Every now and then, I think “over 1 million people died from Covid and as a country we mainly think about that as an annoying time we had to stay in our houses.”

Reminder: you don’t have to be good at something to enjoy it, you don’t have to get better at it, you don’t have to monetize it, and it doesn’t have to be useful.

Other Colleges Have Frat Houses. This One Has a Cookie House.

I am deeply proud of my alma mater. (No institution is perfect, but Carleton always /tries/.)

Dacie Moses House exemplifies the Carleton spirit. I didn't go to nearly enough brunches there when I was a student. I'm glad the tradition lives on.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/d...

This isn't a show about big moments. It's a show about the aches and pains and sorrows and joys of an average day, just in a heightened environment (an ED) where we see all of it play out by the nature of the beast.

So that the characters are having a day that mirrors exactly that... is the point.

I think there are a lot of people online who will not be happy with that last hour of television because they want this show to be something it is manifestly and intentionally not.

I loved it.

True, it's not without its flaws. But (Dana voice) we can't all be perfect.

Simple, direct graphic proclaims "Support These Data Centers: Schools, Libraries, Bookstores.

Ich did not make thys, but Ich wisshe Ich did. Repost yf you are a proud member of the Gen AI Backlash.

This is a truth I experience daily - as a chronically ill person myself and in community with others.

I guess my point is that bad or bland info is already in the environment and LLMs are making things infinitely worse. 1 bad or bland thing gets SEO'd by the google algo or gets passed around by LLMs, and all bets are off. Good luck out there. 9/9

it's maize and blue daze time (if you know, you know)

(and if you don't, earnestly: don't worry about it)

Donald Trump's Plan To Steal Or Destroy Everything We should assume it's underway, starting with the Epstein files.

Legal eagles noticed, and there’s been SOME mainstream coverage. But overall the political class has underreacted to this month’s OLC opinion, ordered up by Trump or on his behalf, declaring the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional. Things are likely being stolen and/or destroyed *right now*.

I continually am fascinated by the incredibly vast and different experiences Americans have of weather and climate depending on our state/region, and the way they assume/apply those outside their familiarities. I try to lead with nonjudgment but... sometimes, thermodynamics is thermodynamics.

Granted, Minnesota.

But also... this is what happens when ice and snow get THAT compacted! It doesn't melt easily or quickly, not even with our "false spring" too-warm days.

Everyone in the DMV seems to be marvelling/complaining today that there are still snowpiles in corners from our massive January storm...

My memory keeps replaying that my MN college once put up a "guide to campus" sign for prospective students in April on a lingering snowpile. It read: "Winter."

I think that in terms of character richness, narrative pacing, and full use of the ensemble, that was the best season of Bridgerton yet. #benophie

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

Everyone is just trying live our lives—watch our little stories, have our little snacks—and these motherfuckers are doing absolutely everything possible to put an end to that.

people just want to live their damn lives free from all this monstrous shit

me needing romantacy audiobooks to survive the horrors puts my grandma's soap operas in a whole new light lol

i always read a lot of fantasy but it's much more key to mental health these days

Bluesky is not the commons. Twitter is not the commons. You can’t have a privately held commons. That’s not what words mean

Finance guy’s guest op-ed in the local gazette: We don’t need libraries, we have Amazon

anyone with a pulse: LIBRARIES ARE FREE YOU DORK

me, cataloger: Amazon’s uncontrolled keyword search interface is HORRIBLE at supporting the core user tasks of Finding, Identifying, and Selecting 📚

We cannot separate the history of the nation from the history of slavery.

George Washington was an enslaver. As President he brought enslaved people to Philadelphia, and rotated them out to evade a Pennsylvania law that promised emancipation after six months in the state. /1

Honoring Fobazi Ettarh — ThriveLib Many of you already know that our colleague and founding board member, Fobazi Ettarh , has passed away. We want to take a moment to acknowledge her loss and honor what she meant to libraries, our co...

Many of you already know that our colleague and founding board member, Fobazi Ettarh, has passed away. We want to take a moment to acknowledge her loss and honor what she meant to libraries, our community, and her friends and loved ones.
www.thrivelib.com/news/honoring-fobazi-ettarh

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

I just feel warm and fuzzy knowing this performance pisses all the right people off

YES THEY DID. I've only seen it mentioned as part of the set for Donwell Abbey in 2020's Emma but I can't help but see it as Cleveland.

this is so joyful and beautiful, like how could you look at this and hate it

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Schitt's Creek - Moira's Commercial YouTube video by Schitt's Creek

Goodnight, friends.

I'm thankful that Catherine O'Hara had a chance to bring some peach crabapple to our Riesling Rioja.

I love you.