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Michelle Boule

@mboule.bsky.social
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librarian, beer nerd, bibliophile, geek, maker of trouble, and writes as Michelle Boule and half of S.M. Leigh formally wanderingeyre on Twitter

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carolyn @papersquared.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Why I Stepped Down buttondown.com/papersquared...
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Why I Stepped Down
The Illinois Library Association's annual conference is this week, and for the first time in many, many years, I'm not attending. For those that may not be...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
It really is wild, sad, bizarre, predictable. Not only is it not believable. It's no overstatement to say that when ICE says guy tried to run us over, tried to attack, threatened to shoot ... that's ICE for 'hey, our guys were pumped up and they shot the guy.'
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Someone asked me to "please stop" with my posts about the Oxford comma. After careful consideration, I’ve determined that I’m unable to abide by such an unreasonable, discourteous, and ill-mannered request.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
LORENZO SALGADO ARAUJO Houstonians - pls tell your mayor that you refuse to accept any investigation led by ICE, that your neighbor deserves justice & his family the truth.
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NPR @npr.org · 27/03/2026
The four Army officers were on track to become one-star generals, NPR confirms. Defense secretary Pete Hegseth's involvement in the promotion process is highly unusual. n.pr/4td8EvV
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Defense Secretary Hegseth intervened to stop promotions of Black and female officers
The four Army officers were on track to become one-star generals, NPR confirms. Defense secretary Pete Hegseth's involvement in the promotion process is highly unusual.
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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I agree 100% with Steven Vickers that authors will be falsely accused of using AI in the coming years. In particular, authors like myself whose works were stolen to train AI systems are at risk. When we write in our own unique styles, AI trained on us will quite likely flag us as using AI.
Author Steven Vickers wrote on Threads, "To confirm, this '100% AI generated' passage is the opening of Chapter 5 from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. I think authors are going to get screwed in these AI witch hunts."
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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 20/03/2026
This is very "won't someone PLEASE think of the children!" except that this mythical adult reader they're infantilizing as incapable of putting down something she doesn't like is almost always a woman, and this policing is done BY women, and the authors they want to "hold accountable" are women.
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Michelle Boule @mboule.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
One of these days, people will stop effing around with Romancelandia. We know how to organize and we care about people.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 26/01/2026
Did you miss out on your last opportunity to bankroll the fully stocked pop-up leftist supply depot?? Do you want to send free hand warmers, winter gear, first aid supplies, YOU NAME IT, to the Twin Cities? This is your moment. Let's ride. www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... (non 'zon in follow up!)
@GuntherEagleman on Twitter says, "BREAKING: The "No-Go-Zone" in Minneapolis is getting fully stocked like a pop-up leftist supply depot, free hand warmers, winter gear, coffee, food, milk, you name it.

This is PROFESSIONAL-grade logistics. Someone is BANKROLLING this autonomous zone.
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Michelle Boule @mboule.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
The stories I have heard from friends and neighbors are heartbreaking and also make me proud to live in Chicagoland.
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Michelle Boule @mboule.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
For a more balanced discussion, the AP has a piece on it today: apnews.com/article/food...  Trump administration posts notice that no federal food aid will go out Nov. 1
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Trump administration posts notice that no federal food aid will go out Nov. 1
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has posted a notice on its website saying federal food aid will not go out Nov. 1 as the government shutdown drags on.
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Michelle Boule @mboule.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
As librarians, we are going to have to decide if we can ethically send people to a website for information when that website should come with a trigger warning for harmful language.
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Michelle Boule @mboule.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
TFW you don't feel like you can professionally or ethically refer people to what should be a non-partisan website for information because of the racist, hateful, and false information placed on the banner of every @usdagov.bsky.social website.
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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
The executive committee of the University Faculty Senate for the SUNY system issued a strong statement this week urging university leaders to reject the Trump compact. It's worth a read. dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/server/api/c...
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Michelle Boule @mboule.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
OMG yes!
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Michelle Boule @mboule.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
PEN reported 6,870 instances of book bans last year alone, meaning 6,870 times a books was removed from shelves or access was restricted. That number is not a typo. The number has tripled since 2021.
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Michelle Boule @mboule.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Hahaha truth
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Michelle Boule @mboule.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed
Alt: a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed, facepalm, Michael Scott from The Office
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 04/09/2025
Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban trans Americans from owning guns. Since 2018: •4 trans shooters means 2A is null & void •4193 NON-trans shooters means 2A needs expansion Here's a better idea: Solo men commit 94.6% of all mass shootings. Let's ban firearms from solo men & see how it goes.
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Michelle Boule @mboule.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
This is not how any of this works FFS
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𝔅𝔲𝔱𝔱𝔬𝔫𝔰 𝔒'𝔊𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔦𝔥𝔞𝔫 @johnxuandou.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
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Bryn Donovan @bryndonovan.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
If you’re writing an older character, you are not contractually obligated to make them: •cranky •incompetent •hilariously baffled by technology If they’re a woman, they don’t HAVE to call everyone “dear.” If they are sexual, it doesn’t have to be played for laughs. #writingcommunity #ageism
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Michelle Boule @mboule.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
This reference in the episode made me snort while eating my lunch.
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Strict Scrutiny Podcast @strictscrutiny.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Our term recap - big themes, roses & thorns, and … yikes. crooked.com/podcast/a-te...
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a cartoon cat is making a face and saying `` yes , i 'm sassy '' in front of a mirror .
Alt: a cartoon cat is making a face and saying `` yes , i 'm sassy '' in front of a mirror .
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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
The lists are weighted by pubs, we all understand this, right? The only possible bestsellers, barring random Bigolus Dickolas activity, are the ones that enough copies were printed and people have heard of. So what they're saying is "we are going to keep drowning you in this shit."
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Michelle Boule @mboule.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
THIS
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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Join the fight to support the Library of Congress at www.SaveTheLOC.org
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Michelle Boule @mboule.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
"Unable to condone that grave misjudgement, I dissent," seems like it could be applied to many of the decisions this session.
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Robin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Are YOU going to ALA? If you are, have I got a deal for you.... Come see our amazing panel talk about Readers' Advisory!
Booklist Presents: The State of RA Today

