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@gabliotecaria.bsky.social

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🇵🇷 in 🇬🇧. She/her. Proud trade union organiser and former public library worker. Views here are my own, not my employer's.

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Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · Sep 11

If you want to know how AMAZING @wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social is, they somehow *knew* I'd be wearing this top on Loki release day and wrapped the book to coordinate. If you want to know how BRILLIANT @louiestowell.bsky.social's book is, just look at Godzilla trying to escape the frame to grab it!

I'm wearing the loudest hot pink Hawaiian shirt (it literally says Hawaii with illustrations of a sandy beach and hot pink and white clouds) and amazingly the ribbon wrapping my copy of Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Causing Chaos is white, pink, blue, and orange, matching it PERFECTLY. Best bookshop EVER!

I'm holding up my copy of Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Causing Chaos next to my canvas Godzilla poster so it looks like he's excitedly stomping through the waves to grab it off my hand. He would, too, if he wasn't a painting.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 7h

Toad woke up. “Drat!” he said. “This house is a mess. I have so much work to do.”

Frog looked through the window. “Toad, you are right,” said Frog. “It is a mess.”

Toad pulled the covers over his head.

Toad hides in bed from the mess of his house, while Frog looks on.

From "Tomorrow"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 7h

Dearest Mina, All is well here. The Count has insisted I remain for a month to tutor him in the English Custom. Jonathan

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Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 8h

Okra
Moulin Rouge
Fairytale of New York

Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 8h

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 8h

Just out from seeing #SelfEsteem. Trascendental. Waves and waves of love and rage and catharsis and truth. Gods I needed it. 🌌❤️‍🔥

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 10h

You could have given me a thousand guesses on which celebrity death would come today, and not one of them would have been the great Diane Keaton.

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Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 10h

We got you, boos 🙌 💖💜💙

Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 13h

It’s National Coming Out Day for all the letters of the rainbow. It’s a huge risk for anyone, but if you can, we need you more than ever. And there’s an army of us here to back you up, you beauty.

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Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 11h

Still with me. This novel changed how I see the world and what it could be. Superb.

Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 15h

The Actual Star is only $3.99 on ebook right now. Go buy it bruhs and brahs.

The Actual Star: A Novel

Amazon.com: The Actual Star: A Novel eBook : Byrne, Monica: Kindle Store

www.amazon.com

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 1d

Today, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens at AA Gallery in London! Curated by Sarah Shin and Harriet Jennings, the exhibition presents a selection of Ursula's maps, including some that have never been exhibited before.

A photo of the entrance to The Word for World exhibition, with two banners hanging vertically down outside the doorway to a brick building with white-paned windows. A row of bicycles are parked in front. The banners are purple and white and say the name of the exhibition and Ursula K. Le Guin's name.

A cord-wrapped rock rests on a vivid blue background next to a map of and program for The Word for World exhibition.

A stack of copies of The Word for World book, which shows the title in vivid blue against a black cloth cover.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 13h

It’s this multiple times a day

They don't even bother to lie badly anymore.
I suppose that's the final humiliation.

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Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 14h

Gonzito, Gorgonzolito, el gatito de mi alma 🥹💖

GONZO the Ghoastly 👻 @gonzo.bsky.social · 17h

Latenite/early morning BabbyGonz time!

Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 14h

This is like Carcassonne but make it cats and I'm here for it

Guy Pradel @pradaldi.bsky.social · Sep 2

New product on my shop, The Longest Cat.
This is a set of four stamps to create cute mutant cats.

guypradel.fr/produit/the-...

The set of four stamps, with an example of a really long cat with two backsides.

Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 14h

Ummmm @louiestowell.bsky.social !!!!

Guy Pradel @pradaldi.bsky.social · Sep 2

New product on my shop, The Longest Cat.
This is a set of four stamps to create cute mutant cats.

guypradel.fr/produit/the-...

Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 14h

How...how can you NOT know they're thinly sliced potatoes

jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 15h

They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

fortune.com

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Fox Lane Books 🦊 @foxlanebooks.bsky.social · 15h

We 🧡 the 2025 Bookshop Day tote bag - it’s so vibrant, and captures the joy that books bring

Designed by award-winning, author-Illustrator and motivational speaker @whackochacko.bsky.social it’s available now!

And don’t forget - DOUBLE REWARD POINTS all day for #BookshopDay

foxlanebooks.co.uk

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Johnny Townsend @qarchivist.bsky.social · 15h

'Peace' Has No Meaning When Right-Wingers Like Maria Corina Machado Win the Nobel Prize www.commondreams.org/opinion/peac...

'Peace' Has No Meaning When Right-Wingers Like Maria Corina Machado Win the Nobel Prize | Common Dreams

As Venezuelan-American, I know exactly what Machado represents: the smiling face of Washington’s regime-change machine, the polished spokesperson for sanctions, privatization, and foreign intervention...

www.commondreams.org

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Libby from Biscuit @thisisbiscuit.org.uk · 1d

"Bisexual adults were significantly less likely to come out than their LGTQ+ peers, with 47% saying they aren't out to extended family, 38% saying they aren't out to coworkers, 35% saying they aren't out to parents, 28% saying they aren't out to siblings, and 9% saying they aren't out to friends".

How many LGBTQ+ adults are out of the closet? Almost all — with these exceptions

Around 96 percent of LGBTQ+ adults have come out as queer to at least one person.

www.advocate.com

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Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 15h

I didn't know they made tote bags about me 🫣😂

AK Faulkner @ NYCC @poopraven.bsky.social · 15h

Good morning #NYCC! It's time for GAY BOOKS!

I've got bisexual trauma guys with Celtic mythology! I've got gay guys with skeevy vampire politics! I've got sapphic spies with an evil billionaire! I've got bargain bundles, and the best tote bag in the entire con!

Level 1, Hall 1B, Table WB-4!

AK's NYCC table with a lilac tablecloth and all their books on display

Spines of all 11 Inheritance books, plus that of the novella Haunted Hearts

Spines of all 5 Tooth & Claw books, wrapped in a purple ribbon.

Purple tote bag with white text which reads "I spent all my money on queer books"

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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 16h

just 50 vampurrs away from the goal! grab yours before he vanishes into the night 🦇

www.makeship.com/products/vam...

vampurr the plushie being gently held. he’s so soft!!!!

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Jai (they/them) @illustratedjai.bsky.social · 16h

Just did a sloth sticker restock at @portalbookshop.bsky.social including refilling the flag sloths and adding the dnd sloths! Also available at my etsy in now much more limited numbers: illustratedjaishop.etsy.com

A photograph of six stacks of stickers laid out in two rows. Each sticker is a cartoon sloth standing bipedally with their hands on their hips and a pride flag waving behind them. The flags on the top row are bisexual, non-binary and lesbian; the flags on the bottom row are transgender, asexual and the progress pride flag. The background is a green and yellow craft cutting board.

A photograph of ten stickers laid out in two rows. Each of the stickers is a cartoon sloth standing bipedally, dressed as a dungeons and dragons class. On the top row there are: wizard, artificer, bard, paladin and cleric. On the bottom row are: druid, ranger, barbarian, monk and rogue. The background is brown craft paper.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 15h

I'm at a rest stop and there are abunch of ravens zipping, as much as ravens can zip, but I'm top tired and need to actually rest. 🪶

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 18h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades