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@amayna60.bsky.social

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Captain of Book Displays, Emeritus. Devoted to Reader’s Advisory. Join us for #ThursdayBookChat to share what you’re reading or looking forward to. @ me for help with book titles, taglines, blurbs, back matter. 📚

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2h

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1h

It’s interesting that Republicans keep talking about No Kings on Oct. 18 as though it’s just a DC protest.

The protests are nationwide. Find your local one here: www.nokings.org#map

Politico @politico.com · 20h

Johnson slams the No Kings protest march scheduled to take place in DC next week as the “hate America rally” that would draw “the pro-Hamas wing” and “the antifa people.”

Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering

Organizers largely blew off the rhetoric, but some Democrats online criticized the tone.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Audrey, CMS @amayna60.bsky.social · 5h

Thanks🤩

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Deirdre @dstraughan.bsky.social · 16h

Native everlasting daisy #bloomscrolling #gardening

Closeup of a bloom with many spiky pink petals and a yellow center

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Michelle @trailtotoday.bsky.social · 16h

This guy was watching me watching him. 🙂
#FloralFriday #FlyDay #Scape
#Macro #FlowersOnFriday #BloomScrolling #OnlyBeautifulThings #EastCoastKin #Photography

Two bees are on purple flowers, one is under one, the other seems to be looking at the phone camera.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 14h

I regret to inform you that you are being affected by a reduction in force (RIF) action. Please find attached a notice memorandum explaining the RIF and next steps. This RIF action does not reflect directly on your service, performance, or conduct. It is being taken solely for the reasons stated in the memorandum.
After you receive this notice, you will be placed on administrative leave and will no longer have building access beginning Friday, October 10, unless directed otherwise by your leadership. Additionally, please save this email and its attachments, or forward them to a personal email address, for your records.
Leadership at HHS appreciates your service.

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Audrey, CMS @amayna60.bsky.social · 14h

I 💜 Gordon Lightfoot, the only artist I saw in concert twice
He’ll be ready when you are 😁

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 16h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Audrey, CMS @amayna60.bsky.social · 15h

Fsmiliar!

two dogs are sitting next to each other in front of a window .

Alt: two dogs are sitting next to each other in front of a window, one black, one white, and the black dog hugs the other

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Audrey, CMS @amayna60.bsky.social · 15h

Carnitas 🤤🤤

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fullobacon.bsky.social @fullobacon.bsky.social · 17h

Some people doodle. My mother-in-law sews. Happy world squid and cuttlefish day!

A homemade green squid plushie with orange trim. Probably not anatomically correct. He's more than 2 meters from... um... the top body part to the bottom body part.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 19h

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 22h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 23h

Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.

A poster in green ink on off white paper. In the center is a woodcut style illustration of a protester wearing an inflatable frog costume standing up against two ICE agents. The text above and below reads:

VIVE LA
RIBBITSTANCE

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 21h

Announcing our first open call for 2026 - "Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity" which will ask for hard SF stories with tea or coffee, stars, and gravity all playing a prominent narrative role. Info here - aanpress.com/submissions.... Important: Be sure to read the cover page to the PDF.

Cover image to the book, showing the back of an astronaut in a space suit as he steps off into a psychedelic swirl of cosmic colors and stars. The title circles around the figure.

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 1d

Good morning from Greenbelt, Md.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia's attorneys will argue in federal court for his release from immigration detention. Now feds want to send Abrego to Ghana.

Reporting live.

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Audrey, CMS @amayna60.bsky.social · 1d

Well, there’s always OnlyBeans™️

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ceej @ceej.online · 1d

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 1d

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Dylan Flesch @dylanflesch.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #BannedBooksWeek. If you love libraries and hate censorship, I'd encourage you to do more than just read a banned book this week. Here are a few ideas:
1. Get involved in your local public library board
2. Join or start a friends group
3. Organize a people's assembly for your public library

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City Mouse Garden @citymousegarden.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure which I love more—the delicate tropical-looking blooms or the gilt-edge #FantasticFoliage?

#gardening #bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #FeelsLikeFall 🌱

A white and bright purple bloom speckled and accented with dramatic chandelier-like stamen, glimmering deep purple hairy buds, and a background of healthy bright green foliage edged in pale yellow.

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Deirdre @dstraughan.bsky.social · 1d

Calendula “Sunset Buff” #bloomscrolling #gardening

Close view of a many petalled flower with a bright orange center, petals shading cream to peach at their tips

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 1d

. @404media.co is investigating book bans. They could use your pointers on where to be looking. You can do it anonymously.

"We need help deciding... which school districts and cities to seek public records from and... where we should point our reporting efforts. "

www.404media.co/help-us-inve...

Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

www.404media.co

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Audrey, CMS @amayna60.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking of you!

a bird perched on a branch next to a cup of coffee .

Alt: a bird perched on a branch of fuschia flower next to a pink cup of something hot

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