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Brandy 🩷💜💙

@librarybrandy.bsky.social
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Middle-school librarian, reader, video gamer, crocheter, baker. I'm the girl for your apocalypse team. She/her.

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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My school year has gotten off to a weird start, but yesterday I had a kid interrupt class to tell me the weight range of a t-rex and the only response I could think of was "huh, what about a triceratops?" So I may have won that kid over at the expense of the other 19 in the room. I have no regrets.
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
(caveat: we are v drunk) A: so if soup is round and dumplings are triangler, what shape is a soup dumpling? Me: trapezoidal. A: so then what food is a rhombus? Me: grilled cheese.
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
There are a couple of threads within here so click through the replies to find the actual conversation that started all this but I'm drunk enough to reshare it with all of you, all like three of my followers, you're welcome and goodnight
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
While this is, objectively, the Wrong Cover (sorry, Dan, but it's true), every word of this essay lands. I loved this book as a kid and I love it now, for some of the same reasons and some new ones that only come with age. (Why does OutOfPrint not have shirts of this? Why is there no Folio edition?)
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Today in middle school: Convo w/5th grader: Kid: the eraser came off my pencil. Me: where is it? K: in the pencil sharpener. Me: .... Me: why is it in the pencil sharpener? K: I put it there. Me: ....why did you put your eraser in the pencil sharpener? K (as if I'm being dense): to.... sharpen it?
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I honestly don't know why I find this absurd little story strangely beautiful.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 20/12/2025
3yo: “daddy’s phone is in his pocket!” me: “that’s true!” 3yo: “why isn’t mummy’s phone in her pocket?” me: “… buckle up, kiddo, we’re gonna discuss five hundred years of fashion and misogyny”
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
I read this book and loved it, but didn't pick up on the neurodivergence because the character seemed perfectly typical to *me* and *I'm* not considered neurodivergent. Multiple friends: "Uh, you are, it's obvious; we've known since the minute we met you. Did you... *not* know?" I guess I do now!
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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
"but it's everywhere now so we just have to accept it's the new reality" motherfucker we can just stop putting it everywhere! we did it with asbestos and CFCs and lead-based paint or petrol and make-up with arsenic in it! if everyone is using something and it's bad, we can choose to stop!
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I will forever be the cranky old lady yelling at AI to get off my lawn. This was a worthwhile perspective. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
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A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Book math is showing up an hour early to pick up your preorder on release day just so you can take it home and let it cure like a prosciutto for eight months
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I'm so sorry to not alt-text these, but I have Story to Tell You All. Screenshots from where I told it to my library team group chat. (1/?)
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Healey tells RFK to kick rocks; all MA residents can get covid vaccines. Governor Healey Announces Immediate Steps to Ensure Vaccine Availability in Massachusetts Amid Trump, RFK Rollbacks | Mass.gov www.mass.gov/news/governo...
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
This book was short, and packed--not a bit of wasted space. The dark side of being a teenage girl and young woman--the obsessions, desires, power--and finding your way to who you are and who you want to be, but not in the happy-sunshiney way. Really good, and yes, very weird.
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gg @ggold328.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
i can see this one is going to get a lot of use
a comic thay depicts a trump supporter telling a dem if they puchthe button djt goes to jail for life BUT so does bill clinton like its a gotcha and the dem just keeps pushing the red button
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Our IT guy sent my school laptop for a warranty repair of a purely cosmetic issue, and the loaner he left immediately gave me an error message about "the trust between this workstation and the primary domain failed" so I'm looking into couples counseling for them so I can get some work done
Microsoft Windows error message reading "the trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed"
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
As I'm going to bed, I remember that I woke up this morning with a particular song in my head, a song that started in a dream. At some point last night, my subconscious Rickrolled me.
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NPR @npr.org · 31/03/2025
JUST IN: The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.
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Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave
The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.
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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
JUST BECAUSE THE CLOWN CAR GOES VERY FAST DOES NOT MEAN IT ISN’T FULL OF CLOWNS
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Trevor Owens @tjowens.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
This is the best piece of reporting I’ve seen so far on what is going on at IMLS. I encourage everyone who cares about the key role that libraries and museums play in the United States to read it. news.artnet.com/art-world/do...
news.artnet.com
DOGE Descends on the Institute for Museum and Library Services
DOGE employees and a new acting director showed up at the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) on Thursday for an intended 'raid'
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
One thing I love about Dan Sinker's writing is that he's so honest about the things that are broken and seem irreparably so, but he always has a thread of hope. That's what I try to hold on to.
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Mr. Mark He/Him 📚🌹🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @mrmarkstorytimer.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
If information is an ecosystem, fighting misinformation by teaching information literacy is like fighting climate change with “forest-fire-preparedness classes.” It’s still a great idea, but temper your expectations.
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
What's one book you read this year that you'd recommend? Doesn't have to be FROM this year. I really enjoyed Everyone in My Family Has Killed Somebody, by Benjamin Stevenson.
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
"I love coffee," my coworker says. "I'm kind of a connoisseur," he adds, dropping a Seattle's Best pod into the Keurig and carefully placing his Dunkin Donuts mug beneath.
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Hey @alexanderdanner.bsky.social looks like @xkcd.com saw our table
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I woke up out of a dream the other night that I was protecting either a baby dragon or a dragon egg from a young sabertooth named Maggie. We escaped by jumping off a low cliff into the ocean.
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I disliked my job doing page production for biomed journals, so I did what I always did in times of personal uncertainty: I went to the library. As I walked through the doors, it hit me: THIS is the place I belong, where I've always felt most myself. 2y grad school, 9y public lib, 11y school lib.
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
This place exists in London and @alexanderdanner.bsky.social did not go? Who did I even marry? www.thecheesebar.com/seven-dials/
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Pick & Cheese - The Cheese Bar - Seven Dials / Covent Garden
Cheese and Wine, done differently. Take a seat at our Conveyor Belt of British Cheese, in Covent Garden. Bookings for 4+ only.
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 28/01/2024
Reading The Bird's Nest by Shirley Jackson and remembering why I love her writing so much. "Mr. and Mrs. Arrow brought with them, and spread infectiously, an air of unfading wallpaper and practical carpeting, of ironclad and frequently unendurable mediocrity."
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
Me, to Alexa: Computer, play Tchaikovsky. Alexa: Ludwig van Beethoven has a new album out. Would you like to hear it? Oh, does he now.
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Except in our older house, in which there are pretty much 2 circuits, "most of kitchen" and "both bedrooms, bathroom, living room, dining room, front hall, the rest of the kitchen, and possibly part of the house next door." I fantasized about buying the place just to rewire it.
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
I just took a good look at the 35 multiple-choice questions on Logical Fallacies I've given to half the 8th graders already and realized that I left every answer but one set to A.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 26/10/2023
The Onion publishing their "No way to prevent this" article so many times it got its own Wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_W...
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'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens - Wikipedia
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
“As always, Pfizer’s goal is to ensure broad and equitable access to our medicines," says the Pfizer spokesman, twirling his villain mustache and explaining why they've set the price of their life-saving medicine at $1400. www.cnbc.com/2023/10/18/p...
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Pfizer to price Covid drug Paxlovid at $1,390 per course
Paxlovid will transition to the private market in November as demand for Covid vaccines and treatments slumps nationwide.
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
Today has been the Monday-est of Fridays.
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
I'm not NOT saying we need this... @alexanderdanner.bsky.social
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
From the essay: "Even if the book banners do read my books, and my writing is effective and they empathize with the queer characters, their agenda is stronger than their empathy."
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
I once saw something describing English as not one coherent language but rather several languages together in a trenchcoat.
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
Me at 2:15: I KNOW none of you have your phones in class, so I don't need to remind you about the emergency alert that's going off in 5 minutes. I don't need to tell any of you that this is a good time to TURN OFF YOUR PHONE so the alert doesn't sound. Three students' phones at 2:20: 🚨🚨🚨 BEEEEEEEP
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
Dreamed I was cryptid-hunting in Animal Crossing. Unclear whether this was new game content or if the dream was just skinned as ACNH.
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
Editor of the literary magazine, struggling with depression/anxiety in the mid-'90s when we had no idea what those things were. Not cool enough for the burnouts, not driven enough for the smart kids. But it was still better than middle school.
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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
Hey, all. Julie Rehmeyer has made it easy to donate Blue Sky invite codes to folks in the disability community for whom Twitter was a crucial support. If you have extras you can drop them here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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BlueSky Invites for the Chronic Illness Community
Please fill out this form if you're the chronic illness community and you'd like to either (1) donate invite codes or (2) request an invite.
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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 29/09/2023
The attack on libraries will not end with any consensus standard for what counts as prurient or pornographic, because the attack isn’t about that. It’s about eliminating the library as a public space where a child can find the smallest measure of freedom from parental domination. 📚
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 25/09/2023
For all the baking I do, pie crust has always been my white whale. But today I took a class and made the best pie crust I have ever made! (This crust is okay enough but my bar for "best" is pretty low) Blue/rasp/black berries with cinnamon and nutmeg; flowers are crust with cinnamon sugar on them.
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
I keep coming across posts like this on this site and wondering how I made it into my 40s without recognizing my own bisexuality
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Brandy 🩷💜💙 @librarybrandy.bsky.social · 26/08/2023
Dude just came into the teen room at the public library looking for a card catalog and the periodicals room and did I just meet a time traveler?
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Raysident Evil @sireviscerate.myatproto.social · 21/08/2023
I was not expecting the Pop-it Wikipedia to be such a roller coaster.
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