A black and white pastiche of the Commonwealth of Virginia flag that reads "Sic Semper Ignorantia Virginia" with the female figure holding a flaming fountain pen, dancing on the fallen and crownless king.
250E Bypass near Dairy Rd., Charlottesville, Va.
Chag Sameach to my friends and community who celebrate!
Message I needed to hear today.
4th Street! She's a beauty!
Got a text about a bomb threat at George Mason's library, and open Bluesky to learn there was one at UVA too?
Got a text about a bomb threat at George Mason's library too.
I don't post often because these times feel so overwhelming. Filled with joy at simple things, yet rage, fear, and sadness.
Main roads seem good. Parking lots so so. We made it out in a 19 year old Versa with no problems.
Liked him in The Parent Trap.
So if it's now legal for a president of one country to kidnap the president of another, I hope President Macron is listening. And please bring croissants et pains aux chocolats!
Book covers of The Possession of Alba Diaz by Isabel Canas and Racializing Objectivity: How the white Southern press used journalism standards to defend Jim Crow by Gwyneth Mellinger.
2026 reading list uploading.
Fellow Librarian and I did a podcast segment on On Tyranny. I could not fully express my thoughts as it's a publicly funded podcast. onthesamepage.blubrry.net/2025/05/29/s...
Torbie colored cat with green eyes has her body facing left with her face down toward the viewer.
Said goodbye to an old friend today. See you on the other side of the Rainbow Bridge, Goliath! Adopted July 4, 2011.
An ICE arrest in Charlottesville, Jefferson St, in front of the synagogue, around 4pm.
French antisemitic broadside from the Paris Liberation Museum. Image shows children throwing rocks at a Jewish man running out of the country: "Mais! un jour, le peuple excédé, clairvoyant et furieux mettra ce parasite à la porte de notre pays. Et ce jour-la tout le monde se rejouira...parce qu'il n'y aura plus de juifs!"
I often think about this artifact from the Paris Liberation Museum. Notice the language, ce parasite, in describing Jews. 100 years later, this language is still used in everyday conversation to dehumanize groups of people.
Got the spouse a WillowTV subscription 2 years ago, they're obsessed with cricket! Watching highlights over morning coffee.
Here's an example of an AI position situated in a library that I just saw go out.
What stands out to you? You know what stands out to me?
This salary: $126,000 – $136,000.
You know who isn't usually making that? People doing the actual work of libraries.
apply.interfolio.com/172379
Blue book cover with a shadow female presenting person's back turned to the viewer, seeing a quarter profile of the person's left side of the face. At the neckline is written the book's title, Erased, in white, with the subtitle, What American Patriarchy Has Hidden From Us, in red, followed by the author's name in white, Anna Malaika Tubbs, New York Times bestselling author of The Three Mothers
Light Sunday afternoon reading.
Vicariously reliving my own French travels through your adventures. Safe travels back to Cville.
Portrait of John Unsworth in a suit, standing in sunlight with a shadowed background.
"I think the advice I would offer is to remember that leadership is a service role. Your job as a leader is to support the people who work for you, to protect them, to listen to them, & prioritize them."
ARL Views with John Unsworth, UVA University Librarian 2016-2025
www.arl.org/blog/john-un...
Sometimes bad things happen to bad people, said someone in the past, if only I could find the source citation.
And it's time for the weekly internet outage at Central Library. Thrilled to see our under-funded public service not have service. /s
Covers of the books No Sweet Without Brine: Poems by Cynthia Manick and Potomac Fever by Charlotte Taylor Fryar.
Today's back porch reading.
I see the administration has expanded to the rounding up of their perceived undesirables to the concentration camps part of fascism.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
le jour de gloire est arrivé!
Wish I was along the motorcade route in my kippah and tallit to tell Netanyahu what I think of his genocide!
www.29news.com/2025/07/11/i...
On the first day of break, @creighdeeds.bsky.social , @laufer55.bsky.social , and I want to remind folks of all ages to check out the library for some great summer activities. The fun starts tomorrow (Sat. 6/7) with real life🦙🦙🦙 at Central Library from 10-12 to kick off the summer reading challenge!
This is full of text so I'm going to summarize some. It explains how Charlottesville schools tried to acquire a building site for a preschool center, UVA applied for the same site (competing with/ the city), the Dept of Education approved the city's application, then reversed their decision and decided to convey the property to UVA. CALL TO ACTION: CALL & EMAIL JIM RYAN & TELL HIM TO RESCIND UVA'S APPLICATION, JOIN US AT 1301 EMMET ST N ON MAY 15 AT 5:30 TO DEMAND THAT UVA RESCIND.
