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Cat Lady Belvedia

@catladybel.bsky.social

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Hi. I'm a librarian. More importantly, I have five cats. This is where I get political and talk LIS/Info Literacy. Fun and silly crap on Tumblr, cats on Insta. Belvedia on both.

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Cat Lady Belvedia @catladybel.bsky.social · Jan 13

Gonna do a fun little 10 facts about me thing.
1. I'm a Virgo and an Elder Millennial. I don't take either very seriously.
2. I currently live with my fiancé and our five cats. We are not having kids.
3. I'm perimenopausal. Yay.
4. I'm T2D and on Mounjaro. I've lost 60 lbs over the past two years.

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Cat Lady Belvedia @catladybel.bsky.social · 11h

Trying to get some writing done, but this butthead insists on being held and farting on me with impunity.

A woman sitting in a chair with a gray cat on her shoulder.

Cat Lady Belvedia @catladybel.bsky.social · 13h

Ugh! We had that happen a little over a year ago. On the bright side, I really like the new washer we got, and we purchased the matching dryer this year.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19h

Them: need help doing things?

Me: yes

Them: we have a doing things medication

Me: ooh

Them: hahahahaha guess what you have to do to get it?

Me: oh no

Them: things.

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Cat Lady Belvedia @catladybel.bsky.social · 13h

Shocking disparity between how a drowning man and one dying of thirst feel about water

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 17h

JUST GONNA ASSUME IM NOT ACTUALLY GOING TO BE SHOCKED

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/t...

CNBC
There's a shocking disparity between how high income and low income earners feel about the economy

Cat Lady Belvedia @catladybel.bsky.social · 22h

I really hope you like it!! It was so great to sink back into this world now that I have better, concrete plans for what stories I want to tell there.

Cat Lady Belvedia @catladybel.bsky.social · 1d

An AO3 account is needed to read it-- I'm putting what protections I can in place to keep it from getting scraped for AI.

It's about 14k words, maybe an hour to read.

Cat Lady Belvedia @catladybel.bsky.social · 1d

Those of you who know me from DWRP, I got something finished for the book series that features Ladon.

Those of you who don't: I'm working on a series that combines fantasy and noir '20s cities in place of the medieval kingdoms traditional fantasy uses.

archiveofourown.org/works/72420361

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Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 1d

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Texas State upholds the firing of associate history professor Thomas Alter

Alter’s termination occurred on Sept. 10, stemming from his remarks at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference on Sept. 7.

spectrumlocalnews.com

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Cat Lady Belvedia @catladybel.bsky.social · 1d

Baby. Thank you for rescuing this sweet little thing.

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💬 @chrestomanci.bsky.social · 1d

I did not realize all that time spent on "what's wrong with this picture" games as a kid was training for a world of ai generated imagery

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Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social · 1d

Interview with Kate Bornstein and Caitlin Sullivan on Nearly Roadkill: Queer Love on the Run

JJ Pionke interviews Kate Bornstein and Caitlin Sullivan about their new book, the Nearly Roadkill Reboot, how their writing process has changed since they wrote the original in the mid-1990s, their t...

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Cat Lady Belvedia @catladybel.bsky.social · 1d

We need the agent's name. Let the Internet find him. And continue to do so with every one of these people we can identify.

Make fascists afraid to exist in polite society, as they should be.

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Cat Lady Belvedia @catladybel.bsky.social · 1d

If cops are threatening to quit, the answer is "Okay, see ya. Don't let the door hit you on the way out-- because then you'll obviously just shoot it 25 times out of 'instinct.'"

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Tiffany @webinista.com · 2d

At some point people started conflating “contrarian” with “smart.”

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Cat Lady Belvedia @catladybel.bsky.social · 1d

Who gives a fuck what this K-hole dweller thinks?

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 1d

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 2d

I’m happy that the big kooky liberated Portland frogs have emerged as an aesthetic backlash to the dank Pepes

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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 2d

Please and thank you! 🎃👻

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Dark and Wondrous - it's in the trees! it's coming! @darkandwondrous.bsky.social · 14d

As October begins, we contemplate how the sea wind had its way with this now-fungal saint.

scary sea-weathered saint on the church near Hartlepool headland (body of saint is heavily eroded down to a veined or boxwork-like underlying structure of the stone, which looks like weird branching fungus).

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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Metadata, Lattes & Impostor Syndrome) @hannahshelley.bsky.social · 3d

Cleaning tip: to avoid getting overwhelmed, focus on decluttering just one room a week until you die

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 3d

Men would rather collapse a government than go to therapy

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

There is a whole category of Milkshake Duck Nobel Prize winners

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 3d

The Nobel *Peace* Prize winner is cool with murdering civilians on boats

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 3d

This job is often a lonely grind, but I'll tell you that there are few better feelings than when you finish a book that manages to complete a great character arc *and* bookend the beginning of the series perfectly.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 3d

Every morning I wake up feeling like I’m in big trouble

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 4d

Standing up to fascism is always the right choice.

Rejecting censorship is always the right choice.

Fighting for marginalized and vulnerable communities is always the right choice.

A Wyoming librarian refused to purge books with LGBTQ+ content and was fired for it.

She won a $700,000 settlement

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement

www.nytimes.com

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