Katy Manck, MLS SLMSC
@booksyalove.bsky.social
Reader, gardener, indep book reviewer- https://BooksYALove.com. All kids need school libraries & librarians! IASL Past-President.
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I've got a bunch of poetry eligible for the Rhysling, Nebula, and Hugo awards! If you're reading for them, I'd be honored for you to consider my work. (Links in thread below!)
It’s time for the annual eligibility post! I hope you enjoyed the poetry I made this year. Truly, I feel lucky and proud and joyful. In any case, that’s always a win.
These are eligible to be nominated for the Rhysling, Nebulas, AND Hugo awards. Links to follow!
These are eligible to be nominated for the Rhysling, Nebulas, AND Hugo awards. Links to follow!
December 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I've got a bunch of poetry eligible for the Rhysling, Nebula, and Hugo awards! If you're reading for them, I'd be honored for you to consider my work. (Links in thread below!)
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Teachers & librarians - it's time to make plans for LitWorld's World Read Aloud Day!
Here's the list of authors & illustrators who have volunteered to Zoom into classrooms & libraries that day - please read info & directions for requesting a visit before emailing! katemessner.com/zoom-with-an...
Here's the list of authors & illustrators who have volunteered to Zoom into classrooms & libraries that day - please read info & directions for requesting a visit before emailing! katemessner.com/zoom-with-an...
Zoom with an Author or Illustrator for World Read Aloud Day 2026! – Kate Messner
katemessner.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Teachers & librarians - it's time to make plans for LitWorld's World Read Aloud Day!
Here's the list of authors & illustrators who have volunteered to Zoom into classrooms & libraries that day - please read info & directions for requesting a visit before emailing! katemessner.com/zoom-with-an...
Here's the list of authors & illustrators who have volunteered to Zoom into classrooms & libraries that day - please read info & directions for requesting a visit before emailing! katemessner.com/zoom-with-an...
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“When a player leverages his power, it’s a scandal,” Jemele Hill writes. When a college coach does the same thing, “it’s just business as usual”:
The Most Egregious Double Standard in Sports
For college coaches, greed is just business.
bit.ly
December 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
“When a player leverages his power, it’s a scandal,” Jemele Hill writes. When a college coach does the same thing, “it’s just business as usual”:
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Hey y'all, @flashpointsf.bsky.social has a very modest KS goal to keep the lights on via some very reasonably priced rewards! Help support a home for paying SFF flash online!
With only 10 days left, this year's Kickstarter is not trending in a hopeful direction...
This funding is what keeps us online. If you can, we would deeply appreciate your support.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fla...
This funding is what keeps us online. If you can, we would deeply appreciate your support.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fla...
Flash Point SF 2025
An online literary publication for science fiction & fantasy short stories under 1000 words.
www.kickstarter.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Hey y'all, @flashpointsf.bsky.social has a very modest KS goal to keep the lights on via some very reasonably priced rewards! Help support a home for paying SFF flash online!
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It takes a minimum of 12 countries to total 51% of the world’s 2.3 billion Christians. These 12 countries (the U.S., Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, South Africa, Italy, Germany & Kenya) make up 21% of the world’s overall population.
December 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
It takes a minimum of 12 countries to total 51% of the world’s 2.3 billion Christians. These 12 countries (the U.S., Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, South Africa, Italy, Germany & Kenya) make up 21% of the world’s overall population.
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“Leaving the Fifth Circuit’s ruling in place erodes the most elemental principles of free speech and allows state and local governments to exert ideological control over the people with impunity…. The government has no place telling people what they can and cannot read.”
Supreme Court clears way for Llano County library book removals
Seven residents launched a challenge in 2022 to the removal of 17 books, which included topics on race and gender. They won a reinstatement of the titles, but lost on appeal.
www.texastribune.org
December 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“Leaving the Fifth Circuit’s ruling in place erodes the most elemental principles of free speech and allows state and local governments to exert ideological control over the people with impunity…. The government has no place telling people what they can and cannot read.”
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Bonus #artAdventCalendar
Happy birthday to #mathematician & #computerscientist US Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper (1906-1992) who popularized the revolutionary idea of developing machine-independent programming languages based on English. 🧪🐡👩🏼🔬 #histsci
She began teaching at Vassar in 31 & got PhD (Yale) 🧵#artAdventCalendar
She began teaching at Vassar in 31 & got PhD (Yale) 🧵#artAdventCalendar
December 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Bonus #artAdventCalendar
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For #Crustmas, an artwork of mine made for a Darwin-themed art exhibit at Fernbank Museum in Atlanta GA in 2011. Titled 'Descent with Modification,' it shows the evolutionary relatedness of modern burrowing crustaceans using a branching burrow system as a cladogram. 🧪🎨🦀🦞🦐 #sciart
December 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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For today's #ArtAdventCalendar here's my drawing of a Badger. This one took quite some time and I still think his eyes look a bit wonky but he was a lovely subject to draw.
