@emilybkbooks
Introvert except when talking about books. 📚 12+ years bookselling experience, and 1 year as a book publicist. Current Job Title: Outreach Manager. Proud Auntie. Aspiring Author. Absolute Bibliophile.
A notebook, a freewrite Typewriter, a latte, a book-it hair clip and headphones are arranged on a coffee table, indicating the start of a writing session.
If I don't post about my writing session(s), who's to say that it actually happened? 🧐
The U.S. war on Iran is now estimated to cost $1 billion per day. Meanwhile Americans are told there’s no money for healthcare, hospitals, or basic social programs.
since the world is going insane i am probably going to retreat into my books
Chaotically arranged on a small table at the coffeeshop is a closed freewrite typewriter, a notebook a pen resting on top and several stickers while resting next to a sandwich a latte, a water glass and a bottle of orange juice. There is also an art print that says PRETTI GOOD AND MAD
Today's writing set-up.
Don't be fooled by this bill's name-- this is a book banning bill that will exclude LGBTQ books from all public schools NATIONWIDE.
Call your congresspeople and tell them to VOTE NO on this nakedly bigoted book banning bullshit.
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
A close-up of an open freewrite typewriter and a notebook with a handwritten note, "Today's writing goal ..."
✅Today's writing goal
A rose latte in a grey ceramic mug is set next to a freewrite typewriter and a sticker of an owl wearing a hat that says "perk up pal"
Another successful coffeeshop visit / writing session! ☕⌨️
On a clear blue sky, a large bald eagle is soaring, with wings spread out.
Sitting by the lake on this gorgeous 54° day, thinking about/ missing my dad, and this guy shows up. Definitely a dad bird. 🦅
Bearing Witness
#monoprint Acrylic on Paper
#art #printmaking
I want to unload some of these pigeon paintings so all the ones in this thread are available for best offer prices (min $50) in donations MN mutual funds, the Immigrant Defense Project, or AABB.
DM if interested!
Ending this operation is not enough.
We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.
I am convinced that the answer to all my questions is someone that doesn't like the genre is over the marketing. I believe sales are bad, and I also believe their marketing was absolutely nonexistent in most cases and downright incoherent in others
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
Close up of a Freewrite Typewriter and a fancy latte in a mug. Both are set on a wooden tabletop.
Went to the local coffee shop today & wrote for a bit. First time I've been able to really write (that wasn't for work) in about a year.
GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
My heart has been continuously breaking and overflowing with love & hope in tandem. ❤️🩹
I have been helping to organize fundraisers and book & activities drives through my work and the show of neighborly love and support and solidarity is almost overwhelming.
We WILL get through this, together.
Folks outside of Minnesota: Looking for how you can support Latino small businesses in Minneapolis? Here you go.
Kyiv.
We’ve just got power back!
After a heavy night attack,
they managed to give us some electricity.
Even if it won’t last long, it feels like magic.
Glory to Ukrainian engineers 💪
A Common Loon faces the camera and is reflected in the water. The loon has a white chest, black and white back and a mostly black head and neck. The water has small ripples.
Today's #BirdoftheDay theme is #reflections. In honor of the brave people of Minnesota, I give you a Common Loon, aka Common Diver. #birds #nature #wildlifephotography 🪶
The only thing that will change things on the ground in Minnesota is the total destruction of DHS. Pull the poison tree out by the root.
Defund.
Dismantle.
Prosecute.
This is the way.
It’s important to understand that Dominicans and other immigrants are part of the fabric of Puerto Rican society — and ICE is currently terrorizing them on the island.
Benito is speaking against what’s going on in the U.S. but also on its colony, where people literally did not vote for any of this.
Anne Frank likely died in a typhus epidemic that spread through the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
History rhymes, it rhymes
Close the camps, set fire to the prisons
If you can, keep showing up for your community by shopping local and supporting the small businesses that anchor our main streets and enrich the cultural fabric of Minnesota.
Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.
daily dose of green and fog ... west coast Canada
#photography #nature #trees #canada #landscape #fujifilm #forest #rainforest #vancouver #fog
oh what in the actual fuuuuuuuuck 2026
There is a #sun out there - somewhere ! 🌫️
#fog #garden #trees
A reminder that ICE hasn’t slowed down in Minneapolis at all.
Outside of Minnesota, it might feel like everything has changed since Alex Pretti’s murder. But ICE hasn’t actually lost any power and they’re continuing to terrorize our communities.