Rukaye (aka Kayereadsalot)
@rukaye.bsky.social
Ask me about book recs! Currently a readers' services librarian in NY. 35, bi, enby. Also I draw and play video games sometimes!
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Chronicling the books I've read this year. Here are the first four
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And there you have it!!!!
“It’s a complete knockout. There’s not a single issue that the court did not side with the plaintiffs on.”
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/13/j...
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/13/j...
Judge strikes down parts of a Florida law used to ban school library books
The 2023 law prompted educators to pull classic literature, popular novels and even children’s picture books from school shelves.
www.orlandosentinel.com
August 14, 2025 at 12:12 AM
And there you have it!!!!
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Feeling good about my decision to ignore Threads
August 14, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Feeling good about my decision to ignore Threads
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I live around men with huge arsenals they collected to fight tyranny.
Turns out “tyranny” is being asked wear a mask or kids having access to books or women having access to healthcare or gay folks getting married…
Turns out “tyranny” is being asked wear a mask or kids having access to books or women having access to healthcare or gay folks getting married…
August 14, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I live around men with huge arsenals they collected to fight tyranny.
Turns out “tyranny” is being asked wear a mask or kids having access to books or women having access to healthcare or gay folks getting married…
Turns out “tyranny” is being asked wear a mask or kids having access to books or women having access to healthcare or gay folks getting married…
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Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
August 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
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Dear parents:
You see all this stupidity going around? Please read to your kids. Let them see you reading. Keep books around. Buy them books if you can. Show them how cool the library is. Tell them book banning is bad. Make reading part of their lives. It helps make good people.
You see all this stupidity going around? Please read to your kids. Let them see you reading. Keep books around. Buy them books if you can. Show them how cool the library is. Tell them book banning is bad. Make reading part of their lives. It helps make good people.
June 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Dear parents:
You see all this stupidity going around? Please read to your kids. Let them see you reading. Keep books around. Buy them books if you can. Show them how cool the library is. Tell them book banning is bad. Make reading part of their lives. It helps make good people.
You see all this stupidity going around? Please read to your kids. Let them see you reading. Keep books around. Buy them books if you can. Show them how cool the library is. Tell them book banning is bad. Make reading part of their lives. It helps make good people.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Libraries throw out books. And we do it all the time.
Mostly old or damaged books tbh. Things that aren't salvageable. Stuff you donate to us that you found in your grandma's basement (there's mold in there, dear).
Libraries throw out books. And we do it all the time.
Mostly old or damaged books tbh. Things that aren't salvageable. Stuff you donate to us that you found in your grandma's basement (there's mold in there, dear).
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Convention tables/booths can cost anywhere from $75 all the way up to $5000, depending on the show. If someone is behind a table at a con, they probably paid a lot of money to be there.
Convention tables/booths can cost anywhere from $75 all the way up to $5000, depending on the show. If someone is behind a table at a con, they probably paid a lot of money to be there.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
A majority of the world’s insect species have no living expert who can identify them.
A majority of the world’s insect species have no living expert who can identify them.
June 18, 2025 at 2:13 AM
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Libraries throw out books. And we do it all the time.
Mostly old or damaged books tbh. Things that aren't salvageable. Stuff you donate to us that you found in your grandma's basement (there's mold in there, dear).
Libraries throw out books. And we do it all the time.
Mostly old or damaged books tbh. Things that aren't salvageable. Stuff you donate to us that you found in your grandma's basement (there's mold in there, dear).
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Kind of fascinating to live through an entire society just giving up and wandering away
Target FORGOT TO WRITE COPY for their pride line this year i’m obsessed with how much big box stores dgaf and have stopped pretending to
May 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Kind of fascinating to live through an entire society just giving up and wandering away
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Time to post it again.
May 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Time to post it again.
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I know many people my age still have a lot of nostalgia around Harry Potter and might be tempted to watch the new HBO TV series.
Please, I'm begging you, do not tune in.
J.K. Rowling is singularly motivated. The new Harry Potter series is a cash cow intended to fund anti-trans bigotry.
Please, I'm begging you, do not tune in.
J.K. Rowling is singularly motivated. The new Harry Potter series is a cash cow intended to fund anti-trans bigotry.
J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the "Harry Potter" series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people's rights "in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.”
🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk
🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk
May 29, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I know many people my age still have a lot of nostalgia around Harry Potter and might be tempted to watch the new HBO TV series.
Please, I'm begging you, do not tune in.
J.K. Rowling is singularly motivated. The new Harry Potter series is a cash cow intended to fund anti-trans bigotry.
Please, I'm begging you, do not tune in.
J.K. Rowling is singularly motivated. The new Harry Potter series is a cash cow intended to fund anti-trans bigotry.
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To my admittedly dumb dumb understanding, chat gpt is basically auto-wikipedia. The wisdom of large crowds in algorithm form but without any knowledgeable editors and debates.
Another thing which baffles me is that it took decades for Wikipedia to gain trust as a source. Meanwhile, I've already seen people quote chatgpt as source irl.
May 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM
To my admittedly dumb dumb understanding, chat gpt is basically auto-wikipedia. The wisdom of large crowds in algorithm form but without any knowledgeable editors and debates.
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I rarely tell people to throw their devices into the sea, but you should throw your Amazon Echo into the sea.
www.wired.com/story/everyt...
www.wired.com/story/everyt...
Everything You Say to Your Echo Will Soon Be Sent to Amazon, and You Can’t Opt Out
Amazon is killing its “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” privacy feature on March 28 as the company aims to bolster Alexa+, its new subscription assistant.
www.wired.com
March 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I rarely tell people to throw their devices into the sea, but you should throw your Amazon Echo into the sea.
www.wired.com/story/everyt...
www.wired.com/story/everyt...
