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Offbeat
@ontheoffbeat.bsky.social
an anxious creature living in the mountains ⛰️
books, journaling, & conscious consumerism 💛

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A little about me:
📚 I love to read books (clearly).
💫 SFF and Romance are my favorite genres.
💸 I am participating in a low-buy quarter. Although this may continue past March, we'll see!
☕ Coffee is my drink of choice.
🐱 I have a tabby cat named Looney who sings arias at 3AM.
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can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
March 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Several good things are happening according r/fednews so I am going to drop them here. If federal workers are fighting back, how much more us?

A thread/
February 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.
February 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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After publishing this story, which features a picture of the protest at Children's National in DC, I have been informed that moments ago, Childrens National in DC has resumed transgender care.

The hospital protests worked! Keep doing them!
February 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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If there’s one thing I hope everyone is learning with all the dismantling of DEI initiatives is that no corporation is going to save us. We are the only ones that can save ourselves through community.
February 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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We're thrilled to share the cover of Hemlock & Silver, a dark reimaging of Snow White from New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher 🍎

Pre-order now: https://buff.ly/3QeQw3r 🍎
February 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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the one where the cannibal sorority tries to decide who to eat for dinner

coming oct. 21 🍽️ us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
February 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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:)
February 10, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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The image of the night.
February 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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So overjoyed to share this cover with you all!! I’m so thrilled with beautiful this @marymetzgr.bsky.social art. I hope you all join me on this tragic sapphic adventure through the fens!

Coming Sept 30. Preorders open now.

Design: Christine Foltzer
Musical inspiration: @gealdyr
February 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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I think we need to reframe the doom vs. optimism conversation to an action vs. inaction one.

We obviously can’t ignore the issues, but if our messaging discourages action, then we’re not doing a very good job.
February 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Last, Now, Next - Netgalley ARCs edition. #booksky #lastnownext
February 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity
January 31, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Always, always support indie bookstores!!
All right y’all, so here’s the deal.

We’re struggling. Our monthly goal is to sell 1500 books. This month, we’ve sold less than 400.

We need your help. We HAVE to sell 1500 books by the end of Feb to keep our doors open. This was supposed to be a video, but Bluesky can't do 2 mins of video(Thread)
January 31, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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You won't be any better at fighting what's coming if you burn yourself out and spend all your time feeling bleak and hopeless, and the people telling you that it's all despair now probably don't have anyone's best interest at heart.
January 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Not everyone can run or sit on a board.

Good thing there are literally dozens of other proactive means of defending libraries and schools!

Here are but 56: bookriot.com/56-small-tas...
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.
bookriot.com
January 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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January 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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I SAID YES!!!!!! 💍🥂🥳🎉 i asked myself if i wanted another cup of coffee.
January 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A little about me:
📚 I love to read books (clearly).
💫 SFF and Romance are my favorite genres.
💸 I am participating in a low-buy quarter. Although this may continue past March, we'll see!
☕ Coffee is my drink of choice.
🐱 I have a tabby cat named Looney who sings arias at 3AM.
January 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Happy book birthday to Hammajang Luck, the sci-fi debut from @makana-yama.bsky.social!

An all-queer found family plan to steal billionaire tech on a cyberpunk space station. Both an entertaining and cathartic read for these times.

Thank you @harpervoyagerus.bsky.social for granting me the eARC!
January 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM