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Katelyn

@katiebug.bsky.social
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Ghost Gatherer. Hibernation enthusiast. French fry connoisseur. Eclectic reader. Substack: substack.com/@kvarley

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Katelyn @katiebug.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
MA Dems get out and vote for @markey.senate.gov today! Here is a jam from his 2020 campaign: youtu.be/GhO9RUFrSBA?...
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YouTube video by Ed Markey for Senate
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Kathryn Joyce @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“I mean, what is a utopia?” Margaret Cerullo, a sociology professor from Hampshire, said to me. “It’s a place where you can imagine that the world could be different.” @hannahgais.bsky.social with a lovely, heartbreaking obit for Hampshire College thebaffler.com/latest/class...
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Class Dismissed | Hannah Gais
Private liberal arts schools were never going to kickstart the revolution. But the closure of Hampshire College further narrows the political imaginary.
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton is still giving back even after she's gone. From her Instagram account a few mins ago: "In lieu of flowers the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.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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Katelyn @katiebug.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Why are these misaligned??
Screenshot of the album Chillcrafy by Helynt on YouTube music. The thumbs up on each song become increasingly misaligned with each other.
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 19/08/2026
Repealing the Roadless Rule is a generational mistake that will change the wild character of our national forests forever. Despite every attempt by the Trump administration, Americans have been clear: our public lands are not for sale, and our national forests should remain wild.

The New York Times
@nytimes
Breaking News: Trump officials are moving to open nearly 45 million acres of wilderness in national forests to new roads and logging, removing protections that had been in place since 2001.
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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Librarians, archivists, scholars, publishers, USians: The US House of Representatives passed a bill (HR 6028) which would move the Copyright Office from the Library of Congress/legislative branch to the executive branch. Contact your senators to vote against! www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
Background The house passed a bill, HR 6028, which would, if passed in the Senate, remove copyright from LC (Library of Congress) and the legislative branch. This would not only be catastrophic for LC but all libraries. It would open the door for Al companies to absorb all works, especially unpublished works that the public doesn't have access to. What Can We Do About It? Call your representatives now. If you're not sure what to say, below is a script you may use. Script My name is [insert name] and I live in [insert location]. I am deeply concerned about the potentially devastating effects of HR 6028, the Legislative Branch Agencies Clarification Act, on the Library of Congress and copyright protections for the American people. I would like to hear the senator's response to three questions: How will H.R. 6028 impact the collections of the Library of Congress, which currently depend on deposit from the Copyright Office? How will H.R. 6028 impact copyright protections for the American people? What is the justification for placing a traditionally legislative body under the power of the executive branch?
Full text of HR 6028 can be found here — linked in post
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
i understand the impulse to react to a terrible story by saying that you’re not surprised, but i hope i’ll always be surprised by terrible stories.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
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Meme Bean @memebeanmachine.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Had a dream that Sega relaunched the Dreamcast with absolutely no changes whatsoever, no upgrades to the Ethernet port, no wireless controllers, just the same hardware tech and game library back on shelves, and it outsold the PS6 and Xbox on the merit of physical media alone.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Certainly That's Not Too Much Pasta, And Other Grave Miscalculations
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/06/2026
Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”
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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
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Danny @dannygilbert.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
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Abby HALLOWWWEEEEEEN @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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Katelyn @katiebug.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
At the beginning of May, I began planning ways to help the Hampshire community through the campus closure. Now I’m announcing the Help Hampshire Workers peer-to-peer fundraiser! I’m linking my page here. Please donate and share! www.zeffy.com/en-US/fundra...
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Hampshire College is closing, and 250 staff and faculty are facing sudden job loss without severance pay. Help Hampshire Workers is a community-led effort under Sundial Initiative Inc. to offer direct...
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Hampshire Next @hampshire-next.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
1,000 Hampshire College alums and extended community have pledged their support - make your pledge now at hampshirenext.org
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Katelyn @katiebug.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Would you like a mini needle-felted sheep handmade by me!? Donate $25 or more to Support Hampshire College Staff and Faculty www.helphampshireworkers.com Send me screenshot proof of your donation, your mailing address, and what color sheep you would like. Then I’ll make and mail one to you ASAP!!
A white needle-felted sheep next to a quarter for size comparison. It is slightly bigger than the quarter. It is also next to a blue Hampshire College pin with a tree with the college motto “Non satis scire”A white needle-felted sheep next to a quarter for size comparison. It is slightly bigger than the quarter. It is also next to a blue Hampshire College pin with a tree with the college motto “Non satis scire”A white needle-felted sheep next to a quarter for size comparison. It is slightly bigger than the quarter. It is also next to a blue Hampshire College pin with a tree with the college motto “Non satis scire”
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Katelyn @katiebug.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
I just pledged to Hampshire Next — a coalition reimagining the Hampshire experiment. Join me: hampshirenext.org
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Hampshire Next — Reimagining the Hampshire experiment
A coalition is raising $10M+ in pledges by May 16 — to buy time, gather the community, and reimagine what Hampshire can be next.
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Katelyn @katiebug.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
www.helphampshireworkers.com Hampshire College is closing, and 250 staff and faculty are facing sudden job loss without severance pay. This fund provides direct financial assistance for immediate needs such as housing, food, healthcare, and other essential expenses.
helphampshireworkers.com
Help Hampshire Workers | Support Hampshire Workers Today
Support Hampshire College staff and faculty facing job loss with emergency relief funds for essential needs. Contributions and support help provide immediate assistance during this critical time.
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Katelyn @katiebug.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Hampshire was my home for 4 years. It shaped me into the person I am today and introduced me to many lifelong friends. I am heartbroken to lose this community and knowing that no future students will be able to experience this truly unique place. www.hampshire.edu/closure-info...
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Katelyn @katiebug.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
“No library exists independent of the library ecosystem.” Library Ecosystem Thinking in Public Libraries: A Field Guide www.ala.org/sites/defaul... #PLA2026
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Katelyn @katiebug.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
“If you are a rule breaker, get into positions of power so you can eliminate those stupid rules.” - Good Trouble in Libraries panel #PLA2026
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Katelyn @katiebug.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
“Only 39% of adults in the U.S. said that they feel very connected to others. 50% of adults in the U.S. report experiencing loneliness, with some of the highest rates among young adults.” Learning how to foster social connection in libraries with SLI. #PLA2026 www.sustainablelibrariesinitiative.org
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Katelyn @katiebug.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
“Our strength as a democracy is rooted in our willingness to learn, to discover, to search.” -Bryan Stevenson at #PLA2026
Lawyer Bryan Stevenson JN a brown jacket, black shirt, and black pants standing on a stage and speaking at the PLA conference
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Katelyn @katiebug.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I’ve made it to PLA! #PLA2026
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some fool @paperf.lat · 28/03/2026
Yea I’m a gamer
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 15/03/2026
I needed a therapist in childhood and instead I discovered the magic of books
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onion person @junlper.beer · 04/03/2026
i genuinely miss when website sort of looked absolutely atrocious. everythings to clean and corporate now. theres no soul
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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
incredible reporting on what's happening in Massachusetts due to the state's contract with ICE
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Fobazi M. Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
With sorrow, we announce the passing of FOBAZI M. ETTARH 1989 - 2026.

