Emily C
@polaropposite.bsky.social
Living in Maine. She/her/hers
Generally can be found working at the library, reading lots of books, hanging with my cool cats (and family).
Generally can be found working at the library, reading lots of books, hanging with my cool cats (and family).
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hi, cis folks!
if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.
the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.
we need you to call senators: reps.fyi
more info & script downthread.🧵
if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.
the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.
we need you to call senators: reps.fyi
more info & script downthread.🧵
NEWS: House Appropriations Committee Republicans released their spending bill for Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies. The legislation would prohibit taxpayer dollars for any type of gender-affirming care for transgender people. This would include programs like Medicaid
September 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
hi, cis folks!
if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.
the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.
we need you to call senators: reps.fyi
more info & script downthread.🧵
if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.
the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.
we need you to call senators: reps.fyi
more info & script downthread.🧵
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I got to deliver a talk on the history and legacy of the Hays Code and the Comics Code, contemporary censorship efforts, and the necessity of identifying with criminality. You can watch and read the whole thing here:
Read Like a Criminal
Big Gay Read 2025 Keynote Speech
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July 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I got to deliver a talk on the history and legacy of the Hays Code and the Comics Code, contemporary censorship efforts, and the necessity of identifying with criminality. You can watch and read the whole thing here:
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there are so many amazing middle-grade magical novels for young readers that have come out in the last decade-ish written by people who are not hateful assholes btw, a quick sampling off the top of my head:
April 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
there are so many amazing middle-grade magical novels for young readers that have come out in the last decade-ish written by people who are not hateful assholes btw, a quick sampling off the top of my head:
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Last night @60minutes.bsky.social opened an otherwise superb segment on Germany’s approach to online hate speech by saying “in the U.S., most of what’s said on online [social media] platforms is protected by the First Amendment.”
No.The First Amend protects us against GOVT infringements on speech.
No.The First Amend protects us against GOVT infringements on speech.
February 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Last night @60minutes.bsky.social opened an otherwise superb segment on Germany’s approach to online hate speech by saying “in the U.S., most of what’s said on online [social media] platforms is protected by the First Amendment.”
No.The First Amend protects us against GOVT infringements on speech.
No.The First Amend protects us against GOVT infringements on speech.
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Embrace graphic novels
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1/ ?
February 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Embrace graphic novels
1/ ?
1/ ?
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I'm going to say it again:
Immigration is good, actually.
There are no qualifications on this statement other than "don't be a comemierda" and that goes no matter what.
"Legal" and "illegal" are artificial categories imposed by States with arbitrary rules, usually with suboptimal outcomes.
Immigration is good, actually.
There are no qualifications on this statement other than "don't be a comemierda" and that goes no matter what.
"Legal" and "illegal" are artificial categories imposed by States with arbitrary rules, usually with suboptimal outcomes.
February 3, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I'm going to say it again:
Immigration is good, actually.
There are no qualifications on this statement other than "don't be a comemierda" and that goes no matter what.
"Legal" and "illegal" are artificial categories imposed by States with arbitrary rules, usually with suboptimal outcomes.
Immigration is good, actually.
There are no qualifications on this statement other than "don't be a comemierda" and that goes no matter what.
"Legal" and "illegal" are artificial categories imposed by States with arbitrary rules, usually with suboptimal outcomes.
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(1/x) So much of what is happening in our present stems from what we have not resolved in our past.
January 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
(1/x) So much of what is happening in our present stems from what we have not resolved in our past.
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For the last couple of years, library workers have been begging and pleading for attention on this. If you think this won't happen in your community, guess what, it will. You *have* to get involved. Now. Don't wait until the ban is in place.
With a press release titled “U.S. Department of Education Ends Biden’s Book Ban Hoax,” the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (DOE OCR) has dismissed all complaints of book banning that it had been investigating.
U.S. Dept. of Education Dismisses Book Ban Complaints, Rescinds Agreement in Civil Rights Violations in Forsyth County Book Removals
PEN America and EveryLibrary respond to the action taken by the Trump administration, which called the book bans
www.slj.com
January 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
For the last couple of years, library workers have been begging and pleading for attention on this. If you think this won't happen in your community, guess what, it will. You *have* to get involved. Now. Don't wait until the ban is in place.
You just don’t need to use AI! Not for ugly pictures or made up facts or email summaries, for so many reasons, but water use is one.
“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”
AI doesn’t just require tons of electric power. It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
fortune.com
January 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
You just don’t need to use AI! Not for ugly pictures or made up facts or email summaries, for so many reasons, but water use is one.
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1775. An editor comes into work on Christmas eve to find a manuscript on his desk. The title: A HISTORY OF PYRATES by Charles Johnson. (We have no budget so we’ll say the editor is played by Michael Stuhlbarg).
December 24, 2024 at 11:05 PM
1775. An editor comes into work on Christmas eve to find a manuscript on his desk. The title: A HISTORY OF PYRATES by Charles Johnson. (We have no budget so we’ll say the editor is played by Michael Stuhlbarg).
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NICWA works to support the safety, health, and spiritual strength of Native children. Their work helps Native nations keep Native families together. You can support their efforts here.
Donate » NICWA
www.nicwa.org
November 28, 2024 at 1:54 AM
NICWA works to support the safety, health, and spiritual strength of Native children. Their work helps Native nations keep Native families together. You can support their efforts here.
THIS will fix things next year, I know it. (Or at least will be really lovely to spend time with next year)
November 25, 2024 at 3:55 PM
THIS will fix things next year, I know it. (Or at least will be really lovely to spend time with next year)
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This is an absolutely wild interpretation.
This is scary.
The Bill of Rights protects citizens from the government. Not the other way around.
www.tcpalm.com/story/news/p...
