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Marta Costello

@martacostello.bsky.social

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Author, YOU’RE ONLY TWO ONCE (Kirkus calls it a "comedic hit" :D ) | Writing & making little paintings and drawings for my kids’ lunchboxes | #SCBWI #12X12pb

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Marta Costello @martacostello.bsky.social · Mar 17

Stay strong, fellow dangerous people

Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · Mar 17

Madeleine L'Engle; this is why they want you illiterate

[“The first people a dictator puts in jail are the writers, the teachers, the librarians—because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.”]

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Marta Costello @martacostello.bsky.social · 1d

Ugly house on Kenmore indeed

Pumpkin Spice Polynia 🎃 @polynia.bsky.social · 2d

My inner monologue every day in America

A screenshot from I think you should leave that says everybody let's get out of here this place is covered in head to toe shit

Marta Costello @martacostello.bsky.social · 4d

I am so heartened that you are capable of understanding it as an author and journalist because it is 100% real to them in a way that people who are not fully insane frequently cannot grasp

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Marta Costello @martacostello.bsky.social · 6d

PS Thank you for your always incredible writing - you should win all the awards

Marta Costello @martacostello.bsky.social · 6d

So random but based on your also random connection to 80s horror actors, I have to mention that Malachi was my landlord in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles around 2008. It was pretty scary how he wouldn’t really fix a clogged drain 😆

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6d

Everyone who attends on October 9 will be eligible to win this embroidery in our raffle. Join us to explore how YOU can take real, specific, and immediate actions in your own community to strengthen and expand public libraries. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

An embroidery hoop displays the words "Libraries Are For The People" in cursive, surrounded by embroidered green and blue leaves, and topped with a blue satin ribbon. It rests on a marble surface.

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Marta Costello @martacostello.bsky.social · 8d

I really want this message out too, delivered with the context of “these republicans obviously think you’re too stupid to know that this is all their fault so they’re just going to keep lying!”