Tess || booksky 📚
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Tess || booksky 📚
@htessh.bsky.social
· Jan 21
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I am simply not meant to work 40 hours a week. I am meant to sit at home with a warm drink and a good book and my small dog.
December 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I am simply not meant to work 40 hours a week. I am meant to sit at home with a warm drink and a good book and my small dog.
Get to know me with these 10 random things!
✨️Books
✨️Dogs
✨️Silver jewelry
✨️Banter
✨️Pin Collections
✨️Hozier
✨️Fall
✨️Theater
✨️Muppets
✨️Arts & Crafts
✨️Books
✨️Dogs
✨️Silver jewelry
✨️Banter
✨️Pin Collections
✨️Hozier
✨️Fall
✨️Theater
✨️Muppets
✨️Arts & Crafts
Get to know me through these 10 random things. I WILL be testing you on this.
- Diet Mtn Dew
- snow
- Purse charms
- Waffle House
- Black and gold color combination
- very large earrings
- collecting mini things
- the night sky
- Real Madrid
- this gif
- Diet Mtn Dew
- snow
- Purse charms
- Waffle House
- Black and gold color combination
- very large earrings
- collecting mini things
- the night sky
- Real Madrid
- this gif
December 11, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Get to know me with these 10 random things!
✨️Books
✨️Dogs
✨️Silver jewelry
✨️Banter
✨️Pin Collections
✨️Hozier
✨️Fall
✨️Theater
✨️Muppets
✨️Arts & Crafts
✨️Books
✨️Dogs
✨️Silver jewelry
✨️Banter
✨️Pin Collections
✨️Hozier
✨️Fall
✨️Theater
✨️Muppets
✨️Arts & Crafts
With the rising interest in physical media, be sure to check your local library out for DVDs, CDs, books, and more. It helps us keep those programs going and offers you a chance to use physical media without buying it all outright! #booksky 📚💙
December 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
With the rising interest in physical media, be sure to check your local library out for DVDs, CDs, books, and more. It helps us keep those programs going and offers you a chance to use physical media without buying it all outright! #booksky 📚💙
For those who were invested, I found a modular notebook. I got a voyager notebook from my local bookstore. It's sold out from the publisher online right now, but here's the link! Eagerly awaiting the planner inserts. #booksky 📚💙
Voyager Notebooks – Peter Pauper Press share.google/WMWbifYKWdFi...
Voyager Notebooks – Peter Pauper Press share.google/WMWbifYKWdFi...
Voyager Notebooks
Today, still family owned and operated, Peter Pauper Press continues to honor our founders’ legacy -- and our customers’ expectations -- of beauty, quality, and value.
share.google
December 7, 2025 at 6:14 AM
For those who were invested, I found a modular notebook. I got a voyager notebook from my local bookstore. It's sold out from the publisher online right now, but here's the link! Eagerly awaiting the planner inserts. #booksky 📚💙
Voyager Notebooks – Peter Pauper Press share.google/WMWbifYKWdFi...
Voyager Notebooks – Peter Pauper Press share.google/WMWbifYKWdFi...
Does anyone have any refillable journal/notebook recs? Looking for something with inserts that won't cost me an arm and a leg.
December 4, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Does anyone have any refillable journal/notebook recs? Looking for something with inserts that won't cost me an arm and a leg.
December 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Us:
💜 every purchase supports indie bookstores
💰 pays local taxes
🎉 raised more than $39 million for bookstores
🌎 certified B-Corp
Them:
❌ does not pay their fair share of taxes
❌ does not care about putting indie bookstores out of business
❌ harmful to the environment
💜 every purchase supports indie bookstores
💰 pays local taxes
🎉 raised more than $39 million for bookstores
🌎 certified B-Corp
Them:
❌ does not pay their fair share of taxes
❌ does not care about putting indie bookstores out of business
❌ harmful to the environment
July 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Us:
💜 every purchase supports indie bookstores
💰 pays local taxes
🎉 raised more than $39 million for bookstores
🌎 certified B-Corp
Them:
❌ does not pay their fair share of taxes
❌ does not care about putting indie bookstores out of business
❌ harmful to the environment
💜 every purchase supports indie bookstores
💰 pays local taxes
🎉 raised more than $39 million for bookstores
🌎 certified B-Corp
Them:
❌ does not pay their fair share of taxes
❌ does not care about putting indie bookstores out of business
❌ harmful to the environment
Reposted by Tess || booksky 📚
This is going to be a devastating blow to the sciences and the crisis we're already seeing in research, education, and advancement.
When history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.
