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Paolo Jasa, Library Professional

@pbjasa.bsky.social
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Hey, I promise I don't bite! He/They | 🇵🇭 🇺🇲 | 🖌️📚🖼️🕹️🏋️‍♀️ YA Librarian in B'more, MD Opinons are my own! Millennial, Mentally Ill, and Mighty THICC 🚫NFTs/CRYPTO/AI🚫 - - - Interested in #libraries, #YAlit, #comics, #kidslit, #manga etc.

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Paolo Jasa, Library Professional @pbjasa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Love getting lowballed by a major institution on a weekday morning...bleh! Support your local public librarian and their various unions! It's the only way some of them can keep food on the goddamned table.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
BEGGING people to look up terms before using them for library social media. “BBW” doesn’t mean Banned Books Week
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The NewsGuild-CWA @newsguild.org · 05/10/2026
Fantastic news!!! The Supreme Court declined to hear the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s appeal of a ruling requiring the company to pay back its workers for the cuts to pay, illegally implemented increases in health care costs & more. When we fight, we win!!! ✊✊✊
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FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Banned Books - Gator Days
Banned Books - Gator Days

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Panel 1

Olivia and Gustopher are at the library. The Library is having a special event for books that have been banned in the past. Dora the librarian is stacking books with titles like "BOOK", "Boogers", "Tales", "Can you", "read this" and "Word". Olivia has a great interest in forbidden knowledge and has been browsing what's available. She's found a book called "Salt Box" and has an important question for the librarian.

Olivia: Miss Librarian! Why was this book banned?

Dora: Vulgar Language.

Panel 2

Dora makes a shocked expression and holds her hands to her face. This is the only way she can express how depraved the book is.

Dora: The word "butt" is used.... FIFTEEN TIMES!

Panel 3

Dora looks down to the children to gather their reaction. Internally, Gustopher is wondering if Dora meant "but" with one "t" or "butt" with two. Olivia immediately assumes it's the latter.

Behind them is a poster promoting banned books week. There is a cartoon book that's smiling and saying "I'm forbidden!" He's booky the banned book. He was specifically banned for being made using the darkest of magic. He's also kind of rude.

Panel 4

Olivia is excited about the book. This leads Gustopher to assume that "butt" was indeed spelled with an extra "t".

Olivia: Now I have to read it.