The Bill of Rights protects citizens from the government. Not the other way around.
www.tcpalm.com/story/news/p...
Florida again argues books ban are 'government speech,' not prohibited by First Amendment
"The selection of public-school-library books is government speech and therefore not subject to the First Amendment," it said in a Friday filing.
www.tcpalm.com
November 20, 2024 at 7:45 PM
This is an absolutely wild interpretation.
Bookish checkpoint!
✧ last book you read: Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
✧ your current read: The Duke at Hazard by KJ Charles (audio reread)
✧last book added to my TBR: Time and Tide by JM Frey
✧ next anticipated read: Little Moons by Jen Storm, Ryan Howe, Alice Rl
#BookSky
✧ last book you read: Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
✧ your current read: The Duke at Hazard by KJ Charles (audio reread)
✧last book added to my TBR: Time and Tide by JM Frey
✧ next anticipated read: Little Moons by Jen Storm, Ryan Howe, Alice Rl
#BookSky
Bookish Checkpoint!
✧ last book you read: Barely Even Friends (🎧) by Mae Bennet
✧ your current read: The Shots You Take (ARC) by Rachel Reid
✧ last book added to TBR: My Big Fat Fake Marriage by Charlotte Stein
✧ next anticipated read: Let's Call a Truce by Amy Buchanan
#BookSky
✧ last book you read: Barely Even Friends (🎧) by Mae Bennet
✧ your current read: The Shots You Take (ARC) by Rachel Reid
✧ last book added to TBR: My Big Fat Fake Marriage by Charlotte Stein
✧ next anticipated read: Let's Call a Truce by Amy Buchanan
#BookSky
Bookish Checkpoint!
✧ last book you read: Don’t Let the Forest In by C.G. Drews
✧ your current read: A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand & Chlorine by Jade Song
✧ last book added to tbr: Withered Hill by David Barnett
✧ next anticipated read: Too Pretty to Lie by @biruktiwrites.bsky.social
✧ last book you read: Don’t Let the Forest In by C.G. Drews
✧ your current read: A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand & Chlorine by Jade Song
✧ last book added to tbr: Withered Hill by David Barnett
✧ next anticipated read: Too Pretty to Lie by @biruktiwrites.bsky.social
November 17, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Bookish checkpoint!
✧ last book you read: Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
✧ your current read: The Duke at Hazard by KJ Charles (audio reread)
✧last book added to my TBR: Time and Tide by JM Frey
✧ next anticipated read: Little Moons by Jen Storm, Ryan Howe, Alice Rl
#BookSky
✧ last book you read: Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
✧ your current read: The Duke at Hazard by KJ Charles (audio reread)
✧last book added to my TBR: Time and Tide by JM Frey
✧ next anticipated read: Little Moons by Jen Storm, Ryan Howe, Alice Rl
#BookSky
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for the @inquirer.com, I wrote about the importance of a free press to democracy and how it's not just investigation, scandals, & poll-driven predicting. Authoritarians don't care about scandals. We need to focus on bearing witness, humanizing, and contextualizing.
Now with gift link ⬇️
Now with gift link ⬇️
Malka Older: In these fraught times, the press must continue, and intensify, its role of bearing witness
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Improving democracy by improving how we cover it | Opinion
Saying the free press is a pillar of democracy is an understatement, writes Malka Older, the director of Global Voices. But the latest U.S. election has left the press shaken.
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November 17, 2024 at 11:29 AM
for the @inquirer.com, I wrote about the importance of a free press to democracy and how it's not just investigation, scandals, & poll-driven predicting. Authoritarians don't care about scandals. We need to focus on bearing witness, humanizing, and contextualizing.
Now with gift link ⬇️
Now with gift link ⬇️
This tree has lost all its leaves now but look how beautiful it was a few weeks ago — Nova found a bug lots more interesting.
November 10, 2024 at 8:19 PM
This tree has lost all its leaves now but look how beautiful it was a few weeks ago — Nova found a bug lots more interesting.
Still grateful for this little pond — I admit I spend a fair amount of time lying out and peering into the water to see what wildlife shows up. The frogs are very welcome visitors, but there are also a lot of fun invertebrates to watch zooming around in the water!
July 8, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Still grateful for this little pond — I admit I spend a fair amount of time lying out and peering into the water to see what wildlife shows up. The frogs are very welcome visitors, but there are also a lot of fun invertebrates to watch zooming around in the water!
I tell you what, adding a little pond into your backyard isn’t super practical but is really, really lovely.
June 18, 2024 at 5:09 PM
I tell you what, adding a little pond into your backyard isn’t super practical but is really, really lovely.
Biiiig streeeetchhhh
May 23, 2024 at 11:37 AM
Biiiig streeeetchhhh
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This week I learned about Operation Olive Branch, which collects verified gofundmes to help evacuate people and families from Gaza:
Operation Olive Branch
Digest 02.23.2024 - Stone Soup
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February 24, 2024 at 7:37 AM
This week I learned about Operation Olive Branch, which collects verified gofundmes to help evacuate people and families from Gaza:
Cats cats cats everywhere I go around the house (the same cats, but they are good little shadows)
February 7, 2024 at 1:28 AM
Cats cats cats everywhere I go around the house (the same cats, but they are good little shadows)
Having a cozy time hearing about comfort reads from some favorite authors - Martha Wells, KJ Charles, T Kingfisher and Malka Older! Aternated between sewing, petting the cats, and writing down so many recommended books/shows/movies.
February 4, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Having a cozy time hearing about comfort reads from some favorite authors - Martha Wells, KJ Charles, T Kingfisher and Malka Older! Aternated between sewing, petting the cats, and writing down so many recommended books/shows/movies.