Ian Rodrigues
@ianwrites.bsky.social
Writer of poetry and books for children of all ages. 12x12 and CANSCAIP member. Atheist. Vegan. POC. Trail runner. Leftist. He/Him. 🇨🇦
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Everyone, please read this story. Repost and quote it. And if you know someone who can do something, send it to them. Please. bleedingcool.com/comics/briti...
British Comic Creator R.E. Burke Detained By ICE After Crossing Border
British comic book creator R.E. Burke has been detained by ICE after crossing the border from USA to Canada. Do you know anyone who can help?
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March 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Everyone, please read this story. Repost and quote it. And if you know someone who can do something, send it to them. Please. bleedingcool.com/comics/briti...
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Canadians, please, I would consider it a personal favour if you could send an email along the lines of the one copypasted below (please vary the wording, although not of the quotation).
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January 31, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Canadians, please, I would consider it a personal favour if you could send an email along the lines of the one copypasted below (please vary the wording, although not of the quotation).
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1/4
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YES, THE RUMORS WHICH THE TINY UNDULATING GELATINOUS VARMINTS OOZED INTO THE DARK CREVICES OF YOUR SINUS CAVITY TO SEDUCTIVELY HISS ARE TRUE! WE HAVE PHYSICAL COPIES OF @jeremycshipp.bsky.social'S NEW NOVELLA! YOU MAY PROCURE ONE AT THE SHOP OR ghoulish.rip WHICH YOU MAY THEN SMELL & TOUCH & TASTE!
January 9, 2025 at 12:48 AM
YES, THE RUMORS WHICH THE TINY UNDULATING GELATINOUS VARMINTS OOZED INTO THE DARK CREVICES OF YOUR SINUS CAVITY TO SEDUCTIVELY HISS ARE TRUE! WE HAVE PHYSICAL COPIES OF @jeremycshipp.bsky.social'S NEW NOVELLA! YOU MAY PROCURE ONE AT THE SHOP OR ghoulish.rip WHICH YOU MAY THEN SMELL & TOUCH & TASTE!
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56 small tasks to be proactive against book censorship in 2025. Choose one per week to help ensure that public goods like schools & libraries remain viable democratic institutions & to protect our most vulnerable populations.
Book censorship is about more than books.
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Book censorship is about more than books.
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56 Small Tasks to Be Proactive Against Book Censorship in 2025 and Beyond: Book Censorship News, January 3, 2025
Choose one task each week of 2025 for a year full of anti-book censorship activism and advocacy.
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January 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
56 small tasks to be proactive against book censorship in 2025. Choose one per week to help ensure that public goods like schools & libraries remain viable democratic institutions & to protect our most vulnerable populations.
Book censorship is about more than books.
bookriot.com/56-small-tas...
Book censorship is about more than books.
bookriot.com/56-small-tas...
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Respect to @anntelnaes.bsky.social for quitting the Washington Post due to censorship over her on-point cartoon. More of this from artists and writers, please. Don't obey in advance, especially to the broligarchy.
January 4, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Respect to @anntelnaes.bsky.social for quitting the Washington Post due to censorship over her on-point cartoon. More of this from artists and writers, please. Don't obey in advance, especially to the broligarchy.
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Reading a physical book bought from a local independent store is an act of resistance in 2025. Apple, Meta, and Amazon all desperately need your screen time. Start denying them some of it.
January 4, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Reading a physical book bought from a local independent store is an act of resistance in 2025. Apple, Meta, and Amazon all desperately need your screen time. Start denying them some of it.
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Please share and share again - the demise of twitter definitely stops us getting the word out more. The second #curae literary prize - a special literary award for unpaid carers - has just opened for a second time. thecuraeprize.uk You’ve got until 1/03 to enter!
The Curae Prize
A writing prize - just for writers who are also carers
thecuraeprize.uk
January 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Please share and share again - the demise of twitter definitely stops us getting the word out more. The second #curae literary prize - a special literary award for unpaid carers - has just opened for a second time. thecuraeprize.uk You’ve got until 1/03 to enter!
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“As the politics of anger and fear return to power, I try to find encouragement in what she did.” @julie-phillips.com on Ursula K. Le Guin’s politics and activism.
The Way of Water: On the Quiet Power of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Activism
In the past two months, I’ve found myself thinking back to an essay Ursula K. Le Guin posted on her blog in November 2016. It was one of her last long essays, and she wrote it at a time when she—li…
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January 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
“As the politics of anger and fear return to power, I try to find encouragement in what she did.” @julie-phillips.com on Ursula K. Le Guin’s politics and activism.
Hey everyone, in the spirit of the article below, I’m organizing a kidlit critique group for writers of strange, quirky, weird, or unusual children’s picture books, stories, and poetry. If you’re interested in being a part of it, reply below or DM me. #kidlit #picturebooks #critiquegroup
A great article about there not being enough weird in children’s publishing. Kids love the strange, the unusual, the quirky side of things. #weirdkidlit lithub.com/let-the-kids...
Let the Kids Get Weird: The Adult Problem With Children’s Books
Picture books must hitch a ride on the parent if a child is to get a look-in so the children’s publicity machine is tilted fully at the adults. The frontlist is built around celebrities children ha�...
