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Diandra Mae
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🇵🇷-Texan Illustrator 🖌️✂️🎨 | lover of 📚 | She/Her | ✨this✨close to wandering off into the woods forever 🏕️ Team#ADHD, so no method to my madness. Portfolio: diandramae.com | TX ICE Impact Guide: https://tinyurl.com/TxICE
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Diandra Mae @diandramae.com · 5d
F is for February and Friendship!

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard Day! I’m an author-illustrator who loves illustrating critters, large and small. You can see more of my work at diandramae.com.
I am seeking representation. 🎨

#kidlitart #kidlit #illustration #nature
A digital illustration done in thick, chunky black lines, and a chalky colored texture shows a stylized porcupine chatting with a bluebird in a treetop.
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freadomfighters.bsky.social
Lots of fun author events from @everylibrary.bsky.social this week for Library Lovers Week! Schedule here: www.everylibrary.org/llw2026
Library Lovers Week 2026 on EveryLibrary Live!
www.everylibrary.org
February 10, 2026 at 9:58 PM
diandramae.com
“Social Media is having its “Big Tobacco” moment” says lawyer Jacob Ward. 👀 👀

The lawsuit focuses on how platforms knowingly encourage/bring harm to consumers.

www.instagram.com/reel/DUjlbKg...
Instagram
Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.
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February 10, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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thelincoln.bsky.social
A little update to this. A source emailed me to say they'd used an industry tool to look up Coral Hart's sales and they totaled only 37 copies for the books under that pen name.

So, yeah I do not believe the six figures on 50k sales the NYT reported.
thelincoln.bsky.social Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 9h
I wrote about why I'm skeptical of that AI author earning six figures pumping out 200 books a year story, but also about how authors might need to surf above the waves of slop countercraft.substack.com/p/surfs-up-i...
Surf's Up in Slop City
How should authors navigate a world with disappearing books coverage and a rising flood of AI slop books?
countercraft.substack.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
diandramae.com
I know there are bigger problems in the world, but I was hoping to surprise my kid with Noah Kahan tickets for her birthday this summer. By the time I got in, the tickets were disappearing on me as I put them in the cart. I friggin' hate Ticketmaster.
A screenshot of a ticketmaster queue showing 19,362.
February 10, 2026 at 6:38 PM
diandramae.com
My perennial task of going to the bank to pull out cash for cookie booths is made a little sweeter by the bank tellers who buy cookies. ☺️
The back of an SUV is loaded with Girl Scout cookie cases.
February 10, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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actioncookbook.com
2020 twitter post from @actioncookbook: "Every article about a major retailer going bankrupt spends eight paragraphs musing “I guess millennials just don’t buy shirts?” before casually mentioning a private equity acquisition three years ago in one sentence at the end"
February 10, 2026 at 2:08 PM
diandramae.com
I heard this in Shoresy’s voice. 😆
February 10, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
FYI. Have a documented Canadian ancestor? You can get citizenship.
assignedmale.bsky.social Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 1d
I'm not saying that Canada is perfect, I'm saying that the bar is pretty low right now.
Four frame comic. First frame shows a Canadian flag. Text reads : the new canadian citizenship policy, which was enacted in December 2025, restores citizenship by descent, for ancestors as far as you can prove. 2nd frame shows a locomotive. Text reads : that means that if one of your grandparents, great-grand- parents or even farther was demonstrably born in Canada, you don't even need to apply for citizenship - you are retro- actively granted it. Third frame shows an old dusty register book. Text reads : the process involves linking your CanadA-born ancestor to yourself by digging up a paper trail of birth or wedding certificates, proof of immigration or adoption, etc. thanks to Canadian archive- keeping traditions, this is possible by reaching out to towns, parishes, national archives*... Fourth frame shows old factory chimneys. Text reads : between 1840 and 1930, 925 000 French-Canadians fled persecution and economic oppression by moving to the usa. today, their descendants represent around ten million people, or 3% of the U.s. population. if it's time for you to come back, we haven't forgotten about you.
February 10, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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cwbuecheler.com
Announcing my cover artist search for my fantasy/humor novel Possessed! Budget is €1,500 ($1,770). No spec work! This is not a contest. I'm just trying to find the right artist. TONS of info on the book, the cover, applying, and more at: cwbwriting.com/posts/2026-0...

NO AI PLEASE!
NO DMs PLEASE!
I'm Looking for a Cover Artist! | Post | CWB Writing
Post - I'm looking for a cover artist for my contemporary fantasy/comedy Possessed - Christopher Buecheler's Author Site
cwbwriting.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:28 AM
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victoriajanssen.bsky.social
Juntos is a community-led, Latine, immigrant organization in South #Philly doing important deportation defense, community care work, and more.

