Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social) / Redsky

Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Many libraries are unable to offer digital services, losing access to eBooks & audiobooks through Hoopla, through Libby. We can help! Libraries NEED us to use our outside voice, tell everyone what libraries mean to you! The Library is for Everyone 💛 📚🎨: @devthepineapple.bsky.social 🧵 2/2

The Library is for Everyone tote bag from Out of Print, artwork by Dev the Pineapple. Art is of various faces, representing the library being for everyone.

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Loss of federal funding looks different at each library system 💔 Across the nation, libraries are laying off library workers, closing on weekends or entirely, stopping the ordering of new materials, eliminating summer reading programs ❤️‍🩹 🧵 1/2

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

This week is #ALA25 #ALAAC25. I planned to be there before my #IMLS grant was terminated. It hurt, but in the words of Dr. Carla Hayden, librarians are "fiesty fighters of freedom." Hold my books b/c she reignited my fire.

22/6/2025, 7:27:42 PM | ♥ 87 🔁 6 💬 0 | [view on bluesky]

Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say, ‘It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.’ Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.” - Mister Rogers 💛 The human world, it’s a mess ❤️‍🩹💚🌎

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

✨NEW!✨ Meet @pbs.org Resident Librarian & all around super-⭐️, @mychal3ts.bsky.social on StoryMakers! Tune in to learn how Mychal decided to become a librarian, discover his favorite kids 📚, & share in his infectious ❤️ of libraries: www.kidlit.tv/StoryMakersM... @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social #kidlit

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

One of my favorite items I brought back from @americanbookseller.bsky.social Ci25! Loved meeting @mychal3ts.bsky.social and listening to him speak.

Signed print from Mychal Threet's upcoming picture book. I'm so happy you're here!

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

The world is best with the joy of Ali Hazelwood in it 💚🌎✨📚

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

If you ever have the opportunity to talk about books, libraries, literacy, history or ANYTHING with Ashley C. Ford… seize the opportunity with all of the joy in the world 📚 😊 ✨ @smashfizzle.bsky.social

A smiling Ashley C. Ford and Mychal Threets at the Indianapolis Central Library

Ashley C. Ford and Mychal Threets on stage at the Indianapolis Central Library

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Mychal Threets gave the opening keynote talk at Children’s Institute 2025 on Thursday in Portland, Ore., where he was introduced by Tegan Tigani, children’s book buyer at Seattle’s Queen Anne Book Co. #ABAChildrensInstitute

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

"Everyone belongs. There are unhoused people, mentally ill people, library kids, library teens, grandparents, autistic people, neurodivergent people who all use a library, and it belongs to all of them.” —Mychal Threets #ReasonstoLoveLibraries bit.ly/3RGM52r

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

❤️‍🩹

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Thank you very much! Not new at all, it’s just in a braid. The Afro is still fully there ✨

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

There’s countless great books out there for 4th graders! You should take her to your local library to talk with the library workers and see what’s on shelves that she might enjoy ✨

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

“You can’t go wrong with Judy Blume!” 📚🥰

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE 🥹 Presenting the book cover of “I’m So Happy You’re Here: A Celebration of Library Joy,” written by myself and illustrated by my friend Lorraine Nam. Published by Random House Children’s Books 🐧💚 Preorder at bit.ly/ISHYH-Reveal 📖✨

Mychal Threets and Lorraine Nam picture book, “I’m So Happy You’re Here: A Celebration of Library Joy”

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

We can't wait to see @mychal3ts.bsky.social speak! Homeschooling Unleashed is August 1st-3rd, 2025 at the Raleigh Convention Center in Raleigh, NC. Learn more at www.homeschooling-unleashed.com Direct ticket link: www.ticketsource.com/homeschoolin... #homeschool #secularhomeschool #mychalthreets

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

A bunch of our staff met @mychal3ts.bsky.social today which means we're more powerful than ever