Fobazi changed so many lives with her friendship, love, and brilliance. She was so loved, and leaves behind a powerful legacy.

We thank Fobazi's community for their support over the last several months of her illness. A private burial will be held for family. We will be in touch with further information about a future Celebration of Life event, as well as ways to support Fobazi's family and legacy.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 31/01/2026
It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.
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Katelyn @katiebug.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
“How much cheese have you had today?” “Not enough.” 🧀 🧀 🧀 🧀 🧀
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Anna @annaneat.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Stopped in my tracks by this sign pointing out the IMLS absence from #ALAAC25
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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 21/06/2025
amtrak’s marketing team gets it
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? Digital resources, particularly eBooks and audiobooks, are going to bankrupt libraries if something isn't done to halt the extortionary pricing models of publishers.
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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
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
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Hbomberguy @hbomberguy.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Elvis Costello is the Wiggles for adults (complimentary)
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Carmen 📚 Latinx Book Influencer 📚 @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
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Katelyn @katiebug.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
On 3/14, Trump signed a EO to eliminate the IMLS, the only federal funding agency for public libraries. It is only 0.003% of the federal budget but will have devastating impact on local libraries. Please call Congress and ask them to protect IMLS: www.congress.gov/members/find...
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Katelyn @katiebug.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
After my grandfather suffered a brain aneurysm decades ago, he watched Sesame Street while recovering to re-learn the basic concepts he lost to cognitive impairment. #MyPBSStory
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Katelyn @katiebug.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
With the current threat posed to NPR and PBS, we should discuss the positive impacts these organizations have had on us personally as American citizens. #MyPBSStory #MyNPRStory
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Katelyn @katiebug.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
How long I decide to microwave foods is entirely vibes based.
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Katelyn @katiebug.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Steam, i haven’t played it but… I don’t think Sonic X Shadow Generations is a psychological horror game.
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Katelyn @katiebug.bsky.social · 17/07/2024
Fish are the opposite of forbidden knowledge.
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