Katy C
@kc-outloud.bsky.social
Reader of words, writer of code, knitter of string, drinker of tea
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In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
January 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
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Library workers are burned out, and they're clear on what's creating some of the worst mental health conditions both inside and outside the library.
Here's what they had to say, as well as ways and means by which library worker mental health can be improved. This is a call to action.
Here's what they had to say, as well as ways and means by which library worker mental health can be improved. This is a call to action.
Last summer, I surveyed library workers about the ways library work impacts their mental health, and they responded.
“Pizza Parties Don’t Fix Burnout”: The State of Librarian Mental Health:
bookriot.com/the-state-of...
“Pizza Parties Don’t Fix Burnout”: The State of Librarian Mental Health:
bookriot.com/the-state-of...
"Pizza Parties Don't Fix Burnout": The State of Librarian Mental Health
Library workers are feeling increased pressures to be everything to everyone, and the impact on their mental health matters.
bookriot.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Library workers are burned out, and they're clear on what's creating some of the worst mental health conditions both inside and outside the library.
Here's what they had to say, as well as ways and means by which library worker mental health can be improved. This is a call to action.
Here's what they had to say, as well as ways and means by which library worker mental health can be improved. This is a call to action.
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god forbid a girl be both whimsical and full of rage
January 15, 2026 at 9:39 PM
god forbid a girl be both whimsical and full of rage
Keeping my cool during terrible times by spinning wool into string.
You can do a lot with string.
You can do a lot with string.
January 11, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Keeping my cool during terrible times by spinning wool into string.
You can do a lot with string.
You can do a lot with string.
Well holy forking shirt balls, turns out spinning some Fancy-Ass™️ fiber is in fact as decadent as I’d rolled my eyes imagining???
December 12, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Well holy forking shirt balls, turns out spinning some Fancy-Ass™️ fiber is in fact as decadent as I’d rolled my eyes imagining???
I don’t want to post, I don’t have anything insightful to add to what better people are already saying about The Fucking Terrible Things happening, but
Inspired by @lyz.bsky.social, I chose a “classic” book for my next read, and goddamn I am popcorn.gif for each next chapter of “Vilette” already.
Inspired by @lyz.bsky.social, I chose a “classic” book for my next read, and goddamn I am popcorn.gif for each next chapter of “Vilette” already.
December 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
I don’t want to post, I don’t have anything insightful to add to what better people are already saying about The Fucking Terrible Things happening, but
Inspired by @lyz.bsky.social, I chose a “classic” book for my next read, and goddamn I am popcorn.gif for each next chapter of “Vilette” already.
Inspired by @lyz.bsky.social, I chose a “classic” book for my next read, and goddamn I am popcorn.gif for each next chapter of “Vilette” already.
Facts.
Only evil assholes mess with libraries and librarians.
December 4, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Facts.
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Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
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No email from a library system stirs the imagination like a notice my scan is ready to download through WORLDCAT. The great cat that surrounds the world? That nuzzles the roots of the world-scratching-tree? The great world cat who is and was and shall be? That cat???
November 25, 2025 at 8:19 AM
No email from a library system stirs the imagination like a notice my scan is ready to download through WORLDCAT. The great cat that surrounds the world? That nuzzles the roots of the world-scratching-tree? The great world cat who is and was and shall be? That cat???
Having breakfast with relatives from tiny rural towns before a funeral, and they’re talking about how their communities come together to fundraiser for people in need. They just need help seeing past the propaganda.
Here is my argument that the pundits are wrong. You absolutely can run a socialist in middle America and win. www.patreon.com/posts/143343...
You can run a Mamdani in Iowa and win | Men Yell at Me by Lyz Lenz
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November 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Having breakfast with relatives from tiny rural towns before a funeral, and they’re talking about how their communities come together to fundraiser for people in need. They just need help seeing past the propaganda.
