My life is such that I consider it the greatest of luck when I find the dropped pretzel before I have trodden it into the carpet.

I just realized the Dark Academia trend is just the grimdark reaction to Harry Potter, like the Eighties comics were to Batman 66. Now I wonder what took me so long.

Huzzah, they corrected it later. I can love this book again.

Suddenly screaming and gritting my teeth in agony at one glaring mistake in an otherwise excellent book. That’s going to mar it for me forever.

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Podcast: Developments like gas lighting reduced the demand for whale oil.
Me: I’m not sure I can trust your word on that.

"I want to thank all librarians, because you guys are the pillars of our democracy."
— The fabulous George Takei at ALA (yes, it rhymes)

Check out "It Rhymes With Takei."

#ALAAC25
#itrhymeswithtakei

I have had a phobia of down escalators for forty years without meeting someone who shares it. Today I met two. Crazy!

I have reached the age where I see someone in Chuck Taylors at a Conference and think, “Your poor feet, your poor, poor feet.”

Help, this reality has broken me. On the library’s post for our kid & teen D&D clubs, someone posted an anti D&D Chick tract in the comments. Send chocolate and cute hedgehog pictures.

In a Zoom meeting, looking like a snob & wondering how many other people with their noses in the air are just trying to see through their bifocals.

I feel like the existence of a Sailor Moon livestream on Prime is our corporate overlords trying to soothe us out of fighting back against the fascist hellscape we’re living in, but dammit if I don’t let myself be soothed at the end of a long week.

Thistle! Don’t know why my brain said heather this morning.

If you see this, quote with flowers in your gallery.

Didn’t remember taking this. I think I wanted to show my sister the heather.

How did I know without checking that the fox face pro-Linux post was from you? 😀

Just half-jokingly revealed my true thoughts: Go out when I could just go home, what sense does that make?

A coney dog [also called a coney island] has chili, mustard, and onions. And most importantly, you buy them at *a Coney Island*

(A Coney Island is a specific type of restaurant that sells coney islands (coney dogs), chili fries, gyros, chicken pitas, etc.] #Detroit

Now this is a December holiday I can get behind!

🏳️‍⚧️ Bluesky is for trans people 🏳️‍⚧️

Librarians stand firm as book bans stack up and concerns swirl post-election As activists seek to curb access to books and even hold them criminally liable, librarians ask people to listen, read and engage with them.

Free people can choose what they read but they can't choose what their community reads. "When it's one person or a few people trying to say what's best for everyone, that's where we draw a line" — @becalzada.bsky.social Policy Corps #UniteAgainstBookBans cadre member www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Today in weird machine translation, “cerebellum bag melon”. I really need to collect these and turn them into poetry.

Photo of pizza with text: New! Chicken and Waffles pizza $15

As if I hadn’t already realized the world has gone insane, this was in my mail last night.

My sister just serendipitously created THE portmanteau for this election - psychophancy. I’m sure we’ve all run across some psychophants lately.

Libraries will only exist for as long as we borrow from them. Consider it your civic duty | Jodi Wilson In a world as noisy as ours, we need the quiet space of libraries. They are community hubs that serve whoever walks through the door

Amen!

Libraries will only exist for as long as we borrow from them. Consider it your civic duty | Jodi Wilson www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Discworld QOTD, from Soul Music

“In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.”

Why am I not worried that AI will replace librarians? Because I asked Alexa how many days to Halloween and she said, "There are 42 days to Halloween and also, there are 152 days to Halloween."
That’s job security right there.

Maybe I’m paranoid, but I can’t help thinking Michigan is having a heatwave just to spite the Sweater Weather display I put up this week.

The Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace are my comfort reads. I start with the high school ones, not usually the four children’s titles.

I blame every children’s librarian in my life for my singing this to my blueberry pie:
Are you bubbling in the center? No you’re not
Are you bubbling in the center?
No you’re not
Are you bubbling in the center?
You know you’re kinda meant ta
Are you bubbling in the center?
No you’re not

In the meantime, check your local library. Many of us have free ones to distribute.