Leigh Russell King
@lfrk.bsky.social
School librarian and book reviewer for ysbookreviews.wordpress.com.
Busy mom of 3 humans and 1 dog. Worcester girl with Maine aspirations.
Busy mom of 3 humans and 1 dog. Worcester girl with Maine aspirations.
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Who's ready for an opportunity so good it's 👻scary? 👻
#teachersky and #librarians!
What: FREE virtual class visit with 3 middle grade authors!!
How: Follow & repost to enter
When: Ends Wed 10/8
Where: US/CAN
🎃Good luck!🎃
#teachersky and #librarians!
What: FREE virtual class visit with 3 middle grade authors!!
How: Follow & repost to enter
When: Ends Wed 10/8
Where: US/CAN
🎃Good luck!🎃
October 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Who's ready for an opportunity so good it's 👻scary? 👻
#teachersky and #librarians!
What: FREE virtual class visit with 3 middle grade authors!!
How: Follow & repost to enter
When: Ends Wed 10/8
Where: US/CAN
🎃Good luck!🎃
#teachersky and #librarians!
What: FREE virtual class visit with 3 middle grade authors!!
How: Follow & repost to enter
When: Ends Wed 10/8
Where: US/CAN
🎃Good luck!🎃
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As a survivor, I can't think of a more fitting metaphor than a rapist creating loud noises with planes as a survivor tries to tell her story. I mean... just wow. Nevertheless, she persisted.
September 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
As a survivor, I can't think of a more fitting metaphor than a rapist creating loud noises with planes as a survivor tries to tell her story. I mean... just wow. Nevertheless, she persisted.
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*** UPDATE ***
The winner is ... @lfrk.bsky.social - congrats! I'll message you for shipping details.
And stay tuned for more #giveaways next week!
*** END OF UPDATE ***
The winner is ... @lfrk.bsky.social - congrats! I'll message you for shipping details.
And stay tuned for more #giveaways next week!
*** END OF UPDATE ***
I still have more books that would do better in kids' hands than on my shelves, so it's time for another #giveaway. Want to win these 9 picture books (some of which are signed)?
To enter: follow, like, & repost and/or comment and tag a friend.
#kidlit #booksky #edusky #skybrarian
To enter: follow, like, & repost and/or comment and tag a friend.
#kidlit #booksky #edusky #skybrarian
August 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
*** UPDATE ***
The winner is ... @lfrk.bsky.social - congrats! I'll message you for shipping details.
And stay tuned for more #giveaways next week!
*** END OF UPDATE ***
The winner is ... @lfrk.bsky.social - congrats! I'll message you for shipping details.
And stay tuned for more #giveaways next week!
*** END OF UPDATE ***
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I truly don’t understand the people who think teachers telling children how to run, hide, and fight during school shootings is normal but think a teacher acknowledging that someone has two moms or two dads is indoctrination.
August 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I truly don’t understand the people who think teachers telling children how to run, hide, and fight during school shootings is normal but think a teacher acknowledging that someone has two moms or two dads is indoctrination.
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Between RFK decimating the CDC, normalizing Ashli Babbitt & the umpteenth school shooting... I'm losing the will to post.
#ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
#ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
August 29, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Between RFK decimating the CDC, normalizing Ashli Babbitt & the umpteenth school shooting... I'm losing the will to post.
#ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
#ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
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I still have more books that would do better in kids' hands than on my shelves, so it's time for another #giveaway. Want to win these 9 picture books (some of which are signed)?
To enter: follow, like, & repost and/or comment and tag a friend.
#kidlit #booksky #edusky #skybrarian
To enter: follow, like, & repost and/or comment and tag a friend.
#kidlit #booksky #edusky #skybrarian
August 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I still have more books that would do better in kids' hands than on my shelves, so it's time for another #giveaway. Want to win these 9 picture books (some of which are signed)?
To enter: follow, like, & repost and/or comment and tag a friend.
#kidlit #booksky #edusky #skybrarian
To enter: follow, like, & repost and/or comment and tag a friend.
#kidlit #booksky #edusky #skybrarian
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Noem says ICE only arrests those suspected of bad crimes.If so, then send unmasked officers into workplace with warrants for such criminals.
