eiza (she/they)
@eizareads.bsky.social
full-time library assistant, part-time reader, occasional writer of words, permanently obsessing over random media 🐛🩵📚🏳️🌈🦋
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The cottagecore fantasies, the "I want a commune with all of my friends" fantasies, part of the brain that lights up when you see, IDK, knitting needles or whatever- feels in some part like a desperation to do useful work, to escape paperwork bullshit and degrading jobs, to be more human...
November 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The cottagecore fantasies, the "I want a commune with all of my friends" fantasies, part of the brain that lights up when you see, IDK, knitting needles or whatever- feels in some part like a desperation to do useful work, to escape paperwork bullshit and degrading jobs, to be more human...
@dimension20.bsky.social you have a new fan
June 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
@dimension20.bsky.social you have a new fan
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This week's news from the IMLS should be a reminder that America 250 is a real thing and it should be a call to even more action. We're about to be hit with propaganda through our educational institutions, "American public": buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
The Latest From IMLS and What You Need to Prepare For Right Now
It’s only been a little more than a month since the current administration dropped an Executive Order related to funding and projects from the Institute for...
buttondown.com
April 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This week's news from the IMLS should be a reminder that America 250 is a real thing and it should be a call to even more action. We're about to be hit with propaganda through our educational institutions, "American public": buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
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also, you should pay attention to who is always looking for the new socially acceptable target/s. there are a frighteningly large number of people who will co opt any movement they can to hurt others with any convenient and relevant justification. you just need to pay attention.
April 24, 2025 at 1:28 AM
also, you should pay attention to who is always looking for the new socially acceptable target/s. there are a frighteningly large number of people who will co opt any movement they can to hurt others with any convenient and relevant justification. you just need to pay attention.
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Libraries continued to provide critical services and develop innovative programs and services, despite the challenges they faced in 2024. Learn more and see which books face the most censorship challenges in this year's State of America's Libraries Report:
www.ala.org/news/state-a...
www.ala.org/news/state-a...
April 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Libraries continued to provide critical services and develop innovative programs and services, despite the challenges they faced in 2024. Learn more and see which books face the most censorship challenges in this year's State of America's Libraries Report:
www.ala.org/news/state-a...
www.ala.org/news/state-a...
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Hi, #bluesky:
As you know, nearly all staff at the (IMLS) was placed on administrative leave and, as a result, all processing of grants has been suspended. W/in weeks libraries will feel the loss of these funds.
PLEASE CALL YOUR REPS. #booksky #skybrarians
As you know, nearly all staff at the (IMLS) was placed on administrative leave and, as a result, all processing of grants has been suspended. W/in weeks libraries will feel the loss of these funds.
PLEASE CALL YOUR REPS. #booksky #skybrarians
Call on Congress to Protect Federal Library Funding
Call on Congress to Protect Federal Library Funding
app.oneclickpolitics.com
April 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Hi, #bluesky:
As you know, nearly all staff at the (IMLS) was placed on administrative leave and, as a result, all processing of grants has been suspended. W/in weeks libraries will feel the loss of these funds.
PLEASE CALL YOUR REPS. #booksky #skybrarians
As you know, nearly all staff at the (IMLS) was placed on administrative leave and, as a result, all processing of grants has been suspended. W/in weeks libraries will feel the loss of these funds.
PLEASE CALL YOUR REPS. #booksky #skybrarians
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In a victory for the freedom to read, Federal Judge has once again temporarily blocked enforcement of Iowa's statewide book banning bill.
bookriot.com/iowas-book-b...
bookriot.com/iowas-book-b...
Iowa's Book Ban Bill Blocked Again by Federal Judge
In a victory for the freedom to read, Federal Judge has once again temporarily blocked enforcement of Iowa's statewide book banning bill.
bookriot.com
March 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
In a victory for the freedom to read, Federal Judge has once again temporarily blocked enforcement of Iowa's statewide book banning bill.
bookriot.com/iowas-book-b...
bookriot.com/iowas-book-b...
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I get why techbros and their ilk like gen-AI: artists and writers to them are just an obstacle to be bypassed. But I'll never get an author/artist/musician who uses it. "I want to be a writer." No you don't. You fetishize ideas but hate the work. You don't respect the craft or its practitioners.
