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Cat Lady Belvedia

@catladybel.bsky.social

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Hi. I'm a librarian. More importantly, I have five cats. This is where I get political and talk LIS/Info Literacy. Fun and silly crap on Tumblr, cats on Insta. Belvedia on both.

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Cat Lady Belvedia @catladybel.bsky.social · Jan 13

Gonna do a fun little 10 facts about me thing.
1. I'm a Virgo and an Elder Millennial. I don't take either very seriously.
2. I currently live with my fiancé and our five cats. We are not having kids.
3. I'm perimenopausal. Yay.
4. I'm T2D and on Mounjaro. I've lost 60 lbs over the past two years.

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Dark and Wondrous - it's in the trees! it's coming! @darkandwondrous.bsky.social · 11d

As October begins, we contemplate how the sea wind had its way with this now-fungal saint.

scary sea-weathered saint on the church near Hartlepool headland (body of saint is heavily eroded down to a veined or boxwork-like underlying structure of the stone, which looks like weird branching fungus).

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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Metadata, Lattes & Impostor Syndrome) @hannahshelley.bsky.social · 9h

Cleaning tip: to avoid getting overwhelmed, focus on decluttering just one room a week until you die

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 6h

Men would rather collapse a government than go to therapy

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

There is a whole category of Milkshake Duck Nobel Prize winners

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 17h

The Nobel *Peace* Prize winner is cool with murdering civilians on boats

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 16h

This job is often a lonely grind, but I'll tell you that there are few better feelings than when you finish a book that manages to complete a great character arc *and* bookend the beginning of the series perfectly.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 16h

Every morning I wake up feeling like I’m in big trouble

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 21h

Standing up to fascism is always the right choice.

Rejecting censorship is always the right choice.

Fighting for marginalized and vulnerable communities is always the right choice.

A Wyoming librarian refused to purge books with LGBTQ+ content and was fired for it.

She won a $700,000 settlement

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement

www.nytimes.com

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Nathan @nathandunbar.bsky.social · 17h

A call to bookshops when setting up banned books displays. Feature alive authors who could be struggling due to this. Yes, Stephen King gets banned but he's doing ok financially. So many others are not.

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 17h

Just a reminder that Banned Books Week isn’t about selling more copies of 1984. It’s about keeping authors and teachers and librarians safe and making sure all of us have the freedom to read widely. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Children’s Authors on the Real-World Cost of Book Banning

Authors discuss how having their work targeted by censors has directly affected their livelihood and their well-being.

www.publishersweekly.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14h

Everything about this is bonkers. The arrest, the charge, the possible sentence, the **$2 million bail.**

reason.com/2025/10/10/t...

Tennessee man arrested, gets $2 million bond for posting Facebook meme

Larry Bushart posted a meme on a local Facebook page about Charlie Kirk. He now faces years in prison.

reason.com

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Cat Lady Belvedia @catladybel.bsky.social · 14h

When you court racists and then are shocked to find out that they are racist!! And you are not the Super Special Wonderful Exception to Their Racism!!

Cat Lady Belvedia @catladybel.bsky.social · 16h

Always fun when you put protections in place only for every single one to fail catastrophically.

Cat Lady Belvedia @catladybel.bsky.social · 16h

Stuffing a whole 12-pack of Big League Chew in your mouth

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Chris Berube @chrisberube.bsky.social · 1d

"Oh yeah? You like baseball? What if I make you smoke *an entire pack* of baseball?"

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 1d

Their goal is revenge against every scientist who told them something they didn't want to hear or made them feel inferior by knowing more than they do.

Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 1d

WTF is their goal? Small government means every man for themselves when the next catastrophe hits? What is the point? Government isn’t a business, it’s a service for the people. You’re saving minimal money with these cuts and only hurting literally everyone

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Cat Lady Belvedia @catladybel.bsky.social · 17h

I really like Pitzer.

That said the whole frog analogy here really puts in perspective the whole “eat your frog” working schematic I have had to follow at multiple jobs. Why am I swallowing frogs in the first place?

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Bru.ib⭐ @bruib.bsky.social · 1d

😼🙀
Two cats. Two approaches to life.
#Vella #Chella #CatSky #BlueCat

Two cats, one chill and relaxed, the other, with ears back, looking intently concerned.

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Cat Lady Belvedia @catladybel.bsky.social · 1d

This woman has never been to an anime and/or gaming convention and it shows

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Canceled for harshing the vibe

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Professor SweetPants @ygrene.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: living under the current administration is now classified as a chronic health condition. additionally, healthcare for that chronic condition is not allowed under the current administration

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Cat Lady Belvedia @catladybel.bsky.social · 1d

But where it really fucks up is that its been fed so much garbage with no quality control so it has no idea what is good writing and what isn't. You could get phrases from Steinbeck and Austen but you could also get stuff from My Immortal or an Onision book garbled in there.

Cat Lady Belvedia @catladybel.bsky.social · 1d

Syntax and grammar and word choice can have right and wrong answers and in that sense it could be helpful. But the moment it tries to convey and abstract meaning, things get fucky because you need a human brain for that.

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Cat Lady Belvedia @catladybel.bsky.social · 1d

I gave AI its fair shake, because I am an information professional and knowing what tools can do is part of my field. If it were a version of grammar check editing that could make my transitions better, kill off my adverbs for better vocabulary, I'd use it.

But it just inserts plagiarized cliches.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Cat Lady Belvedia @catladybel.bsky.social · 1d

Their definition of "assault" is likely just as loosey-goosey as the GOP's definition of "glorifying political violence."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps the likes of Chappelle, Ansari and CK felt there was less at stake because, by their own estimation, they have already suffered cancellation. Except that their exile from public life appears to include fresh Netflix specials and Grammy awards. Louis CK should count himself lucky; if he’d been caught with his dick in his hand in Najd, rather than Colorado, he may well have retained neither of those appendages (punitive limb amputation is an actual thing).

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Cat Lady Belvedia @catladybel.bsky.social · 1d

These people lie like breathing. Nope. Don't believe it.