would you rather go to a professional meeting or would you rather have some fun in the woods

librarians are my kind of folks because i can go attend a professional meeting of librarians attired like this with no penalties 📚

libraries eschew the parent’s role in two important ways: 1) we don’t interfere with parents’ control over their children”s reading; 2) we don’t police children’s reading on their parents’ behalf. We mean it when we tell kids “no one else can use your library card but you.” 📚

thanks, mako, for defending us from milo (neighbor’s cat)

No kidding

I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently. In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?” And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.

“Travelers and anyone else who was at the airport’s terminals A and B between 8:50 a.m. and 4 p.m. Sunday may have been exposed to the highly contagious disease, according to a news release from the Philadelphia Department of Public Health”

It’s disturbing and discomforting to examine but there are several anti-phone and anti-social media initiatives weaponizing murders and suicides of teens, leveraging grieving parents, and exaggerating or inventing causation to try and limit speech online and restrict tech freedoms

🚨 I am Hala, a teacher who lost her home and workplace because of the war 💔. Now I live a harsh life of displacement, struggling to support my elderly parents and family who depend on me. I have never asked for help before, but today I have no choice. t.co/qDos7sWaNM

libraries eschew the parent’s role in two important ways: 1) we don’t interfere with parents’ control over their children”s reading; 2) we don’t police children’s reading on their parents’ behalf. We mean it when we tell kids “no one else can use your library card but you.” 📚

1. Going to the Library in Smyrna or Murfreesboro, TN? You might be greeted by an EMERGENCY CLOSURE sign. Apparently they have detected the presence of "transgender books" and are quarantining them as if they were a dangerous plague. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

8. The move sparked outcry from members of the community. Many locals said they were blindsided by the closures on the library’s social media. “So, the library has to remove books from the entire community so that some up tight busybodies don’t have to parent their own children?” one user said.

I've been asked to share the fact that my book is now 50% off its usual price (which, to be honest, is much more in line with what I'd want to pay for a book)

yes, “annus” looks like “anus” ha ha that’s very clever and funny *block*

Can never participate in auroraposting because I'm so far south and have so many rocky ridges to my north (even if i go around one there's another in the way) but my phone is like "hell yeah *i* can see it"

I still have not processed what I just read.

Please remember that flawed human beings who have made mistakes deserve dignity too, an undocumented person with a criminal record still doesn’t deserve violence at the whim of the government. Not everyone ICE is targeting is a perfect person and you shouldn’t fixate on that.

If you're someone with means for comfort, PLEASE consider directly donating to folks asking for mutual aid. MA asks grew exponentially this month & everyone who wants to help went straight to institutions or food banks. Now folks are hungry & out of meds. Waiting for nebulous SNAP isnt an option.

Having an extremely rough day. Power is out, went down on ice, need some food & cant cook what little we have. Can anyone please send funds or a Door Dash or Grubhub (prefered) gift card? 💕💸 Venmo.com/u/MousePounder Venmo.com/u/WishMage Cash.app/$WishMage PayPal.me/MousePounder PayPal.me/WyldWish

current status

i just realized that 18 years ago this week i was undergoing radiation treatment for testicular cancer. seven months later, my first child was born. my annus horribilis was also my annus mirabilis.

Is there a progressive mayor’s association? Thats a real question for folks who know municipal politics? Are they sharing recipes? Because they need to be.

Warm up question for my class, like I do everyday. Inspired by Veterans’ Day, I ask… Me: “Who is your hero? Who is someone you look up to…?” 8th grader yell at me: 🗣️ “NOT YOU!” Somebody come get these kids. Heartwarming #Teacher stories 🤣🤣🤣

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The Sons of Confederate Veterans in Georgia tried to block it, but a new museum will open on December 2 at Stone Mountain to tell the story of the largest Confederate monument in the world. The museum will explore the monument and its connection to white supremacy. 🗃️ www.reuters.com/world/us/bat...

I think for a lot of us it's our own parenthood that pushes us. My daughter is the one who urged me to do the dna test that led to finding my parents. Of course, once that mystery was solved, her interest evaporated, but it's been good for me even when painful.

i’m blocking all the accounts that made “lol your kid is a radioactive mutant” jokes in the replies because you can take that lazy, disrespectful, weak shit elsewhere 😘

i decided to search because my anger at the secrecy of #adoption—the way it withholds the truth from me *and* from my descendants—overcame my fear of violating the enormous social taboo against searching, an act i was raised to regard as unthinkable. it was the most courageous thing i will ever do.

How about a soup and sandwich shop called Sub Optional?

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people all morning have been pointing out that Joyce Carol Oates is not a good person. yes she is an awful person which comes out pretty often but that is why she is such a brutally effective poster. she is not a friend she is a writer, which is a type of poster. stay away.

This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat

sandwich shop called Sub Optimal (??)

I took some classes in child development that were required as part of being in this preschool co-operative (I learned so much.) and I will always remember that the academics even out by age 7/8 but if you aren't taught your social skills, a kid has an uphill battle.

So chuffed my 4 year old can count that I'm going to teach him how to be an asshole

Gov. Tate Reeves aims to ban Mississippi SNAP recipients from buying unhealthy foods in a bid to woo U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the State seeks federal funding for a rural health-care program.

DeLauro: The president went to the supreme court to deprive kids of food. Unbelievable. And now wants to deny their parents healthcare.

i got stuck on “pre-k report card” 😭

Update on the new Catto carrier situation:

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

Everything those cops did was illegal–all the raids and seizures. The worst was the raid on the home of the 98-y.o. former editor. They even took her Alexa. Her son told NYT, “She said over and over again, ‘Where are all the good people to put a stop to this?" The next day she died in midsentence.

sandwich shop called Sub Optimal (??)

Something like this? www.researchgate.net/publication/...

i just realized that 18 years ago this week i was undergoing radiation treatment for testicular cancer. seven months later, my first child was born. my annus horribilis was also my annus mirabilis.

In honor of my first <30ºF bike commute of the season, let's talk about how to stay warm in the 20s, 10s, and even 0s. For years I biked for transit in Boston 9 months a year, pausing in winter – but one year I decided to just keep going. So can you! Here are some tips 👇🏻, please share yours too!

I never thought I would see the day when Ireland would have a female president who isn't called Mary. This is a great day for women everywhere who aren't called Mary!

you should be grateful to have a status so low, it’s its own punchline 🥚

In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies

Reminder that most children stolen by family policing are wanted and loved, and the way to battle the foster and adoption industries is to SUPPORT FAMILIES SO THEY CAN STAY TOGETHER DONATE AND BOOST, DAMN IT

Another species no longer on the global Endangered list: Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.