bloodmarked? PAIN. 😭😭😭 #BreeHive

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Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @brianamillslmft.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

COVID is a mass disabling event. Long COVID is a real problem and has been actively harming high risk people the most. Not masking is a disability rights issue. Disabled people deserve to be in society and by refusing to mask if you're able to is automatically saying we don't belong here.

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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Dear Universe: Pls give my friends and me a fucking break. We need our energy to fight for a better world!! We need to not spend it all navigating being sick and dealing with relational fallouts and family health emergencies and more. May it be so.

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Rich in Color @richincolor.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Looking for something to read for the change of seasons? Here's a fun young adult fantasy perfect for spring - Divining the Leaves by Shveta Thakrar richincolor.com/2025/03/revi... #yalit #booksky

Illustrated cover with a young man and woman in fancy dress. The woman has flowers on her long dark curly hair. There are also pink flowers on her seafoam green dress. The young man has wavy dark brown hair that is down to his jaw line. he seems to be hold purple grapes in the hand in front of his chest. His clothes match hers. There is a tree behind them and purple and pink glowing bits are floating in the air around them.

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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Grateful grateful grateful. 🥰🙏🏻

A white hand holds up an ARC copy of Rachel Gillig’s The Knight and the Moth. A screen in the background reads “Barnes and Noble Nook Festival.”

The cover feature the title in off white and the author name in light pink. In the background there’s a white woman lying down with long blond hair, part of which is covering her eyes. Half of her outfit is armor and the other half is a diaphanous blue dress.

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