Kat
@katlikespie.bsky.social
Librarian, artist, lover of books, cats, tea, and trivia. She/her. There's no such thing as a bad pun.
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Los Angeles school worker shares frustration over parents having to leave their children’s graduation ceremony because ICE raided an elementary school’s graduation today
June 7, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Los Angeles school worker shares frustration over parents having to leave their children’s graduation ceremony because ICE raided an elementary school’s graduation today
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We now have the details of the federal 2026 budget proposal, and it spells the end of IMLS. The request is $6,000,000 to "conduct an orderly closeout of IMLS."
Whatever happens in the 2 court cases would be moot if this passes.
bookriot.com/the-2026-fed...
Whatever happens in the 2 court cases would be moot if this passes.
bookriot.com/the-2026-fed...
The 2026 Federal Budget Proposal Shutters The Institute for Museum and Library Services
The details of the 2026 federal budget proposal spell out the goal of shutting down the Institute for Museum and Library services.
bookriot.com
June 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
We now have the details of the federal 2026 budget proposal, and it spells the end of IMLS. The request is $6,000,000 to "conduct an orderly closeout of IMLS."
Whatever happens in the 2 court cases would be moot if this passes.
bookriot.com/the-2026-fed...
Whatever happens in the 2 court cases would be moot if this passes.
bookriot.com/the-2026-fed...
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This basically...
April 24, 2025 at 1:23 AM
This basically...
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Hey Blueksy, if you're looking for magic books and magic school books that *aren't* horribly exclusionary, let me share some fantastic examples with you. #BookSky 💙📚
April 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Hey Blueksy, if you're looking for magic books and magic school books that *aren't* horribly exclusionary, let me share some fantastic examples with you. #BookSky 💙📚
People who live in the next town over who have been saying they’ll defund their library and just use our library are SO MAD to find out that they aren’t allowed to just use other towns’ libraries. IT ISN’T FAIR!
April 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
People who live in the next town over who have been saying they’ll defund their library and just use our library are SO MAD to find out that they aren’t allowed to just use other towns’ libraries. IT ISN’T FAIR!
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Diversity
Equity
Inclusion
live and let live
love and let love
Equity
Inclusion
live and let live
love and let love
April 8, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Diversity
Equity
Inclusion
live and let live
love and let love
Equity
Inclusion
live and let live
love and let love
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April 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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“Protecting” kids without empowering kids is actually just “controlling” kids and if you remember that you will see through a lot of bullshit
April 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
“Protecting” kids without empowering kids is actually just “controlling” kids and if you remember that you will see through a lot of bullshit
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I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
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Email addresses for all IMLS staff were being disabled today. Those with questions or concerns over IMLS funding will no longer be able to reach the individual or individuals with whom they’d been working.
bookriot.com/imls-gutted/
bookriot.com/imls-gutted/
The Institute for Museum and Library Services Was Just Gutted
DOGE fired all IMLS employees and closed down their emails. It is assumed all funding for 2025 coming from the federal agency will not be happening.
bookriot.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Email addresses for all IMLS staff were being disabled today. Those with questions or concerns over IMLS funding will no longer be able to reach the individual or individuals with whom they’d been working.
bookriot.com/imls-gutted/
bookriot.com/imls-gutted/
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Who wants some good news?
The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...
The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...
Eastern Monarch Butterfly Population Nearly Doubles
The population wintering in central Mexico's forests occupied 4.42 acres, up from 2.22 acres during the previous winter.
www.worldwildlife.org
March 18, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Who wants some good news?
The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...
The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...
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In this post Kelly provides great list of easy steps you can take: sign the EveryLibrary petition, call your senators + reps (use 5Calls!). Protect our state libraries, tribal libraries, interlibrary loan, digital equity, vital grants to libraries of all species... 📣 And please spread the word!! 📣
"As nice as it is to support your local library right now,... those steps will not make an impact on fed-level threats like this. Continue to do those things, but know that it is your responsibility as a citizen in a representative democracy to speak up + w/ your fed level legislators right now."
Library Funding Targeted in New Trump Executive Order: What It Means & What To Do Now
What the Executive Order slashing the Institute of Museum and Library Services means, how it will impact you, and what you should do right now to stop the cuts.
bookriot.com
March 17, 2025 at 7:34 PM
In this post Kelly provides great list of easy steps you can take: sign the EveryLibrary petition, call your senators + reps (use 5Calls!). Protect our state libraries, tribal libraries, interlibrary loan, digital equity, vital grants to libraries of all species... 📣 And please spread the word!! 📣
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Corey Doctorow: "Even by Amazon standards, this is extraordinarily sleazy: starting March 28, each Amazon Echo device will cease processing audio on-device and instead upload all the audio it captures to Amazon's cloud for processing, even if you have previously opted out of cloud-based processing"
Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28
Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.
arstechnica.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Corey Doctorow: "Even by Amazon standards, this is extraordinarily sleazy: starting March 28, each Amazon Echo device will cease processing audio on-device and instead upload all the audio it captures to Amazon's cloud for processing, even if you have previously opted out of cloud-based processing"
How long have I been walking around with a googly eye stuck to my leg?
#childrenslibrarian
#childrenslibrarian
March 15, 2025 at 6:20 PM
How long have I been walking around with a googly eye stuck to my leg?
#childrenslibrarian
#childrenslibrarian
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All grad admissions offers rescinded at my institution, UMass Chan Med School. There is just no alternative. It’s a terrible loss for students. But it’s also a loss for all of science. Science *runs* on grad student labor. They get paid pennies to do highly skilled work. Science can’t function w/o
This is my institution. These are the people I work with making these decisions. The situation is heartbreaking. Public medical schools have no other choice; there is no other source of funding, and everyone in academia is at extreme risk right now.
March 12, 2025 at 9:55 PM
All grad admissions offers rescinded at my institution, UMass Chan Med School. There is just no alternative. It’s a terrible loss for students. But it’s also a loss for all of science. Science *runs* on grad student labor. They get paid pennies to do highly skilled work. Science can’t function w/o
#JoannFabrics looks like the grocery store in March 2020.
March 8, 2025 at 1:20 AM
#JoannFabrics looks like the grocery store in March 2020.
My brain is being very mean to me today, so here is my Zeus, who thinks I hung the moon.
February 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
My brain is being very mean to me today, so here is my Zeus, who thinks I hung the moon.
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Oh, no, did the leopards eat your face? How very unfortunate?
They were only supposed to eat their faces? That's just the worst......
Alas, whatever shall we do?
They were only supposed to eat their faces? That's just the worst......
Alas, whatever shall we do?
February 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Oh, no, did the leopards eat your face? How very unfortunate?
They were only supposed to eat their faces? That's just the worst......
Alas, whatever shall we do?
They were only supposed to eat their faces? That's just the worst......
Alas, whatever shall we do?
I decided that all my coworkers need everlasting cupcakes on their birthdays. Naturally, I decided this during the month when half my coworkers have birthdays.
February 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I decided that all my coworkers need everlasting cupcakes on their birthdays. Naturally, I decided this during the month when half my coworkers have birthdays.