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Kat

@katlikespie.bsky.social
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Librarian, artist, lover of books, cats, tea, and trivia. She/her. There's no such thing as a bad pun.

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Kat @katlikespie.bsky.social · 19h
When I was in library school, we all had to make a Second Life account; because it was The Future! The only person I ever met/ talked to during my mandatory time using the game was someone in a different library class doing the same thing.
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Kat @katlikespie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Hot debate: is this Loretta of Sunnybrook Farm, or Loretta of Green Gables?
Plastic porch goose wearing green bandana with white daises around its neck, as well as fake braids and a straw hat.
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Kat @katlikespie.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Noooo, not my popsicles!!
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Kat @katlikespie.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Was trying to get my city-wide read to be The Jellyfish Problem by @theptessadactyl.bsky.social but it has to be available in paperback. But maybe next year?
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JaValle @handle.invalid · 07/06/2025
Los Angeles school worker shares frustration over parents having to leave their children’s graduation ceremony because ICE raided an elementary school’s graduation today
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
We now have the details of the federal 2026 budget proposal, and it spells the end of IMLS. The request is $6,000,000 to "conduct an orderly closeout of IMLS." Whatever happens in the 2 court cases would be moot if this passes. bookriot.com/the-2026-fed...
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The 2026 Federal Budget Proposal Shutters The Institute for Museum and Library Services
The details of the 2026 federal budget proposal spell out the goal of shutting down the Institute for Museum and Library services.
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pcrritesgood.bsky.social @pcrritesgood.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
This basically...
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Marieke Nijkamp @mariekeyn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Hey Blueksy, if you're looking for magic books and magic school books that *aren't* horribly exclusionary, let me share some fantastic examples with you. #BookSky 💙📚
A hand holding up a stack of books in front of blurry bookshelves. The books are, from top to bottom:

