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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 1d

Explain your username:

“à la bibliothèque” means “at the library” in French.

I am French, and also I work at a library.

I started the Xitter account of the same name as an anon account to post on COVID working conditions in mine/other libraries, so “heck” seemed both punny & fitting.

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 1d

Explain your username:

My last name is Noe. My first name is Matthew.

People have made weird jokes about "Noe" (some haha cringe, some rude and bullying) my entire life.

I thought it was an amusing way to reclaim some of that back in 2008. And despite me not loving "Matt" it is pithier 🤷‍♂️

Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 1d

Explain your username:

It's a line from Parks & Rec one of my fave shows. In that show, Leslie has an ongoing cold war with librarians. She calls them punk-ass book jockeys as she overturned a book cart and flees. I'm a librarian who is punk in spirit if not attire, so, yeah.

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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 1d

Finally got the official word from our Baker & Taylor rep about 15min ago that the company is closing and all staff are being let go. What a freakin’ timeline we are living in. 📚 #skybrarians

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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 12d

Yep. The only reason I was able to do it is quite literally because my dad died and I was able to use his life insurance to pay for it 🫠

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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 16d

I’m glad we all decided that Strega was thee equinox drink this year

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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 16d

Lol went to the closest urgent care that lists xrays as a service and got all the way to the doctor part before they told me they don’t have an xray machine anymore and now I have to go somewhere else tomorrow, so anywayyyy blessed Mabon 🙃

à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 17d

Sprained ankle/possible fracture from a fall last wknd, worked over 8hrs of unpaid OT last week, topped off by a patron who yelled at & then reported me (lol) for not telling off a kid who “used profanity” (aka quietly said “stupid” to their Roblox game) in front of her 4yo. Y’all I am so so tired.

à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 16d

Aaaahhh so excited to put this out on our new fiction shelf as soon as I get to work tomorrow!!

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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 16d

We ordered some of the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social “Censorship Is So 1984” stickers
& gave them out at a community event on Saturday. A couple teens came up to the desk this afternoon to ask if I had any more (yep!). As they walked off, I heard them mutter “this is so tuff! 😤”

🖤

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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 17d

Thankfully it looks markedly better after a week but still concerned at the remaining swelling so I’m hoping to hit urgent care before work on Tuesday 🤞🤞 same foot/ankle I broke/sprained 10 years ago so I know it’s weaker from that.

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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 17d

I need a break, friend - and not the foot kind 😮‍💨

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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 17d

🥹 fingers crossed I can actually find time to go get an xray at urgent care this week to rule out anything too serious

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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 17d

Sprained ankle/possible fracture from a fall last wknd, worked over 8hrs of unpaid OT last week, topped off by a patron who yelled at & then reported me (lol) for not telling off a kid who “used profanity” (aka quietly said “stupid” to their Roblox game) in front of her 4yo. Y’all I am so so tired.

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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · Sep 8

I stole my mom’s big bulky knit house socks years ago. I put them on and sit in bed when I’m having a really hard day.

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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · Sep 8

Oh hell yea. Respect from this potato mozzarella girlie.

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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · Sep 5

🤣

Eric Carle conveniently left out all the little 🐛💩s !!

A yellow silicone cutting board is covered in small black dots of caterpillar poop. A bunch of kale stems that have been stripped of their leaves sit off to the top left.

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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · Sep 5

Just a little guy (and his 4 little friends) I found munchin’ on my kale from the farmstand. He and his buddies were relocated to the bush outside my kitchen window with their own individual pieces of kale for a road snack (this is why I wash my greens 😅🐛)

A very small caterpillar, about as long as a penny, with thin black and white stripes on its back and a bright green underbelly, is happily eating a piece of raw kale being held by a human hand.

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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · Sep 4

Got a call this morning from a parent of a new 4th grader wondering about our programs after school.

P: “do you get kids attending usually?”
Me: “well we have btwn 200 & 300 kids every day so there’s usually a good crowd”
P: “I… I’m sorry WHAT? Can you repeat that??”

They’re baaaaack! #skybrarians

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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · Sep 2

Several have now moved on to “do you have a movie that was based on a book that I can watch and pretend I read it?”

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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · Sep 2

School starts on Thursday, and of course like clockwork every high school student in town has come in today looking for a summer reading book and each one is subsequently S H O C K E D that 90% of them are checked out.

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · Aug 14

"None of these books are obscene."

Welcome news out of Florida. So grateful for @flfreedomread.bsky.social's impactful work fighting for the right to read freely.

Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · Aug 13

“It’s a complete knockout. There’s not a single issue that the court did not side with the plaintiffs on.”

www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/13/j...

Judge strikes down parts of a Florida law used to ban school library books

The 2023 law prompted educators to pull classic literature, popular novels and even children’s picture books from school shelves.

www.orlandosentinel.com

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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · Aug 14

Also, @trowelblazers.bsky.social, are you able to amplify this call for aid?? @skypeascientist.bsky.social is the best!

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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · Aug 14

Challenge accepted?? 😅

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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · Aug 14

Also uhhhhhh fair warning but next year’s national summer reading theme is archaeology/paleontology 👀👀👀

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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · Aug 11

The fact that this show only ran for 2 seasons is one of the greatest tragedies of this decade.

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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · Aug 10

Decided to go home for my birthday and was the best decision I’ve made in a long time. IYKYK.

A nighttime photograph of a grey stone building with a bell tower and pointed roof on the tower, with two large trees flanking stone stairs leading to a wooden doorway. The sky is a deep saturated blue and you can clearly see stars. It is a building on a college campus that is immediately recognizable to anyone who went there. It is also home.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Aug 4

disrupt “A.i.” - by not fucking using it

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