Rain
@simplyrain.bsky.social
Friend. Librarian. Employed. Artist. Patron. Advocate. Ally. Activist. Listener. Caregiver. Human. And MUCH more. Personal account--thoughts are my own. she/they
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Rain
@simplyrain.bsky.social
· Apr 23
I love when new people follow me after I do a chat & then they are like, "WOAH! I didn't sign-up for THIS much Rain!" 🤣🤣🤣
Standard Disclaimer: This is my PERSONAL account.
I dump my life here--work, home, brain, politics--good, bad, & ugly.
I am happy to have you here, but I get it if I too much!
I dump my life here--work, home, brain, politics--good, bad, & ugly.
I am happy to have you here, but I get it if I too much!
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Just assigned The Librarians documentary to my grad class as required viewing. They need to know what they’re getting into & the film is a wonderful (though somewhat triggering for many of us - or me at least) introduction to the reality of the modern censorship crisis
February 13, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Just assigned The Librarians documentary to my grad class as required viewing. They need to know what they’re getting into & the film is a wonderful (though somewhat triggering for many of us - or me at least) introduction to the reality of the modern censorship crisis
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Look how CUTE and GROSS books activate the brain systems that support reading in this new infographic from our friends at @capstonepub.bsky.social
And check out the NEW Brain Candy Books that focus on CUTE and GROSS topics our readers love. 💚
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And check out the NEW Brain Candy Books that focus on CUTE and GROSS topics our readers love. 💚
buff.ly/mrJ7ABX
February 13, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Look how CUTE and GROSS books activate the brain systems that support reading in this new infographic from our friends at @capstonepub.bsky.social
And check out the NEW Brain Candy Books that focus on CUTE and GROSS topics our readers love. 💚
buff.ly/mrJ7ABX
And check out the NEW Brain Candy Books that focus on CUTE and GROSS topics our readers love. 💚
buff.ly/mrJ7ABX
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ICE still gets paid during the shutdown.
February 13, 2026 at 1:19 AM
ICE still gets paid during the shutdown.
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One of my favorite reading-related memories is when I was 16 and my dad came to me with a copy of Slaughterhouse Five and literally said “it’s time” and handed me my first Vonnegut book like it was a sacred tome.
February 13, 2026 at 1:15 AM
One of my favorite reading-related memories is when I was 16 and my dad came to me with a copy of Slaughterhouse Five and literally said “it’s time” and handed me my first Vonnegut book like it was a sacred tome.
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🎉 Volunteers Needed! 🇺🇸
Join us for Voter Registration at a Naturalization Ceremony — welcoming 250 new citizens & helping them take the next step to register to vote!
📍 Palladium – Carmel
📅 Wednesday, March 11, 2026
⏰ 1:15–2:30 PM
📩 To volunteer, contact: [email protected]
Join us for Voter Registration at a Naturalization Ceremony — welcoming 250 new citizens & helping them take the next step to register to vote!
📍 Palladium – Carmel
📅 Wednesday, March 11, 2026
⏰ 1:15–2:30 PM
📩 To volunteer, contact: [email protected]
February 13, 2026 at 1:14 AM
🎉 Volunteers Needed! 🇺🇸
Join us for Voter Registration at a Naturalization Ceremony — welcoming 250 new citizens & helping them take the next step to register to vote!
📍 Palladium – Carmel
📅 Wednesday, March 11, 2026
⏰ 1:15–2:30 PM
📩 To volunteer, contact: [email protected]
Join us for Voter Registration at a Naturalization Ceremony — welcoming 250 new citizens & helping them take the next step to register to vote!
📍 Palladium – Carmel
📅 Wednesday, March 11, 2026
⏰ 1:15–2:30 PM
📩 To volunteer, contact: [email protected]
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Ha! Exactly your
A bore of titles and covers
February 13, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Ha! Exactly your
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Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 12, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
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A REQUEST: I have a student who is wheelchair bound+their dream is to participate in an archaeological
excavation... not a "token" desk job but for real, to dig. Their disability means they have to stay in the chair. What is out there for opportunities/adaptive aids etc? 🏺 (shared w their blessing)
excavation... not a "token" desk job but for real, to dig. Their disability means they have to stay in the chair. What is out there for opportunities/adaptive aids etc? 🏺 (shared w their blessing)
February 12, 2026 at 10:22 PM
A REQUEST: I have a student who is wheelchair bound+their dream is to participate in an archaeological
excavation... not a "token" desk job but for real, to dig. Their disability means they have to stay in the chair. What is out there for opportunities/adaptive aids etc? 🏺 (shared w their blessing)
excavation... not a "token" desk job but for real, to dig. Their disability means they have to stay in the chair. What is out there for opportunities/adaptive aids etc? 🏺 (shared w their blessing)
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This is just an amazing thread. I love everyone jumping in with info, and all that is going on in this area of professional accessibility.
A REQUEST: I have a student who is wheelchair bound+their dream is to participate in an archaeological
excavation... not a "token" desk job but for real, to dig. Their disability means they have to stay in the chair. What is out there for opportunities/adaptive aids etc? 🏺 (shared w their blessing)
excavation... not a "token" desk job but for real, to dig. Their disability means they have to stay in the chair. What is out there for opportunities/adaptive aids etc? 🏺 (shared w their blessing)
February 12, 2026 at 11:05 PM
This is just an amazing thread. I love everyone jumping in with info, and all that is going on in this area of professional accessibility.
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Yikes & vision of future under fed vouchers…
“Last school year, Ohio sent Columbus City Schools $166M to educate the district’s 41,587 students. Meanwhile, the state sent $328M to pay for the 30,085 students enrolled in Charter Schools and private schools.”
open.substack.com/pub/10thperi...
“Last school year, Ohio sent Columbus City Schools $166M to educate the district’s 41,587 students. Meanwhile, the state sent $328M to pay for the 30,085 students enrolled in Charter Schools and private schools.”
open.substack.com/pub/10thperi...
State Data: Ohio spent more on school privatization last year than public schools in many communities
For example, the state spent about twice as much on charters and vouchers in Columbus than they did on kids in Columbus City Schools -- Ohio's largest school district.
open.substack.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Yikes & vision of future under fed vouchers…
“Last school year, Ohio sent Columbus City Schools $166M to educate the district’s 41,587 students. Meanwhile, the state sent $328M to pay for the 30,085 students enrolled in Charter Schools and private schools.”
open.substack.com/pub/10thperi...
“Last school year, Ohio sent Columbus City Schools $166M to educate the district’s 41,587 students. Meanwhile, the state sent $328M to pay for the 30,085 students enrolled in Charter Schools and private schools.”
open.substack.com/pub/10thperi...
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States buying into voucher schemes spend more money sending rich kids to schools that can discriminate and have no regulations than those states spent on public schools open to any and all. That's the dream. It's already here.
Yikes & vision of future under fed vouchers…
“Last school year, Ohio sent Columbus City Schools $166M to educate the district’s 41,587 students. Meanwhile, the state sent $328M to pay for the 30,085 students enrolled in Charter Schools and private schools.”
open.substack.com/pub/10thperi...
“Last school year, Ohio sent Columbus City Schools $166M to educate the district’s 41,587 students. Meanwhile, the state sent $328M to pay for the 30,085 students enrolled in Charter Schools and private schools.”
open.substack.com/pub/10thperi...
State Data: Ohio spent more on school privatization last year than public schools in many communities
For example, the state spent about twice as much on charters and vouchers in Columbus than they did on kids in Columbus City Schools -- Ohio's largest school district.
open.substack.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:05 PM
States buying into voucher schemes spend more money sending rich kids to schools that can discriminate and have no regulations than those states spent on public schools open to any and all. That's the dream. It's already here.
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Of the rich people by the rich people for the rich people, with no liberty but pedophilic politicians for all.
Yikes & vision of future under fed vouchers…
“Last school year, Ohio sent Columbus City Schools $166M to educate the district’s 41,587 students. Meanwhile, the state sent $328M to pay for the 30,085 students enrolled in Charter Schools and private schools.”
open.substack.com/pub/10thperi...
“Last school year, Ohio sent Columbus City Schools $166M to educate the district’s 41,587 students. Meanwhile, the state sent $328M to pay for the 30,085 students enrolled in Charter Schools and private schools.”
open.substack.com/pub/10thperi...
State Data: Ohio spent more on school privatization last year than public schools in many communities
For example, the state spent about twice as much on charters and vouchers in Columbus than they did on kids in Columbus City Schools -- Ohio's largest school district.
open.substack.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Of the rich people by the rich people for the rich people, with no liberty but pedophilic politicians for all.
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Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change
The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...
www.pbs.org
February 12, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
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Republicans are still trying to pass the SAVE Act—a bill that would make it harder to vote and disenfranchise millions of Americans. Join @redistrictingaction.org and tell your member of Congress to vote no: act.redistrictingaction.org/a/natl-saveact-cte
February 11, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Republicans are still trying to pass the SAVE Act—a bill that would make it harder to vote and disenfranchise millions of Americans. Join @redistrictingaction.org and tell your member of Congress to vote no: act.redistrictingaction.org/a/natl-saveact-cte
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Do fellow librarians know about Insignia, which is a Cdn library software company?
Do you use it?
Is it good/great? Or not?
Transition easy?
Better/same/worse than Follett?
