Claire S.
@readerpants.bsky.social
Have you high-fived your neighborhood butchy youth services librarian today? PNW, she/her.
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Congratulations!
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November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Congratulations!
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Seattle, if you want Wilson to win, here's a great chance to help her out!
Check the status of your ballot and sign up to help cure ballots at the link in our bio! #thisisyourcity
November 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Seattle, if you want Wilson to win, here's a great chance to help her out!
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I just heard someone use the phrasing “mental and MORAL health” and wow, I’m going to start using that too. I want to take care of and improve my moral health.
September 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I just heard someone use the phrasing “mental and MORAL health” and wow, I’m going to start using that too. I want to take care of and improve my moral health.
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"Civility" is always about tone and NEVER about content. Advocating for the extermination or oppression of entire groups of people is considered perfectly civil now, as long as you're "nice" about it, while angrily pointing out that gov't is actively killing and harming people is "uncivil."
September 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Political violence is abhorrent. I have not celebrated Kirk's death.
But Newsom calling for his followers to "continue Charlie Kirk's work," someone who praised stoning gay people as "god's perfect law," who called for men to "take care of" trans people like they did in the 50s and 60s, is not it.
But Newsom calling for his followers to "continue Charlie Kirk's work," someone who praised stoning gay people as "god's perfect law," who called for men to "take care of" trans people like they did in the 50s and 60s, is not it.
September 11, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Political violence is abhorrent. I have not celebrated Kirk's death.
But Newsom calling for his followers to "continue Charlie Kirk's work," someone who praised stoning gay people as "god's perfect law," who called for men to "take care of" trans people like they did in the 50s and 60s, is not it.
But Newsom calling for his followers to "continue Charlie Kirk's work," someone who praised stoning gay people as "god's perfect law," who called for men to "take care of" trans people like they did in the 50s and 60s, is not it.
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The thing is, I’m pretty sure these all majority black cities and I’m worried that Trump will eventually try to occupy them too at some point. The fact that they are in Republican-controlled states isn’t a gotcha so much as evidence of how they’ve been maligned by their state governments.
“The four cities of populations larger than 100,000 with the highest murder rates in 2024 are in Republican states: Jackson, Mississippi (78.7 per 100,000 residents), Birmingham, Alabama (58.8), St Louis, Missouri (54.1) and Memphis, Tennessee (40.6).”
September 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The thing is, I’m pretty sure these all majority black cities and I’m worried that Trump will eventually try to occupy them too at some point. The fact that they are in Republican-controlled states isn’t a gotcha so much as evidence of how they’ve been maligned by their state governments.
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When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.
September 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.
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More than 300k Black women being pushed out of the labor market while white men gained 365k more jobs is what we mean when we refer to racism as systemic.
September 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
More than 300k Black women being pushed out of the labor market while white men gained 365k more jobs is what we mean when we refer to racism as systemic.
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"Pumpkin Spice Raktajino" is even more Federation-coded than Quark's entire Root Beer speech
Unbelievable that Starfleet has replicators and people use it for boring stuff like "earl grey tea (hot)" or "scrambled eggs."
Show some backbone! Get weird with it! I want to see tribble burritos. Blood wine sangria. Steak and Romulan ale pie. Pumpkin spice raktajinos.
Show some backbone! Get weird with it! I want to see tribble burritos. Blood wine sangria. Steak and Romulan ale pie. Pumpkin spice raktajinos.
September 1, 2025 at 8:45 PM
"Pumpkin Spice Raktajino" is even more Federation-coded than Quark's entire Root Beer speech
👇👇 THIS 👇👇 the absolute worst offenders for being inconsiderate wrt noise and space in the library, and fully ignoring reminders or requests? White dads on weekends. As if their extremely loud parenting presence were a flag they were waving. (#notalldadsorwhatever but dramatically noticeable.)
I can’t stand the “but teens are so loud and rowdy” opinions. Adult whites are easily the most unruly and rowdy people on earth. Teens are a delight compared to any white adult sports fan or overly confident white woman approaching a woman of color outside brunch.
You know who desperately needs third spaces. Teenagers.
September 1, 2025 at 6:55 AM
👇👇 THIS 👇👇 the absolute worst offenders for being inconsiderate wrt noise and space in the library, and fully ignoring reminders or requests? White dads on weekends. As if their extremely loud parenting presence were a flag they were waving. (#notalldadsorwhatever but dramatically noticeable.)
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The thing the mainstream media is not remembering about Hurricane Katrina is their own lethal, racist contribution to treating rumors as facts used to demonize the stranded in New Orleans, turning them from victims to be aided to enemies to be contained.
“An unsettling Mad Max vibe coursed through the city. Pickup trucks with armed men of unclear authority cruised around ..
“.. I headed back to Union Street. That body could not possibly still be there. This was the United States. We collect our dead.
“Still there.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/i...
“.. I headed back to Union Street. That body could not possibly still be there. This was the United States. We collect our dead.
“Still there.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/i...
August 31, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The thing the mainstream media is not remembering about Hurricane Katrina is their own lethal, racist contribution to treating rumors as facts used to demonize the stranded in New Orleans, turning them from victims to be aided to enemies to be contained.
