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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah I really need help with this . I’m gonna go hyperventilate into a bag but this has gone bad quickly

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · Apr 10

Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share

gofund.me/a5ee0064

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Unabridged Bookstore @unabridgedbooks.bsky.social · 46m

it’s the last (official) day of Banned Books Week, and the final day of the Hull Family Foundation’s matching grant for donations to Chicago Books to Women in Prison! Click here to see their Wishlist or to send them a Gift Card: unabridgedbookstore.com/wishlist/sew...

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Nathan @nathandunbar.bsky.social · 9h

A call to bookshops when setting up banned books displays. Feature alive authors who could be struggling due to this. Yes, Stephen King gets banned but he's doing ok financially. So many others are not.

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 9h

Just a reminder that Banned Books Week isn’t about selling more copies of 1984. It’s about keeping authors and teachers and librarians safe and making sure all of us have the freedom to read widely. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Children’s Authors on the Real-World Cost of Book Banning

Authors discuss how having their work targeted by censors has directly affected their livelihood and their well-being.

www.publishersweekly.com

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 1d

Just bc a book contains a protagonist between 10 and 30, especially a female protagnoist, doesn't mean it's YA. Just bc the book is written by a woman (or someone you incorrectly assume is a woman), doesn't make it YA. Just bc a book is fun, written colloquially, or has romance doesn't make it YA.

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Billie Bloebaum @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 10h

Today is Bookshop Day in the UK, which is a perfect excuse (if one were needed) to visit your favorite indie bookshop either in person or online. Not in the UK? You can still visit your local indie bookshop. They'd love to see you.

Fox Lane Books 🦊 @foxlanebooks.bsky.social · 10h

🧵 1) It's Bookshop Day 2025!

And that means it's DOUBLE REWARD POINTS all day

Supporting a family-owned, #IndieBookshop means valuing more than just the transaction, you are…

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 11h

#Frog #Pratchett

Even its plagues were half-hearted. All self-respecting river kingdoms have vast supernatural plagues, but the best the Old Kingdom had been able to achieve in the last hundred years was the Plague of the Frog*.

*It was quite a big frog, however, and got into the air ducts and kept everyone awake for weeks.

‘Pyramids’- Terry Pratchett

The Portland Frog, a person in a frog costume facing a mass of ICE agents in comvat gear.

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Billie Bloebaum @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 21h

If you have any other options, stop giving Amazon your money.

Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 21h

"The report called Amazon “the ultimate keeper of the data that enables detentions and deportations,” while MIT Technology Review called Amazon the “invisible backbone” of ICE’s crackdown on immigrants."

Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 9d

LittleSis have dropped a new report and data visualization about the billionaires and corporations profiting from the deportation industrial complex:

littlesis.org/news/the-bil...

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Billie Bloebaum @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 18h

My first box comes on Monday & it will have carrots, celery, potatoes, kale, & squash, so it is going to become a pot of minestrone. I have some Rancho Gordo garbanzos soaking to add to it. I'm so happy it's soup season.

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Billie Bloebaum @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 20h

I *just* cleaned out my t-shirt drawer & really don't need another t-shirt, but I guess I might need another t-shirt.

("Little Beirut" is bringing back memories. IYKYK)

CalyxWorks @calyxworks.com · 1d

Turns out we are ALL #PortlandFrog!

Shirts, hoodies and mugs now available.

Profits to Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition. ✊

calyxdesign.com/calyxworks/p...

Portland Frog Little Beirut » Calyx Design

calyxdesign.com

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CalyxWorks @calyxworks.com · 1d

Turns out we are ALL #PortlandFrog!

Shirts, hoodies and mugs now available.

Profits to Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition. ✊

calyxdesign.com/calyxworks/p...

Portland Frog Little Beirut » Calyx Design

calyxdesign.com

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Billie Bloebaum @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 21h

If you have any other options, stop giving Amazon your money.

Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 21h

"The report called Amazon “the ultimate keeper of the data that enables detentions and deportations,” while MIT Technology Review called Amazon the “invisible backbone” of ICE’s crackdown on immigrants."

Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 9d

LittleSis have dropped a new report and data visualization about the billionaires and corporations profiting from the deportation industrial complex:

littlesis.org/news/the-bil...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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Billie Bloebaum @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 22h

I, for one, welcome Mr. Nibbles, our new giant skeleton overlord.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 23h

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Billie Bloebaum @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 22h

Welp. There's my motivation for catching up on Interview with the Vampire.

Carly Lane-Perry @carlylane.bsky.social · 22h

Crying screaming throwing up

Extended First Look at The Vampire Lestat ft. Sam Reid | Premieres 2026 | AMC+

YouTube video by amc+

youtu.be

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Billie Bloebaum @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 1d

I'm making bread today for the first time since my fall. I was worried about the length of time standing & kneading, but it was fine, which makes me happy. I've missed making my own bread more than I realized.

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Billie Bloebaum @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 1d

Poppy seed, lightly toasted, plain schmear.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 1d

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

Screenshot from Farm Bureau article on farm bankruptcies. It shows farm bankruptcies climbing steadily 2014-2020, falling by half in 2021, & continuing to fall through 2023.

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure that Idaho, a land of xenophilia, embrace of people of color, and friendly welcomes to foreigners, will take the news of a Qatari Air Force facility at the Mountain Home base with their usual (Owyhee County Sheriff Larry Kendrick) grace (Chik-fil-A in Pocatello) & charm (Hetero Fest).

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 1d

I hope everyone who railed against having to prove they had a COVID vaccine to go to public events during a global pandemic because they “shouldn’t have to show documents” is just as furious about what ICE is doing right now.

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Billie Bloebaum @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 1d

I'm willing to bet money that his mama didn't name him "Dallas Steele." Really not beating the ridiculous label there.

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Billie Bloebaum @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 1d

I just blocked someone for dropping a HP reference in someone else's replies & I'm not even a little bit sorry.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 1d

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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Billie Bloebaum @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 1d

I'm not sure if it was local assholes or federal assholes flying their heli-COP-ters last night, but the fuckers kept me up 'til midnight. And for what? The frog guys dancing at you?

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