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this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

When the first three consecutive not-so-legal fireworks boomed in my neighborhood, that's how I knew we won ⚾💙

just 1 girl & her 10 obsessions ✨

Be an Informed Pro-Library, Pro-Literary Voter Now: Book Censorship News, October 10, 2025 Elections in several states will be coming up throughout the months of October and November. Here's how to be a pro-library voter.

A *LOT* of folks have elections on Tuesday. Here's how to prepare and be a pro-library, pro-public education voter this year (& every year): bookriot.com/library-elec...

If you're looking for a list of Anime / Manga Independent journalism sites that pay their folks to follow & support, please check out this starter pack.

The environment for these sites is constantly getting harsher and a struggle to get the reach they so deserve.

bsky.app/starter-pack...

Episode 889, “Raise The Flag” (with GolferGareBear & Dr. Raylene Bentlin) — The One Piece Podcast Today we’re breaking down the Straw Hat flag’s presence at international protests with GolferGareBear and Dr. Raylene Bentlin!

The Straw Hat jolly roger has become a symbol of protest movements across the world.

This week we take a deep dive into the use of #OnePiece across the world with @theonepiecedr.bsky.social and GolferGare, please give it a listen if you can! 🏴‍☠️

www.onepiecepodcast.com/podcast/onep...

Why Gen Z protesters worldwide are flying an anime pirate flag Gen Z protesters from Indonesia and Nepal to Madagascar and Morocco, are rallying behind an unexpected banner: a grinning skull in a straw hat.

Gen Z protesters from Indonesia and Nepal to Madagascar and Morocco, are rallying behind an unexpected banner: a grinning skull in a straw hat.

You know, I don't think I give my younger self enough credit for doing hard things.

If I could get to max Level 60 playing an Alliance paladin on a PVP server in 2004 vanilla WoW, I can do anything ✨️

Just putting it out there that if you developed some terrible time management & study habits as a student, they don't magically go away if you become a professor 🥲

(Raises arms toward the heavens and weeps)

It’s me. Your favorite #bannedbooksweek curmudgeon. Just popping in to rain all over your caution tape.

#tlsky #tlskychat #librarians #skybrarians #edusky

a man in a plastic Kamen RIder mask

Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider – Episode 1

The premise could be mean-spirited, but for now it's embracing the right level of heart and enthusiasm

www.animefeminist.com/tojima-wants...

How Local Librarians Keep AI Slop Off the Shelves AI is being used to create nonsensical, sometimes dangerously inaccurate books. Local librarians are tasked with keeping these volumes out of their collections.

“When you get a suspicious book, “you look it up to see what else the [author] has written. And you see there's 30 things, and none of them have any reviews, and they were all written in the last two years,” DeMeester-Lane says.”

Reminder from your resident high school lubrarian: if you plan to do a Banned Books Week display and programming, prioritize living marginalized authors. Use this time to help those who need it the most.

Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar

A pile of Akane-banashi manga volumes splayed on a couch

When your library holds arrive all at once, but manga 👍🏼

Asking for an author’s book at a library is a wonderful thing to do. The library buys the book, maybe even multiple copies, which really does help authors. A simple request can spread a lot of good around.

Also I just love libraries and I’m always happy when someone checks out one of my books. 📚

I hope you all read this from me.

I've never looked forward to seeing professional wedding photos in my life

FWIW i’ve switched to @bookshop.org for ebooks and Libro for audio books and with very few exceptions had the exact same experience as Amazon without the greasy aftertaste. Highly recommended.

COMIC: Don't panic! 6 strategies to keep you calm in a crisis In dire situations, stress can make us panic and impair our ability to make lifesaving decisions. Emergency response professionals share the tactics they use to stay cool and collected on the job.

COMIC: Don't panic! 6 strategies to keep you calm in a crisis

#GraphicMedicine

www.npr.org/2025/06/04/n...

There's a chain restaurant in LA Live that has it on their menu (there's also a BBQ spot all the way in the West Covina area)

Starting now! \o/

Yes, ha ha ha... YES!

You made your voice heard for libraries. The House listened. A House of Representatives Subcommittee just voted to continue library funding in next year's federal budget. The fight to #FundLibraries isn't over yet, but this good news is thanks to your hard work. Stay tuned for more ways to take action for libraries. Show up for our libraries. American Library Associaiton.

NEWS: A House of Representatives Subcommittee just voted to continue library funding in next year's federal budget. This is thanks to YOUR hard work as library advocates.

The fight to #FundLibraries isn't over yet. Stay tuned for more ways to take action for libraries. #ForOurLibraries

Text reads: Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of... naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference. Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false: Displayed is a screenshot of Firefox showing the config search bar with the listed search. The word "false" is circled in red. Text continues: If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false. Doing that turns off the Al chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out.

Just a heads up to anyone using Firefox:

More Details Emerge About IMLS Dismantling; Plaintiffs in RHODE ISLAND Lawsuit Seek Permanent Injunction More details emerge in what happened during the IMLS takeover by DOGE and what might happen in the federal lawsuits against the agency's dismantling.

Plaintiffs in one of the two lawsuits against the Trump administration's dismantling of the IMLS seek permanent injunction. A *lot* more details about what went down just emerged–and how another SCOTUS case may impact this one.

This is a big IMLS right now update.

bookriot.com/more-details...

A courtesy sign at Sunright Tea Studio stating, "Caleb freebies are out of stock for today."

Shout out to my neighborhood for being a bunch of Caleb mains lol

The official Sunright Tea Studio coaster and cupsleeve collaboration goods with otome / gacha game Love and Deepspace, featuring Zayne

I saw the long af lines for this collab all over my feeds so color me surprised when I walked into an empty Sunright post-grocery store run & walked out with the hot ice doctor 😅

a cartoon drawing of a bedroom with a lamp on the bed and a magazine laying on the bed Alt: Yomiko Readman from Read Or Die popping, out from a pile of newspaper and books on her bed utterly dishelved to answer her rotary phone with a panicked, "YES?!"

You rang?

this is who runs this account