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Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 1d

Adventures! An existential crisis! Hilarity! I had a great time with Travis Baldree’s new novel: www.abookishtype.com/2025/10/21/b...

Brigands & Breadknives, by Travis Baldree

Travis Baldree continues his series of cozy fantasies with Brigands & Breadknives. Unlike the first two books, our protagonist is not retired mercenary Viv. Instead, we follow the accidental ad…

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Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 2d

Pro tip: do not read vivid descriptions of medieval leprosy cases right before you go to sleep.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

London museum identifies black Waterloo veteran in rare 1821 painting

‘Honourable’ bandsman Thomas James will feature in display at National Army Museum highlighting service of black soldiers in Napoleonic wars He fought in the Napoleonic wars and is one of only nine Black soldiers known to have received the Waterloo Medal, the first British medal awarded to soldiers regardless of their rank. Yet the story of Pte Thomas James has been overlooked for centuries. Continue reading...

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NPR @npr.org · 3d

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them

Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

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Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 3d

My sister, on the phone with customer support: I work in IT and that’s a terrible idea.

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Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 3d

Last week on the bookish Internet: www.abookishtype.com/2025/10/19/l...

Last week on the bookish internet

Madeleine Connors tags along with the Fleuria Audiobook Walking Club. (Los Angeles Times) Molly Templeton must move her books again. (Reactor) Caleb Klaces muses about the use of photographs and ot…

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Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 3d

My sister is giving her son tips on how to lure one of the dogs into its crate. The plan involves a line of treats leading to said crate.

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 4d

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

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Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 4d

Look at all these Utahns show up to say #NoKings in America! www.sltrib.com/news/2025/10...

Thousands gather at Utah Capitol and other Utah cities for ‘No Kings’ protests

Thousands have gathered at the Utah Capitol on Saturday, one of thousands of "No Kings" protests nationwide. Organizers hope for a "healing" event in Salt Lake City.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 5d

or, in the words of the Nac Mac Feegle:

“Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!”

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Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 5d

Out doing errands in my little Utah town and spotted a #NoKings protester ❤️

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Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 5d

I can! Unless I’m somewhere new/interesting to look at, then I’m also gawking. 🙂

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 5d

Beating authoritarians will take all of us rowing in the directions - all of us - different colors, shapes, sex, economic background - all of us.

Let’s celebrate everyone who came out and is coming out and marching to say #NoKings.

This American is grateful. 🙏🏻🇺🇸🙌🏻

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

A successful protest movement requires as broad a coalition as possible.

If you’re recoiling from the support of mainstream privileged segments of society, you’re not trying to win the fight, you’re just trying to win personal praise.

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Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 5d

Honestly, this is the biggest reason I am very pro public transit and passenger rail.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 5d

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

No more kings. Vimes had difficulty in articulating why this should be so, why the concept resonated in his very bones. After all, a good many of the patricians had been as bad as any king. But they were...sort of...bad on equal terms. What set Vimes's teeth on edge was the idea that kings were a different kind of human being. A higher lifeform. Somehow magical.

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 5d

When you use an Oxford comma, you're doing your part to make the world beautiful, meaningful, and understandable.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 5d

[Exit King.]

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 5d

Link's ban is wrong and should be reversed.

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Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 6d

We got some new anatomical models in today, so the equipment manager is wandering around the library showing off their new spine.

Mortal Kombat jokes were made.

#LibraryLife

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Matt Morrison @senseistarman.com · 6d

SB 13 is a bill that removes local control of #Libraries from public schools across #Texas and gives politicians (not parents) the power to decide what books are or are not available to students.

action.everylibrary.org/texas_school...

Texas School Bans Students from the Library

Politicians, not parents, are deciding what children can read in the United States.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 6d

Discworld QOTD, from Equal Rites

“It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. A person ignorant of the possibility of failure can be a half-brick in the path of the bicycle of history.”

Micah @rincewind.run · 7d

Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters

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Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 6d

This is just going to depress me, isn’t it?

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Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 6d

Meanwhile, someone is spoiling Bleak House up in here.

#LibraryLife

Red text on a whiteboard: Lady Dedlock is Esther’s mother!!

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 6d

People think there are no Roman history emergencies, right up to the day a sitting president proposes a triumphal arch. Now suddenly everyone needs a good handle on Titus and Constantine.

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Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 6d

Never again will I volunteer myself to be the point person at a conference. Never. Again.

#LibraryLife #LibrarianProblems

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