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Molly 📚☕️

@booksaucer.bsky.social

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Thirtysomething school librarian powered by cappuccinos and computer games. She/her.

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Molly 📚☕️ @booksaucer.bsky.social · Jul 10

It's about time I updated my "some of the things I enjoy" pinned post! 💙

📚 Books, Libraries & Literacy
🪶 Corvids
🎮 Cozy & Collecting Games
🐉 Dragons & Other Mythology
🐝 Entomology
👻 Horror Media & Halloween Stuff
🍄 Mycology
🦕 Palaeontology
💾 Retro Technology
🪐 Space & Astronomy

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 2d

The Mailbox That Spits Bones At People

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Molly 📚☕️ @booksaucer.bsky.social · 5d

Going through files salvaged from a corrupted SSD and there be gold in them hills

Image: a colour photograph of unknown origin; fields of yellow flowers with a mountain range in the background, under a cloudy grey sky. There appears to be some corruption and/or JPEG artifacting happening at the top of the image.

Text on the left centre of the photograph reads "POST MALONE" in all-caps white sans-serif font.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · Jul 31

help my job says i have to do my job what do i do help

From r/chatGPTpro, 25 minutes ago: chatGPT blocked at work

Today my job decided to block the site. I use chatGPT to create SOPs (standard operating practices) and power points and polish my emails. What should I do now four question marks. It has 0 upvotes and 20 comments

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Molly 📚☕️ @booksaucer.bsky.social · 7d

It Beckons

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 10d

Get really into dinosaurs. That's my recommendation for a happier life. Each day, I get news like "Look at this big freak that used roam the Earth!" or "Ya know the big freak you already loved? Fossils show it was even more freakish!" and it's a blessing every time.

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Molly 📚☕️ @booksaucer.bsky.social · 12d

You have to book them through Connect Care; it's buried/hard to find, likely on purpose. myhealth.alberta.ca/topic/immuni...

Book an immunization appointment

myhealth.alberta.ca

Molly 📚☕️ @booksaucer.bsky.social · 13d

Alberta friends, the list of medical conditions that exempt you from the ridiculous $100 "administrative fee" for this year's COVID vaccine includes ASD, ADHD and depression.

I do not know if they ask for proof, but get those free shots!!

Source: www.alberta.ca/coronavirus-...

Screenshot of text listing eligible underlying medical conditions for a free-of-charge COVID-19 vaccine in Alberta, 2025-2026. Transcript:

Eligible underlying medical conditions

cerebrovascular disease
chronic liver diseases
chronic lung diseases
chronic kidney diseases
cystic fibrosis
diabetes mellitus, type 1 and type 2
disabilities (for example, Down syndrome, learning, intellectual, or developmental disabilities; ADHD; cerebral palsy; congenital disabilities; spinal cord injuries)
heart conditions (for example, cardiomyopathies, coronary artery disease, heart failure, etc.)
mental health disorders (limited to: mood disorders, including depression; schizophrenia, spectrum disorders)
obesity
pregnancy
tuberculosis

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Molly 📚☕️ @booksaucer.bsky.social · 14d

I did not know this and the fact that this is my favourite movie makes even more sense now

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Rachel Ignotofsky @rachelignotofsky.bsky.social · 14d

Have I mentioned how much I love Trilobites? Let me know which of these cutie crawlers are your favorite!

Art from my new book: DINOSAURS exploring prehistoric life and geological time

buy book here: a.co/d/0BJZbR4

#prehistoric #evolution #dinosaurs #fossiladdict #sciart #paleoart #fossil

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Molly 📚☕️ @booksaucer.bsky.social · 16d

very authentic footage of me and @keirad.bsky.social at the club

Lætus @bajamothblast.bsky.social · 16d

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 18d

I do a comic about ornithological vocabulary for every issue of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's wonderful Living Bird magazine. Here's the latest one, featuring the American Bittern.

A three-panel comic. The first panel is a scrap from a dictionary that says crypsis, noun: patterning or coloration that allows a bird to remain concealed by blending in to its environment. In panel 2, labeled effective crypsis, an american bittern blends in with a marsh full of tall plants. In panel 2, labeled ineffective crypsis, an american bittern fails to blend in among some short plants, next to a wet floor sign, and behind a stop sign.

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 18d

Imagine reading Matthew 24:36,

“But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father”

and then having the hubris to try to predict the end of the world

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Molly 📚☕️ @booksaucer.bsky.social · 18d

I thought using “gay” as a synonym for “stupid” died 15+ years ago but here we are, I guess.

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 21d

It’s often pointed out how people don’t read anymore, how social media has broken our attention spans, and our capacity for critical thinking.

BUT, also, there are still a TON of avid readers in the world, of ALL ages. I know many of them. Let’s not forget to celebrate, and take comfort in, that.

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 20d

Nanosaur (1998). This game came bundled on the first iMac.

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pikaole @pikaole.bsky.social · 29d

More isopods, more happiness

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Molly 📚☕️ @booksaucer.bsky.social · Sep 12

The deafening force of the sonic boom I create when renaming my to-do list “hit da bricks” at Mach 3

Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · Sep 12

Shitty news cycle?

Hit da bricks!

- go outside
- make a song
- buy a new instrument
- declutter your house
- donate stuff
- do that long term maintenance task that doesn’t take that long but you’ve been putting it off because ughck

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · Sep 12

I know it's easy to get lost in the noise, anger, depression and hate of these dark times, but you matter, you're important - even if you can't see it - and I'm glad you're here.

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Molly 📚☕️ @booksaucer.bsky.social · Sep 12

if you want to have the true Heck Experience, serve chicken nuggets for lunch at an elementary school canteen for the first time in recent memory

Molly 📚☕️ @booksaucer.bsky.social · Sep 11

Formal request for photo(s) of vintage quiz. I must know my result

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · Sep 7

Me when I see a hot water dispenser at any event

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Molly 📚☕️ @booksaucer.bsky.social · Sep 7

I climbed all the way up the pole for the first time on Thursday so I am allowing myself One (1) lazy skip the dishes order to my house

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Azure Emerald Empire @azureemeraldempire.bsky.social · Sep 4

Yeah I’m on SSRIs: Serious Surf Rock Instrumentals

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Molly 📚☕️ @booksaucer.bsky.social · Sep 4

You love to see it.

www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

‘It makes people want to read’: Stores see sales spike after Alberta book ban

An Alberta government order banning some books from school libraries doesn’t appear to be deterring people from reading them, say managers at several bookstores.

www.ctvnews.ca

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〰️ julie mclaughlin 〰️ @whatwouldjuliedraw.bsky.social · Sep 3

URGENT CALL TO ACTION: please sign and share our petition, tell the Alberta Gov’t you don’t support book bans! Censorship escalates rapidly, put pressure on the gov’t now to ensure it doesn’t take hold in Canada.

Change.org/AB-book-ban

#CAIABB #ABbookban #FreedomToRead #NoBansInCanada

Sign the Petition

Tell the Alberta Government: No Book Bans

Change.org

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