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Juli @julimarie.bsky.social · 1d

Donor agreement, special requests

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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 2d

I like The Lord of the Rings a lot but we need more bite sized swords and sorcery fantasy TV/movies. Willow is the platonic ideal of lightweight high fantasy, and Dungeons and Dragons (2023) is its spiritual successor. But overall the field seems very thin 🫤

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Juli @julimarie.bsky.social · 2d

Oh! Yes, there is a great audiobook of Potter stories. I had forgotten but had it on semi-permanent checkout from the library for my older kid when he was little

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Juli @julimarie.bsky.social · 2d

Second Ramona! My 7yo is listening to these now

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Juli @julimarie.bsky.social · 2d

The Ivy & Bean series is genuinely enjoyable for parents (at least the first 3-4 times) and I think would be enjoyed by 3 and 6 yo's.

Also, Judy Blume's Fudge series was a big hit when my kids were 5 and 9. A little older than yours, but worth a shot?

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Michael W. Twitty @koshersoul.bsky.social · 3d

Hi everyone! #RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth is here. Please support by spreading the word! www.phaidon.com/en-us/produc...

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Juli @julimarie.bsky.social · 2d

Solidarity and prayers.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 3d

When people wonder how Epstein continued to have powerful friends even after everybody knew, consider that a Nazi salute followed by blithely starving children and cutting off their life sustaining medicines wasn’t a deal breaker for anyone in power positions.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 4d

And yes, I know teachers are overworked. I’ve lived it and I’ve been researching and writing about it for well over a decade. But this is possibly the worst answer anyone’s ever come up with.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 5d

But, more importantly, I want to call into question this throwaway inclusion of a "24/7 information-seeking environment."

I don't deny that such an environment might exist. What I do deny is that the library should, does, or MUST play a role in accepting such a model.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 5d

I am genuinely not convinced it is a good thing for everything to be available all of the time and the assumption and expectation that it will be is really troubling.

Libraries do not have to concede capitalist visions of the world. Nor do I think we should. We should aspire to better.

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Juli @julimarie.bsky.social · 4d

Well, that gives me another reason to pick up Moistly Harmless, which I've been meaning to do!

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Juli @julimarie.bsky.social · 4d

@ethankocak.com
I'm not sure if this is quite in your wheelhouse, but it might be? Do you have recommendations for books on underwater plants for freshwater fish aquariums? We have a few plants we got at the fish store, but 11yo wants to make his tank more jungle-y.

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Juli @julimarie.bsky.social · 5d

I don't remember specifically, but I like history, so probably for the local history posts?

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 5d

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

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Natalia Antonova🇺🇸🇺🇦 @nataliaantonova.bsky.social · 19d

House of Leaves, the cult classic of my high school years, is 25 this year!

Of course I sat down to reread it.

All things must pass, this book says, but they will grow strange beforehand.

#horrorsky

globalcomment.com/25-years-of-...

“The perfect book to read in the age of ubiquitous social media”: 25 years of House of Leaves - Global Comment

Time is strange - startlingly real to the human body, and not real at all if you’re trying to reconcile the theory of relativity with quantum mechanics. Twenty five years have passed since Mark Daniel...

globalcomment.com

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Juli @julimarie.bsky.social · 5d

Also Indiana: Valparaiso...aka Val-per-a-zo

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 6d

Rev. Gary Graf, a Chicago Heights Catholic priest, began a 50-day pilgrimage Monday from Pope Leo’s boyhood home in Dolton to New York to bring attention to the cause of immigrant children. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/06/c...

Chicago Heights priest begins walk for immigrant children from Pope Leo’s childhood home in Dolton

Gary Graf, a Chicago Heights Catholic priest, began a 50-day justice walk from Pope Leo’s boyhood home in Dolton to New York.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 7d

People sometimes try to use “ah, you eat pigs but you WON’T eat a dog” as if it’s some kind of clever gotcha, and man, I dunno, dogs usually aren’t scheming to eat us when we turn our backs as a *default*

John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 7d

I met a pig farmer in a bar once. I asked him what they were like. He said "Like dogs, but without the loyalty. They're really smart, but definitely never turn your back on a pig."

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 7d

i have met a number of pigs, including pigs i later went on to eat (we have small farmers in our family) and quite frankly, getting to know pigs has made me feel even less bad about eating them

they would 100% eat us if given the chance

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Juli @julimarie.bsky.social · 7d

Our state governor issued a statement that being unvaccinated is a condition that puts you at a higher risk of severe covid.

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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 9d

…and then, for a decade or two, they started enjoying unseasonably warm Octobers, with gardens still flowering, and some fruits having second growing seasons. The warmth was almost too pleasant for anyone to realise the magnitude of the danger it represented.

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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 10d

Biggest highlight is “we must choose …: justice or injustice, God or money,” but I ALSO appreciate how Leo speaks of Clare here: “a young woman who wanted to be like Francis, who wanted to live, as a woman, free like those brothers.”

A GOOD shift in how popes talk about women & women’s virtues.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 10d

Pope Leo: The Jubilee is a “time of concrete hope, a moment when hearts can find forgiveness and mercy, so that everything can begin anew. In this year, we must choose whom we will serve: justice or injustice, God or money.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Pope Leo at Jubilee Audience: ‘To Hope is to Choose’ - Vatican News

At the Jubilee Audience of Migrants and the Missionary World, the Pope recalls St. Clare of Assisi as a model of courageous Gospel living.

www.vaticannews.va

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 11d

Bring back art nouveau you cowards

The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 11d

Andrew Lang's Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897) — Containing 78 weird happenings, from a demon strangling Devonian farmers in 1682 to a poltergeist terrorising a contemporary Chinese couple. Read it here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-book-of-dreams-and-ghosts-1897

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Juli @julimarie.bsky.social · 10d

I would be thrilled to have miso everyday and I'm even down with baked and fried tofu, but daily edamsme would be a step too far

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12d

Trump sent 20 billion to Argentina for a bailout.

China brokered a deal to quit buying American soybeans and buy beans from Argentina.

Trump bailed out the country that swept the knees of American farmers.

The Art of the Deal…

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