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Peace Zodanou @peacezodanou.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I need help surviving this year. If you're not in a position to donate, I understand. Please help by reposting. Please share with your circles. Every little donation helps. Thank you. gofund.me/19bc02b6

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Dear My Phone, My Computer, My Apps, My Electronic Devices, and so forth: Please stop asking me if I want to enable AI. Or use your janky AI tool. Or load my documents or pictures with a bunch of useless, off-putting, earth-killing AI junk. I don't want it. I SAID I don't want it. Stop offering.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13/06/2025

By now, we've all seen the video of Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) being forcibly removed and handcuffed for asking a question during Kristi Noem's press conference. But what Noem said just moments before the video was taken is "classic authoritarian red-baiting," points out @davidcorn.bsky.social.

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Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

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If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the Gl Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. tel:1-877-447-4487

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Rie Neal (she/her) @rienealwriter.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Had a blast doing a Q&A with students at Kendall Demonstration Elementary School in D.C. today! 📚 KDES participated in the Battle of the Books tournament through Gallaudet Youth Programs last fall, and read the first Astrid book as part of it. Many thanks to Amelia, Rae, and both interpreters!

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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

If you're protesting on Saturday, please wear a cap and mask to protect your identity from the cult. Also, it was suggested to me that you should write the phone number of the ACLU First Defense Legal Aid on your arm. That number is 1-800-529-7374 in case anything happens.

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We Need Diverse Books @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

It’s no joke, our friends at @bookshop.org are helping us celebrate #WeNeedDiverseBooksDay with a special promo code! 🛍️📚 Shop Bookshop.org on April 3rd and use the code “WNDB25” at checkout to get 15% off your purchase!

Graphic with a deep purple ombre background. White title text says, “Celebrate We Need Diverse Books Day with Bookshop.org”. Beneath the title is a row of white perforated tickets, the centermost which says, “15% Off using the code WNDB25” in dark purple lettering. Beneath the ticket in small white font is a note with an asterisk that says, “only active Thursday, April 3rd” and “excludes e-book purchases”.

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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 04/04/2025

🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody. She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care. This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

Pressley, Warren, Markey Sound Alarm on Rümeysa Öztürk’s Medical Neglect, Renew Urgent Calls for Her Release (1/2):

“It is unconscionable that Rümeysa Öztürk—a young woman pursuing her education, exercising her First Amendment rights, and contributing to her community—remains detained by DHS. Her ongoing incarceration is not only a blatant violation of her constitutional rights to due process and free speech, but it is now an egregious denial of her fundamental right to medical care.

Pressley, Warren, Markey Sound Alarm on Rümeysa Öztürk’s Medical Neglect, Renew Urgent Calls for Her Release (2/2):

“According to her lawyer, Rümeysa has not received her required asthma medications and has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in custody. This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

“As her representatives in Congress, we demand DHS immediately provide Rümeysa with access to the health care she needs, and absent compelling evidence justifying her detention and the revocation of her status, we call for Ozturk’s release and the restoration of her visa. Every minute she remains in custody is another minute her health and rights are at risk, and DHS must move with urgency.”

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Heather Turner @techielibgrl.com · 27/03/2025

Hey #TLSky Friends! Just a quick reminder on how to get the most out of Bluesky. I have noticed quite a few do not have a bio. This is helpful when trying to find your squad! It is so great to see so many new friends out here on the interwebs. #EduSky #Skybrarians #Kidlit #BookSky #BookTok

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 27/03/2025

Canadians! 🇨🇦 Book industry needs your help (incl. for 🇨🇦 book creators like me, whose books are published and/or warehoused in U.S.). Dept of Finance seeks feedback before April 2nd, 2025 re: tariffs, including tariffs on BOOKS coming into Canada from US: slowburnbooks.ca/april-2-tariff #CanLit

Text warning about an April 2 tariff: With this April 2 tariff, Canadian booksellers and publishers will face unsustainable new costs and customers will be faced with book prices beyond what they are willing to pay. Most books will be subject to the new tariff because they are warehoused in the US by publishers and distributors. Books have both US and CAD prices printed on the cover, making it difficult to increase prices to cover the tariff. Alternatively, charging the CAD cover-price and absorbing the 25% tariff (even short term) will bury many independents because the industry survives on an already small margin of profit. The tariff is detrimental to Canadian booksellers and publishers and will result in long-term negative effects to our literary community.

