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This joyful celebration of books on the lawn of the Sandwich Library made me think of all of you out there fighting the good fight to keep books in the hands of us all.
The outline of a person holding a book over their head is created of colorful lights The person is next to a tree on a lawn that is set off by a short stone wall. Trees in winter guise are across the back
December 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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older.bsky.social
rereading Catfishing on Catnet and it's just so good.
December 4, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Good for you, @statman-jon.bsky.social! sportsmedialgbt.com/jon-mulkeen-...
Covering the World Athletics Championships and coming out as gay in later life - Jon Mulkeen Q&A
Jon Mulkeen has been working in track and field media for nearly 20 years, and is among the LGBTQ editors and journalists out at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo; here, he discusses his...
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September 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Runners and swimmers will always talk about hitting their personal best even if they don’t finish first in a race.
Infuriating for journalists trying to cover a race, but truly a mindset everybody should have.
(Especially weirdo politicians trying to bully kids instead of improving people’s lives!)
alexkirshner.com Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · May 16
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth
May 16, 2025 at 12:27 PM