Spanish-language ICE hotline: 814-205-3293. #philadelphia
Donate at the link:
secure.actblue.com/donate/junto...
Donate to Juntos
Show your support with a contribution.
secure.actblue.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:20 PM
diandramae.com
Age verification?

I bought a dozen cassettes for a penny!
moviessilently.bsky.social Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 12h
Age verification? School handouts smelled good
theoscargoff.bsky.social Oscar Goff @theoscargoff.bsky.social · 12h
Age verification? I complained to my mom that all the good movies at the rental store were on Beta and we only had VHS.
February 10, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
Schumer: ball’s in your court

Republicans: stab the ball, tear it apart, set it on fire, rip up the court and sell the turf to Bahrain

Schumer: hey you guys are out of balls

Republicans: we’re gonna kill your families

Schumer: ok we’ll pass funding for new balls but you’ve GOT to read the rules
February 10, 2026 at 1:34 PM
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psychicozma.bsky.social
I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.
February 10, 2026 at 6:10 AM
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librarianjones.com
The Librarians is now on PBS and Independent Lens. Check your local stations or view on the PBS YouTube channel: youtu.be/ywQOCY-qDzE?... @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social @la-cac.org
February 9, 2026 at 10:24 PM
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moxiest.art
🌌 gnbsky
A white on black typewritten note that reads if you are reading this, you made it through the day. we're proud of you. stay safe. stay mad. rest up.
February 10, 2026 at 4:24 AM
diandramae.com
Thanks for sharing this, @runwithskizzers.bsky.social! This is so cute. Draw a horse.

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Draw a horse, watch it run!
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February 10, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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nicterhorst.com
Reminder that we can submit support tickets. support.discord.com
A screenshot of a discord request Text Header: Why the hell do you think facial scanning and ID verification is going to fly? Text: You just had a massive security leak like six months ago. Why do you think I'd ever want to upload anything of worth to your platform? I'm already concerned about privacy with what exists on there. I cancelled my nitro. I'm now looking for alternatives. I'm a daily, nigh HOURLY user, and this is a massive turn off. Good luck, hope you realize this is stupid and reconsider, like you did with the AI/LMM bs.
February 9, 2026 at 10:19 PM
diandramae.com
🤣 I think I need to take lessons from Lola. Also this is so me today.

www.instagram.com/reel/DUbfhwa...?
A Sesame Street-style purple hand puppet with orange hair stands in front of a white board with a ruler in hand. On the board it says “Bitch, I am tired” in Spanish.
February 9, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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mostlybree.kitrocha.com
Hey folks! Street Medics in Minneapolis have reached out to us asking for help boosting another wishlist!

Everything on this list is going straight to Columbia Heights.

(If you hate amazon, please visit www.standwithminnesota.com and find a different way to help! just help, that is what matters)
Check out my list on Amazon
www.amazon.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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charlenedraws.bsky.social
This book has the most scathing dedication by an illustrator I have ever seen (and he is completely right)

#kidlit
Photo of I Will Not Be Scared picture book Photo of the dedication page of I Will Not Be Scared
February 9, 2026 at 7:12 PM
diandramae.com
Post a banger that isn’t in English

(This lives on my gym playlist)
February 9, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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andrecarrington.bsky.social
For those interested in why Black & Caribbean people are going off about the sugar cane from last night's halftime show: sugar is a plantation commodity that fueled slavery & colonialism

bookshop.org/p/books/swee...
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
The Place of Sugar in Modern History
bookshop.org
February 9, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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midnightpals.bsky.social
[circle of love]
Nora Roberts: ok ladies we've got a new storyteller here tonight
Roberts: everyone say hi to Coral hart
Coral Hart: oh that's not my real name
Hart: i have to keep my real name secret because readers hate anything its associated with
Roberts:
February 9, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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pansybeast.bsky.social
a tiny sphinx with equally tiny riddles (sold)! #ceramics
Multiple angles of a ceramic sculpture of a tiny sphinx against a white background, only a bit over an inch or 2.5 centimeters long. They're standing, head slightly raised. It has a silly, happy expression. Its brown body is densely packed with black stripes, contrasted by white wings, white tummy, and a white star on the nape of its neck.
February 9, 2026 at 2:28 AM
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sassylibrarian.bsky.social
If THE LIBRARIANS on PBS Independent Lens airs past your bedtime tonight, don’t worry. You can also stream it via the PBS app and on the PBS Independent Lens YouTube channel starting at noon EST Monday. @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social
The Librarians | Book Policies Documentary | Independent Lens
The Librarians follows librarians and citizens responding to restrictions on library content across the United States.
www.pbs.org
February 9, 2026 at 12:53 PM