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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · 21/03/2025

The National Artificial Intelligence Action Plan is a comprehensive strategy to guide AI innovation and regulation in the United States. The Authors Guild submitted formal comments on issues affecting authors in response. Read more: authorsguild.org/news/ag-subm...

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Meredith Mooring @meredithmooring.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

IF YOU FOUND YOUR NOVEL IN THE LIBGEN DATABASE, YOU MAY BE A CLASS MEMBER FOR THE KADREY ET AL V. META PLATFORMS CLASS ACTION Law firms you can contact if you're a potential class member: Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP (415) 500-6800 Mathew Butterick (323) 968-2632 mb@buttericklaw.com

A screenshot from a legal complaint with contact information for the plaintiffs' attorneys that states, "Joseph R. Saveri (State Bar No. 130064)
Cadio Zirpoli (State Bar No. 179108)
Christopher K.L. Young (State Bar No. 318371)
Kathleen J. McMahon (State Bar No. 340007)
JOSEPH SAVERI LAW FIRM, LLP
601 California Street, Suite 1000
San Francisco, California 94108
Telephone: (415) 500-6800
Facsimile: (415) 395-9940
Email: jsaveri@saverilawfirm.com
czirpoli@saverilawfirm.com
cyoung@saverilawfirm.com
kmcmahon@saverilawfirm.com
Matthew Butterick (State Bar No. 250953)
1920 Hillhurst Avenue, #406
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Telephone: (323) 968-2632
Facsimile: (415) 395-9940
Email: mb@buttericklaw.com
Counsel for Individual and Representative
Plaintiffs and the Proposed Class"

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NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION
Richard Kadrey, an individual;
Sarah Silverman, an individual;
Christopher Golden, an individual;
Individual and Representative Plaintiffs,
v.
Meta Platforms, Inc., a Delaware
corporation;
Case No.
Complaint
Class Action
Demand for Jury Trial
Defendant."

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Rie Neal (she/her) @rienealwriter.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

All four of my chapter books are included. 😓 Super grateful for this tool, and the lawyers and other authors fighting this. I’ll be looking into joining a lawsuit. If you’re an author, have you searched the database yet? #betrayedbymeta

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

💥 BREAKING: Walt Disney Company shareholders voted today 99-1 percent to reject an anti-LGBTQ+ proposal, requesting that the company sever its relationship with the Human Rights Campaign and HRC's Corporate Equality Index. Disney Board recommended shareholders vote against the proposal.

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen. Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it. Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Show Up For Our Libraries! By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administration's Executive Order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted of American institutions and the staff and services they offer. ALA American Library Association. #ForOurLibraries

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Fascism is here. The list of words Trump is banning from government is the most stunning document of our time. Click the image below to see how many words Trump and Musk have canceled as part of their new Reich. 🔗: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

This Sunday, the whole country needs to spring forward from 1939.

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R. Ch. Garcia [he/us/All] @rudychg.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I'd rather be writing but losing your democracy kinda puts that on the back burner. One week boycott of Amazon, which lost $6B last month, starts tomorrow? No problem:

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Robert Cooper @robertcooper-us.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🇺🇦

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/03/2025

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

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Rie Neal (she/her) @rienealwriter.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Hello #BookSky! What’s your favorite non-Audible app for audiobooks? Looking to make the switch 📚🎧 TIA

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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

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Rie Neal (she/her) @rienealwriter.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Don’t forget—economic blackout today. Don’t buy anything. If you have to buy something, support a small business. 💫

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Hey everyone -- Moms of Liberty and Dept of Education launched a snitch line portal today to rat out teachers and anyone promoting anything DEI. FLOOD THE PORTAL Spam the hell out of it. Pass it on! It works! enddei.ed.gov

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Rie Neal (she/her) @rienealwriter.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

So happy I was able to celebrate Chiara’s newest spacey book with her! 💫😊

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Mike Chen @mikechenwriter.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Call to action-Childhood vax/covid boosters (plz boost) RFK has fired ACIP to replace with his antivaxxers; kid vax + covid/flu/RSV boosters are at risk. States can make their own requirements. Use @5calls.org or @resist.bot to call your STATE reps to keep vax access. Script outline below.

