Kendra Abel
@kendrama.bsky.social
Librarian, cancer survivor, depressed; also, I like cats. She/her, gray ace.
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and this is just a random fucking Thursday in November! I’m so tired of exciting government! Make government boring again!
November 7, 2025 at 6:12 AM
and this is just a random fucking Thursday in November! I’m so tired of exciting government! Make government boring again!
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We have nihilistic 8chan edgelords in charge of our nuclear arsenal because 30% of America still isn’t over the fact the South lost the Civil War
So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
October 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
We have nihilistic 8chan edgelords in charge of our nuclear arsenal because 30% of America still isn’t over the fact the South lost the Civil War
Alt text: a picture of three leather-bound books with the caption, “My antifa membership kit arrived today.” The titles printed in gold foil on the three books are: The Declaration of Independence, The Bill of Rights, and The Constitution of the United States of America.
October 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Alt text: a picture of three leather-bound books with the caption, “My antifa membership kit arrived today.” The titles printed in gold foil on the three books are: The Declaration of Independence, The Bill of Rights, and The Constitution of the United States of America.
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Libraries are so cool. Whenever I'm away from home and need a place to hang out between things, I find a library. There's a bathroom, a water fountain, chairs, and I can read, meditate, use the computers, or just be, and no one tries me make me buy anything.
September 23, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Libraries are so cool. Whenever I'm away from home and need a place to hang out between things, I find a library. There's a bathroom, a water fountain, chairs, and I can read, meditate, use the computers, or just be, and no one tries me make me buy anything.
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I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.
September 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.
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one of the common threads you will frequently find among devoted adult readers & writers is that as kids the librarian let them get away with reading whatever the fuck they wanted. so much of the scifi and fantasy I fell in love with as a kid was very much Not For Kids, but it made my brain light up
every time we talk about parental permission in terms of book banning I'm like fuck man. kids have rights too. a 17-year-old should be able to check out books at the library without Mom and Dad stepping in. so should a 10-year-old or 7 or whatever. kids deserve SOME goddamn freedom and privacy
September 20, 2025 at 3:52 AM
one of the common threads you will frequently find among devoted adult readers & writers is that as kids the librarian let them get away with reading whatever the fuck they wanted. so much of the scifi and fantasy I fell in love with as a kid was very much Not For Kids, but it made my brain light up
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Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading.
Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.
Just. Keep. Reading.
Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.
Just. Keep. Reading.
September 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading.
Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.
Just. Keep. Reading.
Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.
Just. Keep. Reading.
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you get to be "one of the good ones" right up until they decide they can go full mask off and don't need to pretend there are "good ones" anymore
i would have guessed that playing footsie with reactionaries would have gotten you some kind of exemption -- guess not
September 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
you get to be "one of the good ones" right up until they decide they can go full mask off and don't need to pretend there are "good ones" anymore
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I want you all to explore and celebrate all the communication options Bluesky has to offer, and with that said, if I never have to see Nazi shit from X that some of all y'all screencap just to dunk on it here, I would be so happy, I left X so I wouldn't have to see that Nazi shit you know
August 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I want you all to explore and celebrate all the communication options Bluesky has to offer, and with that said, if I never have to see Nazi shit from X that some of all y'all screencap just to dunk on it here, I would be so happy, I left X so I wouldn't have to see that Nazi shit you know
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Goddamn. What a sobering and poignant piece of conceptual art. What an amazing artist.
August 6, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Goddamn. What a sobering and poignant piece of conceptual art. What an amazing artist.
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There are currently more kids in Texas with measles than there are transgender collegiate athletes in all of America.
Guess which one they want you to focus on.
Guess which one they want you to focus on.
July 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
There are currently more kids in Texas with measles than there are transgender collegiate athletes in all of America.
Guess which one they want you to focus on.
Guess which one they want you to focus on.
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The first rule of life is always do whatever upsets matt walsh and you will have lived a good moral just life
June 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The first rule of life is always do whatever upsets matt walsh and you will have lived a good moral just life
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The principles of community action is mutual aid.
Mutual aid, serving the community is beautiful, and an act of love for all.
Mutual aid, serving the community is beautiful, and an act of love for all.
June 15, 2025 at 4:39 AM
The principles of community action is mutual aid.
Mutual aid, serving the community is beautiful, and an act of love for all.
Mutual aid, serving the community is beautiful, and an act of love for all.
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You know you can just not use AI, right?
You can make a choice not to be part of this.
Even if your job uses it, YOU don’t have to in your normal life. You don’t have to let your kids use it.
You didn’t have it three years ago. You can just…be on Team Human. You can choose.
You can make a choice not to be part of this.
Even if your job uses it, YOU don’t have to in your normal life. You don’t have to let your kids use it.
You didn’t have it three years ago. You can just…be on Team Human. You can choose.
June 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
You know you can just not use AI, right?
You can make a choice not to be part of this.
Even if your job uses it, YOU don’t have to in your normal life. You don’t have to let your kids use it.
