Today in public librarianship. A patron returned an empty DVD case and the DVD player the disc was stuck in.

Do any of my local friends have any recommendations for somewhere/someone for guitar lessons?

Christian persecution in America is best defined by this image: No actual struggle, wearing clothes that cost more than my entire wardrobe, polished cross instead of rugged, and surrounded by crowds of fellow hypocrites cheering on bigotry who believe they're the victims.

underneath all the doom and hideous stuff happening at the top of our country is a more inspiring story: regular Americans are not buying all this crap. and they're still willing to call the government out on it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Tonight I went to a patron picnic at the first library branch I worked at and a little girl whose class visits my current library every week was there with her grandpa who lives in the neighborhood and she was *so* happy to see me, and sometimes it's the little things is what I'm saying, I guess.

BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.

8 years later I'm playing Breath of the Wild, and boy, does it rain a lot.

Not his *best* movie but still, a little charmer. And two of the most handsome men to ever walk the earth at peak handsomeness. Man, oh, man.

my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"

I know it's easy to give up on a day like this, but just remember: Chuck Schumer is out there Monday to Thursday, literally a couple of hours each day, making sure your healthcare bills are partially subsidized for a slightly longer window than previously anticipated

Buffalo friends, if you were taking someone who's never had pizza logs somewhere for pizza logs, is there somewhere in particular you would take them?

Joan of Arcadia

Okay, *now* I understand toxic empathy.

he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest

kash patel googling "how to catch a campus shooter" and "do shooters usually hang out nearby afterwards"

But I was told that empathy is a sin?

At some point, the white community is going to have to do something about the high rates of crime in white neighborhoods.

Drum up hate and take away everything but people's guns. What do you think is going to happen?

Live your life in a way where people don't celebrate your passing

ALSO, you know what else Jesus did to lepers? HE HEALED THEM. We can just not let people get that sick in the first place. Pre-healing!

This is not the important part, but Jesus touching lepers was significant because literally no one else would.

Literally the second meme I've made in my life.

Someone I know please apply for a spot on the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library board and then agitate for the city branches to get more staffing and resources, pretty please. www4.erie.gov/boards/volun...

Spent 15 minutes explaining to a patron that I cannot print their document in color if the document is not in color to begin with.

i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat

Any recommendations for a fun 2-person Switch game that isn't Mario Kart because I'm *very* bad at it, and I don't like being bad at things when the other person is good at it? Any genre or style game will be considered!

Low-key telling his colleagues it’s time

had to look up *why* oscar isaac and pleased to find it seems to be just “unassailably hot.”

Call your Senator, Chuck. That's what I do. Unfortunately, mine's a spineless, feckless loser. Maybe yours is better.

"How are you so calm" Lexapro

That Jimmy Ciarlo is a cutie pie.

On a personal level, I've already made this transition. When I look for leadership, I immediately look to see what Pritzker, Walz, Beshear, Wu, Mamdani, etc., are saying before anyone in Congress. More Democrats should do the same until Schumer and Jeffries are gone.

As a private citizen, I sometimes enjoy a good shit poster, but I'm not sure this thing where that's our measuring stick for which politician we get behind is great for society.

Nothing demonstrates the (positive) sharp turn my life took in young adulthood quite like the difference in reaction to James Dobson's death on my FB vs. all my other social media.

First came Encyclopedia Brown, a good teen detective. Then Wikipedia Brown who was fine. Now meet A.I. Brown who's always wrong & has caused 8 people so far to die. He's never actually solved a case, claims he's solved 40, all involving people who don't exist, committing crimes that didn't happen.

I can’t believe doing nothing but in the most annoying way possible isn’t working www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

We're catching up on Hard Knocks and I'm missing everything because I'm fixated on Joe Brady's upside down hat. "Buffalo" is upside down, right? Why?

Oh, buddy, DO I!

“I’m sick of these purity tests. NO CANDIDATE is perfect. Newsom may not care about homeless people or trans people but he’s the ONLY ONE hiring social media posters to ask ChatGPT to talk like Trump”

For the "Must be nice to read all day!" crowd, a patron expressed her frustration with our children's Internet policy by repeatedly calling me a fucking bitch and then throwing a picture book at me. Adults are great.

Teacher at a Buffalo public school reached out to see if we do school visits because they're about to enter yr 2 with no school librarian. Not a PT librarian, not a librarian split between 2 buildings. No school librarian. A library that no kids in the school can access because there's no librarian.

It’s wild that the most unrealistic part of Terminator 2 is now the idea of a tech founder being told their creation will enslave humanity and they decide to destroy their product & company.

it is kind of insane to watch elected officials who know that the troop deployments in cities are real, dangerous and fascistic decide that the winning message is "this is pretend" because they think the alternative is "what do you expect ME to do about it? i'm helpless too."

My brother was a beautiful artist who had some natural talent but also spent hours a day for his whole life doing art because he had the urge to create and the determination to push through difficult parts. People like that won't go away because of AI. And we definitely shouldn't let them.

Do you know anyone in Congress by any chance?

Not sure it should be on the rest of us to motivate you to take an amount of money that you won't even feel and do the bare minimum of providing your labor with living wages but okay.

Nightcrawler

See, In fairness to me, this is why I thought my manager was setting up a joke when he texted me that day.

Can't stress this enough: nobody fucking cares what he was up to

I like how he's defending this with what most people agree is one of the most egregious human rights violations in United States history.