AI has cursed with disbelief the one positive bonding experience on this forsaken internet: the cute, funny animal video

So the Trump administration’s two goals in peace talks with Iran are:

1. A commitment by Iran not to develop a nuke (This was part of the Obama deal that Trump canceled)

2. Opening the Strait of Hormuz. (Was open before war.)

Astronauts Victor Glover and Christina Koch in their orange astronaut suits as they sit inside the side of a helicopter after it has landed

LOL, trying to stay offline and do my work, and friends are sending me

"LOOK AT THIS NEW PIC!" texts ....

This one is worth it.

First PoC and first woman to go around another world. Don't stop talking about this point. It's important.

#ArtemisII

We are screwed….

School librarians are vital

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#NationalSchoolLibrarianDay

Today is National School Librarian Day. THANK YOU, school librarians & school library workers. We celebrate you. For so many library kids, the school library is the only place they have access to books. It is where they learn to believe that stories are for them. Thank you for your library joy 💛📚🥹🤟🏽

@Ranting_Trans Anyway, here's K.A Applegate, author of Animorphs. photo of K A Applegate wearing a t shirt that says protect trans kids

TIL

My form of synesthesia is grapheme-color. But I also have a location-based version - the months of the year, besides being in specific colors, are also in fixed points in space. #synesthesia #synesthete

TIL the comedian @angelabarnes.bsky.social and I have the same form of synesthesia via the No Such Thing as a Fish podcast (also 2 is orange, not 4, OBVIOUSLY)

Our priorities in this country are so, so fucked up.

It's kind of weird to be living in a time where everything is the bad ending of a children's fable

KITTIES! IN! SPACE!

Every year, hundreds of people walk silently through the streets of Minneapolis… looking at the windows of the houses.

It's the Wedge Cat Tour: the residents put the cats in the window and the crowd stops to admire them.
Yes. This exists. 😹

Please help if you can.

I give up. Why?

Happy #TransDayofVisibility! I see you and love you and am so glad you’re here. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

My dearest fellow writers, we do not ever need to describe another human being's body as "corpulent." It's still fatphobia even when you use a thesaurus.

I mean there it is.

Graphic novels do, in fact, count as "real reading" and kids should feel proud reading them.

With new Rowling comment being promoted just remember she personally funds the organised suppression of trans people.

By suppression I don't mean just stopping them organising politically, I mean literally just living their normal lives, minding their own business and being healthy.

What’s your extremely tenuous claim to fame? I have 2: @kumail.bsky.social and I graduated from the same small Iowa college and I helped Betty Cheadle (Don’s mom) set up her first email account. 🤷🏼‍♀️

One more time: there is no ethical way to consume Harry Potter.

March this year: “Hey, so, nobody likes winter so we’re just gonna skip right to spring, okay?”

1 week later: “Oh, you like that? So you’re REALLY going to like this. It’s SUMMER!”

*sigh*

Don't believe everything you read on the internet.

"I Will Not Comply": Librarian Luann James Fights Censorship Demands of Rutherford County Library System's Board Rutherford County Library System's director continues to fight back against a library board that demands she remove books, share private info.

“I Will Not Comply”: Librarian Luann James Fights Censorship Demands of Rutherford County Library System’s Board

RCLS's director continues to fight back against a library board that demands she remove books, share private info.

This is the job, folks!

bookriot.com/librarian-lu...

Sent out a query yesterday that seems like a really good fit and I’m really hopeful. I mean, EVERY query I send is to someone that seems like a good fit but this one? Especially so. 🤞🏻 #amquerying #amwriting #kidlit #pb

8 Coming-of-Age Novels in Verse for Middle Grade and YA Readers | SLJ buff.ly/UXSsrGz

For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your days are precious on this earth. But what are you trying to be free of? The living? The miraculous task of ...

Having a tough time understanding why anyone would want to use AI to write a book. Like, what's the point? No one is making you write books. If you don't love writing, there are no good reasons to write them. I keep coming back to this...
poets.org/poem/student...