LIKE A CURSE by Elle McNicoll
ONYEKA AND THE ACADEMY OF THE SUN by Tolá Okogwu
MIA AND THE LIGHTCASTER by Janelle McCurdy, illustrated by Ana Latese
WITCHES OF BROOKLYN by Sophie Escabasse
WITCHLINGS by Claribel Ortega
THE MARVELLERS by Dhonielle Clayton
THE GRIMOIRE OF GRAVE FATES edited by Hanna Alkaf and Margaret Owen
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Kat @katlikespie.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
People who live in the next town over who have been saying they’ll defund their library and just use our library are SO MAD to find out that they aren’t allowed to just use other towns’ libraries. IT ISN’T FAIR!
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Raffi_RC @raffic.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Diversity Equity Inclusion live and let live love and let love
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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 04/04/2025
Love Libraries? Then Fight for their Future! #NationalLibraryWeek
Love Libraries?
Three photos of Libraries
Then Fight for their Future!
#NationalLibraryWeek
Sun, Apr 6 - Sat, Apr 12, 2025
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Christopher Swartout @chrisswartout.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
My favorite sign from the Albany #HandsOff rally.
Protest sign at Albany Hands Off Rally
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
“Protecting” kids without empowering kids is actually just “controlling” kids and if you remember that you will see through a lot of bullshit
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold
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Librarian by Day 🏳️‍🌈 @librarianbyday.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Email addresses for all IMLS staff were being disabled today. Those with questions or concerns over IMLS funding will no longer be able to reach the individual or individuals with whom they’d been working. bookriot.com/imls-gutted/
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The Institute for Museum and Library Services Was Just Gutted
DOGE fired all IMLS employees and closed down their emails. It is assumed all funding for 2025 coming from the federal agency will not be happening.
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Kat @katlikespie.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
It happened again.
Woman’s shoulder, showing neckline of dress, Caucasian skin, and brown hair. The dress has a pattern of brown, orange, tan, and yellow books and cats on a bookshelf. In the middle is one googly eye.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 18/03/2025
Who wants some good news? The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...
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Eastern Monarch Butterfly Population Nearly Doubles
The population wintering in central Mexico's forests occupied 4.42 acres, up from 2.22 acres during the previous winter.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
In this post Kelly provides great list of easy steps you can take: sign the EveryLibrary petition, call your senators + reps (use 5Calls!). Protect our state libraries, tribal libraries, interlibrary loan, digital equity, vital grants to libraries of all species... 📣 And please spread the word!! 📣
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Kat @katlikespie.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
www.everylibrary.org/statementiml...
everylibrary.org
Statement on Trump's Attack on Federal Funding for Libraries
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Morgan Dawn @morgandawn.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Corey Doctorow: "Even by Amazon standards, this is extraordinarily sleazy: starting March 28, each Amazon Echo device will cease processing audio on-device and instead upload all the audio it captures to Amazon's cloud for processing, even if you have previously opted out of cloud-based processing"
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Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28
Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.
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Kat @katlikespie.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
How long have I been walking around with a googly eye stuck to my leg? #childrenslibrarian
Image of one leg in a pair of jeans, which you can see stretched out on a patterned carpet, with the foot wearing a black converse shoe. Below the wrinkles of fabric that denote the knee is a large googly eye used for crafts, looking to the left.
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Kat @katlikespie.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Oh hey, I was wondering what the Fruitstripe Gum guy was up to! Looks like he went pro. Good for him! #glowup
Image of stickers from Cardboard Alchemy’s Critter Kitchen game. One shows a zebra with rainbow stripes and rainbow Mohawk wearing a blue chef’s coat and yellow apron, reminiscent of the mascot of Fruit Stripe Gum.
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Nerd Confirmed @nerdconfirmed.com · 12/03/2025
Comic by Sarah Anderson depicting a person sitting on a blanket in a field. The word "EXISTING" is above their head. A second person creeps in from out of frame and says "That'll be $70". The person sitting says "Ok" with tears welling in their eyes.
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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
All grad admissions offers rescinded at my institution, UMass Chan Med School. There is just no alternative. It’s a terrible loss for students. But it’s also a loss for all of science. Science *runs* on grad student labor. They get paid pennies to do highly skilled work. Science can’t function w/o
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Kat @katlikespie.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
#JoannFabrics looks like the grocery store in March 2020.
Image of aisle of Joann Fabrics that used to be full of colorful yarn, but all the bins are empty. You can also see the wall in the background that is usually full of all different colors of yarn, but all the cubbies are empty.
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Kat @katlikespie.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
My brain is being very mean to me today, so here is my Zeus, who thinks I hung the moon.
Image of black and brown striped cat curled up on a lap wearing blue pants. He has white whiskers and his eyes are closed. He looks very content with himself.
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Frida Fajita @fridafajita.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Oh, no, did the leopards eat your face? How very unfortunate? They were only supposed to eat their faces? That's just the worst...... Alas, whatever shall we do?
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Kat @katlikespie.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I decided that all my coworkers need everlasting cupcakes on their birthdays. Naturally, I decided this during the month when half my coworkers have birthdays.
A crocheted cupcake. The wrapper is pink, the cake is yellow, and the frosting is brown, with red, green, blue, yellow, and pink stitches to look like sprinkles on top. It has little black plastic eyes with green sprinkle eyebrows, and a black thread mouth. It isn’t done by a professional and that’s obvious, but it’s not bad.
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Meg Adams (ArtbyMoga) @artbymoga.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
It’s National Hot Chocolate Day in the USA ☕️💖
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Kat @katlikespie.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
2024 is the year my Dad died. 2025 is the year my Fezzie died.
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Kat @katlikespie.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Do I need an excuse to make this? No, I really don’t.
Image shows a chair covered by a gray blanket. The top of the blanket has a hood with a shark face and teeth, and the arms have flippers. It is majestic. Two views of a woman curled up in a crocheted blanket that has a shark hood. Her face is surrounded by crocheted teeth and she looks very comfortable.
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Kat @katlikespie.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Post a photo you took - with no description - to bring some zen to the timeline.
Happy tiger-striped cat lounges in a cat bed in front of a fireplace, where a fire is burning merrily. The cat’s face and paws are hanging over the bed in a lazy manner and he looks very peaceful.
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Kat @katlikespie.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
My Dad was a huge #BuffaloBills fan, and this was with his things. Can anyone tell me whose autograph this is? @buffalo-bills.bsky.social
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Kat @katlikespie.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
@authorgracelin.bsky.social are there any new quack ducks out this year? The ones I have are all Christmas themed.
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Kat @katlikespie.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
My new coworker says she got all her work done, but I think she’s full of hot air.
Inflatable alien sitting in desk chair, wearing library-themed t-shirt, work lanyard, and library card socks.
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Kat @katlikespie.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
@justsomelibrarian.bsky.social
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a bear is standing in a field behind a fence and waving .
Alt: a bear is standing in a field behind a fence and waving .
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Kat @katlikespie.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Been crocheting a Santa as a gift and I feel like it’s taking forever. But I just finished the head! Now I just need to do the beard! And the hat. And two legs. The boots, and a belt, and a bag with gifts. Maybe by Xmas 2025.
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Kat @katlikespie.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Oh yay, just got my first “woe is me, please pay my bills” message on here. Used to get them all the time on the twitters.
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Kate Mulgrew @thekatemulgrew.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
Hello, Bluesky! Join me and fellow Star Trek ladies on October 3rd for a virtual event, Women of Star Trek for Kamala! We are supporting the Harris/Walz campaign as we look toward a brighter future - one that we need to start building today at the ballot box. 🗳️ #HarrisWalz2024 #Kamala2024
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Kat @katlikespie.bsky.social · 22/09/2024
Houdini, one of Doug’s cats, is voluntarily snuggling up with me while he’s on a business trip, and it’s amazing, but I can’t get up… and I really have to get up! But she might not be here when I get back! (Photo of said kitty)
Beautiful black cat is laying on the carpet with a crumpled paper ball.
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Kat @katlikespie.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #428,129!
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #428,129, Kat ‪@katlikespie.bsky.social‬, joined on Jul 30, 2023"
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Kat @katlikespie.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Still true, still adorable.
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Kat @katlikespie.bsky.social · 29/08/2024
Debating on a career change. What else can I do with my #MLIS?
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Kat @katlikespie.bsky.social · 02/05/2024
One of my fav library kids came in the other night all out of breath. “Miss Kat! There’s this book! Silver… seas? It goes with Where the Mountain Meets the Moon! I NEED IT!” (Don’t worry, we had it on the shelf, AND Starry River of the Sky. No lives were lost.) @authorgracelin.bsky.social
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Kat @katlikespie.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
I haven’t been able to learn about cephalopods live because I work on Wednesday nights, but I am so prepared to watch the recordings. Thank you, @sarahmackattack.bsky.social!
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Kat @katlikespie.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
I made an angry potato cat!
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Kat @katlikespie.bsky.social · 14/01/2024
Wow, I’m drinking a lot of tea lately. I finished this whole box! *buys 7 more boxes of tea*
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Kat @katlikespie.bsky.social · 03/12/2023
I’m seeing people post photos of their large cats and I wanted to share my Aurelius, who I believe was about 23 lbs at his most glorious.
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Kat @katlikespie.bsky.social · 03/12/2023
Me: Look at those migrating geese. Did you ever notice sometimes one side of the flying V is way longer than the other? Do you know why that is? D, genuinely interested: No, why is that? Me: because there’s more geese on that side.
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