Happy Tuesday everyone! 🕊️
#Mammals #Art #Nature #Badgers #Drawing #EastCoastKin
Happy Tuesday everyone! 🕊️
#Mammals #Art #Nature #Badgers #Drawing #EastCoastKin
December 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
For today's #ArtAdventCalendar here's my drawing of a Badger. This one took quite some time and I still think his eyes look a bit wonky but he was a lovely subject to draw.
Happy Tuesday everyone! 🕊️
#Mammals #Art #Nature #Badgers #Drawing #EastCoastKin
Happy Tuesday everyone! 🕊️
#Mammals #Art #Nature #Badgers #Drawing #EastCoastKin
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Pretty infuriating: King Gizzard quit Spotify over ethical concerns -- and now Spotify is letting AI knockoffs of its music (with all the lyrics copied verbatim) proliferate on its platform
futurism.com/future-socie...
futurism.com/future-socie...
King Gizzard Pulled Their Music From Spotify in Protest, and Now Spotify Is Hosting AI Knockoffs of Their Songs
An impersonator appears to be using generative AI to poorly clone rock band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's iconic sound on Spotify.
futurism.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Pretty infuriating: King Gizzard quit Spotify over ethical concerns -- and now Spotify is letting AI knockoffs of its music (with all the lyrics copied verbatim) proliferate on its platform
futurism.com/future-socie...
futurism.com/future-socie...
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December 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Happy WORLDWIDE pub day to unusual Shprintse, doggie Labzik, Lipe the Tailor, and all the other characters who scamper, stroll, and shuffle through the pages of my new book!
Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature is now available worldwide!
In this book, @miriamudel.bsky.social reveals how modern Yiddish children’s literature gave expression to emerging forms of Jewish identity.
Read a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
In this book, @miriamudel.bsky.social reveals how modern Yiddish children’s literature gave expression to emerging forms of Jewish identity.
Read a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Happy WORLDWIDE pub day to unusual Shprintse, doggie Labzik, Lipe the Tailor, and all the other characters who scamper, stroll, and shuffle through the pages of my new book!
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A personal tip for #ArtAdventCalendar
When looking at posts I select "Latest" as the view, otherwise the same most popular ones keep surfacing.
Tip 2!
If you follow @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca , you will continue to see great art when the event is over! Nobody does more to support artists here.
When looking at posts I select "Latest" as the view, otherwise the same most popular ones keep surfacing.
Tip 2!
If you follow @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca , you will continue to see great art when the event is over! Nobody does more to support artists here.
December 9, 2025 at 10:35 AM
A personal tip for #ArtAdventCalendar
When looking at posts I select "Latest" as the view, otherwise the same most popular ones keep surfacing.
Tip 2!
If you follow @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca , you will continue to see great art when the event is over! Nobody does more to support artists here.
When looking at posts I select "Latest" as the view, otherwise the same most popular ones keep surfacing.
Tip 2!
If you follow @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca , you will continue to see great art when the event is over! Nobody does more to support artists here.
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Oh, terrible Canada with its abundant supply of potash for use for fertilizer for U.S. farmers. We could make life even more challenging, as the President has for farmers, with an export tax, but we don’t. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-pol...
U.S. eyes high tariffs on Canadian fertilizer, subsidies for farmers
Agriculture industry has been battered by months of trade war turmoil
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Oh, terrible Canada with its abundant supply of potash for use for fertilizer for U.S. farmers. We could make life even more challenging, as the President has for farmers, with an export tax, but we don’t. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-pol...
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The issue at stake in 1686 was whether the king was bound by the law.
How are we back here again?
How are we back here again?
In The New Republic, historian Holly Brewer compares the Court's decision to Godden v. Hales, a 1686 case affirming that James II was above the law – which was only repudiated when James II was overthrown in the Glorious Revolution. newrepublic.com/article/1833...
March 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The issue at stake in 1686 was whether the king was bound by the law.
How are we back here again?
How are we back here again?
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New in my shop: COTTON WASHCLOTHS! I have two pink sets available as well as a random color listing. All here in the "household" tag: ko-fi.com/crippledcomm...
Use the quoted link to apply a 10% discount!
#BSNM #ShopSmall #Discount #Holidays
Use the quoted link to apply a 10% discount!
#BSNM #ShopSmall #Discount #Holidays
December 8, 2025 at 11:09 PM
New in my shop: COTTON WASHCLOTHS! I have two pink sets available as well as a random color listing. All here in the "household" tag: ko-fi.com/crippledcomm...
Use the quoted link to apply a 10% discount!
#BSNM #ShopSmall #Discount #Holidays
Use the quoted link to apply a 10% discount!
#BSNM #ShopSmall #Discount #Holidays
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James Talarico: The only minority destroying America is the billionaires.
Trans people aren't taking away our healthcare.
Muslims aren't defunding our schools.
Immigrants aren't cutting taxes for themselves and their rich friends.
We are focused on the wrong 1%.
Trans people aren't taking away our healthcare.
Muslims aren't defunding our schools.
Immigrants aren't cutting taxes for themselves and their rich friends.
We are focused on the wrong 1%.
December 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
James Talarico: The only minority destroying America is the billionaires.
Trans people aren't taking away our healthcare.
Muslims aren't defunding our schools.
Immigrants aren't cutting taxes for themselves and their rich friends.
We are focused on the wrong 1%.
Trans people aren't taking away our healthcare.
Muslims aren't defunding our schools.
Immigrants aren't cutting taxes for themselves and their rich friends.
We are focused on the wrong 1%.
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If Talarico - Crockett can keep it positive on the personal level and their major amplifiers can keep the bases chill, then 1 drops out when it's clear their losing, it could set a standard for the presidential primary so more than 1 progressive can run without risking a Buttigieg presidency.
This statement from the Talarico campaign is classy. Hope both candidates keep it up.
December 8, 2025 at 11:38 PM
If Talarico - Crockett can keep it positive on the personal level and their major amplifiers can keep the bases chill, then 1 drops out when it's clear their losing, it could set a standard for the presidential primary so more than 1 progressive can run without risking a Buttigieg presidency.
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'The college football playoff committee has official lost its mind.'
Does Mattress Mack have a point regarding College Football Playoff?
'The college football playoff committee has official lost its mind.'
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December 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
'The college football playoff committee has official lost its mind.'
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My friend sent me his Puerto Rican grandmother's coquito recipe (with some variations from his sister), and now I'm sharing it with you. ¡Feliz Navidad!
December 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
My friend sent me his Puerto Rican grandmother's coquito recipe (with some variations from his sister), and now I'm sharing it with you. ¡Feliz Navidad!
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Gotta tell you if you need some sweet last minute gifts shop the @ufw.bsky.social store. They have really well designed/made merch for a good cause.
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ufwstore.com/x/home.php?m...
December 7, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Gotta tell you if you need some sweet last minute gifts shop the @ufw.bsky.social store. They have really well designed/made merch for a good cause.
ufwstore.com/x/home.php?m...
ufwstore.com/x/home.php?m...
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A male reporter needs to ask Leavitt how she feels about Trump's language toward women and what sort of message it sends to men when the president belittles and berates women in this way. What will she tell her daughter when she grows up and sees Mommy defend him?
December 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A male reporter needs to ask Leavitt how she feels about Trump's language toward women and what sort of message it sends to men when the president belittles and berates women in this way. What will she tell her daughter when she grows up and sees Mommy defend him?
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It makes me really sad that we have to just like, talk about our bodies all the time in the open like this — shout out to Danielle who is brave — because men won't read a book.
Let me just say: I have run more than a dozen marathons and an ultramarathon and I have worked 13-hour days in a cornfield in the scorching-ass sun, and none of those things broke me like breastfeeding.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
It makes me really sad that we have to just like, talk about our bodies all the time in the open like this — shout out to Danielle who is brave — because men won't read a book.
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Why are there FIVE car washes around me? Maybe because private equity loves them.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Why Are There Suddenly So Many Car Washes?
Fueled by private equity and a subscription-based business model, the auto wash industry is flooding the US with new outlets. Some towns and cities have had enough.
www.bloomberg.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Why are there FIVE car washes around me? Maybe because private equity loves them.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Authors, make sure to bookmark this because even if it’s not relevant to you today, it will be one day!
December 8, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Authors, make sure to bookmark this because even if it’s not relevant to you today, it will be one day!