Queequist
@kquist.bsky.social
She/her. Friendly neighborhood anti-capitalist bartender & teacher. Book worm, angry idealist, shaker of cocktails/fists. I make drinks and I read things. Bay Area.
Formerly reading Don Quixote #dq25 🫏
Currently enjoying #AMonthOfDick
Formerly reading Don Quixote #dq25 🫏
Currently enjoying #AMonthOfDick
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No surprise to librarians, but perhaps surprising to users, demands/prices for ebooks /audiobooks are killing public library budgets. David Szalay's book, Flesh,” costs DCPL:
$28.99 hardcopy
$59.99 ebook
$69.99 audiobook
DCPL owns hardcopy; rents & must repurchase ebook & audio book every 2 yrs.
$28.99 hardcopy
$59.99 ebook
$69.99 audiobook
DCPL owns hardcopy; rents & must repurchase ebook & audio book every 2 yrs.
Libraries can't afford e-books. D.C. lawmakers have a plan.
The demand and price for e-books is up — and it’s busting the D.C. Public Library budget.
51st.news
January 17, 2026 at 4:44 AM
No surprise to librarians, but perhaps surprising to users, demands/prices for ebooks /audiobooks are killing public library budgets. David Szalay's book, Flesh,” costs DCPL:
$28.99 hardcopy
$59.99 ebook
$69.99 audiobook
DCPL owns hardcopy; rents & must repurchase ebook & audio book every 2 yrs.
$28.99 hardcopy
$59.99 ebook
$69.99 audiobook
DCPL owns hardcopy; rents & must repurchase ebook & audio book every 2 yrs.
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People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.
January 17, 2026 at 9:08 PM
People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.
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"we don't want people thinking Democrats are for open borders" I am! who gives a shit!!! my life has been immeasurably improved by the presence of immigrants in my community, regardless of their status, there is literally no downside there! why would I give a shit!!!!
January 17, 2026 at 10:08 PM
"we don't want people thinking Democrats are for open borders" I am! who gives a shit!!! my life has been immeasurably improved by the presence of immigrants in my community, regardless of their status, there is literally no downside there! why would I give a shit!!!!
I lost my miiiiiind when they first filmed a giant squid, maybe 2005-ish!!!! I was obsessed! This brings me bizarre joy!!! 🐋
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
January 18, 2026 at 4:34 AM
I lost my miiiiiind when they first filmed a giant squid, maybe 2005-ish!!!! I was obsessed! This brings me bizarre joy!!! 🐋
Seemed the most fitting beer for my post-shift drink as I sit down to try to catch up on reading 🐋
January 18, 2026 at 4:13 AM
Seemed the most fitting beer for my post-shift drink as I sit down to try to catch up on reading 🐋
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How much more in your face can it be?
"Why are you asking me for my paperwork?"
"Because of your accent."
"You have an accent too."
"Where were you born sir?"
"Where were you born at?"
"Put your hands behind your back."
"Why are you asking me for my paperwork?"
"Because of your accent."
"You have an accent too."
"Where were you born sir?"
"Where were you born at?"
"Put your hands behind your back."
January 17, 2026 at 9:16 PM
How much more in your face can it be?
"Why are you asking me for my paperwork?"
"Because of your accent."
"You have an accent too."
"Where were you born sir?"
"Where were you born at?"
"Put your hands behind your back."
"Why are you asking me for my paperwork?"
"Because of your accent."
"You have an accent too."
"Where were you born sir?"
"Where were you born at?"
"Put your hands behind your back."
Very much a *record scratch* “I bet you’re wondering how I got here” vibe in this photo.
Societal collapse version.
Societal collapse version.
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Very much a *record scratch* “I bet you’re wondering how I got here” vibe in this photo.
Societal collapse version.
Societal collapse version.
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This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,
The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance
Iconic imo
The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance
Iconic imo
January 17, 2026 at 7:12 AM
This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,
The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance
Iconic imo
The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance
Iconic imo
Thinking a lot about the Spanish Civil War these days, can’t imagine why….
