I will get us to 6k followers.

By any means necessary.

Anything with right to repair

I will match anyone's donation up to 200 bucks! Let's get Tina home so she can be with her family.

I was watching Delicious in Dungeon/Dungeon Meshi on Saturday and realized if I wanted to cosplay as Chilchuk all I would have to do is put on the outfit.

Hilarious and also SO DEVASTATING

In 2023, Governor JB Pritzker was joined by Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, advocates, and lawmakers at the Harold Washington Library to sign legislation outlawing book bans in Illinois.

Illinois made history as the first state to outlaw book bans once and for all.

Marginalizing people, ideas, or facts has no place in our state — and they have no place in a democracy.

This National Library Week, we continue our commitment to free thought and free speech.

A white person with brown hair wearing a white t shirt with a drawing in black of Pope Leo and the phrase "the pope is weak on crime"

@raygunsite.com Wore this shirt on Saturday and a lot of people loved it! As someone who was raised Catholic the phrase "the pope is weak on crime" is one of the funniest sentences in the English language to me.

The church that the Goulets belong to is very anti LGBTQ+.

Ask Mayor Zohran Mamdani To mark his 100th day in office, Mayor Zohran Mamdani will join WNYC’s Senior Politics Reporter Brigid Bergin for a conversation in front of a live audience at the The Jerome L. Greene Space. The even...

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... let mamdani know you would like 0.5% of the city budget for libraries in perpetuity pretty please

Starting July 1 there will be new limits on student loans for MLS students under the limited understanding of what fits as a "professional" degree.

This limit is going to further restrict access to the field.

I haven't seen anywhere near enough discussion of this (truthfully, none) by pro orgs. 📚

Lia's Up.

Half of mine is up. Most of what's left is refurbished sterling. Tomorrow we work on Vavia & Nibs.

Thank you so much <3

How different my life would be with $900 available a month to spend on anything! All I hope is that elections are different in the future, and Democrats help people like me who've spent their entire career in public service and now have nothing but terrible options.

It's official, I'm about to go from qualifying for public service loan forgiveness in the next 4 years, to paying off my student loans in 2055. Under a Republic controlled government all of my qualifying repayment plans for student loan forgiveness would start at $900 a month.

I've seen someone ask if we could monetize a service and they were very nicely told that is antithetical to our mission

In the years I've lived here I've lost count of the times I told someone I'm a librarian, they responded no one uses it? And then I blew their mind by introducing them to the concept that just because they don't do something it doesn't mean other people don't.

In recent years we conducted some surveys to find out who's not using the library. It's rich people. The reason is they don't give a shit about the library and have no concept of other people needing or wanting to use the library.

Car prices are completely wild now. I haven't owned one in a long while because I'm lucky to live in an SF neighborhood where I don't need it. I was talking to a coworker recently who got a new car and she paid a lot more for a civic than I paid for my truck back in 2006.

I am reminded of the guy who asked me the morning a 15 page paper was due what mine was about, I told him about my thesis, then asked about his. He replied that he was just starting it and wondered what I'd gone with. The prof was kind and gave him an incomplete.

The Power Fantasy is so good. I've gasped out loud more than once reading it.

THE POWER FANTASY is the first comic I've read in a long time that genuinely takes my breath away. It feels the way comics felt when I was eighteen and anything was possible, when they were written by wizards and drawn by magicians, when my favorite story could be past the next page. It's real good.

Anytime you buy my books, or suggest them to your library, you're helping me keep Ben in blankets and biscuits!

It's curious that ALA hates librarianship so much!

Support cageyratfish Disabled old fish-obsessed artist on the wild west coast of Canada. I need all the help i can get. Thanks so much for visiting!

hi folks, hate to keep asking but i could really do with a bit of help. shares help too #MutualAid #HelpFolksLive 💸💕

Hi – This Thursday, April 16th, at 12 PM ET/11 AM CT, ALA Editions is hosting the free webinar "Using Artificial Intelligence to Elevate and Secure a Human Workforce." Wherever you stand on the subject of AI, the webinar’s panel of author-experts will shine a light on the current landscape while leaving space for what will surely be a robust discussion. If you miss it live, find the recording on ALA’s YouTube page later this week. This program is cataloging-inclusive. Its schedule is: • 11:03 to 11:15 AM CT: Michael Hanegan and Chris Rosser – theory + recommendations for a general framework or strategic lens applicable across library types • 11:15 to 11:27 AM CT: Robin Hastings – governance and safeguards applicable to multiple library types, but especially academic and public libraries • 11:27 to 11:39 AM CT: Delandrus Seales – concrete recommendations for school libraries that can also be considered for other library settings • 11:39 to 11:51 AM CT: Martin De Saulles – concrete recommendations for academic libraries • 11:51 AM to 12:03 PM CT: Hannes Lowagie – technology demo/concrete recommendations for catalogers • 12:03 PM to 12:15 PM CT: Alexander J. Carroll and Joshua Borycz – capstone/the value of human-centered librarianship in the AI era + future expectations observed from students in STEM programs

I just cannot with the amount of decisions ALA is making that make me never want to be a member again

WE WILL MAKE PINK HAPPEN

In closing, two things:

1. Hillary is leveling up in treasure- hunting, and

2. WE WILL NEVER STOP TRYING TO MAKE PINK HAPPEN.

This is awesome!!

It’s time once again for “you do not need to share the horrors in order to communicate that they are horrible. You do not need to imbibe the horrors to bear witness to them. Be kind to yourself and others right now.”

An up close images of a pliosaur fossilized skeleton, with purple opal pockets.

A top down image of Eric the pliosaur, a fossilized skeleton with visible opal pockets.

A cool thing about opals is that fossils can sometimes turn into opal under the right conditions. Yesterday I found out about Eric the Pliosaur, housed in the Sydney museum and made almost entirely out of opal: australian.museum/learn/austra...

An "items in this shipment" email for Lizbeth tatting cotton thread. The colors are magenta, hot pink, a combo pack of purples, ice blue, lime green, and a light teal green.

Look at these colors!!!