We just had a T-L mtg to begin to discuss whether/not to switch, to what, when…UGHHH.
#TLsky #skybrarians #TeacherLibrarians
Do you use it?
Is it good/great? Or not?
Transition easy?
Better/same/worse than Follett?
We just had a T-L mtg to begin to discuss whether/not to switch, to what, when…UGHHH.
#TLsky #skybrarians #TeacherLibrarians
a 3d man scratches his head in front of a red question mark that says so
Alt: A variant on the GIF as last picture ALT described, this one with SO???? across the bottom.
media.tenor.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:44 AM
Do fellow librarians know about Insignia, which is a Cdn library software company?
Do you use it?
Is it good/great? Or not?
Transition easy?
Better/same/worse than Follett?
We just had a T-L mtg to begin to discuss whether/not to switch, to what, when…UGHHH.
#TLsky #skybrarians #TeacherLibrarians
Do you use it?
Is it good/great? Or not?
Transition easy?
Better/same/worse than Follett?
We just had a T-L mtg to begin to discuss whether/not to switch, to what, when…UGHHH.
#TLsky #skybrarians #TeacherLibrarians
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"That robot's bad because it's destroying all the things. Robots are breaking everything" -- a quote from my 4.5 year old about Sonic and also about AI.
February 12, 2026 at 11:20 PM
"That robot's bad because it's destroying all the things. Robots are breaking everything" -- a quote from my 4.5 year old about Sonic and also about AI.
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In way less infuriating news, this happens tomorrow. Year eight!!
pssst...... @summerscares.bsky.social title list drops TOMORROW! Friday the 13th!
Can't wait to welcome another year of new authors and 9 new books
Watch this space: raforallhorror.blogspot.com/p/summer-sca...
Can't wait to welcome another year of new authors and 9 new books
Watch this space: raforallhorror.blogspot.com/p/summer-sca...
Summer Scares Resource Page [Feb 9, 2026]
Summer Scares 2026 Title Announcement Coming to This Page on Friday, February 13, 2026 at 9AM Eastern
raforallhorror.blogspot.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:10 PM
In way less infuriating news, this happens tomorrow. Year eight!!
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@chrisgeidner.bsky.social reporting on Judge Leon’s preliminary injunction in favor of Senator Kelly
February 12, 2026 at 10:20 PM
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social reporting on Judge Leon’s preliminary injunction in favor of Senator Kelly
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February 12, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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The government will have full local control of Alabama Libraries.
Alabama library board members can be removed without cause under Senate-approved bill
alabamareflector.com/2026/02/11/a...
Alabama library board members can be removed without cause under Senate-approved bill
alabamareflector.com/2026/02/11/a...
Alabama Senate approves bill allowing firings of library board members | Alabama Reflector
The bill comes as conservatives and right-wing organizations in Alabama continue to target library books, particularly those with LGBTQ+ themes.
alabamareflector.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:00 PM
The government will have full local control of Alabama Libraries.
Alabama library board members can be removed without cause under Senate-approved bill
alabamareflector.com/2026/02/11/a...
Alabama library board members can be removed without cause under Senate-approved bill
alabamareflector.com/2026/02/11/a...
I feel addlebrained all the time & very inefficient.
Pals in the US: how’s your day-to-day functioning going in the current climate? Mostly functioning in daily life/work/school? Mostly not?
February 13, 2026 at 12:55 AM
I feel addlebrained all the time & very inefficient.
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This One Summer is literally a coming of age story. It is about the teenage experience. How is that not appropriate for teens? How is that adult content? Frankly, finding it to be adult content is a red flag.
www.livingstonparishnews.com/detail.html
www.livingstonparishnews.com/detail.html
"Burn the book and get rid of it forever": Library board votes to restrict award-winning graphic novel for teens despite legal warnings and disrupted meeting - Livingston Parish News
LIVINGSTON, La. — A contentious Livingston Parish Library Board of Control special meeting on February 10th, 2026, ended with the board voting 6-3 to relocate the award-winning graphic novel "This …
www.livingstonparishnews.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:23 PM
This One Summer is literally a coming of age story. It is about the teenage experience. How is that not appropriate for teens? How is that adult content? Frankly, finding it to be adult content is a red flag.
www.livingstonparishnews.com/detail.html
www.livingstonparishnews.com/detail.html
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I’ve spent years of my life trying to explain to people that anti-trans conservatism naturally flows from their belief that children in the American nuclear family are not individuals with autonomy, but instead property of the parents and state, and this guy just… tweeted it out
February 12, 2026 at 10:53 PM
I’ve spent years of my life trying to explain to people that anti-trans conservatism naturally flows from their belief that children in the American nuclear family are not individuals with autonomy, but instead property of the parents and state, and this guy just… tweeted it out