🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

In a library, a small human (4?) is trying to pick a book but she's not sure which one!
(Oh no!)
Does she want this one...
This one?
THESE ONES?
THOSE ones?!
With an exasperated roar, she beseeches the library gods: "WHY are there SO MANY?!" (1)

Ha ha I blocked THEM first. Hating before it was cool.

Like Taskmaster, but for government! Love it

This particularly goes a long way when certain services (usually diversity-related) fall under attack. Telling admin you loved the Pride display or the Juneteenth program or sensory storytime may be the feedback they need to continue doing the right thing.

PS: If you’re a library user, you have SO much power. Patron feedback is king. If you like your library’s staff, say so. If you appreciate any aspect of service, say so.

If all management sees are complaints, they assume everything is awful. Your feedback goes far.

Love, every staff member ever expected to stay late, come in when sick, handle volatile situations without training, constantly “innovate”, and make “data driven decisions”.

Pretending library workers are superhuman leads to exploitation, by management and by external forces. It leads to burnout, high turnover, diminishing services to the patrons.

Yes, please show your support! Just treat library workers like human beings while you do it.

In the US, it’s National Library Workers’ Day, and I would be remiss to let it pass without reminding you that the “library workers are magic” narrative leads bad places. Love, respect, and cherish them, but also pay them, staff libraries appropriately, and let them draw boundaries.

This is taking out things that killed people. Get a grip.

You want to preserve things you want to preserve for a reason. If that reason is “I never want anything to change”, I am afraid I have news for you about the workings of time.

If you want to keep things for posterity, that means accounting for change.

The East Wing is destruction.

Also, frankly, locking something up to keep it exactly as is is far less useful for historical purposes than making it safe to interact with.

People connect less with photos than a physical object.

I run across this with archive/library stuff all the time. People think preservation means leaving it exactly how it is.

Sometimes you have to stabilize things. Bind in a new cover. Graft pages.

Do you want to have an altered thing 50 years from now or an unaltered one for a couple more years?

This was my favorite thing about going by train across the US! The people who make a day of it and sit and watch the trains. One guy in MN had a welcome sign and a camp chair.

No. I’m so sorry.

I agree with this. Bonus: dogs

Feels a bit like the pitcher betting on his own ballgame, you know

Them: AI can detect cancer better blah blah blah

Me: no, not really, and also it’s giving people cancer, so I would really rather not start that $ cycle

Fred from Scooby-Doo unmasking the bad guy at the end of a mystery, in two frames. First frame: Left side: a tied up man in a white featureless mask with eye holes. The caption over him in impact font reads, "SOMETHING I USED TO LOVE SUCKS NOW" Right side of frame, Fred has his hand on the mask, about to pull it off. The caption on him reads, "LET'S SEE WHO'S BEHIND THIS." Second frame: The unmasked bad guy has a pencil thin curling mustache, a pointy nose, and dark hair, with a widow's peak. The caption on him reads, "PRIVATE EQUITY"

Evergreen

McClatchy has fallen.

This thread right here is the best of people.

people talking about getting into birding in their midlives and this is how i know i've spiritually been 180 years old since i was nine, when i was go and sit very still near the feeder instead of "making friends" or "learning social cues"

Love it. Perfection. Can’t wait for the results.

Ohhh make them regret choosing laziness!

Also pedocriminalitie is maybe the best way to put that

Oh hell yes

Being clear, I can write all I want. What I can’t do is publish. Looking into how to deal with that for the next 3 years because I have a lot of books to share.

birds: they will never email you. and that’s a promise.

I have a panel upcoming at midnight. Very smart, Anna.

Fantastic work, tech industry

I mean, I am kinda doing it on a student visa. 🙃

I have knit and stitched a lot.