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Emily

@librarymet.bsky.social

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Public library worker. Science and book nerd. Family history researcher. Public school defender. Cavs. Guardians. Mom of teens & cats.

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Emily @librarymet.bsky.social · Feb 12

Since they've already attempted to erase women's history in the military, this is my plug to support the Military Women's Memorial. It is not a government entity, but needs your support to carry on their mission. Please donate if you can. My grandmother was a charter member.

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The Military Women's Memorial is a one-of-a kind tribute to America's Servicewomen, past and present. The Memorial features an education center, interactive exhibits, and a world-class collection of m...

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 2h

Imagine telling these men that morning in the landing craft that 80 years later their grandkids would be putting the swastika up in their offices in Congress

"Into the Jaws of Death" - photo in black and white of soldiers disembarking from landing craft at Omaha Beach on D-Day

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Emily @librarymet.bsky.social · 1d

Libraries are gonna have to get partisan about this, which they are reluctant to do here in Ohio. Hundreds of library workers will lose their jobs. Many, many libraries would close all together. Parkland will get sold off to developers. Zoos will close.

Honesty for Ohio Education @honesty4ohioed.bsky.social · 1d

Plain Dealer Opinion
Ohio's Libraries and parks -- beloved by voters -- will be crushed if property taxes get abolished next year, losing most of their money, but the lawmakers who created the tax crisis refuse to take substantial steps to fix it.
www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10...

Ohio’s beloved parks and libraries face annihilation in Republican war on property taxes

How lawmakers shifted tax burdens to homeowners while giving billions to wealthy friends, now putting community institutions at risk

www.cleveland.com

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Emily @librarymet.bsky.social · 1d

Really happy for Josh Naylor.

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Emily @librarymet.bsky.social · 2d

I’m the daughter of a public educator so I’m very sympathetic to educators and what they deal with daily but teachers who deliberately try to make kids fail is why so many non educators think poorly of the field. Way too many teachers on power trips.

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 2d

Below is a collection of many other people of Italian heritage worthy of attention — people who have played an active role in the struggle for labor rights, gay and lesbian rights, human rights, and civil rights.
#TeachTruth Defend the #FreedomtoLearn

www.zinnedproject.org/materials/it...

Italian Americans Who Fought for Justice

Profile. Brief bios of people of Italian heritage who were committed to social justice.

www.zinnedproject.org

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Emily @librarymet.bsky.social · 2d

fucking hate Christopher Columbus and don’t hit me with the Italian American garbage because my grandma was born in Italy and she would’ve told you there are dozens (hundreds?) of other Italian Americans worthy of a day before him.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2d

8pm is too late to start a baseball game. the east coast stinks

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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 2d

We’re only halfway through the 2025 CFB regular season, and it’s clear we’re headed to a full-on coaching carousel bloodletting.

Supposed institutions of “higher learning” have managed to negotiate themselves into paying $200 million to people who will no longer be working for them.

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Emily @librarymet.bsky.social · 2d

Gonna sneak some mini-zines into my "note-taking notebook" for professional development day tomorrow, so I can at least maybe not be completely bored out of my mind.

Emily @librarymet.bsky.social · 2d

God AFC North football is so painful to watch these days.

Emily @librarymet.bsky.social · 3d

I would argue it’s actually worse because with the latter, awful as the prep is, I at least know I’m doing something good for my health.

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Emily @librarymet.bsky.social · 3d

At this point, I’m more excited to watch Flacco and the Bengals this afternoon than whatever this is that I’m currently watching.

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#browns

Emily @librarymet.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah. It’s worse then just the levies now; it seems like the whole state is calling for an end to property taxes. I’m tired of hearing “my house is paid for; I shouldn’t have to pay taxes.” Oh really? Nonsense. Never once did my grandparents complain abt this. What is wrong with ppl today?

Emily @librarymet.bsky.social · 3d

Idk how you convince kids that society cares about them when so many of the elder generation don’t want to pay ANY property taxes to support their educations.

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Emily @librarymet.bsky.social · 4d

Are publishers just publishing and prioritizing worse and worse books lately or is it me? (Mostly talking abt fiction - I've read some absolutely banger NF lately.) #booksky

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Emily @librarymet.bsky.social · 4d

Guys, this #ALCS is gonna be LIT. Can't remember the last time I've been so excited for an ALCS that my team wasn't in. #mlb

Emily @librarymet.bsky.social · 4d

And that’s why my kids won’t get anywhere near it. My son is a senior and has no interest in going there.

Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 4d

The administrators of Ohio State University seem to be fighting to be the strongest enemies of free speech and the most craven panderers to bigotry of any American university. Whatever you think about land acknowledgments before presentations, banning them is evil, cowardly, and petty.

www.nbc4i.com

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Emily @librarymet.bsky.social · 5d

We are smashing the teenage boy stereotype right here right now.

Teenaged boy cradling a black cat and sitting next to a gray tabby cat.

Emily @librarymet.bsky.social · 6d

Willingness to step out of the office and DO the job of the staff when needed.

Emily @librarymet.bsky.social · 6d

Hot take: Ultimately, it’s not gonna be book banning or censorship that kills public libraries.

It’s gonna be capitalism.

Emily @librarymet.bsky.social · 6d

Is it me or has this gotten SO much worse lately? And it’s not just one genre, either.

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James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 6d

Pope Leo XIV: "I often wonder, even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think that they can safely disregard the poor."

"Dilexi te"

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Emily @librarymet.bsky.social · 7d

Josh Naylor having himself a game!! Love to see it. Happy for him.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 7d

vlad guerrero jr is the product of a 30+ year project to concentrate an entire planet's psychic resentment against the yankees into the form of a single human

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Emily @librarymet.bsky.social · 7d

Big man Vlad with the wheels!!

I kinda love this Jays team.