Librarianaj
librarianaj.bsky.social
Librarianaj
@librarianaj.bsky.social
Teacher, librarian, un-expert in parenting, gender differences in learning, boys in education, ADHD, designing and managing a legit school library.
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You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

#motivation #inspiration
April 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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“As a scientist, the experience was profound.”

The first human beings ever to have seen the color “olo”—a brilliant blue-green shade that can be produced only inside a lab—spoke with @rossandersen.bsky.social about the experience: https://theatln.tc/u2XpQDqK
April 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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This is what a rigged economy looks like:

In the 1970s, CEOs made 27 times more than the average worker.

In the 1980s, CEOs made 48 times more than the average worker.

This decade, CEOs are making 354 times more than the average worker.

That has got to change.
April 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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It was never just about schools, it was never just about libraries, and it isn't actually about the books.

It's about finding a way to banish entire people, entire ideas, out of society, back into the closet or worse.

www.chron.com/politics/art...
Texas bill could punish bookstores for 'obscene' books
A new bill in the Texas Legislature, authored by Rep. Nate Schatzline, would allow businesses to be held liable if a minor reports damages from "obscene" books.
www.chron.com
April 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Happy Independent Bookstore Day! It’s also my first book’s birthday—‘FIGHT LIKE HELL: The Untold History of American Labor’ came out on April 26, 2022, and it’s been an absolute wild ride ever since.

Buy it here on Bookshop to support the ILWU Local 5 strike fund! bookshop.org/p/books/figh...
April 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Great parenting book:
April 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Hope we fill this gap as a society. Pediatricians? Anyone?
April 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
My reboot of the PSA we grew up with:
April 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM