Annie Are You Oakley
@anniesredpen.bsky.social
Editor of science, advocate of libraries, co-hoster of podcasts. The Ink Sink podcast (linktr.ee/inksinkpodcast) is everywhere you listen!
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"Banning books just brings them attention!" is a good hope.
But let's be real: banning books is an act by those in power to restrict education under the guise of "appropriateness."
Vanishingly few banned books go viral. And those left behind also deserve support.
Get involved in your community.
But let's be real: banning books is an act by those in power to restrict education under the guise of "appropriateness."
Vanishingly few banned books go viral. And those left behind also deserve support.
Get involved in your community.
November 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
"Banning books just brings them attention!" is a good hope.
But let's be real: banning books is an act by those in power to restrict education under the guise of "appropriateness."
Vanishingly few banned books go viral. And those left behind also deserve support.
Get involved in your community.
But let's be real: banning books is an act by those in power to restrict education under the guise of "appropriateness."
Vanishingly few banned books go viral. And those left behind also deserve support.
Get involved in your community.
"It's early! I don't have any words. All my words are still asleep."
- My husband, with three new indescipherable utterances
- My husband, with three new indescipherable utterances
October 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"It's early! I don't have any words. All my words are still asleep."
- My husband, with three new indescipherable utterances
- My husband, with three new indescipherable utterances
Found out last night that my friend has 16,000+ unread emails in their inbox. These effing heathens!
October 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Found out last night that my friend has 16,000+ unread emails in their inbox. These effing heathens!
TWO new books out, both titled “What a Time to Be Alive” @nytbookreview.bsky.social
In other news, we live in a simulation.
In other news, we live in a simulation.
October 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
TWO new books out, both titled “What a Time to Be Alive” @nytbookreview.bsky.social
In other news, we live in a simulation.
In other news, we live in a simulation.
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Listen to me ruin Kali's innocence while I explain what a "shadow daddy" is:
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4.2: Roman Empires and Shadow Daddies
YouTube video by Ink Sink Podcast
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September 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Listen to me ruin Kali's innocence while I explain what a "shadow daddy" is:
youtu.be/p3lwKayw4B8
youtu.be/p3lwKayw4B8
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Tom Clancy’s Complaint Tablet to Ea-nasir
Torn between Tom Clancy’s Gravity’s Rainbow (that manages to sound like a real Clancy licensed product) and Tom Clancy’s Holy Bible with Apocrypha.
Ruin a book by adding Tom Clancy's to the title
“Tom Clancy’s Principia Mathematica”
“Tom Clancy’s Principia Mathematica”
August 28, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Tom Clancy’s Complaint Tablet to Ea-nasir
- People like certainty more than they like hope.
- Oh god, that's true. Put that on a tea towel. And then never sell a unit because it's too sad.
(Josie Duffy Rice and Sarah Marshall on "You're Wrong About")
@jduffyrice.bsky.social @sarcher.bsky.social @yourewrongabout.bsky.social
- Oh god, that's true. Put that on a tea towel. And then never sell a unit because it's too sad.
(Josie Duffy Rice and Sarah Marshall on "You're Wrong About")
@jduffyrice.bsky.social @sarcher.bsky.social @yourewrongabout.bsky.social
August 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
- People like certainty more than they like hope.
- Oh god, that's true. Put that on a tea towel. And then never sell a unit because it's too sad.
(Josie Duffy Rice and Sarah Marshall on "You're Wrong About")
@jduffyrice.bsky.social @sarcher.bsky.social @yourewrongabout.bsky.social
- Oh god, that's true. Put that on a tea towel. And then never sell a unit because it's too sad.
(Josie Duffy Rice and Sarah Marshall on "You're Wrong About")
@jduffyrice.bsky.social @sarcher.bsky.social @yourewrongabout.bsky.social
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I admit, we've looked at properties in other states, and while it's useful to know things like average income, nearby schools, and weather norms...
What I really want to know is which five authors get requested most often at the local bookstore.
What I really want to know is which five authors get requested most often at the local bookstore.
August 16, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I admit, we've looked at properties in other states, and while it's useful to know things like average income, nearby schools, and weather norms...
What I really want to know is which five authors get requested most often at the local bookstore.
What I really want to know is which five authors get requested most often at the local bookstore.
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Some of y'all don't need Jesus, you need fact checkers and just the tiniest bit of critical thinking skill
August 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Some of y'all don't need Jesus, you need fact checkers and just the tiniest bit of critical thinking skill
Once again reminded of this.
August 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Once again reminded of this.
"Women smile and laugh, but mid-century men, apparently, can only grin and chuckle. At this stage of research, we cannot fully explain this odd phenomenon..."
(Underwood, Bamman, Lee, "The Transformation of Gender in English-Language Fiction," Journal of Cultural Analytics, 2018)
(Underwood, Bamman, Lee, "The Transformation of Gender in English-Language Fiction," Journal of Cultural Analytics, 2018)
August 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"Women smile and laugh, but mid-century men, apparently, can only grin and chuckle. At this stage of research, we cannot fully explain this odd phenomenon..."