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that NEA "we cancelled the creative writing fellowships program because we prioritize fostering AI competency" letter is a really good example of a genre of what we might call found horror
August 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
that NEA "we cancelled the creative writing fellowships program because we prioritize fostering AI competency" letter is a really good example of a genre of what we might call found horror
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The only prayer that matters when it comes to the regular and repeated murder of American children while they are at school is the kind of prayer that is taking action, the kind of prayer that materially fights for the living, the kind of prayer that says "never again" and means it, from MN to Gaza.
August 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The only prayer that matters when it comes to the regular and repeated murder of American children while they are at school is the kind of prayer that is taking action, the kind of prayer that materially fights for the living, the kind of prayer that says "never again" and means it, from MN to Gaza.
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Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky
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August 24, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
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This is a treasure trove of fantastic romance recs.
It’s a Friday, let’s play — anyone need a romance rec? Tell me what kind, see what we can find!
August 23, 2025 at 5:32 AM
This is a treasure trove of fantastic romance recs.
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Love how, for the New York Times, using LLMs is just this value-neutral thing that everyone will eventually do, but being transgender makes you too biased to write about anything ever
July 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Love how, for the New York Times, using LLMs is just this value-neutral thing that everyone will eventually do, but being transgender makes you too biased to write about anything ever
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The Senate has now shown support for maintaining federal library funding in next year's budget! Now it's time to tell the House to #FundLibraries.
Tell your House Rep to Show Up #ForOurLibraries!
Take action 👉 bit.ly/House4Libraries
Tell your House Rep to Show Up #ForOurLibraries!
Take action 👉 bit.ly/House4Libraries
August 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The Senate has now shown support for maintaining federal library funding in next year's budget! Now it's time to tell the House to #FundLibraries.
Tell your House Rep to Show Up #ForOurLibraries!
Take action 👉 bit.ly/House4Libraries
Tell your House Rep to Show Up #ForOurLibraries!
Take action 👉 bit.ly/House4Libraries
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In 1977, Disabled activists occupied the Federal Building in San Francisco to demand the passage of Section 504— legislation to protect against disability discrimination.When the building was cordoned off, in an effort to starve activists out, The Black Panthers *Broke In* to deliver them hot meals.
The 504 Protests and the Black Panther Party – Disability Social History Project
disabilityhistory.org
August 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In 1977, Disabled activists occupied the Federal Building in San Francisco to demand the passage of Section 504— legislation to protect against disability discrimination.When the building was cordoned off, in an effort to starve activists out, The Black Panthers *Broke In* to deliver them hot meals.
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Hey #BookSky!!!
One of my favorite children’s book writers is opening a new bookstore on the southside of Atlanta and could use your help getting it off the ground. Pleeeeeeeeeeeaaaaasssse donate. Yes $5 is enough!!
We need more Black women-owned bookstores.
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gofund.me/60b14fa8
One of my favorite children’s book writers is opening a new bookstore on the southside of Atlanta and could use your help getting it off the ground. Pleeeeeeeeeeeaaaaasssse donate. Yes $5 is enough!!
We need more Black women-owned bookstores.
🌝🌚
📚💙
gofund.me/60b14fa8
Donate to Impossible Moon Bookshop! #HopefulInHapeville, organized by Breanna McDaniel
Hi, I'm Breanna J. McDaniel a born and raised Atlantan from t… Breanna McDaniel needs your support for Donate to Impossible Moon Bookshop! #HopefulInHapeville
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August 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Hey #BookSky!!!
One of my favorite children’s book writers is opening a new bookstore on the southside of Atlanta and could use your help getting it off the ground. Pleeeeeeeeeeeaaaaasssse donate. Yes $5 is enough!!
We need more Black women-owned bookstores.
🌝🌚
📚💙
gofund.me/60b14fa8
One of my favorite children’s book writers is opening a new bookstore on the southside of Atlanta and could use your help getting it off the ground. Pleeeeeeeeeeeaaaaasssse donate. Yes $5 is enough!!
We need more Black women-owned bookstores.
🌝🌚
📚💙
gofund.me/60b14fa8
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May she meet her shadow.
May the Devil and all his minions chase JK Rowling so far over the pits and plains of Hell, that the Good Lord cannot find her, not even with a telescope.
"what were Jessie's exact words" is a totally reasonable good-faith question and I guess I should have clarified that I was not paraphrasing
"wish ill" was literally the wording!
they have added "wishing harm upon a person or group" to their list but like . . . context matters . . .
"wish ill" was literally the wording!
they have added "wishing harm upon a person or group" to their list but like . . . context matters . . .
August 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
May she meet her shadow.
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I hope Rowling stubs her toe every day for the rest of her life
it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people
reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
August 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I hope Rowling stubs her toe every day for the rest of her life
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This is the crux of racism, lmao. White people get to be autonomous and individual, while everyone else MUST be aligned with every single measure their government takes. *looks directly at camera*
I want to support Zohran Mamdani. But he needs to stop supporting Uganda. - buff.ly/ngF8CJs
August 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This is the crux of racism, lmao. White people get to be autonomous and individual, while everyone else MUST be aligned with every single measure their government takes. *looks directly at camera*
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The recs and commentary from @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social on this panel are so A++, I'm adding the DWJ podcast to my list immediately! (Lady Eve's Last Con was a delight, I don't know why I didn't do this earlier.)
August 16, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The recs and commentary from @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social on this panel are so A++, I'm adding the DWJ podcast to my list immediately! (Lady Eve's Last Con was a delight, I don't know why I didn't do this earlier.)