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The Bride (aka Rain) I ❤️ the Monster

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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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The Bride (aka Rain) I ❤️ the Monster @simplyrain.bsky.social · Apr 23

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!

The Bride (aka Rain) I ❤️ the Monster @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!" 🤣🤣🤣

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 4h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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The Bride (aka Rain) I ❤️ the Monster @simplyrain.bsky.social · 23m

My Radical School Librarianship won't be delivered in time for me to bring it to #AASL55!

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@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social this means we MUST see each other in June!

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That Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com · 31m

Looking for a great cause? Support @anniesfoundation.bsky.social—they put books in the hands of those who need them most. anniesfoundation.com #BannedBooksWeek

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The Bride (aka Rain) I ❤️ the Monster @simplyrain.bsky.social · 30m

I mean, lead with your best??? 🤣

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 48m

Printing presses kept their letters in cases.

Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.

This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’

Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?

MAJUSCULE and minuscule.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 46m

In my enthusiasm for a near-frost night finally arriving, I may have uh..m made an error in leaving 9 of 11 windows open last night 😅

It is so cold in here, our fake wood flooring is like walking on ice cubes 🧊

MOAR HOODIES IT IS

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Amy Hermon @slupodcast.bsky.social · 45m

TY @mauramadigan7.bsky.social for creating a resource for all school #librarians! @alaeditionsns.bsky.social apple.co/3KK2Ysz

The School Librarian's Guide to (Almost) Everything

Podcast Episode · School Librarians United with Amy Hermon · 10/10/2025 · 37m

apple.co

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 14h

For the fourth time in eight days, Pope Leo has taken direct aim at Donald Trump's abuse of migrants in the United States.

In a new letter sent to Catholic Charities USA, he calls immigrants to the United States “witnesses of hope” and encourages Catholics to do all we can to welcome them.

Fourth Rebuke in Eight Days: Pope Leo Intensifies Clash with Trump Over Migrants

In his latest rebuke of Trumpism, Pope Leo praises immigrants as “agents of hope” and tells Catholics their faith is tested by how they welcome the stranger.

open.substack.com

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Jennifer Savran Kelly @jsavrankelly.bsky.social · 2h

It's still #BannedBooksWeek and there's always time to act! I hope these tips from @authorsabb.bsky.social & my newsletter about the Lavender Scare, the invention of queer pulp fiction, & what it means to read/write under a repressive gov't inspire!
jennifersavrankelly.substack.com/p/banned-boo...

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The Bride (aka Rain) I ❤️ the Monster @simplyrain.bsky.social · 48m

BRAVO

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1h

Well, good for DC

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DC Comics won’t support generative AI: ‘not now, not ever’

“People have an instinctive reaction to what feels authentic.”

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1h

Well, good for DC

search.app/PK45E

DC Comics won’t support generative AI: ‘not now, not ever’

“People have an instinctive reaction to what feels authentic.”

search.app

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The Bride (aka Rain) I ❤️ the Monster @simplyrain.bsky.social · 50m

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Uncle pablo from Miami @pablostjohn.bsky.social · 8h

15. Which emoji sums up your flirting style?

Uncle pablo from Miami @pablostjohn.bsky.social · 8h

14. What’s your soft era weakness — forehead kisses, food dates, or matching hoodies?

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Emily Hopkins is reporting for Mirror Indy @emilyhopkins.bsky.social · 1h

Book it to Proof, Indy’s literary fest
mirrorindy.org/proof-midwes...

Book it to Proof, Indy’s literary fest

Catch writing workshops, author talks and fun activities with fellow book-lovers Oct. 10-11.

mirrorindy.org

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NPE Action @npeaction.bsky.social · 2h

School Vouchers Cost States Like Florida a Fortune. They Don’t Improve Education, Either. www.usnews.com/opini... #SchoolVoucherScam

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 2h

I like how they gave the Nobel Prize to someone fighting for democracy in Venezuela, instead of someone sinking fishing boats off their coast.

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Dragonrider Sue #fbpe #ktto 🐠🐟 she/her 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @topsyscatmum.bsky.social · 1d

Afternoon Thingummies

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 1h

This guide has everything you could want to know on how to research candidates and build a plan around issues that don't get the same kind of news coverage or screen time that major elections do.

And yet, these impact your every day life.

bookriot.com/library-elec...

Be an Informed Pro-Library, Pro-Literary Voter Now: Book Censorship News, October 10, 2025

Elections in several states will be coming up throughout the months of October and November. Here's how to be a pro-library voter.

bookriot.com

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Emily Hopkins is reporting for Mirror Indy @emilyhopkins.bsky.social · 1h

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“These panels so rarely result in advancing policy discussions that they are simply unnecessary. And yet the state continues to spend money on them year after year.”

@nkellyin.bsky.social on interim committees

indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/10/10/i...

Interim committees need overhaul or elimination • Indiana Capital Chronicle

More than 25 years of monitoring the Indiana General Assembly has taught me one clear thing — it’s time to eliminate interim study committees.

indianacapitalchronicle.com

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 10h

LMAOOOOO

A bunch of comedians tried to make up for their participation in the Riyadh comedy festival by donating their pay to Human Rights Watch and Human rights Watch was like “nah bitch we don’t want your dirty blood money” 😂😂 I’m dying

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

Taking money from those who took money from Saudi Arabia would impact perception of the org’s independence.

www.vulture.com

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🎃 a frightful hoxgoblin 🎃 @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 1h

Higher Ed in 2025 is opening your mailbox to see that your institution has sent you:

1. A Center for Teaching and Learning call to integrate AI into your classroom; and

2. An Office of Academic Integrity email encouraging you to crack down on students who use AI to cheat.

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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 1h

Terri Lesley and supporters of the freedom to read won here, but it must have cost her a lot. Sleep, relations with neighbors, layers of stomach lining, etc. cannot be restored or compensated for. Thanks to all who take on this ugliness.

Adam Dierksmeier @adamdierksmeier.bsky.social · 1d

"The books objected to in Gillette included “This Book is Gay” by Juno Dawson, “How Do You Make a Baby” by Anna Fiske, “Doing It” by Hannah Witton, “Sex is a Funny Word” by Corey Silverberg, and “Dating and Sex: A Guide for the 21st Century Teen Boy” by Andrew P. Smiler."

Wyoming library director fired amid book dispute wins $700,000 settlement

A former Wyoming library director who was fired amid an uproar over books with sexual content and LGBTQ+ themes on youth shelves has reached a $700,000 settlement with her former employer.

apnews.com

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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 1h

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are looking up at the same spot in the ceiling.
Green: Do we have a dead moth on the ceiling?
Blue: No. It's alive.

Green turns to look at Blue, whose eyes are still on the moth.
Green: It's what?
Blue: It sits in a different spot every morning.

Both of the foxes return to looking up at the moth.
Green: Should we do something about it?

Now Blue turns to look at Green, who keeps staring at the moth.
Blue: Make it pay rent?
Green: I think it flinched.

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Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · 1h

“Book banning strips us of choice. It strips us of that diversity of voices, that range of experience that can broaden our world-view, increase our compassion & empathy, & sometimes transform our thinking, our politics, our ethics. This…is democracy.”

www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/10/10/c...

Commentary: Book banning threatens education and our democracy

The point of great literature is not to inculcate us with the things we already know or to tell us about the life we already know; it’s to expose us to others.

www.orlandosentinel.com

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmed.bsky.social · 1h

I'm trying to find one good thing every day to keep myself from
spiraling and today it's that Trump must be absolutely livid that all his pining for the Nobel Peace Prize was met w a nah, bitch.

Sometimes good things are truly wholesome.

Sometimes they're just schadenfreude.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 1h

Vance is back in Indiana today, personally pressuring GOP lawmakers to ignore their conscience and enact an extreme gerrymandering plan. The fact that they have to send in the VP tells us something important and encouraging: political pressure against this plan is working, even in deep red places.

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