Saturday, June 28th 1pm ET

Pennsylvania Convention Center Room 124

Panelists Becky Spratford, Robin Bradford, E.E. Lawrence, Lila Denning, Jessica Trotter.  Moderated by Susan Maguire
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 03/06/2025
+ 4. I don’t want to contribute to a harmful industry. 5. I can write better than ChatGPT. So, in some ways, our question should be: how do we get students to a point where these things are true for them, too?
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Michelle Boule @mboule.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Nothing to see here, just further destruction of science and research. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
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Fulbright Applicants Rejected Over “DEI” Research Proposals
The Trump administration staged an unprecedented intervention in this year’s Fulbright selection process, rejecting finalists whose research deals with race, gender or climate change.
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Michelle Boule @mboule.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Absolute truth
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Michelle Boule @mboule.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
*pretends to be shocked* White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say
The report, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was intended to address the reasons for the decline in Americans’ life expectancy.
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Michelle Boule @mboule.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
I am so sorry, for you and the librarians.
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Michelle Boule @mboule.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
One clicked
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Michelle Boule @mboule.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Excellent life and creative choice.
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Michelle Boule @mboule.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Unrelated to the food, which looks great... We had those dishes growing up and I loved them.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 27/05/2025
The Utah Report shows exactly what the people commissioning it didn’t want to see, that gender affirming care works. This article brought to you by @evanurquhart.bsky.social
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Plentiful Data, No Regret: What the Utah Review on Youth Trans Care Found — Assigned
A 1,000-page report by the College of Pharmacy at the University of Utah, which found care safe and effective, stands out from others: It’s both independent and an actual review of the evidence.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
NPR's What to Read This Summer list is live - and written by actual real humans, including me! www.npr.org/2025/05/21/n...
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17 new books our critics can't wait to read this summer
We asked some of our trusted critics which upcoming books they are most looking forward to. Here are the fiction and nonfiction titles they picked.
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~ @asynchronia.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I literally started college at 16. It was amazing and set me up for success. Teenagers are intelligent and deserve the best.
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Michelle Boule @mboule.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
All of this happened yesterday. One day.
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Michelle Boule @mboule.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
AI is not research. It's generative. It's literally making things up. Be better.
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Michelle Boule @mboule.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
For the people in the back that still don't get it: ChatGPT and AI Bots are generative. They make words up based on probability. They are in no way, shape, or form doing research and looking for real things.
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Michelle Boule @mboule.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I guess poor people don't need the internet. gov.illinois.gov/news/press-r...
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Press Release
Press Releases
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
👇🎯 Real Folkz with Real Jobs all across the country.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
More from Pedro: "I want people to be safe and protected. I want to live on the right side of history. I am an immigrant. My parents are refugees from Chile. We fled a dictatorship and I was privileged enough to grow up in the US after asylum in Denmark. I stand by those protections, always."
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Michelle Boule @mboule.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
You deserve it. The work you do is phenomenal.
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