(Underwood, Bamman, Lee, "The Transformation of Gender in English-Language Fiction," Journal of Cultural Analytics, 2018)
(Underwood, Bamman, Lee, "The Transformation of Gender in English-Language Fiction," Journal of Cultural Analytics, 2018)
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Book challenge:
- read a book published in each year of your life
- read books that scare you
- offer a librarian whiskey & chocolates to show you hidden books of dark spells & maps to the realm of faerie
- build a wizard tower out of books, hide inside for 1,000 years, and emerge with untold power
- read a book published in each year of your life
- read books that scare you
- offer a librarian whiskey & chocolates to show you hidden books of dark spells & maps to the realm of faerie
- build a wizard tower out of books, hide inside for 1,000 years, and emerge with untold power
August 9, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Book challenge:
- read a book published in each year of your life
- read books that scare you
- offer a librarian whiskey & chocolates to show you hidden books of dark spells & maps to the realm of faerie
- build a wizard tower out of books, hide inside for 1,000 years, and emerge with untold power
- read a book published in each year of your life
- read books that scare you
- offer a librarian whiskey & chocolates to show you hidden books of dark spells & maps to the realm of faerie
- build a wizard tower out of books, hide inside for 1,000 years, and emerge with untold power
Sea nettles: sound like they should be tiny urchins with fun colors
Sea nettles: IRL are angry jellyfish that attacked my friend THRICE
#nothankyou
Sea nettles: IRL are angry jellyfish that attacked my friend THRICE
#nothankyou
a group of jellyfish are swimming in a dark water
ALT: a group of jellyfish are swimming in a dark water
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August 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Sea nettles: sound like they should be tiny urchins with fun colors
Sea nettles: IRL are angry jellyfish that attacked my friend THRICE
#nothankyou
Sea nettles: IRL are angry jellyfish that attacked my friend THRICE
#nothankyou
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Someone should study why it’s possible to just throw my hair up and have it look fabulous on days when I’m not going anywhere, but it inevitably looks awful when I do the exact same thing on a going-out day.
Rocking the perfect bun today… alone in my office. Sigh.
Rocking the perfect bun today… alone in my office. Sigh.
July 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Someone should study why it’s possible to just throw my hair up and have it look fabulous on days when I’m not going anywhere, but it inevitably looks awful when I do the exact same thing on a going-out day.
Rocking the perfect bun today… alone in my office. Sigh.
Rocking the perfect bun today… alone in my office. Sigh.
"If women could afford to burn that many bras at the time, they would have had fewer things to protest about, frankly."
- Sarah Marshall and Michael Hobbes debunking bra-burning protests
Old eps of "You're Wrong About" just do not disappoint
@yourewrongabout.bsky.social @michaelhobbes.bsky.social
- Sarah Marshall and Michael Hobbes debunking bra-burning protests
Old eps of "You're Wrong About" just do not disappoint
@yourewrongabout.bsky.social @michaelhobbes.bsky.social
July 23, 2025 at 9:22 PM
"If women could afford to burn that many bras at the time, they would have had fewer things to protest about, frankly."
- Sarah Marshall and Michael Hobbes debunking bra-burning protests
Old eps of "You're Wrong About" just do not disappoint
@yourewrongabout.bsky.social @michaelhobbes.bsky.social
- Sarah Marshall and Michael Hobbes debunking bra-burning protests
Old eps of "You're Wrong About" just do not disappoint
@yourewrongabout.bsky.social @michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Yall. There’s plastics in the rain.
What are we even doing.
What are we even doing.
July 16, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Yall. There’s plastics in the rain.
What are we even doing.
What are we even doing.
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"Welcome, soft idiot. You've been issued a Human Body™, the most fragile, overpromised, poorly updated model in the known universe. It arrives preloaded with ten to fourteen irrational fears, a vague longing for something you can't name, and knees made of soup."
Terms and Conditions for Occupying Your Flesh Prison
Welcome, soft idiot. You’ve been issued a Human Body™, the most fragile, overpromised, poorly updated model in the known universe. It arrives prelo...
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July 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
"Welcome, soft idiot. You've been issued a Human Body™, the most fragile, overpromised, poorly updated model in the known universe. It arrives preloaded with ten to fourteen irrational fears, a vague longing for something you can't name, and knees made of soup."
"Her grandparents spoke in casual poetry, dropping phrases like “you’re blooming today” and “you bury me because I love you so much.”"
Susan Muaddi Darraj, "Behind You Is the Sea"
Why am I crying
Grandparents in their native language: there's no greater love
#amreading #booksky 📚
Susan Muaddi Darraj, "Behind You Is the Sea"
Why am I crying
Grandparents in their native language: there's no greater love
#amreading #booksky 📚
July 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
"Her grandparents spoke in casual poetry, dropping phrases like “you’re blooming today” and “you bury me because I love you so much.”"
Susan Muaddi Darraj, "Behind You Is the Sea"
Why am I crying
Grandparents in their native language: there's no greater love
#amreading #booksky 📚
Susan Muaddi Darraj, "Behind You Is the Sea"
Why am I crying
Grandparents in their native language: there's no greater love
#amreading #booksky 📚
“What does it matter? They’re coming, and we’re staying, and at the end of the day whoever is alive is the side that wins. War doesn’t determine who’s right. War determines who remains.”
(The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang) #BookSky
(The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang) #BookSky
July 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
“What does it matter? They’re coming, and we’re staying, and at the end of the day whoever is alive is the side that wins. War doesn’t determine who’s right. War determines who remains.”
(The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang) #BookSky
(The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang) #BookSky
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If the enemies to lovers aren't trying to actively kill each other for at least 50% of the book I don't want it
July 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
If the enemies to lovers aren't trying to actively kill each other for at least 50% of the book I don't want it
Timeline cleanse! Enjoy a fluffy cat and a bonus bumblebee ❤️
July 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Timeline cleanse! Enjoy a fluffy cat and a bonus bumblebee ❤️
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Happy 4th of July, Batman.
July 4, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Happy 4th of July, Batman.