Claire S.

Claire S.

@readerpants.bsky.social

Have you high-fived your neighborhood butchy youth services librarian today? PNW, she/her.

61 Followers 113 Following 45 Posts Joined Nov 2024
1 month ago

This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.

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4 months ago

Congratulations!

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4 months ago

Seattle, if you want Wilson to win, here's a great chance to help her out!

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6 months ago

I just heard someone use the phrasing “mental and MORAL health” and wow, I’m going to start using that too. I want to take care of and improve my moral health.

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6 months ago

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6 months ago
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Political violence is abhorrent. I have not celebrated Kirk's death.

But Newsom calling for his followers to "continue Charlie Kirk's work," someone who praised stoning gay people as "god's perfect law," who called for men to "take care of" trans people like they did in the 50s and 60s, is not it.

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6 months ago

The thing is, I’m pretty sure these all majority black cities and I’m worried that Trump will eventually try to occupy them too at some point. The fact that they are in Republican-controlled states isn’t a gotcha so much as evidence of how they’ve been maligned by their state governments.

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6 months ago

When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.

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6 months ago

More than 300k Black women being pushed out of the labor market while white men gained 365k more jobs is what we mean when we refer to racism as systemic.

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6 months ago

"Pumpkin Spice Raktajino" is even more Federation-coded than Quark's entire Root Beer speech

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6 months ago

👇👇 THIS 👇👇 the absolute worst offenders for being inconsiderate wrt noise and space in the library, and fully ignoring reminders or requests? White dads on weekends. As if their extremely loud parenting presence were a flag they were waving. (#notalldadsorwhatever but dramatically noticeable.)

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6 months ago

The thing the mainstream media is not remembering about Hurricane Katrina is their own lethal, racist contribution to treating rumors as facts used to demonize the stranded in New Orleans, turning them from victims to be aided to enemies to be contained.

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6 months ago

that NEA "we cancelled the creative writing fellowships program because we prioritize fostering AI competency" letter is a really good example of a genre of what we might call found horror

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6 months ago

The only prayer that matters when it comes to the regular and repeated murder of American children while they are at school is the kind of prayer that is taking action, the kind of prayer that materially fights for the living, the kind of prayer that says "never again" and means it, from MN to Gaza.

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6 months ago
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Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.

Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky

www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

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6 months ago

This is a treasure trove of fantastic romance recs.

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7 months ago

Love how, for the New York Times, using LLMs is just this value-neutral thing that everyone will eventually do, but being transgender makes you too biased to write about anything ever

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6 months ago
Fund Libraries: Tell Congress to invest in libraries. American Library Association.

The Senate has now shown support for maintaining federal library funding in next year's budget! Now it's time to tell the House to #FundLibraries.

Tell your House Rep to Show Up #ForOurLibraries!

Take action 👉 bit.ly/House4Libraries

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6 months ago
The 504 Protests and the Black Panther Party – Disability Social History Project

In 1977, Disabled activists occupied the Federal Building in San Francisco to demand the passage of Section 504— legislation to protect against disability discrimination.When the building was cordoned off, in an effort to starve activists out, The Black Panthers *Broke In* to deliver them hot meals.

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6 months ago
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Trans Youth Emergency Project: Supporting Families of Trans Youth Supporting families of trans youth nationwide through the logistical and financial burdens of navigating bans on gender-affirming care.

southernequality.org/tyep/

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6 months ago
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Donate to Impossible Moon Bookshop! #HopefulInHapeville, organized by Breanna McDaniel Hi, I'm Breanna J. McDaniel a born and raised Atlantan from t… Breanna McDaniel needs your support for Donate to Impossible Moon Bookshop! #HopefulInHapeville

Hey #BookSky!!!

One of my favorite children’s book writers is opening a new bookstore on the southside of Atlanta and could use your help getting it off the ground. Pleeeeeeeeeeeaaaaasssse donate. Yes $5 is enough!!

We need more Black women-owned bookstores.

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📚💙

gofund.me/60b14fa8

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6 months ago

V different from her others but with the same Vonda McIntyre commitment to an 70s/80s-flavored queernormative, polyamorous, neopronoun-filled universe. Upper middle grade feel, short, standalone. Honestly a wholesome joy!

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6 months ago

Tween girl sneaks her cat onto a spaceship, shenanigans ensue! The joy is that extremely Big Deal things are happening on the ship, like first contact, but it's all happening in the background - the focus never wavers from the tween's real priority, her cat 😂. It's a weird delight.

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7 months ago

I hope Rowling stubs her toe every day for the rest of her life

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7 months ago

This is the crux of racism, lmao. White people get to be autonomous and individual, while everyone else MUST be aligned with every single measure their government takes. *looks directly at camera*

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6 months ago

I can't wait! I'm sure this is prob already on your radar, but have you read Barbary by Vonda McIntyre? From your recs, I think it might be a win! I saw a giveaway copy down at the Clarion West table if you need some fun plane reading.

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7 months ago

The recs and commentary from @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social on this panel are so A++, I'm adding the DWJ podcast to my list immediately! (Lady Eve's Last Con was a delight, I don't know why I didn't do this earlier.)

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7 months ago

In the SFF Families panel and 1000000x yes to @cnkuster.bsky.social 's points on teens being portrayed tropily in fiction while their earnestness and desire to be seen are dismissed or invisible.

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