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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all these people protesting today in groups of a few dozen on the main streets of small towns in deep red Trump country - where they will absolutely take shit from their neighbors about it at church tomorrow or at work on Monday or next time they go to the grocery store - are braver than the Marines
October 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
all these people protesting today in groups of a few dozen on the main streets of small towns in deep red Trump country - where they will absolutely take shit from their neighbors about it at church tomorrow or at work on Monday or next time they go to the grocery store - are braver than the Marines
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#NoKingsBozeman
10,000+ people is what the Bozeman PD told us
Thousands more at 30+ locations around Montana!
Thank you all for making today so joyful, boisterous, and FUN 💙
10,000+ people is what the Bozeman PD told us
Thousands more at 30+ locations around Montana!
Thank you all for making today so joyful, boisterous, and FUN 💙
October 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
#NoKingsBozeman
10,000+ people is what the Bozeman PD told us
Thousands more at 30+ locations around Montana!
Thank you all for making today so joyful, boisterous, and FUN 💙
10,000+ people is what the Bozeman PD told us
Thousands more at 30+ locations around Montana!
Thank you all for making today so joyful, boisterous, and FUN 💙
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Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful
October 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful
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notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?
anyway that’s why these events are important
anyway that’s why these events are important
October 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?
anyway that’s why these events are important
anyway that’s why these events are important
I haven’t been able to maintain focus on any single book recently. Hopping around several without gaining traction is a lot like trying to watch TV with my mother in the late 90s. In retrospect neither of us should have been surprised by our brain diagnoses (decades later).
September 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I haven’t been able to maintain focus on any single book recently. Hopping around several without gaining traction is a lot like trying to watch TV with my mother in the late 90s. In retrospect neither of us should have been surprised by our brain diagnoses (decades later).
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Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.
September 15, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.
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OH: if vaccines caused autism, we’d have way more trains in the United States
September 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
OH: if vaccines caused autism, we’d have way more trains in the United States
Spent way more time than I usually allot on social media the last 24 hours. Now not only am I disappointed, my anxiety has spiked, reminding me why I only allot 20 minutes or less to this stuff.
August 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Spent way more time than I usually allot on social media the last 24 hours. Now not only am I disappointed, my anxiety has spiked, reminding me why I only allot 20 minutes or less to this stuff.
J and I had a bookstore date yesterday and I picked up @tkingfisher.com ‘s “The Twisted Ones” - haven’t been able to put it down since. I love the narrator’s voice, the book-in-a-book-in-a-book framing, and of course Bongo the dog.
August 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
J and I had a bookstore date yesterday and I picked up @tkingfisher.com ‘s “The Twisted Ones” - haven’t been able to put it down since. I love the narrator’s voice, the book-in-a-book-in-a-book framing, and of course Bongo the dog.
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me: "do this task, it will take like 3 minutes"
my ADHD: "but what if ... anything BUT that, for hours? Possibly DAYS?"
my ADHD: "but what if ... anything BUT that, for hours? Possibly DAYS?"
July 17, 2025 at 3:06 AM
me: "do this task, it will take like 3 minutes"
my ADHD: "but what if ... anything BUT that, for hours? Possibly DAYS?"
my ADHD: "but what if ... anything BUT that, for hours? Possibly DAYS?"
Jade to me: I’m not celebrating the holiday. I’m celebrating that you and I can take care of each other.
Me: …and our asshole cats?
Jade: Well obviously.
Me: …and our asshole cats?
Jade: Well obviously.
July 4, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Jade to me: I’m not celebrating the holiday. I’m celebrating that you and I can take care of each other.
Me: …and our asshole cats?
Jade: Well obviously.
Me: …and our asshole cats?
Jade: Well obviously.
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I am going to hold this ethos close amidst all the horror in the world right now.
Save every human being.
Fight for every single person that you can.
AND it's all of us or none of us, truly. We must continue to fight back in all the ways that we can.
AND literally: Save every single person that you can.
There is no buffer time. It's now
Fight for every single person that you can.
AND it's all of us or none of us, truly. We must continue to fight back in all the ways that we can.
AND literally: Save every single person that you can.
There is no buffer time. It's now
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I am going to hold this ethos close amidst all the horror in the world right now.