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Gale Galligan @galegalligan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fresh Start would not be the same without Karen's gorgeous colors!!! I'm so glad that @libcomix.bsky.social is using this opportunity to shine a light on how people make comics.

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

In the middle of a new commission request and it's /awesome/

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Yesterday, Governor Healey signed An Act Regarding Free Expression at Franklin Public Library (America's first public library, y'know)! This bill defends the right to read, to access information, and protects library workers across the Commonwealth. #libraries 📚 mblc.state.ma.us/news/news-re...

Maura Healy signing surrounded by advocates

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Robin B. @robin.noflyingnotights.com · 10/08/2026

My two furballs being very true to their nature.

A gray tabby cat sleeps happily on top of a dark blue back couch cushion with a halo of light above her.

A small black cat sits on top of a pile of folded tablecloths and cloth napkins in a dining room chair seen from above. She is looking up and meowing.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

A friend reached out this evening to request clarification on an AI apologist’s talking point, and it’s worth reiterating: Digitizing is a process librarians, archivists, and curators understand to preserve the information inside a book as a unique entity. What these bros are doing is destroying.

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yorick @helloyorick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

OH MY GOD

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Boston Comic Arts Foundation @bostoncomicarts.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Massachusetts cartoonists: if a professional expense is standing in your way, BCAF wants to help you keep moving! We're launching Lightning Grants — six microgrants of $250 designed to get money into creators' hands quickly and without red tape.

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 29/06/2026

The most overlooked opportunity in comics is the ALA Annual artist alley. They give FREE tables and admission to cartoonists in exchange for a piece of art for a charity auction. If you make books that end up in libraries, that is the room you want to be in, and you can do it at no cost.

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Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo @massmice.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Celebrate Pride Month with our friends of MICE at the Brookline Village Library for their first Brookline Queer Zine Fest on Saturday, June 20 from 11:30 AM to 4 PM! Buy, trade, collect, hoard(!?) brooklinelibrary.libcal.com/calendar/eve...

The Brookline Village Library is hosting their first Brookline Queer Zine Fest on Saturday June 20th from 11:30AM to 4PM! Support local art and have fun conversations.

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

"joint statement released this week by 5 public library organizations renews calls for the Big Five publishers to negotiate with libraries in the digital library market. Amid surging usage and a spate of library ebook bills, it just might work this time." Me: 📚 www.wordsandmoney.com/with-a-simpl...

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Comics people! This year if you want to vote in the Eisners (and didn’t receive an email saying you’re already registered), YOU MUST APPLY BY 13 MAY. Make your voice heard! Historians, educators, ✨ librarians ✨ and comic / webcomic creators should apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Who Can Vote
Those who are eligible to vote include comic book/graphic novel/webcomic creators (writers, artists, cartoonists, pencillers, inkers, letterers, colorists); comic book/graphic novel publishers and editors; comics historians and educators; graphic novel librarians; and owners and managers of comic book specialty retail stores.

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Robert Flippo @booksellerbert.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

SCARLET MORNING by @gingerhaze.bsky.social A modern fairy tale that reads like a cross between The Golden Compass and One Piece. Magic, pirates, humor, heart. A fantastic book for all ages with emotional depth to match the whimsy. Rating: GIMME BOOK TWO RIGHT NOW / 10 #BookSky 🪐📚

Book cover for SCARLET MORNING by ND Stevenson

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Boston Comic Arts Foundation @bostoncomicarts.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

As advocates for comics creators and readers, we stand with over 100 grassroots and national advocacy organizations, publishers, booksellers, and professional associations in opposition to HR 7661. Urge your representative to vote NO or to not take it up for a vote at all at: tinyurl.com/hapf2m9r

Statement in opposition to HR 7661: The freedom to speak and to read is a fundamental principle of the United States of America. That is why we have joined together--parents, students, educators, library workers, authors, free expression advocates, booksellers, and publishers-- to stand in support of our nation's school-aged children and teens and in opposition of HR 7661.

HR 7661 if passed will compel nationwide book censorship. It confuses obscenity with identity and stigmatizes vulnerable young people, particularly trans children and teens based on who they are. It will continue to drain funding from our already underfunded schools and libraries. And it will threaten the creativity and critical thinking that are vital to education in the US.

