Weird to pick an example where that is not being said.

Neurotypical people love to say: "The rule is what the rule says and it means what it says, but it doesn't mean what it says you'd have to be stupid to think that."

It's not to everyone's taste, but I appreciate the hell out of a male writer who is able to have all kinds of outrageous and nasty content without punching down. Anti fascist writing doesn't need to be HR approved. Some stand up comedian bros could take a lesson.

Remembering how so many lighting fixtures in the late 80s smelled like they were about to burst into flame.

Paraphrasing: "If we just give in and eliminate the Pride Month display, the library board leave the collection alone." www.reddit.com/r/Libraries/... No they won't.

Found out that as a student I can swing by the school of music to practice on their grand pianos when lessons aren't happening. Dope! 🎹

"Don't just read GenAI answers to library patrons." -- or -- "Don't copy that sloppy."

T-Virus apocalypse looking more and more likely. ⛱️

Libraries really should be taking advantage of the GenAI push to brand ourselves differently. And it wouldn't be a bad idea to make sure we actually ARE a better information experience. Whole lot of coasting happening on that one.

Working on the most difficult middle bit of a piano goals piece. Soon as I finish taming this bit, the whole thing should go smoothly. 🎹 So close!

Love it when one of my dogs wakes up and just starts wagging with nothing going on beyond being here.

The only thing that makes death tolerable is that we're all in it together.

Preteen boy earlier this summer: Where are your books on puberty? Me: Right over here. Dad: Why do you want a book on THAT? Boy: Because I'm GOING THROUGH IT!! (Dad was supportive about the checkout.)

Yes, the number of times I've heard parents veto a kid's book selection as "too hard" -OR- "too easy" is too high. Just get some more books in case?

Pet peeve: referring to direct public service staff as "frontline staff." We are not engaged in trench warfare against our patrons.

Taking a class on strategic planning and, hoo boy, are some of these public library plans we're looking at missing the point of every aspect beyond patting themselves on the back for being essential.

A lot of people hide behind "I may be an asshole, but I'm correct" when they're incorrect too.

Lift weights then an hour of piano practice: feel good worn out all over!

Public service workers are NOT entitled to a work environment free of threats and harassment. We're entitled to a work environment where threats and harassment have consequences.

Anyone who says "Romantasy" is fostering illiteracy is just being misogynist in public.

I haven't reread a book in over a decade. Rereading Dungeon Crawler Carl from the top, but audio this time!

Family reunion instructions: only DOCUMENTED service animals are allowed. Well, they are a bunch of Trump voters so of course they don't understand how things work.

if you only looked at the use of “working class” by people who opine on the democratic party’s “need to win back the working class” you would never suspect that every historically feminized profession is working-class

Nope sorry, "Brotato: All Pain No Gain Update," but my plan is still only to finish Danger 5 on all characters not your new Nightmare Mode nonsense.

If you have bought a queer t-shirt from a queer creator that you liked, please tell me about it & post a link (and a pic if you’re feeling frisky)

Could have got me to play Star Wars: Outlaws a lot sooner if someone had mentioned it's an Uncharted game.

Solid point.

"Children's tantrums over giving kisses will disappear completely" is a hell of a goal.

I was checking in a series called "I don't want to..." which were all about behavior problems with kids. In this one the kid doesn't want to give people kisses even though this embarrasses her mother. The lesson is that kids SHOULD give kisses to people who want them. It's how you show love. WTF! 🤢

There's a similarity in asking a patron if -- instead of a paper book from the collection -- they'd accept a digital version right now or an interlibrary loan next month. Most dismiss these suggestions, rudely even. But others are ~excited~ at the possibilities this opens up.

Expecting to be seen as tech saavy because you prompt GenAI is the same as expecting to be seen as a programmer for playing a video game.

"The most popular class Cyrus has taught is called Avoiding AI, which explains what Generative AI is, some of the concerns around it, and how to disable it and find alternatives." These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech: www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

Push your library boards and other advisory/governing structures to formally adopt this as guidance like so many of them do with Library Bill of Rights.

I don't like the work culture of saying out loud when you think someone does good work and making written records when you think someone does bad work. "How is this employee?" According to the files, bad.

Trying to play other video games...but keep starting up Brotato to work on my obsession with beating Danger 5 with every potato. (13 of about 50 so far) This never happens to me!

One explanation of ~everything~ is that civil rights got feminine coded and that was the last anyone heard of her.

My new hobby is going to be creating a burner amazon account and commenting on every picture book created with genAI by calling that fact out in a review. I'm so tired of all this garbage.

As civil rights in America become more and more states-based, we ALL need to get involved in making our states better.

Did a little hiking this morning in bear country and am both relieved and disappointed that I didn't see bears.

I don't consider myself a leftist, but I do consider Mamdani to be a completely reasonable politician and have suspicions about anyone criticising him as too radical. I bet this is true for most people who aren't Republicans at heart.

I'm tired of comics pretending that teenagers are 10-year-olds and 10-year-olds are 5 just because it's a visual medium. prose gets away with so much more lmao. I'm both bored of it and offended by it

Fresh bread out of the oven at my house right now.

There's a McDonald's I go to that would often mean one person panhandling after the order. Lately, it means people standing right at the order sign talking over the ordering process then following until the order window. Then more people squeezed against the wall between windows.

So that took me a week.

We need a care campaign from Dems and the left that is BIBLICAL in its spending for the social safety net. I mean a repudiation of this era of cruelty that makes Erika Kirk and Vance weep with the largesse we bestow for the common good

"So here I am, reclaiming man-needing as a feminist pursuit." Feminism has always been about women being able to pursue their desires. But, sure, let's FIGHT for hetero-permissibility.

One film not in English; Divine is the only trans character or performer mentioned; not a single non-white character; no films from outside Eurowestern context; nothing earlier than 70s or more recent than The Babadook. This is so incredibly embarrassing. www.dumptheguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

All the parents in the US have to unite against the use of AI in schools like some people unite over shit like drag queen story times. AI will make a generation of children mentally stunted while drag queen story times add whimsy to literacy. It’s time to wake up.

Library "Science" still seems like misnomer to me, considering what is taught to and what is practiced by the vast majority of people with that degree. Professional and "science" are different concepts.