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Yes they are

They defend the institutions that can save democracy. And they make nice MAGA free zones! Like garlic to the Vampire!

"the danger of being held hostage by devices, often without realizing it, and the richness we have in reading as a defence against contemporary alienation" - Juan Villoro

"the danger of being held hostage by devices, often without realizing it, and the richness we have in reading as a defence against contemporary alienation" - Juan Villoro

Ignorance is bliss… NOT

Public school teachers and administrators too.

Here! Here!

This makes me sad.

A never ending endeavor 🤦🏾‍♀️

Truth

God bless them

Indeed

4 star generals at that!

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Can't help think me 20 years ago would be so confused by your post. Who would have imagined it would come to this?

Nice to have around They do have a reading room available on application to read rare books.

Back in the day, I spent so much time in the library that people started to think I actually worked there and I ended up helping them find what they were looking for. I considered becoming a librarian, but I couldn't afford to go to school to get a degree required for the job.

If you have a hard time reading, NLS/BARD will send you free audiobooks you can download with their app or they will send you a player (no postage). Just call your library, request a form, and have a medical professional sign it once. It literally saved my life and sanity when I was bedridden.

Yes! My mother was a teacher then a librarian! She was viciously dedicated to learning, education, facts.

...and the Private Investigators to find the information or item you are looking for (be it in their library or in any other).

The real never ending war

Thank god fir the libraries & librarian when I was a child ❤️❤️❤️

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And as in all armies there is ignorant generals and honorable soldiers

Amen to that

@lookinghobi.bsky.social

Keep Retweeting Keep Retweeting Keep Retweeting Keep Retweeting Keep Retweeting Keep Retweeting 🟰The Greatest Fear Should BE Ignorance “, Ignorance Destroyer’S !

No, this is too difficult, Im just gonna listen to what Trump tells me to think (sarcastic🤣)

One book at a time… The latest… On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

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Hear hear.

The problem is that ignorance seldom sets foot in a library. So as generals they are going to have to fight on foreign territory.

So true

As a librarian I would say don't lump us all together. Because that isn't true

Worthy of a follow. 🙂

Oh wow I read Lesbians

And we're living in a country of so much ignorance now.

Truth.

𝔱𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 !

Yes, indeed!❤️

Neuromancer is probably the best place to start.

I’d recommend @greatdismal.bsky.social ‘s Sprawl and Bridge trilogies. When people try to center our current dystopia within literature, His is far too often left out and yet is so important to that formulation in terms of economics and tech.

Ook

ABSOLUTELY 💯

And directing "troops" in smaller numbers, on the ground... Not from a faraway office

I was at the library with my daughter this weekend and the librarian working that day was so amazingly kind and helpful. My daughter left wanting to be just like her.

And they’re fighting an uphill losing battle because most kids today can’t tell the meaning of library? Let alone where one might be without google? I think we might want to start on an Ark soon God just may have Noah do a second 🏃 run for your life!!

Librarian here. We fight but lately no wins.

Well said!

So true 👍

I agree

Purrfectly put!

Just renewed my library card 🥳o nly to find my first 15 choices have a 6 week or later wait time 😢

Beautiful

I recently worked with a school librarian who quit her job to home school because she didn’t want her kid to get any more vaccines. The kid has autism and she believes that the vaccines caused it. I don’t understand the logic there. Did she think a booster would make it worse?

Working on ours. We must have all the books!

Where is that cat's uniform????? 😀

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No worries! Good to hear. Fare thee well!😄👍

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Yes!

Use your library! Reading is life….

Only if our families are encouraged to use libraries.

Nope

Thank you librarians and all who support them! 📚💡

👆🏻💕🥰

As a preteen I was relegated to the children’s section in the basement until a friendly librarian gave me an adult library card.

Librarians have always been front line troops.

What about the cat?

So true!

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Oook!

Yes this!

Facilitators of learning, army of knowledge.

Then say it... With a limerick! There once was a librarian from Nantucket. He couldn't shovel the shit with a bucket. So, he took the streets for more than a week Crowdfunding for children's books and a ham sam'ich.

Everyone should visit their library and get a library card. Even if you never use it(which you will)get your library card to support libraries

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They seem to be losing

Yes, they certainly are and I'm here for it! 😎🫡✊️

‘Idiot’ comes from the Greek ‘idiotes’, used to describe private people who didn’t become involved in public life (from ‘Equality: the history of an elusive idea, McMahon, 2024). How things have changed 😁

You betcha

Love this

In moving around, I’ve used many different libraries over the years. They are always a welcoming place with so much to offer all age groups. We need to support them!

Amen.

As a librarian and a cat lover this is perfection.

So true!

Librarians in the US have to fight a very steep uphill battle.

Maga: That place has no effect on me because I can't read

Right on!

Agreed

Oh so true!

Excellent way of putting it. Earned a follow.

The generals and the foot soldiers. I truly believe that librarians have a superpower.

Libraries are the first door to democracy.

Yes! Teachers too.

Nah, we're more like the grunts.

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I love this❣️

Original art by Liselotte Eriksson...I don't know who added the text.

But we buy most of our forces from the oligarchy.

"Only the dead have seen the end of the war."

Agreed!!!!

True Story 🧐

And teachers are the weary foot soldiers.

I’d suggest they are the quartermasters vs generals

hardly

Libraries and books save lives.

What a great way to view librarians .

PERFECT POST

Thank you. We try….every day.

Librarians often make huge key differences in lives. That one new book or author at a pivotal time in someone's life can make all the difference.