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Sometimes, the best way to start the conversation around men’s health is by asking: What’s bringing us joy? Because that’s part of mental health, too. It’s not all doom and gloom, it’s about mastering our minds. There are books at the library on mental health, neighbors willing to listen 💚 🧵 4/4

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

They are so high because we bottle up our emotions and feelings until it is too late. We leave the world to escape the pain. Please don’t escape, there’s still time to be captured in a beautiful world where your mind is kind. 🧵 3/4

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

There are so many expectations placed on us, as human beings, and as men. I insist that your expectation is to live, to thrive, to learn to love yourself, and to prioritize your mental health. Please. The suicide rates in men are astronomical, and it is heartbreaking. 🧵 2/4

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

My friend Cree Myles was kind enough to allow me to approach the necessary topic of mental health via Penguin Random House’s All Ways Black 💚 penguinrandomhouse.com/articles/a-safe-space-between-books/ 🧵 1/4

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

“On our street, everyone is welcome. Together, let's build a world where every person and family feels loved and respected for who they are. Happy Pride Month!” - Sesame Street 💚💛

Sesame Street character hands holding onto one another’s hands. All different colors in celebration of PRIDE

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Gooooooo, Amanda Jones, go!!!

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

A Librarian (Mychal) and a Driver (Adam)! ✨

Mychal Threets and Adam Driver smile for a photo at The Sesame Street Gala

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

I love you!

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Long live Sesame Street! 🥹 Had so much fun at the Sesame Workshop gala! Thank you, with all of my heart, for your commitment to coming together to help children grow smarter, stronger, kinder ✨

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

She will always be our champion, our librarian. I hope she finds moments to laugh, to feel her feelings, to be human… as she does what she’s always done: be a fierce, extraordinary library leader for libraries, library kids & grown-ups 💛 🧵 2/2

Dr. Carla Hayden reads a book aloud to a group of library kids who sit and listen

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

“Libraries are a cornerstone of democracy, where information is free and equally available to everyone. People tend to take that for granted, and they don’t realize what is at stake when that is put at risk.” - Dr. Carla Hayden We stand with Dr. Carla Hayden 💚 🧵 1/2

Dr. Carla Hayden is hugged by a group of very, very excited library kids

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Dr. Carla Hayden will always be our Librarian of Congress ❤️‍🩹 1st woman, 1st African American Librarian of Congress. Your presence is a blessing to libraries. We love you! ✨ Thank you for your service 💜 apnews.com/article/donald-trump-library-of-congress-carla-hayden-20a1862ce6d2e0d51a84a37b264ce2ef

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Mychal Threets is meeting with SJSU iSchool students and alumni to talk about library education at Mini Cat Town in San Jose! Watch the latest episode on YouTube here: youtube.com/shorts/SXEmi...

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Julia Child taught us to enjoy cooking. Arthur taught us to appreciate our differences, to get along with one another. Dragon Tales taught us to accept challenges, to believe it’s okay to make mistakes. The Kratt Brothers taught us to respect and care for animals. What did PBS teach you? 💙🩵

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

"What did PBS shows teach you?" Mister Rogers taught us feelings are mentionable and manageable. Reading Rainbow taught us discovering books is joy. Sesame Street taught us learning through the kindness of community by way of our friends. Bill Nye taught us to observe wonder through science.

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Meet @mychal3ts.bsky.social yesterday at the NYLA SSL conference. Library Joy too the max #nylassl #libraryjoy

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

The Library Kids are a Webby Award Winner 🩵🥹💙 There’s a 5-Word Speech… what should it be? ✨ •Long Live the Library Kids •Audiobooks Count as Real Reading •Autistic Kids Belong in Libraries •Library Joy for Library Kids •Let the People Read Books •Please Support Your Local Library #webbys

Text reads: WE’RE A WEBBY WINNER. Mychal smiles and gives two thumbs-up while wearing a Library Joy shirt from Out of Print clothing

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Kissin’ Kat Barlow & Machine Gun Kitty 🩵💛

Mychal smiles and holds his blue-eyed cat, who is white and brown, and goes by the name Kissin’ Kat Barlow

Mychal smiles and holds his yellow-eyed cat, who is grey and white, and goes by the name Machine Gun Kitty

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

📚💕 Always meet your heroes. @mychal3ts.bsky.social

A woman with curly hair wearing a maroon hoodie with a rainbow care bear on it stands happily next to PBS Kids library ambassador and superb human being Mychal Threets.

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Happy #PreservationWeek! This year’s theme is "Preserve the Past, Shape the Future: Inspiring the Next Generation." Check out the free webinars happening this week, including a discussion with @mychal3ts.bsky.social, 2025 honorary chair. 🔗 preservationweek.org/free-webinars/

Preservation Week, April 27-May 1. Mychal Threets (pictured) 2025 Honorary Chair. Preservationweek.org. ALA Core.

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Thank you all for your kind words… 🥹 PBS is always going to go hard in the library, go hard in the bookstore, go hard in community! PBS will always aim to make Mister Rogers, LeVar Burton, Bob Ross, Arthur Read, Lyla in the Loop, Wishbone… and especially YOU proud to be just who you are ✨

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Happy Independent Bookstore Day 📚 Not everyone can always get to their library. It’s important for kids, for people to build their home libraries. To discover books they love so much they reread them over and over and over again. Enter one of the library’s greatest friends… the indie bookstore 💛

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

LOVE this so much 😂 Out of Print clothing needs you on the marketing team!!

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

NEVER ever thought I’d be a librarian for PBS 🤯 And now I’ve had the honor of being Resident Librarian for PBS and PBS Kids for a year 💙🩵

A smiling Mychal’s photo with his celebrating completing one year at PBS

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

I've been rereading MATILDA and I just have to say... Thank you for bringing Matilda Wormwood to life, @marawilson.bsky.social 📖 LOVE the thought of Matilda growing up to become a beloved librarian 💛 “These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.” 💚

Text reads I've been rereading MATILDA and I just have to say... Thank you for bringing Matilda Wormwood to life, Mara Wilson An image from the Matilda film of Mara Wilson as Matilda pulling a red wagon. Text on screen image reads, “These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”

Text reads While she would have made an excellent teacher, I believe that ultimately, she wouldn't have become one. Being the center of attention, having 20 pairs of eyes on her, isn't Matilda's style, and one can only imagine she has some radical ideas that would not sit well with school boards and P.T.A.s. And while Miss Honey is her family, the librarian, Miss Phelps, was her first hero. Librarians have a special power, knowing they are opening doors to other worlds when they hand someone a book. - Mara Wilson Image from Quentin Blake of a person holding a stack of books and a smiling Matilda saying, “Oh good, here’s one I haven’t read”

“Perhaps Matilda even became a children's librarian. She learned long ago that adults can be just as scared and ignorant as children, but that adults also have powers, simply because they're grown up. I think Matilda is happy to be an adult, to use these powers for good. When I was a child, deeply immersed in the grown-up world on film sets, I made a pact with myself to become the kind of adult who respects children. I believe Matilda must have made this pact with herself, too. That's why I see her the way I do: as everyone's favorite librarian at the Phelps Memorial Library, always ready with a copy of Moby Dickor A Tale of Two Cities. Telling patrons that N.K. Jemisin's books are as good as everyone says, and that War and Peace is nowhere near as intimidating as it seems. Sharing a book with a six-and-a-half-year-old girl and promising her that she is appreciated, that she can grow up to be herself. She'll smile at you even if you interrupt her reading” Mara Wilson laying on the couch reading a book and smiling in a scene from Matilda; she plays Matilda Wormwood.

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Thank you for being there, and for listening 😊

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Hi Mychal the Librarian! This is our new YouTube channel where Library Joy meets Disability Awareness. Thanks for making the world a more compassionate place. ✌🏽Ava & Lisa youtube.com/@engagingsto...

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Loved “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” by Taylor Jenkins Reid, “Legendborn” by Tracy Deonn, and am reading the newest Hunger Games book ✨

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Library Joy 🥹📚 outofprint.com/collections/mychal-threets

Mychal smiles with his tattoos showing and holds a Library Joy coffee mug

Mychal smiles in a Library Joy sweater while holding his hands in the shape of a heart

Mychal gives two thumbs up and smiles while wearing a Library Joy shirt

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

It’s the books being wrong that’s getting me! 😬 We have to listen to the story searcher and seek the information as they’re revealing what they need help discovering. That’s the magic of being a librarian, a library person!

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

What’s the story, Wishbone? 📖 The world needs Wishbone now more than ever 🤎

Wishbone the dog dressed as Sherlock Holmes

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Happy National Library Workers Day! You mean the world to us! Thank you for working, for volunteering, for helping, for your presence! We love you! 💛

Text reads: Happy National Library Workers Day! There are all different kinds of library workers. They may not all be librarian in title, but they are just as vital. They serve the community with extraordinary compassion. They keep the library open. They are overworked, burnt out, under attack, stressed... yet they still show up each day. They show up for library kids, library grown-ups, for us! They are the helpers the mother of Mister Rogers spoke of. Thank you is not enough... but thank you We love you!

Mychal smiles at Fords Theatre with librarians

Mychal smiles with Milwaukee Library workers

Mychal smiles with Brooklyn Public library workers

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

This is such an important post ❤️‍🩹

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Tracy Chapman is a Library Kid 🥹📚 “I grew up across the street from a public library, and it was the only place my mom would let me go on my own. I loved books. It was my second home, and I read everything that I could get.”✨ nytimes.com/2025/04/04/arts/music/tracy-chapman-interview.html

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Penguins are too busy in a random house of books. They don't have time for tariffs!

Blue penguin wearing a penguin random house sweater!

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Chills with how eerily real and frightening your words are. Thank you for guiding us to understanding so we can protect our stories, our history ❤️‍🩹

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Mark my words and please understand: They erase your history so that they can erase your rights.

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

I’m so sorry ❤️‍🩹 What a 11:44 sort of thought ❤️‍🩹

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Thank you for everything, school librarians & library workers! At a loss for words thinking of how you somehow find a way to continue doing your unnecessarily stressful jobs. I have to think your library kids are a big part of why. Whatever the reason… thank you. We love you, we support you 💛

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

When my book is in stock at the bookstores… it’s such a joyous feeling 🫶🏾 If you’re at the Fairfield BN check for signed copies 😍

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Hey @mychal3ts.bsky.social! I’m officially a local library adult! ✌🏿

Aireale holding her new public library card!

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

P.S. Panic attacks are a lot like that feeling you get when you stare at the phone and watch it ring, because someone should have messaged instead of calling you 😂 🧵 7/7

Mychal in a library, distraught on the phone because someone called instead of messaging.

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

They make many of us scared of heart attacks. Wondering if we’re having one, or even if we’ll know if we’re ever having one instead of a panic attack. It’s not “just” a panic attack. It’s very real, very scary, and puts your brain and body through a lot. Panic attacks are complex. 🧵 6/7

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

I’ve observed people and library kids having panic attacks in the library, doing my best to be there and help them until they’re ready. You can be at the library with a panic attack, we’ll do our best to help. You never know what a panic attack looks like. They aren’t fun. 🧵 5/7

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

and books with all sorts of passion, while their heart is thumping repeatedly in their chest and their legs are begging to collapse. I’ve learned a lot about panic attacks, but I have a lot more to learn. I’ve had panic attacks in the library. 🧵 4/7

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

because our brain likes to mess with us. Panic attacks look different for everyone. Some people you can see having a hard time breathing, they met sweat profusely. Some people can be sitting in a chair speaking to you while having a panic attack. Some people can be speaking about libraries… 🧵 3/7

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

All I do is panic 😂 It’s necessary to say because sometimes you don’t know why you’re experiencing anxiety, panic, depression, etc. Mental health doesn’t work like that. For some, there will be a reason you can point towards. For others, the reason is spectacularly hidden… 🧵 2/7

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

“Panic! at the Mychal” I’ve learned a lot from panic attacks. Since 2020, I’ve endured a minimum of 1,500 panic attacks. Until very, very recently I’d have at least one nearly every day. Often just from waking up in the morning. At certain times in life I felt like all I do is worry. 🧵 1/7

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

April 17, 2025 is the day I’m expected to find out, from my assessment, if I’m diagnosed as an autistic person.

Post from Mychal3ts reads: At the grocery store and this kid came running up to me: Kid:

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

I am a grandchild of grandparents who were forbidden from getting library cards, who didn't have libraries they could visit. We celebrate libraries, celebrate one another. We celebrate togetherness ✨ We can't keep moving backwards 💔 Our only hope is marching forward, together 💛 🧵 2/2

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

"I say to you today, my friends, that even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow. I still have a dream." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr ❤️‍🩹 npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/18/nx-s1-5326118/segregation-federal-contracts-far-regulation-trump 🧵 1/2

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

📚Join #TLSkyChat Wed at 8PM ET | 5PM PT to talk Library Joy—from displays to programs to creating a space that sparks happiness. Bring your best ideas & let’s spread the joy! 🎉 #LibraryJoy #SchoolLibraries #TLSky #EduSky #Skybrarians #BookSky #Booktok @jenniferlagarde.bsky.social

17/3/2025, 9:55:43 PM | ♥ 84 🔁 18 💬 0 | [view on bluesky]

Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

So exciting! I’d love to try and make it (:

18/3/2025, 12:26:57 AM | ♥ 9 🔁 0 💬 0 | [view on bluesky]

Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

I work in 2 libraries and here’s what my community would lose if we closed: ✖️Pre-k, afterschool, homeschooling AND summer programs ✖️We hired high schoolers and pay them out of pocket to tutor elementary school kids at no cost to parents ✖️Senior tech assistance ✖️Our Library of Things which includes

15/3/2025, 5:56:39 PM | ♥ 168 🔁 63 💬 0 | [view on bluesky]

Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Dear Congress, Libraries are the place we all belong. The place where Mister Rogers’ neighbors collide at the library to help one another. We come together to embrace library joy. What good is the world without libraries and museums? ❤️‍🩹 Call, email Congress! Help libraries & museums! We need you 💛

PRESIDENT TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER GUTTING INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM & LIBRARY SERVICES By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administrations executive order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted American institutions and the staff and services they offer. show up FOR OUR LIBRARIES American Association

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Your TBR needs: “Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope” by Amanda Nguyen 📚✨💛 Get to your local library or bookstore TODAY!

14/3/2025, 6:33:55 PM | ♥ 458 🔁 42 💬 0 | [view on bluesky]

Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

If you love TikTok sensation @mychal3ts.bsky.social as much as we do, you won’t want to miss our big 30th Anniversary Celebration, March 29, at Burke Centre Library. Tickets and more info available at www.fairfaxlibraryfoundation.org/events. We can’t wait to celebrate 30 Years of Library Joy w/you!

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

BOOK FRIENDS. I got to meet the marvelous Tracy Deonn 💜 AND she signed a copy of “Oathbound” to the library kids 😭 ✨ 📖 @tracydeonn.bsky.social

Mychal and Tracy Deonn smile together for a photo

A signed copy of Tracy Deonn’s OATHBOUND book (signed “To the Library Kids”)

11/3/2025, 7:44:56 PM | ♥ 703 🔁 21 💬 0 | [view on bluesky]

Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Mister Rogers raised me 🥹 I’ve always tried to be a neighbor he’d be proud of!

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Best library duo EVER!!!

9/3/2025, 11:33:38 PM | ♥ 15 🔁 1 💬 0 | [view on bluesky]

Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

I bought 20 signed Judy Blume books at her store and I’m guarding them in my carry on bc they are precious cargo. PS Judy and George are the nicer people ever!!!! Stop by Books and Books if you’re in Key West.

