Just a librarian, trying to find ways to greet people on our library's chat service so they don't think I'm AI.

my therapist's office is playing the Indiana Jones soundtrack this morning. a great vibe, though it contrasts with the crying I was thinking about doing.

An “all you fascists bound to lose” sort of night

Another world is possible, if we fight for it

Man alive. The contrast between the courage of voters and the absolute cowardice of Democratic leadership is just undeniable and the story of the moment. The question is which will win out in the end and that question just got a whole lot louder.

hell yeah eugene debs

WHY DOES MICROSOFT EXCEL PERSIST IN LOADING MY SPREADSHEETS SCROLLED OVER ~4 COLUMNS? WHAT POSSIBLE USE COULD THIS SERVE?

21 teams in the #B1G, 979 to go.

My kingdom for capitalism to kick in and try to make me pay to use everyone's AI tools. I can't wait to eat my avocado toast and treat AI the way I treat diamonds and luxury cars. The day I see a headline about how "millennials are killing AI" by simply not buying a bad product will be a banner one.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

The greatest Iowa City pandemic casualty: no more free cabbage salads at Oasis.

Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me

Questionnaire, by Wendell Berry (2010) How much poison are you willing to eat for the success of the free market and global trade? Please name your preferred poisons.

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

"If cats could talk, to cops, they wouldn't" Seen in Sydney

YES! Chuck, where do you live? Can you call your Senator?

Is there a word for when a bunch of private citizens following orders from an unelected billionaire occupy government buildings and cut off communications

"the left is politically disengaged" oh ya then how come we all know and hate each other's mayors

Normalizing spelling out what people actually mean when they cite DEI rather than letting them hide behind the safe cover of a euphemism that's been sapped of meaning

A local school board president who ran on supporting public education flipped a Republican state Senate seat blue. Democrat Mike Zimmer will join the Iowa Senate.

Polling shows that only 16% of Americans have a negative impression of DEI. But at this Atlantic magazine staff meeting, that number seems much higher.

It is, of course, easy to despair. What is essential is to acknowledge our feelings and instead of staying in the depths, and realize that despair is the goal. As Kelly Hayes writes here, "We cannot afford to burn ourselves out in a state of panic and emotional upheaval". tinyurl.com/yc6yd7rn

We should always assume that conservatives are arguing in good faith, because to do otherwise undermines our liberal values.

"Precise, Boolean searching?" (takes cigarette out of mouth) "I haven't heard that name in years"

Yesterday I asked a friend if the Dodgers were still in Brooklyn, a city they left in 1956.