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autistic librarian, butch lesbian, sock knitter.

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Tim Paul @tybber.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This October, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙚-𝘽𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙁𝙤𝙤𝙡 by Christopher Buehlman @buehlmeister.bsky.social comes out. The third book in this world, and a follow up to 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙩𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙪𝙚 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙛. I got illustrate the map for the novel. One of my favorites. Also in this world and a prequel is 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨' 𝙒𝙖𝙧.
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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Actually want to amplify this further--95% haven't been digitized and even beyond that, archival CATALOGUING is its own patchy horrorshow of varying strategies, standards, and funding levels. To DIGITIZE something you have to FIND IT first!
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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Two tamagotchi screens with the captions/expressions of "I like toxins" and "my dream is eat dirt"
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
My state's Department of Libraries partnered with the Vermont Library Justice Project to create short, informational videos in eighteen languages to inform people about how US public libraries work. They're straightforward and can be used by any library. 📚 Playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Welcome to the Library - YouTube
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Angri Bundel @anibundel.com · 11/05/2026
We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 12/05/2026
7 months to go
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nicky @sloblesbian.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
sometimes your wife gets sucked into a conversation that is actively making you insane
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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 05/05/2026
Out today: A new edition of The Dispossessed, from Harper's American Classics series! www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
The new edition of The Dispossessed has a simple design: the background is purple, and a white box in the middle includes the title, author, category (fiction) and original publication year (1974). Two orbs sit at the top and bottom of the box, representing the Urras and Anarres from the book. The back of the book has black text on the purple background, with the quote "You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution."
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ιм єνιℓ иσω :3 @vreni.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
what she said! #illustration #sailormoon
stylized drawing of chibiusa from sailor moon pointing her signature gun at you with the text “NAZI PUNKS FUCK OFF”
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
We must consider a Very Important Cat in Sabriel:
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White Cat at the Gates of Death: Garth Nix’s Sabriel - Reactor
There is a great deal more to this cat than appears on the surface...
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Brutal.
A WHOLE CIVILIZATION
WILL DIE TONIGHT
My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools.
Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's
"keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's
"we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight."
It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before.
"It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time.
A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead.
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Mukad A QuBoy
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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
“Studies suggest youths are more empathetic and less narcissistic than in the past, as well as more open-minded and inclusive. Drug use is down, youth violence has dropped and teen pregnancies have declined.” It’s almost like panic abt kids’ wellbeing serve existing adult demands for control.
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The new podcast In Your Spare Time: From the Blog of Ursula K. Le Guin pairs Le Guin's blog posts with commentary from authors, librarians, critics, and more, including David Mitchell, Emily Wilson, Rick Riordan, Robin Hobb, and Vajra Chandrasekera.
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In Your Spare Time: Ursula K. Le Guin Podcast Brings Her Entire Blog to Your Ears - Reactor
Yes, even the blog posts that are primarily cat photos
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✧𝔰𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔪𝔲𝔡 𝔰𝔠𝔞𝔪𝔭✧ @altaudge.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
i am done with Self Care
It is time for Others Harm
an animorphs style photo of a blond girl turning into a cheetah
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Sally Cantirino @sallycantirino.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
schnabelperchten
linocut style art of decorative tiles and 6 schnabelperchten figures aka little creatures in bird beak masks with giant scissors
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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 23/03/2026
turns out attacking self-id in trans people has trickle down effects that cis transphobes use to attack us, abuse victims, and people with mental health conditions
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
And this is why it's transphobia all the way down. Gender-criticals have taken their absurd position that "self-ID" doesn't work for trans people and are now applying it to all mental health conditions. They think the entire field of psychology is a woke conspiracy against innocent kids.
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FREE THEM ALL!! 🇵🇸 @djmuel.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
devastated to discover the progressive liberals i organised with are not dedicated to the revolution
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
This is a great list of techniques for getting real information out of a Google search and avoiding AI slop and paid results. (One thing not included is that if you add "-ai" to a search, you block the AI summary) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...
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Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.
40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.
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latina belt sprachbund🇲🇽🇵🇸✈️ @languagespeaker.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
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𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕒𝕧𝕚 ⓘ Rude 🐈 @lucavi.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
if wrestling is fake explain this
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 20/03/2026
LESBIAN WHO JUST HEARD THE PHRASE “GOLD STAR MILITARY FAMILY”: So the whole family has only ever slept with soldiers…?
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Ian / Sìne @vonaether.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Elmo and Bella from Twilight in a forest. Bella asks "how old are you?" Elmo replies "Elmo is three years old." Bella follows up, "how long have you been three?" Elmo replies "a while."
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Dave Bagpuss Forsey ☕️ @bagpuss.org · 14/03/2026
Oh god this made me laugh so hard. Watch til the end.
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✨Cosmignon✨Commissions OPEN!✨ @cosmignon.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
I find the Cymbelines. I am finding the Cybelines. I found the Cymbelines. I have been finding the Cymbelines. I was finding the Cymbelines. I had found the Cymbelines. I had been finding the Cymbelines. I will find the Cymbelines. I will be finding the Cymbelines. #dicefunk
An illustration of a woman in silhouette standing in a void of ticking asynchronous clocks. Her one visible eye is also a clock, ticking on its own time. Her hair has many fly aways that curl into spirals, much like the large singular spiraled claw she has jutting out from one hand. Her entire figure is surrounded by chromatic aberration that splits her figure into other echos behind her.
All around her the clocks have small, golden fairy dragons flying around them, hiding behind them. Further in the background is a repeating message is fading into the darkness: "I will find the Cymbelines" repeated in different past/present/future tenses.
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Sophie @sophiefrommars.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The death cult doesn't want to die, they worship death by sacrificing others to extend their own lives. Hope this helps
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shafer brown @shaferbrown.com · 03/02/2026
smothering tithe (2023)
2023 (well, i dated the last one that way and i guess thats when it was revealed so lets say that, really drawn in 2022) mtg commission for wilds of eldraine enchanting tales. 
 