9/3/2025, 3:37:24 PM | ♥ 225 🔁 10 💬 0 | [view on bluesky]

Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

California! The In-N-Out Cover to Cover Club is back to encourage your library kids to read books! Read 5 books or for 300 minutes and earn a free hamburger or cheeseburger from In-N-Out. March 1 - April 12, 2025. Check with your local California Library to see if they’re participating ☺️📚🍔

In-N-Out burger coloring. Photo from In-N-Out Cover to Cover Club reads: Read 5 books or for 300 minutes and earn a free hamburger or cheeseburger at In-N-Out. Ask the librarian for details. March 1 - April 12, 2025

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

@mychal3ts.bsky.social I walked into my library for a book & to pick up a pass to visit a local museum, & a sr woman arrived at the same time for her appt for help doing her taxes. Library kids, library adults, library seniors - we all benefit from the amazing services our local libraries provide!

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

It is March 2, 2025. My plan was to leave the world on March 2, 2024. What a difference in a year. I still have bad days. But reasons to stay are easier to find each day. Thankful for family, for friends, for library kids who ARE going to save the world. Once a library kid, always a library kid 💚

Library display based on artwork from Dev the Pineapple. A smiling Mychal, illustrated, with books and sunflowers. Text quote reads,

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Rejoice in diversity, rejoice in equity, rejoice in inclusion! There is joy in our differences, we belong in the world in our joyful difference together ✨ “It’s alright for me to be different”… thank you, Mister Rogers 💚

Officer Clemmons and Mister Rogers sit together, holding a water hose. Both of their feet sit inside of a tiny tub

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

"We're all so much alike... and yet we're all so different! I find myself rejoicing at the endless variety of human beings, and that's partly, I know, because your differences from one another tell me that it's alright for me to be different in many ways, too." - Fred Rogers 🧵 1/2

Mister Rogers and Officer Clemmons sit together, both of their feet are in the same tiny tub of water

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Saying “baby, that is Keke Palmer” to Lauren Keyana Palmer (while holding her book) does wonders for your mental health. Just in case you were looking for a new self-care strategy! 💚

Mychal holds Lauren “Keke” Palmer’s book and points to her, saying, “baby, that is Keke Palmer” as she listens and smiles

28/2/2025, 3:27:46 PM | ♥ 943 🔁 47 💬 0 | [view on bluesky]

Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Mental health and disability are connected. Thank you to the Berkeley Public Library for hosting this conversation between Haben Girma and Mychal Threets. Video and Transcript on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Il0...

26/2/2025, 9:24:04 PM | ♥ 162 🔁 21 💬 0 | [view on bluesky]

Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

It’s heartbreaking 💔 In places like New York and Arizona there are also very few school librarians. We must do better!

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

“Having a librarian in a library is good.” THANK YOU, Abbott Elementary. Thank you, also, for the seemingly simple scene of how beloved it is to hear a book be read aloud 💚

Gregory Edie says, “Having a librarian in a library is good” in an Abbott Elementary scene

A scene from Abbott Elementary with librarian and teacher reading to students

Quinta Brunson and Cree Summer smile in Abbott Elementary as Teacher and Librarian

27/2/2025, 2:55:25 PM | ♥ 978 🔁 103 💬 0 | [view on bluesky]

Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

I don’t process acronyms well. I’m a pretty literal person, so that’s part of it. Also, a lot of meaning gets lost when things are abbreviated. Prime example: DEI. Instead of saying “DEI”, we should say the entire phrase, Divisity, Equity and Inclusion. Doing that…clarifies things.

