The Black Boots
@theblackboots.bsky.social
Lover of books, coffee shops, and beautiful people. ☕️📚
Also a fan of pool and tattoos. 🎱
Reading (and writing) are magic ✨
Also a fan of pool and tattoos. 🎱
Reading (and writing) are magic ✨
Something special about this one ☕️👻
November 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Something special about this one ☕️👻
Bought some books in memory of 📚🖤
November 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Bought some books in memory of 📚🖤
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The smartest thing a politician can do in 2026 is to come up with a bold plan for shoring up and EXPANDING public libraries. Call it Project 2050. It's a way to reintroduce the grammar of commoning and the commons to a new generation in a way they can easily grasp. Such low hanging fruit.
November 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The smartest thing a politician can do in 2026 is to come up with a bold plan for shoring up and EXPANDING public libraries. Call it Project 2050. It's a way to reintroduce the grammar of commoning and the commons to a new generation in a way they can easily grasp. Such low hanging fruit.
Finished @ryan-holiday.bsky.social last book of his virtue series. I still think Courage Is Calling is my favorite, but this book is unique unto itself and took no small amount of courage to write, IMO. Definitely recommend.
November 6, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Finished @ryan-holiday.bsky.social last book of his virtue series. I still think Courage Is Calling is my favorite, but this book is unique unto itself and took no small amount of courage to write, IMO. Definitely recommend.
Weekend ritual: Go have coffee ☕️ and buy a book 📕
October 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Weekend ritual: Go have coffee ☕️ and buy a book 📕
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You can, in fact, just do stuff. No permission needed. Have an idea? Execute it.
October 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
You can, in fact, just do stuff. No permission needed. Have an idea? Execute it.
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Remember, chasing your dreams is a radical act. Writing books and making art are expressions of optimism and faith in human nature. Conceiving of better worlds makes them possible.
October 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Remember, chasing your dreams is a radical act. Writing books and making art are expressions of optimism and faith in human nature. Conceiving of better worlds makes them possible.
Read @naominovik.bsky.social The Summer War over the weekend. A great story of fantasy and family with a heart warming ending. It was a pleasant distraction from the noise going on out in the world right now. And I love the cover - a shoutout to the designer.
October 2, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Read @naominovik.bsky.social The Summer War over the weekend. A great story of fantasy and family with a heart warming ending. It was a pleasant distraction from the noise going on out in the world right now. And I love the cover - a shoutout to the designer.
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A handful of angry Seattleites can stall the construction of affordable housing for YEARS but SDOT can decide to wipe out a bus-only lane in secret, seemingly overnight?
I was just as shocked with the news about the route 2 bus only lane as you. We are working on it. We need to prioritize pedestrian safety and not go backwards on our transit investments.
October 2, 2025 at 12:09 AM
A handful of angry Seattleites can stall the construction of affordable housing for YEARS but SDOT can decide to wipe out a bus-only lane in secret, seemingly overnight?
I am feeling this 😿
October 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I am feeling this 😿
Also got this at Elliott Bay Book Company earlier this weekend
September 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Also got this at Elliott Bay Book Company earlier this weekend
Went to Pike Place Market and bought a couple classics.
September 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Went to Pike Place Market and bought a couple classics.
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Someone posted this and I saved it because it’s cool
September 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Someone posted this and I saved it because it’s cool
I am reading this - slowly but surely 🤓. The history and players are wild, it’s as close as you are going to get to actually being there.
Reminder: I will also be teaching a class on oral history for @shipmanagency.bsky.social
Sign up and learn everything I wish I had known before I started my own book!
Oral histories look deceptively simple but it's not copy-and-paste.
www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/craf...
Sign up and learn everything I wish I had known before I started my own book!
Oral histories look deceptively simple but it's not copy-and-paste.
www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/craf...
Craft Seminar: The Art of Narrative Oral History with Tricia Romano — The Shipman Agency
2 Sessions: Saturday + Sunday, October 18 + 19 1:00-3:00pm ET Tricia Romano Tricia Romano is the author of the acclaimed oral history, The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of t...
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September 22, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I am reading this - slowly but surely 🤓. The history and players are wild, it’s as close as you are going to get to actually being there.
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Sesame Street will be putting a huge collection of episodes on YouTube starting in January 2026
This is a fantastic way to educate children
It’s a form of resistance.
Shows like Sesame Street teach love, tolerance, acceptance & more.
These lessons are crucial for the long fight ahead.
This is a fantastic way to educate children
It’s a form of resistance.
Shows like Sesame Street teach love, tolerance, acceptance & more.
These lessons are crucial for the long fight ahead.
September 5, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Sesame Street will be putting a huge collection of episodes on YouTube starting in January 2026
This is a fantastic way to educate children
It’s a form of resistance.
Shows like Sesame Street teach love, tolerance, acceptance & more.
These lessons are crucial for the long fight ahead.
This is a fantastic way to educate children
It’s a form of resistance.
Shows like Sesame Street teach love, tolerance, acceptance & more.
These lessons are crucial for the long fight ahead.
Random signs from the Alphabet district of Portland.
September 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Random signs from the Alphabet district of Portland.
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"The fascists want us depleted, numb, and cynical." - I keep this top of mind daily and I actively refuse.
August 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
"The fascists want us depleted, numb, and cynical." - I keep this top of mind daily and I actively refuse.
Bats scare the crap out of me, but I like the sentiment 🦇
August 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Bats scare the crap out of me, but I like the sentiment 🦇
And there it is. People could just try being grateful for the work he already has done and contributed to.
My hot take is that if GRRM doesn’t want to finish his books he shouldn’t. And nobody else should “finish them for him”. What the fuck.
August 23, 2025 at 3:59 AM
And there it is. People could just try being grateful for the work he already has done and contributed to.
Just part of the Snoopy magic 🪄
August 20, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Just part of the Snoopy magic 🪄
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August 14, 2025 at 1:59 AM
🖤
August 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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I wrote this book so people will have receipts showing US homelessness policy is inhumane and also Ronald Regan's fault, and to make people give a shit about homeless kids while seeing the hope, community, and fire with which we survive, despite all this
linktr.ee/nowordforwater
linktr.ee/nowordforwater
August 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I wrote this book so people will have receipts showing US homelessness policy is inhumane and also Ronald Regan's fault, and to make people give a shit about homeless kids while seeing the hope, community, and fire with which we survive, despite all this
linktr.ee/nowordforwater
linktr.ee/nowordforwater
Was reminded by @jseattle.bsky.social post on the CHS blog that there was a new bookstore on 15th. Haunted Burrow Books has a good selection of the dark and spooky - worth checking out.
August 10, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Was reminded by @jseattle.bsky.social post on the CHS blog that there was a new bookstore on 15th. Haunted Burrow Books has a good selection of the dark and spooky - worth checking out.