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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11h

I would like to suggest that seeking election or appointment to your library board is a very good way to address book bans. Applications for our 2027 cohort are now open for those interested: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... - we need leftists to engage in governance.

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FTP Library Elections & Appointments Training Cohort

Hello! You're filling out this form because you've expressed interest in running for or seeking appointment to a local library board seat in your community (or because you're a serving trustee who'd l...

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Happy early birthday! Here's to many more fabulous years! 🎉🎉🎉

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The fear of being left out of what everybody else is doing and the fear of doing what everybody else is doing are both levers that clever advertisers can pull at the same time if they want. — @bdmcclay.bsky.social, on envy

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The Lamp Magazine | So Light and Gold

On envy.

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

He has plans to hang out at the mall with his friends if no school, so win-win, I guess?

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So there's going to be a strike tomorrow, and probably no school, but for some reason they can't definitively say that there will be no school, so one of the kids will bike up to the school to check tomorrow.

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Anyway, between the high interest rates and tighter family budgets, it's not surprising, but I hope he can get some equity on his way out.

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Our neighborhood functions as an entry point into the housing market, so typically houses don't sit for long.

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Our neighbor back home is selling his house and he just dropped the price after it sat on the market all summer.

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Unforgiven, Schindler's List, Cool Runnings and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Last night my husband made bacalhau for the first time, and I don't know if that was just coincidence, but I had my first dream in Portuguese last night.

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I use the Mark Bittman recipe in "How to Cook Everything" as a start point and then adjust based on what vegetables I have on hand. parade.com/31643/markbi...

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Mark Bittman's Minestrone

"Minestrone was considered exotic when I was a child. It seemed different from standard 'American' vegetable soup because of a heavier hand with the

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Can't go wrong with some of the old standbys: meatball soup, cabbage, chicken noodle, minestrone.

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The theology of the discount bus company.

Email header that reads: FlixBus Sarah You have free will

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Winter is coming, folks W.S. Merwin, born on this day in 1927

W. S. Merwin
DUSK IN WINTER

The sun sets in the cold without friends
Without reproaches after all it has done for us
goes down believing in nothing
When it has gone I hear the stream running after it
It has brought its flute it is a long way

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Sarah @sosomanysarahs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If everything is so optimized there's no room for give or take and things fall apart, you're still stuck with your body and your relationships and your finances. If you leave a little room for rest and not checking off every item on your list, you at least have adjustment room if things change.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I just said in my discussion at the IWPR event on women’s economic policy: asking “why am I hearing this and why I am hearing this now” is good praxis for the moment.

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hey guys, what did we talk about yesterday? C'mon.

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The library system I worked for did not participate in it for years, and finally we did allocate funding for it a few years ago.

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is one of those programs that is run by an outside non-profit that provides the idea and promotion, but no actual funding. The libraries need to fund any rewards program themselves. I wouldn't be surprised if your library either never participated in it, or did at one point and lost funding.

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Whelp. Good night everyone. Let's try to have a normal one tomorrow. Today was over the top, and not in a good way.

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Some of the last blooms of summer.

Purple morning glories cascading down a metal gate next to a yellow plaster pillar with 27 on a tile.

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The video is really lovely. The value of strategic maintenance. Low cost and high impact for community members.

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Starting to explore undergrad options with my oldest. Looking for smaller liberal arts with emphasis on the humanities. Open to denominational schools. (I only applied to one American college back in the day, so almost starting from scratch).

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The holy trinity of monoculture is Sheetz, Wawa, and Buc-ee's.

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It feels like 2007 all over again.

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So, someone was explaining to me the commercial real estate bubble, and it seems like the sleeper time bomb hidden behind the much more visible A.I. bubble.

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Little boys' clothing options once they size out of toddler.

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Robin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I also kind of miss libraries that had listening stations. I get that it's mostly impossible now because staff have been cut to the bone, collection budgets have been cut to the bone, but...people would come in, trade their library card (or ID, or car keys...or whatever) to "check out" headphones.

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And letting you sit for however long as you want at an establishment.

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wait, and the main debate was about iced coffee?

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One of the best things about Portugal is the near universal agreement that there should be a 1€ coffee option, a 1.80€ beer option, and 3€ glasses of wine.

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm sorry to report that if it's some variation of popular white American kitsch, Europeans are going to correctly identify it as having the juice.

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If it was any good it would be blasting from every party boy car in Europe. If it's peak American culture it will not be contained. (Stan by Ememin featuring Dido is the ultimate example of this.)

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This ad for a local love motel goes hard.

Ad for a love motel with a photo of four entangled feet that roughly translates to "Badly slept nights, but well worth it."

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The fact that I've never heard of Choosin' Texas until (unfortunately) today sounds like a you problem.

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What's wild is that there are dozens of Southern grandma names, and Mama is not one of them.

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