Barbara Gordon
@thebookwizard.bsky.social
Not actually Batgirl.
If this account were a book, it would be a spicy, queer manifesto with a side of sarcastic footnotes and a oatmilk Earl Grey latte with lavender syrup.
🖖🏻 #SussexSquad #KHive #Librarian
If this account were a book, it would be a spicy, queer manifesto with a side of sarcastic footnotes and a oatmilk Earl Grey latte with lavender syrup.
🖖🏻 #SussexSquad #KHive #Librarian
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Barbara Gordon
@thebookwizard.bsky.social
· Nov 21
Hi, new followers.
I’m queer.
I’m autistic.
I buy books for my libraries.
I’m bilingual.
I do art & sometimes music
I love Star Trek, Doctor Who & crime shows.
I’m a genealogy/history nut.
Sometimes I write things.
I’m also very opinionated.
I’m queer.
I’m autistic.
I buy books for my libraries.
I’m bilingual.
I do art & sometimes music
I love Star Trek, Doctor Who & crime shows.
I’m a genealogy/history nut.
Sometimes I write things.
I’m also very opinionated.
I just love this photo of Sen Kelly and Gabby Giffords.
November 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I just love this photo of Sen Kelly and Gabby Giffords.
You will be visited by three spirits.
The 3 spirits:
The 3 spirits:
November 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
You will be visited by three spirits.
The 3 spirits:
The 3 spirits:
If VP had been elected, hundreds of thousands of people would still be alive.
I’m livid at Musk, Trump et alia but I’m equally as angry at the people who try (tried) to say two parties are just the same.
I’m livid at Musk, Trump et alia but I’m equally as angry at the people who try (tried) to say two parties are just the same.
The numbers vary from study to study but hundreds of thousands of people have died because of Elon Musk and Marco Rubio illegally disbanding USAID — a body count on par with the first eight years of the Syrian civil war — In just seven months. It’s mass death that is simply unfathomable in scale.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
If VP had been elected, hundreds of thousands of people would still be alive.
I’m livid at Musk, Trump et alia but I’m equally as angry at the people who try (tried) to say two parties are just the same.
I’m livid at Musk, Trump et alia but I’m equally as angry at the people who try (tried) to say two parties are just the same.
I would immediately cry, resign, change my name, delete my socials, and move to Cuernavaca if Rep. Waters said this about me.
Waters: This is an important press conference that is being held to let you know what we're all doing: resisting this lowdown dirty no good filthy president
November 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I would immediately cry, resign, change my name, delete my socials, and move to Cuernavaca if Rep. Waters said this about me.
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What republicans and maga fail to realize is, we dont give a flying F who is in the Epstein files, dems repubs wealthy poor... they ALL need to be held accountable and the victims deserve justice. PERIOD.
November 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
What republicans and maga fail to realize is, we dont give a flying F who is in the Epstein files, dems repubs wealthy poor... they ALL need to be held accountable and the victims deserve justice. PERIOD.
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This is what AABB has been talking about. This is a truly insane overreach, and people on the ground are really scared.
1. In Tennessee, public libraries have closed for up to a week to facilitate a Trump-inspired book purge.
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge
One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes…
popular.info
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This is what AABB has been talking about. This is a truly insane overreach, and people on the ground are really scared.
I made a Senator Gallego sign 😏
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I made a Senator Gallego sign 😏
I got my MRI report - I don’t understand it all but I noted this.
Minor subacromial subdeltoid bursal fluid/bursitis.
Distal supraspinatus subtle bursal surface fraying
Acromioclavicular joint early/mild osteoarthritis.
Distal supraspinatus, infraspinatus and subscapularis mild tendinosis.
Minor subacromial subdeltoid bursal fluid/bursitis.
Distal supraspinatus subtle bursal surface fraying
Acromioclavicular joint early/mild osteoarthritis.
Distal supraspinatus, infraspinatus and subscapularis mild tendinosis.
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I got my MRI report - I don’t understand it all but I noted this.
Minor subacromial subdeltoid bursal fluid/bursitis.
Distal supraspinatus subtle bursal surface fraying
Acromioclavicular joint early/mild osteoarthritis.
Distal supraspinatus, infraspinatus and subscapularis mild tendinosis.
Minor subacromial subdeltoid bursal fluid/bursitis.
Distal supraspinatus subtle bursal surface fraying
Acromioclavicular joint early/mild osteoarthritis.
Distal supraspinatus, infraspinatus and subscapularis mild tendinosis.
