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First librarian to see the sun.

@readlistenlearn.bsky.social
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American librarican in Aotearoa. Neurodivergent dad. AI is bullshit. Music is life.

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“cutting edge technology” used to mean cool stuff like high speed cameras or Squand. now it’s just a computer that will divorce your wife for you
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First librarian to see the sun. @readlistenlearn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thought of this song earlier, it's 25 years old and has never not been relevant. I wish I could see a lurch toward humanity from my country of origin, but it keeps disappointing.
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David Bazan- Backwoods Nation
YouTube video by heyfuckyou
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually
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First librarian to see the sun. @readlistenlearn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Just walk around waving a sign tomorrow. Might have more of an impact!
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First librarian to see the sun. @readlistenlearn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Cattify a film: Meowtropolispsps
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 17/09/2026
People saying "transgender ideology" in 2026 sound like people saying "race-mixing ideology" in 1956, and their kids and grandkids will feel embarrassment at their feckless cowardice.
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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 12/09/2026
A sticker to place anywhere. Like hand dryers, toilet bowls, soap dispensers, alarm keypads, coffee machines, thermostats, pedestrian crossing buttons, BBQs, park benches, parking meters... As well as staplers, pens, potatoes, bricks, brooms, lunch, potplants and speed humps.
A piece of colourful corporate nonsense looking sticker stating NOW AI POWERED! Talk to me. Ask me to do things! with a happy little speech bubble computer-looking character, with shiny little AI stars and a space looking background in the middle. To be placed on things that look like maybe they could be AI powered, BUT ARE NOT.
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First librarian to see the sun. @readlistenlearn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Just finished making my first birthday cake. I'd say it compares favourably to the Bluey duck cake, so I'm definitely more pleased than not.
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First librarian to see the sun. @readlistenlearn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Warehouse stationery has them as "system cards"—possibly a fancier name to justify their ridiculous price
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Frances: Meh and Loving It @francesmeh.reviews · 03/09/2026
it would be really really great if there was a major company in even a single category of product or service that i did not have to actively seek out an alternative to because their customer service or ethics were fucking dogshit
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First librarian to see the sun. @readlistenlearn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"Don't trust men who walk with canes" Way ahead of you, Bruce.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
logging on to the earnest high-info neurotics website every day during the everything going wrong decade: 'you know, the vibes here could be better'
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First librarian to see the sun. @readlistenlearn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Was a toss-up between this and Tom Waits in Mystery Men. My sense is they both had loads of fun performing their respective roles.
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First librarian to see the sun. @readlistenlearn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
What's your favorite acting role by a singer?
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20/08/2026
if spreadsheet people was ever meant as an insult, i am reclaiming it. my columns and rows are beautiful even if others don't see what i see within them
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
It probably would have been better if we hadn't decided to go through the list of important things a society does and then stop doing them because we didn't know much about them
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Every day you read two headlines, one like "Trump orders U.S. Aircraft Carrier to get him Chik-fil-a" and one like "Hakeem Jeffries: We Must Be Very Cautious in the Way We Consider Speaking About Methods of Bringing About Incremental Change to U.S. Tax Code"
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First librarian to see the sun. @readlistenlearn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I know you are mocking me, hokay
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026
I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It's honestly so crazy to me that we're facing a technological revolution that could displace millions of jobs in the middle of a housing affordability crisis and every day we talk about whether a trans woman is playing sports or if someone has a non-Anglo name.
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First librarian to see the sun. @readlistenlearn.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I just finished one of these with A Very Dangerous Pursuit. I couldn't figure out what made a supposed adventure story dull as dishwater for me, but it was not pleasant.
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First librarian to see the sun. @readlistenlearn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Honestly I'm not surprised that my listening history has led to Hopesfall being a load-bearing band, but I wasn't prepared for it to still be the one to pull new bands in.
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First librarian to see the sun. @readlistenlearn.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Zach Weinersmith, not content with his own success, tries to steal your art through AI YouTube videos… I knew there was something off about him!
