Summer Dawn Laurie

It's Banned Books Week Go out and fight for the books.

It's Banned Books Week Fight for the books!!
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06.10.2025 20:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Send a postcard to your library. To fight the fear created by organized pressure groups, we must tell our invaluable library workers that their community supports them. Library workers everywhere need to hear loud and clear: We support you and the freedom to read! Visit bit.ly/RightToReadDay to send a digital postcard to your library or download a printable version that you can mail. bit.ly/RightToReadDay #RightToReadDay #DrawnToFreedom. Unite Against Book Bans. Above the text is an illustration by Nate Powell.

💌For #RightToReadDay, take 5 minutes to show library workers that you support the freedom to read &have their backs! Send an electronic/physical #DrawnToFreedom postcard to your library today or any time of the year: uniteagainstbookbans.org/right-to-rea... #NationalLibraryWeek #UniteAgainstBookBans

07.04.2025 18:44 — 👍 18    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1

Millions have tuned in to ring this fish doorbell in the Netherlands Ringing this doorbell helps fish migrate through a lock in the Netherlands.

I am obsessed!
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10.03.2025 20:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yay small biz! Yay cash! Yay @martharichart.bsky.social for un-boring the boycott!

27.02.2025 08:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hearing that @indivisible.org and @moveon.org are pissing off house dems by mobilizing their constituents to call them too much is frankly the single best endorsement I've ever heard for a political action groups.

12.02.2025 03:43 — 👍 5717    🔁 1113    💬 109    📌 72

Logo of #ReadFreely campaign shows an open book with rainbow background and instructions to take a picture with a book at an indie bookstore and post with #ReadFreely

A fun (and vital) activity for Saturday 1/25/25.
#ReadFreely

22.01.2025 23:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Think you're safe as long as you use "knickers" and "loo." In all seriousness, I think that's a question for the Brits not the Yanks, but most importantly YOU. My guess is there are now loads of more imp. qualities you prioritize to distinguish yourself, tho "expat/English" is still there.

14.01.2025 08:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A new biodegradable material to replace certain microplastics MIT researchers developed biodegradable materials that could replace the plastic microbeads now used in beauty products. The materials could also be used to encapsulate nutrients for food fortificatio...

Thank goodness for scientists
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09.12.2024 16:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Here's your daily reminder that bookstores keep the love of reading alive — but they also keep neighborhoods beautiful. They are places to gather, to celebrate stories, to find community.

Please do your holiday shopping at your local independent bookstore, if you are lucky enough to still have one.

03.12.2024 19:40 — 👍 13155    🔁 2529    💬 174    📌 225