Rotten Raccoon

My daughter and her friends made this “Remy cake.” And having seen it, I must now walk into the sea.

Winterville!!! Get ready to get weird this Saturday. You’re NOT going to want to miss this show 💚🦝

We’re here because

Book bans impact public libraries & bookstores, but it’s school libraries where they are rampant ❤️‍🩹

Many kids are unable to make it to the public library. They can’t drive, often times the library isn’t in walking distance. It’s not that their grown-ups don’t want them to be library kids.

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Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" has perhaps the most memorable opening line in all of Western literature: "I hope you motherfuckers like reading about whales"

*opens Bluesky*

*sees something about Trump buying Greenland and renaming it “Red White and Blueland”*

*closes Bluesky*

thank you to Kendrick and the Eagles for making terrible people angry tonight

today and every day we need folks to #standupfortranslives

Photograph of a warehouse in Kinshasa where unboxed tuberculosis medications are going undistributed due to the stop work order by the Trump Administration.

Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order.
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines.

The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.

It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

Dorothy Porter in 1939, at her desk in the Carnegie Library at Howard University. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Manuscript Division, Howard University

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜

The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.

Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

Happy Black History Month ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻

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WELCOME TO BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Remember falling in love with a girl while watching a Rufus Wainright music video on M2 on a 12 inch tv? I do.

3 2 1 Let's Jam. 🤠🌽🐎 Raleigh NC Chapel of Bones March 29th. Join us for our next Metal Mass show. Metal goes Wild Wild West! 😈🔥 See you Space Cowboy.

I am living for all the posts from people just now getting their library cards. I am proud of all of you, and I want to see what you pick up on your library runs! 🥰 #library #booksky

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“Listening to books isn’t the same as reading them.”

Okay?

What is the goal of this statement? To encourage people to not engage with books at all? To only read them because that’s the only thing that “counts”?

I read all of my books and don’t care about how others consume theirs. 🤷🏾‍♀️