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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 09/09/2025

hi, cis folks! if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now. the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. we need you to call senators: reps.fyi more info & script downthread.🧵

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I got to deliver a talk on the history and legacy of the Hays Code and the Comics Code, contemporary censorship efforts, and the necessity of identifying with criminality. You can watch and read the whole thing here:

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Read Like a Criminal

Big Gay Read 2025 Keynote Speech

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

there are so many amazing middle-grade magical novels for young readers that have come out in the last decade-ish written by people who are not hateful assholes btw, a quick sampling off the top of my head:

Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi

Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Last night @60minutes.bsky.social opened an otherwise superb segment on Germany’s approach to online hate speech by saying “in the U.S., most of what’s said on online [social media] platforms is protected by the First Amendment.” No.The First Amend protects us against GOVT infringements on speech.

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Nidhi Chanani @nidhiart.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Embrace graphic novels 1/ ?

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I'm going to say it again: Immigration is good, actually. There are no qualifications on this statement other than "don't be a comemierda" and that goes no matter what. "Legal" and "illegal" are artificial categories imposed by States with arbitrary rules, usually with suboptimal outcomes.

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

(1/x) So much of what is happening in our present stems from what we have not resolved in our past.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

For the last couple of years, library workers have been begging and pleading for attention on this. If you think this won't happen in your community, guess what, it will. You *have* to get involved. Now. Don't wait until the ban is in place.

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Emily C @polaropposite.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

You just don’t need to use AI! Not for ugly pictures or made up facts or email summaries, for so many reasons, but water use is one.

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David Jenkins @david-jenkins.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

1775. An editor comes into work on Christmas eve to find a manuscript on his desk. The title: A HISTORY OF PYRATES by Charles Johnson. (We have no budget so we’ll say the editor is played by Michael Stuhlbarg).

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

NICWA works to support the safety, health, and spiritual strength of Native children. Their work helps Native nations keep Native families together. You can support their efforts here.

nicwa.org

Donate » NICWA

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Emily C @polaropposite.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

THIS will fix things next year, I know it. (Or at least will be really lovely to spend time with next year)

Colored pencils and a planner / coloring book open to the first page. Some of the page is colored, and it reads “Planner for a Magical 2025” with a cauldron and animals.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

This is an absolutely wild interpretation.

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Emily C @polaropposite.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Bookish checkpoint! ✧ last book you read: Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman ✧ your current read: The Duke at Hazard by KJ Charles (audio reread) ✧last book added to my TBR: Time and Tide by JM Frey ✧ next anticipated read: Little Moons by Jen Storm, Ryan Howe, Alice Rl #BookSky

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

for the @inquirer.com, I wrote about the importance of a free press to democracy and how it's not just investigation, scandals, & poll-driven predicting. Authoritarians don't care about scandals. We need to focus on bearing witness, humanizing, and contextualizing. Now with gift link ⬇️

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Emily C @polaropposite.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

This tree has lost all its leaves now but look how beautiful it was a few weeks ago — Nova found a bug lots more interesting.

Tuxedo cat staring at a bug with a maple in the background — the sun is shining on the maple and the leaves have turned red.

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Emily C @polaropposite.bsky.social · 08/07/2024

Still grateful for this little pond — I admit I spend a fair amount of time lying out and peering into the water to see what wildlife shows up. The frogs are very welcome visitors, but there are also a lot of fun invertebrates to watch zooming around in the water!

Ruby colored bee balm is blooming in the foreground, there is a peek of echinacea in the corner, and in the background a small pond with floating plants, surrounded by small rocks. There is an overgrown garden behind it.

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Emily C @polaropposite.bsky.social · 18/06/2024

I tell you what, adding a little pond into your backyard isn’t super practical but is really, really lovely.

Tiny wildlife pond. Closest flower is a wood anemone, beneath it is a small wintergreen and salvia. Behind it there are small rocks and a pond with a few floating plants.

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 24/02/2024

This week I learned about Operation Olive Branch, which collects verified gofundmes to help evacuate people and families from Gaza:

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Operation Olive Branch

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Emily C @polaropposite.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

Cats cats cats everywhere I go around the house (the same cats, but they are good little shadows)

Two black and white cats with green eyes looking up while following me around the house seeing where the food might be hiding

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Emily C @polaropposite.bsky.social · 04/02/2024

Having a cozy time hearing about comfort reads from some favorite authors - Martha Wells, KJ Charles, T Kingfisher and Malka Older! Aternated between sewing, petting the cats, and writing down so many recommended books/shows/movies.

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Emily C @polaropposite.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

Currently reading For Her Consideration and it is so hard to put down — I love the main character Nina and want to give her a giant hug. First person single point of view romance but Nina’s voice feels so real that it works.