It's National Right to Read Day. If you haven't yet, please call your Rep and demand they oppose this bill.

Wild to keep hearing anti-AI sentiment described as an "echo chamber" by people who pretend there's never been a coercive dogshit marketing campaign actively pissing people off about it for two years or any no-opt-out half-baked shovelware making everyone's PCs and phones worse

I bought a handmade OOAK reversible jacket made from repurposed sari fabrics from this company and it’s fantastic. Slow fashion FTW!

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My book STICKS IN PETTICOATS:PARASOL MANUFACTURE FOR THE MODERN COSTUMER is available here:

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Chicago Books to Women in Prison Chicago Books to Women in Prison is an all-volunteer organization that sends free books to women and trans people in prison nationwide.

YALL.

There is a charitable organization in Chicago that donates books to women’s prisons. My boyfriend introduced me to it!!!

Yall support!! This is AMAZING. Women’s prisons do NOT get anywhere near the donations men’s do. That’s why my own organization exists.

LINK HERE: www.cbwp.org

L A Siamese cat reclines on a gray coverlet in front of a french door with a straw roller shade, a short orange cabinet, and a black chest of drawers

Clea slept right through #caturday but is here to grace your Sunday feed.

My wife asked me to repost this in case some folks missed it.

She is de-stashing her treasure hoard of yarn. There's a lot of it. It's kinda taken over the house. I'm in the attic of the garage right now. Help?

www.etsy.com/shop/Destash...

Authors Against Book Bans (@authorsagainstbookbans) • Instagram 18,440 Followers - 249 Posts - "We need YOUR help fighting HR 7661– the first of its kind, national book banning bill. This bill will dangerously imperi…"

Do you live in a Blue State? On Monday, April 13 at 1PM EST AABB National Leader Samira Ahmed & @everylibrary.bsky.social Library Political Director Gwen Camp. will discuss how people who live in blue states can effectively stand up to HR 7661 on Instagram Live

Here's an alternative/additional action to calling reps to save our Forest Service - tell the brands who built their empires on public forest lands to speak out! They're bigger and have more power to push for this to stop. Flood their socials and direct emails. Remember, money talks
saveusfs.org

I can't be the only one who sees @number10cat.bsky.social in the jauntily defiant patchwork face of this Ukrainian feline?

Anyway, this is a spectacular portrait and a better story. And one day I will capture my emotions sufficiently to do a thread on why these animal rescues matter strategically.

Another option:if you use a library app like Libby, put it on hold or mark it “Notify Me.” My library makes decisions about books to offer based on a critical mass of Notify numbers.

Weirdness is strength.
You can use it as a shield but also as a sword.
Wield your weirdness against the world.

graphic that says in bold lettering "remember: no lilies for kitties. even ingesting a tiny amount of pollen can cause fatal kidney failure. don't risk it." the background is a wallpaper of lily drawings and there is a photo of a perfect, fluffy white cat in the bottom right corner.

This weekend and always, NO LILIES FOR KITTIES. www.fda.gov/animal-veter...

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Have any of y’all been able to track down the history textbooks that were used in your school when you were in high school or middle school? I often daydream about doing this but don’t know how.

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I sort of love that the book community is up in arms because the dark goth fantasy book didn’t include a trigger warning about baby eating.

Came out of the post office, saw that a guy had cut my saddle bag off my bike and was about to take off with it. I yelled "Please wait my cat's medicine is in there!" He started to run, and this grandma-age lady goes "SHE SAID HER CAT'S MEDICINE IS IN THERE" and WALLOPED him with her grocery bag.

This dreadful book banning bill, H.R. 7661, has made it out of committee and into the House. It's time to call your reps.

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here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in air pollution Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20%

They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨

London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.

i honestly can't stand seeing people say Gen AI is a disability aid because if it was a disability aid, they wouldn't be putting this much money into it

A Siamese c with blue eyes on a couch between two humans who love her

Clea wishes all a happy #caturday from the couch, which she has begun to enjoy sitting on, 8 months after her rescue.

Donate to Fight the Federal Book Banning Bill with AABB and EveryLibrary Authors Against Book Bans (AABB) and EveryLibrary are extremely concerned about H.R. 7661, the new federal book banning bill of 2026 - and we are gearing up to make sure it does not pass! You can…

We're going to beat the national book ban. But we can do more than just beat this one bill. We can use this national moment to show that book bans anywhere are losing policies. For every $100 donated, we can reach 10,000 Americans about this bill. Imagine what we can right now & help make it happen!

An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

I just heard about it recently, and absolutely lost my temper hugely when I found out they'd stolen my rep/identity! If there is a class action lawsuit -- I hope -- I will post about it and I hope many of us leave a smoking crater where these smug thieves used to be www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”

The official day of advocacy may be wrapping up, but that doesn't mean it's too late to send an email to your state rep, especially when we've made it so easy!

AABB-EL-BookBanBill-Printable.pdf

Want to help raise awareness in your community about the national book ban being considered in the House of Representatives? Print out this one sheet and hang it up in your community:

Why We Must Fight to Stop HR 7661 Before It Destroys the Lives of American Children Lately I’ve been calling my House rep and screaming about one zillion things, and maybe you have too. But today I want to talk about one thing in particular you should add to your list: H.R. 7661 i…

I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...

There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.

Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.