Patriarchy is a cage, and mediating the world’s sexism with a man is not a solution Get meaner, sooner www.patreon.com/LyzLenz/post...

I agreed reluctantly to allow a specialist I know well to use AI transcription on the condition that I could READ the transcript. They admitted they didn’t know if it helps them or saves them time. The transcript was RIDICULOUS. Extremely verbose. Effusive. Overly positive. It did NOT distinguish

There are many ways to improve your life: - read books - be kind - read more books - rest - read so many books that an ancient power of undying fire ignites deep in your eyes - hydrate - read more books

Even when things are calm, you should always be ready for action. That’s why the word relax has an ax in it, and blazer has a lazer.

Blogged about it. Please feel free to share. gregpak.net/2026/06/10/t...

What if WE’RE the shithole country?

Screwworms eradicated in the US in 1966. Measles eradicated in the US in 2000. Both are back because of this science denying administration.

There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.

Seeing a ton of folks wondering where to get audiobooks these days 👀 We are an audiobook company that share profits with 4,000+ indie bookshops across the globe. Every time you buy an audiobook with us—there are over 600,000 to choose from—your indie benefits. (Which we think is pretty cool.)

ONEST Newsroom: Zelenskyy Publishes Open Letter to Putin, Calls for Direct Talks to End the War Letter + analysis ⬇️ www.onestnetwork.com/zelenskyy-pu...

Doing the knitting world a service. 🙌🧶

This is heartbreaking. The great Iranian author Marjane Satrapi has died. This statement from her family to the AFP press agency takes your breath away: ‘Marjane Satrapi died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life’

Oregon GOP governor candidate Christine Drazan was hanging out with Proud Boy Leader Enrique Tarrio's girlfriend today. That's a pretty close connection to the far-right violent gang.

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"Happy Birthday, #Kyiv! - atmospheric video of the Air Force Command of the UA Armed Forces." [👇👀💪💙💛✊ 🇺🇦✌️] #Запоріжжя #Україна #Crimea #Ukraine #UkraineVictory #Zelenskyy #GloryToUkraine #слава_українцю #СлаваУкраїні #RepairDemocracy #MRSA

On 31 May, Ukraine’s capital celebrates Kyiv Day. This year, the Ukrainian capital officially marks its 1,544th anniversary Kyiv has gone through wars, reconstructions, and revolutions, and continues its story 📹 Zhyve Misto

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

rose city really doing the thing rn

The Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde took a significant step Thursday in their decades-long journey of returning to Willamette Falls. The tribe broke ground on the infrastructure needed to launch the first phase of tumwata village.

Hope you had a great long weekend! Time to get back at it! Last week, HR 2616 grabbed some book banning language from HR 7661 & passed the House. What is HR 2616? Don't feel bad if this is the first you've heard of it because Republicans moved fast on it. Here's the deal...

Surround yourself with the kind of people who are proud to have a library card.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

It may not solve all of the world’s problems, but I think we can all agree that having more bakeries, libraries, museums, and bookstores would be an important first step.

if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

How to honor Anerica’s 250th: “Spread the word about THE LIBRARIANS, an inspiring documentary about heroic librarians fighting book bans and censorship across our country in recent years. It’s on PBS.” @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social

HR 2616, text below, just passed today in the House. Now it's time to call your Senators & tell them to vote NO ON HR 2616/S 2251 (and the very similar bills: HR 2617 & HR 7661 which aim to ban all trans books from every public school in the country!) www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

CALL YOUR REPS NOW! SPREAD THE WORD! HR 2616 was snuck onto the calendar for a vote TOMORROW. This is a pro book banning bill which seeks to ban ALL books by or about trans individuals.

It’s Election Day, and today we’re in court defending Oregonians’ right to vote without surrendering personal data to the federal government. #orpol

“I think it’s literally insane that nobody thinks or conceives that every career is built on the back of a teacher,” Katrena Hunter told the Mississippi Free Press.

lmao so this is the first free healthcare USA is fine providing

one of our patrons is on holiday in Acadia National Park and he lost his wallet, but he was able to recover it because a park ranger called us after finding his library card inside. anyway, support your park rangers and librarians. 📚

Funny how that works.

This @amybrown.xyz piece at @oaklandreviewofbooks.org is full of banger lines that made me laugh out loud but is also touching and lovely at the same time. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/picky-book-r...

I’m very excited to announce my new podcast! I'll be telling true stories of survival, starting with the story of Ada Blackjack, who was stranded for two years in the high Arctic. If you subscribe now to What to Carry, What to Burn on your fav podcast app, you’ll get the first episodes on May 12!

So Tennessee republicans can blatantly strip majority-Black Memphis of representation 9-0, but virginia voters VOTE to redistrict and it gets struck down? What a country. 🇺🇸

Heeeeeeeey, y’all only have a couple more days to watch this for free. I just did! 📚

To the authors of children's books, and the illustrators, the librarians, the booksellers, the editors, the marketers, the teachers, the reading specialists, the literacy professors, the tutors and the volunteers: I see you. What you do matters. Children's books matter. All of them.

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Finishing my @votefwd.bsky.social new voter midterm letters this May Day. And using this fantastic stamp to drive home the point. ❤️💪🏻🗳️

I don’t know who needs to hear this but it’s okay to have a special interest or hobby that doesn’t have a bigger purpose than making you happy. If it does not make you happy it’s ok to stop. It’s all learning even learning you didn’t actually want to do that thing in the first place.

“This is a decent-white-people-who-are-sick-to-their-fuckin’-stomachs-of-white-racists, problem. The rights of people of color must be the hill we take and are willing to die on, lest our fragile, imperiled Republic dies instead.”

My second grade has asked me to do a honeybee presentation in a few weeks and I'm SO excited! I haven't done one in a couple of years. ❤️🐝 #beekeeper

I'm so angry it's difficult to pick a direction from which to comment on this horrid SCOTUS decision. But we cannot fix the problems in this country until we can openly talk about the racism that permeates, saturates, every cell of it.

Don’t normalize a system that protects power more than it protects children….

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