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@amayna60.bsky.social
Captain of Book Displays, Emeritus. Devoted to Reader’s Advisory.
Join us for #ThursdayBookChat to share what you’re reading or looking forward to.
@ me for help with book titles, taglines, blurbs, back matter. 📚
Join us for #ThursdayBookChat to share what you’re reading or looking forward to.
@ me for help with book titles, taglines, blurbs, back matter. 📚
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615 of the estimated 3,000+ detained immigrants who were kidnapped in Chicagoland during Midway Blitz are expected to be eligible for bond this week. The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund shows up for people in detention who need bond, but it costs, at minimum, $1,500 per person. Pls help them.
A Midwest Bond Fund Is Helping Detained Chicago Immigrants Return To Their Families
The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund launched in 2020 to provide bond assistance to people navigating the complex immigration legal system. That mission has become more difficult under the second Trump a...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
615 of the estimated 3,000+ detained immigrants who were kidnapped in Chicagoland during Midway Blitz are expected to be eligible for bond this week. The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund shows up for people in detention who need bond, but it costs, at minimum, $1,500 per person. Pls help them.
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I've put together a thread of all the teabag bookmarks that are still available!
They'd make really cosy gifts, just saying 🫖🪡 Shipping is included in the price.
Thread: bsky.app/profile/cupo...
They'd make really cosy gifts, just saying 🫖🪡 Shipping is included in the price.
Thread: bsky.app/profile/cupo...
November 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I've put together a thread of all the teabag bookmarks that are still available!
They'd make really cosy gifts, just saying 🫖🪡 Shipping is included in the price.
Thread: bsky.app/profile/cupo...
They'd make really cosy gifts, just saying 🫖🪡 Shipping is included in the price.
Thread: bsky.app/profile/cupo...
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Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
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Two weeks into a new program that gives New Mexico children free childcare, officials are opening up about the surge that happened day one & how it’s been moving forward. In just a short time, the state said thousands of children are now enrolled in free childcare, & daycares are lining up to join.
www.krqe.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Two weeks into a new program that gives New Mexico children free childcare, officials are opening up about the surge that happened day one & how it’s been moving forward. In just a short time, the state said thousands of children are now enrolled in free childcare, & daycares are lining up to join.
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Each year we will make a hornier Frankenstein adaptation until morale improves
November 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Each year we will make a hornier Frankenstein adaptation until morale improves
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Impossible to resist the big brown eyes of a Tufted Titmouse who wants a peanut.
November 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Impossible to resist the big brown eyes of a Tufted Titmouse who wants a peanut.
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“Standard Time supports clearer thinking, steadier energy, and fewer avoidable errors.”
November 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
“Standard Time supports clearer thinking, steadier energy, and fewer avoidable errors.”
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Hey, who wants to help me test the #Ebooks Direct store's new anti-fraud workflows, cheap? I've just dropped (as a standalone volume) a 14K-word novelette you may never have seen before. Want some hot Roman-gladiator action with a touch of magic? Try this: ebooks.direct/products/the...
The Fix
"This is Rome. Everybody bets."
In the home city of the world's first entertainment industry, the life-or-death games that are hundreds of thousands' citizens greatest passion are beginning one more d...
ebooks.direct
November 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Hey, who wants to help me test the #Ebooks Direct store's new anti-fraud workflows, cheap? I've just dropped (as a standalone volume) a 14K-word novelette you may never have seen before. Want some hot Roman-gladiator action with a touch of magic? Try this: ebooks.direct/products/the...
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November 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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💙Please share. We need an emergency foster near us (zip 22627, N. Virginia). Wren has a large stomach mass. Vet says surgery's not an option. She's thin: even w/appetite stimulant, losing wt.This is likely hospice.😢SO sweet & LOVES a lap. She needs a🏡.We cover all costs. DM us or call 540-987-6050
November 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
💙Please share. We need an emergency foster near us (zip 22627, N. Virginia). Wren has a large stomach mass. Vet says surgery's not an option. She's thin: even w/appetite stimulant, losing wt.This is likely hospice.😢SO sweet & LOVES a lap. She needs a🏡.We cover all costs. DM us or call 540-987-6050
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British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
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#ShareGoodNewsToo
Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
buff.ly
November 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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I am moving out of state and have an outdoor cat who is very skittish that I simply can’t take on a plane without risking life and limb. Would anyone in PDX like to adopt a moody gray lady? She could be fine inside a home with no other cats, she doesn’t tolerate them (hence outside). DM if so.
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I am moving out of state and have an outdoor cat who is very skittish that I simply can’t take on a plane without risking life and limb. Would anyone in PDX like to adopt a moody gray lady? She could be fine inside a home with no other cats, she doesn’t tolerate them (hence outside). DM if so.
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Who we gotta embarrass into saving PBS
PBS NEWS WEEKEND has been cancelled and 34 jobs will be cut at WETA in Washington D.C.
The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end.
“We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.”
current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS
The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end.
“We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.”
current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS
WETA to cut staff, cancel ‘PBS News Weekend’ and close News Hour West bureau
The restructuring includes the elimination of 34 positions, following another round of cuts made in September.
current.org
November 16, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Who we gotta embarrass into saving PBS
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Love your librarian? Of course you do! Nominations are now open for the 2026 #ILoveMyLibrarian Award. Your librarian could win $5,000 and the recognition of a lifetime.
