This Giving Week, we’re aiming to raise $5,000 to fund trainings, resources, and on-the-ground support for the parents, educators, librarians, and students fighting back. Every contribution (big or small) helps us protect access to books. www.freedomtoreadproject.org/donate-ftrp

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want to inhale the intoxicating aroma of vintage books in a quaint bookstore on a cobblestone side street in Edinburgh during a pouring rain?

In the 2024–25 school year, Florida led the nation with 2,304 book bans, according to PEN America. That’s 2,304 lost opportunities for students to see themselves, question ideas, and learn from diverse voices. Every banned book is a silenced story, and every silence chips away at democracy.

Morning! I randomly decided to open this app today for the first time in a couple mths (life's been busy) 😅 Here's a sunny Vancouver Island beach pic to get your day/week started off right 💜

Very helpful myth debunking from the Freedom to Read Project. It succinctly offers responses to the main arguments posed by book banners. www.freedomtoreadproject.org/debunking_th...

The lillies are in bloom! 😍 #GardenSky #gardening

I'm going to eat my weight in cherries this summer 😏🍒 #SummerGoals #summer

Name one #goal you want to see through before summer's end. Serious and silly goals will be equally applauded. #SummerGoals #summer

I'm on vacation this week and just ate a cinnamon bun for lunch. I have reached peak adulting 😌

I made a thing!! (It still needs the lights installed, but I did it 😊) #crafting #BookishCrafts #bookstore #SundayFunday

Want Safer Neighborhoods? Invest in Libraries When library funding goes up, crime tends to go down medium.com/everylibrary...

I both love and need this word.

It's been a bit of a day. So I'm having my favourite dinner 😌 #GirlDinner #adulting

Yep!!

In effort to post more #library stuff, I'll be making wkly #GraphicNovel posts 😊 Welcome to #ComicsTuesday post # 1! Séance Tea Party offers beautiful artwork and a fun, heartfelt, spoopy tale that reminds us to embrace imagination at every age and that friendship comes in many forms. 5 ⭐️! #comics

‘A room without books is like a body without a soul.’ ~ Cicero. @racheldeering.bsky.social here lending my ears to a day of Ancient Roman literature for #BookWormSat 🖼️ Antonio Sicurezza, 1957.

I impulse bought an inflatable pool for our backyard and subsequently bought a drink floatie 🦩. His name is Francisco 😌 #UpLift #FriYay #summer

If you don't understand how this will be used to target LGBTQ+ books, read this piece by @penamerica.bsky.social 's @tasslyn.bsky.social and Jon Friedman: many book banners consider ALL queer content sexually explicit. www.slj.com/story/The-Ug...

This all started over four 2SLGBTQIA+ books he didn't even take the time to read 🤬 #Censorship #BookBans #ABed #Libraries #FreedomToRead #ABpoli #IntellectualFreedom www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

People do not exist to serve a government. A government should exist to serve the people.

The most majestic thing you will see on #bluesky today. 😇

Kids need to know they can count on their parents when they come across hate online. You can support them with these helpful tips: mediasmarts.ca/teacher-reso...

"Children don't need protection from books; they need protection from hate and discrimination." #BookBanning #BookCensorship #PridePuppy Read full 🧵👇🏽

We couldn’t believe our ears when we heard an influential Tx political official saying she wants to burn books she doesn’t like in a July 4th bonfire. This is NOT a day to celebrate censorship or fear. Today is for celebrating intellectual freedom & the promise of the 1st Amendment.

16 years today!! 💕 #WeddingAnniversary #marriage #adventures

Took my paddleboard out for its maiden voyage today, and it couldn't have been better conditions. No wind, a lake like glass, and me in my floppy hat 😄 #paddling #SummerFun

Libraries make the world a better place.

May every single human being on this planet be safe. May every single person be protected from harm. May we bring into being a time in which we are all free from those who do evil— together, speedily and in our days.

BECOME UNGOVERNABLE

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky.

TREVOR PROJECT HOTLINE - UPDATE I deleted my post about the Trevor Project's hotline—see: @emceebois.bsky.social's clarification ⬇️. Please share the clarification far & wide. And if you need to talk: Hotline: 1-866-488-7386 Text: Text ‘START’ to 678-678 Chat: www.thetrevorproject.org/get-help/

When my spouse and I spent a blissful year living in St. John's, NL, the lead singer of Great Big Sea (Allan Doyle), used to order a "big coffee" from me about once a week.

Update: We've removed the paywall for all ye who enter.

Are you finished with that? #cats #Catsky #CatShenanigans

I am thrilled to announce ThriveLib: Reclaiming Joy, Balance, and Boundaries in Libraries, a new virtual conference focused entirely on the emotional and psychological well-being of library workers. Save the Dates August 12, 13, 14 2025 www.thrivelib.com/news/introdu...

Guess where I am? 😏📚🎤 #AdultStorytime #libraries #CraftBreweries #CommunityCollaboration

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

Yes, please! 😴

Here's a baby otter to start your week.

Happy #Pride everyone. Nature is infinitely diverse.

The Gov't of AB wants to censor school libraries 😕 The survey is open til June 6th. your.alberta.ca/school-libra... "The freedom to choose what we read does not, however, include the freedom to choose for others." ~ Cndn School Libraries #FreedomToRead #AlbertaEd #SchoolLibraries #Censorship

This usually works for me 👍 #BadThoughts #malaise

Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️

make an observation about your pantry that also sounds like the title of a novel: AND THEN THERE WERE SOME (SPICES). It would also be a Christie-esque murder mystery 😏

How to Record Personalized Audio Books for Kids with Yoto: Your dreams of becoming an audiobook narrator can finally come true! Here's how to use Yoto to record personalized audiobooks for kids.

It's been so delightful seeing everyone's #SpringBloom posts, I thought I'd share my own. This is our crab apple tree in full #bloom, her name is Crabby Annie 😌🌳 #BloomScrolling #GardeningBluesky #BloomSky #garden #sprinh