A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

was once New Amsterdam.

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“Why can’t we just put the oil onto trucks and ride it across the desert rather than through the strait of Hormuz?” My love, let me direct you to a little documentary called Mad Max: Fury Road

This is a great list! I would add "how to answer a phone." It's a soft skill I see genz is missing w the ones I work with at the library.

TN Librarian May Be Punished for Doing What’s Right — Assigned Luanne James may lose her job after standing up for the rights of her patrons and the First Amendment.

A Tennessee county voted to remove over a hundred LGBTQ+ books from their library, the director of their library system refused.
Read this story by @alyssaur.bsky.social here!

A Facebook Marketplace ad for a book titled "How to talk to your cat and get it to do what you want"

Big promises for $3

And that's why I've always related to her.

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History doesn't repeat but it ryhmes

1980: Why are so many divorces happening now people can finally get them?
PANIC!

2026: Why are so many people getting diagnosed as not neurotypical now that they finally can?

Why do you think donkey Kong wears a tie? He studied contract law at Harvard

Don't be fooled by this bill's name-- this is a book banning bill that will exclude LGBTQ books from all public schools NATIONWIDE.

Call your congresspeople and tell them to VOTE NO on this nakedly bigoted book banning bullshit.

www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

a couple of anime characters are standing next to each other and fighting . ALT: a couple of anime characters are standing next to each other and fighting .

If ALA was smart, they'd ask Alysa Liu to do a read poster holding Jujutsu Kaisen.

This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom:

"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."

I've found the average white family usually checks out HP. And part of the issue is it was such a big book w so much fucking IP that we aren't allowed to forget about it. I never put it on book displays. There's no point.

And if you are a Minneapolis or St Paul librarian DM me. I would rather y'all get what you need rather than what people think you need.

Does anyone know what Minneapolis library staff need right now? How do we support them? I know libraries are open & have been warm places for protestors. What can we do? #librariea

Yup. I have a head cold & Fallout 4. I'm not leaving the couch.

Minneapolis library peers: this handy tool reminded me that Thomson Reuters has a US location near your city! Might be a good time to let your neighbors know how they contribute to ICE’s efforts.

Things are pretty bleak so I'm trying to read more as that's always been a source of comfort, particularly comics. Absolute Wonder Woman is so dang good!

True. I think what had me get a little worried was creating a whole ass play w Vecna lore that is into this yet no one really saw.

Oh, boy! I'm a little nervous they're going to blow it

So much this! It took a couple false starts to finally figure out a planner that works for me. I also just threw away the idea bullet journaling. Too much stress for my ADHD.

Ours is a mix so he's regular cat sized & a low rider. Still very much a stomper!

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

We pulled this one out of the paywall for today, because, well

I was thinking tonight: I don’t understand choosing Spotify over Qobuz when Qobuz has dramatically higher quality sound and doesn’t pay Joe Rogan

@stegan.bsky.social Oh, hey! I was chatting w a person in my knitting class last night about books. She said she loves romances. I mentioned your name & how you write cool stuff. She got excited bc she's heard you speak on podcasts she listens to & spoke very complimentary of you!

Click it.

Happily Ever After Is for Everyone  | Essay The romance genre has a single set-in-stone rule: The main characters of the story will end up happily in a relationship. The HEA (Happily Ever After) or the HFN (Happy for Now) is the expectation of ...

Well that’s a nice wake up surprise! This piece I wrote for @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social is a finalist for a Los Angeles Press Club National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award! www.zocalopublicsquare.org/romance-genr...

Congrats! This is great news!