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They can't rewrite history when it is published in books and distributed in libraries across many nations.

Two books checked out and 2 on hold. Libraries are the centre of the community. In Toronto they don't just do books, they do meeting spaces, classes, tools, toys, recording equipment, 3d printing, sewing machines and so much more. They are spaces for our youngest, oldest and everyone in between.

"Whidbey" - T Kira Mahealani Madden, "The Devil's Bible" - Steve Berry.

It’s a nice sentiment but doesn’t it have something to do with muskets? They’ve been pushing muskets so it’s hard to tell which.

i constantly use libby with multiple cards here in nys, and i occasionally borrow physical books and dvd’s from my local. libraries are a crucial resource, without which i would be in truly deep shit

THEY call it indoctrination. WE call it enlightnment.

Where have you been? Glad to follow. Cyn~

Four books, at the moment

⚪As I sit here at 10:46 tonight, I am joined by this white winged moth, that landed with a light touch, and wings that became translucent to boot.

❤️🙏

I just read the large print version of "Station Eleven." An appropriate book for our times.

I have the tree puller on loan at the moment. Makes easier work of pulling invasive glossy buckthorn.

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Good enough for me! I’ll see if my library has it.

I love & support our libraries. I’m going with my 1 yo grandson for his 1st library card this week!🎉🗳️💙

As an expat I don't have a library card. 🫠

Nothing checked out at the moment. But I have six on hold, including "How to fall in love with the future: a time traveller's guide to changing the world" by Rob Hopkins. I live in hope. I will be buying a few books from Renaud Bray for "J'achète un livre québécois," on Aug 12. Never Amazon!

I could never afford my reading enjoyment. Libraries are treasures.

I get free classes on Linkedin Learning by entering my library card number! #linkedinlearning

I love libraries! They are also one of the very few third spaces that still exist. Currently I have two books for learning French!

I scored a copy of Regime Change and Michael Connelly's Iron Wood yesterday.

Yesteryear, and I've never read a work of fiction with more despicable characters than this one! It was meh. I'm on hold for Regime Change.

Today I have 2 books out..one hardcover, one audio. Our library has tons of stuff for ppl that go far beyond books. Off the top of my head:Food for kids, sanitary supplies for women in need, loan put park passes, telescopes, lots of classes for all ages, movies, local history, book clubs, computers

"Authoritarians" don't hate libraries. Complete failure to model the cognition of others.

Proud holder of five library cards--four city cards, one county card!

Love this! 👍🏻

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Libraries are a repository of humanities wealth.

Candide by Voltaire

Love my library!❤️👍

Agreed!

At least 25 books, and that's low for us. We both often read 2 or 3 books at a time.

A Harry Turtledove novel.

The Libraries are still one of the essentials in supporting the community.

The Odyssey and 12 O’Clock High

The Thief, first in a series (completed!) by Megan Whalen Turner. So good. So good!

Add the fiction, poetry, drama...there's more and then more again. I've handed books off to libraries before. And individuals. But books--especially the nonfiction books printed on decent paper and given a hard cover--are the most durable and the most resistant to censorship.

The Epic of Gilgamesh, but its going back because it rubs me a little too Trumpy.

I love her!

I love and approve of this public service message!

I love this! ❤️ Thanks for making the video!

Love this

Only two this week, cos I was halfway through one and hadn’t started the other. Becky Chambers’ the galaxy and the ground within, and Chikodili Emelumadu’s Dazzling. Usually I have five or six books.

I borrowed The Blues Brothers on DVD & Alison Krauss Live on Hoopla.

I am a proud librarian.

I just returned a hard copy of "Jailhouse Lawyer" to my local library today and I have "Monuments Men" and a Black Dahlia book on my Kindle. I only read what I can check out at the library.

White Flight by @kevinmkruse.bsky.social from the NYPL

Libraries was knowledge before the internet and now is the back bone for those without. 🤗😍

In addition to removing librarians that have master degrees in their field, some are being replaced with clerks or volunteers that check books in and out and are given the title of "librarians."

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Amen

It is a great use of books and at an airport (?) well, that just sounds amazing!

Besides the public and school libraries, there are all kinds of little libraries throughout Portland like many US cities I think. Sometimes they are just cute little book cabinets at points along the road, taken care of by local residents and visitors, and others are actual little devoted cottages.

We have the loveliest Library in our harbourside village: www.sampfordcathie.com/projects/201...

"Optimistic" is in her name.

Letting little Johnny read deconstructionist, transhumanist, Foucault garbage is not a recipe for becoming a critical thinker love. 🤡

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Much of my intellectual nourishment comes from audio books from a local library. It's ridiculously easy to do. I have to confess though that Dickens " Nicholas Nickleby" has been on multiple road trips and my wife and I still aren't done......

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Get smart and READ!

An e-book!

While technically true about Amazon, I have always considered libraries "try before you buy" for prolific authors I haven't read yet. So money might go out of the community, but only to help authors with books in the library.

This is brilliant. Facism is the best thing to ever happen to libraries. Alot of people seeing this will not realize that many civic buildings, including libraries, city halls, and concert venues were built when WPA was in full swing and as antifacist as it gets.

I am a proud, card carrying denizen of 4, count them, 4 different antifa systems. My mom would be so proud.

"New Prize for These Eyes," by Juan Williams, & "The Great Contradiction, The Tragic Side of the American Founding," by Joseph Ellis

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of An Empire by Simon Baker

The only thing I have checked out at the moment is "The Word for World is Forest" by Ursula Le Guin, and damn, that was a good read. Waiting on an inter-library loan. The only reason I haven't borrowed more is I own a lot of books and I enjoy re-reading old faves.

It's vicious. Get a grip.

It is designed to negatively impact someone's livelihood. Buy something and stfu instead of turning it into a debate.

Love this, and shared. Thanks

We have three books currently checked out. On our last visit we also spent $21 for 3 books and 10 CDs at the Friends of the Library store.

Well said! Love my local libraries. Here’s what I’ve got checked out. Always have a non-fiction and a fiction book checked out.

Just returned A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, picked up Ghost Eaters. As much as I love having a solid home library, I just can't afford to always be buying books. I also used my local as a quiet place to study when I went back to school; away from the husband, cats, and other distractions.

They often have summer programs for children, too. Our library is wonderful and we use it all the time.

Nutshell by Ian McEwan and my wife has like 7 books at all times

I love this video and the subsequent comments, fist bumps of solidarity all around but now can I go on the record here with my shallowness and say I LOVE that librarian’s dress

I love library Books Check it out

No one ever expected TRUMP to be reincarnated from Hitler.

I used to love the library. I can’t wait to go back! No lie, I am really excited

Mostly fantasy right now—reality sucks.

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Yes, yes, yes!!

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Knowledge is power.

Love it

Wolf Hour; Embers of War; Among the Burning Flowers.

I hope when the data centres fall, our libraries stand taller than ever before.

I used to crunch through 24 credits on Audible every 6 weeks. Now I use the library's Libby app instead. My library is a tiny rural one, so I purchase a non-resident card from the library in my nearest metro area (a 6-month pass for less than half of what I paid for 24 credits from Jeff Bezos).

I'm reading a Martin Walker and have one of Nancy Atherton's Aunt Dimity novels waiting.

Hey! I know guys who were arrested for filming in a library. How did you get away with it?

My first library card at age 9 empowered and added more privileges, more freedom. I’d walk to the library alone excited to find the new and the old. I read Life magazines under high ceilings and huge windows. I’m 72 and just renewed my card. Library love. Every city a new library card.

And if you must buy a book, use bookshop.org — it shares revenue to a local bookstore of your choice.

Libraries offer meeting rooms, for free, where groups can plan and organize. They are true gifts to the blue dots in red states.

Highly recommended ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Yes!

Ps you can read all sorts of magazines

I’m also reading this.

I hear that under Trump, knowledge is dangerous. Thinking in dangerous. Go to you library!

Hop on pop

Yes!

Today I found out from another Bluesky member that he was baptised in a Baptist Church. Let me clarify my understanding of his Quaker past, it comes from 2 Great Grandmothers that told the stories of our relatives arriving with Penn in 1699; I am guilty of repeating family lore.

All good. He did attend the Meeting Houses in many counties in PA.. So it is assumed he was by most. My family (Quaker) arrived with William Penn, and I repeat what I was told by my great-grandmothers. Being a Quaker has always been misunderstood; I understand the distraction to be respected.