Mellisa
@pixyofwhimsy.bsky.social
County Librarian, former local journalist. My home is full of books and rescue dogs.
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📚 🦸🏻♀️RUTHERFORD COUNTY — “Go and thank your librarian. Absolute heroes.”
Library director Luanne James gets thunderous applause for bravely blowing the whistle on library board director Cody York, the latest front in the right-wing war on books in Tennessee.
Full: www.threads.com/@thetnholler...
Library director Luanne James gets thunderous applause for bravely blowing the whistle on library board director Cody York, the latest front in the right-wing war on books in Tennessee.
Full: www.threads.com/@thetnholler...
December 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM
📚 🦸🏻♀️RUTHERFORD COUNTY — “Go and thank your librarian. Absolute heroes.”
Library director Luanne James gets thunderous applause for bravely blowing the whistle on library board director Cody York, the latest front in the right-wing war on books in Tennessee.
Full: www.threads.com/@thetnholler...
Library director Luanne James gets thunderous applause for bravely blowing the whistle on library board director Cody York, the latest front in the right-wing war on books in Tennessee.
Full: www.threads.com/@thetnholler...
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All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
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Native American D-Day veteran Charles Shay dies at 101 in Normandy reut.rs/4autOzD
Native American D-Day veteran Charles Shay dies at 101 in Normandy
Charles Norman Shay, a Native American veteran who was a 19-year-old U.S. Army medic when he landed off the Normandy coast on D-Day and helped save lives, died at age 101 on Wednesday.
reut.rs
December 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Native American D-Day veteran Charles Shay dies at 101 in Normandy reut.rs/4autOzD
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A 6-year-old boy is ‘missing’ after ICE detained his father as NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani leads outcry over ‘cruelty’
A first-grader is ‘missing’ after ICE detained his father, advocates say
www.independent.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
A 6-year-old boy is ‘missing’ after ICE detained his father as NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani leads outcry over ‘cruelty’
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If you're buying gifts for spirited 12 year olds who have read most of the middle grade graphic novel canon, can I recommend my book The Legend of Auntie Po? It's multi-awarded, and well reviewed, but hasn't entirely found its commercial footing.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/601780...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/601780...
The Legend of Auntie Po by Shing Yin Khor: 9780525554882 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST Part historical fiction, part fable, and 100 percent adventure. Thirteen-year-old Mei reimagines the myths of Paul Bunyan as starring a Chinese heroine while she works ...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
If you're buying gifts for spirited 12 year olds who have read most of the middle grade graphic novel canon, can I recommend my book The Legend of Auntie Po? It's multi-awarded, and well reviewed, but hasn't entirely found its commercial footing.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/601780...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/601780...
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He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”
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Trump: "The word 'affordability' is a Democrat scam"
December 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Trump: "The word 'affordability' is a Democrat scam"
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Starbucks set up shop next to my fav local coffee house in the 90s and ran it out of business. And I have bought not one single thing from them since.
It has been so long, I do not even remember the name of the coffee shop.
Some of us have been waiting, longing for a new foe.
It has been so long, I do not even remember the name of the coffee shop.
Some of us have been waiting, longing for a new foe.
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 2, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Starbucks set up shop next to my fav local coffee house in the 90s and ran it out of business. And I have bought not one single thing from them since.
It has been so long, I do not even remember the name of the coffee shop.
Some of us have been waiting, longing for a new foe.
It has been so long, I do not even remember the name of the coffee shop.
Some of us have been waiting, longing for a new foe.
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"The question was: could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3 year olds who sang beer commercials.”
— Joan Ganz Cooney #BOTD
Happy 96th b'day to the co-founder of Children’s Television Workshop + co-creator of SESAME STREET and THE ELECTRIC COMPANY. #PBS #SesameStreet
— Joan Ganz Cooney #BOTD
Happy 96th b'day to the co-founder of Children’s Television Workshop + co-creator of SESAME STREET and THE ELECTRIC COMPANY. #PBS #SesameStreet
December 1, 2025 at 12:43 AM
"The question was: could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3 year olds who sang beer commercials.”
— Joan Ganz Cooney #BOTD
Happy 96th b'day to the co-founder of Children’s Television Workshop + co-creator of SESAME STREET and THE ELECTRIC COMPANY. #PBS #SesameStreet
— Joan Ganz Cooney #BOTD
Happy 96th b'day to the co-founder of Children’s Television Workshop + co-creator of SESAME STREET and THE ELECTRIC COMPANY. #PBS #SesameStreet
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I am debating starting up the Anti Brain Rot Reading Challenge by @thisstoryaintover.bsky.social.... Anyone wanna try with me? Booksky people?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHpH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHpH...
🧠 the Anti Brain Rot Reading Challenge by @thisstoryaintover | purpose, rules, discord, notion etc
YouTube video by thisstoryaintover
www.youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I am debating starting up the Anti Brain Rot Reading Challenge by @thisstoryaintover.bsky.social.... Anyone wanna try with me? Booksky people?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHpH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHpH...
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Reading graphic novels is reading. I loved comics as a kid and now I'm an avid reader of novels and an author. Give kids whatever books they want. #kidlit
My kids can never get enough graphic novels. Our local libraries all have graphic novel shelves, so I just check out a whole bunch. I also go through and request based on lists of new graphic novels (because the popular titles often aren't there). We buy the ones they loved and want to reread.
November 30, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Reading graphic novels is reading. I loved comics as a kid and now I'm an avid reader of novels and an author. Give kids whatever books they want. #kidlit
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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I worked these issues with Todd.
He knows what he’s talking about.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
He knows what he’s talking about.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I worked these issues with Todd.