A call script for state electeds regarding vaccination schedule:

While your mileage may vary depending on which state/region you live in, this is an opportunity to call your STATE electeds (state senator, state assemblyperson, and governor) with the following outline:
-RFK recently fired ACIP members
-His goal is to replace them with an antivax agenda
-This will harm millions of kids while impacting seasonal covid/flu/RSV boosters for adults
-Something about your state's position or population needs (CA is a leader in progressive health policy and needs to protect its residents)
-As my elected, urging you to push your STATE Health Human Services Secretary to maintain the current childhood vaccine/respiratory booster schedule and proactively stock inventory for both
-Insert personal story here if you want. I include details about my wife's health conditions and how 2x/year covid boosters protect us so we can have a pretty normal life.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 26/02/2025

The reporting on the trans travel visa ban is criminal. It does NOT only affect transgender athletes. The cables CLEARLY say it affects all trans people. They can reject visas on point 6 of anyone who is requesting a visa that does not match their assigned sex at birth.

The Guardian
US threatens permanent visa bans on trans athletes based on sex markers | Trump administration
Exclusive: State department memo directs officers to bar those deemed to misrepresent birth sex on applications.
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The New York Times
U.S. government orders visa bans for transgender athletes, targets 2028 Olympics
The United States government has instructed its consular officials across the world to deny visa applications made by transgender athletes...
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The Economic Times
US warns transgender athletes of permanent visa bans over birth sex misrepresentation
The US has instructed officials to deny visas to transgender athletes and permanently bar those who misrepresent their birth sex on...
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VisaGuide.World
US Considers Permanent Visa Bans for Trans Athletes Based on Gender Markers
The US authorities plan to impose permanent visa bans on trans athletes. Earlier this month, US President, Donald Trump, issued an executive...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

This is how i responded to @bsky.app:

Hello- The post you have taken down was a video broadcast inside a government building to protest a fascist regime. It is in the public interest and it is legitimate news. Taking it down is an attempt to bury the story and an alarming form of censorship. I love this platform but I’m shocked by this decision. I ask you to reconsider it.

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 25/02/2025

Just downloaded & installed @flashes.blue, now publicly available on the app store! Very much like Instagram, except better (because its focus is on Bluesky). Note: You can turn off autoplay of videos & GIFS at bsky.app/settings/con...

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R. Ch. Garcia [he/us/All] @rudychg.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

SHOW THEM WE WANT OUR DEMOCRACY! ALSO for the 28th: Take out cash for spending, espec. on the 28th, if you need to shop local or buy meds, for instance. A credit card for local/indie purchases still gives BIG Finance 3% of the purchase. We need to reduce their profits that day. CASH the 28th!

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Tris @trisresists.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Just going to leave this here should it become useful to anyone…

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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

This, right here…👇 Pass. It. On. 🌈✨

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Rie Neal (she/her) @rienealwriter.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Oohhh… looking forward to this one! ❤️

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Oohhh… looking forward to this one! ❤️

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Rie Neal (she/her) @rienealwriter.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

The stories my heart will always have on speed dial. ❤️ (OH—and Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World; it’s apparently gone missing around our house. 🤷‍♀️) Do I share any favorites with you? #bookworm #alwaysreading #kidlit #kidlitcommunity

The following books are shown, arranged in two stacks, with decorative heart figures on top: The Love Hypothesis; Caraval; Across the Desert; Sanity and Tallulah #1; Prairie Lotus; Out of Range; Song for a Whale; Farther Than the Moon; Amari and the Night Brothers; We’re Not From Here; Show Me a Sign; The Prophet Calls; The Last Cuentista; El Deafo; American Street; A Court of Mist and Fury; I Kissed Shara Wheeler; Give Me a Sign; The Darkness Outside Us; The Words in My Hands; The Maid and the Crocodile; Fourth Wing; The Cruel Prince; True Biz; Across the Universe.

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Rie Neal (she/her) @rienealwriter.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Congrats to my friend Chiara Colombi on her newest picture book release: Rocket Beams, Lunar Dreams! 🎉 Your books are the perfect marriage of technical spacey knowledge and deep emotional arcs. ❤️ Had a blast celebrating with you at Linden Tree Books! #kidlit

Two white women (Chiara Colombi & me) smile for the camera, each holding up our books inside a children’s bookstore. Chiara has long brown hair and is wearing a sweater-blouse and jeans. She’s holding up her two picture books: Rocket Ship, Solo Trip and Rocket Beams, Lunar Dreams. I have red hair in a high ponytail and glasses, and am wearing a maroon blouse and jeans. I’m holding three of the four Astrid the Astronaut chapter books. There are bookshelves around and behind us.

Chiara holds a small sphere meant to represent the Moon, as she speaks to a gathering of young children and their parents on the front patio at Linden Tree Books in downtown Los Altos, CA.

A close-up of Chiara, reading from her newest picture book, Rocket Beams, Lunar Dreams.

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Rie Neal (she/her) @rienealwriter.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Thank you to the Tech Interactive and Silicon Valley Reads for a great time today! Always fun to cheer on fellow space-y kidlit author (and friend) Lindsay Lackey, and it was wonderful to meet Dr. Natasha Schatzman, an aeronautical engineer at NASA Ames (like my grandpa, back in the day!). #kidlit

Three white women pose for the camera, smiling. Lindsay Lackey is on the left; she has long brown hair and wears a dark dress covered in stars. I’m in the middle; I have red hair and glasses, and am wearing a light turquoise blouse and jeans. On the right is Dr. Natasha Schatzman, a NASA engineer; she has long brown hair and is wears blue polo shirt with a jacket tied around her waist.

I’m laying back in a motorized chair, controlled by a joy stick in each hand. The chair resembles a Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), like the motorized chairs sometimes used in space walks by astronauts. I’m in a circular arena, trying to move the chair so the red light above it lines up with the green target lights above me. Lindsay and her husband cheer me on in the background.

A heat-sensitive image of four people (me, Lindsay, and our husbands) is shown on a screen in green, red, and blue light.

My husband raises his hand to a wall with a projected waterfall on it, and the water moves away as if his hand is truly diverting it.

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Rie Neal (she/her) @rienealwriter.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Hello Flashes/Bluesky! 👋🏻 . My name is Rie (pronounced REE), and I’m a kidlit author living in the SF Bay Area. I write the chapter book series Astrid the Astronaut (Aladdin/S&S), about a plucky 8yo who wants to be the first hard-of-hearing astronaut one day. . Drop a comment to say hi!

I’m smiling at the camera, hand on my hip, holding up my four Astrid the Astronaut chapter books. I’m a white woman with curled red hair, glasses, and wearing a striped navy and white top. I’m outside; there is a high wooden fence and greenery behind me.

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Jennifer Savran Kelly @jsavrankelly.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

And here's info about the 2/28 economic blackout for anyone who's interested. It's a response to the rollback of DEI initiatives sparked by the federal government. www.newsweek.com/nationwide-e...

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Nationwide economic blackout on February 28: What to know about boycott

When Donald Trump reentered office, one of his first calls to action was to end several DEI initiatives in the federal government.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

We are too alike.

How could we improve this page?

It's a lie. You deleted transgender content because Donald Trump is hateful and trying to erase trans people from history.

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Manuscript Wish List® @manuscriptwishlist.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Good news! You can search Bluesky #MSWL just as well as Twitter Advanced Search. We recommend searching #MSWL with: * Your genre * Possible comp titles * Date range (if you do frequent searches) * Keywords related to your book Demo here! youtu.be/LnZt1MCjKZE

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How To Search #MSWL On Bluesky: Genre, Comps, Date, Keywords

YouTube video by The Manuscript Academy, LLC

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

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Rie Neal (she/her) @rienealwriter.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Thank you random Starbucks barista via DoorDash. I needed the reminder today ❤️🥹

An iced Starbucks drink sits on a white table. “Love Wins” is written in black Sharpie on the side.

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