Dora: Oh noooo... I'll help you check it out.
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Macmillan Children's School & Library Marketing @mackidssl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Are you a librarian wondering how to navigate targeted attacks on diverse books?📚 Check out @oif.bsky.social and @ala-booklist.bsky.social free Banned Books Virtual Workshop with @iamgmjohnson.bsky.social on 10/8.💻 tinyurl.com/3jhap52j #bannedbooksweek #librarians #skybrarian
A graphic with an image of open books on the left side. The top of the graphic reads "A Free Workshop - Drawing better Maps: Navigating the Youth Librarianship Landscape in The Age of Book Challenges - Thursday, October 8 - 11 A.M. PT / 2 P.M. ET"
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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NEW: PEN America today reported nearly 12,000 book bans in public schools nationwide during the 2025-2026 school year—the largest number in a single year. New state censorship laws accounted for much of the increase, coupled with the use of AI to remove books en masse: pen.org/press-releas...
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Nearly 12,000 School Book Bans Nationwide in 2025-2026—Biggest Number in a Single Year
PEN America today reported nearly 12,000 book bans in public schools nationwide during the 2025-2026 school year—the largest number in a single year. New state censorship laws accounted for much of th...
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Banned Books Week @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's finally here! Are you ready to join us in kicking off #BannedBooksWeek?! This year's event is too big for just one piece of art, so we have THREE! #LetBooksBe bannedbooksweek.org
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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
SATs, ACTs, entrance exams, and finals are all incredibly stressful for students... Here’s how school libraries can help reduce that stress... buff.ly/Gf3DAiV #library #libraries #read #reading #book #books #librarianship #lit
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How School Libraries Help Students Prep for Finals
Are you taking advantage of your school library's study resources?
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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So many different people, groups, and organizations have come together to push back against the attack on the freedom to read, including students themselves. Read more about what students in Florida are doing here:
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No more book bans: how Florida students are pushing rightwingers out of school boards
Local communities are fighting back against the influence of conservative groups like Moms for Liberty in education
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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Would love to see someone run on a platform of hiring a squad of forensic accountants and auditors tasked with locating every penny that was stolen from us and getting everything back. And sending the thieves to prison. Every single one of them.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 30/09/2026
A new poll from The 19th News shows faltering Republican support for gender-affirming care bans for trans youth. It also shows that anti-trans ads might be backfiring, with respondents increasingly saying Republicans are talking about trans people too much. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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New Poll From The 19th News Shows Public Turning Against Republican Anti-Trans Healthcare Bans
The poll even shows faltering Republican support for such bans.
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Paolo Jasa, Library Professional @pbjasa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Possibly the best self-help book I've read that's explicitly for neurodivergent folks trying to keep above water with their lives. It's short and to the point too, which helps with the ADHD thing too!
Image: a photo of the hardcover book "How to Keep House while Drowning" by KC Davis, LPC. It has a sky blue cover with black font.
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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The library isn't your mommy or daddy. Nobody is forcing you to check out any books. Nobody is forcing you to read any books. If you don't like a book, don't read it. If you don't want your kids reading the book, grow up, be a parent, and choose a different book.
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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Spotsylvania, Virginia, is the latest battleground where a community has pushed back against banning books, and the answer from politicians has been to just close the school libraries altogether. buff.ly/1QxmRVf #library #libraries #read #reading #book #books #librarianship #lit
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Unqualified Superintendents Want to Close Libraries and Burn Books
Spotsylvania, Virginia is the latest battleground where a community has pushed back against banning books, and the answer from politicians has been to just close the school libraries altogether.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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taylor robin @taylor-robin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🫵 agents: pick up rowan (but also remember the rules of dvpit and don't like the op if you aren't an agent or an editor!)
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natemare before christmas @natescape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Do you know how much has to have gone wrong for me to not like the internet
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Nina Modaffari @ninamodaffari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
absolutely no hatred towards teen fantasy but I heard someone once call titles that are like 'a crown of blank and blank' stories as 'A kraft of mac and cheese' and I cannot stop thinking about it
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Kids need access to gender-affirming care. Kids need access to gender-affirming care. Kids need access to gender-affirming care. Kids need access to gender-affirming care. Kids need access to gender-affirming care. Kids need access to gender-affirming care. Kids need access to gender-affirming care.
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A Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 06/09/2026
The reason that the Harry Potter apologists won't just read better books is because they're not looking for good stories...if they were, they wouldn't have glommed on to Harry Potter. They're looking for the camaraderie and social phenomenon that Harry Potter was in the 2000s.
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Paolo Jasa, Library Professional @pbjasa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Congratulations! Love your art and can't wait to see it on shelves at work!