Gerda Taro with a Republican soldier near Córdoba by Robert Capa. September 1936. Hard to say what is her expression but looks like Francoist planes above
January 17, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Thinking a lot about the Spanish Civil War these days, can’t imagine why….
I want a spin-off on Fedallah’s backstory 🐋
January 17, 2026 at 6:31 PM
I want a spin-off on Fedallah’s backstory 🐋
🐋 “…in a whaler wonders soon wane.”
It’s been said many times, but I do love Melville’s alliterations. 💜
It’s been said many times, but I do love Melville’s alliterations. 💜
January 17, 2026 at 6:29 PM
🐋 “…in a whaler wonders soon wane.”
It’s been said many times, but I do love Melville’s alliterations. 💜
It’s been said many times, but I do love Melville’s alliterations. 💜
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the thing about this appeal—which is just the politically competent version of what Schumer says—is that it misses how viscerally revolting ICE is to ordinary people right now
You're paying for this.
Trump's Big Ugly Bill gave BILLIONS to ICE and giant corporations—using money meant to lower your health care costs.
Instead of helping your mom get cancer treatment, your tax dollars are being used to terrorize communities.
Trump's Big Ugly Bill gave BILLIONS to ICE and giant corporations—using money meant to lower your health care costs.
Instead of helping your mom get cancer treatment, your tax dollars are being used to terrorize communities.
CNN airs a compilation of escalating ICE aggression towards peaceful protesters.
January 17, 2026 at 10:38 AM
the thing about this appeal—which is just the politically competent version of what Schumer says—is that it misses how viscerally revolting ICE is to ordinary people right now
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I think the democrats who repeatedly funded the organization of her killer (he’d been in ICE for a while) and have advocated for harsher border policy, a militarized police and a lethal military abroad have more responsibility than people whose red line was genocide but your thing is neat too
January 16, 2026 at 9:17 PM
I think the democrats who repeatedly funded the organization of her killer (he’d been in ICE for a while) and have advocated for harsher border policy, a militarized police and a lethal military abroad have more responsibility than people whose red line was genocide but your thing is neat too
Waking up from a dream where someone attacked me in my bed and then I was losing all my hair like “thanks brain! You’ve made this dumpster fire reality looks rosy!”
January 16, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Waking up from a dream where someone attacked me in my bed and then I was losing all my hair like “thanks brain! You’ve made this dumpster fire reality looks rosy!”
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“ICE agents, get out now because historically, this ends with you hanging from a lamppost and your body paraded through the streets.” - the …we rate dogs guy
January 16, 2026 at 3:49 AM
“ICE agents, get out now because historically, this ends with you hanging from a lamppost and your body paraded through the streets.” - the …we rate dogs guy
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You're laughing. The radical left is painting trains coming through tunnels on cliff faces and you're laughing.
DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin on "acts of violence" against ICE agents in Minnesota: "Pouring water on the ground so that it would freeze the ground in front of our federal law enforcement vehicles so that they would potentially slide, crash, and potentially kill them"
January 16, 2026 at 2:41 AM
You're laughing. The radical left is painting trains coming through tunnels on cliff faces and you're laughing.
I am once again asking outlets to just stop sending people to the WH for this bullshit. What real reporting is being done? This just gives these liars a platform. Go somewhere else and report on actual things. The White House can release statements. You don’t have to give them these moments.
LEAVITT: Why was Renee Good unfortunately and tragically killed?
REPORTER: Because an ICE agent acted recklessly and killed her unjustifiably
LEAVITT: Oh, ok. So you're a biased reporters with a biased opinion. You're a left-wing hack.
REPORTER: Because an ICE agent acted recklessly and killed her unjustifiably
LEAVITT: Oh, ok. So you're a biased reporters with a biased opinion. You're a left-wing hack.
