Balladsandbookends
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Just trying to leave this place better than I found it. Read diversely. Think critically.
CR: The Jasmine Throne
Reading Goal: 5/75
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CR: The Jasmine Throne
Reading Goal: 5/75
Books📚Reading 📖 Makeup 💄 Crafting 🧶 Art🎭
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The way I chronically want to start new books while happily reading others is my fatal flaw
#booksky 📚
#booksky 📚
Was at FSU near the shooting, I don’t have any worlds for how devastated I feel
April 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Was at FSU near the shooting, I don’t have any worlds for how devastated I feel
Working on a presentation for class about Messalina and the importance of evaluating sources of information. Needed some fun so I made a fake gossip magazine cover for my slides based off of the J-14 magazines of yore
#homework
#homework
April 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Working on a presentation for class about Messalina and the importance of evaluating sources of information. Needed some fun so I made a fake gossip magazine cover for my slides based off of the J-14 magazines of yore
#homework
#homework
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When we worry about the declining rates of literacy and a lack of reading skills, it's often about children. But how often are adults reading these days? And what are we reading? A new NPR/Ipsos poll finds out.
Most Americans want to read more books. We just don't.
When we worry about the declining rates of literacy and a lack of reading skills, it's often about children. But how often are adults reading these days? And what are we reading? A new NPR/Ipsos poll ...
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April 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
When we worry about the declining rates of literacy and a lack of reading skills, it's often about children. But how often are adults reading these days? And what are we reading? A new NPR/Ipsos poll finds out.
Wait, so now Americans will suffer “temporary hardship” to “make America great,” but they wouldn’t support temporarily wearing a mask to help reduce the spread of COVID because it “violated our freedom” ? The contradictions just keep piling up.
April 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Wait, so now Americans will suffer “temporary hardship” to “make America great,” but they wouldn’t support temporarily wearing a mask to help reduce the spread of COVID because it “violated our freedom” ? The contradictions just keep piling up.
Yesterday me and my partner spent 30 mins or so laughing about heelys and how heelys were used in the Little Mermaid Musical.
No shade to the musical- I haven’t seen it- just enjoying the fact heelys made it from school hallways to the big stage.
No shade to the musical- I haven’t seen it- just enjoying the fact heelys made it from school hallways to the big stage.
April 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Yesterday me and my partner spent 30 mins or so laughing about heelys and how heelys were used in the Little Mermaid Musical.
No shade to the musical- I haven’t seen it- just enjoying the fact heelys made it from school hallways to the big stage.
No shade to the musical- I haven’t seen it- just enjoying the fact heelys made it from school hallways to the big stage.
What’s horrifying to sit with is that this strategy of telling a big enough lie long enough and repeating it enough until people believe it was a cornerstone for Nazi propaganda, literally. It’s meant to disorient and confuse so people are thrown into survival mode versus allowing critical thinking.
April 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
What’s horrifying to sit with is that this strategy of telling a big enough lie long enough and repeating it enough until people believe it was a cornerstone for Nazi propaganda, literally. It’s meant to disorient and confuse so people are thrown into survival mode versus allowing critical thinking.
I’ve always joked that a man can never out smart me, but they can out dumb me.
They say something so ludicrous and unbelievable that my rational brain reasons with it until it makes sense. And then they actually do the unbelievable thing.
Turns out it’s the president’s modus operandi.
They say something so ludicrous and unbelievable that my rational brain reasons with it until it makes sense. And then they actually do the unbelievable thing.
Turns out it’s the president’s modus operandi.
April 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I’ve always joked that a man can never out smart me, but they can out dumb me.
They say something so ludicrous and unbelievable that my rational brain reasons with it until it makes sense. And then they actually do the unbelievable thing.
Turns out it’s the president’s modus operandi.
They say something so ludicrous and unbelievable that my rational brain reasons with it until it makes sense. And then they actually do the unbelievable thing.
Turns out it’s the president’s modus operandi.
Until last year, I never thought I would excitedly browse the non-fiction section.
Now I get giddy when I see non-fiction sections have sub sections for more precise subject heading categorization.
Do some of them leave me with existential dread? Sure, but I also learn so much!!
#booksky
Now I get giddy when I see non-fiction sections have sub sections for more precise subject heading categorization.
Do some of them leave me with existential dread? Sure, but I also learn so much!!
#booksky
April 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Until last year, I never thought I would excitedly browse the non-fiction section.
Now I get giddy when I see non-fiction sections have sub sections for more precise subject heading categorization.
Do some of them leave me with existential dread? Sure, but I also learn so much!!
#booksky
Now I get giddy when I see non-fiction sections have sub sections for more precise subject heading categorization.
Do some of them leave me with existential dread? Sure, but I also learn so much!!
#booksky
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I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
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March 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
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When researchers cannot engage in legitimate scientific discourse out of fear that the government will strip away their livelihoods, we no longer live in a society that values freedom, truth, or progress.
March 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
When researchers cannot engage in legitimate scientific discourse out of fear that the government will strip away their livelihoods, we no longer live in a society that values freedom, truth, or progress.
If empathy is a sin then I’ll see you in hell 😘
March 31, 2025 at 12:48 AM
If empathy is a sin then I’ll see you in hell 😘
Finished Careless People, and while it did leave me with a sense of dread over the reckless ignorance & arrogance of so many, I am glad it was published.
I hate that a lawsuit is being weaponized against the author,but I am so glad it’s causing so many people to want to read this.
#booksky
I hate that a lawsuit is being weaponized against the author,but I am so glad it’s causing so many people to want to read this.
#booksky
March 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Finished Careless People, and while it did leave me with a sense of dread over the reckless ignorance & arrogance of so many, I am glad it was published.
I hate that a lawsuit is being weaponized against the author,but I am so glad it’s causing so many people to want to read this.
#booksky
I hate that a lawsuit is being weaponized against the author,but I am so glad it’s causing so many people to want to read this.
#booksky
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Early voting is taking place for the special elections in Florida for seats in the U.S. House in the 1st and 6th Congressional Districts.
Election Day is on Tuesday, April 1st.
Get out and vote for Democratic candidates Gay Valimont and Josh Weil!
Election Day is on Tuesday, April 1st.
Get out and vote for Democratic candidates Gay Valimont and Josh Weil!
March 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Early voting is taking place for the special elections in Florida for seats in the U.S. House in the 1st and 6th Congressional Districts.
Election Day is on Tuesday, April 1st.
Get out and vote for Democratic candidates Gay Valimont and Josh Weil!
Election Day is on Tuesday, April 1st.
Get out and vote for Democratic candidates Gay Valimont and Josh Weil!
I’m almost done with Careless People, and I cannot tell you what is more disturbing: hearing the methods the Trump team used to manipulate political advertising on FB during the 2016 campaign or Zuck’s reaction to the shady tactics.
“Careless” is right, also reckless, and insecure .
#booksky
“Careless” is right, also reckless, and insecure .
#booksky
March 28, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I’m almost done with Careless People, and I cannot tell you what is more disturbing: hearing the methods the Trump team used to manipulate political advertising on FB during the 2016 campaign or Zuck’s reaction to the shady tactics.
“Careless” is right, also reckless, and insecure .
#booksky
“Careless” is right, also reckless, and insecure .
#booksky
Reading “What My Bones Know” by Stephanie Foo, and have cried many times.
I was diagnosed with CPTSD in 2020, and since then have felt like I’m at war with myself to just be happy. This book is honest, vulnerable, and powerful. I am so glad this was written.
app.thestorygraph.com/books/c7f722...
I was diagnosed with CPTSD in 2020, and since then have felt like I’m at war with myself to just be happy. This book is honest, vulnerable, and powerful. I am so glad this was written.
app.thestorygraph.com/books/c7f722...
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo
A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating th...
app.thestorygraph.com
March 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Reading “What My Bones Know” by Stephanie Foo, and have cried many times.
I was diagnosed with CPTSD in 2020, and since then have felt like I’m at war with myself to just be happy. This book is honest, vulnerable, and powerful. I am so glad this was written.
app.thestorygraph.com/books/c7f722...
I was diagnosed with CPTSD in 2020, and since then have felt like I’m at war with myself to just be happy. This book is honest, vulnerable, and powerful. I am so glad this was written.
app.thestorygraph.com/books/c7f722...
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Who amongst us has not been an issue for national security in the group chat
March 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Who amongst us has not been an issue for national security in the group chat
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Librarians in Cincinnati got a shock recently when an overdue book was returned 98 years late. "Wild West" by Bertrand W. Sinclair was due back on Nov. 23, 1926.
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This Cincinnati Library book was returned nearly a century after its due date
"Wild West" by Bertrand W. Sinclair was checked out in 1926.
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March 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Librarians in Cincinnati got a shock recently when an overdue book was returned 98 years late. "Wild West" by Bertrand W. Sinclair was due back on Nov. 23, 1926.
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In 2024 the IMLS provided $11,427,660 to Florida, 9 million of which was towards the five year plan to 1) Champion Lifelong Learning, 2)Advance collections access, & 3)Strengthen communities.
Trump’s golfing trips in 2025 alone have likely cost over 18 million.
Waste, abuse, and fraud indeed.
