restellyquist
@restellyquist.bsky.social
Reference & Maker Space librarian 📚
New hobbies every day.
Good trouble. she/her
Springfield MO
New hobbies every day.
Good trouble. she/her
Springfield MO
It would be so funny if it happened tonight
March 5, 2025 at 2:18 AM
It would be so funny if it happened tonight
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March 2, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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📣 New zine! "Radical Books That Aren't a Slog : Leftist Book Recommendations for Newly Radical Folks." If you're a baby leftist looking for a place to start imagining new possibilities, here's 17 books to get you started! violetbfox.info/radicalbooks/ 📚
February 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
📣 New zine! "Radical Books That Aren't a Slog : Leftist Book Recommendations for Newly Radical Folks." If you're a baby leftist looking for a place to start imagining new possibilities, here's 17 books to get you started! violetbfox.info/radicalbooks/ 📚
Everything feels especially bad today
February 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Everything feels especially bad today
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I continue to believe that a densely organized library workforce is essential to winning the world we need. Pulling together a Labor Notes training for library workers on the Thursday of annual. Watch this space!
February 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I continue to believe that a densely organized library workforce is essential to winning the world we need. Pulling together a Labor Notes training for library workers on the Thursday of annual. Watch this space!
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Y’all, @haymarketbooks.org is offering 40% off their Black Liberation books—including my new book, “Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education” and the book I coedited “Balck Lives Matter at School.”
www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/65-40-...
www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/65-40-...
40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation
Black History Month is not only a celebration of the rich history of Black life, politics, culture, and struggle. It is also a reminder to engage every day with that history as we ...
www.haymarketbooks.org
February 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Y’all, @haymarketbooks.org is offering 40% off their Black Liberation books—including my new book, “Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education” and the book I coedited “Balck Lives Matter at School.”
www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/65-40-...
www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/65-40-...
Can they put tariffs on AI
February 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Can they put tariffs on AI
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Reminder that if you see someone trying to figure out how to contact their reps, you now have the INCREDIBLY easy to remember URL to give to them:
reps.fyi
Tell your friends! Tell strangers! Print stickers and put them on things!
Crash every voicemail every day. ❤️
(thank you @gregpak.net!)
reps.fyi
Tell your friends! Tell strangers! Print stickers and put them on things!
Crash every voicemail every day. ❤️
(thank you @gregpak.net!)
Find Your Representative
Find your representatives. Learn how to find and connect with them. Stay informed about their bills, committees, and contributions.
reps.fyi
February 2, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Reminder that if you see someone trying to figure out how to contact their reps, you now have the INCREDIBLY easy to remember URL to give to them:
reps.fyi
Tell your friends! Tell strangers! Print stickers and put them on things!
Crash every voicemail every day. ❤️
(thank you @gregpak.net!)
reps.fyi
Tell your friends! Tell strangers! Print stickers and put them on things!
Crash every voicemail every day. ❤️
(thank you @gregpak.net!)
I would like more StoryGraph friends please! 📚 💙 #booksky app.thestorygraph.com/profile/rest...
February 2, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I would like more StoryGraph friends please! 📚 💙 #booksky app.thestorygraph.com/profile/rest...
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Take yall children to those black history events that will be held at some local libraries. It starts at home
February 1, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Take yall children to those black history events that will be held at some local libraries. It starts at home
Volunteered at the community garden today and I hate to admit it but literally touching grass really helps the ol mental health
February 1, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Volunteered at the community garden today and I hate to admit it but literally touching grass really helps the ol mental health
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Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books.
bookshop.org/ebooks
bookshop.org/ebooks
Bookshop.org US
Explore digital books on Bookshop.org
bookshop.org
January 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books.
bookshop.org/ebooks
bookshop.org/ebooks
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If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov
And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
They need to hear from you.
And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
They need to hear from you.
USAspending.gov
www.usaspending.gov
January 28, 2025 at 4:59 AM
If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov
And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
They need to hear from you.
And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
They need to hear from you.
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#Booksky: If you haven’t already, export your data from Goodreads (an Amazon company) and import it into StoryGraph, a book-tracking app founded and led by a Black woman.
January 27, 2025 at 5:00 AM
#Booksky: If you haven’t already, export your data from Goodreads (an Amazon company) and import it into StoryGraph, a book-tracking app founded and led by a Black woman.
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JAN 29: Interference Archive’s Library Cataloging Party, 314 7th St in #Brooklyn. 6:30-8:30PM. Help catalog the book collection at this radical archive and community space in Park Slope. No experience needed. To RSVP, see the post at the link: www.instagram.com/interference... #critcat #critlib #NYC
January 27, 2025 at 2:43 AM
JAN 29: Interference Archive’s Library Cataloging Party, 314 7th St in #Brooklyn. 6:30-8:30PM. Help catalog the book collection at this radical archive and community space in Park Slope. No experience needed. To RSVP, see the post at the link: www.instagram.com/interference... #critcat #critlib #NYC
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Everyone, everywhere, regardless of their age, background, or political views, deserves access to information from a wide range of perspectives and books that reflect their lived experiences @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
www.ala.org/news/2025/01...
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ALA to U. S. Department of Education: Book bans are real
The American Library Association responds to the Department of Education's dismissal of complaints about censorship and discrimination: the "effort to terminate protections... advances the demonstrabl...
www.ala.org
January 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Everyone, everywhere, regardless of their age, background, or political views, deserves access to information from a wide range of perspectives and books that reflect their lived experiences @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
www.ala.org/news/2025/01...
www.ala.org/news/2025/01...
At my first national library conference as an Emerging Leader and ended up having dinner with a retired librarian and ALA vet. It felt like a very cool passing the torch moment and reminder of the good work we’ve always done and will continue to do. #librarians #booksky
January 26, 2025 at 3:12 AM
At my first national library conference as an Emerging Leader and ended up having dinner with a retired librarian and ALA vet. It felt like a very cool passing the torch moment and reminder of the good work we’ve always done and will continue to do. #librarians #booksky
i see eggs benny i order eggs benny
January 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
i see eggs benny i order eggs benny
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If you are a visa holder/temp resident in the U.S., and your child was born here and doesn't have a passport, GET A PASSPORT FOR THEM IMMEDIATELY. Like, make the appointment this week.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...
January 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
If you are a visa holder/temp resident in the U.S., and your child was born here and doesn't have a passport, GET A PASSPORT FOR THEM IMMEDIATELY. Like, make the appointment this week.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...
TikTok is back lol
January 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
TikTok is back lol
Now that I’ve gone social media lite, I’ve discovered my reading slump was just a social media addiction. I’ve read 10 books this year 🤯 📚 💙
January 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Now that I’ve gone social media lite, I’ve discovered my reading slump was just a social media addiction. I’ve read 10 books this year 🤯 📚 💙
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🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
January 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
Today I ate an orange while I took a bath and chucked the rinds into the bath with me. I’m calling it a Capybara Bath and this is the energy I’m bringing into 2025. 🍊 🛁
January 2, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Today I ate an orange while I took a bath and chucked the rinds into the bath with me. I’m calling it a Capybara Bath and this is the energy I’m bringing into 2025. 🍊 🛁