Four panel comic. Panel 1: A little cat is surrounded by lightning bolts. TEXT: Palestine action humiliated you and put paint on a plane Panel 2: The cat is bigger and wearing a red superhero eye mask. The lightning bolts have become flames. TEXT: You continue to aid and abet a genocide. Panel 3: The cat now has a flag cape and the flames reach across the panel behind them. TEXT: Exactly who is terrorising who? Panel 4: The cat's cape is a Palestinian flag and is shouting "Free Palestine".

Repeating my past recommendation to leave Spotify.

I have recommended leaving them in the past for their exploitation of artists.

Recently, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek invested $700 million in military AI company Helsing. And he is also now their chairman.

watercolor of a magpie waving a magpie-sized pride flag

as the month closes out this GAY MAGPIE wishes all you queers a happy pride once again!!!

Largest Trans Survey Ever: Top Reason Trans People Stop Transitioning Is Transphobia “In almost every single case, the reason was anti-trans discrimination in the form of pressure to ‘detransition’ from one’s family, friends, or community.”

1. The US Transgender Survey has finally been released, and the results are stunning.

- <1% of people are less satisfied after HRT.
- The most common reason for detransition, pausing transition, or stopping transition is transphobia.

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A digital illustration of a wiggly long black cat holding a wiggly long rainbow pride flag in its mouth. Over the cat’s back, it says “long live Pride” in rainbow colors. The cat wishes everyone who is reading this a very happy Pride month!

Long live Pride 🏳️‍🌈🫶

[ #cuteart #pridemonth #pride ]

Empire is choosing to commit genocide in Gaza. It is a willful and deliberate decision. It is the government, churches, politicians, universities, non-profits, and individuals, too.

Stop Arming Israel. Free Gaza. Free Palestine.

A four panel comic in black ink pen with red, yellow and blue watercolours. Panel 1. A cat flies through space holding a key. Text: The atrocities Panel 2. A cat head comet flies through spaces. Text: That continue to be committed in Gaza Panel 3. A cat with a star over their head sits at the centre of an ever expanding, layered triangle. Text: And the west bank are unfathomable Panel 4. A cat's head with six eyes appears in a space anomaly, stars surround. Text: Free Free Palestine

It is our turn now. For many, this will be the fight of your life. Others have been here before and are willing to still be here again. We are so lucky.

It is our turn now. This is the fight so that we can live. With our entire lives.

When we understand that oppressors fear us most when we fight for each other, it becomes easier to fight for liberation with our entire lives.

Recall those, throughout history and now, who fought for us with everything they had, so that we could be alive today.

OK SO, 25% book tariffs are set to go live April 2. this is tricky for a number of reasons but the simplest is that most books are published & warehoused in the US, even those by Canadian authors, so this makes it infinitely more complicated than "Buy Canadian Authors" or slapping on a sticker

A lot of global academic conferencing is centered around the US, and US academic orgs have to be thinking very seriously now. You cannot continue to carry on with in person conferencing as if foreign scholars have no impediments to travel.
I know we like to pretend everything is "normal" again but..

(Art by Rebecca Gallant)
#banfascistsnotbooks #read #freadom #bannedbooks #skybrarian #💙📚

Use this full moon eclipse to do some shedding that will help in your digital security and privacy.

Do some digital dusting.

Go through every single app. Log out and delete the ones you don’t need. Tighten up permissions on the ones you want to keep.

Audit those apps.

(Art by Greg Hildebrand)
#skybrarian #💙📚

This thread!

This is abhorrent.

Go to the Stonewall page, find the "was this page helpful" form and click no. Then tell them why!

Hidden figures in queer Black history — Stonewall Community Foundation Throughout February, in honor of Black History Month, we’ve been busy on Stonewall’s Instagram highlighting some of the lesser-known figures in queer Black history. These bold individuals lead with br...

#BlackHistoryMonth: Since the National Park Service wants to erase the T from Stonewall, let's spill the T through the Stonewall Community Foundation. The first story here is of Frances Thompson, a trans black activist born in 1840.

I am spending this Valentine’s Day as I have all past days and will all future days, loving

Trans folks,
Global Majority femmes,
Abolitionists,
Radical queers,
People who fight for collective liberation.

Loving the People.
Loving us.

It’s us. We are the love that will bring our liberation.

Four panel comic. Panel 1. Two goblins looking out of a window. First goblin says: "I love it when the dawn chorus returns. Panel 2. Similar picture. First goblin says: "It feels early this year. Panel 3. Similar picture. Second goblin says "And so much louder!" Panel 4. The goblins' window looks out over a protest march. A Palestinian flag flies in the front. Other placards read 'protect trans kids', 'Be gay. Do crime' and 'women's rights are human rights'. The goblins say "There is a lot to sing fierce about.'

The sigils of spring

The completed layered paper craft scene from Howl’s Moving Castle of Howl and Sophie flying over the village streets

DONE!

Oppressors try to erase history so that they can repeat it.

Yes, please. The depression and suicide rates among our underrepresented teens is unacceptable. 🌈💙
#books #booksky #lgbtq 💙📚 #readersofbluesky #reading #bookbans 🌈📚 #teens

An illustration of a tiger protecting cubs colored in Trans and nonbinary flag colors. Says: "protect trans & nonbinary kids!"

We're going to make it through this 🩷💙
Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.

Your Library's Hoopla Digital Collections Are Breaking Their Budget If you've noticed changes to the digital materials you can borrow from your library, that's because that access is costing libraries way more than ever before.

“Hoopla, knowing how popular their service was, saw an opportunity to increase prices while keeping their services and offerings the same.”

Book Riot breaks down yet another of Hoopla’s problems—the cost.

bookriot.com/library-hoop...

This violence against Palestinians and the land is unfathomable. Free Palestine means the people AND the land. The two are always together.

A red poster (a screenprint depicting prone bodies?) with the book's title, Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal), with photos of the two presenters

"Why must Palestinians prove their humanity? And what are the implications of such an infuriatingly impossible task?" A virtual book talk with Mohammed El-Kurd and Robin D.G. Kelley on Feb 11 @ 7:30pm ET www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

My siblings and I used to have to play a bingo game for historical inaccuracies or just overdone tropes for movies- they definitely turned it into a drinking game lol

Advertisement for Canon. Godzilla stands next to a copy machine with paper in his hands.

I sometimes thinking about this Canon ad with Godzilla at a copy machine when I’m feeling sad