A core principle of democracy, freedom, and liberty is that the government does not choose what people get to read and who they get to be. This country has a long history of protecting our freedoms. HR 7661 goes against this.
Together, we say that this bill goes against the US Constitution, local self determination, access to books, and a society that is welcoming for everyone, no matter who they are. Our schools deserve better than this. Our children and teens-- all of them, without exception-- deserve better than this.
We urge the US House of Representatives to vote NO on HR 7661 or better yet not to take it up for a vote at all.

A list of organizations who signed the Joint statement in opposition to HR 7661.

A continuation of the list of organizations who signed the joint statement against HR 7661

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🍯🍎 Septimus 🍎🍯 @septimusreviews.com · 09/04/2026

You could have asked anyone who works a public reference desk and they would have told you this lol...

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Alex Zank @alexzank.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I am ecstatic. All three of the Moms for Liberty backed candidates lost in my local school board election tonight. Even this deep red Waukesha County, WI community doesn't like conservative politics in our schools. 🇺🇸🏫🗳

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Akela Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

OH HELL YES! This was my first experience with a cliffhanger and even though I hated school I could not WAIT for the fall to see what happened. All-time core memory

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Mons @dennismons.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Sir, a second bird is at the feeder

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Ashley Parker @ashleyrparker.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

My dad died on Valentine’s Day—ever the mischievous cherub—after a decade-long battle w dementia. My essay on what it’s like to lose someone you love, before they’re even gone: www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...

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The Endless Goodbye

More than a decade before my dad died, I lost him to dementia.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Seconding this, as a white dude who came up in the Mountain Music community: I don't know how they did it, but between Rocky Road to Dublin, Go Lassie Go, and Pick Poor Robin Clean, the songs were *wrong*. Wonderfully performed, but unsettling in a way I can't quite put my finger on. 1/

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Robin B. @robin.noflyingnotights.com · 13/03/2026

I finished re-watching Elementary and am not sure what I want to choose as a comfort TV re-watch next.

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Rusty Quill @rustyquill.com · 13/03/2026

Just announced: FROM THE LIBRARY OF JURGEN LEITNER, an official Magnusverse novel by Premee Mohamed with Jonathan Sims, releasing October 27th and published by Random House Worlds. Pre-order now by visiting www.rustyquill.com/novel

A promo image. The background is a grey spiral on a black background. Text reads: “Enter the library, 27th October 2026. Pre-order now.” There is an image of a hardback book. On the cover there is text reading “From the Library of Jurgen Leitner”, “Premee Mohamed with Jonathan Sims”, and a green illustration of a falling man with wings strapped to his arms.

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Robin B. @robin.noflyingnotights.com · 13/03/2026

Please enjoy my majestic black cat on this Friday the 13th.

A shorthair black cat sits on her owner’s lap on top of a red and purple quilt with paws tuck under her chest. She gazes happily at the camera.

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Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I like a lot of things about Shrinking but my favorite is that it seems to be making Harrison Ford happy. The guy always looks like he's having a blast

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

So this past week I read the book "Code Name Hélène" by Ariel Lawhon, which is a WWII-era historical novel about an Australian woman who married a Frenchman, worked in the French Resistance, escaped France just ahead of arrest, and parachuted BACK in to work with the Maquis.

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Robin B. @robin.noflyingnotights.com · 04/03/2026

I lost my brilliant, beautiful mom Monday. She a dedicated professor of physics & astronomy, a dry wit, an adventurous cook, a strong willed force & feminist, a lover of music & art, & a supportive, loving mom & wife. A life well lived. Alzheimer’s is awful but I’m glad we got every minute we did.

A young white woman with short dark pixie hair sits on a pine needle covered forest floor wearing a blue striped dress, leaning against a pine tree trunk. She wears an inquisitive expression, looking at the camera.

A young white woman sits in the driver seat of a white vintage car, dressed elegantly in a white wool coat with a matching white flower brooch and earrings. Her black hair and red lip maw a dramatic contrast, and she looks out of the car at the camera.

A close up portrait of an older white woman with short, dark hair gently smiling at the camera wearing a purple evening suit, pearl earrings.

A senior white woman stands at a kitchen island wearing a bright red shirt with a black cat on it. She is working on cutting up apples for mini pies and the ingredients are spread out in front of her.

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Boston Comic Arts Foundation @bostoncomicarts.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Join us at the Woburn Public Library for a panel discussion featuring the best and brightest upcoming Black comics creators in the Boston area! Brittney Bourne, Ingrid Pierre, and Gabriel Joy Reid will talk about their work in a conversation moderated by Cagen Luse! Registration link below!

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

When I realized what they were doing with the names of the blades weapons, I laughed out loud in the theater, and from that point on I was 100% on board

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Comics in the Golden Age @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Cartoonist Jackie Ormes (Aug. 1, 1911- Dec. 26, 1985), the first Black woman to create a newspaper comic strip that was nationally syndicated. She created Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem, Torchy in Heartbeats & Patty-Jo ‘n’ Ginger (Patty Jo became a toy doll). #BlackHistoryMonth

A black and white photo of Ormes with two dolls, including Patty Jo.

A children's book, "Holding Her Own: The Exceptional Life of Jackie Ormes." Words by Traci N. Todd and pictures by Shannon Wright.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/02/2026

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

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ALA’s Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table @libcomix.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

GNCRT and the Rainbow Round Table are pleased to announce the Collaboration List titles for 2026! View press release here: bit.ly/4t4iMbl

Graphic Novels and Comics Round table and the Rainbow Round Table announces their Collaboration Core List for 2026. Graphic novels by and about LGBTQIA+ people for all ages and in a range of genres with diverse characters and stories

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Robin B. @robin.noflyingnotights.com · 27/01/2026

Librarians, Hello Sunshine just got a much deserved Outstanding Comics Award for Young Adults honor from ALA/GNCRT. If we want more comics we know teens’ll love: get it on every library shelf. With our support, we’ll get sequels, & creators like @keezyyoung.bsky.social can keep making amazing work.

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ALA’s Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table @libcomix.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Exciting news! 🎉 The inaugural Outstanding Comics Awards was announced today Each award has three categories: fiction, non-fiction, and series! 🧵 for press releases Browse the Awards winners and honorees on our site www.ala.org/gncrt/awards... #LibComix

Graphic Novels and Comics Round table announces the 2025 Outstanding comics awards for Adults, Young Adults, Children for Fiction, Non-fiction, and series. Book covers of the winners in the background.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

George Michael did not write the greatest coming out song ever in 1990 for you motherfuckers to claim entertainment only just got gay. youtu.be/diYAc7gB-0A?...

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George Michael - Freedom! ’90 (Official Video)

YouTube video by georgemichaelVEVO

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 27/12/2025

BREAKING. Enormous news in the hockey romance world... I am thrilled to announce that CHECK, PLEASE!: YEAR FIVE, a brand new volume of Check, Please! will be serialized in 2026. #omgcp 🏒🥧💕

A cell phone and rolling pin on a table surface. The cell phone screen shows a text exchange between an unknown person and ERIC BITTLE. The unknown person is sending Bitty a picture of a pie going into Betsy 2.0, an oven.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Has there been a Lancet study on whether everything written by or for women will eventually be called YA?

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Malinda Lo @malindalo.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

An exciting update! Mass Freedom To Read has been working overtime to get amendments filed that substantially strengthen this bill, and all the amendments have been filed! It's time to contact your MA senators to urge them to support the amendment: www.massfreedomtoread.org/news/cta-sup...

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New Update and Call To Action — Mass Freedom To Read

We are excited to share the news that several senators have filed amendments that, if passed, will significantly strengthen the bill. The Mass Freedom to Read coalition has been working hard to p...

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CatDaMaMa @catdamama.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

@neguse.house.gov gives a lesson on how to reframe a journalist’s stupid question about #SNAP! 💪🏼

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Robin B. @robin.noflyingnotights.com · 27/10/2025

I will be attending this year, representing comics librarians everywhere! More news on that soon, but just look at this amazing poster.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

the Bajoran version of the Bechdel test is “do two named women talk to each other about something other than murder” and I love “Deep Space Nine” because it fails almost every episode

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Robin B. @robin.noflyingnotights.com · 10/10/2025

This is also the scene that I want to show to anyone and everyone about why this show is so magnificent.

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Robin B. @robin.noflyingnotights.com · 01/10/2025

So excited to see this picked up by 23rd St!

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