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@liadanmakes

Librarian, crafter, dungeon master. Hard of hearing/hearing aid cyborg. I post too many photos of my cats. Member of @peculiarityshop.bsky.social. I post lots of sweaters to @knitsonfilm.bsky.social. she/her or they/them

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Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

05.03.2026 20:24 👍 7479 🔁 2167 💬 29 📌 65

King Lear for sure.

05.03.2026 17:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm building "beginner" #Commander decks to teach teens at the library. So far, I have Plagon (alt wincon), Balmor (combat tricks), and Geist of St. Traft (combat). Working on Lazav Dimir Mastermind (mill), Gisa and Geralf OR Grimgrin (zombies), Anje Falkenrath (madness, vampires). #MTG

05.03.2026 17:28 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1

I also had someone once reply to this story and say horses can't vomit so I guess that's an extra layer of bizarre, as I've experienced first hand they 100% can vomit

04.03.2026 21:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes! It's definitely one of the most bizarre things that has ever happened to me. I was at the UC Davis horse barn, and one of the horses opened his mouth and essentially let out a fire hose of carrot onto my legs. After a brief moment of shock I started laughing because what else to do?

04.03.2026 21:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

A horse vomited on me

04.03.2026 21:47 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I've become gay QVC.

03.03.2026 17:51 👍 56 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

In another lifetime I was a musician. I played bassoon and bass guitar. The director at one musical theater company kept hiring me, and one day I asked why me? There were better bassists in the area, for sure. She said, "you always show up on time."

03.03.2026 00:14 👍 19 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I deleted the Instagram app over a month ago because I realized I was getting too much advertising and it was too easy to doomscroll for hours. This reporting only confirms why I won't redownload it.

02.03.2026 21:00 👍 68 🔁 16 💬 5 📌 1

(we named him after that Charals because our cat Shimmy has a crush on him)

01.03.2026 21:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A fluffy tabby cat lying down on an outdoor mat.  He looks very comfy.

A fluffy tabby cat lying down on an outdoor mat. He looks very comfy.

One of the cats I look after is Charals, a TNR'd community cat. He is friendly but also has some feral behaviors. Today though, he wants to be painted like one of your French girls.

01.03.2026 21:08 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Alice Wong's Celebration of life March 25th, 2026 11am PST
This toolkit is an invitation and a resource for individuals and communities to participate in Alice Wong's Celebration of Life. 
Be it from bed, your living room, local community center, classroom, or in the streets... 
You can join Alice's Celebration of Life through: 
* The livestream + virtual reception: Join the livestream and gather for the virtual reception hosted by Calling UP Justice & San Francisco Disability Cultural Center. 
* In-person livestream watch + your own gathering: host an in-person gathering to join the livestream and connect in person to celebrate Alice. 
* Detailed Toolkit with links, photos, and resources to make your gathering accessible, plus ways to honor Alice Wong's legacy: https://bit.ly/aliceislove

Alice Wong's Celebration of life March 25th, 2026 11am PST This toolkit is an invitation and a resource for individuals and communities to participate in Alice Wong's Celebration of Life. Be it from bed, your living room, local community center, classroom, or in the streets... You can join Alice's Celebration of Life through: * The livestream + virtual reception: Join the livestream and gather for the virtual reception hosted by Calling UP Justice & San Francisco Disability Cultural Center. * In-person livestream watch + your own gathering: host an in-person gathering to join the livestream and connect in person to celebrate Alice. * Detailed Toolkit with links, photos, and resources to make your gathering accessible, plus ways to honor Alice Wong's legacy: https://bit.ly/aliceislove

27.02.2026 15:23 👍 246 🔁 127 💬 1 📌 2

To me they are perfect

28.02.2026 22:10 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The best reporting I've seen on this to date. What is happening to this rural library system, where I worked for five years, it's a tragedy. The admin is incompetent AND the oversight is incompetent. bit.ly/4u6iz84

28.02.2026 16:23 👍 30 🔁 11 💬 6 📌 1

Even if you just learn to fingerspell, you can communicate emergency info, navigation, etc. It's really not that difficult and could make an enormous difference.