23/2/2025, 1:53:42 PM | ♥ 541 🔁 69 💬 0 | [view on bluesky]

Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library exists with her own funding, in addition to state funding. States, such as Indiana, are beginning to cut such funding. Her library program gifts FREE BOOKS TO CHILDREN. We ride at dawn for Dolly Parton, always. Thank you for your book joy💛 tinyurl.com/DollyYahoo

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Google is your friend! Search it online, bookstores near you will pop up (:

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

I'm so sorry, Julianne Moore & LeUyen Pham 💔 Thank you for FRECKLEFACE STRAWBERRY. For writing, for illustrating a book for the kids with freckles, for the adults with freckles. A story insisting it's okay to be different. Your differences make you YOU 💛 pen.org/julianne-moo...

FRECKLEFACE STRAWBERRY book cover by Julianne Moore, illustrated by LeUyen Pham

Pen America photo of FRECKLEFACE STRAWBERRY book cover. Text reads: BANNED By the Department of Defense Freckleface Strawberry by Julianne Moore Illustrated by LeUyen Pham

22/2/2025, 3:57:30 PM | ♥ 985 🔁 134 💬 0 | [view on bluesky]

Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

It’s very good! It’s the story of Theodore/Armpit after the conclusion of “Holes.” Not Disney at all, it’s the legend- Louis Sachar 🙏🏽

20/2/2025, 3:01:59 PM | ♥ 4 🔁 0 💬 0 | [view on bluesky]

Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

You’ve read “Holes” by Louis Sachar, but have you read… the sequel?! “Small Steps” 😍

Book cover of SMALL STEPS by Louis Sachar

20/2/2025, 2:45:21 PM | ♥ 479 🔁 35 💬 0 | [view on bluesky]

Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Thank you for teaching us that “Having fun isn’t hard, when you’ve got a library card”, Marc Brown & @arthurpbs.bsky.social 💛

Arthur Read illustrations by Marc Brown. They are various versions of our pal, Marc Brown

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Seat belts, everyone 💚 If you’re on the struggle bus, please remember your seat belt (your seat belt is self-care). It is NOT selfish to prioritize your mental health, take care of you. Visit your local library or favorite bookstore, watch your comfort show, drink some water, pet all the dogs… 💚

A smiling Ms. Frizzle, in colorful dress, sits in driver’s seat of The Magic School Bus. Liz, a smiling green lizard, sits in her lap holding the steering wheel.

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

MY HEART 💔 The people, the children are being failed. They see the decisions being made as they, the people, don’t matter. THEY MATTER, THEY MATTER, THEY MATTER ❤️‍🩹 Heartbreaking

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Thank you for loving libraries, for supporting libraries, for being library people, Audre Lorde & Toni Morrison 💜 Happy Birthday! This will always be your day ✨ 📖

Black and white images of Audra Lorde and Toni Morrison. Text reads: Happy birthday to literary giants, library legends... Audre Lorde & Toni Morrison

Image of Toni Morrison seemingly pondering or speaking, wearing a tie. Text reads: My second job as a teenager was shelving books at the only library in Lorain, Ohio. Every shift started with a tall stack of returned books-fiction, history, drama, poetry, everything. It didn't pay much, but it was magical. Then I got fired. The trouble was that instead of replacing the books on the shelves, I kept reading them. A title would catch my eye, I'd crack the book open for just a quick look, and pretty soon I'd forget the stack of returns. I didn't get far in my career as a librarian, but that experience opened my eyes and shaped my future. That's what libraries do. TONI MORRISON LETTER TO QUEENS PUBLIC LIBRARY 2018

Black and white powerful images (x2) of Audre Lorde standing with her hands in her pockets. Text reads:

18/2/2025, 6:44:48 PM | ♥ 829 🔁 109 💬 0 | [view on bluesky]

Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

Please talk with your loved ones about Ruby Bridges. Read “I Am Ruby Bridges” by Ruby Bridges 💛 The first Black child at an all-white public elementary school in Louisiana. She was only six-years-old when she made history marching into that school. Ruby Bridges is living history. She's only 70!

I AM RUBY BRIDGES by Ruby Bridges, illustrated by Nikkolas Smith

Ruby Bridges today on the left, Ruby Bridges as a child on the right (smiling and standing proudly)

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Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social):

SPRINTS to listen

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