Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her)

It also feels indulgent, like you shouldn’t be eating but it tastes so good. You can feel the deep care that the cast and creators have for the material. They cared enough to change the stuff that doesn’t hold up nowadays and flesh out characters who were weaker in the books.

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

Meanwhile in #Portland

Sorry, Greta Thunberg is right there?? Getting imprisoned to bring attention to the Gaza situation???

I hope someday a kid gets to look in a textbook and see a picture of these frogs facing off against ICE, with the caption that it started to change the tide of public opinion against the kidnappers.

Someone reaches out to ask why I'm not saying "there's __no evidence__ that circumcision causes autism, wouldn't that be more accurate?"

Bad actors, liars, charlatans, cheats, and fakers have figured out how to exploit the nuanced precision of that kind of science communication on a scale....

This is pretty much what I pictured happening after reading the last few books.

If you are willing to throw away entire groups of people to protect your insular strategy that will only protect you instead of protecting everyone then I don’t want your leaders and I sure as hell don’t want to be associated with you.

#WarRavagedPortland

The fact that they can't get a random sampling of citizens from any city to indict people for interfering with ICE seems more informative than any political poll, tbh

kinda sweet that bookshop.org's anti-prime sale overlaps with banned books week, which means today you can get free shipping PLUS 20% off their banned books list! bookshop.org/info/banned-...

Sounds like E.B. White has a lot to answer for, lol.

Holy MOLY that sounds like something out of Final Destination, not real life!

this is legitimately good news?

Book cover: don’t touch my hair

Book cover: I am enough

Book cover: born on the water

Book cover: this day in June

Gorgeous, contemporary picture books that have been banned from some US school districts and libraries, cont’d….

Book cover: Legendborn

Book cover: fat chance Charlie Vega

Book cover: the henna wars

Book cover: they called us enemy

Gorgeous contemporary young adult books banned in some US schools and libraries…

Book cover: Sofia Valdez future prez

Book cover: all boys aren’t blue

Book cover: Pride puppy

Book cover: last night at the telegraph club

Librarians, booksellers, & educators— when you talk about banned books, please focus on the thousands of CONTEMPORARY books that are being banned right now.

For example….
#BannedBooksWeek

Oh NO. We use a combination of them and Brodart, and we’ve noticed Brodart being generally more reliable as of late, although B&T used to deliver things more quickly. Never a good thing to have fewer choices.

ITS JAKE!!!! i love this guy!!!! i saw him in may. @skoggkatt.bsky.social look! for everyone else here’s a pic i took of him😍 and yes he’s loud and nothing like what the bald eagles sounded like. too cute!

Today’s the first day of Banned Books Week! Take a look at the thread and see if there’s something you can do to protect our freedom to read!

Today, I drove an hour and a half with my wife and a couple friends to pick up a neighbor who was summarily, inexplicably arrested by ICE at a check-in ten days ago and then just as inexplicably released, 100 miles from home today. It was a happy occasion, all things considered, but...

it doesn't really fit the cadence of the song but also additionally TURN YOUR ADVERTISING TRACKING NUMBER THAT U PROBABLY DIDN'T KNOW U HAVE OFF 🎶 TURN YOUR ADVERTISING TRACKING NUMBER THAT U PROBABLY DIDN'T KNOW U HAVE OFF

wow I wonder why my entire body was in the air in the first place

Day 2 of a #WeekWithoutDriving
here's a few miles of my 13-mile commute through the downtown core of war ravaged Portland, Oregon.

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Watch to the end!

PHEW

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric