Raymonde Chira
@thesaltylibrarian.bsky.social
Also known as Joni by some of you
She/her, they/them
Writer/artist/librarian
WeWillReplaceYou
She/her, they/them
Writer/artist/librarian
WeWillReplaceYou
Take the gun, leave the cannoli, Charlie Brown
And now, Charlie Brown, I give the watch to you.
Ah, you think darkness is your ally, Charlie Brown?
November 24, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Take the gun, leave the cannoli, Charlie Brown
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Every dinosaur "documentary" ever made is narrated exactly like this:
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH: The allosaurus closes in, three tons of razor-sharp teeth and killer muscle, but the biglongasaurus has a secret weapon...
ATTENBOROUGH: Its bigness.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH: The allosaurus closes in, three tons of razor-sharp teeth and killer muscle, but the biglongasaurus has a secret weapon...
ATTENBOROUGH: Its bigness.
August 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Every dinosaur "documentary" ever made is narrated exactly like this:
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH: The allosaurus closes in, three tons of razor-sharp teeth and killer muscle, but the biglongasaurus has a secret weapon...
ATTENBOROUGH: Its bigness.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH: The allosaurus closes in, three tons of razor-sharp teeth and killer muscle, but the biglongasaurus has a secret weapon...
ATTENBOROUGH: Its bigness.
I've been really tryin', baby
Tryin' to hold back this feeling for so long
And if you feel like I feel, baby
Then, c'mon, oh, c'mon, whoa
Tryin' to hold back this feeling for so long
And if you feel like I feel, baby
Then, c'mon, oh, c'mon, whoa
November 23, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I've been really tryin', baby
Tryin' to hold back this feeling for so long
And if you feel like I feel, baby
Then, c'mon, oh, c'mon, whoa
Tryin' to hold back this feeling for so long
And if you feel like I feel, baby
Then, c'mon, oh, c'mon, whoa
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Excellent 10 min video essay from Man about reading for pleasure instead for grindset information extraction www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn-R...
Self-help is dead. It's time to read fiction.
YouTube video by Man Carrying Thing
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Excellent 10 min video essay from Man about reading for pleasure instead for grindset information extraction www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn-R...
I did like this season a lot more, tho I still feel like Hazbin Hotel is an “adult show” aimed at adults who mostly watch children’s shows. It’s Steven Universe or Bluey but the characters do drugs and swear
November 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I did like this season a lot more, tho I still feel like Hazbin Hotel is an “adult show” aimed at adults who mostly watch children’s shows. It’s Steven Universe or Bluey but the characters do drugs and swear
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On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
November 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
Lame: Breaking a magical contract with a loophole or inspired interpretation
Based: Breaking a magical contract with the exact words, often to a hilariously literal degree
Based: Breaking a magical contract with the exact words, often to a hilariously literal degree
November 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Lame: Breaking a magical contract with a loophole or inspired interpretation
Based: Breaking a magical contract with the exact words, often to a hilariously literal degree
Based: Breaking a magical contract with the exact words, often to a hilariously literal degree
Never really got the hype behind Alastor but after last night’s finale, I think I’m a fan now
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Never really got the hype behind Alastor but after last night’s finale, I think I’m a fan now
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The code is not complicated. Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/17/i...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/17/i...
As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.
www.thecity.nyc
November 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
The code is not complicated. Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/17/i...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/17/i...
Really not helping us beat the whole “your elected politicians are secretly our puppets” allegations
November 18, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Really not helping us beat the whole “your elected politicians are secretly our puppets” allegations
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Removing asylum support. Seizing belongings. Deporting entire families, including children.
Labour are not just paving the path to a Reform government. Reform may as well already be in power.
This government has no moral compass — and it should be ashamed of its inhumanity.
Labour are not just paving the path to a Reform government. Reform may as well already be in power.
This government has no moral compass — and it should be ashamed of its inhumanity.
November 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Removing asylum support. Seizing belongings. Deporting entire families, including children.
Labour are not just paving the path to a Reform government. Reform may as well already be in power.
This government has no moral compass — and it should be ashamed of its inhumanity.
Labour are not just paving the path to a Reform government. Reform may as well already be in power.
This government has no moral compass — and it should be ashamed of its inhumanity.
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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Joyce Carol Oates sitting across a desk from Kendrick Lamar:
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
Personally, I will be trying to avoid the notice of Joyce Carol Oates and Kendrick Lamar for the rest of my natural life
I need Joyce Carol Oates to be mean to me online so I can get my life together
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Joyce Carol Oates sitting across a desk from Kendrick Lamar:
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
For the sake of argument, let’s put a debate about the ethics of pirating aside. Here’s the thing about supply & demand: if more people are torrenting something, that creates a higher demand. It has to be sourced from the original sales point, which grows higher with streams
Read another book
Read another book
I’ve seen a few folks go for the “if you simply must watch that new Harry Potter show just pirate it” and sorry. No. Just no. Just don’t watch it. At all. Ever. Break free of it. It’s time. You’ll be ok. I promise. I know it mattered to you as a kid. Find new things, it’s healthier. Just move on.
November 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
For the sake of argument, let’s put a debate about the ethics of pirating aside. Here’s the thing about supply & demand: if more people are torrenting something, that creates a higher demand. It has to be sourced from the original sales point, which grows higher with streams
Read another book
Read another book
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This Día de los Muertos, I honor those who died in ICE custody.
No one is illegal.
Nadie es ilegal.
No one is illegal.
Nadie es ilegal.
November 1, 2025 at 8:49 AM
This Día de los Muertos, I honor those who died in ICE custody.
No one is illegal.
Nadie es ilegal.
No one is illegal.
Nadie es ilegal.
Great, now I have to add penne to my stockpiling list along with estradiol
Trump trade war costs US Italian pasta: “Exporters say import and antidumping duties totaling 107% on their pasta brands will make doing business in America too costly and are preparing to pull out of U.S. stores as soon as January.” Via WSJ
Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves — The Wall Street Journal
Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of tariffs it has levied
apple.news
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Great, now I have to add penne to my stockpiling list along with estradiol
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BROOKLYN WE ARE GOING TO CHUCKS! Join us across from 9 PPW at 8:30 *tonight*
Bring pots and pans, let’s make some noise about Chuck folding (again).
Not another #SchumerSurrender
@indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social
Bring pots and pans, let’s make some noise about Chuck folding (again).
Not another #SchumerSurrender
@indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 12:55 AM
BROOKLYN WE ARE GOING TO CHUCKS! Join us across from 9 PPW at 8:30 *tonight*
Bring pots and pans, let’s make some noise about Chuck folding (again).
Not another #SchumerSurrender
@indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social
Bring pots and pans, let’s make some noise about Chuck folding (again).
Not another #SchumerSurrender
@indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social
I just called Schumer and remained polite the entire time until I couldn’t stop myself from saying “listen to the anger of real people, not the Baileys”
Okay, Ezra is confirming that he's hearing D senators are actually plotting to cave to Trump and end the shutdown WITHOUT any extension of the ACA, just a promise of a vote later down the line.
Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding!
Find them here: reps.fyi
Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding!
Find them here: reps.fyi
yep
November 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I just called Schumer and remained polite the entire time until I couldn’t stop myself from saying “listen to the anger of real people, not the Baileys”
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Casey is spot on here. I accept that some people are fully squeamish of blood and injury on a psychological level, that's fine, but talking about the people who are always like 'oh gore is just cheap and tacky in horror' and they usually mean Hostel, and what they've heard about the Saw movies.
Serious talk, there's some positively incredible movies that are pretty gory, and I think just certain trends in 00s horror gave it a bad reputation. For example, Audition is one of my favourite movies ever! Got to see it on the big screen last year for its 25th anniversary!
November 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Casey is spot on here. I accept that some people are fully squeamish of blood and injury on a psychological level, that's fine, but talking about the people who are always like 'oh gore is just cheap and tacky in horror' and they usually mean Hostel, and what they've heard about the Saw movies.
People who are really into Biblical prophecies and numerology are basically the same as the astrologers they accuse of being Satanists
November 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
People who are really into Biblical prophecies and numerology are basically the same as the astrologers they accuse of being Satanists
I feel like there are a lot of Christians who have more faith in the devil than God, and that explains 80% of modern moral panics. Y’all spend waaaaay more time thinking about the devil than God I swear you’re the real worshippers
November 8, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I feel like there are a lot of Christians who have more faith in the devil than God, and that explains 80% of modern moral panics. Y’all spend waaaaay more time thinking about the devil than God I swear you’re the real worshippers
Thought Bubble is a week away in Yorkshire! I won’t be there, but my friend and collaborator Tony Chao will be selling debut copies of our minicomic “Capital Impact.” This chilling sci-fi fairy tale fuses EC horror w/ cyberpunk manga. Check it along with everything at Tony’s table
November 7, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Thought Bubble is a week away in Yorkshire! I won’t be there, but my friend and collaborator Tony Chao will be selling debut copies of our minicomic “Capital Impact.” This chilling sci-fi fairy tale fuses EC horror w/ cyberpunk manga. Check it along with everything at Tony’s table
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November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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I have been screaming this to the heavens for years and it’s lovely to see more people noticing: BEING safe is a right, FEELING safe is between you and your therapist. And the demand to FEEL safe is constantly weaponized to deprive other people of their real, actual safety.
One thing the NYC mayoral race underscored for me is how easily the phrase "I don't feel safe" can be weaponized. It's an argument I would hesitate ever to use again, even for a good cause. I hope we can all agree that we have the right to BE safe. Maybe we should leave it at that.
November 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I have been screaming this to the heavens for years and it’s lovely to see more people noticing: BEING safe is a right, FEELING safe is between you and your therapist. And the demand to FEEL safe is constantly weaponized to deprive other people of their real, actual safety.