It's National Library Week!
Copy, library joy! 🌱📚
Posts by Katie
Don't forget, April 16th is National Librarian Day in the U.S.
If I were still working, I would appreciate gifts of chocolate. Maybe other librarians would too.
I just came out of the #firefly panel at #awesomecon2026 and I am excited to help spread the word that they are making a Firefly animated series! Wooooo!
the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style
if the groundhog pops its head out and doesn't get tear-gassed, the United States gets six more weeks of democracy
Photo of Major Kira from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, underneath it says "RESIST"
Major Kira says RESIST.
Remember to keep taking your vitamin D and mental health meds, because it's January and everything is bad right now.
They didn't want to air Sesame Street in Mississippi because it was integrated.
Routines are rituals of devotion to yourself.
Must read thread.
They will come for our libraries. They will do everything in their power to keep us from accessing free information, true history, and any books that help to wake people up to the atrocities they are and want to commit.
Screenshot of an X post by The Tennessee Holler quoting “GREENLANDERS” saying they’ll flee to Denmark if Trump invades, plan to go by boat to a hut and stay for a while, and are thinking about where to hide and what medicine to stock. Below the text is a close-up photo of a woman with short dark hair and round glasses speaking, indoors.
Overseas and here at home, families have to prepare for horrific nightmares Trump and his regime could unleash at any time. Think about that.
"I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."
-Faramir, The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien
Jennings: Let's not get our knickers in a twist here
McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying…
"The America I love still exists, if not in the the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries." Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
If you voted for him, you shouldn't be allowed to go to Mexican restaurants. Or sushi restaurants. Or enjoy anything that the melting pot of America has made available.
If you support ICE, then you were the informer who turned over Anne Frank to the Gestapo.
You can’t erase what was witnessed. Everyone saw it with their own eyes and ears.
The only way my mother ever got time to herself to sit was to wake up every day at 4-5 am. I totally get it.
It's a miracle that our softness has survived. 💖 Hold on.
Oh man, the episode with the wedding, and Spock being so emotionally mature. I was like "Please! My husband is sitting right here!" 🤭🤯😍
I hope this coffee changes who I am as a person. Probably won't.
Sharing so as many people as possible see.
(4/4) Know that this is coming from someone who grew up with Harry Potter. It was my whole life for a while. It's the book that got me into reading when I was 11. If I can leave HP, my Hogwarts house, and all the merch behind, so can everyone else. We can find magic and belonging elsewhere!
(3/4) Even some of my coworkers in my library system are still doing Potter themed programs and decorations. I am disgusted by their lack of caring and empathy.