On behalf of your fellow @grinnellcollege.bsky.social grads, @kumail.bsky.social, let me say, we’re so proud.

Sometimes you’re having a challenging day, and sometimes a library grown and her “library superfan” (her words not mine) kid bring you flowers.

Join us next weekend when local author and illustrator @heatherbrockmanlee.bsky.social will be here to speak about and sign her new cute new children's picture book, "Poppy"! This is a FREE kid's event, but registration is required. Sign up here: leebbs.eventbrite.com

Slightly increase a band Judas Bishop

Every children's book is a whole world, not because of what is contained in its pages, but because what a child pours into it. What a child carries away from it. What a child uses to build something new. Each kid's book is a cause for celebration not smug castigation. I'm furious, but I'm also sad.

Seems a good time to re-share something I wrote about why ALL reading is good reading and that includes… ahem… what someone thinks is “crud.” #BeAnAmbassador www.marykuehner.com/post/reading...

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May the Firth be with you

Fannie Lou Hamer. There was a documentary and short film, but she deserves the full Hollywood treatment.

Just remember, whatever stats ALA drops, the reality is even worse. A not insignificant number of schools don't report to ALA, and ALA doesn't have the staff in OIF to go out and track down this information. This looks bad, but it's likely worse. www.ala.org/news/2026/04...

Baby. Capybaras.

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Excited to spend some time (virtually) tonight with @erinentrada.bsky.social and other writers to connect, create, and be in community. The world is hard right now. We need anchors to keep from drifting away. 🩷🩷🩷 #amwriting

I'm just a girl standing in front of publishing, asking it to DO BETTER!

This laminator is all of us. Or, well, many of us. Those of us with empathy.

Making sensory bottles for a program. They are making me smile. Please, enjoy the colors. And dinosaurs.

I’m making tshirts for those of us who started our mental health journeys early. “Middle School Therapy Club”, anyone?

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I’m always a little offended if, just after I’ve finished petting her, my cat starts thoroughly cleaning that spot on her fur. I’m sorry, have I so befouled your delicate self with my human stench that you must immediately cleanse the area with holy spit?

AI has cursed with disbelief the one positive bonding experience on this forsaken internet: the cute, funny animal video

So the Trump administration’s two goals in peace talks with Iran are: 1. A commitment by Iran not to develop a nuke (This was part of the Obama deal that Trump canceled) 2. Opening the Strait of Hormuz. (Was open before war.)

LOL, trying to stay offline and do my work, and friends are sending me "LOOK AT THIS NEW PIC!" texts .... This one is worth it. First PoC and first woman to go around another world. Don't stop talking about this point. It's important. #ArtemisII

We are screwed….

School librarians are vital Support them Fund them Thank them #NationalSchoolLibrarianDay

Today is National School Librarian Day. THANK YOU, school librarians & school library workers. We celebrate you. For so many library kids, the school library is the only place they have access to books. It is where they learn to believe that stories are for them. Thank you for your library joy 💛📚🥹🤟🏽

TIL

TIL the comedian @angelabarnes.bsky.social and I have the same form of synesthesia via the No Such Thing as a Fish podcast (also 2 is orange, not 4, OBVIOUSLY)

Our priorities in this country are so, so fucked up.

It's kind of weird to be living in a time where everything is the bad ending of a children's fable

KITTIES! IN! SPACE!

Every year, hundreds of people walk silently through the streets of Minneapolis… looking at the windows of the houses. It's the Wedge Cat Tour: the residents put the cats in the window and the crowd stops to admire them. Yes. This exists. 😹

Please help if you can.

Happy #TransDayofVisibility! I see you and love you and am so glad you’re here. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

My dearest fellow writers, we do not ever need to describe another human being's body as "corpulent." It's still fatphobia even when you use a thesaurus.

I mean there it is.

Graphic novels do, in fact, count as "real reading" and kids should feel proud reading them.

With new Rowling comment being promoted just remember she personally funds the organised suppression of trans people. By suppression I don't mean just stopping them organising politically, I mean literally just living their normal lives, minding their own business and being healthy.

What’s your extremely tenuous claim to fame? I have 2: @kumail.bsky.social and I graduated from the same small Iowa college and I helped Betty Cheadle (Don’s mom) set up her first email account. 🤷🏼‍♀️

One more time: there is no ethical way to consume Harry Potter.

March this year: “Hey, so, nobody likes winter so we’re just gonna skip right to spring, okay?” 1 week later: “Oh, you like that? So you’re REALLY going to like this. It’s SUMMER!” *sigh*

Don't believe everything you read on the internet.

“I Will Not Comply”: Librarian Luann James Fights Censorship Demands of Rutherford County Library System’s Board RCLS's director continues to fight back against a library board that demands she remove books, share private info. This is the job, folks! bookriot.com/librarian-lu...

Sent out a query yesterday that seems like a really good fit and I’m really hopeful. I mean, EVERY query I send is to someone that seems like a good fit but this one? Especially so. 🤞🏻 #amquerying #amwriting #kidlit #pb

8 Coming-of-Age Novels in Verse for Middle Grade and YA Readers | SLJ buff.ly/UXSsrGz

Having a tough time understanding why anyone would want to use AI to write a book. Like, what's the point? No one is making you write books. If you don't love writing, there are no good reasons to write them. I keep coming back to this... poets.org/poem/student...

Friends who love F1 (I get it, but I don't understand it) my buddy @chainbear.bsky.social has, after several YEARS, finally released another video on his YouTube. Not that you probably need me to tell you. youtu.be/LnG8nJO_WQI?...

Good luck to all of us flying in the next few weeks. It's going to be unsafe *and* staffed by buffoons who only care about attacking Brown and Black folks.

librarians nodding vigorously