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Tara O’Connor @taraocomics.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The amount of times people tell me they didn’t know Cry Out Loud was out is a LOT! The amount of times they tell me they didn’t know Fly By Night was out is even more. 🫣
Both my books side by side. Cry out loud and fly by night
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Paolo Jasa, Library Professional @pbjasa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
YA Librarian here. I am SO GODDAMNED SICK of JOANNE'S WIZARDS. FFS READ OTHER BOOKS
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.” You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It was bad in 2022, when medical issues exacerbated by the hostility at work made me leave. It’s worse all the time. Show up for your local libraries. Get involved with the boards. Shout down the bigots. Demand protection for the freedom to read and for librarians doing their jobs.
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Lucy Knisley @lucyknisley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I made a little template for use by cool small businesses! Enjoy!
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Barbara Perez Marquez @ NYCC 🍎 @mustachebabs.com · 25/08/2026
THE LIBRARY OF MEMORIES IS HERE!📚 @lazyfishy.bsky.social and I's fantasy graphic novel is available wherever you get books! Join Copenhagen on an adventure you won't soon forget. We hope you'll love it as much as we do, check out more about the book at www.thelibraryofmemories.com 📚📚📚
a colorful graphic with a photo of the graphic novel The Library of Memories with drawing utensils and an original painting on a desk, the graphic reads "OUT NOW" among wisps of colorful swirls
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ananth @ananthhirsh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry's reading of the Sabriel series is probably my favorite audiobook? Most libraries will have it available, I think! He had wonderful material to work with (I really like this series), and his reading really transported me.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026
macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.
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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It's September, Hugos have been awarded, so maybe time to look forward rather than back in SFF publishing. Let's look a little bit *further* forward than the next few months though; there are actually a fair few 2027 titles announced at this point. 1 like = 1 2027 SFF release that caught my eye.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I will shout this from the rooftops. UNIONS MATTER!!
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Thank you @normeisen.bsky.social and @democracydefendersaction.org for being on my team!!
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
When your timeline is filled with queer folks and brown/Black people singing the praises of and loudly mourning a 1940s-Tennessee-born white Boomer lady, welp. She was pretty goddamn extraordinary, you can assume.
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
every billionaire & tech mogul, they all want to be adored & celebrated without doing the things Dolly did with a fraction of the power & money. What she had, she gave away. I'm sure she was comfortable (& that's good!). But she just relentlessly helped. It's not that difficult. Love. Care. Help. 💚🌸
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/08/2026
This is truly heartbreaking. Dolly Parton was an extraordinary person and an irreplaceable champion of the working class. We are a better country because of her.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money. That's Dolly.
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Natalie Harp is a year older than Martin Luther King Jr. was when he gave his I Have a Dream speech. She has agency and is running the propaganda operation that serves to put people in concentration camps. She does not get a pass because she looks like a dipshit teenager.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
400 library workers begin their strike Monday after endless months of trying to negotiate with management. Already the anti-union propaganda machine is calling the library workers entitled. The LIBRARY workers. You don't staff the desk at the free stuff store because you're greedy.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 16/08/2026
I WONDER WHAT THE COMMON DENOMINATOR IS. SURELY WE MUST GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS TO PRESERVE THE LEGACY OF HIGHER ED.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Part of the reason a lot of super rich people are so awful is that when normal people get an absurd amount of money, they immediately start looking around for who they can help.
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Stoo Metz 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @stoometz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Rachel Reid, who wrote the popular “Heated Rivalry” novel, has donated $300k to Annapolis Valley Regional Library, “one of the most significant private gifts” in their history. “I credit my local library for being a huge part of the reason I’m a published author today,” Reid said #Halifax #HaliSky
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‘Heated Rivalry’ author donates $300,000 to Nova Scotia libraries
Several Nova Scotia libraries that faced possible closures this summer are getting a major cash boost from one of the province’s most famous authors.
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Paolo Jasa, Library Professional @pbjasa.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The next time I hear someone talk about "midnight libraries," I'm going to shove a mop, a bucket and NARCAN in their FACE and ask what how THEIR policy handles their UNHOUSED NEIGHBORS and folks who OD on their BATHROOM FLOOR at MIDNIGHT. You want expanded services? PAY FOR THEM.
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Paolo Jasa, Library Professional @pbjasa.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I am so goddamned tired. Fuck these guys.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is fucking evil. They’re chewing through human history, knowledge, fantasy, destroying it so they can spit out something devoid of a human soul. The only way this stops is if we choke that damn bubble out. They need to answer for this.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Hey, guys, when the librarians get pissed about the destruction of books, it’s time to put those listening ears on. Because we are very comfortable with the idea that books are tools that can be retired. What’s happening right now is not that.
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Paolo Jasa, Library Professional @pbjasa.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The next time I hear someone talk about "midnight libraries," I'm going to shove a mop, a bucket and NARCAN in their FACE and ask what how THEIR policy handles their UNHOUSED NEIGHBORS and folks who OD on their BATHROOM FLOOR at MIDNIGHT. You want expanded services? PAY FOR THEM.
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