He knows what he’s talking about.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
He knows what he’s talking about.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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drew a Thanksgiving hand turkey
November 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
drew a Thanksgiving hand turkey
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Tell the billionaires: WE AIN’T BUYIN’ IT!!!
No buying from Target, Home Depot or Amazon over the next week!
Throw in union-busting Starbucks too!! 🙃
Pass it on!! 👇👇👇
No buying from Target, Home Depot or Amazon over the next week!
Throw in union-busting Starbucks too!! 🙃
Pass it on!! 👇👇👇
Tell the Billionaires We Ain’t Buying It
This week, we use our wallets like a weapon and remind every corporate giant that people—not profits—set the terms.
www.digitaldrumbeat.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Tell the billionaires: WE AIN’T BUYIN’ IT!!!
No buying from Target, Home Depot or Amazon over the next week!
Throw in union-busting Starbucks too!! 🙃
Pass it on!! 👇👇👇
No buying from Target, Home Depot or Amazon over the next week!
Throw in union-busting Starbucks too!! 🙃
Pass it on!! 👇👇👇
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Don’t shop at Home Depot, Target, or Amazon over the next week. During the busiest shopping period of the year, let’s make our dollars count by refusing to support corporations complicit in Trump’s authoritarian power grab: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Don’t shop at Home Depot, Target, or Amazon over the next week. During the busiest shopping period of the year, let’s make our dollars count by refusing to support corporations complicit in Trump’s authoritarian power grab: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
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Exclusive: Republicans plan to challenge vehicle-safety mandates, such as automatic emergency braking and alarms that remind drivers a child is in the back seat.
Senate Committee to Challenge Auto-Safety Mandates That Hurt ‘Affordability’
Republicans are questioning the value of some features, such as automatic braking and rear-seat reminders.
on.wsj.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Exclusive: Republicans plan to challenge vehicle-safety mandates, such as automatic emergency braking and alarms that remind drivers a child is in the back seat.
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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In a leaked call Xi Jinping connected with Trump last night. Xi told Trump 2 things
1. There are NO deals with China
2. China will invade & and take Taiwan
Xi is not asking. He is telling the weakest president in history what the US is going to do. NOTHING
Xi feared Biden but knows Trump is a joke
1. There are NO deals with China
2. China will invade & and take Taiwan
Xi is not asking. He is telling the weakest president in history what the US is going to do. NOTHING
Xi feared Biden but knows Trump is a joke
November 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
In a leaked call Xi Jinping connected with Trump last night. Xi told Trump 2 things
1. There are NO deals with China
2. China will invade & and take Taiwan
Xi is not asking. He is telling the weakest president in history what the US is going to do. NOTHING
Xi feared Biden but knows Trump is a joke
1. There are NO deals with China
2. China will invade & and take Taiwan
Xi is not asking. He is telling the weakest president in history what the US is going to do. NOTHING
Xi feared Biden but knows Trump is a joke
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Medicaid-funded services are their lifeline—and make their work possible. But the Trump cuts to the program could change it all.
Meet Audrey and Jeremy, who went viral for talking about how the GOP's Medicaid cuts could devastate their everyday.
Meet Audrey and Jeremy, who went viral for talking about how the GOP's Medicaid cuts could devastate their everyday.
What Trump's Medicaid cuts mean for two podcasters with Down syndrome
Medicaid-funded services are their lifeline—and make their work possible.
www.motherjones.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Medicaid-funded services are their lifeline—and make their work possible. But the Trump cuts to the program could change it all.
Meet Audrey and Jeremy, who went viral for talking about how the GOP's Medicaid cuts could devastate their everyday.
Meet Audrey and Jeremy, who went viral for talking about how the GOP's Medicaid cuts could devastate their everyday.
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Another horrific story from these times, featuring the tireless and heroic work of my Cornell Law colleague Liz Brundige and her clinic students. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
She Was Deported in Error. Her Child Was Left Behind.
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Another horrific story from these times, featuring the tireless and heroic work of my Cornell Law colleague Liz Brundige and her clinic students. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
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I think about this tweet every day
November 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I think about this tweet every day
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SO NOW YOU'RE GOING TO TELL ME IT'S WRONG FOR THE DEGENERATE WHO WAS FOUND LIABLE FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT TO BE ALONE FOR HOURS WITH A TEENAGE GIRL IN JEFFREY EPSTEIN'S HOUSE. WOKE HAS GONE TOO FAR! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO MY POST IN WHICH I EXPLAIN THIS. LINK IS HERE: bit.ly/4qYtWx2
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
SO NOW YOU'RE GOING TO TELL ME IT'S WRONG FOR THE DEGENERATE WHO WAS FOUND LIABLE FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT TO BE ALONE FOR HOURS WITH A TEENAGE GIRL IN JEFFREY EPSTEIN'S HOUSE. WOKE HAS GONE TOO FAR! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO MY POST IN WHICH I EXPLAIN THIS. LINK IS HERE: bit.ly/4qYtWx2
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always fascinated by idea that i am not being sincere or that my tinglers are a joke or that this is a 'bit'. on one hand i get it because my art is BY DEFINITION unusual, but i just think WHAT IS ALTERNATIVE? what would me being 'fake' even mean? imagine writing 400 books over 10 years for a 'bit'
November 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
always fascinated by idea that i am not being sincere or that my tinglers are a joke or that this is a 'bit'. on one hand i get it because my art is BY DEFINITION unusual, but i just think WHAT IS ALTERNATIVE? what would me being 'fake' even mean? imagine writing 400 books over 10 years for a 'bit'