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Micah @rincewind.run · 18h

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 · 15h

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

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Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 16h

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 · 17h

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 · 16h

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

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18h

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 · 21h

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 · 21h

[Exit King.]

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 1d

Link's ban is wrong and should be reversed.

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

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 · 1d

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.

action.everylibrary.org

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

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 · 2d

Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters

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

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

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

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

#LibraryLife #LibrarianProblems

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

A witch! A demon! The Bloody Benders! Alex Grecian takes us on a weird, gory journey through the west in Red Rabbit: www.abookishtype.com/2025/10/16/r...

#BookReview 💙📚

Red Rabbit, by Alex Grecian

I have no idea why weird westerns are so damn good. Is it that the wide open spaces out here are just crying out to be filled up with the supernatural? Is it because the weather is so unpredictable…

www.abookishtype.com

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knight 🏳️‍⚧️ 👮🏻‍♂️💏👨🏻‍🚒 @onlythosethings.bsky.social · 2d

We all need to get weirder, more nonsensical and fluid, and hornier, in response to the moralistic, rigid, fascistic, traditional backslide were trapped in.

Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 3d

i think we should bring dadaism back as a response to The Horrors. it made sense during world war one

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

These protesters are glorious: www.salon.com/2025/10/16/p...

Portland’s protest frogs are dead serious about absurdity

In a battle of optics and performance, Portland is primed to meet the moment.

www.salon.com

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 2d

John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry began on October 16, 1859.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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

Apologies if this isn't the right way to ask you this question, @elienyc.bsky.social , but I'm very anxious to know if there's a way that bad cases can be overturned if we ever get a progressive SCOTUS. Can a future SCOTUS ever reconsider a case, say "That's fucked up," and just reverse it?

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

"The first obstacle to be overcome was a difference in terminology, as when researchers referred to “The finest and most refreshing beverage in the world”, their American counterparts inexplicably thought that they meant coffee, or worse, Budweiser." This article is a delight!

A. Rivera @bloodravenlib.bsky.social · 2d

#BarelySatire

> Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to man who got an American to make a decent cup of tea newsthump.com/2025/10/16/n...

#tea 🫖 #NobelPrize

Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to man who got an American to make a decent cup of tea

This year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry has gone to a man who ‘achieved the impossible’ by getting an American to make a halfway decent cup of tea.

newsthump.com

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 3d

Why not be like the goddess Veritas (Truth) today? Wear a fancy reading hat with flames, read a physical book, and maybe also ride a horse meanwhile. #booksky #bookhistory

The allegorical figure Veritas (Truth) is depicted in a print from 1611 reading -because the act of reading symbolizes the act of interpretation. The goddess is sitting on a horse, and all this is a detail from a larger print that can be found as a digital copy over here: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1923-1016-27-21

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

Today at the research help desk:

* Student showing friend around. "And the research help desk does...research?" We sorted 'em out.
* DOIs & what if there's no DOI
* Do you have this book?
* Help booking a study room
* Where is my study room?

It's a slow evening.

#LibraryLife #LibrarianProblems

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