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Kendra Abel

@kendrama.bsky.social
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Librarian, cancer patient (again…), depressed; also, I like cats. She/her, gray ace.

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Kendra Abel @kendrama.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I run a public library, and our numbers are all going up: more people through the door, more items checked out, more computer use, and a ton of new item requests. Same thing happened during the 2008 recession.
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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The only good April Fools joke was when a library posted a headline saying “Study Shows Literacy Problems BC People Reply To Articles They Didn’t Read” When you clicked the link “lol April Fools there is no article. Tell no one” Then people who had not clicked the link argued about literacy all day.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/03/2026
Every time I feel despair, my fellow citizens give me hope with kindness, care, and compassion. The powers that be? No.
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Shane Liesegang, SJ (シェーン|شَيْن|เชน) @sjml.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I was radicalized by a kind elderly Presbyterian minister in a brightly colored cardigan who played with puppets and told me that people could like me exactly as I am and that everyone is different and that's great and we should like them exactly as THEY are.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
about a dozen stories in, my primary response to all of this apart from just profound rage and grief at these outrageously preventable deaths is a growing sense of absolute terror about what they’re doing in the dark where nobody can see it and what’s happening to the people nobody has found
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
we were probably all up last night staring at the ceiling with our own version of the same thought running on endless loop, but mine looked something like this: I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I have to try and forcibly remind myself that it's two things at once - that we hate Trump and his cronies not just because it's fun to dunk on the mad king for clicks, but because we love the people he is hurting and our anger is on behalf of the vulnerable, which makes it sacred and honorable
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
No one wants to hear that <checks notes> Iran currently has a more active & functional parliament than the United States of Just This One Guy Can Do Whatever He Wants Because No One In Congress Who Swore Oaths Will Do Their Damn Jobs
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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/02/2026
this is just who they are they do bad things everywhere all the time because they are evil and stupid and constantly indulging their very worst impulses there’s no twelve dimensional plan here
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kamimagic @kamimagic.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Did you know baby shampoo is mild enough, when used with water, to rinse eyes if they've been sprayed? Like when walking on or around ICE? We need to be careful and listen to this ophthalmologist about pepper spray. #ProudBlue 📹: drglaucomflecken/TT (a.k.a. Dr. William Flannary)
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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Christian Diaz subdued a home intruder after they had broken in and shot Diaz’s son. PHX PD then arrived and murdered Diaz right in front of his family. One of his children reports that their father’s jaw was completely shot off. Diaz was the father and provider for 12 children. Support his family:
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Donate to Loving father killed by police being mistaken for intruder, organized by Jarvis Rosas
On January 26th 2025 at 6pm, in phoenix arizona at lowerbuc… Jarvis Rosas needs your support for Loving father killed by police being mistaken for intruder
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
i'm being flip but when i think about the guys who are gassing preschools and putting children in camps and killing people both on and off camera--complaining about WHISTLES--i understand why dante was like no, we need way more kinds of hell. at least nine
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 25/01/2026
I don't want to hear another word about "reforming" ICE. I want you to run in the midterms on removing every dollar of funding for ICE and impeaching every fucking administration official you can get your hands on.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/01/2026
I would like the people calling for this, if they are not actually wreckers or feds, to consider why non-stupid people might be avoiding posting about starting an armed insurrection on public social media right now
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Coach Gowron @coachgowron.com · 18/01/2026
A warrior is not defined by the fights they have won, but by what they fight for. Stand for those less privileged, stand for the powerless, stand with your neighbors, stand for those who will come after you. Stand for honor, or you stand for nothing at all, and are worth even less.
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I'mNotAHRHitter @imnotahrhitter.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
If you have love in your heart, family and friends in your life, or just help out someone in need, you've already won over these immoral pricks. You're already richer than the wealthiest, saddest losers on the Earth. No matter what, they will die miserable. They will never have what you have.
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Scary Tea Lady @sassytealady.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead. It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut. No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
a mini barbie dreamhouse atop a giant (relative to the house) chicken legs
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
and this is just a random fucking Thursday in November! I’m so tired of exciting government! Make government boring again!
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
We have nihilistic 8chan edgelords in charge of our nuclear arsenal because 30% of America still isn’t over the fact the South lost the Civil War
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Kendra Abel @kendrama.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Alt text: a picture of three leather-bound books with the caption, “My antifa membership kit arrived today.” The titles printed in gold foil on the three books are: The Declaration of Independence, The Bill of Rights, and The Constitution of the United States of America.
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Anita @anita1956.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
This is the most wonderful story. Trust me on this one. youtube.com/shorts/O5yK7...
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Fruit for thought. Never judge a book by its cover. #comedy #histoty #storytelling #standup
YouTube video by David Nihill
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Shannon Hale @shannonhale.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Libraries are so cool. Whenever I'm away from home and need a place to hang out between things, I find a library. There's a bathroom, a water fountain, chairs, and I can read, meditate, use the computers, or just be, and no one tries me make me buy anything.
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J. Elvis Weinstein @jelvisweinstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
one of the common threads you will frequently find among devoted adult readers & writers is that as kids the librarian let them get away with reading whatever the fuck they wanted. so much of the scifi and fantasy I fell in love with as a kid was very much Not For Kids, but it made my brain light up
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 18/09/2025
Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own. Just. Keep. Reading.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 19/09/2025
you get to be "one of the good ones" right up until they decide they can go full mask off and don't need to pretend there are "good ones" anymore
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18/08/2025
I want you all to explore and celebrate all the communication options Bluesky has to offer, and with that said, if I never have to see Nazi shit from X that some of all y'all screencap just to dunk on it here, I would be so happy, I left X so I wouldn't have to see that Nazi shit you know
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Goddamn. What a sobering and poignant piece of conceptual art. What an amazing artist.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
There are currently more kids in Texas with measles than there are transgender collegiate athletes in all of America. Guess which one they want you to focus on.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
The first rule of life is always do whatever upsets matt walsh and you will have lived a good moral just life
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Kimmi🌷 @kimmi1965.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The principles of community action is mutual aid. Mutual aid, serving the community is beautiful, and an act of love for all.
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Akallabêth 🇺🇦 @akallabeth24.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
So Say We All
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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
You know you can just not use AI, right? You can make a choice not to be part of this. Even if your job uses it, YOU don’t have to in your normal life. You don’t have to let your kids use it. You didn’t have it three years ago. You can just…be on Team Human. You can choose.
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Coach Gowron @coachgowron.com · 19/05/2025
It is not possible to achieve everything you desire, no matter how hard you try. That is a hard truth. But if you never reach for greatness how will you know what is beyond your grasp? And in the attempt, who knows what other unimagined glories may come along the way?
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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 16/05/2025
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

Anelise Feldman
Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth
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Elaine Maisner @emaisner.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Librarians, the toughest of all. “Staff members at the library called the U.S. Capitol Police as well as their general counsel, Meg Williams, who told the men they were not allowed access to the Copyright Office and asked them to leave,” which they did. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
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Officials Are Denied Access to Library of Congress After Trump Names New Boss
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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 12/05/2025
There's a more complete story out now for what happened at the Library of Congress today. Library staff denied access to new appointees to senior library positions without a Senate-confirmed Librarian in place. Recognizing the former #2 as in charge in the interim. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
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Officials Are Denied Access to Library of Congress After Trump Names New Boss
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/05/2025
as someone who lives nextdoor to both supportive housing and public housing, i need people to understand that the best locations for both are going to be the central neighborhoods in a metropolitan area, where there is easy and reliable access to services and jobs.
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Philip and Rollie @ripperelse.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
it is impossible for me to not talk funny to my cat
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Coach Gowron @coachgowron.com · 09/05/2025
Bitterness and cynicism are a form of surrender, when anger at injustice remains but the will to confront it is dulled by resignation. As true warriors, let anger at injustice be bright and righteous, and let it drive us to confront its cause and cast it down.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/05/2025
he really, truly thinks that stopping trade with China entirely is good he doesn’t care how much damage it does to the economy or how many businesses go under - he thinks that if Americans buy anything from China we are losing money so it should stop there’s no twelve dimensional chess here
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 05/05/2025
…So TeleMessage was hacked. Why does Pete Hegseth still have a fucking job? Why do ANY OF THESE PEOPLE still have a fucking job??? (again: shush; I know why, and it FUCKING INFURIATES ME.) bsky.app/profile/mica...
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
URGENT: Federal immigration agents stopped a bus of farm workers from Lynn-Ette & Sons Farms on Fri am. They had a list of names, including UFW worker leaders who have been organizing to unionize their workplace. Those workers were detained. Count on me to help! ufw.org/nyraid5225 #WeFeedYou
A photo of the Federal immigration authority car blocking the bus in upstate New York with the text "urgent UFW worker leaders in New York have been detained. Sogn the pledge.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/05/2025
I don't think people want AI friends. I think they want a living wage so they can go and do fun stuff with people and make friends.
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Our first line of defense against tyranny is historians, scholars, teachers, and librarians. We’ve seen an active effort to dissuade students from the humanities because those roles are threats to the powers that be. A well-read population will not easily surrender its freedoms.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
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Coach Gowron @coachgowron.com · 13/04/2025
Honor has no price tag. It is bought only through actions, through conducting yourself with integrity, with kindness towards others, with ferocity towards those who promote hatred and bigotry. Nor can anybody, no matter how wealthy, buy it or take it from you. Honor is priceless.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Vaccines save lives. And no, they do not cause autism.
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