Stay alert for HR 7661! This horrible book banning bill has been brewing in the House. Please call your reps to make sure they know about it, and to make sure it doesn't get snuck into any wild-ass omnibus bills. And thank you to @authorsabb.bsky.social for the graphic encapsulating the bill

me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

#CTA: H.R. 7661 is a bill that would place the federal government in the role of censor, dictating what books, stories, & ideas children and communities are allowed to access in public schools. Call your reps & tell them to vote NO on #bookbans or send them a postcard. 👇

43% funded! This mobility aid isn’t for everyone, but it looks life-changing. Also, I want one because it looks pretty fun. cocopay.co/Alinker-Velo...

Please support this bookmobile fundraiser! www.midlandsgives.org/organization...

It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied) What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.) Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

The Great Bay Area Fabric (and Craft) Store list + map has been updated with BRAND NEW MAPS. bookhoarding.wordpress.com/2026/04/27/f...

The summer I lived in Minneapolis I walked past this tower every day on the way to work! ❤️🧙‍♀️

Get $800 off an Alinker standing bike for mobility and boost a small business hoping to continue their support of so many! I have wanted one of these for ages! fnd.us/Alinker-Velo...

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

Please enjoy these amazing bigheads my students made! HR Pufnstuf by Mackenzie Privett Pink rabbit by Kris Kingsolver Rat king by Bailey Doran Goat by Francis Werth

I am begging people looking to make major donations to universities to either 1) care as much about academics as they do sports, or 2) make unrestricted gifts instead. Signed, A faculty member at a university with brand new athletic facilities and crumbling teaching and research infrastructure

Spread calm. The most useful and experienced demonstrators yell "walk!" to stop crowds from running in fear. The most useful and experienced people try to spread calm. It doesn't get the clicks, but it doesn't immobilize people's thinking either.

Clea strikes a regal pose for #caturday

EVERYONE THE WAY THEY NERFED NANCY DREW IN THE 70s AND 80s AND FED HER TO US AS A NICE 1950s GIRL OG NANCY IS A MENACE IN THE BEST WAY strap in

make bad art

It's National Right to Read Day. If you haven't yet, please call your Rep and demand they oppose this bill.

Wild to keep hearing anti-AI sentiment described as an "echo chamber" by people who pretend there's never been a coercive dogshit marketing campaign actively pissing people off about it for two years or any no-opt-out half-baked shovelware making everyone's PCs and phones worse

I bought a handmade OOAK reversible jacket made from repurposed sari fabrics from this company and it’s fantastic. Slow fashion FTW! freedomfibers.org/pages/our-st...

My book STICKS IN PETTICOATS:PARASOL MANUFACTURE FOR THE MODERN COSTUMER is available here: www.lulu.com/shop/rachel-...

YALL. There is a charitable organization in Chicago that donates books to women’s prisons. My boyfriend introduced me to it!!! Yall support!! This is AMAZING. Women’s prisons do NOT get anywhere near the donations men’s do. That’s why my own organization exists. LINK HERE: www.cbwp.org

Clea slept right through #caturday but is here to grace your Sunday feed.

My wife asked me to repost this in case some folks missed it. She is de-stashing her treasure hoard of yarn. There's a lot of it. It's kinda taken over the house. I'm in the attic of the garage right now. Help? www.etsy.com/shop/Destash...

Do you live in a Blue State? On Monday, April 13 at 1PM EST AABB National Leader Samira Ahmed & @everylibrary.bsky.social Library Political Director Gwen Camp. will discuss how people who live in blue states can effectively stand up to HR 7661 on Instagram Live

Here's an alternative/additional action to calling reps to save our Forest Service - tell the brands who built their empires on public forest lands to speak out! They're bigger and have more power to push for this to stop. Flood their socials and direct emails. Remember, money talks saveusfs.org

I can't be the only one who sees @number10cat.bsky.social in the jauntily defiant patchwork face of this Ukrainian feline? Anyway, this is a spectacular portrait and a better story. And one day I will capture my emotions sufficiently to do a thread on why these animal rescues matter strategically.

Another option:if you use a library app like Libby, put it on hold or mark it “Notify Me.” My library makes decisions about books to offer based on a critical mass of Notify numbers.

Weirdness is strength. You can use it as a shield but also as a sword. Wield your weirdness against the world.

This weekend and always, NO LILIES FOR KITTIES. www.fda.gov/animal-veter...

Have any of y’all been able to track down the history textbooks that were used in your school when you were in high school or middle school? I often daydream about doing this but don’t know how.

I sort of love that the book community is up in arms because the dark goth fantasy book didn’t include a trigger warning about baby eating.

Came out of the post office, saw that a guy had cut my saddle bag off my bike and was about to take off with it. I yelled "Please wait my cat's medicine is in there!" He started to run, and this grandma-age lady goes "SHE SAID HER CAT'S MEDICINE IS IN THERE" and WALLOPED him with her grocery bag.

This dreadful book banning bill, H.R. 7661, has made it out of committee and into the House. It's time to call your reps.

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨 London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.

i honestly can't stand seeing people say Gen AI is a disability aid because if it was a disability aid, they wouldn't be putting this much money into it

Clea wishes all a happy #caturday from the couch, which she has begun to enjoy sitting on, 8 months after her rescue.

We're going to beat the national book ban. But we can do more than just beat this one bill. We can use this national moment to show that book bans anywhere are losing policies. For every $100 donated, we can reach 10,000 Americans about this bill. Imagine what we can right now & help make it happen!

I just heard about it recently, and absolutely lost my temper hugely when I found out they'd stolen my rep/identity! If there is a class action lawsuit -- I hope -- I will post about it and I hope many of us leave a smoking crater where these smug thieves used to be www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”

The official day of advocacy may be wrapping up, but that doesn't mean it's too late to send an email to your state rep, especially when we've made it so easy!

Want to help raise awareness in your community about the national book ban being considered in the House of Representatives? Print out this one sheet and hang it up in your community:

I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...

There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE. Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

The midterm elections are officially underway and contests in Texas and North Carolina will be the first major opportunity for parties to hear from voters about what's important to them in 2026. n.pr/4aZ5bK6

It’s Election Day!

Procreate making their position clear procreate.com/ai

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

Frida Kahlo is a famous disabled artist. Her art explores her disability. When she had the accident that disabled her, she painted from her bed in her casts. Many artists in history have been disabled. Many are now. You will not find them fighting to have AI take their creative process from them.

EMERGENCY, #oregon forest friends! Three more weeks to comment. No public hearings scheduled.