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@gabliotecaria.bsky.social

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🇵🇷 in 🇬🇧. She/her. Proud trade union organiser and former public library worker. Views here are my own, not my employer's.

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Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · Sep 11

If you want to know how AMAZING @wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social is, they somehow *knew* I'd be wearing this top on Loki release day and wrapped the book to coordinate. If you want to know how BRILLIANT @louiestowell.bsky.social's book is, just look at Godzilla trying to escape the frame to grab it!

I'm wearing the loudest hot pink Hawaiian shirt (it literally says Hawaii with illustrations of a sandy beach and hot pink and white clouds) and amazingly the ribbon wrapping my copy of Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Causing Chaos is white, pink, blue, and orange, matching it PERFECTLY. Best bookshop EVER!

I'm holding up my copy of Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Causing Chaos next to my canvas Godzilla poster so it looks like he's excitedly stomping through the waves to grab it off my hand. He would, too, if he wasn't a painting.

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 41m

DRINK WATER FROM THE SKULLS OF YOUR ENEMIES! IF YOU HAVE CRUSHED THEIR SKULLS, USE A GLASS.

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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 1h

more spooky birds for spooky season

#art

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Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 1h

The Salvation Army really is the epitome of a certain kind of white conservatism

They prey on the most vulnerable. They happily leave the sort of people they don't like to die in the streets

But they smile a lot and don't cuss and say "Jesus", so they get to be respectable

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Helen Simmons (She/Her) @littlehen.bsky.social · 1h

Hey fellow veggies. Tell me what your go to recipes are for meaty tastes and textures when you’re craving something solid and iron dense. I’m not super keen on fake-meat so more interested in recipes or ingredients that can feel ‘meaty’ without being meat.

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 4d

Just been made aware that the new documentary The Librarians is available for free on BBC iPlayer for the next 12 mths. It investigates what librarians in the US are going through right now as they unite to combat book banning & defend free speech. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Storyville - The Librarians

A Storyville documentary that explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 2h

THE RESIGNATIONS OF PRIME MINISTER LECORNU WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2h

French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu appointed by Macron for the second time yesterday is already threatening to resign if “conditions are no longer met”. (France Elects)

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Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 1h

Currently reading my first e-book from them!

( @freyamarske.bsky.social's Cinder House )

The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 1h

ICYMI: Bookshop.org has launched a new e-book platform, enabling indie bookshops to access the growing e-book market in the UK 👇 #BookSky

Bookshop.org launches new e-book platform for indie bookshops

ebx.sh

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Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 3h

If I get it you won't even have to post them! 😂 Canterbury is just down t'road from me (we can meet for coffee or something if you like)!

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 5h

WELL THEN IT'S NOT MEANINGFUL IS IT, NICK www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Abi Stevens: MCM N16 @abistevensart.bsky.social · 4h

I also have seconds of my Pride lolly keychains in the sale! (They have slightly wonky sticks).
abistevens.etsy.com?section_id=3...

#artShop #PrideArt

A photo of an acrylic keychain designed go look like a twisting ice lolly in the trans pride flag colours, with a real wooden stick at the end.

Another acrylic lolly keychain. It looks like a rocket lolly in the pink, yellow and blue of the pan Pride flag.

This lolly looks like a twister lolly with LGBTQIA+ rainbow colours.

Another tall twist ice lolly, this time in the colours of the lesbian Pride flag.

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Abi Stevens: MCM N16 @abistevensart.bsky.social · 4h

You can also still find seconds of all of my Bestiary pins in the sale! 👀
abistevens.etsy.com?section_id=3...

#artShop #medievalArt #UKGiftAM

A photo of a soft enamel pin with black coated metal featuring a medieval bestiary inspired dragon with a spiral tail and feathery wing. Ifs pale green with lilac, blue and pink accents.

A photo of a another pin in the same style, this time featuring a yellow harpy girl with colourful wings and a green and blue headscarf.

Another pin from the series, this time a light pink siren with a long fishy tail curling up over her back, colourful wing feathers, and hiding a green fish in one claw.

A fourth bestiary inspired pin, this time featuring a lilac and purple unicorn with a green eye and horn.

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Abi Stevens: MCM N16 @abistevensart.bsky.social · 21h

My Super Seconds Festival sale ends tomorrow night! Still time to grab some bargains!
abistevens.etsy.com
#artShop #artistSupport #bsnm

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Cloudy🐈 @hellocloudy.bsky.social · 4h

fox friends 🦊🧡

hellocloudyart.etsy.com ✨

ceramic plate with a fox surrounded by mushrooms

ceramic plate shaped like a fox with pumpkin vines on it

ceramic plate with a fox in a witch hat surrouneed by pumpkin plants

ceramic dish glazed green with a fow and mushroom figurines on it

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Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 4h

I just found it futile, wading through horrid ads and stuff that made me angry or sad or hurt just to keep up with the ppl who make my life better and smarter. Seeing pals abused and harassed on the daily. Not worth it.

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Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 4h

Y'all remember that list going the rounds about "name one good thing social media has done for you"? Here's exhibit 197,862: that this can happen when before we could only wonder. And as often happens in my life, this joy was provoked by one @louiestowell.bsky.social (true friend I got through sm) 💖

Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 5h

Slightly fluffed "oferhlifigende" but this might give you an idea

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 5h

You may call it ‘Chatfishing’, but I shall only refer to it as ‘Cyrano de Berger-App’
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

www.theguardian.com

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Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 6h

My brain is now pretzel shaped trying to imagine it 😂😂😂😂

Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 6h

The modern equivalent of reading the Sunday papers. I love it!

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Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 6h

WHEN WERE YOU GOING TO TELL US, LOUIE????

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Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 6h

This looks like a perfect bedtime book 💜

Nicolette Jones @nicolettejones.bsky.social · 6h

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Britta Teckentrup from the picturebook Family by Patricia Hegarty about how creatures look after each other. Otters holding hands as they sleep, & moonlight on water. Out in paperback Little Tiger Press 2 October. @brittateckentrup.bsky.social @littletigeruk.bsky.social

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 6h

Fascism and the far right seek to dehumanise, and deny civil rights to whole categories of people.
We’ve been here before, and can use lessons from the past to help defend and protect our friends and communities.
Survival is resistance, never give up ✊

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Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 6h

Isn't it funny that my brain fills in every single one of those faces 🥰

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Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 6h

What I absolutely love about this is how comfortable and secure Polanski is discussing this. No squirming on the seat, no dithering waffle words, just facts and conviction. This is how it's done.

David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 18h

Good man. Dont back down. Don't let these thugs intimidate you.

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 21h

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 18h

Good man. Dont back down. Don't let these thugs intimidate you.

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 21h

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 7h

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 5d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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