Rachel
@bravebutbookish.bsky.social
The Gilda Radner of librarians.
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My response to anything over the next two weeks
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
My response to anything over the next two weeks
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I think it's kind of beautiful that this was Rob Reiner's final line on television
December 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I think it's kind of beautiful that this was Rob Reiner's final line on television
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Santa Tweet! Santa Tweet!
December 24, 2023 at 6:32 PM
Santa Tweet! Santa Tweet!
Despite repeated attempts and an optimistic attitude, my fridge remains void of any viable lunch options no matter how many times I open the door.
December 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Despite repeated attempts and an optimistic attitude, my fridge remains void of any viable lunch options no matter how many times I open the door.
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there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
August 10, 2024 at 3:21 PM
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
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Pope Leo XIV fulfilled a promise made by the late Pope Francis to return to Canada's Indigenous communities artifacts — including an Inuit kayak, masks, moccasins and etchings — that have been held by the Vatican for more than 100 years.
Pope returns Indigenous artifacts from Vatican Museums to Canada
The items were sent to Rome by Catholic missionaries between 1923 and 1925. They include an Inuit kayak, masks, moccasins and etchings.
bit.ly
November 18, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Pope Leo XIV fulfilled a promise made by the late Pope Francis to return to Canada's Indigenous communities artifacts — including an Inuit kayak, masks, moccasins and etchings — that have been held by the Vatican for more than 100 years.
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Pope Leo XIV understands technology and its relationship to art better any executive or AI-pilled techbro running the conference circuit.
November 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Pope Leo XIV understands technology and its relationship to art better any executive or AI-pilled techbro running the conference circuit.
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do you guys know about the jawbone of St Anthony
November 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
do you guys know about the jawbone of St Anthony
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Cards Against Humanity made a rather large donation to support libraries 📚
That is so punk rock
That is so punk rock
ALA Explains the Donation: Creative Fundraising Effort Benefiting the American Library Association Supports Efforts to Address Censorship and Protect the Right to Read
Longtime supporter of libraries, Cards Against Humanity (CAH), organized a creative way to support the American Library Association.
www.ala.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Cards Against Humanity made a rather large donation to support libraries 📚
That is so punk rock
That is so punk rock
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OH BOY LINDA I WOULD LIKE TO TALK ABOUT THAT FOR 3-5 BUSINESS HOURS
they do not come out of India Oxenberg’s much better documentary at all well!!!
they do not come out of India Oxenberg’s much better documentary at all well!!!
November 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
OH BOY LINDA I WOULD LIKE TO TALK ABOUT THAT FOR 3-5 BUSINESS HOURS
they do not come out of India Oxenberg’s much better documentary at all well!!!
they do not come out of India Oxenberg’s much better documentary at all well!!!
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Back in June, I gave the keynote address at the American Library Association's Carnegie Awards, and I'm very pleased that @literaryhub.bsky.social has republished the full text of my speech:
In Praise of Librarians in Dangerous Times
Librarians are on the front lines of history and current events, when news and change arrive at a furious clip that only quickens every day. And without libraries, my work would simply not exist. I…
lithub.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Back in June, I gave the keynote address at the American Library Association's Carnegie Awards, and I'm very pleased that @literaryhub.bsky.social has republished the full text of my speech:
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I want a democrat to get bit by a zombie. I want a bloodthirsty, feral, hotheaded warrior creature who will stop at nothing to win. Where are my political animals who will fight tooth and nail for what is right? I’m sick of the high road. It’s gotten us here. We need a new route. A lowdown dirty one
October 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I want a democrat to get bit by a zombie. I want a bloodthirsty, feral, hotheaded warrior creature who will stop at nothing to win. Where are my political animals who will fight tooth and nail for what is right? I’m sick of the high road. It’s gotten us here. We need a new route. A lowdown dirty one
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They starve children to protect pedos.
October 31, 2025 at 4:02 PM
They starve children to protect pedos.
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The vibe I bring to the function
October 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
The vibe I bring to the function
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MAGA man eats pavement after shouting slurs at No Kings protesters
October 19, 2025 at 10:38 AM
MAGA man eats pavement after shouting slurs at No Kings protesters
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Well I was not expecting BILL NIGHY to be spitting facts today!
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
October 19, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Well I was not expecting BILL NIGHY to be spitting facts today!
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
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V. excited to have found a child's diary from 1789, covering the period he & his family fled the French Revolution
... So far it has mostly been 'I am very annoyed about running away!', accompanied with detailed blow by blow accounts of his tutor's unfortunate bouts of diarrhoea #18c
... So far it has mostly been 'I am very annoyed about running away!', accompanied with detailed blow by blow accounts of his tutor's unfortunate bouts of diarrhoea #18c
a man sitting in a chair with a hulu logo on the bottom
ALT: a man sitting in a chair with a hulu logo on the bottom
media.tenor.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:08 AM
V. excited to have found a child's diary from 1789, covering the period he & his family fled the French Revolution
... So far it has mostly been 'I am very annoyed about running away!', accompanied with detailed blow by blow accounts of his tutor's unfortunate bouts of diarrhoea #18c
... So far it has mostly been 'I am very annoyed about running away!', accompanied with detailed blow by blow accounts of his tutor's unfortunate bouts of diarrhoea #18c
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Senator Mitch McConnell just suffered a fall in Washington.
October 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Senator Mitch McConnell just suffered a fall in Washington.
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this felt too informative not to share
October 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
this felt too informative not to share
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this is a GOOD speech
October 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
this is a GOOD speech
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Today marks the 7th anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
“It’s easier to talk here than it is in America.”
— Dave Chappelle, doing his shtick in front of a whooping, cheering crowd in … Riyadh.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/w...
— Dave Chappelle, doing his shtick in front of a whooping, cheering crowd in … Riyadh.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/w...
At Saudi Comedy Fest, American Free Speech Becomes the Punchline
www.nytimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Today marks the 7th anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
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We don’t call everyone who disagrees with us a Nazi, JD, just the ones doing Nazi shit like:
-masked secret police kidnapping people off the street
-creating concentration camps
-attempting to eradicate trans people
-banning/burning LGBTQ/opposing viewpoint books
-murdering fishermen in open waters
-masked secret police kidnapping people off the street
-creating concentration camps
-attempting to eradicate trans people
-banning/burning LGBTQ/opposing viewpoint books
-murdering fishermen in open waters
Vance: "If you want stop political violence, stop telling your supporters that everybody who disagrees with you is a Nazi."
September 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
We don’t call everyone who disagrees with us a Nazi, JD, just the ones doing Nazi shit like:
-masked secret police kidnapping people off the street
-creating concentration camps
-attempting to eradicate trans people
-banning/burning LGBTQ/opposing viewpoint books
-murdering fishermen in open waters
-masked secret police kidnapping people off the street
-creating concentration camps
-attempting to eradicate trans people
-banning/burning LGBTQ/opposing viewpoint books
-murdering fishermen in open waters
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So this is 40. Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.
September 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
So this is 40. Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.
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"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023
www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
September 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023
www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
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Look at that beautiful blue sky! ⏰☠️ Wake Up Dead Man, the new Benoit Blanc mystery. Thanksgiving in theaters, 12/12 on Netflix. More to come very soon…
September 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Look at that beautiful blue sky! ⏰☠️ Wake Up Dead Man, the new Benoit Blanc mystery. Thanksgiving in theaters, 12/12 on Netflix. More to come very soon…