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negativebeans.bsky.social
@negativebeans.bsky.social
📚Librarian 📜 | 💌 Poet ✒️ | 🐈‍⬛ Cat 🌙
When feeling overwhelmed by politics and the destruction of things around you, remember you are not alone. We all get overwhelmed and feel paralyzed at times. Take a second to step back, breathe, and evaluate. Remember you have community and are not alone.
March 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
We need to be standing up for our local institutions. This includes libraries, museums, social security offices, park systems, and more. We should not be complacent in the dismantling of these institutes. Call your representatives and use 5Calls app to help you articulate.
March 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Subject: Urgent: Protect Library and Museum Funding — Oppose Elimination of IMLS
March 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Is your library interested in participating in the Libraries as Literacy Centers initiative? Fill out this form by March 7th. bit.ly/3COlIUk
Libraries as Literacy Centers: Interest Form
Thank you for your interest in the Libraries as Literacy Centers project, led by the American Library Association and supported by World Education. This project aims to strengthen libraries capacity t...
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February 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
February 14, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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February 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Flying is one of the greatest inventions. We are able to feel like birds for just a few hours before going back to the day to day.
February 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Stop and breathe for a moment.

#sunset #photography
February 6, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜

The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.

Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
February 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Rejoice in all weather, even rain and snow. For once they pass the flowers will bloom.
February 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
As long as you're doing your best I'm proud of you. Keep going!
January 28, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Robert Frost wrote: Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.

Based on our weather, I think it's a fairly even split across the nation.
January 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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January 26, 2025 at 3:37 AM