Rubén Gallego told the administration to fuck off and I want more of that energy, pls
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Rubén Gallego told the administration to fuck off and I want more of that energy, pls
Arizonans are lucky to have Senator Kelly and Gabby Giffords.
November 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Arizonans are lucky to have Senator Kelly and Gabby Giffords.
I am fucking furious that Trump keeps targeting Mark Kelly.
November 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I am fucking furious that Trump keeps targeting Mark Kelly.
I really love Papa Leo
ICYMI - POPE LEO: “When people are living good lives for 10, 20 years… (Trump) is treating them in a way that’s extremely disrespectful, violent — We have to look for ways to treat people humanely and with dignity.” (H/T @CBSNews)
November 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I really love Papa Leo
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Zelenskyy: “I’m hearing from partner intelligence services that the Russian position is now being pushed — incl through certain individuals in Ukraine.”
“Anyone with a Ukrainian passport must feel responsibility for Ukraine. We have ONE state position. No opposite signals from inside Ukraine.”
“Anyone with a Ukrainian passport must feel responsibility for Ukraine. We have ONE state position. No opposite signals from inside Ukraine.”
November 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Zelenskyy: “I’m hearing from partner intelligence services that the Russian position is now being pushed — incl through certain individuals in Ukraine.”
“Anyone with a Ukrainian passport must feel responsibility for Ukraine. We have ONE state position. No opposite signals from inside Ukraine.”
“Anyone with a Ukrainian passport must feel responsibility for Ukraine. We have ONE state position. No opposite signals from inside Ukraine.”
Russia is a terrorist state
😡 On the eve of the negotiations, Russian terrorists dropped a FAB aerial bomb on residential high-rise buildings in Myrnohrad.
November 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Russia is a terrorist state
I always get super excited when I see an ancient Welsh name crop up in my relatives’ in laws on my family tree.
Because Dayfdd ap Gwalter or Gwalter ap Gruffudd just sounds so much cooler than standard English names
Because Dayfdd ap Gwalter or Gwalter ap Gruffudd just sounds so much cooler than standard English names
November 23, 2025 at 5:29 AM
I always get super excited when I see an ancient Welsh name crop up in my relatives’ in laws on my family tree.
Because Dayfdd ap Gwalter or Gwalter ap Gruffudd just sounds so much cooler than standard English names
Because Dayfdd ap Gwalter or Gwalter ap Gruffudd just sounds so much cooler than standard English names
My Ukraine peace plan for Vladimir Putin:
November 23, 2025 at 4:35 AM
My Ukraine peace plan for Vladimir Putin:
Can whiplash really last THIS long? It’s been literally months and my shoulders are still in pain
November 23, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Can whiplash really last THIS long? It’s been literally months and my shoulders are still in pain
JFK definitely had his issues but he was a marvelous speaker and I am unsurprised people loved him so much.
November 23, 2025 at 2:45 AM
JFK definitely had his issues but he was a marvelous speaker and I am unsurprised people loved him so much.
My right shoulder has been hurting me a bit so I’ve been using my left arm more and now that hurts too.
Yikes. I didn’t know whiplash took months to heal
Yikes. I didn’t know whiplash took months to heal
November 23, 2025 at 2:28 AM
My right shoulder has been hurting me a bit so I’ve been using my left arm more and now that hurts too.
Yikes. I didn’t know whiplash took months to heal
Yikes. I didn’t know whiplash took months to heal
My baby brother was also diagnosed with terminal cancer at age 35. Tatiana Schlossberg’s situation makes me profoundly, deeply sad.
November 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
My baby brother was also diagnosed with terminal cancer at age 35. Tatiana Schlossberg’s situation makes me profoundly, deeply sad.
1776 by David McCullough, The British Are Coming by Rick Atkinson, The Conjuring of America by Lindsey Stewart, The Fort Bragg Cartel by Seth Harp
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 22, 2025 at 10:08 PM
1776 by David McCullough, The British Are Coming by Rick Atkinson, The Conjuring of America by Lindsey Stewart, The Fort Bragg Cartel by Seth Harp
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It’s really that simple.
November 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
It’s really that simple.
I wish people could praise Mamdani without belittling VP Harris in the same breath.
November 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I wish people could praise Mamdani without belittling VP Harris in the same breath.
I hate that Trump is trying to bully Ukraine into essentially surrendering to Russia
November 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I hate that Trump is trying to bully Ukraine into essentially surrendering to Russia