Kimberly Hollis
@kimberd.bsky.social
Hoarder of books, vinyl, and rocks.
Lover of lore.
Too many cats.
Plantagenet, probably.
Kenny Omega Evangelist
She/Her
kimberd on StoryGraph:
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Donut Bee Evil: https://buttondown.com/donutbeeevil/archive/
Lover of lore.
Too many cats.
Plantagenet, probably.
Kenny Omega Evangelist
She/Her
kimberd on StoryGraph:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/kimberd
Donut Bee Evil: https://buttondown.com/donutbeeevil/archive/
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Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes? Trye a tarot deck. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes.
May 25, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes? Trye a tarot deck. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes.
In this week's edition of Donut Be Evil, we talk Tesla Takedown, the Target Fast, and Niantic's sale of their games division to Scopely. Please read, share, and subscribe!
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Team Rocket Takes Control?
What’s Good? Walt Disney Studios Animation Workers Ratify Contract Production management workers for Walt Disney Animation Studios have officially ratified...
buttondown.com
March 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
In this week's edition of Donut Be Evil, we talk Tesla Takedown, the Target Fast, and Niantic's sale of their games division to Scopely. Please read, share, and subscribe!
buttondown.com/donutbeeevil...
buttondown.com/donutbeeevil...
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Illinois voters!
Here's a guide to the upcoming consolidated elections for contested public library trustee positions.
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Here's a guide to the upcoming consolidated elections for contested public library trustee positions.
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
The Illinois Library Lovers Guide to Public Library Elections, April 1, 2025
One of the mega-projects I’ve been working on with the help of some fantastic other library lovers is pulling together a voter’s guide to Illinois’s upcoming...
buttondown.com
March 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Illinois voters!
Here's a guide to the upcoming consolidated elections for contested public library trustee positions.
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
Here's a guide to the upcoming consolidated elections for contested public library trustee positions.
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
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This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
March 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Kobo Plus is a great alternative to Kindle Unlimited—all the books you can read & at a lower cost!
What better time to start than just in time for the Trans Rights Read-athon?
You can read A Lake of Feathers and Moonbeams for free as part of Kobo Plus!
www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
What better time to start than just in time for the Trans Rights Read-athon?
You can read A Lake of Feathers and Moonbeams for free as part of Kobo Plus!
www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
A Lake of Feathers and Moonbeams ebook by Dax Murray - Rakuten Kobo
Read "A Lake of Feathers and Moonbeams" by Dax Murray available from Rakuten Kobo. How many half-truths can loyalty shoulder before it breaks from the weight of deception on its back?
A sweeping LGBTQ...
www.kobo.com
March 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Kobo Plus is a great alternative to Kindle Unlimited—all the books you can read & at a lower cost!
What better time to start than just in time for the Trans Rights Read-athon?
You can read A Lake of Feathers and Moonbeams for free as part of Kobo Plus!
www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
What better time to start than just in time for the Trans Rights Read-athon?
You can read A Lake of Feathers and Moonbeams for free as part of Kobo Plus!
www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
This little thief just stole one of my bird feeders! You have to admire the technique, though.
March 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
This little thief just stole one of my bird feeders! You have to admire the technique, though.
I believe this right here is why they say everybody wants to be a cat.
March 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I believe this right here is why they say everybody wants to be a cat.
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If you have a Democratic senator, call them now. Today. Ask them whether they're going to vote *against* the Continuing Resolution to fund the government. If they give you a squishy answer, make it clear to them that you need to hear "Yes."
If you want to yell at elected Dems, now's the time
If you want to yell at elected Dems, now's the time
If you're looking for something to do to try to stop Elon Musk's wholesale attack on American government, this post makes clear what you need to do in the next 48 hours. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-b...
Will Dems Pick Up Their Sword?
(Ed. Note: I go into a lot of detail below. The bottom...
talkingpointsmemo.com
March 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
If you have a Democratic senator, call them now. Today. Ask them whether they're going to vote *against* the Continuing Resolution to fund the government. If they give you a squishy answer, make it clear to them that you need to hear "Yes."
If you want to yell at elected Dems, now's the time
If you want to yell at elected Dems, now's the time
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Between this and a permanent resident being disappeared...I would not visit the U.S. right now if you have another option. A tourism collapse would be devastating to so many Americans who *are* on the right side of history, but if you won't be safe, you shouldn't come.
Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
March 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Between this and a permanent resident being disappeared...I would not visit the U.S. right now if you have another option. A tourism collapse would be devastating to so many Americans who *are* on the right side of history, but if you won't be safe, you shouldn't come.
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NEVER.
I don't care how you feel about campus anti-Israel protests, or about antisemitism on campus. Fighting antisemitism cannot mean disappearing foreign citizens in the US on green cards for Wrongthink. It just cannot. Not in my name. Never. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
ICE arrests Palestinian activist who led Columbia University protests, lawyer says
Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University's student encampment protests, has been arrested by ICE, his lawyer says.
www.cbsnews.com
March 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
NEVER.
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Timely words from an Edward Gorey bird.
March 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Timely words from an Edward Gorey bird.
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watched this like 8 times and laughed harder every time (sound up)
March 8, 2025 at 11:05 PM
watched this like 8 times and laughed harder every time (sound up)
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I did a thing. It’s still a work in progress, but if you are looking for ways to spend your money and data according to your ethics, I hope this will help! Please share and subscribe.
buttondown.com/donutbeeevil...
buttondown.com/donutbeeevil...
What the Heck is Donut Bee Evil, Anyway?
Remember back a long time ago, when one of the biggest companies in the world proudly told us all that its motto was “Don’t Be Evil”? That company has since...
buttondown.com
March 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I did a thing. It’s still a work in progress, but if you are looking for ways to spend your money and data according to your ethics, I hope this will help! Please share and subscribe.
buttondown.com/donutbeeevil...
buttondown.com/donutbeeevil...
I did a thing. It’s still a work in progress, but if you are looking for ways to spend your money and data according to your ethics, I hope this will help! Please share and subscribe.
buttondown.com/donutbeeevil...
buttondown.com/donutbeeevil...
What the Heck is Donut Bee Evil, Anyway?
Remember back a long time ago, when one of the biggest companies in the world proudly told us all that its motto was “Don’t Be Evil”? That company has since...
buttondown.com
March 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I did a thing. It’s still a work in progress, but if you are looking for ways to spend your money and data according to your ethics, I hope this will help! Please share and subscribe.
buttondown.com/donutbeeevil...
buttondown.com/donutbeeevil...
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"Have you said thank you once this entire meeting? No!"
February 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
"Have you said thank you once this entire meeting? No!"
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Same, wee owl. Same.
February 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Same, wee owl. Same.
Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theater…
February 23, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theater…
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I just wrote a quick blog post about why Substack writers should switch to Ghost! micahflee.com/2025/02/not-...
Not only is Substack right-wing broligarchy garbage, it's way more expensive than Ghost
A lot of us know by now that Substack has a Nazi problem. It not only profits from fascist voices, it actively promotes their work and recruits them. And it's funded by Silicon Valley anti-democracy b...
micahflee.com
February 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I just wrote a quick blog post about why Substack writers should switch to Ghost! micahflee.com/2025/02/not-...
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Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.”
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February 20, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.”
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And it ys sayde the Faerie folke yet lyve, but seldom evir do thei appeare to mortals because thei thynke to themselves "yikes! why bothir goinge anywhere near a cybertruck?"
February 18, 2025 at 4:32 AM
And it ys sayde the Faerie folke yet lyve, but seldom evir do thei appeare to mortals because thei thynke to themselves "yikes! why bothir goinge anywhere near a cybertruck?"
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Also Wee Free Men and the Nac Mac Feegle: "Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!"
February 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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If your writing didn’t matter, they wouldn’t be going after our books and our stories and desperately trying to rewrite them and/or destroy them.
Language is power.
Language is power.
February 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
If your writing didn’t matter, they wouldn’t be going after our books and our stories and desperately trying to rewrite them and/or destroy them.
Language is power.
Language is power.
Unacceptable!
Indiana just pulled funding for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library program for the state. This program gifts all children, across the state, free books from birth-age 5.
This one's just fucking cruel.
www.14news.com/2025/02/19/t...
This one's just fucking cruel.
www.14news.com/2025/02/19/t...
Teacher concerned after Indiana cuts book-gifting program ‘Imagination Library’
A teacher who has her own children enrolled in the program expressed her feelings on the matter.
www.14news.com
February 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Unacceptable!