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gubbins postcard, billboard with night sky, reads: "god forbid a boss be normal"
fluffy gray and white cat sleeping on a couch
Bernie Sanders "I am once again asking" meme: why bsky moderation labels artistic nudity as "adult content" when their own definition of adult content does not include artistic depictions of nudity
"30 Books for Pride Month 2026: You Are Not Alone." 3x10 grid with book covers arranged into a rainbow.
Cover of Kiss & Tell by bestselling author of Darius the Great Is Not Okay Adib Khorram. Tagline: "Nobody can tell you how to be queer in the spotlight." Four members of a boyband face away, singing towards a huge crowd, while Hunter, a red-haired white boy, crouches behind them, blushing sheepishly.
Each of Us a Desert by Mark Oshiro, author of Anger Is a Gift. A large white-to-orange gradient circle (it could be the sun or the moon) against a deep blue-green sky. In front is an orange and red mountain, with a shadow down the middle that forms the silhouette of a feminine face in profile.
On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden. "Tillie Walden is the future of comics, and On a Sunbeam is her best work yet. It's a 'space' story unlike any you've ever read, with a rich, lived-in universe of complex characters." -Brian K. Vaughan, Saga and Paper Girls. Against a black background with teal and white stars, a girl with dark hair looks out of a window surrounded by sci-fi tech-looking panels.
Book cover of Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee, Hugo & Nebula Award nominated. "Ninefox Gambit is an effortlessly accomplished SF novel. Yoon Ha Lee has arrived in spectacular fashion." -Alastair Reynolds. A big spiky black thing against a backdrop of stars in space, under attack from smaller ships flying towards it.
2 book covers, The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor & The Nefarious Nights of Willowweep Manor, by Shaenon K Garrity & Christopher Baldwin. Each cover illustration shows a Black woman and a white man in period attire, with a large gothic manor house behind them under a night sky with a full moon. In "Dire Days," they are fighting off a herd of bunnies with glowing green eyes, our heroes armed only with an umbrella and a small knife. In "Nefarious Nights," the heroine holds a magnifying glass and the hero struggles to hold onto a stack of books as the two of them, flanked by a cheerful dog and chicken, stumble upon a dead body. Yes, these books are very silly.
Lunar Boy, story and art by Jes and Cin Wibowo. A white-haired boy in a white and blue school uniform sits atop a pile composed of odds and ends from everyday life--a smartphone, a camera, a book, a backpack, a bowl of noodles... The blue and pink sky, with a vast white moon, evokes the transgender pride flag. Silver Stonewall Book Award sticker in the corner.
Book cover, Joyful Song: A Naming Story by Lesléa Newman, illustrated by Susan Gal. The title is in big block letters in a rainbow of colors; butterflies and birds and leaves flutter around. In one corner is a curly-haired boy holding a curly-haired baby. Two dachshund-looking dogs bound happily towards the children.
Book cover, The Last Murder at the End of the World, a novel, Stuart Turton, the bestselling author of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. There is an ocean in the foreground, with a rowboat and a shark fin visible. Beyond, layers of land and mountains, including a lighthouse and a ropeway tram.
Covers of 2 volumes of Incredible Doom side-by-side. By Matthew Bogart and Jesse Holden. Vol 1 blurb: "Incredibly strong and not a little disturbing" -Cory Doctorow, author of In Real Life. Vol 2 blurb: "A thrilling tale of found family discovered between lines of code" -Sara Alfageeh, co-creator of Squire.
Book cover, The Deep Dark by Molly[sic] Knox Ostertag, bestselling author of The Girl from the Sea. Two teens stand with their backs to each other, but their fingers brush. Shadows and light swirl around them with desert plants and towering red rocks in the background.
Book cover, COVEN, a graphic novel, by Jennifer Dugan and Kit Seaton. A young white woman in a red jacket and ripped jeans is generating flames from her hands while her long brown hair swirls dramatically behind her. In the background are several shadowy figures.
Book cover, BUNT! Striking Out on Financial Aid by Ngozi Ukazu & Mad Rupert. A young Black woman with green bangs and pigtail braids squints through her glasses, measuring with a paintbrush in one hand, a softball bat in the other, both shoulders laden with overflowing bookbags. Art supplies, financial aid books. The background is neon softball green.
Book cover, Brownstone by Samuel Teer & Mar Julia. "A vibrant comic about renovating a home, a family, and a heart." -Sara Alfageeh, Harvey Award-winning cocreator of Squire. A larger-than-life teen with light brown skin and messy dark hair leans on the roof of a brownstone row house and gazes thoughtfully into the distance. There are figured visible through the windows of the house and its neighbors, a Puerto Rican flag fluttering out of one window. There's a gold Printz Award seal added to the cover.
Book cover, The Best Liars in Riverview by Lin Thompson. "A stunning and potentially life-changing, lifesaving debut," -Kacen Callendar, National Book Award-winning author of King and the Dragonflies. A light-skinned child with a brown ponytail crosses their fingers behind their back while worriedly looking out at a tree-lined river, where a brown-skinned child with curly black hair kneels on a floating, untethered raft and looks back.
Cover of Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. NYT bestselling series, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C Clarke awards. A bright red background with a geometric design: a weathered white arch over a small black triangular figure and a set of nested, narrow yellow arches.
A skinny white child wearing a pink shirt and polka-dot shorts, sitting on a low tree branch, looking off to the side pensively.
cast of firefly & serenity edited into original series star trek uniforms. also there's a star wars logo in the upper right corner
a taskmaster UK titlecard reading "I love to squander promise." it's a picture of a top hat, a potato, and a clock. the picture is in an ornate golden frame.
Screenshot from The Other Website ("x") timestamp 06:51 - 8/15/22 from Earth, a poll: Letting ice cream melt in a bowl until it is a cold, creamy soup. 11 votes, final results: 9% YES, 0% yes, 18% no, 73% NO. Posted by me, @ heylizg aka MARCH DADNESS.
Kira & O'Brien from Deep Space 9, the episode "Past Tense", in undercover away mission attire; Kira has a bandage over her nose ridges. Both are holding flowers and awkwardly making the peace-sign hand gesture.
henry, a medium short-haired black&tan dog, is snoozin on the couch, his chin resting adorably on a colorful pillow.
Movie poster for Racing Stripes (2005)
Peanuts meme with Lucy, Charlie Brown, & the football. Lucy is labeled "MBTA," the football is "66 bus," and Charlie Brown is "Me." The labels were all handwritten on a touchscreen and are correspondingly messy.
Tarnished Are the Stars by Rosiee Thor. The letters are made of pieces of metal. In the background, a glowing clock face dotted with constellations.
Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff. A light-skinned child in a pink shirt, blue shorts, and a ponytail, facing away from the viewer, standing in ankle-deep water. The water and trees surrounding the child are shades of blue, darkening towards the edges of the picture. At the center, a bright white house that the child is looking at with a hand raised to shield against the light. The tagline: it's hard to be yourself before you know who that is. A silver award sticker: National Book Award Finalist.
A watercolor painting of a Japanese man on a ship, with a dark gold border framing it. Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say. "Splendid, photoreal watercolors." -School Library Journal. The man clutches his hat to his head while tall waves rock the boat. In the corner of the picture is a golden Caldecott Medal sticker.
A big brick house on a summer night. A White dad playing with a White toddler, a brown-skinned boy with a net trying to catch fireflies, a younger boy with brown skin petting a dog. A small brown-skinned girl climbing on the porch railing with a Black teen. A brown-skinned dad serves drinks to two brown-skinned moms and a baby. A pale-skinned teen looks down on them all from her tower window, and an elderly White man watches from a ground-floor window, looking grumpy. The title, on a yellow ribbon across the roof of the house: The LOTTERYS Plus One. By Emma Donoghue, illustrated by Caroline Hadilaksono.
From the Newbery Honor-Winning creator of Roller Girl, When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed. Two brown-skinned boys, barefoot in t-shirts and shorts, walk together in a refugee camp. There are tents and small houses in the background, a woman hanging washing, another walking home with a small child as night falls. Stars are coming out in the expansive purple-pink sky.
