I’m taking laughs wherever I can get them so

Bookmobiles Bring Food, Internet, And Reading Materials Bookmobiles may seem old-school, but they are still around and better than ever, offering new and unique services to connect with users.

Bookmobiles may seem old-school, but they are still around and better than ever, offering new and unique services to connect with users.

Library friends: a good starting point to understand this latest EO

If you breathe in for 4 seconds, hold for 7, and exhale for 8, it tells your body you’re safe. This slows your heart rate, relaxes your nervous system, and helps shift you out of fight-or-flight mode. Now do it.

The way the librarian community has come together to hone in on the encyclopedia section part of this

Just as the rough and tumble yet majestic barricade became a symbol of resistance as depicted in Les Miserables, so too will we look back on the Dems with their lil auction paddles saying “no thank you I guess”

Walton’s reboot for 2025 where instead of “goodnight, John Boy” everyone says “over it” to each other before lights out

Saw a performance last night and during a short, poignant silence on stage I, on the mezzanine, stifled a giant sneeze, which means that in my mind, 2% of the curtain call applause was for me. Maybe 5%

This is maybe a weird comparison but it’s like how the best Star Trek episodes are the day-in-the-life ones, like oh look Worf is going to the barber

Just once I want one to say: a grilled cheese is dawning for you and you are about to capture a bomb nap

Horoscopes are like: a new day is dawning for you, you are about to capture your dreams, your relationships are about to evolve and all I can think is shhh I’m tired

Like, pls let us be happy for one eensy minute, our Gollum translucence needs this so bad

One day or day one. Make it day one where you can

I’m watching Flow and somehow missed the memo that it’s a stress movie how did that happen anyway if something terrible happens to this friggin cat I will be lodging a formal complaint

— Nikki Giovanni from Black Women Writers at Work (1983)

Seattle: Pacific Fabrics is pretty dope

Those of us who work in gender medicine are not going anywhere What’s more, we’re expanding.

“We’re not going anywhere. What’s more: we’re expanding.”

Nearly a dozen of Minnesota’s foremost experts on gender-affirming care collaborated on this beautiful op-ed in today’s Strib. No paywall.

If you see this post a gif from one of your comfort shows

At times like these, it can all feel like too much and you may notice people in your circle going inward, radio silent. Reminding myself that reaching out is one of my superpowers and if it’s one of yours, don’t talk yourself out of using it.

It actually is very important that you do things that you take pleasure in, regularly. That is part of how you survive the things that feel like they are going to destroy you.

What is the version of Severance where you have complete amnesia re ever having watched season one even when you for sure did bc I have that

Third time in a month I’m hearing Strut by Sheena Easton played in a public place. Three! I don’t know what kind of sign this is but I feel like something Beetlejuicey is about to happen

Seattle/King County folks, this audiobook is always available: seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S3...

We Only Have Ourselves: The How-Tos and DOs and DON’Ts of Mutual Aid For all of humanity’s many, many flaws, one of our most redeeming characteristics as a species is an almost-universal desire to connect with one another. When terrible things happen and communities…

At LitHub today @kimkelly.bsky.social has a great piece on the Do’s and Don’t’s of Mutual Aid as well as some reading recs:

does anyone wanna share something good in your life today?

I know this is corny as hell but also idk it's hard out there and I think it's sometimes helpful for folks to seize their little joys when available or even appreciate someone else's

if that does not bring you joy please pay me no mind lol

Artists Shine a Light on Chicago’s Complex Ecosystem Given that the vast majority of the world’s lands have by now been modified by humans, urban gardens might be the best we can hope for.

A Chicago show reimagines the city’s motto “Urbs in Horto” (“City in a Garden”), revealing a much more complex and layered relationship between nature and urban life.

I was in a Target yesterday wondering who takes the time to ask/wait for someone to come release the $4 false eyelash sets that are kept under lock and key

Brilliant use of vacant office space in NYC:

Two empty floors of 307 W. 38th St have come back to life as new home of the famed Paul Taylor Dance Company. With beautiful studios, classrooms and rehearsal space.

A win for dance. A win for NYC. Thrilled to join today’s ribbon cutting.

And here’s another focused on day laborers, immigrants, and migrant workers. bit.ly/laborLOVE