Oh good. I am halfway through book two and was hoping they stay worth reading.

I am GenX and have hair mousse in my house right now!

American Library Association releases 2025 Most Challenged Books List as National Library Week Begins State of America’s Libraries Report reveals 4,235 unique titles challenged in 2025, marking the second-highest total on record

"In 2025, 92 percent of all book challenges were initiated by pressure groups, government officials and decision makers, up from 72 percent in 2024. Less than 3 percent of challenges originated from individual parents." 📚

www.ala.org/news/2026/04...

Follow @censorship.bots.law for realtime updates

alt text: illustration of a bunch of children sitting on top of a stack of books, they are reading and smiling. Poster reads Happy National Library Week underneath the logo of the Junior Library Guild.

Alt text: an illustration of a stack of books under the heading National Library Week against a light grey green background. Smaller text reads Mariyana T. Spyropoulos Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County

Alt text: April 20, 2026, RIGHT TO READ DAY. Help advocate to protect libraries in this day of action by continuing to fight against book censorship.
- register to vote to protect your freedom to read
- show your support for your public library
Poster shows a woman and a child reading together

Alt text: A colorful illustration of the front of a library with a librarian waving to community members outside. A banner over the library reads "FIND YOUR JOY!" Logos for ALA and Library Champions in top right. Text below the illustration reads "Celebrate NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK, April 19-25, 2026"

Alt text: A colorful illustration of the front of a library with a librarian waving to community members outside. A banner over the library reads "FIND YOUR JOY!" Logos for ALA and Library Champions in top right. Text below the illustration reads "Celebrate NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK, April 19-25, 2026"

You're welcome. I just saw somebody (a man) close out our local sold out talent show using a locally-recorded song from the 80s that he knew about only because the historical society a.k.a. me digitized it and uploaded it to Facebook. He credited "the library." IT WAS NOT, so I feel you.

My heat AND AC were off for two straight days in a row (first time in 2026) and now I'm back with the heat on. Lovely tho.

Not petty. I'm on the fence about saying something only b/c my experience with These Men is that they can make it your problem & sometimes it's upsetting how much their Fellow Men can sometimes not be the stand up guys you thought they were when wedged into a corner. I hope you have better outcomes!

Alt text: A colorful illustration of the front of a library with a librarian waving to community members outside. A banner over the library reads "FIND YOUR JOY!" Logos for ALA and Library Champions in top right. Text below the illustration reads "Celebrate NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK, April 19-25, 2026"

Alt text: A colorful illustration of the front of a library with a librarian waving to community members outside. A banner over the library reads "FIND YOUR JOY!" Logos for ALA and Library Champions in top right. Text below the illustration reads "Celebrate NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK, April 19-25, 2026"

Thank you for sharing this. Please include alt text on your images so that everyone can enjoy them. Libraries are for everyone.

Alt: A colorful illustration of the front of a library with a librarian at the door waving. Banner: FIND YOUR JOY! Text: Celebrate NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK, April 19-25, 2026

Heal up quickly internet friend, I donated.

Very nice of you. Please use alt text for your images, libraries are for everyone.

Alt: an exhibit in the Gallery of the International Women's Baseball Center with a poster showing that women have been part of the game since 1883 with a special poster of Penny Marshall.

This is a great idea! Please use alt text for your images, libraries are for everyone.

Alt: a poster for The Librarians film. Online screening and conversation
April 21, 2 pm PT, 5 pm ET.

With special guests Joyce Vance, Kim Snyder, Suzette Baker and newly added Amanda Jones

Read. Lead. RUN! Love libraries? Thinking about running for office? We need you today!

This is a great idea! Please use alt text for your images, libraries are for everyone.

Alt: Thousands of offices have no challenger. Why not a library supporter like you? ReadLeadRun.org

If we're lucky though, the five+ decades of Hampshire grads can help dismantle this wretched system. (I'm F86, I am helping)

A woman is sitting at a table in a library. She is wearing dark glasses and is looking up and smiling while doing something with her hands on the table which is plugged in. Beneath the table there is a tan guide dog, wearing their harness, chilling.

It's National Library Week. Make sure that if you're sharing National Library Week images you include alt text because the library is for EVERYONE.

If people don't know what your image is, especially if it contains text, your post is not for everyone. Guidance:

www.perkins.org/resource/how...

It’s the first day of National Library Week 📚

Take some time to reflect on everything libraries do and stand for and the threats they are facing.

Then think about how you can help.

👇

A frog in a rowboat reading a book while a fish in the water is also reading a book. The caption at the top reads "It's a Whole Great Big Fun Thing"

A fifteen drawer card catalog with some drawers pulled out and Library of Congress literature in the drawers and on top.

It is National Library Week and the Library of Congress has done a cute nationwide thing with old card catalogs highlighting a lot of their core programs. I'm partial to their "Free to Use and Reuse Sets" but I'm sure we've all got our faves. 📚

newsroom.loc.gov/news/library...

Should be a... oh hi Jason.

You hit the OFF button and the only thing that mf-er knows is the time.

Photograph of a mixtape with song listings written in an interesting sloping handwriting. The cassette is called "Toast & Jam" and the songs range from DJ Krush to Zap Mama.

A reversed question would be: why has efficiency (and income) become literally the only metric through which we measure success? I like to own things, not lease them. And I like to remember when that was a viable option. And these mixtapes, they are something special. Thanks Hanif Abdurraqib.

I have a Google Voice number specifically so I could have some number that starts with 802 (the state's one and only area code, some people won't trust anything else). My first cell number was in MA so that's the number I still have so I mostly use area codes, but many people around here do not!

JUST LIVE IN IT. A very small price to pay. 😆

Bernie too.

I am imagining the smell (based on yr alt text)

I just want to understand why my phone thinks I want to talk to my AirPods when they're quite literally in my pocket. They should be smart enough to know that they are in my pocket, literally touching each other, ergo not in my ears. We sent a woman around the moon…