N. LaRocque
@larocquen.bsky.social
Food. Books. Learning. Kindness. Pets. Trying to put her money where her beliefs are in this capitalist hellscape.
IT IS FINALLY TIME! @mattielubchansky.com @jayasaxena.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
IT IS FINALLY TIME! @mattielubchansky.com @jayasaxena.com
Got back from an amazing vacation at 10:30 PM last night. Knew there wouldn’t be time to defrost traditional Thanksgiving stuff. So baked potato bar and bake from frozen pie for all.
November 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Got back from an amazing vacation at 10:30 PM last night. Knew there wouldn’t be time to defrost traditional Thanksgiving stuff. So baked potato bar and bake from frozen pie for all.
A pretty odd to-do list for my day off. 🤷🏻♀️
October 31, 2025 at 1:34 AM
A pretty odd to-do list for my day off. 🤷🏻♀️
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Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today
issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
October 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today
issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
Well it’s October and I have a road trip coming up this weekend which means it’s time for my annual reread of probably my favorite audiobook of all time: The Gates by John Connolly. If you have a library card and your library gives you access to the Hoopla app you can listen to it any time!
October 10, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Well it’s October and I have a road trip coming up this weekend which means it’s time for my annual reread of probably my favorite audiobook of all time: The Gates by John Connolly. If you have a library card and your library gives you access to the Hoopla app you can listen to it any time!
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Over a two-year period, prosecutors across 16 states charged more than 400 people with pregnancy-related crimes, with most of the charges originating in states with near or total abortion bans, according to a new report released Tuesday.
New study finds more than 400 pregnancy-related prosecutions after Roe's fall
Most of the cases involved allegations of substance use during pregnancy, a nonprofit legal group found.
www.nbcnews.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Over a two-year period, prosecutors across 16 states charged more than 400 people with pregnancy-related crimes, with most of the charges originating in states with near or total abortion bans, according to a new report released Tuesday.
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The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.
This is the man that ICE just detained. This isn't about catching criminals, it is about Ethnic cleansing www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...
September 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.
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"the guy audibly dying into the microphone?"
"yeah, the health secretary"
"yeah, the health secretary"
September 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
"the guy audibly dying into the microphone?"
"yeah, the health secretary"
"yeah, the health secretary"
I am a seasonal reader and someone who rereads for comfort. Time for an Indian Lake trilogy reread. Cuz if Jade Daniels can be a badass, so can I. #jadedanielsismyfinalgirl @sgj.bsky.social #booksky
September 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I am a seasonal reader and someone who rereads for comfort. Time for an Indian Lake trilogy reread. Cuz if Jade Daniels can be a badass, so can I. #jadedanielsismyfinalgirl @sgj.bsky.social #booksky
1/2 You. All. Reading an advance audiobook copy of Tiffany D. Jackson’s The Scammer and it has me alllll on edge like when I read Grown for the first time. The two biggest pieces of ick thus far? #booksky
September 10, 2025 at 3:29 AM
1/2 You. All. Reading an advance audiobook copy of Tiffany D. Jackson’s The Scammer and it has me alllll on edge like when I read Grown for the first time. The two biggest pieces of ick thus far? #booksky
Let’s get this effin’ vacation started. @effinbirds.com
August 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Let’s get this effin’ vacation started. @effinbirds.com
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Looks like an important animal fact that @theferocity.bsky.social needs to know.
Important information:
All woodchucks are marmots, but not all marmots are woodchucks. A woodchuck is a type of marmot.
All woodchucks are marmots, but not all marmots are woodchucks. A woodchuck is a type of marmot.
July 13, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Looks like an important animal fact that @theferocity.bsky.social needs to know.
First bike in almost 20 years. Hubs got one too. And that means our entire family can ride together. ❤️
July 3, 2025 at 12:47 AM
First bike in almost 20 years. Hubs got one too. And that means our entire family can ride together. ❤️
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Between June 10 and June 16, there were FOUR bomb threats sent to public libraries across the US.
That this doesn't make wider news–the ongoing targeting of public libraries with bomb threats–is mind-boggling.
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
That this doesn't make wider news–the ongoing targeting of public libraries with bomb threats–is mind-boggling.
