Los Angeles school worker shares frustration over parents having to leave their children’s graduation ceremony because ICE raided an elementary school’s graduation today

We now have the details of the federal 2026 budget proposal, and it spells the end of IMLS. The request is $6,000,000 to "conduct an orderly closeout of IMLS." Whatever happens in the 2 court cases would be moot if this passes. bookriot.com/the-2026-fed...

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Hey Blueksy, if you're looking for magic books and magic school books that *aren't* horribly exclusionary, let me share some fantastic examples with you. #BookSky 💙📚

People who live in the next town over who have been saying they’ll defund their library and just use our library are SO MAD to find out that they aren’t allowed to just use other towns’ libraries. IT ISN’T FAIR!

Diversity Equity Inclusion live and let live love and let love

Love Libraries? Then Fight for their Future! #NationalLibraryWeek

My favorite sign from the Albany #HandsOff rally.

“Protecting” kids without empowering kids is actually just “controlling” kids and if you remember that you will see through a lot of bullshit

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

Email addresses for all IMLS staff were being disabled today. Those with questions or concerns over IMLS funding will no longer be able to reach the individual or individuals with whom they’d been working. bookriot.com/imls-gutted/

It happened again.

Who wants some good news? The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...

In this post Kelly provides great list of easy steps you can take: sign the EveryLibrary petition, call your senators + reps (use 5Calls!). Protect our state libraries, tribal libraries, interlibrary loan, digital equity, vital grants to libraries of all species... 📣 And please spread the word!! 📣

Corey Doctorow: "Even by Amazon standards, this is extraordinarily sleazy: starting March 28, each Amazon Echo device will cease processing audio on-device and instead upload all the audio it captures to Amazon's cloud for processing, even if you have previously opted out of cloud-based processing"

How long have I been walking around with a googly eye stuck to my leg? #childrenslibrarian

Oh hey, I was wondering what the Fruitstripe Gum guy was up to! Looks like he went pro. Good for him! #glowup

All grad admissions offers rescinded at my institution, UMass Chan Med School. There is just no alternative. It’s a terrible loss for students. But it’s also a loss for all of science. Science *runs* on grad student labor. They get paid pennies to do highly skilled work. Science can’t function w/o

#JoannFabrics looks like the grocery store in March 2020.

My brain is being very mean to me today, so here is my Zeus, who thinks I hung the moon.

Oh, no, did the leopards eat your face? How very unfortunate? They were only supposed to eat their faces? That's just the worst...... Alas, whatever shall we do?

I decided that all my coworkers need everlasting cupcakes on their birthdays. Naturally, I decided this during the month when half my coworkers have birthdays.

It’s National Hot Chocolate Day in the USA ☕️💖

2024 is the year my Dad died. 2025 is the year my Fezzie died.

Do I need an excuse to make this? No, I really don’t.

Post a photo you took - with no description - to bring some zen to the timeline.

My Dad was a huge #BuffaloBills fan, and this was with his things. Can anyone tell me whose autograph this is? @buffalo-bills.bsky.social

@authorgracelin.bsky.social are there any new quack ducks out this year? The ones I have are all Christmas themed.

My new coworker says she got all her work done, but I think she’s full of hot air.

Been crocheting a Santa as a gift and I feel like it’s taking forever. But I just finished the head! Now I just need to do the beard! And the hat. And two legs. The boots, and a belt, and a bag with gifts. Maybe by Xmas 2025.

Oh yay, just got my first “woe is me, please pay my bills” message on here. Used to get them all the time on the twitters.

Hello, Bluesky! Join me and fellow Star Trek ladies on October 3rd for a virtual event, Women of Star Trek for Kamala! We are supporting the Harris/Walz campaign as we look toward a brighter future - one that we need to start building today at the ballot box. 🗳️ #HarrisWalz2024 #Kamala2024

Houdini, one of Doug’s cats, is voluntarily snuggling up with me while he’s on a business trip, and it’s amazing, but I can’t get up… and I really have to get up! But she might not be here when I get back! (Photo of said kitty)

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #428,129!

Still true, still adorable.

Debating on a career change. What else can I do with my #MLIS?

One of my fav library kids came in the other night all out of breath. “Miss Kat! There’s this book! Silver… seas? It goes with Where the Mountain Meets the Moon! I NEED IT!” (Don’t worry, we had it on the shelf, AND Starry River of the Sky. No lives were lost.) @authorgracelin.bsky.social

I haven’t been able to learn about cephalopods live because I work on Wednesday nights, but I am so prepared to watch the recordings. Thank you, @sarahmackattack.bsky.social!

I made an angry potato cat!

Wow, I’m drinking a lot of tea lately. I finished this whole box! *buys 7 more boxes of tea*

I’m seeing people post photos of their large cats and I wanted to share my Aurelius, who I believe was about 23 lbs at his most glorious.

Me: Look at those migrating geese. Did you ever notice sometimes one side of the flying V is way longer than the other? Do you know why that is? D, genuinely interested: No, why is that? Me: because there’s more geese on that side.

This is *not* what Anastasia Krupnik looks like.

All I want to do this weekend.

This is your periodic reminder that Zeus sleeps like Superman.

When I was really little, my parents took my sisters and me to Disney World for a magical day. I came back and told everyone in my preschool that Pluto was my best friend, and I had a photo to prove it.