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Mad Mab

@madmab.bsky.social

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queer reader, writer, baker, actor, librarian, tea fiend, alewife, gamer, voter, witch, dreamer, punster, mom, wife, worrier, she/her

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Mad Mab @madmab.bsky.social · Jul 5

Yeah, it’s thread o’clock. I want to talk about some numbers and some politics.

Mad Mab @madmab.bsky.social · 18h

My daughter just finished her zillionth rewatch.

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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 1d

🧵It has been clear for years that a key difference between past instances of book banning and the present censorship cataclysm is that the banning happening now targets not only books, but librarianship as a profession and libraries as an institution. 1/4

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Mad Mab @madmab.bsky.social · 1d

Someone gives you a compliment, and you blush, causing the world to warm.

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Spryte M. ♿🏳️‍🌈♀️🎮✍🏻🪆🧩🦅 @sprytemagnus.bsky.social · 5d

@theradr.bsky.social I believe this is your gem of wisdom

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Mad Mab @madmab.bsky.social · 3d

Weeded book is back.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Mad Mab @madmab.bsky.social · 3d

Milo’s hat is perfect.

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 8d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Mad Mab @madmab.bsky.social · 4d

Taste is so individual.

Mad Mab @madmab.bsky.social · 4d

So, I buy candy for student prizes for book challenges. If they get a milestone, they get to choose a piece, and the skittles are always the first to go, even before the chocolate.

Mad Mab @madmab.bsky.social · 5d

Let me just whip out my boob at the makeup counter.

Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 5d

“To find your perfect nude lip you should match your lipstick to your areola” ok well I did that and it made me look like I drowned in Lake Superior

Mad Mab @madmab.bsky.social · 6d

Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter's to the title:

John Carpenter’s Return to Oz

🎃Boo-rendan Agnew🏳️‍🌈 @blcagnew.bsky.social · 6d

Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter's to the title:

John Carpenter's BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA

Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 6d

Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter's to the title:

John Carpenter’s A History of Violence

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Mad Mab @madmab.bsky.social · 6d

It’s either an obscure older person with a battered guitar who makes the circuit at medieval fairs, a filker who sells cds out of a backpack, or a high school student scribbling in a notebook.

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 10d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

Mad Mab @madmab.bsky.social · 6d

This is the best answer.

Mad Mab @madmab.bsky.social · 6d

What if no one is actually neurotypical? What if some people are just super-maskers?

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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 6d

Republicans can end their shutdown and all the pointless pain it’s causing at any point.

Instead, they’re intent on raising your health care premiums and unleashing flight delays, missed paychecks, and chaos on Americans.

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Mad Mab @madmab.bsky.social · 6d

Pretty sure someone will give him money to continue making them.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 6d

Rian Johnson wants to make ‘Knives Out’ movies for the rest of his life

“I don’t feel burnt out doing these at all. If anything I feel energized after doing this one”

His deal to make them at Netflix ends with ‘Wake Up Dead Man’

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Grigory Lukin ✨️is on sub✨️ @grigorylukin.bsky.social · 7d

They also serve who only stand and goof. 🙃

Dylan Orosz🩵 @finalboyo.bsky.social · 7d

Saul Goodman

“the world is hard on silly men. men filled with ajoyous whimsy. nothingin this world is harder than being a goofy and fun-loving guy.”

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Mad Mab @madmab.bsky.social · 7d

Still got your card?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 8d

Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men

Tiffany was on the whole quite a truthful person, but it seemed to her that there were times when things didn’t divide easily into ‘true’ and ‘false’, but instead could be ‘things that people needed to know at the moment’ and ‘things that they didn’t need to know at the moment’.

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Mad Mab @madmab.bsky.social · 7d

This is not the answer I expected.

Mad Mab @madmab.bsky.social · 8d

Requested my library purchase it as soon as I saw the cover.

Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · Sep 10

Cover reveal! 🥳🎉

DEAD WEIGHT is translated by @maryrobinettekowal.com and will hit the shelves on May 26th.

Nothing tests a friendship like blood on your hands 🩸

Preorder here:
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

A peach cover with the head of a broken statue lying in a pool of blood

Mad Mab @madmab.bsky.social · 11d

I may disagree with everything either of them is done, but my poor dead Southern mama would be ashamed of me if I didn’t offer them congratulations on their engagement.

I’m also curious to see what kind of ring you give a man whose wealth was founded on emerald mines.

Text reading: President Trump just made it official with Elon Musk, and if you care about this country, you'll want to see why -

Mad Mab @madmab.bsky.social · 11d

How much shopping overwhelms me is a large part of why I think I might be.

The day I forgot my mask and decided to shop anyway (store was nearly empty), I was horrified by how strong all the smells were.

But I still insist on doing the shopping myself. Having someone else go would bother me more.

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Mad Mab @madmab.bsky.social · 12d

@seananmcguire.bsky.social always has some great, punch-in-the-gut lines, but Silver and Lead is especially meaty in this regard.

Mad Mab @madmab.bsky.social · 12d

“Then let’s do this horrible, awful, necessary thing.”—Seanan McGuire, Silver and Lead.