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Raymonde Chira

@thesaltylibrarian

Also known as Joni by some of you She/her, they/them Writer/artist/librarian WeWillReplaceYou

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Illustration of a lion holding a blue triangle that says “.5% PROMISED.” Text around the lion reads: “Budget Rally for NYC Libraries, March 18, City Hall, 9 AM,” with a pink and orange sunburst background.

Illustration of a lion holding a blue triangle that says “.5% PROMISED.” Text around the lion reads: “Budget Rally for NYC Libraries, March 18, City Hall, 9 AM,” with a pink and orange sunburst background.

Come out to support our NYC Public Libraries before the City Council preliminary budget hearing on March 18 at 9 am at City Hall Park. Details: actionnetwork.org/events/budge...

10.03.2026 13:28 👍 207 🔁 76 💬 1 📌 0

Mainstream America: We are obsessed with Heated Rivalry and Drag Race. We love them and can't get enough.
American Democrat politicians: LGBT people are not culturally normal. We will not speak of them.

09.03.2026 02:57 👍 2329 🔁 469 💬 8 📌 4

btw about that pixar thing, the reason why these people think having a conversation about gay people with kids is difficult is because they don't know a way to say to their kid "gay people are normal but you are not allowed to be one" without sounding like a bigot (there is a reason for that)

08.03.2026 03:32 👍 3303 🔁 1049 💬 4 📌 1

Kids are never too young to learn that queer people exist

08.03.2026 18:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Tfw you fucked up your face and bragged about killing your dog for nothing

05.03.2026 19:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m starting to suspect that the purpose of HR departments is to cover a company’s ass and invite retaliation against victims of abuse

05.03.2026 04:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This is genocide

02.03.2026 04:09 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

It’s like that classic Loretta Lynn song “Global Consumer Product Executive’s Daughter.”

01.03.2026 17:35 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah I can’t really focus on the political calculus of Khamenei’s assassination because I’m still sitting with the knowledge of 51 pairs of parents who won’t see their daughters return from school

01.03.2026 02:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true

28.02.2026 11:54 👍 10153 🔁 2582 💬 320 📌 397

Once again, the “distraction” angle is bullshit, inhumane framing.

Even *were* they doing it to “distract from Epstein”, I don’t think it comes as comfort for people getting Tomahawk missiles launched at them that they’re only a sideshow, and you owe it to them not to treat their lives as cheap.

28.02.2026 10:38 👍 260 🔁 88 💬 4 📌 2

If I worked in the Pitt, every time a patient woke up and questioned where they were I’d do the “pit of despair” joke from Princess Bride

27.02.2026 14:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Transgender Chicago man hospitalized after saving baby from drowning in Lake Michigan “I wasn’t going to let that baby die,” Lio Cundiff said.

This 30-year-old transgender man, who can’t swim, jumped into Lake Michigan after a wind gust blew a baby in a stroller into the freezing water.

He’s being called a hero. But now he has medical expenses, and people are donating to a fundraiser to support him.

www.advocate.com/news/lio-cun...

26.02.2026 22:50 👍 4285 🔁 2711 💬 7 📌 92

If you aren’t Jewish and don’t get how this is antisemitic, I’ll do a short TLDR;

Jews sometimes refer to gentiles as goy or goyim. That’s not a slur, even if it’s derogatory.

If you’re a gentile saying it, specifically self-deferentially or defiantly , it’s a guaranteed Nazi dogwhistle.

26.02.2026 21:17 👍 1449 🔁 353 💬 39 📌 27
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Remembering the Hungry Ghosts, by Emmi Khor Chee usually spends his days driving aged-care seniors around Darwin, but tonight, he isn’t driving for the living.

Super-stoked to be approached for translation to my story that was shortlisted as a Best Australian Yarn, was a finalist into the Aurealis Awards, and reprinted by @innerworlds.bsky.social I'll be in a translated anthology next year! 🥹

If you'd like to read:
inner-worlds.ghost.io/remembering-...

26.02.2026 21:59 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Whole thread

25.02.2026 23:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Poster which shows color photo scene of moving, a room with boxes and clothes sitting on the floor, a chair, and the end of a bed (white rails forming a headrest and a mattress with a red cover). The text of the poster is: "Impact (small logo top left)," "According to a new survey by the Movement Advancement Project, approximately 401,000 transgender people have relocated from one U.S. state to another since the 2024 presidential election." "The mass relocations in 2025 due to safety concerns, political conditions, and anti-trans laws nd policies have largely impacted conservative states across the country."

