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Barbara Gordon

@thebookwizard.bsky.social

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Not actually Batgirl. If this account were a book, it would be a spicy, queer manifesto with a side of sarcastic footnotes and a oatmilk Earl Grey latte with lavender syrup. 🖖🏻 #SussexSquad #KHive #Librarian

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Barbara Gordon @thebookwizard.bsky.social · Nov 21

Hi, new followers.

I’m queer.
I’m autistic.
I buy books for my libraries.
I’m bilingual.
I do art & sometimes music
I love Star Trek, Doctor Who & crime shows.
I’m a genealogy/history nut.
Sometimes I write things.

I’m also very opinionated.

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Barbara Gordon @thebookwizard.bsky.social · 4h

Start patronizing your local libraries! Check out books!

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 4h

Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)

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Barbara Gordon @thebookwizard.bsky.social · 4h

It’s the lack of civic knowledge that composes a big part of the problems in this country.

That + white supremacy will doom us all.

Barbara Gordon @thebookwizard.bsky.social · 5h

Random Dem lawmaker: *outlines specific ways they’re currently pushing back against Trump*

Bluesky random: WELL, THAT THING YOU DID A WHILE AGO SUCKED

Barbara Gordon @thebookwizard.bsky.social · 5h

You’re really saying this on a thread where a Dem senator is EXPLICITLY saying how they’re fighting back? Did you even read Murphy’s thread? Or do you just like to shit on Dems?

Barbara Gordon @thebookwizard.bsky.social · 6h

SWEAR IN ADELITA GRIJALVA!

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Dorcas E @de24.bsky.social · 10h

Chadwick
Mac
It’s not okay they are gone.

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Barbara Gordon @thebookwizard.bsky.social · 7h

As a white person, we all are privileged. Our skin color doesn’t get us pulled over. We aren’t systemically discriminated against. You should do more reading and stop being so defensive

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Charlie Ashby @charlie-ashby.co.uk · 15h

RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years.

His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.

A massive loss 💔

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Barbara Gordon @thebookwizard.bsky.social · 7h

No, he didn’t. He pointed out that not everyone can just do what OP is suggesting. White people MIGHT get away with it. Black people and other minorities, no.

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Barbara Gordon @thebookwizard.bsky.social · 7h

Reverse racism isn’t a thing! It absolutely does NOT go both ways:

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Barbara Gordon @thebookwizard.bsky.social · 7h

She’s blaming VP Harris too. 😑

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Barbara Gordon @thebookwizard.bsky.social · 10h

You look very happy

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RockGoddessBlack @rockgoddessblack.bsky.social · 14h

youtube.com/live/h6wskFM... Our Duchess, Princess is speaking. #loveharryandmeghan #SussexSquad #meghan

Next Level Influence: A Conversation With Meghan, Duchess Of Sussex

YouTube video by Fortune Magazine

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Barbara Gordon @thebookwizard.bsky.social · 13h

What my fellow white women did is SAY they’d vote for her but went into the voting booths and pulled the lever for someone else.

✨️WitchyWoman✨️ @wicked-wiccan76.bsky.social · 13h

I remember the betrayal

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 1d

I’m going to be at home because we did our marching BEFORE the election when we begged and pleaded with people, white women especially, to stand with us then.

Didn’t. So this is yours. BW have known and warned about every this regime has done.

Too many blew that off. Welp!

You got this!

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 14h

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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Barbara Gordon @thebookwizard.bsky.social · 14h

Not in the mood to be lectured at just because I was happy the hostages were released.

Apparently, that’s “indecent.”

Barbara Gordon @thebookwizard.bsky.social · 1d

I need to stop googling my symptoms. I’ve diagnosed myself with 3 different types of cancer

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ACLU @aclu.org · 1d

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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Barbara Gordon @thebookwizard.bsky.social · 1d

Jeremy with the cheese 🤣

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Barbara Gordon @thebookwizard.bsky.social · 1d

Is he scared of Ms Nero and Brutus?

Barbara Gordon @thebookwizard.bsky.social · 1d

That Maine dude said he admires Josh Hawley. I immediately nope’d out

Barbara Gordon @thebookwizard.bsky.social · 1d

A handful, I bet lol

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Barbara Gordon @thebookwizard.bsky.social · 1d

Dude admires HAWLEY?! Maine, skip this one

Kacey325 @kacey325.bsky.social · 1d

He's critical of the Democratic Party, but admires Josh Hawley.

But 'progressives' are pushing this guy as the alternative to the "Dem establishment." 😭

You can't make this shit up.😂

Smoking outside after the town hall, Platner rattled off some current U.S. senators who he admires: Independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Democrats Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, Brian Schatz of Hawaii, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Ed Markey of Massachusetts. On the other side of the aisle, Josh Hawley of Missouri.

“We don’t see eye to eye on a lot of things, but he has been fighting for stuff,” Platner said. “For instance, trying to ban stock trading. Yeah, I’m into that,” notably the opposite stance Collins has taken.

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🎃 Spooky Scary Jam (they/them) 🎃 @jaimekay.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous People Day!

Did you know that Indigenous women go missing and are murdered ten times more than average? They don’t even get a quarter of the attention that a white woman going missing would get. Please keep these women in your mind. Don’t forget them

www.niwrc.org/mmiwr-awaren...

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR) | NIWRC

www.niwrc.org

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