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Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her) @nefariousnautilus.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

My friend gave me some jams, so I “If you give a mouse a cookie”d hard. #baking #adventuresinbaking

Photo of drop biscuits on a baking sheet with a silicone baking mat underneath.

Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her) @nefariousnautilus.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I just finished #Yaga yesterday and am so excited to see how they adapt it. Thankful that Heated Rivalry/Hudson got so big, because I might not have found out about it otherwise. It’s so sharp and weird and funny.

Brunette white woman with her face partially obscured by a library copy of Yaga with an oak tree and daisies in the background

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Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her) @nefariousnautilus.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

@courtneymilan.com ummmmm I saw this and immediately thought of the Wedgeford Trials. Hudson looks like a fairy tale prince.

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Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her) @nefariousnautilus.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

I know this is already your life, but YIKES. People are (rightfully) gushing over all the work Connor did to learn Russian with his dialect coach, and it makes the lack of research for Shane’s character way more glaring. I don’t think ambiguousness actually helps, dude!

Threads post from library_book_wyrm saying
I don't want to rain on this parade and it's truly great that they gave Connor a good coach and he worked his ass off, but I would have liked to see the same energy given to Shane's identity. In the show, we still don't know what part of Asia his family hails from! He's just
"Asian Canadian" and it feels unbalanced.
With reply from
alizeusbff saying
I think this was on purpose since in the book he was Japanese and Hudson is Korean. Also, I saw an interview with Hudson saying something to the effec of that he wanted it to be ambiguous so as many people as possible could relate to it.

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Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her) @nefariousnautilus.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Anybody else getting hilariously inaccurate ads based on their Heated Rivalry love?

Screenshot of a sponsored post on Instagram from The Athletic HQ about goalie tiers.

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Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her) @nefariousnautilus.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Fun fact: skunks can definitely dig underneath wire.

Image of a wooden deck with wire bolted on blocking underneath and a one way door designed for animals to be able to get out, but not back in. There is a hole under the wire where skunks dug to presumably get back in.

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Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her) @nefariousnautilus.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

A reply from one of my college friends when I posted an anti-AI thing. Drives me bananas when people try to justify it with “welp, it’s not going away!” 🙃

Facebook reply that says: I know you hate it and I totally get your perspective. It's terrifying, but there are also so many incredible outcomes associated with it. Many of us will lose our jobs, some of it is plagiarism, but definitely not all of it.
Numerous novel medical therapies, climate solutions, and poverty solutions will come from it. It is unfortunately energy intensive but globally we are genuinely on the cusp of unlimited renewable energy.
This podcast is chock-full of great things Al is doing. https://
www.hbs.edu/environment/podcast/ Pages/default.aspx. It's not all good but it's not all bad. One thing is certain; it's not going away. Then the first part of my reply: I'm not terrified, I'm
livid that people are just going

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Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her) @nefariousnautilus.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I made mango sticky rice and it was really good, even if the mango wasn’t all the way ripe yet.

A white bowl with sticky rice and mango chunks on top. Random things like part of a red silicone oven mitt, a mango skin, and a pink vegetable peeler are on the cutting board in the background.

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Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her) @nefariousnautilus.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

You know you’ve made it when your movie title doesn’t have to be in a legible font. What is this? Fi? Spicy lowercase n? Arch? Old TV logo? Train route?

A screenshot of the title font of Brad Pitt’s new movie F1, except it is so stylized you can barely read it.

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Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her) @nefariousnautilus.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

You know, as much as I loved this book as a kid, I somehow still never wanted a pet emu.

Cover of the book “Rotten Egg Patterson to the Rescue” by Colin Thiele and illustrated by Karen Ritz. Illustration is white boy of about 10-12 yo from the chest up, with his arm resting on the back of an emu and making a beak gesture on his own face to imitate the bird, with a mischievous expression. He’s wearing a red collared shirt under a denim jacket.

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Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her) @nefariousnautilus.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I think the egg whites for my lady fingers were not at stiff peaks. Pancaked lady fingers is a sign to invest in an actual Kitchen Aid, not just a regular mixer on a stand. Also to maybe not use duck eggs for meringue.

Very flat baked lady finger cookies on a green silpat baking mat still on a cookie sheet. They are light golden with lightly browned edges.

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Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her) @nefariousnautilus.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

This isn’t reporting, this is straight-up parroting their lies. You should be ashamed.

Screenshot of NYT post that references their article about Trump threatening Harvard bc of supposed antisemitism. Text reads: Breaking News: The Trump administration said it was reviewing billions in federal grants to Harvard, accusing the school of allowing antisemitism to run unchecked on its campus.
Trump Administration Will Review
Billions in Funding for Harvard The administration has already canceled hundreds of millions in federal grants and con...
© www.nytimes.com
March 31, 2025 at 1:10 PM

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Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her) @nefariousnautilus.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Supposedly based on a true story of the author’s ancestor who fought with the Union in the Civil War. It portrays a beautiful friendship, but none of the Black people make it out alive, iirc. I gotta look up more recently published kids’ books about this part of our history.

Cover of children’s picture book Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco. Picture is painted, with a Black male teen with short locs portrayed reading a book with his hand moving to turn the page, and a white male teen looking on over his shoulder. They are wearing stylistically drawn patchwork clothes.

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Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her) @nefariousnautilus.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

We’ve lost the Deep Knowledge. Addy did not eat grubs off tobacco plants to avoid a beating by an overseer so these kids could sit there & say slaves were PAID. Good Lord. (Publishing then was even whiter than it is now, so this is my childhood core memory for learning about it. That & Pink & Say.)

Cover of the American Girl book Meet Addy. It has a Black girl in a pink Civil War era dress and black ankle boots carrying a cloth bundle, wearing a bonnet and walking next to a wooden fence. Her year is 1864.

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Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her) @nefariousnautilus.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Signs from my local protest! (Alas, I had to work.)

Sign that says Porsche Fast, Ferrari Faster, Tesla Fascist.

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Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her) @nefariousnautilus.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

That’s an… interesting logic train there, buddy! Some real… creative connections.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus in VEEP nervously laughing and saying “what the fuck?” with a false grin on her face.

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Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her) @nefariousnautilus.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Just did this! Looks like there’s another half hour to go to submit a comment! Down with AI!

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Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her) @nefariousnautilus.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Screenshotting because this asshattery has to be engagement-bait. 1) this would mean a really horrible war that no one would win 2) as if the current regime would give voting rights to any annexed areas 3) the US has gutted so many nations that we don’t deserve knights in shining armor

Peter Gleick
@petergleick.bsky.social

It just occurred to me that if Canada and Greenland were made US states with Congressional and Senate representation (along with Puerto Rico and DC), the Republican party would never win another national election.
Maybe Canada and Greenland ought to save the United States.
March 12, 2025 at 10:20 PM

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Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her) @nefariousnautilus.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I’ll never forget him “cleaning up” peoples’ encampments, with no apparent effort to try and support the people. Unforgivably cruel.

Screenshot of an insta post from inlandwire, depicting Gavin Newsom using an orange bag and garbage picker to clean up garbage, presumably from a homeless encampment that he just cleared without giving the people a place to go. Text reads: IW
inland wire
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inlandwire Governor Newsom to County Officials:
Clear Homeless Encampments or else | Governor Gavin Newsom is urging county officials

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Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her) @nefariousnautilus.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Do these so-called reporters ever read their headlines out loud to themselves? I really think they should start doing that. Alt text:

Screenshot of New York Times headline and subheading that reads: ANALYSIS
Behind the Collision: Trump Jettisons Ukraine on His Way to a Larger Goal
President Trump's Oval Office encounter reflected his determination to put aside alliances and commitments to principles in favor of raw great-power negotiations.

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Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her) @nefariousnautilus.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Okay, item 3471 on the action list: This adorable little critter, native to the North American continent and an important part of wetland ecosystems, does not deserve to be associated with a Nazi parasite from South Africa. What can we freedom fry its name to?

Photo of a muskrat partially submerged and swimming in water, surrounded by submerged branches snd vegetation

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Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her) @nefariousnautilus.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

He is talking about “freedom and opportunity” solely for billionaires to steal from people.

Excerpt from a Varga article

Schmitt: Did they go crazy?
Musk: [laughs/ Yeah, they did - they did go crazy. I mean that whole cancel culture and, you know, trying to, trying to stop freedom of speech, and um, infringe upon, just in general, infringe upon people's personal freedoms. You know, they just want state control, state control of what you say... They wanna, they wanna, you know, take away your guns, and the reason they wanna take away your guns, is like, so there's nothing you can do to oppose them. So it's sort of like, you know, I just, I just, I just like. We, we, we, we just need to restore the fundamental elements of what made America great, which is, uh, freedom and opportunity.

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Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her) @nefariousnautilus.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Part 3. Tldr, it’s about making protests publicized and accessible and making it easy to protest when there, as well as realizing that everyone has a common goal.

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Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her) @nefariousnautilus.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Unfortunately it’s a video. I’ll work on transcribing it. Part 1

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Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her) @nefariousnautilus.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

And ganached! Some of the big ones didn’t fully cook all the way through, but they should still taste good.

Photo of tray of chocolate eclairs with fresh chocolate ganache on top, on a wire cooling rack.

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Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her) @nefariousnautilus.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Studies in intentional joy: I’ve been craving eclairs, but not at café prices. They’re still egg-heavy and thus pricey, but very satisfying to make… …even if they are shaped a bit like cat turds in their uncooked form.

A tray of piped, uncooked choux pastry that are irregularly shaped because of issues with the tip.

A tray of baked, irregularly shaped eclair shells with a hand next to them for scale. Many are collapsed.

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Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her) @nefariousnautilus.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The audacity to reduce the March trilogy or American Born Chinese to “dessert books.” Don’t even get me started on the framing coming straight from a disordered eating handbook. Alt text version of reposted image:

Photo of a page, presumably from a library or school curriculum or rule list. It reads: Dessert Books (only allowed 1 at a time, have to have checked out a nutritious book as well)
• All Graphic Novels
• Captain Underpants
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid
• Dork Diaries
• Drawing Books
• Joke Books
• Bad Kitty
• Seek and Find Books
• Bad Guys

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Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her) @nefariousnautilus.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

My Scottish ancestors would be ticked at how crumbly this shortbread is.

Rectangles of brown butter and jam shortbread in a plastic holiday tupperware. You can’t see it but much of the bottoms crumbled away.

Brown butter shortbread carnage on parchment paper: all of the chunks and crumbs left after the cookies were lifted away.

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Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her) @nefariousnautilus.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Oh HELL yeah. Alt text (congressional progressive caucus chair Greg Casar):

"The progressive movement needs to change. We need to re-emphasize core economic issues every time some of these cultural war issues are brought up," Casar said. "So when we hear Republicans attacking queer Americans again, I think the progressive response needs to be that a trans person didn't deny your health insurance claim, a big corporation did - with Republican help. We need to connect the dots for people that the Republican Party obsession with these culture war issues is driven by Republicans' desire to distract voters and have them look away while Republicans pick their pocket."

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