Of course they don’t do that because they are doing racial profiling and hurting hard-working people and the courts have called them on these nazi tactics.
Of course they don’t do that because they are doing racial profiling and hurting hard-working people and the courts have called them on these nazi tactics.
July 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Noem says ICE only arrests those suspected of bad crimes.If so, then send unmasked officers into workplace with warrants for such criminals.
Of course they don’t do that because they are doing racial profiling and hurting hard-working people and the courts have called them on these nazi tactics.
Of course they don’t do that because they are doing racial profiling and hurting hard-working people and the courts have called them on these nazi tactics.
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If you are able, do three kind things today: one for yourself, one for somebody else, and one for the world. We can't make everything better, and we can't yet put an end to this terrible administration and its campaign of unrelenting evil. But we can do small, good things: beauty, grace, connection.
July 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
If you are able, do three kind things today: one for yourself, one for somebody else, and one for the world. We can't make everything better, and we can't yet put an end to this terrible administration and its campaign of unrelenting evil. But we can do small, good things: beauty, grace, connection.
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I hope Gov. Gavin Newsom wins his $787 million lawsuit against bullshit mountain Fox News, and turns their headquarters into a massive library full of banned books.
Run by drag queens.
Run by drag queens.
June 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I hope Gov. Gavin Newsom wins his $787 million lawsuit against bullshit mountain Fox News, and turns their headquarters into a massive library full of banned books.
Run by drag queens.
Run by drag queens.
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June 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Healthcare for seniors is *not* waste, fraud, or abuse.
Food for hungry kids is *not* waste, fraud, or abuse.
A $45 military parade for a draft dodging felon *is* waste, fraud, and abuse.
Paying the National Guard to attack US citizens *is* waste, fraud, and abuse.
Food for hungry kids is *not* waste, fraud, or abuse.
A $45 military parade for a draft dodging felon *is* waste, fraud, and abuse.
Paying the National Guard to attack US citizens *is* waste, fraud, and abuse.
June 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Healthcare for seniors is *not* waste, fraud, or abuse.
Food for hungry kids is *not* waste, fraud, or abuse.
A $45 military parade for a draft dodging felon *is* waste, fraud, and abuse.
Paying the National Guard to attack US citizens *is* waste, fraud, and abuse.
Food for hungry kids is *not* waste, fraud, or abuse.
A $45 military parade for a draft dodging felon *is* waste, fraud, and abuse.
Paying the National Guard to attack US citizens *is* waste, fraud, and abuse.
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I do understand that Biden’s inner circle covered up his decline. Got it. What I don’t understand is the same journalists and pundits pounding that story are ignoring this psychopath like it’s normal. I accepted Biden was old all along. I can’t accept this lunatic leading us.
May 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I do understand that Biden’s inner circle covered up his decline. Got it. What I don’t understand is the same journalists and pundits pounding that story are ignoring this psychopath like it’s normal. I accepted Biden was old all along. I can’t accept this lunatic leading us.
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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
May 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
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I don't know about you, but I care less and don't want to see any report now about President Biden's so-called cognitive decline from any journalist or consultant who wants to line their pockets by doing Trump's bidding and going after President Biden.
Leave. Joe. Biden. Alone.
Leave. Joe. Biden. Alone.
May 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I don't know about you, but I care less and don't want to see any report now about President Biden's so-called cognitive decline from any journalist or consultant who wants to line their pockets by doing Trump's bidding and going after President Biden.
Leave. Joe. Biden. Alone.
Leave. Joe. Biden. Alone.
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Baby Platypuses to cleanse the timeline
May 16, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Baby Platypuses to cleanse the timeline
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He fired
Carla fucking Hayden
The Librarian of Congress
An amazing, badass, kind human being
May he never know peace
Carla fucking Hayden
The Librarian of Congress
An amazing, badass, kind human being
May he never know peace
May 9, 2025 at 3:30 AM
He fired
Carla fucking Hayden
The Librarian of Congress
An amazing, badass, kind human being
May he never know peace
Carla fucking Hayden
The Librarian of Congress
An amazing, badass, kind human being
May he never know peace
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The life of a school librarian… half our time spent convincing you to borrow our books, and the other half desperately pleading with you to bring them back!
