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Erratic Reader
@randomreader.bsky.social
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Reader, reader, chocolate-eater. Big fan of treating all humans like humans. She/her.
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Boiler is down. My nose is cold.
A hand in fingerless gloves on a library cart.
December 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Sun came out. I have coffee.
View from car driver's seat. A purple-gloved hand holding up a battered green travel tumbler. There's a some bright blue sky peeking out.
December 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Chocolate from my kid: Black Thunder Shifuku no Butter.

Wow, the butter really hits hard. French and Hokkaido butter holding together crunchy cookie bits, covered in chocolate. Delicious.
Shiny blue blue and gold package with a picture of butter and a chocolate-covered confection. Black Thunder Shifuku no Butter.
December 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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My mom couldn't find purple pansies at the 4 places she went looking for them. Today I drove 45 miles to bring her purple pansies. She gave me a Christmas cactus because she is incapable of letting me leave empty-handed.
A brass (or brass-like) container with a reddish-pink Christmas cactus almost in full bloom. It's a bit floppy.
November 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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This one works every damn day.
@effinbirds line drawing of a chicken (or rooster?) saying, "Why would we listen to an expert instead of a dumb motherfucker who talks really loud."
November 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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ln a nearby park, 16 & I saw this mural of native animals picking up trash. Even the turtle is doing his part!
Painting on the side of a park structure showing deer, a heron, fox, etc. picking up and throwing away trash. There's a sun on the water behind them casting white rays through the whole scene. Detail from a park mural showing a bluejay and a turtle picking up trash.
November 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Headed out to ruin the workplace.
War Production Co-Ordinating Committee "We can do it" poster
November 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Voting tomorrow.
Campaign-style lawn sign that says, "Ban assault weapons, not books."
November 4, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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I never noticed it before, but @npr.org's book reviews have a little blue "looking for this book" button. It pops up with options for WorldCat and @indiebound.bsky.social as well as the usual Amazon.

New books this week by Gish Jen, Philip Pullman and more www.npr.org/2025/10/21/n...
Screenshot of book review with a pop-up that says,"Buy Featured Book." Your purchase supports NPR programming. How? Amazon Independent Bookstores Find at Your Library
October 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Made it to SC and saw this handsome bird outside a tourist bar.
White greater egret in flight over a marsh.
October 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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I work so hard to be positive, but some days...
Cover of I want to be MAD for a While!, by Barney Saltzberg. Green book with an illustration of an angry kitten with ha ds on hips wearing a purple shirt and blue pants.
October 4, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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I hope parents won't throw their hands up and accept this. Talking with your kid is essential.
Human reading time reinforces the bonding between child & parent as well as fostering a love of reading. It's free and it doesn't feed the environment-destroying, job-stealing plagiarism machine.
Image: woman reading to two colored Text: There is no app to replace your lap. Read to your child.
October 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Two things I learned during my storage room (roomlet?) cleaning out project:
1) Mice have been present.
2) The vacuum has stopped working.
Bluebird of Happiness: Everything is wonderful! Chickadee of Nonchalance: Everything is OK, I guess. Titmouse of Apathy: Meh. Chicken of Despair: [crying]
September 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Gonna use some commas today.
And mallets.
Sign: HOW TO COOK CRACK AND CLEAN A CRAB Step one: Use commas
September 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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I don't keep mementos of every employee, but when I do, it's a tiny canbas covered with googley eyes.
A 4 x 4" tiny canvas on a little easel. It is entirely covered with plastic googley eyes, including the sides of the canvas.
August 31, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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New York Ironwerd and an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail...I think.
Whatever. They're pretty.
#bloomscrolling
A black and yellow butterfly perched sideways on a plant with dark green leaves and little bright fuschia flowers, with an unpainted wooden fence in the cackground.
August 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Offspring brought me a cookie.
He's too cute to eat.
Almost.
August 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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I'm stoked that hummingbirds are enjoying our cardinal flowers. I was too slow to get a picture (again) and I'm still happy.
#bloomscrolling
#NativePlants
Tall, red cardinal flowers in front of a brick house.
August 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Second day of school.
Upside-down U.S. flag on a flagpole outside a brick school building.
August 19, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Outside the library.
Posting in solidarity with our freadom-loving sticky person.
Bright blue "accessible entrance" sign outside the library with a round sticker on it. Bright blue sign pole with a round sticker on it. The sticker is white with a rainbow-colored stack of books. It says, "read books / fight fascism."
August 19, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Some people want to build things and add beauty to the world, and I appreciate it deeply.
Mural of a pink cherry blossom branch with a hummingbird and bees on the side of a green house. Alexandria, VA
August 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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"Free DC" yard sign, red with white lettering, incorporating the 3 stars and 2 stripes of the DC flag.
August 13, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Remembering the time my fellow library workers were taking a "Which LEGO mini fig are you?" quiz, and most of them got Librarian.
I got Kai, Ninja of Fire.
Red-hooded LEGO Ninjago figure Kai, holding a sword in one hand and a fireball in the other.
August 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Two skeleton hands making a heart. There's a taco with stars around it in the heart opening. In a circle around that, it says,"Tacos never broke my heart."
August 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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When I was a kid more than 40 years ago, we ate Sugar Smacks, Pop Tarts, Spam, etc. I was 12 when I learned that you can make a cake without a box of cake mix.
You can't get more processed than a Twinkie. It was invented in 1930.
Classic box of Twinkies. It says Twinkies in blue letters and shows the Hostess logo with a house and a heart. There are 3 Twinkies cakes and a picture of Twinkie the Kid, a Twinkie with arms, cowboy-booted legs, and a white and blue cowboy hat. He's twirling a lasso. "Freshness... Hostess.. Kids. They go together!"
August 9, 2025 at 1:48 AM