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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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Tina Coleman @arystocrat.bsky.social · 1d

#BannedBooksWeek is in the home stretch for this year but it’s ALWAYS a good time to Read For Your Rights and doing your part to make sure all of us can continue to make our own choices about what we read. Support your library and your library workers - they fight for you every day.

American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 1d

In 2024, ALA tracked 821 attempts to censor library materials, targeting nearly 2,500 unique books. That’s 10× more than five years ago.
Join the fight for the freedom to read: UniteAgainstBookBans.org
Donate to ALA: ilovelibraries.org/1984
#BannedBooksWeek

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ALA’s Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table @ NYCC WB-19 @libcomix.bsky.social · 2d

OMG we had such a great first day @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social !

More than 300+ people stopped by today to #showupforlibraries - including #bannedbooksweek Honorary Chair @georgetakei.bsky.social

#skybrarians #libcomix #booksky #tlsky #comics #graphicnovels

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 4d

You can’t talk seriously about gun violence in Chicago without talking about where the guns come from. www.pbump.net/o/the-red-st...

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American Association of School Librarians (AASL) @aaslala.bsky.social · 4d

AASL and ALSC Partner with Pokémon to Launch School and Public Library Pokémon Clubs https://bit.ly/4gYtcUl

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Amy Brownlee @amybrownlee93.bsky.social · 5d

New article posted! I’ll be talking about this and more during my presentation at the AASL National Conference next week. #aasl2025 #tlsky #comics #graphicnovels #edusky @aaslala.bsky.social

American Association of School Librarians (AASL) @aaslala.bsky.social · 6d

Comic Conventions as POWerful PD (Part 2): Implementation and Impact https://bit.ly/48dKf2o

Graphic with bold text reading 'COMIC CONVENTIONS POWERFUL PD PART 2: IMPLEMENTATION & IMPACT' styled in a classic comic book fashion with 'POW!' in a burst bubble against an orange background.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 5d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 5d

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 6d

It’s Banned Books Week, and I don’t need you to buy my book as a solve for it (but buy it if you want to! That’s still extremely cool of you)—I need you to show up for your public libraries and your schools!

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 6d

Tonight of all nights I’m going to re-up my benediction for Chicago.

We are everything.

dansinker.com/posts/202…

No matter what happens in the coming weeks, we are Chicago. We rose from the ashes. We never quit.&10;&10;We are the lake in the morning, the sun rising over the water, its reflection drawing a line straight to our shores.&10;&10;We are the Haymarket Martyrs, the Pullman strikers, always demanding better than what we've got.&10;&10;We are the words of Sandburg and Algren and Brooks and Wright.&10;&10;We are the 90s Bulls, making the impossible possible.&10;&10;We are the dipped Italian Beef. Messy, sure, but incredible.&10;&10;We are the humidity in the summer, the frostbitten cheeks in the winter.&10;&10;We are smoke-kissed rib tips.&10;&10;We are elotes on the street. We are pierogis in a pot.&10;&10;We are Curtis singing Hush now child.

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Pat Coleman @patcoleman.bsky.social · 9d

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Booklist Publications @ala-booklist.bsky.social · 11d

Join the round tables of the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social (GameRT, GNCRT, FMRT, IRRT, RRT, & IFRT) on 10/24 for a day of interactive sessions about intellectual freedom, popular media, and moral panic, as well as conversations about how libraries work to protect the freedom to read: bit.ly/4gLpmh4

Promotional graphic for Intellectual Freedom Spectacular happening Friday, October 24 from 10:00-4:30 p.m. CT

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UDJG Life @udjg.life · 15d

Same Hulk. Same.

Hulk lays down in the grass face down and says:

HULK WILL SLEEP NOW, AND MAYBE WHEN HULK WAKES UP - -

-- EVERYTHING THAT HAS MADE HULK TIRED WILL BE CHANGED!

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 17d

‘Nickname’ is not ‘nick’ + ‘name.’

It was originally ‘ekename.’

‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.”

Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it.

Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 18d

Chilling dispatch from Mario Guevara, the journalist trapped in ICE detention for...doing his job.

Journalist Mario Guevara Speaks - Letter from ICE DETENTION FACILITY — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER

The only journalist detained by ICE on US soil, sends a letter to The Bitter Southerner.

bittersoutherner.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19d

Bothers me when people discuss Left movements in the U.S. w/out underscoring the GENERATIONS of repression, surveillance, violence directed at movements. The "Left" is so disorganized is used as a joke but I hardly ever see those same people saying 'THE LEFT WAS TARGETED & DISORGANIZED by the STATE'

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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 23d

Gentle reminder that in the late '50s, the U.S. government did not censor comics. Comics companies censored themselves.

Not sure why that crossed my mind today but there it is...

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19d

this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious

Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 20d

dudes rock

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Sep 8

so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff.
they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed.
I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."

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Sep 9
it was a smash hit.
a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud.
he was home by 6:30am.

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Pat Coleman @patcoleman.bsky.social · 19d

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Tina Coleman @arystocrat.bsky.social · 23d

As an added bonus, libraries also have films, games, audio books and more to check out. Plus all kinds of programs, activities, and such.

And if IMLS funding holds out things like interlibrary loan opens up an entire world of other collections.

You really should go back and update your card, tbh.

wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 23d

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.

They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 24d

David Byrne and Alex Weir

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Toronto Comic Arts Festival @torontocomics.bsky.social · 29d

Comics are under attack in Canada. We cannot stay silent.

Read and share TCAF’s statement on censorship in Alberta’s public schools, then join us in taking action! www.torontocomics.com/post/comics-...

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · Sep 9

The greatest exchange in comics interview history still belongs to Jack Kirby

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · Sep 6

Do it.

Search your name.

Take their money.

It’s yours anyway.

Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Tina Coleman @arystocrat.bsky.social · Sep 7

Ollie Queen maybe? After he got sober?

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Tina Coleman @arystocrat.bsky.social · Sep 7

I don’t think I could afford things from either of these corporations.

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