March 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I get why techbros and their ilk like gen-AI: artists and writers to them are just an obstacle to be bypassed. But I'll never get an author/artist/musician who uses it. "I want to be a writer." No you don't. You fetishize ideas but hate the work. You don't respect the craft or its practitioners.
currently in a massive reading slump… and of course it’s during the month i have to facilitate two book clubs 💀
March 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
currently in a massive reading slump… and of course it’s during the month i have to facilitate two book clubs 💀
📢 PLEASE CALL/EMAIL YOUR LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES!!!!
as someone who has worked in public libraries in both rural and urban areas, this cut will hurt libraries… but it will also hurt the people who rely on libraries and the resources we provide.
as someone who has worked in public libraries in both rural and urban areas, this cut will hurt libraries… but it will also hurt the people who rely on libraries and the resources we provide.
This latest cut will have devastating impact on libraries across the country. Reach out to your representatives & connect with your local library.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
March 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
📢 PLEASE CALL/EMAIL YOUR LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES!!!!
as someone who has worked in public libraries in both rural and urban areas, this cut will hurt libraries… but it will also hurt the people who rely on libraries and the resources we provide.
as someone who has worked in public libraries in both rural and urban areas, this cut will hurt libraries… but it will also hurt the people who rely on libraries and the resources we provide.
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How to support your library:
-Use it
-Talk about it positively to others, including social media
-Show up to city council meetings
-Show up to library board meetings
-Run for library board seats
-Become a friend of the library
-contact your rep when a bill affects libraries
-give to fundraisers
-Use it
-Talk about it positively to others, including social media
-Show up to city council meetings
-Show up to library board meetings
-Run for library board seats
-Become a friend of the library
-contact your rep when a bill affects libraries
-give to fundraisers
March 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
How to support your library:
-Use it
-Talk about it positively to others, including social media
-Show up to city council meetings
-Show up to library board meetings
-Run for library board seats
-Become a friend of the library
-contact your rep when a bill affects libraries
-give to fundraisers
-Use it
-Talk about it positively to others, including social media
-Show up to city council meetings
-Show up to library board meetings
-Run for library board seats
-Become a friend of the library
-contact your rep when a bill affects libraries
-give to fundraisers
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APRIL 5: We’re uniting to say Hands Off! and fight back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab. Join our national day of action: handsoff2025.com
March 16, 2025 at 9:39 PM
APRIL 5: We’re uniting to say Hands Off! and fight back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab. Join our national day of action: handsoff2025.com
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You cannot look at harm in isolation. It requires enablers & Dems have dutifully a played the part for decades because both parties support the neocolonial capitalist state & will use its power to quash resistance. Hold all harm accountable. It doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Enablers get no passes.
March 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
You cannot look at harm in isolation. It requires enablers & Dems have dutifully a played the part for decades because both parties support the neocolonial capitalist state & will use its power to quash resistance. Hold all harm accountable. It doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Enablers get no passes.
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A very frustrating thing is happening where people think this is just a uniquely American problem. It's happening all over Global North countries. The GERMANS are struggling to beat back Nazis.
February 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
A very frustrating thing is happening where people think this is just a uniquely American problem. It's happening all over Global North countries. The GERMANS are struggling to beat back Nazis.
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Shelves for young adult books in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, are empty.
That's because the librarians have to read 30,000 books to check for "explicit content."
(No such thing exists.)
(This is a TREMENDOUS waste of taxpayer dollars).
www.nola.com/news/livings...
That's because the librarians have to read 30,000 books to check for "explicit content."
(No such thing exists.)
(This is a TREMENDOUS waste of taxpayer dollars).
www.nola.com/news/livings...
Librarians reading 30,000 books in Livingston Parish to check for explicit material
Livingston Parish libraries have found a solution for the community's concerns about the possibility of sexually explicit material in children's books: read every single book on the shelf.
www.nola.com
February 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Shelves for young adult books in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, are empty.
That's because the librarians have to read 30,000 books to check for "explicit content."
(No such thing exists.)
(This is a TREMENDOUS waste of taxpayer dollars).
www.nola.com/news/livings...
That's because the librarians have to read 30,000 books to check for "explicit content."
