"This one simple trick will save your eyes," I grumble to myself as after several hours of doomscrolling I remember to put on my computer glasses so the words will actually be in focus.

I am stuck in a German hospital for several days. My friend's husband loaned me one of his precious issues of Asimov's Science Fiction. Molly Gloss's short story Wápato is simply lovely. Makes me wonder if she and LeGuin were friends. #booksky 📚💙

Me, a 56 year old woman with a horrifying foot infection as I'm briskly wheeled down a hall by the German orderly, softly to myself: wheeeee

Happy World Rain Day! It’s raining… – Cats and dogs (English) – Old ladies and sticks (Welsh) – Like a pissing cow (French) – As from Esteri’s ass (Finnish) – Penguins headfirst (Uruguayan Spanish) – Pilot whales (Faroese) – Chair legs (Greek) – Wheelbarrows (Czech) – Men (hallelujah)

When you strip away humanity

@paolobacigalupi.bsky.social Congrats! Your book Shipbreakers has been selected as a 2025-26 Oregon Battle of the Books high school title. OBOB has over 30K participants annually, with 750 schools fielding 8,000 teams of students. We're excited to share your book with Oregon readers!

@travisbaldree.bsky.social Congrats! Legends & Lattes has been selected as a 2025-26 Oregon Battle of the Books high school title. OBOB has over 30K participants annually, with 750 schools fielding 8,000 tea!ms of students. We're excited to share your book with Oregon readers! We 💙PNW authors!

@geneluenyang.bsky.social Congrats! Your book Dragon Hoops has been selected as a 2025-26 Oregon Battle of the Books selection. OBOB has over 30K participants annually, with 750 schools fielding 8,000 teams of students. We're excited to share your book with Oregon readers!

@aidenschmaiden.bsky.social This is a first. Your book Cemetery Boys was chosen as a high school title for Oregon Battle of the Books, AND Sunbearer Trials was chosen as the student choice option! OBOB has over 30K participants annually, with 750 schools fielding 8,000 teams of students.

@laekanzeakemp.bsky.social Congrats! Your book An Appetite for Miracles has been selected as a 2025-26 Oregon Battle of the Books high school title. OBOB has over 30K participants annually, with 750 schools fielding 8,000 teams of students. We're excited to share your book with Oregon readers!

@ohtruth.bsky.social Congrats! Your book Uprooted has been selected as a 2025-26 Oregon Battle of the Books selection. OBOB has over 30K participants annually, with 750 schools fielding 8,000 teams of students. We're excited to share your book with Oregon readers!

@rroumani.bsky.social Congrats! Your book Tagging Freedom has been selected as a 2025-26 Oregon Battle of the Books selection. OBOB has over 30K participants annually, with 750 schools fielding 8,000 teams of students. We're excited to share your book with Oregon readers!

@alangratz.bsky.social Congrats! Your book Projekt 1065 has been selected as a 2025-26 Oregon Battle of the Books selection. OBOB has over 30K participants annually, with 750 schools fielding 8,000 teams of students. We're excited to share your book with Oregon readers!

@sassinsf.com Congrats! Your book Ellen Outside the Lines has been selected as a 2025-26 Oregon Battle of the Books selection. OBOB has over 30K participants annually, with 750 schools fielding 8,000 teams of students. We're excited to share your book with Oregon readers!

@deuceofgears.bsky.social Congrats! Your book Dragon Pearl has been selected as a 2025-26 Oregon Battle of the Books selection. OBOB has over 30K participants annually, with 750 schools fielding 8,000 teams of students. We're excited to share your book with Oregon readers!

@bethatintervals.bsky.social Congrats! Your book A Dictionary of Scoundrels has been selected as a 2025-26 Oregon Battle of the Books selection. OBOB has over 30K participants annually, with 750 schools fielding 8,000 teams of students. We're excited to share your book with Oregon readers!

@ivynoelle.bsky.social Congrats! Your book The Secret Garden on 81st St. has been selected as a 2025-26 Oregon Battle of the Books selection. OBOB has over 30K participants annually, with 750 schools fielding 8,000 teams of students. We're excited to share your book with Oregon readers!

@kaaauthor.bsky.social Congrats! Your book Odder has been selected as a 2025-26 Oregon Battle of the Books selection. OBOB has over 30K participants annually, with 750 schools fielding 8,000 teams of students. We're excited to share your book with Oregon readers!

@rebstead.bsky.social Congrats! Your book The Lost Library has been selected as a 2025-26 Oregon Battle of the Books title. OBOB has over 30K participants annually, with 750 schools fielding over 8,000 teams of students. We are excited to share your work with students all over Oregon!

@wenmass.bsky.social Congrats! Your book The Lost Library has been selected as a 2025-26 Oregon Battle of the Books title. OBOB has over 30K participants annually, with 750 schools fielding over 8,000 teams of students. We are excited to share your work with students all over Oregon! (pls tell RS!)

@sandygrubb.bsky.social Congrats! Your book Just Like Click has been selected as a 2025-26 Oregon Battle of the Books selection. OBOB has over 30K participants annually, with 750 schools fielding over 8,000 teams of students. We are excited to share a local author with students all over Oregon.

@chrisgrab.bsky.social Congrats! Your book Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library has been selected as a 2025-26 Oregon Battle of the Books selection. OBOB has over 30K participants annually, with 750 schools fielding 8,000 teams of students. We're excited to share your book with Oregon readers!

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you. It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

Thanks to the fabulous State Library of Oregon's ILL program, I got to read two books about school library management and leadership for the cost of return postage! My fave was Leading for School Librarians: There is No Other Option by Hilda K. Weisburg. PAGES of notes. #book #tlsky #skybrarian

Would it be too weirdly parasocial of me to ask Pernille Ripp a few questions about my upcoming trip to Denmark?

Had my first “if you see someone shoplifting food, no you didn’t“ moment and successfully overruled my middle class upbringing. Of course, I smirked to myself and felt a need to announce it here, so I’m still not very cool.

MERKLEY: How do you feel about being responsible for hundreds of thousands of kids dying because of your sudden interruption in these key programs? VOUGHT: I reject the assertion MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact

Let the foxes stay! After climbing 11 storeys, they've earned it. That massive garden with 250+ trees? I want to set up a camouflaged tent. If I suddenly disappear, I'm with the foxes. The Guardian: Google battling fox incursion on roof of £1bn London office www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

If this were any other country, the United States would invade the United States if it got to the ‘assassinating dissenting political leaders’ phase of instability and turmoil.

Why does gauntlet mean a big ol’ war glove but also two lines of people to run between?

Huge news! The Oregon House just voted to pass SB 1098, our state's Freedom to Read bill!!!! 🎉🎉🎉 The bill is now off to the governor's desk for a signature. Thank you to everyone who testified, contacted reps, and helped to spread the word about the bill! We did it! @authorsabb.bsky.social

Cute animals! ICE grabbing children! Book birthday! RFK Jr ending vaccination programs! Too much violence! Newsom sucks! Not enough violence! Slashing support for heat mitigation in cities! Atrocities in Gaza! Happy pride! Look at this pretty sunset! Musk & Trump are bickering! Newsom is a hero! 😳

Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.

good morning friends 💚✨

Yeah my job is pretty cool. My uniform is a tactical vest that’s two sizes too small and a gaiter I bought in a gas station. They send me to sneak into schools to kidnap little kids because people got mad about having to press 1 for English. The president had to warn everyone to stop spitting on me.

We won! We won!

Can we talk about how his ear didn’t get shot? If not, why? Someone died. It’s kind of a big deal.

@soontornvat.bsky.social a fifth grader just asked me to let you know she really wants a Thai translation of A Wish in the Dark. She uses audiobooks to access books in English, but she'd love to read this in Thai!

If I have to remind one more person that a “banned book” is indeed banned if it’s not available to the community it serves… If a school district removes a book that otherwise meets their materials selection criteria, it’s banned to their students. Miss me with the “but the public library” shit.

This is bullshit. My mom had hers for 40 years. Mine is starting to fail after a mere 23.

New achievement unlocked: a 5th grader has my face as her Chromebook wallpaper.

unions: they get the job done

One hour photo shop clerk, cashier at Mt. Rainier’s Paradise Lodge dining room, interlibrary loan assistant, ILL supervisor, clerk at a dry cleaner’s, office temp, library page, and various types of teacher.

pride is next week pride wasn't brought to you by delta air lines, microsoft, coca-cola or even the democratic party. it was brought to you by trans women throwing bricks at cops and lesbians taking care of gay men dying of AIDS during reagan. do not forget where we came from. now more than ever.

Went hiking 2 weekends in a row for the first time in at least 15 years and am now wondering why forest flowers are white or pale and alpine flowers are bright colored. (Also,I’m in so much pain after “moderate” hikes!)

My book We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire came out in 2021 w/four starred reviews, but otherwise crickets. Every week it sells a handful of copies. Usually single digits. But last week it sold 0 copies. I know social media doesn’t sell many books, but I just want more than 0 the next time I look.

Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?