Leslie Lambert
@lspacediva3.bsky.social
Retired library circ specialist in Metro ATL, by way of Cincinnati, OK, and New Orleans. Currently engaged in kicking cancer a little farther down the road. Posting over coffee from the #BirdPorch. She/her
It's very visibly snowing, and also the sun is out. 🤷♀️
November 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
It's very visibly snowing, and also the sun is out. 🤷♀️
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look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
Contacted Jon Ossoff's office (once again!) to tell him to not cave, and also Raphael Warnock's office to ask him to encourage his colleague to stand firm. Hope they get enough calls/emails to make a difference.
November 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Contacted Jon Ossoff's office (once again!) to tell him to not cave, and also Raphael Warnock's office to ask him to encourage his colleague to stand firm. Hope they get enough calls/emails to make a difference.
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Hey @ossoff.bsky.social remember this? Don’t you dare cave on a deal with Republicans. We voted you in because you weren’t the same old establishment guy. We can vote you out too.
1.4 million Georgians could see their premiums skyrocket next year if ACA tax credits expire.
November 9, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Hey @ossoff.bsky.social remember this? Don’t you dare cave on a deal with Republicans. We voted you in because you weren’t the same old establishment guy. We can vote you out too.
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I don’t trust axios but call your senators ASAP. The deal (supposedly) is the promise of a vote in December to maybe extend the ACA subsidies
BREAKING: Deal to end government shutdown in reach
Deal to end government shutdown in reach
At least 10 Senate Democrats are expected to support a key procedural motion.
www.axios.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I don’t trust axios but call your senators ASAP. The deal (supposedly) is the promise of a vote in December to maybe extend the ACA subsidies
Imagine my surprise when I look to see how badly the Falcons lost to the Colts, only to discover that they're in OT and I can actually watch it happen. 🙄
November 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Imagine my surprise when I look to see how badly the Falcons lost to the Colts, only to discover that they're in OT and I can actually watch it happen. 🙄
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
I hope I'm around to see it, but whatever it is, it probably won't feel like enough.
Every time this stuff happens, my thought process begins to consider what kind of justice will be required in 3 years for these people.
ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
November 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I hope I'm around to see it, but whatever it is, it probably won't feel like enough.
When the world is chaos, you're entering your fourth year of cancer treatment, and you learn that the gift theme listed for your upcoming 41st wedding anniversary is...land. 👀
a cemetery filled with graves and trees in the fog
Alt: A cemetery filled with graves and trees in the fog
media.tenor.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:45 AM
When the world is chaos, you're entering your fourth year of cancer treatment, and you learn that the gift theme listed for your upcoming 41st wedding anniversary is...land. 👀
Just called Jon Ossoff's office (202-224-3521) and left a message asking him to not give in to a compromise on this. It's easy to call and so important not to waste this opportunity!
SCHUMER is on the floor now making this offer to end the shutdown:
Clean CR
Bipartisan "minibus" of approps bills
1-year ACA funding extension
Bipartisan cmte to negotiate on health care
"This is a reasonable offer that reopens the government, deals with health care affordability."
Clean CR
Bipartisan "minibus" of approps bills
1-year ACA funding extension
Bipartisan cmte to negotiate on health care
"This is a reasonable offer that reopens the government, deals with health care affordability."
November 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Just called Jon Ossoff's office (202-224-3521) and left a message asking him to not give in to a compromise on this. It's easy to call and so important not to waste this opportunity!
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Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.
Amazon has launched a new AI-driven translation service, Kindle Translate, for Kindle Direct Publishing authors 👇 #BookSky
Amazon launches AI translation service for indie authors
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November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.
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Let a thousand sandwiches be airborne.
November 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Let a thousand sandwiches be airborne.
Nothing like #BookPost from @blackwelloxford.bsky.social to improve one's day! New Adrian Tchaikovsky and Alastair Reynolds to add to my already enormous TBR pile. 🤩
November 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Nothing like #BookPost from @blackwelloxford.bsky.social to improve one's day! New Adrian Tchaikovsky and Alastair Reynolds to add to my already enormous TBR pile. 🤩
It's so good! I already own the hardcover, but I may have to get the paperback for the bonus short story. 😄
Its SHIGIDI paperback release day, US & Canada! Its been a long, lovely journey but my award-winning novel about African gods on a supernatural heist at the British museum finally hits stores in a new format, with a new cover + a bonus short story! Get it y'all🙏🏾
Art by @stephenembleton.bsky.social
Art by @stephenembleton.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
It's so good! I already own the hardcover, but I may have to get the paperback for the bonus short story. 😄
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It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life
November 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life
Hooray! 🎉🎉
Aftab Pureval (D) has defeated Cory Bowman, the half-brother of J.D. Vance, in the election for Mayor of Cincinnati.
November 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Hooray! 🎉🎉
This the best thing ever. Read all the way through! 😭😍
I just got back from a walk. While I was walking through the park, a little white boy and his father flagged me down from the very other end of the park. Now to be fair, I have on my hat on, so I’m easy to spot lol. The little boy drew me this. A month ago. He has been waiting to see me again.
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
This the best thing ever. Read all the way through! 😭😍
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Missing my mother today, on what would be her 98th birthday, the first one without her here. It's just as strange and difficult as I've seen other folks describe it, although I'm happy to think of her at rest after several tough years. ❤️
November 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Missing my mother today, on what would be her 98th birthday, the first one without her here. It's just as strange and difficult as I've seen other folks describe it, although I'm happy to think of her at rest after several tough years. ❤️
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and georgia!! (vote Peter Hubbard and Alicia Johnson for Public Service Commission, PLEASE.) A reminder of the stakes via www.volts.wtf/p/pay-attent...
find your precinct here: mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/
find your precinct here: mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/
November 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
and georgia!! (vote Peter Hubbard and Alicia Johnson for Public Service Commission, PLEASE.) A reminder of the stakes via www.volts.wtf/p/pay-attent...
find your precinct here: mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/
find your precinct here: mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/
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Nov 3rd - As the weather clears, journalist Ned Scott was finally able to tell the story of how an Air Force crew and scientists were able to save the world from an alien invasion.
📽️📅 The Thing from Another World (1951)
📽️📅 The Thing from Another World (1951)
November 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Nov 3rd - As the weather clears, journalist Ned Scott was finally able to tell the story of how an Air Force crew and scientists were able to save the world from an alien invasion.
📽️📅 The Thing from Another World (1951)
📽️📅 The Thing from Another World (1951)
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“Blueskyism” is pitching in to help people. $25K in a few hours! Please consider joining, or donating elsewhere :)
November 3, 2025 at 2:06 AM
“Blueskyism” is pitching in to help people. $25K in a few hours! Please consider joining, or donating elsewhere :)
A movie you've seen more than seven times with a GIF
November 2, 2025 at 11:22 PM
A movie you've seen more than seven times with a GIF
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All Souls' Day, and in the blue dusk light, carrying a lantern, Old Fox walked down to the churchyard. A barn owl called down from the tower, and was answered somewhere in the trees.
November 2, 2025 at 6:54 AM
All Souls' Day, and in the blue dusk light, carrying a lantern, Old Fox walked down to the churchyard. A barn owl called down from the tower, and was answered somewhere in the trees.
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I love for everyone that this is now the baseball app
November 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I love for everyone that this is now the baseball app