Trump’s golfing trips in 2025 alone have likely cost over 18 million.
Waste, abuse, and fraud indeed.
March 25, 2025 at 1:54 AM
In 2024 the IMLS provided $11,427,660 to Florida, 9 million of which was towards the five year plan to 1) Champion Lifelong Learning, 2)Advance collections access, & 3)Strengthen communities.
Trump’s golfing trips in 2025 alone have likely cost over 18 million.
Waste, abuse, and fraud indeed.
Trump’s golfing trips in 2025 alone have likely cost over 18 million.
Waste, abuse, and fraud indeed.
Reading Careless People feels like finding out there was always a FB Death Star overhead, but it wasn’t part of some elaborate evil galactic takeover.
It arose from the whims of a rich, arrogant, insulated group who are just as likely to blow up the Death Star as the planets below.
#booksky
It arose from the whims of a rich, arrogant, insulated group who are just as likely to blow up the Death Star as the planets below.
#booksky
March 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Reading Careless People feels like finding out there was always a FB Death Star overhead, but it wasn’t part of some elaborate evil galactic takeover.
It arose from the whims of a rich, arrogant, insulated group who are just as likely to blow up the Death Star as the planets below.
#booksky
It arose from the whims of a rich, arrogant, insulated group who are just as likely to blow up the Death Star as the planets below.
#booksky
Now all I can imagine is the Burlesque movie but in Silent Hill
“In my restless dreams, I see that Burlesque”
“In my restless dreams, I see that Burlesque”
Christina Aguilera at the Teen Choice Awards (1999) and Maria from Silent Hill 2 (2001)
March 23, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Now all I can imagine is the Burlesque movie but in Silent Hill
“In my restless dreams, I see that Burlesque”
“In my restless dreams, I see that Burlesque”
As someone who loves libraries & academia, we have got to do better about practicing what we preach.
We should be loud about protesting book bans in school libraries , supporting public libraries, & addressing systemic power imbalances in our workplaces, or we’re complicit.
#librarysky
We should be loud about protesting book bans in school libraries , supporting public libraries, & addressing systemic power imbalances in our workplaces, or we’re complicit.
#librarysky
March 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
As someone who loves libraries & academia, we have got to do better about practicing what we preach.
We should be loud about protesting book bans in school libraries , supporting public libraries, & addressing systemic power imbalances in our workplaces, or we’re complicit.
#librarysky
We should be loud about protesting book bans in school libraries , supporting public libraries, & addressing systemic power imbalances in our workplaces, or we’re complicit.
#librarysky
Was reading an article about the toxic work dynamics at academic libraries, specifically the division between staff and faculty, and the entire article was like “Communicate more!” 😒
Nothing against the paper, just frustrated that we needed an article to address this problem
#libraryschool
Nothing against the paper, just frustrated that we needed an article to address this problem
#libraryschool
March 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Was reading an article about the toxic work dynamics at academic libraries, specifically the division between staff and faculty, and the entire article was like “Communicate more!” 😒
Nothing against the paper, just frustrated that we needed an article to address this problem
#libraryschool
Nothing against the paper, just frustrated that we needed an article to address this problem
#libraryschool
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Two special elections for congressional seats in Florida could change the balance in the House.
Dems have raised a ton of $, but Repubs are still favored to win. Dems need to get EVERY REGISTERED DEM VOTER to the poll & every Republican voter concerned abt social Sec.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
Dems have raised a ton of $, but Repubs are still favored to win. Dems need to get EVERY REGISTERED DEM VOTER to the poll & every Republican voter concerned abt social Sec.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
Democrats raise millions for Florida special elections in Trump territory
Democrats Gay Valimont and Josh Weil raised a combined $15.7 million ahead of their April 1 special elections, but they still face uphill climbs in the ruby-red districts.
www.nbcnews.com
March 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Two special elections for congressional seats in Florida could change the balance in the House.
Dems have raised a ton of $, but Repubs are still favored to win. Dems need to get EVERY REGISTERED DEM VOTER to the poll & every Republican voter concerned abt social Sec.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
Dems have raised a ton of $, but Repubs are still favored to win. Dems need to get EVERY REGISTERED DEM VOTER to the poll & every Republican voter concerned abt social Sec.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
Was rewatching Wicked last night (yes I cry during the ball room scene) and was just like “Damn, wonder what it would be like to have an authoritarian power actively erase history and oppress groups to scapegoat their own incompetence” and then I remembered I’m living in America 🙃
March 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Was rewatching Wicked last night (yes I cry during the ball room scene) and was just like “Damn, wonder what it would be like to have an authoritarian power actively erase history and oppress groups to scapegoat their own incompetence” and then I remembered I’m living in America 🙃