Maia Kobabe
@redgoldsparks.bsky.social
reading books, writing books, defending books
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Bay Area folks, if you are able to give a gift today, I recommend the Muwekma Ohlone Preservation Foundation, which is working to return ancestral land to the Muwekma Tribe: muwekmafoundation.org
Donate — Muwekma Ohlone Preservation Foundation
Donate to the Muwekma Ohlone Preservation Foundation
muwekmafoundation.org
November 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Bay Area folks, if you are able to give a gift today, I recommend the Muwekma Ohlone Preservation Foundation, which is working to return ancestral land to the Muwekma Tribe: muwekmafoundation.org
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Today is the day! Make some phone calls to Visa and Mastercard if youre able to and keep it going as much as you can muster until monday!
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Today is the day! Make some phone calls to Visa and Mastercard if youre able to and keep it going as much as you can muster until monday!
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It's time for the 2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant!
My family and I are awarding four $250 grants to active comics critics. The application is simple, just your name, email, and two recent clips. Deadline for submissions is January 1st.
forms.gle/Cy8FtCcqVSWa...
My family and I are awarding four $250 grants to active comics critics. The application is simple, just your name, email, and two recent clips. Deadline for submissions is January 1st.
forms.gle/Cy8FtCcqVSWa...
2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant
This project will be awarding four mini grants of $250 to comics critics.
To apply, please provide 2 links to comics criticism work of at least 500 words published within the last year (blogs and YouT...
forms.gle
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
It's time for the 2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant!
My family and I are awarding four $250 grants to active comics critics. The application is simple, just your name, email, and two recent clips. Deadline for submissions is January 1st.
forms.gle/Cy8FtCcqVSWa...
My family and I are awarding four $250 grants to active comics critics. The application is simple, just your name, email, and two recent clips. Deadline for submissions is January 1st.
forms.gle/Cy8FtCcqVSWa...
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Windmill Farms workers are fighting for a union! Support their boycott. This holiday season, don’t buy Windmill mushrooms!
¡Los trabajadores de Windmill Farms están luchando por una Unión! Apoya su boicot. ¡Estas fiestas, no compres hongos Windmill!
#BoycottWindmillMushrooms
¡Los trabajadores de Windmill Farms están luchando por una Unión! Apoya su boicot. ¡Estas fiestas, no compres hongos Windmill!
#BoycottWindmillMushrooms
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Windmill Farms workers are fighting for a union! Support their boycott. This holiday season, don’t buy Windmill mushrooms!
¡Los trabajadores de Windmill Farms están luchando por una Unión! Apoya su boicot. ¡Estas fiestas, no compres hongos Windmill!
#BoycottWindmillMushrooms
¡Los trabajadores de Windmill Farms están luchando por una Unión! Apoya su boicot. ¡Estas fiestas, no compres hongos Windmill!
#BoycottWindmillMushrooms
Visited one of my Portland faves, @bkswpicspdx.bsky.social and signed all the copies of GENDER QUEER and BREATHE on the shelf!
November 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Visited one of my Portland faves, @bkswpicspdx.bsky.social and signed all the copies of GENDER QUEER and BREATHE on the shelf!
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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Hello network. This is real shit. I’m looking for transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming front and back end web designers for a project to help trans people get housing in NJ. This is a paid opportunity.
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Hello network. This is real shit. I’m looking for transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming front and back end web designers for a project to help trans people get housing in NJ. This is a paid opportunity.
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
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Join Xerces and help our audience learn about invertebrates!
Job Title: Communications Specialist, Graphic Design & Content Marketing
🌎Location: Remote (USA)
💲Compensation: $32.34/hr; approx. $67,267/yr
📅Application deadline: Dec 7
Learn more and apply at xerces.org/jobs
Job Title: Communications Specialist, Graphic Design & Content Marketing
🌎Location: Remote (USA)
💲Compensation: $32.34/hr; approx. $67,267/yr
📅Application deadline: Dec 7
Learn more and apply at xerces.org/jobs
November 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Join Xerces and help our audience learn about invertebrates!
Job Title: Communications Specialist, Graphic Design & Content Marketing
🌎Location: Remote (USA)
💲Compensation: $32.34/hr; approx. $67,267/yr
📅Application deadline: Dec 7
Learn more and apply at xerces.org/jobs
Job Title: Communications Specialist, Graphic Design & Content Marketing
🌎Location: Remote (USA)
💲Compensation: $32.34/hr; approx. $67,267/yr
📅Application deadline: Dec 7
Learn more and apply at xerces.org/jobs
Stopped by @powells.bsky.social in Portland today and signed all the copies of Breathe and Gender Queer on the shelves!
November 25, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Stopped by @powells.bsky.social in Portland today and signed all the copies of Breathe and Gender Queer on the shelves!
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Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
November 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
My high school gave students weekly afternoons off to work on senior thesis projects at home. I illuminated poems by JRR Tolkien in the style of the Book of Kells while listening to musical soundtracks & got a taste of what being a work from home illustrator would be like! Wanted that forever
November 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
My high school gave students weekly afternoons off to work on senior thesis projects at home. I illuminated poems by JRR Tolkien in the style of the Book of Kells while listening to musical soundtracks & got a taste of what being a work from home illustrator would be like! Wanted that forever
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Scarleteen is raising $40,000 to support the healthcare needs of staff and volunteers who do this vulnerable, crucial, intimate work. 204 people have donated $23k; please join them today and share. www.classy.org/campaign/scarl...
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November 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Scarleteen is raising $40,000 to support the healthcare needs of staff and volunteers who do this vulnerable, crucial, intimate work. 204 people have donated $23k; please join them today and share. www.classy.org/campaign/scarl...
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Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
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If my heart is a place, it’s @bkswpicspdx.bsky.social: one of the most innovative, inclusive, and wonderful comics shops—and communities—that I’ve had the privilege to be a part of.
DM me proof of donation, and I’ll match up to $500 TONIGHT!
www.gofundme.com/f/keep-books...
DM me proof of donation, and I’ll match up to $500 TONIGHT!
www.gofundme.com/f/keep-books...
Keep Books with Pictures Alive: Donate Now, organized by Katie Pryde
Dear friends: I need your help.
I’m proud of everything Books with Pictures… Katie Pryde needs your support for Keep Books with Pictures Alive: Donate Now
www.gofundme.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:45 AM
If my heart is a place, it’s @bkswpicspdx.bsky.social: one of the most innovative, inclusive, and wonderful comics shops—and communities—that I’ve had the privilege to be a part of.
DM me proof of donation, and I’ll match up to $500 TONIGHT!
www.gofundme.com/f/keep-books...
DM me proof of donation, and I’ll match up to $500 TONIGHT!
www.gofundme.com/f/keep-books...
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Attention comics creators!
We’re thrilled to announce the opening of our exhibitor + programming applications for TCAF 2026.
Head to torontocomics.com to apply, and we hope to see you on the rink!
We’re thrilled to announce the opening of our exhibitor + programming applications for TCAF 2026.
Head to torontocomics.com to apply, and we hope to see you on the rink!
November 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Attention comics creators!
We’re thrilled to announce the opening of our exhibitor + programming applications for TCAF 2026.
Head to torontocomics.com to apply, and we hope to see you on the rink!
We’re thrilled to announce the opening of our exhibitor + programming applications for TCAF 2026.
Head to torontocomics.com to apply, and we hope to see you on the rink!
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We're putting the finishing touches on our November piece: @mossheadlives.bsky.social on fandom text-based roleplaying and gender exploration! ✨ (Plus: Here's a sneak peak of the gorgeous art we commissioned for the piece by @thebeanbaguette.bsky.social.) Out this coming Wednesday!
November 18, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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The Librarians is screening at the VIFF Centre in Vancouver until Nov. 22, and at Cinecenta in Victoria on Nov. 26. #yvr #yyj
“It’s 2025 and the book burners are back. Along with a form of neo-McCarthyism that is tantamount to a witch hunt.” 📚 #canpoli #uspoli
‘The Librarians’ Traces the Battle of a Lifetime | The Tyee
As rightward forces campaign to pull books from library shelves, a gripping new documentary exposes what’s at stake.
thetyee.ca
November 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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the first (to my knowledge) western reportage that yes, MXTX was detained in 2019, sentenced to 3 years in prison, and paroled in 2021; now with a link that actually works:
apnews.com/article/chin...
apnews.com/article/chin...
November 15, 2025 at 12:28 AM
the first (to my knowledge) western reportage that yes, MXTX was detained in 2019, sentenced to 3 years in prison, and paroled in 2021; now with a link that actually works:
apnews.com/article/chin...
apnews.com/article/chin...
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One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
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Happy Native American Heritage Month 2025!
Happy Native American Heritage and Indigenous History Month! We're celebrating, as we do, with books by Indigenous authors, starring Indigenous characters. (Note: Despite the title of the post, these books include indigenous characters from all over.)…
Happy Native American Heritage and Indigenous History Month! We're celebrating, as we do, with books by Indigenous authors, starring Indigenous characters. (Note: Despite the title of the post, these books include indigenous characters from all over.)…
Happy Native American Heritage Month 2025!
Happy Native American Heritage and Indigenous History Month! We're celebrating, as we do, with books by Indigenous authors, starring Indigenous characters. (Note: Despite the title of the post, these books include indigenous characters from all over.) While the usual affiliate links are included, you’re strongly encouraged to order from the Native-owned Birchbark Books where available! Picture Books Phoenix Ani' Gichichi-I'
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November 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Happy Native American Heritage Month 2025!
Happy Native American Heritage and Indigenous History Month! We're celebrating, as we do, with books by Indigenous authors, starring Indigenous characters. (Note: Despite the title of the post, these books include indigenous characters from all over.)…
Happy Native American Heritage and Indigenous History Month! We're celebrating, as we do, with books by Indigenous authors, starring Indigenous characters. (Note: Despite the title of the post, these books include indigenous characters from all over.)…
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🏳️⚧️ November 13th - 19th is #TransAwarenessWeek! While trans people (and trans stories) deserve far more than just your awareness, here’s a list of books by and/or about trans people and trans experiences that have been published (so far) in 2025! 🧵
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🏳️⚧️ November 13th - 19th is #TransAwarenessWeek! While trans people (and trans stories) deserve far more than just your awareness, here’s a list of books by and/or about trans people and trans experiences that have been published (so far) in 2025! 🧵
I donated today! It's been so meaningful to be part of @authorsabb.bsky.social, you don't need to donate to be a member and support this work, but if you can, it's very appreciated 📚💕👏
Hooray! @authorsabb.bsky.social is *OFFICIALLY* a nonprofit, and is now open for donations!
For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.
Imagine what we could do with $$$
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/
For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.
Imagine what we could do with $$$
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/
Donate - Authors Against Book Bans
Thank you for donating to Authors Against Book Bans. Your donation directly supports the freedom to read by powering our work with our partner organizations, bringing the author muscle to the fight to...
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I donated today! It's been so meaningful to be part of @authorsabb.bsky.social, you don't need to donate to be a member and support this work, but if you can, it's very appreciated 📚💕👏
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Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!
December 24, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!
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🏳️⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🏳️⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