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hyuumanatees.bsky.social
Librarian Mama
@hyuumanatees.bsky.social
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Parent. Partner. Librarian. Learning every day. She/her.

Trying to find out where I'm wrong today so I can be right tomorrow. #FaithfullyLGBTQ
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July 25, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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My kids have 2 primary complaints about the card game Yokai Sketch:

1. Duplicate cards, so there's only 4 Yokai pictures in the entire game.

2. Yokai cards don't have the name of the yokai plus a sentence or fun fact on them so they feel like they're not learning anything about yokai as they play.
Cover of the game Yokai Sketch showing 2 Japanese children peeking at a yokai in the background while drawing it.
June 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Wow, Kohl's & Land's End just straight up using fake CGI people as their models.
Weird looking blonde CGI-manufactured lady in a blue outfit with really weird arms & weirder thigh gap looks slightly off-camera.
June 1, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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May 13, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Kid has informed me that they LOVED Superman Smashes The Klan by Gene Luen Yang & Gurihiru but "the pretty art is such Cute Round Style" that they kept forgetting major characters were Chinese which is, uh, a pretty significant plot point.
Two panels showing the Lee family in their car- mom, dad, & two kids. Their eyes are narrower than the Caucasian characters (not shown) but it also seems like a feature of the art style, at least to that reader's all-things-manga reading style. Cover of Superman Smashes The Klan by Gene Luen Yang & Gurihiru. Yellow background with big black text. Superman is hovering in the air at the top left while 2 Chinese kids at the bottom right run towards him.
May 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Want emotional whiplash?
Read one of David Smalls' picture books (as seen on Reading Rainbow) then his disturbing graphic memoir Stitches about his dad giving him cancer & his parents lying to him even when he woke up from massive surgery unable to talk.
Cover of the adorable Imogene's Antlers, showing a cheerful girl smiling as she leans out a window with a massive set of antlers growing out of her head. Reading Rainbow sticker is in one corner. Stitches cover showing creepy adults looming over an unseen figure looking a lot like zombies except for their glowing glasses with the central figure saying "David Small" in a speech bubble. In a smaller picture underneath the title a boy is beating up a pillow.
March 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Jack Gantos won lots of praise & awards for his extremely ADHD Joey Pigza series!

And also his, "I dropped out of college, smuggled drugs, got busted by the FBI, & went to jail" Hole In My Life memoir!

He started the Rotten Ralph cat picture books while in prison.
Cover of Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key with wild colors & an illustration of a boy's mouth leading down to a pink-yellow stomach with a key inside. Cover of Hole in my Life showing Jack Gantos' pretty beatnik-looking mugshot repeated 8 times on a 3x3 grid with one spot left empty.
March 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Wild that people say daytime drag queen storytimes are grooming kids bc their nighttime performances are adults-only when Shel Silverstein wrote "A Boy Named Sue" AND first got known for his writing & cartoons through his work for Playboy.
Shel Silverstein posing for the sexiest children's author photo ever: Sitting down, bald head, short salt & pepper beard, white shirt half unbuttoned, legs in dark pants & widely spread with his knees bent to emphasize his bare feet, hands draped over his knees. Head tilted with a mysterious look.
March 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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How are people battling the epic blisters?
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March 16, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Both answer the "why is chicken bad now?" question but the first is way shorter while the second has great diagrams & more complete explanations.

(Modern chickens are also collapsing under their own weight.)
modernfarmer.com/2014/05/toda...

www.zmescience.com/feature-post...
Screenshot of ZME science article comparing 1957, 1978, & 2005 chickens at birth, day 28, & day 56. The 1957 chicken was 905 grams at day 56 while the 2005 one was 4,202 grams.
March 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Quick intro to Sydette's amazing "Baby has hat" from a talk she did in 2018!
"I learned at the hands of old West Indian church ladies: . . . my fundamental strategy at this point is called "Baby Has Hat." Does baby have hat? If baby does not have hat, we give baby hat. If I cannot give baby hat, I need to figure out why baby doesn't have hat. Do I need to sew the hat? Is the transportation wrong? Is somebody standing in the middle of the doorway between me and giving the baby hat? Sometimes making sure the baby has hat means if you are standing in the doorway and I need to shoulder-tackle you to get you out of the way, that might be part of it, but that's not the focus. . . . My focus is, Are we doing the thing we say we care about?"
February 15, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Wow. Yet another Final Fantasy clothing collab that hates fat people. This time, you can't even get a basic cute tee in anything above XXL!
Why am I not surprised?
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Image of a blonde model wearing a short sleeve black shirt with a super cute chocobo chick bursting out of its shell with an excited expression. Model is wearing high waisted chocobo short shorts as well.
February 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM