Cat Purcell (she/her)

@thatcatpurcell.bsky.social

Librarian | mom | writer | spouse | ✡️ #Querying Wilderness of the Heart (Jane Goodall in Space) #WIP - Of Secrets and Skeleton Keys Writes about Wonder Woman at Comicsxf.com and researches at Meetyouroldhouse.com

every writer should do their research, not only because it makes your writing better, but because it can lead to finding things like this New Yorker cover ft. chubby Pikachu with a huge sack of cash

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My eternal frustration with Wonder Woman is that it could be much more credible with only a few small changes. For example, if you give the plane a second set of wings, it's a lot more believable, due to bi invisibility.

400 library workers begin their strike Monday after endless months of trying to negotiate with management. Already the anti-union propaganda machine is calling the library workers entitled. The LIBRARY workers. You don't staff the desk at the free stuff store because you're greedy.

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“Cleveland Public Library union workers vote to strike Monday after rejecting final contract offer” — WKYC #UnionNews #contract #strike

White text on a blue background reads, “Cleveland Public Library union workers vote to strike Monday after rejecting final contract offer”. Underneath, WKYC is listed as the source.

So excited to share this illustration I had the pleasure of creating for Bloomberg Businessweek for the article “The Steamy, Magical and Now Very Lucrative Romantasy Business” by Hannah Miller and Madison Muller. Such a fun one to work on! Art direction by Chandra Illick.

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"Bluesky is dying" bro you're talking about a website full of 38 year olds who have fringe political beliefs and listen to black metal bands with >1000 listeners on spotify, nobody here cares about popularity

Navigating with You Volume 2 is officially coming out November 24th, but you can pre-order it right now! And if you do it through this link, you can order through Bookshop and a little will go directly to me! bookshop.org/p/books/navi... You wanna talk a little about it? Let's talk about it!

Navigating With You Vol. 2

Can the love that blossomed in their junior year survive a senior year that's pulling them in different directions?A month ago, Gabby Graciana and her family left Durham, North Carolina to return back...

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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

Appropos of nothing, can I admit I’m deeply annoyed with Hank Green for casually admitting he uses AI for research? I like him, but he has a platform and resources to hire interns and fellows to do research for him. He could jump start careers that way. Instead…