Kristin Standley
@kstandley.bsky.social
Red-headed snippet; believes six impossible things before breakfast. Scholastic Book Fairs/Clubs Editorial but opinions are my own.
Tonight is such a good night.
November 5, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Tonight is such a good night.
Cuomo conceding was the perfect news to wake up to.
June 25, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Cuomo conceding was the perfect news to wake up to.
Today is a beautiful day to early vote and not rank Cuomo.
June 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Today is a beautiful day to early vote and not rank Cuomo.
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Once again, friends, DO NOT RANK Cuomo on your mayoral ballot. Instead, #RankTheSlate - @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, @bradlander.bsky.social, @nycspeakeradams.bsky.social, and @zellnor.bsky.social -- and add @jessicaramosqns.bsky.social to fill out your five. NO CUOMO - NEVER CUOMO.
May 25, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Once again, friends, DO NOT RANK Cuomo on your mayoral ballot. Instead, #RankTheSlate - @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, @bradlander.bsky.social, @nycspeakeradams.bsky.social, and @zellnor.bsky.social -- and add @jessicaramosqns.bsky.social to fill out your five. NO CUOMO - NEVER CUOMO.
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Like many people, the recent glut of Studio-Ghibli-styled AI images has left a bad taste in my mouth.
My grandma (we called her “granarch” because she was 𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘤) wrote “Howl's Moving Castle”, which was adapted by Hayao Miyazaki into a film of the same name.
My grandma (we called her “granarch” because she was 𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘤) wrote “Howl's Moving Castle”, which was adapted by Hayao Miyazaki into a film of the same name.
April 2, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Like many people, the recent glut of Studio-Ghibli-styled AI images has left a bad taste in my mouth.
My grandma (we called her “granarch” because she was 𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘤) wrote “Howl's Moving Castle”, which was adapted by Hayao Miyazaki into a film of the same name.
My grandma (we called her “granarch” because she was 𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘤) wrote “Howl's Moving Castle”, which was adapted by Hayao Miyazaki into a film of the same name.
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In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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The layoffs come after 200 Sesame Workshop employees announced they want to form a union.
Sesame Workshop will 'downsize significantly' with layoffs, CEO says
The layoffs come after 200 Sesame Workshop employees announced they want to form a union.
www.npr.org
March 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The layoffs come after 200 Sesame Workshop employees announced they want to form a union.
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This thread is great. Also, think about how many of the book bans in recent years have been driven by one person or a handful of people making themselves a huge nuisance. That power can be harnessed for good, too! This is especially great to remember if you’re retired and have time to spare
"Colonel Von Luger, it is the sworn duty of all officers to try to escape. If they cannot escape, then it is their sworn duty to cause the enemy to use an inordinate number of troops to guard them, and their sworn duty to harass the enemy to the best of their ability."
February 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
This thread is great. Also, think about how many of the book bans in recent years have been driven by one person or a handful of people making themselves a huge nuisance. That power can be harnessed for good, too! This is especially great to remember if you’re retired and have time to spare
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I do not need the Dems to tell us how bad things are. We already read the news. I need them tell us *what they plan to do about it*
February 1, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I do not need the Dems to tell us how bad things are. We already read the news. I need them tell us *what they plan to do about it*
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i think an important thing for people outside the US to understand is that elon musk seized control of the government today and most americans don’t even realize it happened.
February 1, 2025 at 5:43 AM
i think an important thing for people outside the US to understand is that elon musk seized control of the government today and most americans don’t even realize it happened.
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Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later
Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner
Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner
January 31, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later
Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner
Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner
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Every safety regulation was written in blood, frequently with a body count higher than one, and it’s not political to put the blame on people who want to “move fast and break things” when they start breaking human lives.
January 30, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Every safety regulation was written in blood, frequently with a body count higher than one, and it’s not political to put the blame on people who want to “move fast and break things” when they start breaking human lives.
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We say that people don't notice constitutional regime collapse because it comes on too slowly but I'm not sure how much faster it could be happening; we are literally at concentration camps on day 9.
January 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
We say that people don't notice constitutional regime collapse because it comes on too slowly but I'm not sure how much faster it could be happening; we are literally at concentration camps on day 9.
Great news—support an indie bookstore and get your e-books!
Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books.
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January 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Great news—support an indie bookstore and get your e-books!
ALA Awards, let’s go!!!!!
This is my Super Bowl.
This is my Super Bowl.
January 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
ALA Awards, let’s go!!!!!
This is my Super Bowl.
This is my Super Bowl.
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Here’s the thing I take from this: we absolutely have to hold our governments to their net zero pledges, and to try to over deliver. 3 C is beyond catastrophic. 2.5 C is devastating.
Less than 2 C is still going to lead to heartbreaking results.
Less than 2 C is still going to lead to heartbreaking results.
New post on The Climate Brink from Zeke @hausfath.bsky.social about our climate future. With current policies, we’re on track for a bit less than 3C, with 2030 NDCs we’re on track for about 2.5C, and with net zero pledges we’re on track for a bit less than 2C.
www.theclimatebrink.com/p/moving-awa...
www.theclimatebrink.com/p/moving-awa...
Moving away from high-end emissions scenarios
I have a new commentary in Dialogues on Climate Change exploring climate outcomes in current policy scenarios
www.theclimatebrink.com
January 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Here’s the thing I take from this: we absolutely have to hold our governments to their net zero pledges, and to try to over deliver. 3 C is beyond catastrophic. 2.5 C is devastating.
Less than 2 C is still going to lead to heartbreaking results.
Less than 2 C is still going to lead to heartbreaking results.
Mine would have to be HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE by Diana Wynne Jones.
It’s got magic and romance, but also family and found family, an old (ish) lady who gives no craps, a vain wizard grad student, and the constant overturning of expectations.
It’s got magic and romance, but also family and found family, an old (ish) lady who gives no craps, a vain wizard grad student, and the constant overturning of expectations.
What are people's most ARCHETYPICAL novels? Not your FAVORITES per se, but the ones that best exemplify your tastes in novels, distilled into a single work?
Mine is probably Susanna Clarke's "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell."
Mine is probably Susanna Clarke's "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell."
December 27, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Mine would have to be HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE by Diana Wynne Jones.
It’s got magic and romance, but also family and found family, an old (ish) lady who gives no craps, a vain wizard grad student, and the constant overturning of expectations.
It’s got magic and romance, but also family and found family, an old (ish) lady who gives no craps, a vain wizard grad student, and the constant overturning of expectations.
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We’re close to losing Sesame Street, a show that was started to provide free educational media to marginalized kids in our country.
That’s not an accident in my opinion and it’s just one more example of how Capitalism robs our society of the sweet and good things we build to care for one another.
That’s not an accident in my opinion and it’s just one more example of how Capitalism robs our society of the sweet and good things we build to care for one another.
HBO has declined to renew “Sesame Street” for new episodes. The series that’s been teaching generations of little kids since 1969 now has no studio.
Please consider donating to Sesame Workshop to ensure the residents of 123 Sesame Street are still around to teach kids of all needs and backgrounds.
Please consider donating to Sesame Workshop to ensure the residents of 123 Sesame Street are still around to teach kids of all needs and backgrounds.
Support Us - Sesame Workshop
Individual donors and partners can have a major impact. Join Sesame Workshop’s Mission to Help Kids Everywhere Grow Smarter, Stronger, and Kinder.
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December 15, 2024 at 6:39 PM
We’re close to losing Sesame Street, a show that was started to provide free educational media to marginalized kids in our country.
That’s not an accident in my opinion and it’s just one more example of how Capitalism robs our society of the sweet and good things we build to care for one another.
That’s not an accident in my opinion and it’s just one more example of how Capitalism robs our society of the sweet and good things we build to care for one another.
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"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
November 21, 2024 at 2:44 AM
"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
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fascism is stopped when enough people say one of two things:
1) "nah, I'm not doing that"
2) "nah, you're not doing that"
a lot of people want to imagine how they'll say the second thing, but you should *really* start practicing the first one
1) "nah, I'm not doing that"
2) "nah, you're not doing that"
a lot of people want to imagine how they'll say the second thing, but you should *really* start practicing the first one
November 17, 2024 at 4:32 AM
fascism is stopped when enough people say one of two things:
1) "nah, I'm not doing that"
2) "nah, you're not doing that"
a lot of people want to imagine how they'll say the second thing, but you should *really* start practicing the first one
1) "nah, I'm not doing that"
2) "nah, you're not doing that"
a lot of people want to imagine how they'll say the second thing, but you should *really* start practicing the first one
I have now read Cat Sebastian’s You Should Be So Lucky twice—back to back—and I am so completely in love with this book.
November 15, 2024 at 3:21 AM
I have now read Cat Sebastian’s You Should Be So Lucky twice—back to back—and I am so completely in love with this book.
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Anti-choice activists claimed they were restricting abortion to save kids & the Supreme Court treated those arguments credulously
Yet since the Court rescinded the constitutional right to abortion, infant mortality has increased 7%
That amounts to over 700 kids
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
Yet since the Court rescinded the constitutional right to abortion, infant mortality has increased 7%
That amounts to over 700 kids
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
More Infants Died Because the Supreme Court Overturned Roe v. Wade
The Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade led to higher than expected infant mortality rates in the months that followed.
ballsandstrikes.org
October 24, 2024 at 1:55 AM
Anti-choice activists claimed they were restricting abortion to save kids & the Supreme Court treated those arguments credulously
Yet since the Court rescinded the constitutional right to abortion, infant mortality has increased 7%
That amounts to over 700 kids
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
Yet since the Court rescinded the constitutional right to abortion, infant mortality has increased 7%
That amounts to over 700 kids
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Look I never play this card but I studied German politics and the rise of fascism and this IS THAT. We have arrived at the end game. Not hyperbole or exaggeration this is THE EXACT LANGUAGE. Anyone who has studied this recognizes it like a meteorologist seeing a gathering hurricane
Trump in Aurora: "The enemy from within. All the scum that we have to deal with that hate our country. That's a bigger enemy than China and Russia."
October 11, 2024 at 9:20 PM
Look I never play this card but I studied German politics and the rise of fascism and this IS THAT. We have arrived at the end game. Not hyperbole or exaggeration this is THE EXACT LANGUAGE. Anyone who has studied this recognizes it like a meteorologist seeing a gathering hurricane