Submit your nomination online by Dec. 15! https://bit.ly/3yiyT9C
❤️ @carnegiecorp.bsky.social
Submit your nomination online by Dec. 15! https://bit.ly/3yiyT9C
❤️ @carnegiecorp.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Love your librarian? Of course you do! Nominations are now open for the 2026 #ILoveMyLibrarian Award. Your librarian could win $5,000 and the recognition of a lifetime.
Submit your nomination online by Dec. 15! https://bit.ly/3yiyT9C
❤️ @carnegiecorp.bsky.social
Submit your nomination online by Dec. 15! https://bit.ly/3yiyT9C
❤️ @carnegiecorp.bsky.social
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Libraries are community spaces that channel the lifeblood of their local area's education and enrichment, making all manner of resources and entertainment free and accessible, and they perform a similar function for authors - our books are circulating and being read and recommended!
November 16, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Libraries are community spaces that channel the lifeblood of their local area's education and enrichment, making all manner of resources and entertainment free and accessible, and they perform a similar function for authors - our books are circulating and being read and recommended!
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Also, when you get your library to buy my book, it's on your library's shelves. A hundred extra people might lay eyes on it a week, in person, and pick it up on a whim. How many books that you love have you stumbled across just because you liked the cover or saw it in a library display?
Libraries purchase books. When you see a book at the library, it isn’t “free”
the library bought it.
which in turn means that the community bought it.
In other words, library books are not lost sales for authors and publishers; they’re positive sales. Active sales. Those are bought.
the library bought it.
which in turn means that the community bought it.
In other words, library books are not lost sales for authors and publishers; they’re positive sales. Active sales. Those are bought.
November 16, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Also, when you get your library to buy my book, it's on your library's shelves. A hundred extra people might lay eyes on it a week, in person, and pick it up on a whim. How many books that you love have you stumbled across just because you liked the cover or saw it in a library display?
Celebrating library book discussions! Heading soon to my last of the year, group I facilitated as library worker, seeing what the 2026 list will be.
Ran another for my local branch. Two virtual Romance ones as well, one a library out of town
Wind up reading stuff out of your lane.🤗
#BookSky📚💙
Ran another for my local branch. Two virtual Romance ones as well, one a library out of town
Wind up reading stuff out of your lane.🤗
#BookSky📚💙
a stack of books with the number 33 on one
Alt: Animated stack of books with a creature snoozing under another tent like and the headline ready for book club.
I didn’t read the book for this last one but want to help what looks like a tangle in getting 2026 settled
media.tenor.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Celebrating library book discussions! Heading soon to my last of the year, group I facilitated as library worker, seeing what the 2026 list will be.
Ran another for my local branch. Two virtual Romance ones as well, one a library out of town
Wind up reading stuff out of your lane.🤗
#BookSky📚💙
Ran another for my local branch. Two virtual Romance ones as well, one a library out of town
Wind up reading stuff out of your lane.🤗
#BookSky📚💙
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We insignificant people with our daily words and acts are preparing the lives of many Dorotheas.
November 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
We insignificant people with our daily words and acts are preparing the lives of many Dorotheas.
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This elk-hide chart at the Field Museum in Chicago is a unique portrayal of the stars among Indigenous works in North America.
www.earth.com/news/ancient...
www.earth.com/news/ancient...
Ancient star chart that maps North American skies continues to baffle scientists
An ancient Skiri Pawnee star map on elk skin reopens the debate about its true function and challenges Western interpretations.
www.earth.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This elk-hide chart at the Field Museum in Chicago is a unique portrayal of the stars among Indigenous works in North America.
www.earth.com/news/ancient...
www.earth.com/news/ancient...
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I hope it’s as comforting to you as it is to me to see the outpouring of love and appreciation for Alice Wong and her work.
I hope she felt some measure of this in life. May we find our friends who deserve their flowers and remind them how we love them.
I hope she felt some measure of this in life. May we find our friends who deserve their flowers and remind them how we love them.
November 15, 2025 at 6:38 AM
I hope it’s as comforting to you as it is to me to see the outpouring of love and appreciation for Alice Wong and her work.
I hope she felt some measure of this in life. May we find our friends who deserve their flowers and remind them how we love them.
I hope she felt some measure of this in life. May we find our friends who deserve their flowers and remind them how we love them.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear
November 15, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Ignorance is the parent of fear
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
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We have the newest casualty of the “parents rights," movement in Texas! And we can thank Sen. Angela Paxton’s “parental rights” school library bill (SB 13) for keeping Texas kids safe from Pretty Perfect Kitty Corn in Southlake, TX (Carroll ISD). @shannonhale.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 1:41 AM
We have the newest casualty of the “parents rights," movement in Texas! And we can thank Sen. Angela Paxton’s “parental rights” school library bill (SB 13) for keeping Texas kids safe from Pretty Perfect Kitty Corn in Southlake, TX (Carroll ISD). @shannonhale.bsky.social
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Floofy dinos!
Phoebe wants to help with the emergency cute call 🪶
Phoebe wants to help with the emergency cute call 🪶
November 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Floofy dinos!
Phoebe wants to help with the emergency cute call 🪶
Phoebe wants to help with the emergency cute call 🪶
