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Gaby @ Hispanic Heritage Month @blackheartwings.bsky.social · Oct 14

I've been seeing a few posts floating around saying things along the lines of "I don't know enough about what's going on to say anything about Palestine"

Alright. Bet. Here's a short list of reading resources to get you started: A Thread 🧵

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 18h

Six years ago, I wrote most of the Tragedian dialogue for Pathologic 2 in iambic pentameter. I'm back now doing the same for Pathologic 3. I figured it was helpful to write a guide on *how* I did it – in case I get hit by a bus and the team has to carry on without me.

azhdarchid.com/so-you-want-...

So You Want to Write Iambic Pentameter

In which I share the dirty secrets of the world's least useful skill

azhdarchid.com

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 18h

Listen. ONE of the reasons I rock with Dolly (Capricorn Gang) is because she’s always proven to me that integrity may cause you pain, but it will never be the reason you suffer. Which is not to say that suffering won’t come, but it’ll never be because you abandoned yourself. That’ll keep you going.

PJR23 @stixx23.bsky.social · 18h

I hear she has supported school bands as well: www.thepinknews.com/2022/10/10/d...

Dolly Parton quietly funded Black school bands: 'The woman is a national treasure'

Dolly Parton paid for band uniforms and instruments for kids at majority Black high schools with zero publicity, a writer has revealed.

www.thepinknews.com

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Gaby @ Hispanic Heritage Month @blackheartwings.bsky.social · 20h

I know the world feels like its on fire literally everywhere, and you only have so much energy to do things - but an earnest effort to try always goes a long way. Your local librarians and educators will thank you for it.

💜 Happy Banned Books Week, go read something

Gaby @ Hispanic Heritage Month @blackheartwings.bsky.social · 20h

The American Library Association uses the last day of Banned Books Week as a call to action day, Freedom to Read day. Things you can do include: calling your reps! Supporting advocacy organizations! Borrowing or buying banned books! Organize! Here's more info:
bannedbooksweek.org/let-freedom-...

Let Freedom Read Day | Banned Books Week

bannedbooksweek.org

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Gaby @ Hispanic Heritage Month @blackheartwings.bsky.social · 20h

Well what can we do about it?

First, I encourage you to read literally any of the books on the list, not just because they're banned but because they're genuinely good books. And screw anyone who tries to tell you what you can and cannot read!

Second, October 11th is Freedom to Read day -

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Gaby @ Hispanic Heritage Month @blackheartwings.bsky.social · 20h

What books are being banned, and why? 4 of the top 10 books were banned or challenged due to "LGBTQIA+ content" - but all 10 have one overlapping reason: they were all claimed to be sexually explicit.
www.ala.org/bbooks/frequ...

A square graphic containing the top 10 banned books in the United States in 2024. In order from most to least:
- All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson
- Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
- (TIE) The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- (TIE) The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
- (TIE) Looking for Alaska by John Green
- (TIE) Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
- (TIE) Crank by Ellen Hopkins
- (TIE) Sold by Patricia McCormick
- Flamer by Mike Curato

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Gaby @ Hispanic Heritage Month @blackheartwings.bsky.social · 20h

It's important to note that censorship always has been an issue on the national level - it's an issue across the board. In 2024, 72% of all challenges came from pressure groups and organized entities like elected officials and board members. Find more data here: www.ala.org/bbooks/book-...

Book Ban Data

The American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) has released new data documenting book challenges throughout the United States, finding that challenges were nearly double that...

www.ala.org

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Gaby @ Hispanic Heritage Month @blackheartwings.bsky.social · 20h

Book censorship has skyrocketed in the past five years. In 2019 there were 246 reported attempts to remove books from shelves across the country. In 2024 that number has more than tripled at 821. These stats come from the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom:
www.ala.org/bbooks/censo...

Censorship by the Numbers

Every year, the American Library Association compiles data on censorship attempts in libraries around the United States based on reports from the field and media coverage.

www.ala.org

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Gaby @ Hispanic Heritage Month @blackheartwings.bsky.social · 20h

✨ It's Banned Books Week ✨
This annual event, supported by the American Library Association, aims to shed light on censorship across the country, and was fundamental to my choosing to become a librarian, so let's talk about it.

A thread 🧵

A graphic for Banned Books Week 2025, running from October 5-11. This year's theme is "Censorship is so 1984" which is featured on the bottom quarter of the graphic, with the word "censorship" crossed out in pink. On the right side it reads "Read for your rights" and on the bottom there is a URL (ala.org/bbooks) for anyone who is interested in learning more.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

doomscroll break

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Eroticannon @eroticannonball.bsky.social · 13d

Doomerism is fed shit. Hope and action terrify them.

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💖empy💖 @empireship.bsky.social · 2d

now that I'm home I get to figure out what the hell I'm doing about this furlough, and the $900 in medical bills, and the maxed out credit cards, and the -$300 in my bank account, and, and, and...

sorry to be yet another person on your feed e-begging but if you have anything to spare, please help.

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Gaby @ Hispanic Heritage Month @blackheartwings.bsky.social · 1d

I bought two boxes today !

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Kristen Arnett @kristenarnett.bsky.social · 1d

thought to myself “what if there was smaller skeleton trapped inside a larger skeleton, that would be pretty spooky” and then realized i was describing a pregnancy

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Gaby @ Hispanic Heritage Month @blackheartwings.bsky.social · 1d

I know Trader Joe's hates to see me coming during Pumpkin Season

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incendavery @incendavery.bsky.social · 2d

squirrel got a shirt from wildplanetshop.net and it's their new favorite thing

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AAPI in Gaming @aapiingaming.bsky.social · 9d

✨ CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth X AAPI In Gaming ✨
We're looking to spotlight Filipino-American game developers and their work for #FAHM!

To be considered, please submit to our form for our Games Made By AAPI series here: forms.gle/idnZvuBYTtpB...

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FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 2d

Banned Books - Gator Days

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5d

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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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 3d

i unironically love the genre of indie horror games that is like "youre working a night shift in a place"

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Lady Arcaders @ladyarcaders.com · 3d

Small saga, big challenges! Attract Mode! is live!

threepup adventures alongside cuddly creatures in this #SmallSaga Any% Glitchless speedrun! @miaschemes.bsky.social is on comms, with @professorburtch.bsky.social hosting this grand adventure!

twitch.tv/ladyarcaders 🐀

two mice, one from small saga and one that looks like threepup facing off against a cat

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 3d

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.

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Gaby @ Hispanic Heritage Month @blackheartwings.bsky.social · 4d

I'm excited and optimistic about this one!

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Obligatory AGDQ Submission Screenshot (holy shit she's in her variety era)

A screenshot of my submission for AGDQ 2026. It shows one game with one category: Split Fiction

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