January 15, 2026 at 11:30 PM
I am once again asking outlets to just stop sending people to the WH for this bullshit. What real reporting is being done? This just gives these liars a platform. Go somewhere else and report on actual things. The White House can release statements. You don’t have to give them these moments.
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St. Luigi was not wrong.
My insurance company won’t authorize my MRI. They also won’t pick up the goddamn provider line that my osteo has been calling so i can get into this pain clinic. They said they’ve been calling every day for several days and been on hold for hours.
I’m at the end of my fucking rope.
I’m at the end of my fucking rope.
January 15, 2026 at 11:26 PM
St. Luigi was not wrong.
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A single federal agent with a long gun just walked through the crowd, slipped on the ice on his way under the police tape.
Dropped his loaded clip.
Dropped his loaded clip.
January 15, 2026 at 2:39 AM
A single federal agent with a long gun just walked through the crowd, slipped on the ice on his way under the police tape.
Dropped his loaded clip.
Dropped his loaded clip.
The flogging will continue until the governor’s morale improves.
Kristi Noem: "If anything doesn't change with Gov. Walz, I don't anticipate that the streets will get any safer or more peaceful"
January 15, 2026 at 3:47 PM
The flogging will continue until the governor’s morale improves.
“Bait” doesn’t attack and kill you.
“Bait” sits around draws you in.
“Bait” is a worm on a sharp hook.
“Bait” is not three gunshots to the face.
I don’t think these people have ever been fishing.
“Bait” sits around draws you in.
“Bait” is a worm on a sharp hook.
“Bait” is not three gunshots to the face.
I don’t think these people have ever been fishing.
wooof having watched that presser just now, "don't take the bait" is a real shit thing to tell people who are, by all knowledge and information and evidence, acting in defense of themselves and their neighbors and their communities
January 15, 2026 at 6:22 AM
“Bait” doesn’t attack and kill you.
“Bait” sits around draws you in.
“Bait” is a worm on a sharp hook.
“Bait” is not three gunshots to the face.
I don’t think these people have ever been fishing.
“Bait” sits around draws you in.
“Bait” is a worm on a sharp hook.
“Bait” is not three gunshots to the face.
I don’t think these people have ever been fishing.
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wooof having watched that presser just now, "don't take the bait" is a real shit thing to tell people who are, by all knowledge and information and evidence, acting in defense of themselves and their neighbors and their communities
January 15, 2026 at 4:48 AM
wooof having watched that presser just now, "don't take the bait" is a real shit thing to tell people who are, by all knowledge and information and evidence, acting in defense of themselves and their neighbors and their communities
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800 people at Whittier International Elementary right now to coordinate ICE resistance. EIGHT HUNDRED, at one little school.
Recall there are only 2,000 ICE agents in the entire metro. Puny!
Recall there are only 2,000 ICE agents in the entire metro. Puny!
January 15, 2026 at 12:27 AM
800 people at Whittier International Elementary right now to coordinate ICE resistance. EIGHT HUNDRED, at one little school.
Recall there are only 2,000 ICE agents in the entire metro. Puny!
Recall there are only 2,000 ICE agents in the entire metro. Puny!
*whispers in poster’s ear*
How do you feel about the annihilation of the soul in pursuit of vengeance?
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And also whales? 🐋
How do you feel about the annihilation of the soul in pursuit of vengeance?
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And also whales? 🐋
Need a new book
Need an author suggestion
Need to read something I cant put down and read all day and night til im crying ive read them all.
I have needs
Need an author suggestion
Need to read something I cant put down and read all day and night til im crying ive read them all.
I have needs
January 15, 2026 at 4:54 AM
*whispers in poster’s ear*
How do you feel about the annihilation of the soul in pursuit of vengeance?
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And also whales? 🐋
How do you feel about the annihilation of the soul in pursuit of vengeance?
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And also whales? 🐋
“The Gam”: if whalers had a podcast 🐋
🐋 “The Gam” as a recurring SNL fake talk show sketch.
January 15, 2026 at 4:42 AM
“The Gam”: if whalers had a podcast 🐋