Annie the Book
@anniethebook.bsky.social
Academic librarian, velocireader, cat parent.
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Speaking of performative reading, it's a myth that librarians spend all their time at work reading, performatively. They're too busy working.
November 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Speaking of performative reading, it's a myth that librarians spend all their time at work reading, performatively. They're too busy working.
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Will remember this excuse next time I want to cancel a class...
November 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Will remember this excuse next time I want to cancel a class...
TIL about marcas de fuego and now I'm thinking about librarians branding books and releasing them to graze in the pastures.
Whoopie tye yi yo, get along little bookies!
Whoopie tye yi yo, get along little bookies!
for reference, on a 1554 commentary on dioscorides, which definitely spent some time in Stuttgart and has a manuscript waste (+ alum tawed pigskin iirc) binding
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
TIL about marcas de fuego and now I'm thinking about librarians branding books and releasing them to graze in the pastures.
Whoopie tye yi yo, get along little bookies!
Whoopie tye yi yo, get along little bookies!
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tell me you don't miss the language of the 19C
November 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
tell me you don't miss the language of the 19C
Read ALL the books!
November 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Read ALL the books!
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Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
November 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
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I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
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The red of these anemones has really cheered me up on this miserable day in Dublin! From Hieronymus Bock's 16th century herbal, hand-coloured by an early reader.
October 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The red of these anemones has really cheered me up on this miserable day in Dublin! From Hieronymus Bock's 16th century herbal, hand-coloured by an early reader.
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I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
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It ys a such challenging, turbulent, scarye tyme. My greatest wisshe ys that you may fynde sum small moment of peace, delight, mirthe, pleasure, discoverye, connectioun, or fascinacioun that doth make yower day just a litel bettir. Ich wisshe thys for thee wyth all of myne hearte.
November 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
It ys a such challenging, turbulent, scarye tyme. My greatest wisshe ys that you may fynde sum small moment of peace, delight, mirthe, pleasure, discoverye, connectioun, or fascinacioun that doth make yower day just a litel bettir. Ich wisshe thys for thee wyth all of myne hearte.
Last week on the bookish internet: a rare medieval Norwegian book, advice from writers, Don Quixote, praise for librarians, and censorship news.
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Last week on the bookish internet
Sarah Weinman praises librarians in these times. (LitHub) Maria Popova shares advice from famous authors on how to handle criticism. (The Marginalian) Emma Donoghue explains how she uses what she l…
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November 10, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Last week on the bookish internet: a rare medieval Norwegian book, advice from writers, Don Quixote, praise for librarians, and censorship news.
www.abookishtype.com/2025/11/09/l... 💙📚
www.abookishtype.com/2025/11/09/l... 💙📚
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
November 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
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While the bill allows parents, students, and guardians to challenge book removals in state court, it does not allow creators and authors to do so. In its current form, the bill leaves authors unprotected from being discriminated against due to their identity.
The MA Senate will be voting on An Act Regarding Free Expression on Thursday 11/13. This Boston Globe article touts this as a positive development, but while the protections for libraries are welcome, this version of the bill strips all protections from authors. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/08/m...
Republicans have made it easier for book bans across the country. Massachusetts Democrats are looking to curb them here. - The Boston Globe
The Massachusetts Senate will vote Thursday on legislation that would create a set of rules and restrictions for school districts to follow when adding or removing school library materials.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
While the bill allows parents, students, and guardians to challenge book removals in state court, it does not allow creators and authors to do so. In its current form, the bill leaves authors unprotected from being discriminated against due to their identity.
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"Did wommen ruine the worke place"?
November 7, 2025 at 4:20 AM
"Did wommen ruine the worke place"?
QotD, reassurance.
Me: Don't worry! We can put his head back on.
(One of the skeleton models tipped over and fell apart.)
#LibraryLife #LibrarianProblems
Me: Don't worry! We can put his head back on.
(One of the skeleton models tipped over and fell apart.)
#LibraryLife #LibrarianProblems
November 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
QotD, reassurance.
Me: Don't worry! We can put his head back on.
(One of the skeleton models tipped over and fell apart.)
#LibraryLife #LibrarianProblems
Me: Don't worry! We can put his head back on.
(One of the skeleton models tipped over and fell apart.)
#LibraryLife #LibrarianProblems
One of my favorite jokes ever:
What did Watson and Crick discover?
Rosalind Franklin's notebooks
What did Watson and Crick discover?
Rosalind Franklin's notebooks
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
One of my favorite jokes ever:
What did Watson and Crick discover?
Rosalind Franklin's notebooks
What did Watson and Crick discover?
Rosalind Franklin's notebooks
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My mum just said to me "You should be hung like a horse". When I challenged her over saying such a thing, it transpires she thought it was a punishment horses got. Turns out she's been incorrectly using the phrase since the 90s in various settings
November 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
🤣💀
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As always, there's no time like the present to disappear into a mysterious fog and become a reason the old forest north of town is considered haunted.
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
As always, there's no time like the present to disappear into a mysterious fog and become a reason the old forest north of town is considered haunted.
I love seeing people show up for their libraries: www.sltrib.com/news/2025/11...
Plan to defund northern Utah library sparks backlash in packed council meeting
Cache Valley residents packed a council hearing to speak out against a proposal to defund the county library.
www.sltrib.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I love seeing people show up for their libraries: www.sltrib.com/news/2025/11...
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A woman ruined my workplace
By Caravaggio (c. 1602)
By Caravaggio (c. 1602)
November 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
A woman ruined my workplace
By Caravaggio (c. 1602)
By Caravaggio (c. 1602)
Rituals! Doubts! Transcendence! Diana Helmuth becomes a seeker in The Witching Year: www.abookishtype.com/2025/11/06/t...
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The Witching Year, by Diana Helmuth
As COVID lockdowns closed the world down, Diana Helmuth began an experiment. For a year and a day, Helmuth would become a Wiccan. She flirted a bit with neopaganism as a teenager (who didn’t?…
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November 7, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Rituals! Doubts! Transcendence! Diana Helmuth becomes a seeker in The Witching Year: www.abookishtype.com/2025/11/06/t...
#BookReview 💙📚
#BookReview 💙📚
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![Comic. PERSON 1 with white hat: How tall are you? PERSON 2: 5ft 24cm [caption] When switching to metric, make the process easier by doing it in steps.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreifptvo6h6kdpf75j3i443ospzumiii7a3pblah2urjrawmyymh3ga@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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The Rutherford County Library System in Tennessee is temporarily closing two branches in order to remove books from them.
Why? Because the Secretary of State told them to do it, citing laws and Executive Orders that undermine the Constititon.
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Why? Because the Secretary of State told them to do it, citing laws and Executive Orders that undermine the Constititon.
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Rutherford County Library System (TN) Temporarily Shuts Down to Ban Books
Rutherford County Library System announced on social media a surprise shutdown of two libraries. Why? "Reviewing inventory."
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November 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The Rutherford County Library System in Tennessee is temporarily closing two branches in order to remove books from them.
Why? Because the Secretary of State told them to do it, citing laws and Executive Orders that undermine the Constititon.
bookriot.com/rutherford-c...
Why? Because the Secretary of State told them to do it, citing laws and Executive Orders that undermine the Constititon.
bookriot.com/rutherford-c...
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Librarians told 404 Media they are being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books that they need to wade through. AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, academics
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Librarians told 404 Media they are being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books that they need to wade through. AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, academics
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...