I need help surviving this year. If you're not in a position to donate, I understand. Please help by reposting. Please share with your circles. Every little donation helps. Thank you. gofund.me/19bc02b6

Dear My Phone, My Computer, My Apps, My Electronic Devices, and so forth: Please stop asking me if I want to enable AI. Or use your janky AI tool. Or load my documents or pictures with a bunch of useless, off-putting, earth-killing AI junk. I don't want it. I SAID I don't want it. Stop offering.

By now, we've all seen the video of Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) being forcibly removed and handcuffed for asking a question during Kristi Noem's press conference. But what Noem said just moments before the video was taken is "classic authoritarian red-baiting," points out @davidcorn.bsky.social.

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Had a blast doing a Q&A with students at Kendall Demonstration Elementary School in D.C. today! 📚 KDES participated in the Battle of the Books tournament through Gallaudet Youth Programs last fall, and read the first Astrid book as part of it. Many thanks to Amelia, Rae, and both interpreters!

If you're protesting on Saturday, please wear a cap and mask to protect your identity from the cult. Also, it was suggested to me that you should write the phone number of the ACLU First Defense Legal Aid on your arm. That number is 1-800-529-7374 in case anything happens.

It’s no joke, our friends at @bookshop.org are helping us celebrate #WeNeedDiverseBooksDay with a special promo code! 🛍️📚 Shop Bookshop.org on April 3rd and use the code “WNDB25” at checkout to get 15% off your purchase!

🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody. She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care. This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

Hey #TLSky Friends! Just a quick reminder on how to get the most out of Bluesky. I have noticed quite a few do not have a bio. This is helpful when trying to find your squad! It is so great to see so many new friends out here on the interwebs. #EduSky #Skybrarians #Kidlit #BookSky #BookTok

Canadians! 🇨🇦 Book industry needs your help (incl. for 🇨🇦 book creators like me, whose books are published and/or warehoused in U.S.). Dept of Finance seeks feedback before April 2nd, 2025 re: tariffs, including tariffs on BOOKS coming into Canada from US: slowburnbooks.ca/april-2-tariff #CanLit

The National Artificial Intelligence Action Plan is a comprehensive strategy to guide AI innovation and regulation in the United States. The Authors Guild submitted formal comments on issues affecting authors in response. Read more: authorsguild.org/news/ag-subm...

IF YOU FOUND YOUR NOVEL IN THE LIBGEN DATABASE, YOU MAY BE A CLASS MEMBER FOR THE KADREY ET AL V. META PLATFORMS CLASS ACTION Law firms you can contact if you're a potential class member: Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP (415) 500-6800 Mathew Butterick (323) 968-2632 [email protected]

All four of my chapter books are included. 😓 Super grateful for this tool, and the lawyers and other authors fighting this. I’ll be looking into joining a lawsuit. If you’re an author, have you searched the database yet? #betrayedbymeta

💥 BREAKING: Walt Disney Company shareholders voted today 99-1 percent to reject an anti-LGBTQ+ proposal, requesting that the company sever its relationship with the Human Rights Campaign and HRC's Corporate Equality Index. Disney Board recommended shareholders vote against the proposal.

🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen. Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it. Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Fascism is here. The list of words Trump is banning from government is the most stunning document of our time. Click the image below to see how many words Trump and Musk have canceled as part of their new Reich. 🔗: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This Sunday, the whole country needs to spring forward from 1939.

I'd rather be writing but losing your democracy kinda puts that on the back burner. One week boycott of Amazon, which lost $6B last month, starts tomorrow? No problem:

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NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

Weekend work date with my hubby :) #AuthorLife

Hello #BookSky! What’s your favorite non-Audible app for audiobooks? Looking to make the switch 📚🎧 TIA

Zelenskyy is a veritable badass ❤️👍🏻 #StandWithUkraine

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

Don’t forget—economic blackout today. Don’t buy anything. If you have to buy something, support a small business. 💫

Hey everyone -- Moms of Liberty and Dept of Education launched a snitch line portal today to rat out teachers and anyone promoting anything DEI. FLOOD THE PORTAL Spam the hell out of it. Pass it on! It works! enddei.ed.gov

So happy I was able to celebrate Chiara’s newest spacey book with her! 💫😊

Call to action-Childhood vax/covid boosters (plz boost) RFK has fired ACIP to replace with his antivaxxers; kid vax + covid/flu/RSV boosters are at risk. States can make their own requirements. Use @5calls.org or @resist.bot to call your STATE reps to keep vax access. Script outline below.

The reporting on the trans travel visa ban is criminal. It does NOT only affect transgender athletes. The cables CLEARLY say it affects all trans people. They can reject visas on point 6 of anyone who is requesting a visa that does not match their assigned sex at birth.

This is how i responded to @bsky.app:

Just downloaded & installed @flashes.blue, now publicly available on the app store! Very much like Instagram, except better (because its focus is on Bluesky). Note: You can turn off autoplay of videos & GIFS at bsky.app/settings/con...

SHOW THEM WE WANT OUR DEMOCRACY! ALSO for the 28th: Take out cash for spending, espec. on the 28th, if you need to shop local or buy meds, for instance. A credit card for local/indie purchases still gives BIG Finance 3% of the purchase. We need to reduce their profits that day. CASH the 28th!

Just going to leave this here should it become useful to anyone…

This, right here…👇 Pass. It. On. 🌈✨

Oohhh… looking forward to this one! ❤️

Oohhh… looking forward to this one! ❤️

The stories my heart will always have on speed dial. ❤️ (OH—and Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World; it’s apparently gone missing around our house. 🤷‍♀️) Do I share any favorites with you? #bookworm #alwaysreading #kidlit #kidlitcommunity

Congrats to my friend Chiara Colombi on her newest picture book release: Rocket Beams, Lunar Dreams! 🎉 Your books are the perfect marriage of technical spacey knowledge and deep emotional arcs. ❤️ Had a blast celebrating with you at Linden Tree Books! #kidlit

Thank you to the Tech Interactive and Silicon Valley Reads for a great time today! Always fun to cheer on fellow space-y kidlit author (and friend) Lindsay Lackey, and it was wonderful to meet Dr. Natasha Schatzman, an aeronautical engineer at NASA Ames (like my grandpa, back in the day!). #kidlit

Hello Flashes/Bluesky! 👋🏻 . My name is Rie (pronounced REE), and I’m a kidlit author living in the SF Bay Area. I write the chapter book series Astrid the Astronaut (Aladdin/S&S), about a plucky 8yo who wants to be the first hard-of-hearing astronaut one day. . Drop a comment to say hi!

And here's info about the 2/28 economic blackout for anyone who's interested. It's a response to the rollback of DEI initiatives sparked by the federal government. www.newsweek.com/nationwide-e...

We are too alike.

Good news! You can search Bluesky #MSWL just as well as Twitter Advanced Search. We recommend searching #MSWL with: * Your genre * Possible comp titles * Date range (if you do frequent searches) * Keywords related to your book Demo here! youtu.be/LnZt1MCjKZE

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

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Heeey, all! It’s UP 🤩🙌🏻

Thank you random Starbucks barista via DoorDash. I needed the reminder today ❤️🥹