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America is under siege by a surprising force: losers.
America Is Under Siege by a Surprising Force: Losers
We’re not talking about this enough.
slate.com
March 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
America is under siege by a surprising force: losers.
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I worry about this every time I use a public restroom these days. Thanks, TERFs! Adds a fun, retro little frisson of danger to existing in public
Anti-trans laws mostly harm cis women and bring male cops into women’s toilets.
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/cops...
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/cops...
Cops burst into women's restroom to remove butch lesbian, accusing her of being a man - LGBTQ Nation
“The only men in the women’s restroom were the cops.”
www.lgbtqnation.com
March 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I worry about this every time I use a public restroom these days. Thanks, TERFs! Adds a fun, retro little frisson of danger to existing in public
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Chronicling the books I've read this year. Here are the first four
March 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Chronicling the books I've read this year. Here are the first four
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February 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Finally finally FINALLY started listening to @librarianjones.com's book That Librarian (after I purchased a hardcover copy at a conference in November lol). Only about 10% in but I highly recommend reading and/or listening to it. As a librarian, it hits home, especially when we talk @ censorship.
March 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Finally finally FINALLY started listening to @librarianjones.com's book That Librarian (after I purchased a hardcover copy at a conference in November lol). Only about 10% in but I highly recommend reading and/or listening to it. As a librarian, it hits home, especially when we talk @ censorship.
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defy the norm. get even stranger. NO SURRENDER
February 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
defy the norm. get even stranger. NO SURRENDER
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“It’s very important as an educator and a mother and ... just a resident in my community that every single person in my community feels seen and heard and every single person in every community should see their families represented on the shelves of books in libraries.”
www.wgbh.org/culture/book...
www.wgbh.org/culture/book...
Despite threats, ‘That Librarian’ Amanda Jones continues the fight against book bans
A campaign against small-town school librarian Amanda Jones is in full force because she spoke out against censorship.
www.wgbh.org
February 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
“It’s very important as an educator and a mother and ... just a resident in my community that every single person in my community feels seen and heard and every single person in every community should see their families represented on the shelves of books in libraries.”
www.wgbh.org/culture/book...
www.wgbh.org/culture/book...
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This is also why the brief three week period of calling the fascists "weird" last year was effective.
one of the strategies of the past was to create cultural consensus that the Klan was pathetic and embarrassing. this was a real thing in old Superman comics. when people think their (awful hateful) movement sucks and is full of losers that even children mock, they're less committed to defending it.
February 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This is also why the brief three week period of calling the fascists "weird" last year was effective.
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I thought audiobooks didn’t count.
Then I read: “We’re just reverting to how stories were originally told.”
Oral storytelling could be as old as 2M years. Writing itself has only existed for 5400 years.
I’m still book loyal, but let’s be honest, stories were made to be heard!
💙📚
Then I read: “We’re just reverting to how stories were originally told.”
Oral storytelling could be as old as 2M years. Writing itself has only existed for 5400 years.
I’m still book loyal, but let’s be honest, stories were made to be heard!
💙📚
February 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I thought audiobooks didn’t count.
Then I read: “We’re just reverting to how stories were originally told.”
Oral storytelling could be as old as 2M years. Writing itself has only existed for 5400 years.
I’m still book loyal, but let’s be honest, stories were made to be heard!
💙📚
Then I read: “We’re just reverting to how stories were originally told.”
Oral storytelling could be as old as 2M years. Writing itself has only existed for 5400 years.
I’m still book loyal, but let’s be honest, stories were made to be heard!
💙📚
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Targeting trans people, Black people, immigrants etc is not a “distraction” from fascism, it IS fascism.
It lives in complementary relationship to destroying democracy, because democracy is inherently about participation of minorities.
It lives in complementary relationship to destroying democracy, because democracy is inherently about participation of minorities.
February 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Targeting trans people, Black people, immigrants etc is not a “distraction” from fascism, it IS fascism.
It lives in complementary relationship to destroying democracy, because democracy is inherently about participation of minorities.
It lives in complementary relationship to destroying democracy, because democracy is inherently about participation of minorities.
the library I work at does an annual Tiny Art Show and this was my submission this year. Titled: To Covet the Sun
And yes that's a little mothman guy lol the canvases are like 3x3 inches and the paint that was provided was just red, blue, yellow, black, and white so it was a limited palette.
And yes that's a little mothman guy lol the canvases are like 3x3 inches and the paint that was provided was just red, blue, yellow, black, and white so it was a limited palette.
February 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
the library I work at does an annual Tiny Art Show and this was my submission this year. Titled: To Covet the Sun
And yes that's a little mothman guy lol the canvases are like 3x3 inches and the paint that was provided was just red, blue, yellow, black, and white so it was a limited palette.
And yes that's a little mothman guy lol the canvases are like 3x3 inches and the paint that was provided was just red, blue, yellow, black, and white so it was a limited palette.
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The fire danced in her eyes. The flames swam, flared up, sank away, brightened again against the sooty stone, against the dark sky, against the pale sky, the gulfs of evening, the depths of air and light beyond the world.
February 12, 2025 at 6:05 AM
The fire danced in her eyes. The flames swam, flared up, sank away, brightened again against the sooty stone, against the dark sky, against the pale sky, the gulfs of evening, the depths of air and light beyond the world.
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This is Mrs. Florence Bell, the first nurse to go to the Royal Veterinary College of London. This is a cigarette card from my collection and in the info about her on the back it says “the more she sees of humans, the better she likes animals”. 1938.
February 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This is Mrs. Florence Bell, the first nurse to go to the Royal Veterinary College of London. This is a cigarette card from my collection and in the info about her on the back it says “the more she sees of humans, the better she likes animals”. 1938.