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Gabby
@gabliotecaria.bsky.social
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🇵🇷 in 🇬🇧. She/her. Proud trade union organiser and former public library worker. Views here are my own, not my employer's.
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When you see this, post an image from your gallery to describe your mental health
Me, a short, fat light skinned Puerto Rican woman with curly black white, standing in front of a mural at Cardiff Market that says "Being weird is great". I'm giving 2 thumbs up and smiling, carrying my red flowered oilskin handbag and wearing a salmon-pink floaty dress with embroidered sleeves and black sparkly fitflops.
November 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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OH MY GRITTY AUNT

honestly this is now my advent calendar

thank you again, @jonnelledge.bsky.social
Screenshot of Scotland's gritter tracker. Visible are Oh My Gritty Aunt, William Wall-Ice, Gritty McGritface, Bear-illiant, Penelope Gritstop, and two Gritney Spears
November 28, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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As @gonzo.bsky.social would say, Yez
Chibi, a tuxedo cat, stares malevolently at the camera from the far side of the bottom of my Christmas tree, which has a quilted Santa and reindeer green and plaid tree skirt
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Miss Suki, the queen of "I will love you but on my own terms"
Suki, a black and white cat with a black nose, lays her head prettily on top of my Christmas quilt on my tummy. Her eyes are half closed and she's purring.
November 23, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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The energy I bring to the weekend
A gingerbread person biscuit head first into a mound of vegan whipped cream on an oat milk gingerbread latte
November 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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NOT LONG, YOU SAY???? (art by the peerless @louiestowell.bsky.social )
Coat Girl from Louie Stowell's Loki series with big eyes and a grin, vibrating. The caption is "Excited squealing noises" and though Louie doesn't know it, it is a literal drawing of me, except I wash my coat regularly.
November 21, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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To adults who say "that book's too young/old/easy for you" and/or "how about you read a proper book":
Black and white drawing of a hand squeeze the trigger of a spray bottle with the word NO in all caps superimposed. It's the "NO" spray
November 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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My Tara survived 2 fires, a transatlantic move and 2 babies/toddlers with absolutely zero fuss. I was hers from the moment she climbed up my leg at the shelter. She loved everyone. She was the absolute best cat and took a chunk of my soul with her when she died.
Tara, a pastel calico cat peers curiously at the camera Tara, a pastel calico cat, rests on a windowsill in the sunlight, her back legs dangling off the shelf
November 14, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the strike 🪶
A slender black and white, fluted tail bird on a rope perch hanging on a tree. Detail from wallpaper in the Brighton Pavilion
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Post your last saved meme without any context
4 increasingly zoomed in photos of a taxidermied weasel with, yes, a cringing face, teeth visible, mouth down-turned. Caption: "you have awoken the mythical cringe weasel"
November 12, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Chibi really loves his box 😸
Chibi, a tuxedo cat, is curled up inside a box that is almost too small for him. He almost looks square. Chibi, a tuxedo cat, sits gormlessly in a box that is almost too small for him.
November 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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It's here!! Thank you, @rachelcdailey.bsky.social and @biggreenbooks.bsky.social!
Ramping Up Rights: An Unfinished History of British Disability Activism by Rachel Charlton-Dailey has a green cover and shows 2 disability pride flags (black with a diagonal wave across it in green, blue, white, yellow, and red)
November 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Today's library haul (I ran away before I saw anything else)

