What happens when publishers begin avoiding LGBTQ+ stories before a book is ever challenged? This article explores how years of censorship efforts are creating a chilling effect across the publishing industry, making it harder for queer voices & stories to reach readers bookriot.com/queer-books-...

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This is delightful. A fledgling European Starling utterly confounds adult Ospreys. :)

Hey, New Yorkers... want to support the strikers in Delaney Hall but can't make it out in person? @handsoffnyc.bsky.social has put out a call for folks to make ART for the protestors! Tomorrow in NYC between 12-4 pm! Sign up here! www.mobilize.us/handsoffnyc/...

this is incredible

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My first Eastern Screech Owl! Spotted it a couple weeks ago on an extremely windy day, when the trees were tossing so much that getting a photo was bonkers. This is the best of the lot. 😂 #birds

Okay, Birdsky, ID help needed! This is a Marsh Wren, yes? Rufous wing patch, white eyebrow, no barring on the sides, last week in Chicago. I'm 99% sure on this one, but I need validation. 😂 I was convinced I'd seen Marsh Wrens at this particular patch before but never got a solid look. 🤞 #birds

New fear unlocked. 😱 The life of an Archivist is wild. One minute you're merrily scanning through a folder of old photographs, the next you've uncovered something like this and it feels you're starring in the pre-title sequence of a 70s horror movie.

Did I see a fucking Connecticut Warbler and not realize it?! I saw a Mourning Warbler immediately after this bird and didn't even realized my first glimpse had been of a totally different bird. Holy shit. Lifer!!! Man, I'd be so screwed without my camera. 😂 #birds

Rogers Park homies, go check out Wheelie Good Bikes - David is super sweet, and he's trying to make a cozy community space with his new shop!

We all literally, LITERALLY just watched NASA fly four absolute all-stars the farthest any human has ever been from Earth and back flawlessly, and yet we're still continuously forced to pretend Musk's bullshit catastrophe factory is the future of human space exploration

Stayed out late birding. Didn't miss all the warblers, it turns out. Finally saw Blackpolls, Blackburnians, Mournings, Ovenbirds, a Black-throated Blue, and a Northern Parula. I feel much better about spring migration. 😊

Wtf. I texted my sister and she gave my message a poop emoji. That made an animated pile of poop fly up my screen and then pop and drip down over the text. Absolutely bizarre design. Her response: "Must be an android thing" Yes, the entire family except me uses iPhones. 🙄😂

Big thanks to The Children's Book Review for including The Countdown Conspiracy on their "8 Middle Grade Books About Space" list! Got a kiddo hyped for space travel thanks to the #Artemis missions? A tween who is excited for stargazing this summer? Check out this list! 😃 #KidLit

Thread. This is daily life for tens of thousands of people every day. 👇

"By reducing checks on the police, allowing federal agents to commit state crimes without facing charges and creating roadblocks for people who have been wrongfully convicted, the Burke administration is exposing Cook County residents to abuse and unfair criminal outcomes."

"“It’s like going to a diner with no one in the parking lot. That’s a bad move,” Schubel says. “You want to go to a place that other birds are giving a rave review. Once you have some birds on the site, they do the attracting for you.”" Fun read! 😊👇

I rarely have a car at my disposal, but I do this morning, so I drove an hour to a park I don't often get to go to, and there's been a helicopter hovering 100 feet above me since i got here. 😭 Can't hear birds, can barely hear myself think. ARGH.

Viator House (and their sister org, Bethany House) is an extraordinary place of welcome and support for young immigrants and asylum seekers. ❤️👇

@karnythia.blacksky.app Your commencement speech at the UIUC History Dept graduation this past weekend was FANTASTIC. My son was graduating and we all (grandma, aunt, uncle, wee cousins) talked about you afterwards. Thanks for the motivation! 😊

Brighten your day. 😊👇

This is a beautiful piece in @orionmagazine.bsky.social about coral conservation and personal connections to the environment. Well worth your time!

In this evaluation of AI notetakers for doctor's appointments 12 out of the 20 systems reviewed inserted incorrect drug info into patient notes, 9 fabricated info, 17 missed key details about mental health issues, 6 missed mental health issues completely. #medLibs www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/0...

Good thread, and the paper is available as a pdf at the link. 👇

“NOBODY’S BABY is a slender sliver of a novella, entertaining and clever and, for all its humour, capable of a depth that surprised me...” @hawkwing_lb reviews new work by Olivia Waite

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

This is part of the @globalvoices.org Global Crisis, Local Solutions Spotlight on climate action this month. Read more about how individuals and communities all over the world are doing the work to protect themselves and their environment: globalvoices.org/special/posi...

I meant to post this when we were driving downstate for graduation, but check out this cloud formation! No idea what that is, but my cousin's son just married a weather forecaster, so I bet I can find out. 😂

I thought I had taken my favorite-ever photo of a Common Yellowthroat last year, but today brought some competition. :) #birds

Look at this beautiful girl! Chestnut-sided Warblers are so cool. I love them. (Do I say this about literally every bird? Yes, yes I do.) #birds

Okay, birders. I logged these two as Least and Yellow-belled, and eBird didn't flag my photos. But flycatchers are still iffy for me. Thoughts? #birds

This female Bay-breasted Warbler posed so perfectly in these red leaves! :) #birds

The Bank Swallows are present in huge numbers at my local patch, and almost always flying so swiftly that my photos are trash. 😂 But every once in a while they take a breath! #birds

The oldest and the youngest grandkids in our family. 😊 Happy graduation to my kiddo, a brand new history and political science graduate with highest distinction honors on his thesis. 🎉

For the record, this proposal specifically targets gender identity. You have until May 22nd to submit a comment

I've read about 3/4s of the list, but my Top 100 Novels of All Time would look very different. 😊 This is a pretty specific type of book.

“All we ever wanted was to be able to move the needle, to hopefully tell people that our shared humanity is the most important thing we have, that we live on a precious lifeboat, that we are a crew. And the fact that that was resonating down here was the gift that you all gave us.” ❤️

I love this. ❤️👇 A shadow theatre, indeed.

You know that scene from It's a Wonderful Life where Joseph and an angel are talking: "Looks like we're going to have to send someone. A lot of people are asking for help for a man named George Bailey." With all the people we have reaching out, I picture that happening at Dana Farber with my mom. 😂

I am the stage of "crash course in clinical trial research"/cancer support team work where not until I'm getting ready to sleep at 12:30am do I realize I left a wet towel on the bed 16hrs ago, before heading out for the day's first (of many) dr appt. 😭

Just sent an email to a clinical trial coordinator at a new location for the first-line treatment trial we're desperate to get into, which has already filled up at two locations. Send hippie good vibes to the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, so they read my email and say, "Perfect. Come to Boston." 🤞

I read it like four times. You should read it once if you like: -animals with distinct personalities who are still animal-like -thinking to yourself "hm i could go for a bit of cheese..." -Goblins of any non-racist variety -bangin -trippy fey shit.

💯👇 The number of times I've had to scroll past those videos on my TL is far too high.

I rewarded myself w/spicy dill pickle chips after a 9hr day of nonstop telehealth calls/long-drive-away surgical trip/cancer support errands. But these chips are making me cough, which makes my new spring allergies think, "coughing? we can do runny nose & watery eyes too!" Foul play, universe. 😒

SO MANY GOSLINGS. 😍

I talked with a friend recently about how to find the right chimney so we could see all the Chimney Swifts circling and then diving in when they roost for the night and guess what I just saw while walking home are delivering pain meds to my mom? 😍 Small joys. 😊