July 4, 2025 at 12:20 AM
This is going to be a devastating blow to the sciences and the crisis we're already seeing in research, education, and advancement.
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“There’s a level of terror I haven’t seen before.” A psychiatrist who provides care to undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles talks about the psychological harm caused by recent ICE raids and anti-immigrant rhetoric.
What Therapists Treating Immigrants Hear
Some mental-health-care providers are trying new approaches to treat patients whose worst fears have come true.
www.newyorker.com
July 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“There’s a level of terror I haven’t seen before.” A psychiatrist who provides care to undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles talks about the psychological harm caused by recent ICE raids and anti-immigrant rhetoric.
Okay... leaving everything i know behind is rapidly becoming the most appealing option... I'm in total disbelief at the way things are falling apart.
July 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Okay... leaving everything i know behind is rapidly becoming the most appealing option... I'm in total disbelief at the way things are falling apart.
Hey pals! I disappeared for a moment. The state of the world is terrifying. But I've created a writing discord! We'll be doing bi-weekly meetings for critique on Fridays, if you're interested! Please feel free to join us! #writersky #booksky 💙📚
discord.gg/HSDc2Xzc
discord.gg/HSDc2Xzc
Join the Roundtable Writers Discord Server!
Check out the Roundtable Writers community on Discord - hang out with 12 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
discord.gg
July 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Hey pals! I disappeared for a moment. The state of the world is terrifying. But I've created a writing discord! We'll be doing bi-weekly meetings for critique on Fridays, if you're interested! Please feel free to join us! #writersky #booksky 💙📚
discord.gg/HSDc2Xzc
discord.gg/HSDc2Xzc
Review: Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Rating: 5⭐️
Reading Method: 🎧
This made me sick to my stomach. Du Mez does an amazing job tracing the threads of the evangelical to alt right pipeline through history, presenting how we got where we are in the US. #booksky 💙📚
Rating: 5⭐️
Reading Method: 🎧
This made me sick to my stomach. Du Mez does an amazing job tracing the threads of the evangelical to alt right pipeline through history, presenting how we got where we are in the US. #booksky 💙📚
May 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Review: Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Rating: 5⭐️
Reading Method: 🎧
This made me sick to my stomach. Du Mez does an amazing job tracing the threads of the evangelical to alt right pipeline through history, presenting how we got where we are in the US. #booksky 💙📚
Rating: 5⭐️
Reading Method: 🎧
This made me sick to my stomach. Du Mez does an amazing job tracing the threads of the evangelical to alt right pipeline through history, presenting how we got where we are in the US. #booksky 💙📚
Review: The Cult of Trump by Steven Hassan
Rating: 5⭐️
Reading Method: 🎧
Written by a former Moonie and Cult Expert, Hassan puts Trump's first presidency under the lens of cults and manipulation tactics. Excellent analysis. #booksky 📚💙
Rating: 5⭐️
Reading Method: 🎧
Written by a former Moonie and Cult Expert, Hassan puts Trump's first presidency under the lens of cults and manipulation tactics. Excellent analysis. #booksky 📚💙
April 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Review: The Cult of Trump by Steven Hassan
Rating: 5⭐️
Reading Method: 🎧
Written by a former Moonie and Cult Expert, Hassan puts Trump's first presidency under the lens of cults and manipulation tactics. Excellent analysis. #booksky 📚💙
Rating: 5⭐️
Reading Method: 🎧
Written by a former Moonie and Cult Expert, Hassan puts Trump's first presidency under the lens of cults and manipulation tactics. Excellent analysis. #booksky 📚💙
Review: Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
Rating: 4⭐️
Reading Method: 🎧
I love T. Kingfisher's fairy-tale style of storytelling. This was dark and rich in lore. Chef's kiss! #booksky 📚💙
Rating: 4⭐️
Reading Method: 🎧
I love T. Kingfisher's fairy-tale style of storytelling. This was dark and rich in lore. Chef's kiss! #booksky 📚💙
April 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Review: Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
Rating: 4⭐️
Reading Method: 🎧
I love T. Kingfisher's fairy-tale style of storytelling. This was dark and rich in lore. Chef's kiss! #booksky 📚💙
Rating: 4⭐️
Reading Method: 🎧
I love T. Kingfisher's fairy-tale style of storytelling. This was dark and rich in lore. Chef's kiss! #booksky 📚💙
I'm still on IG (I know, I know), but nothing makes me angrier than seeing all of the stupid target ads/influencers and people gushing in the comments and breaking boycotts. New pet peeve unlocked.
