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ObligatoryToast @obligatorytoast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Reading books to kids is the best thing in my life and I love that I get to wake up and do it for a living.

ObligatoryToast @obligatorytoast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Saying as a librarian: I hope this is the year children’s lit finally moves on from HP. … and we finally can talk about how much it sucks as a series and how fucked up the fandom is/was

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ObligatoryToast @obligatorytoast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the Thing is about liberal education is that it’s still primarily full of women, and as we all know, women are lesser. Therefore, a well-rounded education is for stupid girls.

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ObligatoryToast @obligatorytoast.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I live near the Data Center Capital of the world and we have to deal with frequent brown outs because these LLMs consume so much energy the have to bring in fuel trucks to power fucking diesel turbines that spew exhaust into our air.

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ObligatoryToast @obligatorytoast.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

COMING BACK TO WOLFTRAP LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOO

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ObligatoryToast @obligatorytoast.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

People are all worried about moist link, but I work with children and sometimes they are just inexplicably covered in some sort of excretion, and hopefully it’s just snot.

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ObligatoryToast @obligatorytoast.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Moggett from the Audiobook version of Sabriel.

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ObligatoryToast @obligatorytoast.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Not Tim!! Curry did a lot of insane roles and was a genuine joy. Nooooo

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ObligatoryToast @obligatorytoast.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Pfister’s Rainbow Fish! You should share the parts of you that are special!

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ObligatoryToast @obligatorytoast.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly was the kind of person who lived life authentically and valued others being able to do the same.

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ObligatoryToast @obligatorytoast.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I’m so mad I’m not gonna be in town for this.

A poster for “Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed” by Mo Willems. It features a naked mole rat dressed up like a hard rocker and playing his guitar like Jimi Hendrix outside of DePaul’s Merle Reskin theater in Chicago, Illinois.

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ObligatoryToast @obligatorytoast.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

My mom isn’t a ceo of an insurance company, because she had a moral compass.

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ObligatoryToast @obligatorytoast.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

My thing with naming anything after SEC leaders is… maybe don’t pick the one that died in the most bitch made way.

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ObligatoryToast @obligatorytoast.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Sanderson’s books are disappearing? Just wait 30 min or so, he’ll have a new one out by then.

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ObligatoryToast @obligatorytoast.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

In case you forgot: creating shit rules.

Watercolor painting of the night sky with the Milky Way in the background

Watercolor painting of the Milky Way and a forest at night

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ObligatoryToast @obligatorytoast.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Remember that his staff was genuinely concerned he would kill himself? Those were the DAYS, man.

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ObligatoryToast @obligatorytoast.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Can we finally acknowledge that libraries aren’t, and haven’t been, places of silent contemplation for fucking decades? Yeah, libraries have silent rooms and loudness rules, but you can’t realistically control the noise of over a hundred people in a place that typically has vaulted ceiling.

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ObligatoryToast @obligatorytoast.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

People need to learn: you can’t pre-grift grifters.

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ObligatoryToast @obligatorytoast.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

So (not-so) fun fact: when I worked at Wawa we swapped over to TF as a supplier and we were plagued with recalls on product every MONTH. There were weeks we didn’t have tuna salad because all of the lots had been recalled due to FOREIGN OBJECT CONTAMINATION.

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

What Goes Into Tracking Censorship, With an Update From the New York Public Library Comms Team. Immense work goes into reporting on and tracking censorship, so when we're asked to pull that work, we take it seriously. If you read one thing from me this week, this pls. bookriot.com/what-goes-in...

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What Goes Into Tracking Censorship, With an Update From the New York Public Library Comms Team

Immense work goes into reporting on and tracking censorship, so when we're asked to pull that work, we take it seriously.

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ObligatoryToast @obligatorytoast.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This isn’t surprising considering how he feels like he’s the victim in this, too. Of course he’s going to be spiteful. He worked for Blackwater, FFS.

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ObligatoryToast @obligatorytoast.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

youre just gonna let some of the most precious artifacts relating to the birth of this country just hang out on the stage July, with temps and humidity well above normal, where there is going to be a huge air pollution event? Yeah sure.

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ObligatoryToast @obligatorytoast.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Imagine… Ben Franklin on FetLife.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Fun fact: 54% of US adults read below a 6th grade level. You have to actively remember literally over half the US adult population is *unable to perceive subtext* www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-li...

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2024-2025 Literacy Statistics | National Literacy Institute

Literacy Statisitics

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ObligatoryToast @obligatorytoast.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

All of this sucks, scotus sucks, my favorite art store go bought out by blick and that sucks, my car’s fuel gauge is broken and that sucks But I got books. And I got art. And that’s good enough right now.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.

[quoting a tweet from isabelunraveled in which she rails against depressing books that get branded as “great writing”]

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ObligatoryToast @obligatorytoast.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

You couldn’t make The Office Now because everyone has moved on except you, Rainn.

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ObligatoryToast @obligatorytoast.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I found 42,069 Pratt votes in a dumpster behind a del taco in Los Anos.

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Is anyone else looking forward to a super hot and muggy day in DC today? Like deep, swampy, oppressively humid with bugs coming out late and severe thunderstorms?

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ObligatoryToast @obligatorytoast.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I have no love for Southern, but this is horrifying and Tate should be in prison right now.

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A Damned Stemple @adamstemple.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

My mother, the inimitable Jane Yolen passed away this morning after a blessingly short fight with Alzheimer’s. She did not suffer, and went peacefully into the ether which, I am certain for her, will be filled with words of the most exquisite beauty and meaning.

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ObligatoryToast @obligatorytoast.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

nintendo Out here like we’ve been starving.

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ObligatoryToast @obligatorytoast.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I’m gonna tell people this is Farewell My Concubine.

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ObligatoryToast @obligatorytoast.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Well, I’m glad I snagged those 2 prime rib steaks for $20 when I had the chance. Gonna have a lot of beans in my future.

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ObligatoryToast @obligatorytoast.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Adults who love kids media: I need ya’ll to chill. We have been through this before in like, 50 other fandom iterations. Also: multi-billion dollar companies don’t need you to market for them, and don’t do that shit for free.

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ObligatoryToast @obligatorytoast.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I am so tired of being held hostage by the opinion of an attention-starved blue-checked white man who cannot emotionally handle not being catered to. Yeah, a lot of people’s social media circles are bubbles! That’s normal! Sorry they don’t want you in it! It’s probably because you suck!

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