Hilary
@meltedbooks.bsky.social
Reading. Learning. Librarian-ing.
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April 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Just posted my review on Storygraph and
IG of Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry - out 4/22! Thanks to Libro.FM and PRH Audio for providing early access. app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/d448...
IG of Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry - out 4/22! Thanks to Libro.FM and PRH Audio for providing early access. app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/d448...
Review by melted_books - Great Big Beautiful Life
Summary: Alice Scott and Hayden Anderson are two writers brought to Little Crescent Island, a...
app.thestorygraph.com
April 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Just posted my review on Storygraph and
IG of Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry - out 4/22! Thanks to Libro.FM and PRH Audio for providing early access. app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/d448...
IG of Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry - out 4/22! Thanks to Libro.FM and PRH Audio for providing early access. app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/d448...
Just quit Amazon 🙌 this is your sign to end your prime membership
March 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Just quit Amazon 🙌 this is your sign to end your prime membership
I don’t see glitter on this list…😈 like, bags and bags of glitter 🙃 would be a SHAME to have to clean that up 😇
Haha 😂 Trump appointees at USAID sent terminated employees a list of over 100 prohibited weapons they cannot bring when retrieving their belongings. The list includes firearms, axes, martial arts weapons like nunchucks and throwing stars, spearguns, and even dynamite.
February 26, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I don’t see glitter on this list…😈 like, bags and bags of glitter 🙃 would be a SHAME to have to clean that up 😇
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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
February 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
To understand the utterly obscene difference between a million and a billion, remember:
One million seconds is 12 days.
One billion seconds is 32 years.
One million seconds is 12 days.
One billion seconds is 32 years.
February 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
To understand the utterly obscene difference between a million and a billion, remember:
One million seconds is 12 days.
One billion seconds is 32 years.
One million seconds is 12 days.
One billion seconds is 32 years.
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Help public libraries today by:
✅ Downloading an ebook
✅ Registering for a program
✅ Sharing a post from your library
✅ Emailing staff and thanking them
✅ Mark your calendar to attend the next library board of control meeting
✅ Ask 5 friends to do the same
✅ Downloading an ebook
✅ Registering for a program
✅ Sharing a post from your library
✅ Emailing staff and thanking them
✅ Mark your calendar to attend the next library board of control meeting
✅ Ask 5 friends to do the same
February 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Help public libraries today by:
✅ Downloading an ebook
✅ Registering for a program
✅ Sharing a post from your library
✅ Emailing staff and thanking them
✅ Mark your calendar to attend the next library board of control meeting
✅ Ask 5 friends to do the same
✅ Downloading an ebook
✅ Registering for a program
✅ Sharing a post from your library
✅ Emailing staff and thanking them
✅ Mark your calendar to attend the next library board of control meeting
✅ Ask 5 friends to do the same
Boosting because this isn’t as flashy as the other news going on. He is destroying the earth.
Another casualty of Trump’s funding freeze: New Orleans’ tree canopy.
A program was trying to mitigate the loss of 200,000 trees to Hurricane Katrina.
grist.org/cities/trump...
#Trees #NewOrleans #Louisiana #Trump
A program was trying to mitigate the loss of 200,000 trees to Hurricane Katrina.
grist.org/cities/trump...
#Trees #NewOrleans #Louisiana #Trump
Another casualty of Trump's funding freeze: New Orleans’ tree canopy
New Orleans lost more than 200,000 trees in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The federal funding freeze could stop the effort to replace them.
grist.org
February 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Boosting because this isn’t as flashy as the other news going on. He is destroying the earth.
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Thank you Nat’l Lawyers Guild for letting me know every single app on my IPhone had Apple AI learning from it.
Here’s how to turn it off
1. Go to settings
2. Go to Apps
3. Go down your list of apps individually and select Siri/Apple Intelligence
4. Deselect “learn from this app”
Here’s how to turn it off
1. Go to settings
2. Go to Apps
3. Go down your list of apps individually and select Siri/Apple Intelligence
4. Deselect “learn from this app”
February 6, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Thank you Nat’l Lawyers Guild for letting me know every single app on my IPhone had Apple AI learning from it.
Here’s how to turn it off
1. Go to settings
2. Go to Apps
3. Go down your list of apps individually and select Siri/Apple Intelligence
4. Deselect “learn from this app”
Here’s how to turn it off
1. Go to settings
2. Go to Apps
3. Go down your list of apps individually and select Siri/Apple Intelligence
4. Deselect “learn from this app”
Getting to a point where I feel like I can’t function properly as a full-time working adult while all of this *gestures wildly to America* is going on.
February 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Getting to a point where I feel like I can’t function properly as a full-time working adult while all of this *gestures wildly to America* is going on.
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January wrap up! 7 books (my favorite: The Wedding People by Alison Espach; Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson was also incredibly - highly recommend!)
February 1, 2025 at 2:31 AM
January wrap up! 7 books (my favorite: The Wedding People by Alison Espach; Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson was also incredibly - highly recommend!)
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Take your meds.
Take your vitamins.
Hydrate.
Rest.
Hold close your friends and family.
Taking care of ourselves and our community is also resistance.
Take your vitamins.
Hydrate.
Rest.
Hold close your friends and family.
Taking care of ourselves and our community is also resistance.
January 31, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Take your meds.
Take your vitamins.
Hydrate.
Rest.
Hold close your friends and family.
Taking care of ourselves and our community is also resistance.
Take your vitamins.
Hydrate.
Rest.
Hold close your friends and family.
Taking care of ourselves and our community is also resistance.
Enjoying The Favorites by Layne Fargo! So much drama 👀 Thanks to @librofm.bsky.social for providing early access 🙏🏻
January 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Enjoying The Favorites by Layne Fargo! So much drama 👀 Thanks to @librofm.bsky.social for providing early access 🙏🏻
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I hate to be that guy, but it feels like there was more (again, totally justified) outrage at Tik Tok being banned than Trump trying to take birthright citizenship away and deciding to use ICE to ethnically cleanse Black and Brown folks.
January 28, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I hate to be that guy, but it feels like there was more (again, totally justified) outrage at Tik Tok being banned than Trump trying to take birthright citizenship away and deciding to use ICE to ethnically cleanse Black and Brown folks.
Celebrating @bookshop-org.bsky.social’s announcement today that you can now buy ebooks through them!!🥳
January 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Celebrating @bookshop-org.bsky.social’s announcement today that you can now buy ebooks through them!!🥳
Current library borrows:
-Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet by Taylor Lorenz
-Red River Seven by A. J. Ryan
-Playground by Richard Powers
-Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao
-Taylor Swift Style by Sarah Chapelle
-Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet by Taylor Lorenz
-Red River Seven by A. J. Ryan
-Playground by Richard Powers
-Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao
-Taylor Swift Style by Sarah Chapelle
January 26, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Current library borrows:
-Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet by Taylor Lorenz
-Red River Seven by A. J. Ryan
-Playground by Richard Powers
-Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao
-Taylor Swift Style by Sarah Chapelle
-Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet by Taylor Lorenz
-Red River Seven by A. J. Ryan
-Playground by Richard Powers
-Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao
-Taylor Swift Style by Sarah Chapelle
Okay confession: when I first heard about Bluesky, I was reading it in a news headline. And for some reason, my brain pronounced the name as “blueskee.” So this app will forever be known to me as that.
January 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Okay confession: when I first heard about Bluesky, I was reading it in a news headline. And for some reason, my brain pronounced the name as “blueskee.” So this app will forever be known to me as that.
Not me getting blank page anxiety about a fresh social media account
January 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Not me getting blank page anxiety about a fresh social media account