Happy Hobbit Day! Today's Classic Cover of the Day is The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, with a cover illustrated by Tolkien himself

Do they… make you uglier?

ICE is targeting community members with no criminal record. Agents are sitting outside of churches and schools. Driving unmarked vans and breaking car windows. These violent ICE arrests don't make us safer — they intentionally stoke fear and tear communities apart.

Starvation. Mass displacement. Slaughter of innocent children. A siege of Gaza City. This is wrong. The U.S. should not send one more penny to fund Netanyahu's war machine.

BIG NEWS!!! 😊✨❤️

An entire Bette Davis movie, 'Watch on the Rhine' (1943), dedicated to anti-fascists

I still have a DVD/blu ray player which means my family can continue our Dr. Who play-through with the kids thanks to our local library. We had only reached Peter Capaldi's first episode when it stopped being available.

To recap, Trump signed a proclamation saying that after midnight tonight, no one with an H-1B visa may enter the US unless they have paid $100,000. However, anonymous White House officials are saying it doesn't apply to people with current H-1B visas — yet there is NO official guidance! None!

The goldenrods are starting to do their thing 🌱

Easiest boycott of a TV show ever

The text of this order makes it quite clear to me that this is about Indians (at least) in tech and STEM. And this administration would rather destroy American higher education, healthcare, science, and tech than tolerate us around. hope those desis who voted for this are pleased with themselves.

Last repost: I don't really know the visa/green card status of all my relatives in the US and am hoping they'll be fine.

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

Anyway.. I'm still thinking about all these trump quotes that come out of his shambling rambles. It's almost a form of normalizing to pull any kind of quote that makes sense from what he says.

Ok who didn't tell me that the last episode of And just like that (sex and the city reboot) was the series finale?

Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now. But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library! It's easy! Check your library's website.

We don't know what's going to happen so might as well fight for better. That's really my basic political orientation.

Look. I'm not mad you bought a Kimmel picture book. But marginalized creators are getting banned and death threats and harassed all the time. It'd be neat to show them that wallet solidarity.

Wondering how quickly people would stop listening to Trump if he did weekly fireside chats. Remembering all those empty auditoriums for his too long rambling rallies.

Incoherent rambling about suing people for being mean?

hahahahahahaha

It’s @staceywescott.bsky.social with the photo of the year so far

First of all, how dare you.

Capy and Ducks. #art #capybara #ducks

My favorite thing about the 1960s Batman show is that sometimes the villains would have to go to court. Like The Riddler would show up wearing his Riddler shit talking about "I don't know what you're talking about"

Breaking News: Texas A&M’s president will step down after turmoil over a children’s literature course that recognized more than two genders.

The Land Is an Ancestor We Refuse to Abandon #GraphicMedicine www.crucialcomix.com/comic/the-la...

Lisa Corinne Davis’s paradoxical paintings speak to our age of simultaneous information overload and disparity, where the gap between language and meaning, and rich and poor, increases by the hour.

Typing up a scene I wrote by hand during my weekly writing date at the bookstore today! Hoping to fill in more details and things as I go along. I find that what I end up typing in is generally longer than what I hand wrote. I handwrite more when I'm drafting than when I'm revising.

A terrific #WorldKidLit Month roundup, including reviews of our LATE TODAY, JOURNEY OF THE HUMPBACKS, and THE TREE THAT WAS A WORLD @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social @laurawat.bsky.social

Caribbean Reef Octopuses 🐙 hand sculpted from clay 🎨 #ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #CoralReef #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡

Beyond cancelling Kimmel's show are about 200 writers and crew members in LA who just lost their full time gig.

Is today a less-terrible day to remind folks that I have frivolous books out, about cyber elections, intelligent ships, space gangs, and lots of youtiao... eeek I'll check back in the next decade?

They are literally canceling culture

Anyway it was a busy day at work

Last repost: i watched and was genuinely confused about why this warranted any kind of notice at all. This whole thing with firing people over discussing Charlie Kirk is the silliest, strangest line to draw.

Here’s the Jimmy Kimmel clip that got him pulled off the air

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

“Paramjit Singh, an Indian who immigrated to the United States more than 30 years ago, has been detained by the ICE and kept in custody for over a month now. Paramjit is a green card holder…has a brain tumor and heart issues” timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/we-...

“I have received word. Gather the council.”

SCAM ALERT: If by chance you get contacted by a group advertising themselves as the “Crazy Old Bats Book Club” who would like to charge you for reading your book in their book club, and who claim I am one of the Satisfied Authors, and furthermore give you an email address for me—it’s not me.

Hey #kidlit illustrators! We're beginning work on new Christmas/nighttime themed picture book. I'm looking for someone with a painterly, textured, and literary style capable conjuring magic, light, and wonder. Please respond w/ samples + folio link. Please no emails/DMs. 💙❤️ #artcommissions

Our Graphic Novel Preview series invites readers to look inside new graphic novels! This month, we’re highlighting Rhiannon by Kiara Brinkman; illustrated by Sean Chiki, a quiet and warm coming-of-age YA graphic novel. On sale October 28th! #edusky #graphicnovel #library bit.ly/3UIKdYj

🎨 It’s a Draw This In Your Style! Create your own version of this image. I'll pick a favorite on Sept 30th & send the artist a signed and personalized copy of my new book PIGGY BANK SAVES THE DAY! Rules in the comments ⬇️ #dtiys #drawthisinyourstyle #artchallenge #artprompt #illustration #kidlitart

📣 Thrilled to announce that I’m now represented by Susan Hawk at Upstart Crow Literary 📣 Can’t wait to send new stories out to the world with her! We’ve already started working on some very exciting stuff, so watch this space 🤗 My portfolio: sojungkimmccarthy.art #kidlit #kidlitart #kidlituk

Cover reveal! Don’t Splash Grandpa written by @juliegonzalez.bsky.social and Illustrated by me published by sourcebooks hits shelves in April 2026!!! Kids at the community pool have a blast, whirling, splashing and playing games but watch out for the grumpy grandpa! #kidlitart #kidlit

Every now and then i dream of starting a new children's publishing company in the boston area with a focus on publishing authors of color, but then remember i do not have a businessy bone in my body or experience working in publishing and it would be a lot of hard work

OMG 🥹 This reminds me of the sad, beautiful short story, "The Great Silence" by Ted Chiang electricliterature.com/the-great-si...