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First librarian to see the sun. @readlistenlearn.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I've got an ongoing list of heads of state that are younger than me. It's certainly more than I'm comfortable with.
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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
If you are disheartened by the first image, then look at the second image and then tell your mates to enroll to vote and then bully them into voting for greens ✌🏽
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better
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First librarian to see the sun. @readlistenlearn.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Re-watched Encanto with the family last night. Not sure any media has made me as emotional recently as the Abuela's flashback / Dos Oroguitas scene has. Knife in the heart stuff.
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First librarian to see the sun. @readlistenlearn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
New Eel-land
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First librarian to see the sun. @readlistenlearn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
So with all the likely contingencies, I'll have about twenty albums packed for a twenty minute set. 😖
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First librarian to see the sun. @readlistenlearn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Theme for Friday's vinyl night is "80's." Despite that leaving a wide swathe to choose from, I don't want to leave out any bangers unnecessarily. Also don't want to play anything that's been played earlier in the night.
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First librarian to see the sun. @readlistenlearn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
150... no, 300 meters long!
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First librarian to see the sun. @readlistenlearn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Wild Beasts, School of Seven Bells, Bat for Lashes, Bear in Heaven
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
It is amazing that the 250th anniversary of America was pretty much just not a thing. You could tell all the companies thought it would be, they had 250th ketchup and ice cream and energy drinks but all we got was a shit ass fair that no one went to
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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I can't believe people would want to talk about Jimothy the raccoon instead of spending their every waking moment discussing unceasing human misery. Smh this says so much about society this is how we got here.
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First librarian to see the sun. @readlistenlearn.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Big fan of this combo in cocktails.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 25/07/2026
(3 drinks) sometimes the world is so magnificent that i will weep at the many simple beauties you encounter during a normal day (3.25 drinks) if you begin to think about it enemies are actually surrounding me and closing in. i am beset upon by evil on all sides.
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First librarian to see the sun. @readlistenlearn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
"Bluh huh huh"
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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Replacing my phone pickup reflex wit the healthier option—a pack of cigarettes
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Is this translated from the original German? www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202...
Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller made clear there must be no retreat: “One of the hallmarks of left-wing violence and terrorism is its completely pre-textual and disingenuous appeal to civil liberties in an effort to shield its own violence… When the leftist — who does not believe in freedom, who does not believe in civil rights, who does not believe in any ordinary notion of justice — protests that we are violating his rights, understand the he is lying to try to persuade people who are not closely following the political scene that some injustice has perpetrated against him. We must stay the course and be completely unflinching in the pursuit of justice against these enemies of civilization.”
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dan solomon @dansolomon.com · 15/07/2026
* the diner that let us sit in a booth all night * the comic book store where we played magic with twentysomethings who taught us who henry rollins was * the park that had a carnival twice a year * the quinceañera hall that let us throw punk shows * the coffee shop that held open mics on tuesdays
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First librarian to see the sun. @readlistenlearn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Miss three, on handing me a ten-ish year-old undershirt: "Daddy, this shirt is tired." Accurate.
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ℭ𝔥𝔞𝔬𝔰 ☽|☾ 𝔓𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔰𝔰 @chaospriestess.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.
Screencap of Sam Neil in Event Horizon, his flight suit features an Australian flag with the union jack replaced by a yellow circle on black and red, the Australian aboriginal flag
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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Thinking how at the end of the Star Wars trilogy an entire galaxy celebrates the death of the emperor without a finger wagging coda where a sad-eyed long haired scold in bespoke clothing warns that this reduces everyone to the same level as the genocidal tyrant who got tossed into a laser shaft.
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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
every private equity guy for some reason: step 1 to improving this company is firing everybody who knows what they're doing
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Trump celebrating Balogun’s eligibility to play for Team USA when his administration would strip Balogun’s citizenship tomorrow if he didn’t play world class soccer is really a chef’s kiss.
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Audrey Farnsworth @audipenny.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital
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