In a cozy stone shack, an impish figure spins gold from wool, burying a family in their living room. 

the main thing i remember from this commission is delight at getting to draw a spinning wheel, something that served as a toy for me at my maternal grandmothers house.
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Harold Richer @haroldricher.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Fuck tyranny, fuck facism, fuck ICE, be a goblin ! #goblinweek
Three goblins. The one left got a megaphone, the one in the middle a red flag, the one right a drum with the antifacist action on
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
listen here you stupid leftoid, if you just voted blue in 2024, ICE would be ruining the lives of immigrant families quietly and efficiently in a way where we wouldn't have to hear about it on the news
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Jesstergen 👩🏻‍🚀 ✨ @rougerogue.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
“Cant sleep… i’ll just have a quick look at my phone”
Lord of the rings: Merry looks into the glowing palantir orb… and screams
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11/01/2026
They’re opposed to preventative healthcare policy because they believe they’re an intervention in the natural eugenic hierarchy, framing this as an issue of “government overreach” while they’re literally banning healthcare for disfavored groups assists in that effort.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
The Harvard B School ethics program I attended (1st yr of MBA program, required part of my PhD) involved 6 weeks of ungraded work in which we read the Pinto & Tylenol case studies: the students concluded Ford was right to let ppl die & Johnson/Johnson wrong to pay for safety seals. Moral monsters.
Columbia business school graduate attempts to educate me--a business school professor for 9 years--on the important ethical content taught in business schools.
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Curb Your Malthusiasm @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time
John Booth, a 19-year-old apprentice who joined a Luddite attack on a textile mill in April 1812. He was injured, detained and died after being allegedly tortured to give up the identity of his fellow Luddites.
Booth's last words became a legend: "Can you keep a secret?" he whispered to the local priest, who attested that he could.
The dying Booth replied, "So can I."
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nicky @sloblesbian.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
looking at my son, who is proportionally cute to naughty
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
that’s why they say “all cops” and not “some cops”
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Patrick Perini @pcperini.com · 10/01/2026
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NainRouge420 @nainrouge420.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
What a world huh

Lemon it’s still struggling to be born
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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
We should all sit with this ICE murder. Any one of us could be executed by ICE, and our government wouldn’t bat an eye. Instead they’d just lie about us to the world.
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 04/01/2026
You couldn't publish this today. You'd have to cloak it under several layers of metaphor.
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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:
Mr. Rogers: Even though machines might move or sound like they're talking, they don't have feelings.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
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nicky @sloblesbian.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
here's my son courtesy of the cat sitter plus some pictures of the last couple days
orange cat with his tongue sticking out a little bitmilan streetchrome kettle with orange detailsantigone bookstore front with pride flags
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nicky @sloblesbian.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
going on vacation with just my wife rules so hard because we go & do things & then she goes, want to go back to the hotel room & lay down? and nobody is like ah let's socialize and consume alcohol. you can just lay down and make a reservation for dinner.
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Somebody Else @smbdylsss.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Even if the two of us are ever torn apart ... Take my revolution #rgu
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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/12/2025
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
It could be one more weird anomaly in this unending cycle of what the fuck.
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QuiJohn @quijohn.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
This article itself is evidence white men are getting their fantasy pieces published
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 26/12/2025
This shit is made up, actually
Anecdotal evidence also suggests that men are being pushed out of the literary world. A few weeks ago, I heard of a man who attended a writer's convention, hoping to break into the field of fantasy fiction. To his surprise, his fellow attendees wanted to know what was unique about him. Was he gay? Black? Queer?
Uh, no. He was just a straight, white male and therefore essentially a nobody in the book world.
Perhaps this shouldn't be a surprise.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 26/12/2025
Funny Numbers xkcd.com/3184/
Comic. [Banner: Mathematical Society: 2025 Meeting.] PERSON 1 with bun: Any other new developments from the year to cover before we wrap? PERSON 2: Oh, the teens picked a new funny number. PERSON 3 with short hair: Aww, I’m glad to hear they’re still doing that. PERSON 4 with ponytail: I’ll add it to the list. [List: 23 (skidoo!; 42; 69; 420; 1,337; 58,008; [circled]: 67]
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