Poster which shows color photo scene of moving, a room with boxes and clothes sitting on the floor, a chair, and the end of a bed (white rails forming a headrest and a mattress with a red cover). The text of the poster is: "Impact (small logo top left)," "According to a new survey by the Movement Advancement Project, approximately 401,000 transgender people have relocated from one U.S. state to another since the 2024 presidential election." "The mass relocations in 2025 due to safety concerns, political conditions, and anti-trans laws nd policies have largely impacted conservative states across the country."

www.mapresearch.org/2025-norc-su...

24.02.2026 18:41 👍 2139 🔁 697 💬 69 📌 209

At this point 80% of my fiction is completed with the initial premise edited out and I think that’s neat

24.02.2026 18:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“When life gives you lemons…”

Excuse me, but most of us aren’t just handed lemons. We had to go out and buy them in bulk. We need fewer aphorisms written by the silver spoon set

24.02.2026 18:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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BAFTA and BBC Let the N-Word Air on Tape Delay — Michael B. Jordan, Delroy Lindo, the Tourette’s Community and Viewers Deserve an Apology A Tourette’s-related outburst of the N-word aired during the BAFTAs despite tape delay. Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo are owed an apology.

This article written by a black man with a child who has a similar disability has the best call out for BAFTA and the BBC that I've seen.

variety.com/2026/film/aw...

23.02.2026 19:23 👍 75 🔁 24 💬 0 📌 1

memories are short. reminder of this crushing statement from (one) woman:

"I dropped my dream of being a comic artist shortly after and fell into a depression while I tried to figure out how I could have my future still be art related. I’ve hardly read a comic since.”

www.tcj.com/the-2020-rep...

23.02.2026 19:28 👍 493 🔁 297 💬 5 📌 7

I’m trying to get a protect trans kids/the dolls tee for my mom’s birthday but the internet is awash in stores and theft of designers. Can someone point me in the right direction?

23.02.2026 21:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Work alongside New York City's Strongest as we get through this historic storm. 
 
Emergency shoveling pay is now $30/hour. Walk into any sanitation garage to sign up TODAY BY 8PM or TOMORROW from 9AM to 8PM.
  
Let's get NYC back on its feet— together.

bit.ly/NYCShovel

23.02.2026 19:05 👍 10114 🔁 2061 💬 252 📌 431
Silk and Foxglove anthology, a BIPOC erotic eco-horror anthology, with a collaged artwork of a red circle, a dragonfly, and a sensual rear end!

Silk and Foxglove anthology, a BIPOC erotic eco-horror anthology, with a collaged artwork of a red circle, a dragonfly, and a sensual rear end!

Due to the sudden closure of the small press publishing our anthology, we're looking for a new home!

"Silk and Foxglove" is a BIPOC anthology of 13 stories of erotic-eco-horror! It's weird, gorgeous, evocative, & unnerving as hell!

Please boost! If any small presses are interested, let me know!

23.02.2026 13:00 👍 139 🔁 147 💬 6 📌 6

“Anti-zionism is antisemitism!”

Bullshit. Saying pickles are gross is a form of antisemitism

22.02.2026 18:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Caved in and finally started watching HEATED RIVALRY

22.02.2026 00:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries! In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...

Can we get to 4500 letters to NY City Council by tomorrow? It only takes 30 seconds: actionnetwork.org/letters/city... - Also if you've already signed, can you please get 4 others to do the same?

22.02.2026 00:24 👍 411 🔁 256 💬 9 📌 2

Sisyphus having to move a mountain of clothes off The Chair on to the bed in the morning, and then plopping them back on The Chair at night

07.03.2025 22:36 👍 577 🔁 88 💬 12 📌 2
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Gorillaz are back so time to resurrect the greatest of all music tweets. We're all out here tryna be The Quietus and she just walks up and zeroes in on the essence.

14.02.2026 13:47 👍 1934 🔁 447 💬 13 📌 27

There is a not-at-all concealed campaign to wipe trans people out of existence by our government and the NY Times is writing articles about looksmaxxing and GLP-1s

19.02.2026 18:34 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0