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Sara K-M @sarakm.bsky.social · 1d

So excited for this! Please help spread the word 📚

QT Library @qtlibrary.org · 1d

NEXT WEEK: We are honored to be hosting @kimmtopping.bsky.social for a digital author talk about their inspiring debut book "Generation Queer," a collection of stories about 30 young LGBTQIA+ leaders shaping our world 🙌

RSVP now over on Eventbrite 👉 https://loom.ly/seCXr2A

#BookSky

A blue banner that says "author talk." Underneath is a hole-punch card with the text, "Kimm Topping: Generation Queer." Under that is a photo of Kimm holding the book Generation queer in an ornate frame with a microphone. The date is October 20 from 7 to 8 P.M. Zoom.

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Sara K-M @sarakm.bsky.social · 2d

Not only did I have phone numbers memorized, I had the numbers for the family calling card memorized -- a 9-digit phone number AND a 16-digit code

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Sara K-M @sarakm.bsky.social · 5d

I am developing a visceral reaction to the phrase "responsible AI"

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Sara K-M @sarakm.bsky.social · 5d

Anytime I hear someone say they want parents to have more say in the curriculum I want to ask how, exactly, they imagine that working. A survey to decide next week's lessons? A WhatsApp group? A Twitch stream where they can give live feedback?

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Sara K-M @sarakm.bsky.social · 9d

I once worked with a person who trained regularly for Iron Man competitions and would also drive between buildings on campus and park as close to the front door as humanly possible. Truly confounding

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Sara K-M @sarakm.bsky.social · 9d

I once got an 8-month bill because National Grid messed up when turning on my service (and I didn't realized because new apartment) so in my experience they can go back as far as they want 🙃

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Sara K-M @sarakm.bsky.social · 10d

I've never seen an episode of 90210, or anything on Nickelodeon

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 10d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

Sara K-M @sarakm.bsky.social · 12d

Also... charismatic people do not use their charisma on everyone! Plenty of charismatic people turn up the charm in situations when it is useful for them.

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 12d

They’re literally socially constructing gender out of sand and metal after a decade of tut-tutting about women being adult human females ONLY

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12d

A lot of tech bros who were upset about pronouns want to confer them on their computers now that they’re dating

Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 12d

Can we stop calling an artificial representation of a person by a human-coded name? "She" does not exist. "She" is a reflection of someone's ingenue dreams, but "she" is pixels and code.

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Sara K-M @sarakm.bsky.social · 16d

I was once on a very memorable facetime call with a friend as she discovered that her furnace had a filter... that looked like it had not been replaced in YEARS (in her defense, she had only lived in the house for a few months)

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Sara K-M @sarakm.bsky.social · 16d

Adulthood is just learning about vents and filters you didn't know existed and need to clean.

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Sara K-M @sarakm.bsky.social · 18d

There was a brief, glorious, window of a few years where students got my movie references… because their parents had shown them the movies

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 18d

My pop culture references are older than people who are whole ass adults

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Sara K-M @sarakm.bsky.social · 20d

Ah yes, exactly what Taylor Swift needs: exposure. Maybe it would be her big breakthrough

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Sara K-M @sarakm.bsky.social · 20d

Right? There is nothing about it that feels connected to this moment. It's a classic ALA faux-bold stance

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Sara K-M @sarakm.bsky.social · 20d

Picking 1984 is also just so... cliché.

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QT Library @qtlibrary.org · 21d

📣👻 NEW BOOK CLUB ALERT

Hey #BookSky, the spookiest and queerest of all book clubs is coming to a Zoom near you! The QT Library's Queer Horror Book Club is having our very first meeting, when else, but in October.

RSVP now, if you dare! https://loom.ly/MvXVVt0

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Sara K-M @sarakm.bsky.social · 22d

The real search was the "misleading" results we found along the way...

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Sara K-M @sarakm.bsky.social · 23d

I find this idea that "the sources are reliable but the thing written with those sources is not reliable" legitimately fascinating

Micah @rincewind.run · 24d

I’ve had a number of people respond to this with “actually the reliable sources are the things wikipedia cites not wikipedia itself” or something along those lines

well done everyone that’s exactly the kind of pedantic nerd shit that’s kept the site alive

Sara K-M @sarakm.bsky.social · 25d

Maybe we could try for a nationwide destashing

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Sara K-M @sarakm.bsky.social · 26d

Truly fascinated by the number of people who seem to think an RSVP is a foundational tool in the fight against fascism

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Sara K-M @sarakm.bsky.social · 26d

Maybe if gets an audience with an AI Pope it will kill AI

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Sara K-M @sarakm.bsky.social · 28d

Reading through all this I can't help but wonder how many of these people are fiercely defending their "right" to RSVP to a protest but have no intention of actually *going* to a protest

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Sara K-M @sarakm.bsky.social · 28d

"Reinforcing transparency and trust"

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Sara K-M @sarakm.bsky.social · 29d

I actually DID have "Ezra Klein doubles down on what can best be described as a willful misrepresentation of the current moment" on my 2025 bingo card

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29d

Here’s the link to the full piece. I find it frustrating that Klein keeps talking about the need to understand people like Kirk.

That’s precisely what his detractors have been doing! It’s not “understanding” a public figure to whitewash his words and actions.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

Opinion | We Are Going to Have to Live With One Another

www.nytimes.com

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