(No such thing exists.)
(This is a TREMENDOUS waste of taxpayer dollars).
www.nola.com/news/livings...
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A few of my favorite books by trans authors:
Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki, a brilliant blend of sci-fi and fantasy and a love letter to music, food, and Asian-American immigrant communities:
bookshop.org/p/books/ligh...
Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki, a brilliant blend of sci-fi and fantasy and a love letter to music, food, and Asian-American immigrant communities:
bookshop.org/p/books/ligh...
January 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
A few of my favorite books by trans authors:
Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki, a brilliant blend of sci-fi and fantasy and a love letter to music, food, and Asian-American immigrant communities:
bookshop.org/p/books/ligh...
Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki, a brilliant blend of sci-fi and fantasy and a love letter to music, food, and Asian-American immigrant communities:
bookshop.org/p/books/ligh...
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u gotta compliment ur friends. i understand the impulse to stop urself from being a reply guy, but i promise it's not cringe, commenting on ur friends stuff and giving specific compliments about aspects u liked is the kind of thing that can make a person's whole day
February 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
u gotta compliment ur friends. i understand the impulse to stop urself from being a reply guy, but i promise it's not cringe, commenting on ur friends stuff and giving specific compliments about aspects u liked is the kind of thing that can make a person's whole day
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I’m curious about what’s going on here. Is this from a public library? What right or reason do they have to tell patrons what they can’t check out? Besides which, don’t the kids have books that their school makes them read? Let them have their Wimpy Kid!
February 11, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I’m curious about what’s going on here. Is this from a public library? What right or reason do they have to tell patrons what they can’t check out? Besides which, don’t the kids have books that their school makes them read? Let them have their Wimpy Kid!
been out with the flu for the past week, 0/10 do not recommend
February 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
been out with the flu for the past week, 0/10 do not recommend
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you shouldn’t care about it because they might be coming for you next, you should care that they’re coming for anyone at all
February 1, 2025 at 2:09 PM
you shouldn’t care about it because they might be coming for you next, you should care that they’re coming for anyone at all
you will not be able to keep up with every single breaking news story and every single headline of terrible news. even if you could, it would break you.
please take time for yourself. there is a lot of fear right now. do not let that overwhelm you. you are not atlas—you are not alone in this.
please take time for yourself. there is a lot of fear right now. do not let that overwhelm you. you are not atlas—you are not alone in this.
January 26, 2025 at 3:13 AM
you will not be able to keep up with every single breaking news story and every single headline of terrible news. even if you could, it would break you.
please take time for yourself. there is a lot of fear right now. do not let that overwhelm you. you are not atlas—you are not alone in this.
please take time for yourself. there is a lot of fear right now. do not let that overwhelm you. you are not atlas—you are not alone in this.
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BDS Boycott & Pressure Targets as of Jan 2025
do what you can, where you can 🖤🍉
do what you can, where you can 🖤🍉
January 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
BDS Boycott & Pressure Targets as of Jan 2025
do what you can, where you can 🖤🍉
do what you can, where you can 🖤🍉
people trying to incorporate AI into libraries will be my villain origin story !!!!!
January 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
people trying to incorporate AI into libraries will be my villain origin story !!!!!
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These are very good suggestions, but a few key ones are missing: attend library board mtgs and speak in favor (many are on zoom), donate $, and vote for measures and bonds to increase funding. Patrons have real power. Don't let a handful of bigots destroy your library.
One thing before tomorrow:
Use your local libraries.
Get your card.
Borrow books, manga, films, audios, ebooks.
Recommend titles for purchase (usually online).
Attend promoted activities.
Fill out those "How are we doing?" questionnaires.
Tell your kids that libraries are good.
They are.
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Use your local libraries.
Get your card.
Borrow books, manga, films, audios, ebooks.
Recommend titles for purchase (usually online).
Attend promoted activities.
Fill out those "How are we doing?" questionnaires.
Tell your kids that libraries are good.
They are.
📚
January 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
These are very good suggestions, but a few key ones are missing: attend library board mtgs and speak in favor (many are on zoom), donate $, and vote for measures and bonds to increase funding. Patrons have real power. Don't let a handful of bigots destroy your library.