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Catherine Hapka
@catherinehapka.bsky.social
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Still out here writing for kids and YA
rep: Katherine Latshaw at Folio Literary Management
Horse enthusiast, cat magnet, music fan, night owl, swing state voter, lazy gardener
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Catherine Hapka @catherinehapka.bsky.social · Oct 29
I might be the very last writer in the world to do this, but I’m excited to announce that I finally just launched my new author website: catherinehapka.com

Check it out and let me know what you think! 😁

#kidlit #YAlit #MGlit #books #AmWriting #AuthorsOfBluesky
catherine hapka
Author website for Catherine Hapka, aka Cathy Hapka, an author of books for children and young adults.
catherinehapka.com
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Book cover: A WRINKLE IN TIME by Madeleine L'Engle. This cover dates from the 1970s (1978 I think?) and features a yellow border and art of a centaur, three kids, a rainbow, and some flowers with a bug. Like my childhood copy, only not as dog-eared. Apaprently it only cost $1.25 back then, wow! Dell Yearling edition, The Newbery Award Winning Classic.
December 11, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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My childhood concerns were valid after all!
nbcnews.com NBC News @nbcnews.com · 18h
A hiker in Utah’s Arches National Park became trapped in quicksand over the weekend, prompting him to be rescued after he was spotted struggling in drone footage.
Hiker is rescued from quicksand in Utah canyon after drone video spotted him struggling
The man was rescued Sunday after he became trapped up to his thighs at Arches National Park.
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December 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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barbaradee.bsky.social
Book news I’ve been sitting on for many months and can finally reveal‼️‼️
Thrilled to be publishing my next 2 middle grade novels with Scholastic, and working with editor Sam Palazzi‼️‼️
December 9, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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What? I didn’t do nothin’.
A cat standing next to a Christmas tree that’s been knocked over
December 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Cheesy pop song of the day: Song Sung Blue by Neil Diamond.

This one brings me right back to childhood...

#MusicSky

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSy9dt5FeS0&list=RDlSy9dt5FeS0&start_radio=1
Neil Diamond - Song Sung Blue (Audio)
YouTube video by neildiamondVEVO
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Check out Madeleine's faves and add your own!
madeleinegunhart.bsky.social Madeleine Gunhart @madeleinegunhart.bsky.social · 2d
Going to craft a little 🧵 of some of my favorite reads from this year.

If anyone else wants to geek out about books and share your faves here, I would LOVE that! #booksky
December 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
catherinehapka.bsky.social
This. Private health insurance is NOT health care.
sanders.senate.gov Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 2d
Yes. We must extend the ACA tax credits so that over 20 million Americans don't see a doubling in their health premiums, on average. But we must do more. We cannot remain the only major country not to guarantee health care for all as a human right.

We must pass Medicare for All.
December 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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The Four Seasons Total Landscaping Peace Prize.
December 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated, or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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damnedgoblin.bsky.social
When an insurer makes one dollar of profit, that is one dollar that people paid them for health coverage that they did not spend to provide health coverage. By definition.
December 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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skiles.blue
I'll say again: we are oddly selective about the government services about which we will say, they operate at a loss.

We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
2house2fly.bsky.social The Comfy Dude @2house2fly.bsky.social · 5d
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 7, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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#Caturday mood
A tortie cat lounging on a furry heated blanket on a windowsill.
December 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Favorite cheesy pop song of the day:

Get Over Yourself by Eden's Crush

#MusicSky

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHdCSLeS2rc
Eden's Crush - Get Over Yourself
YouTube video by rimapasi
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Tetris
December 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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I'm sorry, but it really bothers me that the Pantone Color of the Year is...
not actually a color.
That's like a Flavor of the Year being Air.
The Sound of the Year being Silence.
The Feeling of the Year being I Have Never Known The Touch of a Woman.
December 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Happy Friday Music Lovers!
December 5, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Thread of the day. Possibly the year. 👇🏻
pookleblinky.bsky.social Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 6d
In the muppets universe do you think there is one muppet who is regarded as a dangerous conspiracy theorist for yelling about how everyone is being secretly controlled by a hand inside them

The other muppets think this is a metaphor, and he's like "no it's a literal hand inside you! Inside you all"
December 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Just saw a LOT of vultures flying overhead. Have never seen so many at once before - literally dozens, all heading the same direction (north-west-ish).

Anyone know what this is about? I've only seen stuff like this in, like, Godzilla movies so I'm wondering...

(Sorry bad pic)🌱

#birdsky
#naturesky
Blue twilight sky with twenty or so large vultures flying in a flock formation; they are pretty high up so quite hard to see; a few are more visible near top of frame, while a larger chunk is moving up from the horizon at lower left above the trees/barn. This was just one of several similar sized flights that passed overhead, moving with purpose -- none of the usual circling or gliding. Once they all passed by, I didn't see any more in the sky for the rest of my time outdoors, which lasted maybe half an hour. #birdsky
December 4, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Anti-Woke.
December 4, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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What I like

Highbrow: Canonical Western literature
Middlebrow: Flavored coffee
Lowbrow: Beavis & Butt-head
December 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Good morning! 🪶
Three fuzzy burrowing owlets in front of their burrow.
December 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
catherinehapka.bsky.social
Why don’t they make custard style yogurt anymore? 🤔
December 4, 2025 at 3:02 AM
catherinehapka.bsky.social
"There's never a scandal."
🤯
fiona-webster22.bsky.social Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎄🎄🎄 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 8d
47 has spent years bragging about his performance on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, which begins—as he himself has noted—with tasks like identifying animal drawings and progresses to a climax of knowing where you are and what day it is.

Read how Dementia Don talked about it today...
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Is he in good health? Biden was great, but is Trump in good health? I sit here and I sit here, I do news, four news conferences a day. I ask questions from very intelligent lunatics, you people. I always give– I give the right answers. There’s never a scandal, there’s never a problem. I give you answers that solve your little problems. You go back and you can’t find anything, but you do you do stories about Biden was in wonderful health. The guy could didn’t do a news conference for eight months. If I go one day, I had one day where I didn’t do a news conference, there’s something wrong with the president. You people are crazy. I’ll let you know when there’s something wrong. There will be someday. That’s gonna happen to all of us. But right now, I think I’m sharper than I was 25 years ago, but who the hell does? I took, by the way, I took my physical, I got all A’s, everything. But they said to me, “Would you like to take a cognitive test?”. I said, Is it hard? They said yes. I said, Well, I’m a very smart person. Who was the last president to take one? No president has ever agreed to take one. Because when you get into the mid-questions, meaning, you know, 10, question number 10, 11, 12, 28, 30, they get harder and harder. And they said, Would you like to do it? I said, Well, no reason to do it. Nobody’s ever done it. I’ll do it maybe, but there’s really no reason. They said, sir, the problem is this is Walter Reed Hospital. And that’s a military hospital. And that means that things are, you know, sort of open. It’s not like private where you have–. If you do poorly, we’ll have to– probably you’ll you’ll find out. I said, I won’t do poorly. I’m a smart person, not a stupid person. And as the doctor will tell you, I aced it, right, Suzy? I aced. I got every question right. And these are tough questions. These are questions that I would say ninety-nine percent of the people that I’m talking to right now, meaning the people that f…
December 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Hey, @catherinehapka.bsky.social, look what I picked up today!!! One day late, but we will catch up fast, I'm sure!😄🎄🐕
Cover of Jingle All The Way Home, an Advent Countdown story by Catherine Hapka and Kathryn Selbert.
December 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Will YOU be in NYC next Monday? WE NEED YOU! Come to Union Square at 3:30 for your rally to get the governor to sign the NY Freedom to Read Act. This is a joint effort with several organizations (including @authorsabb.bsky.social) and we need it to be BIG and LOUD! Please share!
Teen Activist Project Freedom to Read Act Read-In at 3:30, December 8th, Union Square, NYC. Please come!
December 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM