The regret rate for gender transition is less than 0.3% (as compared with an average of 14% for surgery in general and 7% for having kids!) but the media loves to find and platform a regretter.
remember: Terry Pratchett said trans rights, and he was a white man from Britain who started writing Discworld in the 80s
nobody else has any excuse
Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay
The planet Jupiter with its cloud bands seen in shades of pink, rusty red, blue, and purple. The Great Red Spot is a deep navy blue, surrounded by bands and swirls of pink, and light blue.
Hubble's ultraviolet view of Jupiter shows the planet in hues of pink and blue.
jupiter wishes you a very happy trans day of visibility 🏳️⚧️
My library doesn’t hire librarians (we’re all customer service assistants) and you can *tell*. Even long time staff clearly haven’t done any reading about librarianship and it’s exhausting as someone who HAS. Weeding is the worst, I’m pretty much the only person who’ll do it, even tho it’s policy.
But I’ve come around to believing that shame over *behavior*—not embarrassment, which is “oops, I made a mistake”), but shame (“does something I chose to do make me look like not the person I want to be”)—is actually vital for a functioning society.
this has reminded me of possibly the best book review I've ever seen, an anonymous marxist amazon review of the 1971 children's book "The Elephant and the Bad Baby"
AFAICT my library *used* to have a last copy exception and/or we sent last copies to our warehouse, but this is no longer the case. We’re encouraged to use discretion for last copies but no hard rule on keeping them.
A - auditorium /act/actor/acoustics B - black light /backstage C - costumes / choreography / chorus / cast D - debut/drama E - ensemble F - farce/finale/follow spot G - ghost light / gel / green room H - house / hit I - improv / ingénue / intermission J- jackknife stage/jack K - kabuki/key light/kitchen sink drama L - lead/limelight/line
M - manuscript/mask/melodrama N - naturalism O - orchestra / off book / opera P - pit / performance / playbill/programme Q - quiet on set/quick change R - revolve role S - scene/script/set/swing/sitzprobe T - tab/thespian/theatre U - understudy/upstage V - vaudeville/venue W - wings/wardrobe X - cross to Y - yes, and... / youth theatre Z - zip zap boing
#theatre people, I need your help! I’m working on theatre alphabet shelf dividers for our play collection and some of my ideas are better than others.
Please give me some better ideas. Or let me know which ones you like! The ones in bold are my choices so far… #theatresky
Best ice cream I’ve ever made, possibly ever HAD, is condensed milk mixed with whipped cream. Straight in the freezer, no need to churn!
My fav flavour combo is to fold in some white chocolate ganache and cream cheese, and then ripple through raspberry coulis.
And I don’t even have it that bad, once I get going I’m pretty good at interacting with people!! It’s just the initial push & if it’s in a crowded, noisy space like a con — which in so many cases it seems to be. I suspect it’s difficult for physically disabled people too!
I appreciate his honesty and tbh I have had writer’s block for almost a decade now (including through both my degrees) so it’s not been a massive issue for me… but I do still struggle with how many careers require networking, and how that affects autistic folks.
Had a lecture about writing for franchises & prof said that the best way to get work was to go to cons and talk to people in the industry. I said I’m autistic & can’t cope with crowds, is there any alternative? And he said (very nicely) no, i wish there was, but it just might not be the path for you
Red fabric with a messy whip-stitched hem & a needle poking through the fabric.
Feeling particularly jealous of #libraries with maker spaces as I hand sew a cape for a display…
we do get a pop up if they’ve borrowed a book before and a lot of customers come to the desk specifically so they can check if they’ve read something, as the user side website cuts off the history after a certain number of books…
at my library we can see the issue history on individual items since we started using the current LMS - I have to assume the data is wiped after a certain number of years cos of GDPR but we’ve only had the software since… 2021? - but afaik we can’t see users’ borrowing history
A collage of pages from Lott's handmade zine celebrating the Internet Archive's 1 trillion web pages milestone with a handmade tribute to web preservation, showing all eight illustrated pages and an embossed gold seal bearing Lott's name.
🧵 How did #librarian Megan Lotts turn 1 trillion web pages into an 8-page zine? 🤯
The Internet Archive invited Lotts to mark the milestone with a work that reflects the scale, history, & care behind preserving the web.
See the zine & read the story ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/01/14/h...
#Wayback1T
Had a customer yesterday ask me how I managed without using AI. I asked him how he managed before it and he genuinely said, “I thought.”
I explained a little bit about why I don’t use it and he said he’d consider it (seemed genuine) so that’s something
A photo of teenage Claudette Colvin in glasses and a sweater.
Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:
A large red folding board with “Jane Casey DLS lecture” in yellow letters in the centre. Photographs, scraps of paper with writing on, and book covers of Casey’s ‘The Secret Room’ as well as Dorothy L Sayers’ ‘Who’s Body’ and ‘Unlikely Death’ are pinned around the central text, connected with string a la a detective movie conspiracy board.
@janecasey.bsky.social really enjoyed your DLS talk today. I thought you balanced your discussion of Sayers with your own work really well. I don’t know if you got to take a picture of the display in the end so here’s the one I took before the event :)