26.02.2026 21:04 👍 24 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0

this is not about sports, this is about erasing every trans person from public life and forcing them to detransition or worse, driven by people who would prefer the latter

this is what every “just asking questions” or “just following the science” concern troll leads to

26.02.2026 02:10 👍 913 🔁 179 💬 9 📌 3

Come on social justice-loving librarians, we want to celebrate you!!!

24.02.2026 21:33 👍 6 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

apparently today we get Jesse Singal in the New York Times with the "gender-affirming care is new & experimental" 🙃

24.02.2026 15:28 👍 970 🔁 197 💬 19 📌 11
A sign in page for WorldCat (search.worldcat.org). The text reads:

Are you ready to unleash a world of knowledge and discovery?
Sign in to WorldCat and unlock a treasure trove of library holdings, favorite your go-to libraries, and curate lists that fuel your curiosity.

A sign in page for WorldCat (search.worldcat.org). The text reads: Are you ready to unleash a world of knowledge and discovery? Sign in to WorldCat and unlock a treasure trove of library holdings, favorite your go-to libraries, and curate lists that fuel your curiosity.

What a shame that WorldCat now requires users to log in before they can interact with records. I like to send people to WorldCat when I reference a book, so they can find it at their local library. Unfortunately, Amazon doesn’t require a login—but now WC does.

23.02.2026 14:49 👍 105 🔁 15 💬 18 📌 13

This. OCLC does not want another Anna's Archive, plain and simple. As far as OCLC is concerned all those records belong to them, and they'll go to whatever lengths they deem necessary to keep it that way.

24.02.2026 02:59 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Lia asleep in bed with a grey and tan cat on her torso and legs, and an orange and white cat above her head on the pillow.

Lia asleep in bed with a grey and tan cat on her torso and legs, and an orange and white cat above her head on the pillow.

I often wake up with leg pain and I truly don't know how much is the fact that I injured my knee really badly in 2011, and how much is the fact that I sleep with help every night

23.02.2026 21:34 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Lia is asleep in bed, dimly light by blue and pink light.  Their legs are jammed up against the edge of the bed, and next to their legs are two cats, one orange and white, the other grey and tan.

Lia is asleep in bed, dimly light by blue and pink light. Their legs are jammed up against the edge of the bed, and next to their legs are two cats, one orange and white, the other grey and tan.

Leg room is a lie

23.02.2026 21:16 👍 20 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Everybody welcome @emilytheslayer.bsky.social to the team. She'll be doing remote work listing our jewelz and perhaps grace you all with her crafts one day!

22.02.2026 23:28 👍 63 🔁 2 💬 7 📌 0

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22.02.2026 03:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Let's try this again 👋

Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA.

I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

21.02.2026 16:32 👍 13765 🔁 3502 💬 896 📌 188

Shimmy has actually not been on it yet!!

20.02.2026 18:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An orange and white cat sitting on wall shelving.  He is lying down, rubbing his head on the shelf above him.

An orange and white cat sitting on wall shelving. He is lying down, rubbing his head on the shelf above him.

My partner got some help yesterday putting up shelving for my craft supplies. Yes, this is real love, when your partner makes you craft storage. Rumble the cat thinks it's pretty neat.

20.02.2026 18:51 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Today was supposed to be a workbench day but gravity and I are having a little bit of a disagreement today so instead I’m going to poke through the website and do a thread of Shinies What Haven’t Found Their Person Yet.

Perhaps one of them is looking for you! Or for somebody you know!

20.02.2026 17:19 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
A screenshot from Pikmin Mobile game.  Several characters are walking together.  One of them looks like a large jagged rock with an open screaming mouth.

A screenshot from Pikmin Mobile game. Several characters are walking together. One of them looks like a large jagged rock with an open screaming mouth.

I do not personally know this person who made their Nintendo Mii into a rock monstrosity, but to me they are perfect

20.02.2026 04:35 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0