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January 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Hey everyone, in the spirit of the article below, I’m organizing a kidlit critique group for writers of strange, quirky, weird, or unusual children’s picture books, stories, and poetry. If you’re interested in being a part of it, reply below or DM me. #kidlit #picturebooks #critiquegroup
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It also makes it harder for them to ban books.
December 22, 2024 at 11:58 PM
It also makes it harder for them to ban books.
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BlueSky is trying to monetize so let's show them some numbers:
Reskeet this if you refuse to pay for BlueSky+ until trust & safety decides to prioritize marginalized users.
That's $96 / year of lost revenue for each reskeet...
Reskeet this if you refuse to pay for BlueSky+ until trust & safety decides to prioritize marginalized users.
That's $96 / year of lost revenue for each reskeet...
December 10, 2024 at 5:23 AM
BlueSky is trying to monetize so let's show them some numbers:
Reskeet this if you refuse to pay for BlueSky+ until trust & safety decides to prioritize marginalized users.
That's $96 / year of lost revenue for each reskeet...
Reskeet this if you refuse to pay for BlueSky+ until trust & safety decides to prioritize marginalized users.
That's $96 / year of lost revenue for each reskeet...
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If you love a book, write a nice review. It gives the author encouragement for bad days when they want to take up scorpion petting. - @lianabrooks.bsky.social
#BookSky
#BookSky
December 4, 2024 at 7:55 PM
If you love a book, write a nice review. It gives the author encouragement for bad days when they want to take up scorpion petting. - @lianabrooks.bsky.social
#BookSky
#BookSky
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This article helps make sense of the data: writingcommunity.ca/kidlit-confu...
KIDLIT CONFUSION: Is it harder to sell picture book texts? – WritingCommunity.ca
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December 7, 2024 at 8:06 PM
This article helps make sense of the data: writingcommunity.ca/kidlit-confu...
Smoothie? I’ll take it!
Your TOP GUN fighter tag is the last thing you ate. No more than two words.
GO.
GO.
December 8, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Smoothie? I’ll take it!
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Quick reup for my fave poetry books of this year, as chosen for The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...
The best poetry books of 2024
The joy of house parties, an email to an estate agent, tales from a billionaire’s dolls and more
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December 6, 2024 at 9:51 AM
Quick reup for my fave poetry books of this year, as chosen for The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...
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If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.
December 3, 2024 at 9:02 PM
If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.
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It’s hellebore season! The toxic “Christmas Rose” may be associated with rebirth and the festive period but it’s also linked to the death of Alexander the Great, delirium and slander and cursed, hysterical women wandering the wilds as cows! #FolkloreSunday 🌱
December 1, 2024 at 10:55 AM
It’s hellebore season! The toxic “Christmas Rose” may be associated with rebirth and the festive period but it’s also linked to the death of Alexander the Great, delirium and slander and cursed, hysterical women wandering the wilds as cows! #FolkloreSunday 🌱
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I was sent this map without a source but I thought it was impressive nonetheless. It shows the SeaWorld parking lot in yellow. The green dot is where Orcas spend their lives.
November 30, 2024 at 3:22 PM
I was sent this map without a source but I thought it was impressive nonetheless. It shows the SeaWorld parking lot in yellow. The green dot is where Orcas spend their lives.
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Libraries are offering free health and wellness classes across the US
Libraries are offering free health and wellness classes across the US
Libraries around across the U.S. are helping people get healthier. They offer fitness classes, food pantries, cooking classes, conversations about loneliness and mental health, and even blood pressure...
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November 29, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Libraries are offering free health and wellness classes across the US
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The road to the Handmaid’s Tale world is lined with smiling people telling you to stop overreacting.
November 25, 2024 at 10:16 PM
The road to the Handmaid’s Tale world is lined with smiling people telling you to stop overreacting.
Hi everyone. I’m encouraging everyone who writes, or even just enjoys #kidlit to sign up for @loupiccolo.bsky.social newsletter. An excellent resource!
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Lou Piccolo: Editor, Coach, Author, Poet of Kidlit, YA, and Verse
Lou Piccolo helps ambitious authors and poets of children's and young adult literature increase their creativity and craft.
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November 26, 2024 at 3:11 PM
Hi everyone. I’m encouraging everyone who writes, or even just enjoys #kidlit to sign up for @loupiccolo.bsky.social newsletter. An excellent resource!
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“How’d the world die? A pack of no-talent tech grifters created a digital artbarf machine to spew endless artbarf and each time the machine threw up it drank more water, destroyed more resources. Nobody wanted it but they did it anyway! Eat your roach paste.”
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New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone
A new publisher has claimed it aims to “disrupt” the books industry by publishing 8,000 books in 2025 alone using artificial intelligence.
www.thebookseller.com
November 25, 2024 at 12:16 PM
“How’d the world die? A pack of no-talent tech grifters created a digital artbarf machine to spew endless artbarf and each time the machine threw up it drank more water, destroyed more resources. Nobody wanted it but they did it anyway! Eat your roach paste.”
www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub...
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