I know, I know, hardbacks, I just never learn 🤦🏻‍♀️
A stack of hardback library books: To Clutch a Razor by Veronica Roth, The Door on the Sea by Caskey Russell, A Forgery of Fate by Elizabeth Lim
November 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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There was also whatever the fuck this was. When I realised the trousers were gauzy I <squeaked>
Cody Fern as Toran Mallow in S3 of Foundation at the club scene where he literally gets a bit flayed by the Mule. He's shirtless and wearing high rise gauzy trousers and his wavy brown hair almost but not actually brushes his shoulders. He's holding some kind of jello shot green drink and looking sexily down at the table. You're lucky you can't see his startlingly blue eyes (or his legs through the gauzy trousers) because you would COMBUST
November 8, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Good morning, people of my timeline 😊
Post from Preeti Chhibber: God I love that the most heinous people in the country are having the worst goddamn night tonight. Eat shit you hateful losers. Post from Orcspiration: RELISH IN THE SCREAMS OF YOUR ENEMIES! HAVE YOU EATEN TODAY?
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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PHEW! vote counted, just in time! 🫡

Sad I didn't get a sticker this time, since I've yet to receive my ballot. But thankfully was able to print and post! Whoop whoop!
Screencap from the LA County registrar of voters email: Special Election: Ballot Counted Hello GABRIELA, This is a message from the California Secretary of State on behalf of Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters. Your ballot for the November 4, 2025, Statewide Special Election was received and counted. Thank you for voting!
November 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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💕 Emotional support kittens 💕
Hetty, a grey/black tabby cat, is shrimp-curled next to Chibi, a tuxedo cat, who's daintily curled up next to her on my bed. It has a red and white duvet cover.
November 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Well frens, looks like she had a Very Queer Romance Month 😂🥰
Storygraph October reading wrap-up: 10 books, 2,844 pages, average rating 4.6/5. Highest rated reads shown are DP Clarence's The Silly Season and Going Solo and Cat Sebastian's You Should Be So Lucky. Average book length: 284 pages. Average time to finish: 3 days. 100% fiction. 80% digital to 20% print. The pages per day graphic is useless because I don't log progress on the app. Genres in order of reads: LGBTQIA+, Romance, Historical, Fantasy, Mystery.
November 1, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Not my home, but I know my way around
Cat-view map of the Warrior Cats territory in the books by Erin Hunter, showing the enclaves of each of the cat clans (Thunderclan, Riverclan, Shadowclan, Windclan) and the house where the story begins (Twolegs Place)
October 27, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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My gran used to say "próstota" instead of "próstata" (prostate) and because "tota" is PR slang for pussy we would fall out laughing every time (including her, because she knew what she was doing). Still do. Even Hubs is in in the joke now. 😆

Ah, Mamisín, I miss you every day.
My late grandma, Mamisín, smiling, holding a baby Youngest, sitting next to a 4-year-old Eldest. She was a Puerto Rican woman, light brown skinned, with soft, beautiful white hair and the warmest smile you ever saw.
October 27, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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The brass neck of the NYT to put the name of the game they've plagiarised right there on the top
Today's Connections board. The first two words (from the top left) are ONLY and CONNECT.
October 27, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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🎃 IT ESPOOKY MONTH PEAK WEEK! 🎃
I'm holding a library copy of Martin Howard's Mallory Vayle and the Curse of Maggoty Skull . It's black with shiny black ghost and Maggoty Skull with a bright orange wig. The font is bright slime green. Perfect Spooky Month reading!
October 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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@gonzo.bsky.social Chibi submits his thomper for appraisal
Chibi, a tuxedo cat with a dab of white fur over his nose, lays on a blanket with a smug impression on his face, proffering one of hire white paws (black toe beans) towards the camera
October 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Bless them, they're really desperate 😂

(You'd have to *pay* me at least £25 to get me to watch that AND throw in free pizza and beer)
Promotional email for watching Tron:Ares at the cinema for £5
October 25, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Oh and in more happy post, got this HOT playbook with the cover photo that makes my mouth as dry as a barrel of oyster crackers

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The playbook of Liz Duffy Adams' Born With Teeth, with Ncuti Gatwa looking forward and predatorily (in an extremely sexy way) holding Edward Blumenthal's against him. Edward (as Shakespeare) looks like he's about to orgasm from having Ncuti's (as Marlowe's) fingers parting his lips to which scene I can only say, SAME, MATES, SAME (and can I join bc jfc)
October 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM