Reposted by @mr-pierce.bsky.socialMatthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Petar Musa just scored a goal. I enjoyed that. 1521410
Reposted by @mr-pierce.bsky.socialTexas Observer @texasobserver.org · 11/03/2026New from Kalyn Gensic: "I entered this profession just as storm clouds of the current book-banning push were starting to gather, but I enrolled in a librarian program hoping it would pass me like lamb’s blood was painted on my doorframe. And for the first three years, wishful thinking worked ..."texasobserver.orgHow a High School Librarian in Abilene Fought Back Against Moms for LibertyI entered this profession just as the storm clouds of the current book-banning push were starting to gather; now I’m in the middle of it. 14725
mr-pierce.bsky.social @mr-pierce.bsky.social · 01/07/2025#booksky #quotes #bigbeautifulbill #usaid 000
Reposted by @mr-pierce.bsky.socialNathan Hill @afterburn.soccer · 27/06/2025This is the government and cruelty so many voted for. Because they don’t believe these victims are human. 011
Reposted by @mr-pierce.bsky.socialMatthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Banger column by David Brooks www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...nytimes.comOpinion | I’m Normally a Mild Guy. Here’s What’s Pushed Me Over the Edge. 89518
mr-pierce.bsky.social @mr-pierce.bsky.social · 05/04/2025#booksky #30daybookchallenge I thought I'd add one more book to the 30 day challenge--the book I wish people would read now. The Fifth Risk - Michael Lewis Lewis talks to federal employees to see what they do--and it is surprisingly emotional and beautiful. 130
mr-pierce.bsky.social @mr-pierce.bsky.social · 04/04/2025#booksky #30daychallenge #30daybookchallenge Day 30: The book I'm reading now. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin 0100
mr-pierce.bsky.social @mr-pierce.bsky.social · 04/04/2025#booksky #30bookchallenge #30daybookchallenge Day 29: A book cover I love. Woodhouse's Scrub Jays are a glorious bird. 070
mr-pierce.bsky.social @mr-pierce.bsky.social · 02/04/2025#booksky #30daychallenge #30daybookchallenge Day 28: A classic novel I still intend to read I read The Moonstone recently--so The Woman in White should be up soon. 1101
mr-pierce.bsky.social @mr-pierce.bsky.social · 01/04/2025#booksky #30daychallenge #30daybookchallenge Day 27: A book I read every year. This is one of the books I teach every year... The Light Princess by George MacDonald 040
mr-pierce.bsky.social @mr-pierce.bsky.social · 01/04/2025#booksky #30daychallenge #30daybookchallenge Day 26: A biography everyone should read This is a highly underrated, though little known, autobiography of life in North Texas. 020
mr-pierce.bsky.social @mr-pierce.bsky.social · 30/03/2025#booksky #30bookchallenge #30daybookchallenge Day 25: A villain that I actually love. This one stumped me, but maybe Shylock. 040
mr-pierce.bsky.social @mr-pierce.bsky.social · 23/03/2025#booksky #30daychallenge #30daybookchallenge Day 24: A collaboration by 2 or more authors I evidently am not a big fan of collaborations because I have few to choose between, but one of my all-time favorite volumes of poetry is a collaboration. Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison's Braided Creek 011
mr-pierce.bsky.social @mr-pierce.bsky.social · 22/03/2025#booksky #30bookchallenge #30daybookchallenge Day 23: A book quote you know by heart. It seems I have a lot of lines from Wendell Berry down. 180
mr-pierce.bsky.social @mr-pierce.bsky.social · 21/03/2025#booksky #30daychallenge #30daybookchallenge Day 22: LGBT Love Story 020
mr-pierce.bsky.social @mr-pierce.bsky.social · 21/03/2025#booksky #30daychallenge #30daybookchallenge Day 21: An anthology I love. I love all of the "Good Poems" anthologies. 010
mr-pierce.bsky.social @mr-pierce.bsky.social · 20/03/2025#booksky #30daybookchallenge #30daychallenge Day 20: A (favorite) book with an unreliable narrator Easy choice 020
mr-pierce.bsky.social @mr-pierce.bsky.social · 19/03/2025#booksky #30daychallenge #30daybookchallenge Day 19: An audiobook you liked because of the narrator's voice Timothy West's The Warden 010
mr-pierce.bsky.social @mr-pierce.bsky.social · 18/03/2025#booksky #30bookchallenge #30daybookchallenge Day 18: A book you like by an author no longer living. I'm pretty sure I read more books by dead authors than by living ones, soo not an easy one to pick. I'll go with Wallace Stegner. I wish there were more books by him. 000
mr-pierce.bsky.social @mr-pierce.bsky.social · 16/03/2025#booksky #30bookchallenge #30daybookchallenge Day 17: A book with a name in the title (may be a fictional name or not) 030
mr-pierce.bsky.social @mr-pierce.bsky.social · 15/03/2025#booksky #30daychallenge #30daybookchallenge Day 16: A book I've read more than once. 010
mr-pierce.bsky.social @mr-pierce.bsky.social · 14/03/2025#booksky #30daybookchallenge #30daychallenge Day 15: A book that made you cry sad tears (I can't tell the difference between this one and Day 6, to be honest.) This is a sad book I like though. 020
mr-pierce.bsky.social @mr-pierce.bsky.social · 14/03/2025#booksky #30daychallenge #30daybookchallenge Day 14: A fairy tale retelling I think people should read every word ever written by Barbara Comyns. 020
mr-pierce.bsky.social @mr-pierce.bsky.social · 10/03/2025#booksky #30daychallenge #30daybookchallenge Day 13: A (great) book with color in the title. 010
mr-pierce.bsky.social @mr-pierce.bsky.social · 09/03/2025#30daybookchallenge #30daychallenge #booksky Day 12 - A 'popular' book you hate (I'm not as big of a fan of this challenge when the topic is a book I don't like.) 010
mr-pierce.bsky.social @mr-pierce.bsky.social · 08/03/2025#booksky #30daychallenge #30daybookchallenge Day 11: Literary character to have dinner with John Ames 010
