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Cassie (she/they) @cassiekayreads.bsky.social · Jul 30

TEXAS educators - how is SB13 (passed 6/20/25) impacting you as you ramp up for the school year? What challenges are you discovering? What support do you need?

Cassie (she/they) @cassiekayreads.bsky.social · Jul 27

LOSING IT over the fact that the person who "asked ChatGPT how to play the game" is the first person home on Big Brother

Bahahahaha LOSER BEHAVIOR, LOSER STATUS

Cassie (she/they) @cassiekayreads.bsky.social · Jul 21

Anyone in education access/advocacy, publishing, diverse books initiatives, etc hiring? I'm a former educator, I'm a project manager, stage manager, freelance writer, K-12 book expert, and adaptable to pretty much anything. Want someone knowledgeable and passionate? Let me know 👀

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · Jul 10

Every now and then, someone comes along and makes zombies fun again. @cassiekayreads.bsky.social reviews Elias Cold's YA horror The Duke Steals Hearts & Other Body Parts–a gothic fantasy that starts with a missing nose and gets weirder from there:

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Elias Cold's The Duke Steals Hearts & Other Body Parts Makes Zombies Fun - Reactor

For those that like their horror gothic, twisty, and snarky...

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Cassie (she/they) @cassiekayreads.bsky.social · Jul 7

How does someone even start to figure out what else they want to do when their dream job is going through an identity crisis and you're worried it's not going to end well? Asking for a friend. ...but maybe that friend is me. Idk what I want to do when I grow up anymore, y'all.

Cassie (she/they) @cassiekayreads.bsky.social · Jul 6

3) editing your resume or cover letter
4) idk but make a request and I'll let you know if I can do it!

Cassie (she/they) @cassiekayreads.bsky.social · Jul 6

1) a list of 3 book titles curated just for you
2) a friendship bracelet made with beads picked out by one of my cats (as in, i will throw beads on the ground and the ones the cats play with will be on the bracelet)

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Cassie (she/they) @cassiekayreads.bsky.social · Jul 6

If you DM me with a screenshot proving you donated to Max, I would happily gift you some of the following things back:

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Cassie (she/they) @cassiekayreads.bsky.social · Jul 6

Max is one of my favorite people on this planet. The hand they have been dealt is unfair, unjust, and awful. I'm not in a financial position to help, which breaks my heart -- but maybe some of you are.

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Cassie (she/they) @cassiekayreads.bsky.social · Jul 3

And that's an immediate add to the TBR for me

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Cassie (she/they) @cassiekayreads.bsky.social · Jul 3

Use 5Calls and CALL YOUR REPS. Hakeem Jeffries is using his time on the floor so we can continue to voice their opposition to the "Big Beautiful Bill." He has been speaking for hours, making sure the GOP couldn't pass the bill in the dead of night as Americans slept. CALL. YOUR. REPS.

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Cassie (she/they) @cassiekayreads.bsky.social · Jun 30

Between the DanDaDan film's mongolion death worm, Elio's alien worm species, and Andrew Joseph White's upcoming YOU WEREN'T MEANT TO BE HUMAN, 2025 really is the year of the worm for media and original storytelling. Go worms!!

Cassie (she/they) @cassiekayreads.bsky.social · Jun 28

Cassie (she/they) @cassiekayreads.bsky.social · Jun 24

"We have The Hunchback of Notre Dame at home"

The Hunchback of Notre Dame at home:

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Cassie (she/they) @cassiekayreads.bsky.social · Jun 21

If I had a nickel for every time an Uber driver on this work trip has asked me to explain to them why audiobooks count as reading, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but wild it's happened twice for such a short trip - I've been gone ONE NIGHT

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Cassie (she/they) @cassiekayreads.bsky.social · Jun 20

In my current WIP I made the discovery that if I make my placeholder a meme, I am tickled enough to move on and come back to it later - landed on [Somehow, Palpatine returned]. Highly recommend 😂

Cassie (she/they) @cassiekayreads.bsky.social · Jun 16

Truly the Jamie Lloyd's trend is KILLING ME

Cassie (she/they) @cassiekayreads.bsky.social · Jun 16

The "Jamie Lloyd's [musical]" trend with the different guys in boxers keeps making me think of the stud cards you collect in Shadow Hearts Covenant PLEASE someone understand me 😂

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Ethan M. Aldridge @ethanmaldridge.bsky.social · Jun 14

No kings

Fours different hands pull a golden crown apart, surrounded by the words "Many hands make light work."

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Cassie (she/they) @cassiekayreads.bsky.social · Jun 12

I've been thinking about it off and on for almost ten years 😅

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Cassie (she/they) @cassiekayreads.bsky.social · Jun 12

Here I am, once again, wondering to myself, "should i just go to library school"

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Cassie (she/they) @cassiekayreads.bsky.social · Jun 11

You know what hits incredibly differently when you reread it 5 years later after the sudden deaths of your father, uncle, and grandmother?

Legendborn 😂🥲

Cassie (she/they) @cassiekayreads.bsky.social · Jun 11

The person in front of me at the Metro had $1100 on their card and for the tiniest, briefest moment I considered starting a new life as a pickpocket

Cassie (she/they) @cassiekayreads.bsky.social · Jun 9

BOOOOO TOM FELTON

Cassie (she/they) @cassiekayreads.bsky.social · Jun 4

Same!!