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Supporting people's capacity for joy and connection is important work. One little thing at a time. Your delight is not frivolous.

Punk Rock Pixie (@punkrockpixie) The world is a fucking mess. I suggest watching panda videos at regular intervals throughout each day.🐼

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I guess the wig was part of it but it’s more the character. Hmm now I’m imagining an alternate universe in which he kept his long and wavy hair. And another where he also exclusively sought out noble Aragorn-like roles to play.

✨WE ARE LIVE!✨

Almost 400 amazing items are available to help #KidLit4Ceasefire families survive the genocide in Gaza!

322 still without bids:
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After watching LOTR I searched for other movies starring Viggo Mortensen then realized I was really looking for Aragorn!

Sharing some good news: I got a call yesterday with reassuring pathology: uterine biopsy non-malignant. I will proceed with surgery (given my risks).

Bottom line: Seek medical care for post-menopausal vaginal bleeding. It is endometrial cancer until proven otherwise, the most common gyne cancer.

Gaza aid distribution declared ‘orchestrated killing’ by MSF Medical relief agency has treated more than 1,300 patients for wounds sustained near notorious GHF aid sites in Gaza.

Appalling and the world just sits by. Shame on them. Guy
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Remember when the UK govt said Rafah was a red line and Israel flattened it and we did nothing?

Hind Khoudary reports that Israel plans to do the same to Gaza City as it did to Rafah.

Wow that’s saying a lot

collage of book covers for the LibraryReads September 2025 Top 10 list

It's Fri-YAY and also the 15th of the month which means time for LibraryReads announcements! Here is our Top 10 for September 2025. As always, a handy printable list can be found at libraryreads.org.

collage of LibraryReads Hall of Fame titles for September 2025

Make space on your TBR list because here come the LibraryReads September 2025 Hall of Fame titles! These are new books by authors who have earned top votes at least three times or more from public library workers in the USA. Looking for a printable list? Check out libraryreads.org!

book cover and annotation

Next on the September 2025 LibraryReads Top 10 list is THE WILDERNESS: A NOVEL by Angela Flournoy! @librarylovefest.bsky.social

From Sept list, so happy to see THE SUMMER WAR by Naomi Novik- will definitely be recommending a lot. Perfect lil fantasy novella. For October, I'm rooting for FEMALE FANTASY by Iman Hariri-Kia: a romance/ satire romantasy that is bonkers and ridicously fun. @libraryreads.bsky.social

Have you seen the news?!? We have TWO LibraryReads picks for September including BREATHE IN, BLEED OUT by Brian McAuley and LAURYN HARPER FALLS APART by Shauna Robinson 🎉🎉 Thank you to everyone who voted!!

The Sameer Project has been doing crucial work to get food into Gaza. Gaza is facing mass, created starvation- people are dropping in the street from lack of food and water. Never again is now. Donate if you can and spread the ord. linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

The Cranberry Seeds, Leftover Meatloaf, The Junior Police Officers, Recyclables

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

A reminder to bring honor to your family

Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies, Including Voice of America’s Parent The order targeting the agencies, largely obscure entities that address issues like labor mediation and homelessness prevention, appeared to test the bounds of the president’s power.

Do you value your library?

Trump just ordered the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the key source of federal support for libraries.

Libraries are vital social infrastructure, the foundations of an open, democratic society. Gutting them means gutting our own communities.

Gerrymandering undermines the power of marginalized communities by manipulating district boundaries to weaken their collective voice. For Black, Latino, Indigenous, immigrant, low-income, and other disenfranchised groups, this often means remaining unheard in the places where decisions are made.

Resistance Summer School is officially in Session! Columbia cancelled my class on Race and Media, but I'm teaching the people anyway.

Columbia canceled my class on Race and Media. But I decided to teach it anyway. So I built a school, instead.

500+ students online and in person.

My first independently operated course and lecture begins TONIGHT!

WE MOVE!!

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I’m a librarian in a film. I wear rimmed eyeglasses, pearls, and an oversized wool cardigan. I read books at the front desk, shush people, and put books back on shelves. But at night, when I release my long hair out of its usual tight bun, RAWR!

“if anybody should be awarded for excellence in journalism, it is all of those Palestinian journalists in Gaza who have risked their lives to live stream a genocide”

– @dianabuttu.bsky.social on journalists like @Anas al-Sharif covering Israel’s genocide in Gaza

Full report ▶️ youtu.be/YeQD6spHyEU

Who does the money go to?

Sick of everything being Orwellian or Kafkaesque. I demand more Scarrylous situations, where animals drive vehicles and run small businesses.

Gaza is starving Palestinians seeking food are being killed by the IDF. It's time for the entire world to say enough.

Read my latest:

The images of children starved to death in Gaza should be the lead of every news program.

He was looking for his phone?

The best part about a Colbert presidency is that he would absolutely revoke all contracts to Anduril, Palantir, etc purely out of disgust at their misappropriation of Tolkien.