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton. A faceless man in a black suit holds a silhouette of a girl in profile in an oval frame. The whole picture is sort of splattered and smudged. "It fairly reaches off the first page to grab you," writes Katherine Paterson for The New York Times Book Review. There is a silver Newbery Honor Book sticker in the lower left corner.
Scholastic signature edition cover if Esperanza Rising, "A lyrical... robust novel" (Publishers Weekly) by the author of Riding Freedom, Pam Muñoz Ryan. Painterly illustration of a girl floating in the air above a skyline of farmland and mountains. She is holding one rose and dropping another. Her long black hair and yellow dress are billowing in the wind.
Yoko, a red-haired girl in a Japanese school uniform, holds a sword at the ready. Behind her, a monstrous eagle with sharp beak and talons seems to be swooping down on her, with several more birds following it from above. The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow, by Fuyumi Ono.
A Japanese girl in a blue kimono (probably a yukata) holds a rectangular lantern and looks out at us over her shoulder. Behind her, lanterns in various colors float on the water under a nighttime sky fading from pink to deep blue. In the distance, a shadowy skyline of postwar Hiroshima: pedestrians on a bridge carrying lanterns of their own, and the Genbaku Dome.
Grace Banker and Her Hello Girls Answer the Call: The Heroic Story of WWI Telephone Operators, written by Claudia Friddell & illustrated by Elizabeth Baddeley. A white woman in profile, wearing headphones and a collard US uniform and speaking into a telephone receiver. Bolts of electricity radiate out from her image, white smoke swirls below her, and a line of women in blue skirted uniforms stands below the smoke, casting long shadows.
An illustration of James Herman Banning, an African American pilot. He is seated in the cockpit of an old-fashioned plane, wearing goggles and a brown jumpsuit, orange gloves and a turquoise scarf. He's holding onto the controls with one hand and giving a thumbs-up with the other. Behind him, blue sky and multicolored clouds. SPROUTING WINGS: The True Story of James Herman Banning, the First African American Pilot to Fly Across the United States. By Louisa Jaggar and Shari Becker, Illustrated by Floyd Cooper, winner of the Coretta Scott King Award.
An illustration of a white woman in a hat and blouse, writing on a clipboard. A white ribbon swirls around her with coded text written on it. The background is a scramble of alphanumeric symbols, with the title and author in hand-lettered font on white shapes shaded to look like crumpled paper: Code Breaker, Spy Hunter - how Elizebeth Friedman changed the course of two world wars. Words by Laurie Wallmark, art by Brooke Smart.
A light-skinned girl in a lacy white dress lies curled up on her side in a field of grass so dark and desaturated it's almost black. Fancy curly purple title text swishes across the folds of her skirt: Ash. At the bottom of the image, the author's name, Malinda Lo
A Chinese girl carrying a large golden orb rides on the back of an enormous red dragon flying in an indigo sky. Her pink robes and yellow sash, as well as the dragon's blue whiskers, blow in the wind. Decorations on the top and bottom border: pink and red lotus flowers, green fish, blue scrolls, brown monkey, blue rabbit, turquoise vines. In yellow text: WHERE THE MOUNTAIN MEETS THE MOON by Grace Lin. On the lower left, a silver award seal identifying this as a Newbery Honor Book.
A Black woman's face, in profile, in a circle centered in the upper half of the cover. She wears a green army helmet and pink lipstick, and her dark brown curls peek out from the back of the helmet. Blue stripes radiate out from the circle. At the bottom of the artwork, two Black girls in more modern fashion. The one on the left has short, straight hair with red-dyed tips, headphones, a choker necklace and a black spaghetti strap top. The other is reading a folded paper (probably a map), natural hair tied back in a puffy ponytail (? not sure of the correct term for this, sorry!), sunglasses on her head, wearing a blue t-shirt. Golden banners tell us this book is MARE'S WAR by tanita s. davis.
