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Mags 📚🎧📱
@rather-be-readin.bsky.social
- Reading, Library Advocacy, and general nonsense.-
- Queer, Disabled, & Appalachian -
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This afternoon it'll switch from coffee to tea and with the grey and rainy weather outside, I can not honestly complain. 10/10 day for my soul.
January 10, 2026 at 2:02 PM
This will eventually be a nice smooshy cowl!

(Pattern is called Hot Lines, available for free on Ravelry!)
January 10, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Saturday morning knitting and listening to an audiobook. Reminder from the coffee cup: You're doing great. ❤️
#knitting #positive #saturday #goodjob #knitsky
January 10, 2026 at 1:30 PM
First DNF of the year: When Women Were Dragons, by Kelly Barnhill.

Because why am I reading 4 sentences that say the exact same thing, just worded differently? This could have been a novella.

#booksky #books #bookish #reader
January 8, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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Our loan payments are nearing more than our income now, and I'd like to be able to do more than just survive 2026.

All payments made go directly to the principal balance of our loans.

#mutualaidrequest #help #assistance #marequest #disabled #disability #repost

gofund.me/4be2ccd9
Donate to Help Disabled Couple Pay Off Emergency Loans, organized by Mags Raymond
In December, we had to have emergency surgery for my husband's service dog. … Mags Raymond needs your support for Help Disabled Couple Pay Off Emergency Loans
gofund.me
January 1, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Today's note scrawled in my therapy journal,
'Enabling is a form of self sabotaging your boundaries'

Fuck.
January 7, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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Urgh, can you actually imagine being a cishet neurotypical?
January 7, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Finally getting back in to a knitting groove!
(Pattern: Hot Lines cowl, free on Ravelry.)
#knitsky #knitting #cowl #merinowool
January 7, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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Good morning ppl! Confused about what vaccines are now covered & which ones are not? They are all still covered by the gov and insurance plans. YOU CAN STILL GET THEM ALL. They just want you to think you shouldn’t need to. Here is a quick info graphic by the NYT of the vaccines they are reccomending
January 6, 2026 at 1:05 PM
I am friends with so many authors and I am so lucky because all y'all are just confused lil beans sometimes and it's entertaining when someone buys a book and you get excited 🤭
January 6, 2026 at 7:10 AM
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To whoever bought my book last month:

Thank you. I woke up this morning sincerely considering quitting writing. I can keep going now, thanks to you. You have no idea what your support means to me.

Sincerely,
A Struggling Author
#WritingCommunity
#IndiePub
January 5, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed.
January 4, 2026 at 5:04 AM
We've gotten a little help with this, but our goal is to be out of this debt by the middle of the year because other things are now compoundung. Any help would be amazing.

#mutualaidrequest #marequest #mutualaid #fundraising #help
January 2, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Our loan payments are nearing more than our income now, and I'd like to be able to do more than just survive 2026.

All payments made go directly to the principal balance of our loans.

#mutualaidrequest #help #assistance #marequest #disabled #disability #repost

gofund.me/4be2ccd9
Donate to Help Disabled Couple Pay Off Emergency Loans, organized by Mags Raymond
In December, we had to have emergency surgery for my husband's service dog. … Mags Raymond needs your support for Help Disabled Couple Pay Off Emergency Loans
gofund.me
January 1, 2026 at 2:47 PM
2026 reading goals:
45 books
15 off my shelf
5 e books I own
1 classic I've never read
1 romantasy
1 mystery
No buying until April (exception is book club botm pick)
145 hours
11,250 pages
January 1, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Anyone else frantically trying to finish JUST ONE MORE book for the year?
December 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM
A library run to get set up for new years.
#booksky #library #librarybooks #libraries
December 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Good morning, well worn paperbacks of Bluesky!
Today feels a little better than it has in ages, mentally. Maybe, just maybe, it'll suck a lil less.
Be kind to yourself today. 🫶🏻
December 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
FILLED. Thank you, helpful stranger. I'll pay it forward when I can. ❤️
December 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
SOS:
I have tried for two days to instacart to make money for cat food + groceries to get through til the 3rd. pantries are closed til the 5th.
Asking for a signal boost for $40 in assistance for cat food and a few sundries!
PP & Cash app in my bio
#mutualaidrequest #maboost #mutualaid #sos
December 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I am a noodle making robot. Hell, yes.
December 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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In the course of my fruitless ballet mystery thing search, I discovered that Chicago is the home of Haymarket Books.

Haymarket Books has a book club. A very affordable book club. All radical Leftist books.

(Wicked smile) I'm gonna get so many books.
December 29, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I did ARCs for a few years but recently I've had so many authors who complained because I left HONEST reviews, not automatic 5 stars. I'm so done with it.
December 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
As of today I am no longer doing ARCs. Deleted my netgalley and Edelweiss accounts, I just don't have the spoons for it anymore 😭
December 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Results of a haul of gift cards!

#bookish #books #shopping #christmas #gifts
December 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM