Alphabeticallie
@neonimpossible.bsky.social
Librarian | Book reviewer | Photographer
Rural Arkansas is worth fighting for. If you think I'm listening, I'm probably daydreaming about light quality.
Rural Arkansas is worth fighting for. If you think I'm listening, I'm probably daydreaming about light quality.
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you don't need a law degree to stop a book ban
you just need to show up
free guide shows you exactly how
get it here:
www.bannedcamppodcast.com/momsforliber...
after 9 seasons talking about book bans, we made this guide to stop them
you just need to show up
free guide shows you exactly how
get it here:
www.bannedcamppodcast.com/momsforliber...
after 9 seasons talking about book bans, we made this guide to stop them
November 27, 2025 at 4:30 AM
you don't need a law degree to stop a book ban
you just need to show up
free guide shows you exactly how
get it here:
www.bannedcamppodcast.com/momsforliber...
after 9 seasons talking about book bans, we made this guide to stop them
you just need to show up
free guide shows you exactly how
get it here:
www.bannedcamppodcast.com/momsforliber...
after 9 seasons talking about book bans, we made this guide to stop them
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Again, I’m begging @lastweektonight.com to give this story the full John Oliver treatment. It’s that crazy.
You'll never guess what book got the Carroll ISD school library advisory committee to say "genitals" a dozen times in 20 minutes. @txfreedomread.bsky.social will have more on this story soon, but for now, you have to hear this audio. open.substack.com/pub/franklin...
Please don’t say “genitals” one more time, Carroll ISD SLAC.
Listen to the audio of the committee that decided to ban Pretty Perfect Kitty Corn from Carroll ISD. If you dare.
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Again, I’m begging @lastweektonight.com to give this story the full John Oliver treatment. It’s that crazy.
READ THEM ALLLLLLLLL
November 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
READ THEM ALLLLLLLLL
On the day I have a chess and checkers program for veterans and community kids to hang out together that my Scout pack is working as a service project, this is just too much.
The US secretary of defense is taking time out from his attempted sham prosecution of the astronaut senator to condemn Scouting for being too woke www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
On the day I have a chess and checkers program for veterans and community kids to hang out together that my Scout pack is working as a service project, this is just too much.
Some days it feels like the Pigeon is driving the bus.
November 24, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Some days it feels like the Pigeon is driving the bus.
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Solange Knowles Wants to Lend You a Book
The Grammy winner, now a scholar in residence at U.S.C., is expanding a one-of-a-kind library featuring rare books by writers of color. (Just mind the due date.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/s...
The Grammy winner, now a scholar in residence at U.S.C., is expanding a one-of-a-kind library featuring rare books by writers of color. (Just mind the due date.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/s...
Solange Knowles Wants to Lend You a Book
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Solange Knowles Wants to Lend You a Book
The Grammy winner, now a scholar in residence at U.S.C., is expanding a one-of-a-kind library featuring rare books by writers of color. (Just mind the due date.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/s...
The Grammy winner, now a scholar in residence at U.S.C., is expanding a one-of-a-kind library featuring rare books by writers of color. (Just mind the due date.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/s...
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
It’s here! You can’t go wrong with a single one of these books. YA literature is the *best* and you cannot tell me otherwise!
www.slj.com/story/best-y...
www.slj.com/story/best-y...
November 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
It’s here! You can’t go wrong with a single one of these books. YA literature is the *best* and you cannot tell me otherwise!
www.slj.com/story/best-y...
www.slj.com/story/best-y...
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Thread. When Ai or other software tools are used to review books, this sort of mayhem results. When are we going to stop demonstrating to kids that books are somehow dangerous?
Long thread alert! The 20 craziest books currently unavailable to students in New Braunfels ISD in Central Texas due to the efforts of Texas book banners.
(Not in order, just going through the list)
1. A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams (1947)
(Not in order, just going through the list)
1. A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams (1947)
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Thread. When Ai or other software tools are used to review books, this sort of mayhem results. When are we going to stop demonstrating to kids that books are somehow dangerous?
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I realize he is a horrible monster but Trump constantly repeating the phrase "Transgender for Everybody" like it's a trademarked slogan is so funny
November 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I realize he is a horrible monster but Trump constantly repeating the phrase "Transgender for Everybody" like it's a trademarked slogan is so funny
🥳 finally!!!
I say it every year, but this year’s Best Books for YA is the BEST ONE EVER. Every single title is incredible. I can’t wait to share it.
I say it every year, but this year’s Best Books for YA is the BEST ONE EVER. Every single title is incredible. I can’t wait to share it.
Today's the day! We will be posting SLJ's Best Books 2025 this afternoon. Check back here or at slj.com for all of the top titles.
School Library Journal
slj.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
🥳 finally!!!
I say it every year, but this year’s Best Books for YA is the BEST ONE EVER. Every single title is incredible. I can’t wait to share it.
I say it every year, but this year’s Best Books for YA is the BEST ONE EVER. Every single title is incredible. I can’t wait to share it.
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"... from an AI Ethics standpoint, academic librarians should always question their use of AI and, if it is not necessary or morally beneficial, opt out of using it to help stop the erosion of human dignity and work to ensure environmental survivability."
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www.ala.org/acrl/publica...
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www.ala.org/acrl/publica...
Keeping Up With… AI Ethics
www.ala.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"... from an AI Ethics standpoint, academic librarians should always question their use of AI and, if it is not necessary or morally beneficial, opt out of using it to help stop the erosion of human dignity and work to ensure environmental survivability."
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www.ala.org/acrl/publica...
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www.ala.org/acrl/publica...
Tomorrow we're starting the citizenship badge for my Cub Scouts and I did not expect to worry that someone might think I was being political for talking about *checks notes*... how flags aren't supposed to touch the ground
November 18, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Tomorrow we're starting the citizenship badge for my Cub Scouts and I did not expect to worry that someone might think I was being political for talking about *checks notes*... how flags aren't supposed to touch the ground
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My wokest opinion is that every community deserves an extremely well-funded library that’s open to everyone and that librarians and teachers should make like ten times what they make now.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Using E.B. White to name the horrible shit they're doing is particularly galling considering
(From his essay "Freedom" published in July 1940, it's available in the collection ONE MAN'S MEAT, but you can find the whole thing online. I recommend picking it up.)
(From his essay "Freedom" published in July 1940, it's available in the collection ONE MAN'S MEAT, but you can find the whole thing online. I recommend picking it up.)
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Using E.B. White to name the horrible shit they're doing is particularly galling considering
(From his essay "Freedom" published in July 1940, it's available in the collection ONE MAN'S MEAT, but you can find the whole thing online. I recommend picking it up.)
(From his essay "Freedom" published in July 1940, it's available in the collection ONE MAN'S MEAT, but you can find the whole thing online. I recommend picking it up.)
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Both male and female horses have eyelashes. Unicorns don't exist so this can't be scientifically verified. Valiant use of taxpayer money to micromanage the acceptable eyelash representation of fictional animals.
This is what "parents rights" looks like in TX: 1 mother decides what 8,292 students don't get access to read b/c she thinks boy unicorns shouldn't be pink or have eyelashes. *side note: the unicorn isn't pink, but he does have eyelashes. And to TX legislators: your bad laws are harming our kids.
November 15, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Both male and female horses have eyelashes. Unicorns don't exist so this can't be scientifically verified. Valiant use of taxpayer money to micromanage the acceptable eyelash representation of fictional animals.
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Before ACA, I regularly had patients who bought insurance they thought was "best for them". I've seen $50k annual max, $500k lifetime max, plans w/ no Rx coverage, plans *carving out* cancer treatment, plans that denied leukemia treatment because prior iron deficiency anemia was a pre-existing. /1
Dr Oz: "If you had a check in the mail, you could buy the insurance you thought was best for you"
November 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Before ACA, I regularly had patients who bought insurance they thought was "best for them". I've seen $50k annual max, $500k lifetime max, plans w/ no Rx coverage, plans *carving out* cancer treatment, plans that denied leukemia treatment because prior iron deficiency anemia was a pre-existing. /1
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I don’t think women’s professional ambitions should be limited by how tactfully or gamely they respond to men’s sexual entitlement.
November 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I don’t think women’s professional ambitions should be limited by how tactfully or gamely they respond to men’s sexual entitlement.
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What gets me the most in this story is the gall of this woman to think she gets to come in & make this decision for every child in the district. And Sen. Angela Paxton & Dan Patrick call this stuff a win for parents rights as if 1 parent didn’t just take away the “rights” of 8000 other parents.
We have the newest casualty of the “parents rights," movement in Texas! And we can thank Sen. Angela Paxton’s “parental rights” school library bill (SB 13) for keeping Texas kids safe from Pretty Perfect Kitty Corn in Southlake, TX (Carroll ISD). @shannonhale.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 3:11 AM
What gets me the most in this story is the gall of this woman to think she gets to come in & make this decision for every child in the district. And Sen. Angela Paxton & Dan Patrick call this stuff a win for parents rights as if 1 parent didn’t just take away the “rights” of 8000 other parents.
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Annoyed that the Pope keeps saying cool stuff, I don't want to like the Pope
November 15, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Annoyed that the Pope keeps saying cool stuff, I don't want to like the Pope
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We have the newest casualty of the “parents rights," movement in Texas! And we can thank Sen. Angela Paxton’s “parental rights” school library bill (SB 13) for keeping Texas kids safe from Pretty Perfect Kitty Corn in Southlake, TX (Carroll ISD). @shannonhale.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 1:41 AM
We have the newest casualty of the “parents rights," movement in Texas! And we can thank Sen. Angela Paxton’s “parental rights” school library bill (SB 13) for keeping Texas kids safe from Pretty Perfect Kitty Corn in Southlake, TX (Carroll ISD). @shannonhale.bsky.social
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The EveryLibrary Institute powers the donation portal for Authors Against Book Bans (AABB). Donate today. www.everylibraryinstitute.org/aabb_donate?...
Donate to Authors Against Book Bans (AABB)
Make a donation to Authors Against Book Bans (AABB)
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November 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The EveryLibrary Institute powers the donation portal for Authors Against Book Bans (AABB). Donate today. www.everylibraryinstitute.org/aabb_donate?...
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It's so interesting that in the name of practicality we are urged to avoid any practical action; in the name of redemption we are urged to exonerate people who have shown no interest in redemption; in the name of civility we are urged to overlook the cruelty of those who scorn all civility
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
It's so interesting that in the name of practicality we are urged to avoid any practical action; in the name of redemption we are urged to exonerate people who have shown no interest in redemption; in the name of civility we are urged to overlook the cruelty of those who scorn all civility
This whole thing is so upsetting to me, all the way back to the op-ed it started with. Just… dumb.
Sarah Kendzior has been suspended from Bluesky for *checks notes* quoting a Johnny Cash lyric while sharing a wsj article about Johnny Cash substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior)
I was suspended from BlueSky for defending the honor of Johnny Cash.
I wish I were joking.
In early October, I referenced the “I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die” lyric of “Folsom Prison B...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This whole thing is so upsetting to me, all the way back to the op-ed it started with. Just… dumb.