Wife: It appears the only original reporting the NYT does anymore is on the transphobia beat on the side of transphobia

Wienerschnitzel near me has been doing AI chat ordering in the drive through for about a year. A nice thing is that it repeats back the order very clearly and I don't have to worry about exasperating a human if I'm changing it. Vehicle profiling is wild though.

Reached the point in my life where if the cheap tool is more than $10, I'm buying the highest quality one instead.

Why are they grilling The Fonz?

Saw a children's display for Trans Day of Visibility I did a few years back. I'm not a fan of jargon so here's what I wrote: "Transgender means your gender isn't the same as what people guessed when you were born." Maybe this will help if you want a kid-sized definition that works for adults too.

The true problem with BlueSky. Patsy and Hedy. Feb. 1974.

Well hopefully more people will realize this is a racist saying. I only put it together a few years ago when I got the habit of thinking about all figures of speech I consider using as a children's librarian. Grew up hearing it as a very common expression along with "wait a cotton-pickin minute."

Heads-up that the screenshot here is constructed from quotes in different locations but presented as one continuous quote, and it still doesn't say what the summary claims. It *is* bad to have feds say terrorist groups exist that are "radically pro-transgender" when ~all of them are radically anti.

I wish subscription services offered an ad free but infrequent usage tier. I'd love to stay subscribed to newspapers.com, Apple TV, and YouTube essentially forever but it feels wasteful when I'm not focused on a particular thing currently.

I was annoyed when a major villain on LUKE CAGE was quoting from The 48 Laws of Power, but felt better later on when it shown that his biggest flaw was not listening to the solid, expert advice given to him personally by the criminal consultant pro.

Periodic reminder that "I don't need this microphone; I project" is always deluded asshole behavior. The reason these people don't usually hear pushback is that people who know them know that ~talking to them about things~ is pointless. "That's Bob. He doesn't use the mic or correct pronouns."

I was behind a Catholic family's SUV in Albuquerque just now that had bumper stickers "Jesus is Essential" and "America First." Which is hard not to read: Jesus is essential, but America first.

Saying a little prayer for everyone at the grocery store nearby. They had their entire point of sale system replaced yesterday. Shout-out to all public facing workers who came in today!

Libraries don't "push" inclusion on communities that don't want it. Libraries recognize the diversity within communities, and include that.

This is still utter crickets, btw.

Enjoying IRON FIST season 1. How to you make a guy who can already beat anyone in a fight interesting and have room for growth? Terrible parenting.

Free IVF and childcare for all Americans then? ...no?

Yep. Good person / bad person thinking is too often used as a low-cut filter for recognizing bad behavior.

Bluesky is the book app

I can't imagine anyone working in public services jobs thinking men aren't allowed to express emotion. But yeah, this poster suggests men just *try* to express whatever emotions they think they can't. And as usual, guys have shown up upset at the suggestion they stop oppressing themselves.

Lotta people in comments and reposts accusing people of being bad students. But American education has been very non-uniform. My own K-12 history classes never went past the Civil War.

My prediction with the Mandalorian theater movie is that, right near the end, the kid will say "dad."

Dream memory evaporation especially annoying when I have a good songwriting session in a dream, including writing down the lyrics and humming the melody into a voice recorder.

What got me out of conservative fundamentalism in the late 90s was the dual drumbeat of "objective truth matters, not popularity" and then a set of beliefs that are objectively proven false. Sure seems like the first pretense has been dropped by modern conservatives.

Me: Have you considered never using Microsoft Publisher again? Microsoft: Have you considered never using Microsoft Publisher again? Me: Hey, what the hell?

If you wear this t-shirt to a queer event it will start great conversations, I'm living proof! Also some people started singing "Bread and Roses," so...

For the last several years, I've asked folks to share with me the pushback they've received before, during, and after Pride when it comes to events, programs, and displays in libraries. Here's this year's form. Please share far and wide and use it. All anonymous: tinyurl.com/Pride-Librar...

There is a difference between authority and leadership that people with authority tend to forget.

"Active Nonfiction" section: worth considering.

It's not extremist to call for the deletion of all GenAI models trained by a process that broke the law.

With years of children's librarian experience, I can say it's best to hold up the gems in kidlit, ignore the books of lower interest, and occasionally identify specific things as harmful. In reality, there are *so many* amazing things being published that don't get the attention they deserve.

My answer to "Why don't you also despise this online person?" is usually that I haven't spent an entire focused hour to figure out what people are even talking about.

Choo-choo time in Albuquerque.

Just saw HOKUM. Love this director. Of this, ODDITY and CAVEAT, I still think ODDITY is the tidiest and has the most mass appeal but the thing that's true for all three is an incredible sense of physical space. Walls exist within the storyspace, not just as boundaries or backdrop.

Some of us yearn to be in a horror movie scenario.

A nice thing about being a for-personal-fun adult beginner pianist is that I can just practice scales and my goal songs and no one can stop me.

Taking a Saturday off just to have a full weekend with my spouse for once. ❤️

Lotta weed shops in Albuquerque and not a one of them is named Arroyo Highness.

My own theory is that horror and mystery genres have helped Catholics look cooler than other Christian sects.

I'm enjoying the first season of JESSICA JONES, but it's hard to cope with her *protecting* the serial killer from harm because she wants to save one white girl from an unjust prison sentence, when Killgrave just keeps killing other people.

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Got my copy today! I knew of Uncle Devin when I first gave my own professional development a few years back. While prepping for the update, I found out he put out a book. Held off on ordering until I was finished with it. Now I can compare notes with someone else fired up about spreading this info!

I don't care NEARLY as much about books for adults being banned from schools than I do about books for kids and teens being banned from schools.

Many storytimes begin or end with singing "Hello Friends" or "Goodbye Friends," often with ASL gestures. This song was written as "Farewell Ladies" in 1847 by E.P. Christy to end Christy's Minstrels blackface shows and included "We'll sing the minstrels' parting lay. So, darkies all now sing away."

You acting humorless and miserable does not actually make the authoritarians go away

I found out culantro doesn't taste like soap for everyone for whom cilantro tastes like soap...but sadly it turns out they're both soapy for me. :( The secret taste! Will I never find out what others are experiencing?

Affordable wood furniture.

Literally me. (Image stolen from Reddit)

I too would like to be Apple CEO when I turn 50. My focus would be user empowerment.

Teens today are probably picking up Tolkien and wondering why it wasn't obvious to all of Gondor that Denethor having a *palantír* was a bad idea.