#SchoolLibrary #SchoolLibraryLife #SchoolLibrarian #Overdues #TLSky
#SchoolLibrary #SchoolLibraryLife #SchoolLibrarian #Overdues #TLSky
May 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The life of a school librarian… half our time spent convincing you to borrow our books, and the other half desperately pleading with you to bring them back!
#SchoolLibrary #SchoolLibraryLife #SchoolLibrarian #Overdues #TLSky
#SchoolLibrary #SchoolLibraryLife #SchoolLibrarian #Overdues #TLSky
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Shameful. Devestating. I urge people who keep making excuses to look at this and stop letting others get away with looking away and carrying on with business as usual. Regardless of the title, she remains my Librarian in Chief. #Librarysky
www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/p...
Trump administration fires librarian of Congress | CNN Politics
The White House on Thursday notified Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden that she was removed from her position, a spokesperson for the Library of Congress told CNN.
www.cnn.com
May 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Shameful. Devestating. I urge people who keep making excuses to look at this and stop letting others get away with looking away and carrying on with business as usual. Regardless of the title, she remains my Librarian in Chief. #Librarysky
www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/p...
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Tell me The Vatican made the perfect choice without telling me The Vatican made the perfect choice.🤣
May 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Tell me The Vatican made the perfect choice without telling me The Vatican made the perfect choice.🤣
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•••••PURGE ALERT•••••
Trump gleefully fired Dr. Carla Hayden, the first woman and the first Black American to serve as the librarian of Congress.
Hayden was appointed in 2016 by President Barack Obama.
It seems the Trump regime has identified Dr. Hayden as “anti-Trump” and “woke.”
On…
Trump gleefully fired Dr. Carla Hayden, the first woman and the first Black American to serve as the librarian of Congress.
Hayden was appointed in 2016 by President Barack Obama.
It seems the Trump regime has identified Dr. Hayden as “anti-Trump” and “woke.”
On…
May 9, 2025 at 3:40 AM
•••••PURGE ALERT•••••
Trump gleefully fired Dr. Carla Hayden, the first woman and the first Black American to serve as the librarian of Congress.
Hayden was appointed in 2016 by President Barack Obama.
It seems the Trump regime has identified Dr. Hayden as “anti-Trump” and “woke.”
On…
Trump gleefully fired Dr. Carla Hayden, the first woman and the first Black American to serve as the librarian of Congress.
Hayden was appointed in 2016 by President Barack Obama.
It seems the Trump regime has identified Dr. Hayden as “anti-Trump” and “woke.”
On…
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No one wants to hear this but you will find more wisdom in an old fairy-tale, a monologue from Shakespeare, a chapter of Jane Austen, than in all the self-help books in Barnes & Noble. You don't need more lifemaxxing, you need myth, poetry, beauty.
May 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
No one wants to hear this but you will find more wisdom in an old fairy-tale, a monologue from Shakespeare, a chapter of Jane Austen, than in all the self-help books in Barnes & Noble. You don't need more lifemaxxing, you need myth, poetry, beauty.
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I don't 'refuse to use' AI, I just don't use AI; in the same way that I don't shoplift, or plagiarise other people's books - it requires no effort of will, it's just not something I would think of doing
Bizarrely framed article about the people (all women) who ‘refuse to use AI’. And a #philosophy professor who says “The moment to opt out of #AI has already passed”. Oh well. That’s that then. 🤷♂️ #AIEthics www.bbc.com/news/article...
The people refusing to use AI
Worried about the environment and the loss of skills, some people are resisting the rise of AI.
www.bbc.com
May 6, 2025 at 6:15 AM
I don't 'refuse to use' AI, I just don't use AI; in the same way that I don't shoplift, or plagiarise other people's books - it requires no effort of will, it's just not something I would think of doing
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If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.
April 27, 2025 at 3:44 AM
If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.
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You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.
April 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.
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If you hate the Pope because he is too “liberal”, I have some very bad news for you about Jesus.
April 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
If you hate the Pope because he is too “liberal”, I have some very bad news for you about Jesus.