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
One Week, Four Library Bomb Threats
Bomb threats at libraries have become a far too common occurrence. In the summer of 2023–two years into an unrelenting attack on public librarians, as well...
buttondown.com
June 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Between June 10 and June 16, there were FOUR bomb threats sent to public libraries across the US.
That this doesn't make wider news–the ongoing targeting of public libraries with bomb threats–is mind-boggling.
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
That this doesn't make wider news–the ongoing targeting of public libraries with bomb threats–is mind-boggling.
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
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I just keep looking at my phone and saying “oh my God” like Bob from Bob’s Burgers.
June 13, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I just keep looking at my phone and saying “oh my God” like Bob from Bob’s Burgers.
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How about some neutral-leaning-good news?
Brooklyn Public Library is making funding available for libraries across the US who want to develop freedom to read programming for young people. It's open to any library, with a note that small and rural libraries are especially encouraged to apply.
Brooklyn Public Library is making funding available for libraries across the US who want to develop freedom to read programming for young people. It's open to any library, with a note that small and rural libraries are especially encouraged to apply.
June 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
How about some neutral-leaning-good news?
Brooklyn Public Library is making funding available for libraries across the US who want to develop freedom to read programming for young people. It's open to any library, with a note that small and rural libraries are especially encouraged to apply.
Brooklyn Public Library is making funding available for libraries across the US who want to develop freedom to read programming for young people. It's open to any library, with a note that small and rural libraries are especially encouraged to apply.
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The fascism is not a distraction from the funding of the fascism.
They’re the same thing.
They’re the same thing.
June 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
The fascism is not a distraction from the funding of the fascism.
They’re the same thing.
They’re the same thing.
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#haiku
#HaikuSaturday
above an empty basin
watermarks ring
granite cliffs
Inspired by: www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
The article is old.
The problem is not.
#HaikuSaturday
above an empty basin
watermarks ring
granite cliffs
Inspired by: www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
The article is old.
The problem is not.
Lake Mead: Largest US reservoir dips to record low
Lake Mead along the Arizona-Nevada border is a major water supply source for some 20 million people.
www.bbc.com
June 7, 2025 at 10:52 AM
#haiku
#HaikuSaturday
above an empty basin
watermarks ring
granite cliffs
Inspired by: www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
The article is old.
The problem is not.
#HaikuSaturday
above an empty basin
watermarks ring
granite cliffs
Inspired by: www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
The article is old.
The problem is not.
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I never, ever want to hear again that women are too emotional to be leaders.
June 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I never, ever want to hear again that women are too emotional to be leaders.
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I sure do love KING KONG VS GODZILLA (1962), I mention for no particular reason
June 5, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I sure do love KING KONG VS GODZILLA (1962), I mention for no particular reason
As a Librarian, I can’t tell you how amazing this thread is. Transparency is so. Freaking. IMPORTANT. Dang.
Go get a @libro.fm account. Get your dollars out of Bezos’s pocket.
Go get a @libro.fm account. Get your dollars out of Bezos’s pocket.
A thread on our response to AI 🧵
✅ We will never knowingly prioritize, publicize, nor market AI-narrated/generated audiobooks.
✅ Recommendations on Libro are from real, live booksellers and our team, not algorithms.
✅ Our customer support team is made of real people, not bots.
✅ We will never knowingly prioritize, publicize, nor market AI-narrated/generated audiobooks.
✅ Recommendations on Libro are from real, live booksellers and our team, not algorithms.
✅ Our customer support team is made of real people, not bots.
June 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
As a Librarian, I can’t tell you how amazing this thread is. Transparency is so. Freaking. IMPORTANT. Dang.
Go get a @libro.fm account. Get your dollars out of Bezos’s pocket.
Go get a @libro.fm account. Get your dollars out of Bezos’s pocket.
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It’s called taxing the rich, buddy.
June 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
It’s called taxing the rich, buddy.
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Who wore cognitive dissonance/complete detachment from their populous' suffering better?
May 31, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Who wore cognitive dissonance/complete detachment from their populous' suffering better?
Immediately did a double take when I saw this ad since I am reading an advance copy of @maggiestiefvater.bsky.social ‘s The Listeners. IYKYK
May 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Immediately did a double take when I saw this ad since I am reading an advance copy of @maggiestiefvater.bsky.social ‘s The Listeners. IYKYK