April 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I'm still on IG (I know, I know), but nothing makes me angrier than seeing all of the stupid target ads/influencers and people gushing in the comments and breaking boycotts. New pet peeve unlocked.
I am sick of this timeline. Get me off this bus pals.
April 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I am sick of this timeline. Get me off this bus pals.
#writersky, is there any interest in a discord group/writing support club for critiques and review? I've been part of several, and would love to create something to fill a niche if needed. #booksky 📚💙
a cartoon drawing of a person using a laptop with the words write written around them
Alt: a cartoon drawing of a person using a laptop with the words write written around them
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April 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
#writersky, is there any interest in a discord group/writing support club for critiques and review? I've been part of several, and would love to create something to fill a niche if needed. #booksky 📚💙
Review: First-Time Caller by B.K. Borison
Rating: 5⭐️
Reading Method: 📘
This was soooo perfect. I want to inject whatever this story is made of directly into my bloodstream. Tooth-achingly sweet and full of heart. #booksky 📚💙
Rating: 5⭐️
Reading Method: 📘
This was soooo perfect. I want to inject whatever this story is made of directly into my bloodstream. Tooth-achingly sweet and full of heart. #booksky 📚💙
April 18, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Review: First-Time Caller by B.K. Borison
Rating: 5⭐️
Reading Method: 📘
This was soooo perfect. I want to inject whatever this story is made of directly into my bloodstream. Tooth-achingly sweet and full of heart. #booksky 📚💙
Rating: 5⭐️
Reading Method: 📘
This was soooo perfect. I want to inject whatever this story is made of directly into my bloodstream. Tooth-achingly sweet and full of heart. #booksky 📚💙
Review: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Rating: 5⭐️
Reading Method: 🎧
This book did not let up. Poignant and terrifying, Butler built a world that feels far too close on the horizon. Loved this. #booksky 📚💙
Rating: 5⭐️
Reading Method: 🎧
This book did not let up. Poignant and terrifying, Butler built a world that feels far too close on the horizon. Loved this. #booksky 📚💙
April 18, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Review: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Rating: 5⭐️
Reading Method: 🎧
This book did not let up. Poignant and terrifying, Butler built a world that feels far too close on the horizon. Loved this. #booksky 📚💙
Rating: 5⭐️
Reading Method: 🎧
This book did not let up. Poignant and terrifying, Butler built a world that feels far too close on the horizon. Loved this. #booksky 📚💙
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Review: Saving Five by Amanda Nguyen
Rating: 5⭐️
Reading Method: 🎧
As a survivor, Amanda's narrative weaving of her path towards justice felt like a step towards healing for me. I loved the way her story followed her life at different stages. Beautiful. #booksky 📚💙
Rating: 5⭐️
Reading Method: 🎧
As a survivor, Amanda's narrative weaving of her path towards justice felt like a step towards healing for me. I loved the way her story followed her life at different stages. Beautiful. #booksky 📚💙
April 16, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Review: Saving Five by Amanda Nguyen
Rating: 5⭐️
Reading Method: 🎧
As a survivor, Amanda's narrative weaving of her path towards justice felt like a step towards healing for me. I loved the way her story followed her life at different stages. Beautiful. #booksky 📚💙
Rating: 5⭐️
Reading Method: 🎧
As a survivor, Amanda's narrative weaving of her path towards justice felt like a step towards healing for me. I loved the way her story followed her life at different stages. Beautiful. #booksky 📚💙
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Book banning is not an “inconvenience”. It’s bigotry. Whether packaged as keeping kids safe from sexual content or removing politically charged material, the intention & practice of removing books from schools and libraries IS to directly undercut freedom.
April 15, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Book banning is not an “inconvenience”. It’s bigotry. Whether packaged as keeping kids safe from sexual content or removing politically charged material, the intention & practice of removing books from schools and libraries IS to directly undercut freedom.
Review: Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis
Rating: 4.5⭐️
Reading Method: 📘/🎧
This was such a fun little jaunt through a fantasy world. Immediately, I want more villains with amnesia. #booksky 📚💙
Rating: 4.5⭐️
Reading Method: 📘/🎧
This was such a fun little jaunt through a fantasy world. Immediately, I want more villains with amnesia. #booksky 📚💙
April 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Review: Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis
Rating: 4.5⭐️
Reading Method: 📘/🎧
This was such a fun little jaunt through a fantasy world. Immediately, I want more villains with amnesia. #booksky 📚💙
Rating: 4.5⭐️
Reading Method: 📘/🎧
This was such a fun little jaunt through a fantasy world. Immediately, I want more villains with amnesia. #booksky 📚💙