Carrie
@ckausch.bsky.social
Dog-crazy reader, HS librarian, Washington Nationals fan, HSI member, David Gray devotee, Josh Jackson enthusiast, ❤️⛈️, 2020 Morris award committee, she|her
I tried a pumpkin spice chardonnay today. I don't ever need that again. #pumpkinspice
August 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I tried a pumpkin spice chardonnay today. I don't ever need that again. #pumpkinspice
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This isn’t bad luck or coincidence or predestination.
This is our choice. To live in a nation where our leaders teach hate, and military style guns are everywhere.
This is our choice. To live in a nation where our leaders teach hate, and military style guns are everywhere.
August 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This isn’t bad luck or coincidence or predestination.
This is our choice. To live in a nation where our leaders teach hate, and military style guns are everywhere.
This is our choice. To live in a nation where our leaders teach hate, and military style guns are everywhere.
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“Children’s books have an artistic and moral obligation to show children as they are, and not what adults want them to be”: National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Mac Barnett (l.), giving a talk in the Library of Congress booth #ALAAC25
June 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
“Children’s books have an artistic and moral obligation to show children as they are, and not what adults want them to be”: National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Mac Barnett (l.), giving a talk in the Library of Congress booth #ALAAC25
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Great insights into your work, Angeline Boulley! Great programming @aaslpres.bsky.social! #ALAAC25
June 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Great insights into your work, Angeline Boulley! Great programming @aaslpres.bsky.social! #ALAAC25
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“Diversity is just having options.” #DrCarlaHayden at #ALAAC25 in conversation with award winning author #KwameAlexander! @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social 2025
June 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
“Diversity is just having options.” #DrCarlaHayden at #ALAAC25 in conversation with award winning author #KwameAlexander! @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social 2025
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"We need to be the place where people find books that they didn't know about."
Where do we put displays?
- central walkways
- any flat surface
- move things around in your library: put a/v with books and books with a/v
- easels
- book trucks
- bring book displays into storytimes
#alaac25
Where do we put displays?
- central walkways
- any flat surface
- move things around in your library: put a/v with books and books with a/v
- easels
- book trucks
- bring book displays into storytimes
#alaac25
June 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
"We need to be the place where people find books that they didn't know about."
Where do we put displays?
- central walkways
- any flat surface
- move things around in your library: put a/v with books and books with a/v
- easels
- book trucks
- bring book displays into storytimes
#alaac25
Where do we put displays?
- central walkways
- any flat surface
- move things around in your library: put a/v with books and books with a/v
- easels
- book trucks
- bring book displays into storytimes
#alaac25
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Suggestion to keep track of items of concern (*cough JKR*) so you can keep an eye on those circulations and get rid of them when they fall out of popularity. Beyond the "why" is belonging - how does what you're doing foster a sense of belonging in your library? #alaac25
June 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Suggestion to keep track of items of concern (*cough JKR*) so you can keep an eye on those circulations and get rid of them when they fall out of popularity. Beyond the "why" is belonging - how does what you're doing foster a sense of belonging in your library? #alaac25
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Dr. Hayden responding to Alexander asking what we can do to resist: "The first thing is to keep doing what you're doing..."
June 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Dr. Hayden responding to Alexander asking what we can do to resist: "The first thing is to keep doing what you're doing..."
Hey #alaac25 #ala2025 attendees: put your badge on when you enter the CC. I've seen at least 4 yt women be dismissive, snide, or short when the employees (who were all Black women) asked them about their unworn badge. ALA communicated repeatedly that security would be tighter than usual.
June 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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The negative space left behind by weaponized defunding is hard to see sometimes; thanks for reminding us what normal was and is in American libraries #alaac25
June 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The negative space left behind by weaponized defunding is hard to see sometimes; thanks for reminding us what normal was and is in American libraries #alaac25
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Q: what have you changed your mind about re: leadership?
Whitmer: Apologies being seen as weakness when I believe it's a strength. People double down instead of acknowledging they're wrong & that lesson does us a disservice #ALAAC25
Whitmer: Apologies being seen as weakness when I believe it's a strength. People double down instead of acknowledging they're wrong & that lesson does us a disservice #ALAAC25
June 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Q: what have you changed your mind about re: leadership?
Whitmer: Apologies being seen as weakness when I believe it's a strength. People double down instead of acknowledging they're wrong & that lesson does us a disservice #ALAAC25
Whitmer: Apologies being seen as weakness when I believe it's a strength. People double down instead of acknowledging they're wrong & that lesson does us a disservice #ALAAC25
Anyone on Bluesky who has been through the ISTE certification process? I'm a little over a month in and would love tips or feedback! #ISTEcert
May 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Anyone on Bluesky who has been through the ISTE certification process? I'm a little over a month in and would love tips or feedback! #ISTEcert
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Seeing all these feckless Democrats in Congress flailing and asking "what do you want me to do" and I keep thinking: bare minimum, I want you to have the energy of a 76-year-old John Lewis staging a sit-in on the floor of Congress in opposition to the inaction on gun violence after Pulse. MINIMUM.
January 29, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Seeing all these feckless Democrats in Congress flailing and asking "what do you want me to do" and I keep thinking: bare minimum, I want you to have the energy of a 76-year-old John Lewis staging a sit-in on the floor of Congress in opposition to the inaction on gun violence after Pulse. MINIMUM.
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if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools
January 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools
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Not all heroes wear capes.
![Witness said a bus driver told an ICE agent to "gargle [his] balls" when the latter requested to enter the bus.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jky6uuetr73nlbaml6ytlzbi/bafkreibjh2gbp75z5bojibdoefdpfdwlclxwspai2i7qfjotajpraru3zm@jpeg)
January 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Not all heroes wear capes.
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January 3, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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If a Tesla Cybertruck exploding at the entrance of trump International Hotel in Las Vegas this morning isn’t some sort of sign or foreshadowing of what we can expect in the near future, I don’t know what is.
January 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
If a Tesla Cybertruck exploding at the entrance of trump International Hotel in Las Vegas this morning isn’t some sort of sign or foreshadowing of what we can expect in the near future, I don’t know what is.
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if even your mom thinks you’re an abusive piece of shit maybe it’s time to go live in a bunker www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/u...
November 30, 2024 at 4:21 AM
if even your mom thinks you’re an abusive piece of shit maybe it’s time to go live in a bunker www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/u...
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So the GOP is just currently covering up potential sex crimes against children by one of their members and instead of releasing the report, they are trying to make that person the Attorney General of the United States? Do we have that right?
November 15, 2024 at 5:17 PM
So the GOP is just currently covering up potential sex crimes against children by one of their members and instead of releasing the report, they are trying to make that person the Attorney General of the United States? Do we have that right?
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I had to look it up to be sure. Both the Unabomber and Timothy McVeigh are dead and will not be named ATF head.
November 15, 2024 at 6:18 PM
I had to look it up to be sure. Both the Unabomber and Timothy McVeigh are dead and will not be named ATF head.