The First Blade of Sweetgrass: An Native American Story. Story by Suzanne Greenlaw and Gabriel Frey. Illustrations by Nancy Baker. In the foreground, a Native girl sitting cross-legged in the grass, holding a few green blades in her hands and a basket in her lap. Bushes and waterfowl on either side of her, green-gold flatlands, blue waters, and gray mountains in the background. And a JLG gold standard sticker on the cover.
Across a Field of Starlight by Blue Delliquanti. We're in the cockpit of a spaceship with all the buttons and levers and also flowers on the ceiling. A starry blue-green expanse outside the window. Seated on the left, Fassen, with light brown skin and curly black hair with an undercut. On the right, Lu, with darker brown skin, a pan flag tattoo on their bicep, and pink braids hovering around their head in the zero-G.
Memory Jars by Caldecott Honoree Vera Brosgol. A young Black girl with braided hair carries empty jars in one arm, while pulling a heavy-laden wagon behind her with her free hand. Jars stacked so high they go off the top of the page, even as they start to tip over. Shadowy shapes inside the jars suggest some traditional canning ingredients (fruits & veggies) and some more unusual ones (jellyfish, balloon, cat...)
"The True Story of the 'Mercury 13' Women. Foreword by Margaret A. Weitekamp, Curator, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum" A photo of a rocket taking off, surrounded by vignettes of several white women's faces.
multimedia cover (paper collage & paint, I think?) - a dark-skinned child smells a bowl of stew and smiles, the book's title floating in the air above their head along with steam from the bowl. the shapes in the background suggest a city skyline
A girl with reddish-brown skin, pigtails, and glasses gazes out of this bright, dynamic cover. In the background: suspension bridges, signs in Japanese, helicopters, smoke, searchlights, lasers. Reflected in the lenses of her glasses: a giant robot and... a giant frog???
(Middle school is hard enough without being the...) New Kid by Jerry Craft. "Funny, sharp, and totally real! Jordan Banks is the kid everyone will be talking about!" -Jeff Kinney, author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Jordan, a light-skinned Black boy, carries his backpack on one shoulder as he focuses on drawing in his notebook.
Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram, winner of the Morris and APALA awards. Two boys looking out at a city skyline in Iran.
Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes, winner of the Coretta Scott King Award. A slightly blurry photo of a Black teen in front of a shadowy brick wall. He's looking upward at the title like maybe it brings him hope.
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis. A black, white, and sepia collage with family photos against a backdrop of an old-fashioned car. The photos show Black parents and children. Also on the cover, award stickers for the Coretta Scott King & Newbery Honors.
The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon, #1 NYT bestselling author of Everything, Everything. The letters of the title are white against a colorful background. Closer inspection reveals that the letters are the negative space formed by an arrangement of thousands of tiny threads, orange and red and pink and purple.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor with a golden Newbery Medal sticker on the cover. The illustration: two Black children, a boy and a girl, in front of a white house. The girl, front and center, is sick of this shit.
"Bad News for Outlaws: the Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal, by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson & illus. by R. Gregory Christie." A closeup painting of a Black man's face, with an old timey suit & mustache and a wide-brimmed black hat. tucked into one of the few white spaces on the cover is the sticker identifying the book as a Coretta Scott King award winner.
Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard, a William C Morris Debut Award finalist, "Fierce. Tender. Unstoppable." -Lauren Myracle, NYT Bestselling author of Kissing Kate. An androgynous youth leans against a bright red brick wall, their arms crossed as they gaze off to the side, possibly feeling annoyed or dissatisfied or nonplussed.
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli, "A remarkable gift of a novel" says Andrew Smith, author of Grasshopper Jungle. A boy dressed in black stands against a red background, his hands in his pockets like a cool chill dude but also he has a speech bubble instead of a head.
The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater, NYT bestselling author of Shiver. A shadowy blue figure with ravens flying out of his glowing red chest.
poster for Dingoes Ate My Baby, Oz's band from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. two creepy anthropomorphic dingoes are seated at a table & wearing dinner jackets while a retro cartoon woman serves them a child-sized lump of meat on a platter.