You didn’t have it three years ago. You can just…be on Team Human. You can choose.
You can make a choice not to be part of this.
Even if your job uses it, YOU don’t have to in your normal life. You don’t have to let your kids use it.
You didn’t have it three years ago. You can just…be on Team Human. You can choose.
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It is not possible to achieve everything you desire, no matter how hard you try. That is a hard truth. But if you never reach for greatness how will you know what is beyond your grasp? And in the attempt, who knows what other unimagined glories may come along the way?
May 19, 2025 at 12:50 AM
It is not possible to achieve everything you desire, no matter how hard you try. That is a hard truth. But if you never reach for greatness how will you know what is beyond your grasp? And in the attempt, who knows what other unimagined glories may come along the way?
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
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Librarians, the toughest of all. “Staff members at the library called the U.S. Capitol Police as well as their general counsel, Meg Williams, who told the men they were not allowed access to the Copyright Office and asked them to leave,” which they did.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
Officials Are Denied Access to Library of Congress After Trump Names New Boss
www.nytimes.com
May 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Librarians, the toughest of all. “Staff members at the library called the U.S. Capitol Police as well as their general counsel, Meg Williams, who told the men they were not allowed access to the Copyright Office and asked them to leave,” which they did.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
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There's a more complete story out now for what happened at the Library of Congress today. Library staff denied access to new appointees to senior library positions without a Senate-confirmed Librarian in place. Recognizing the former #2 as in charge in the interim. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
Officials Are Denied Access to Library of Congress After Trump Names New Boss
www.nytimes.com
May 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
There's a more complete story out now for what happened at the Library of Congress today. Library staff denied access to new appointees to senior library positions without a Senate-confirmed Librarian in place. Recognizing the former #2 as in charge in the interim. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
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as someone who lives nextdoor to both supportive housing and public housing, i need people to understand that the best locations for both are going to be the central neighborhoods in a metropolitan area, where there is easy and reliable access to services and jobs.
May 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
as someone who lives nextdoor to both supportive housing and public housing, i need people to understand that the best locations for both are going to be the central neighborhoods in a metropolitan area, where there is easy and reliable access to services and jobs.
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it is impossible for me to not talk funny to my cat
May 10, 2025 at 12:44 AM
it is impossible for me to not talk funny to my cat
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Bitterness and cynicism are a form of surrender, when anger at injustice remains but the will to confront it is dulled by resignation. As true warriors, let anger at injustice be bright and righteous, and let it drive us to confront its cause and cast it down.
May 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Bitterness and cynicism are a form of surrender, when anger at injustice remains but the will to confront it is dulled by resignation. As true warriors, let anger at injustice be bright and righteous, and let it drive us to confront its cause and cast it down.
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he really, truly thinks that stopping trade with China entirely is good
he doesn’t care how much damage it does to the economy or how many businesses go under - he thinks that if Americans buy anything from China we are losing money so it should stop
there’s no twelve dimensional chess here
he doesn’t care how much damage it does to the economy or how many businesses go under - he thinks that if Americans buy anything from China we are losing money so it should stop
there’s no twelve dimensional chess here
Trump: "We already made a great deal. We're not doing business with China right now. We lost $1 trillion with China last year, so if you're not gonna do business with them, you're not gonna lose $1 trillion."
May 9, 2025 at 9:12 PM
he really, truly thinks that stopping trade with China entirely is good
he doesn’t care how much damage it does to the economy or how many businesses go under - he thinks that if Americans buy anything from China we are losing money so it should stop
there’s no twelve dimensional chess here
he doesn’t care how much damage it does to the economy or how many businesses go under - he thinks that if Americans buy anything from China we are losing money so it should stop
there’s no twelve dimensional chess here
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…So TeleMessage was hacked.
Why does Pete Hegseth still have a fucking job? Why do ANY OF THESE PEOPLE still have a fucking job???
(again: shush; I know why, and it FUCKING INFURIATES ME.)
bsky.app/profile/mica...
Why does Pete Hegseth still have a fucking job? Why do ANY OF THESE PEOPLE still have a fucking job???
(again: shush; I know why, and it FUCKING INFURIATES ME.)
bsky.app/profile/mica...
TeleMessage, the Israeli company that makes the modified Signal app used by Trump officials, was hacked. “I would say the whole process took about 15-20 minutes,” the hacker said micahflee.com/the-signal-c...
The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked
TeleMessage, a company that makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, was hacked.
micahflee.com
May 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
…So TeleMessage was hacked.
Why does Pete Hegseth still have a fucking job? Why do ANY OF THESE PEOPLE still have a fucking job???
(again: shush; I know why, and it FUCKING INFURIATES ME.)
bsky.app/profile/mica...
Why does Pete Hegseth still have a fucking job? Why do ANY OF THESE PEOPLE still have a fucking job???
(again: shush; I know why, and it FUCKING INFURIATES ME.)
bsky.app/profile/mica...