Romance novelists who are loudly anti-AI are also currently 3D printing hundreds of thousands of whistles for ICE resistance, so anyone throwing around terms like Luddite without context can go hang out in the sea.

We need to eliminate private, for profit insurance immediately. I never want to have to read a sentence like that again about anyone.

People in Albuquerque act like it's a very windy city just because occasionally it's a normal level of windy for the high plains.

Found out the New Mexico state motto half an hour ago and I'm still snorting about it.

My illustrations celebrating Nancy Drew entering the public domain

Beautiful work. Good cause.

The MAIN reason men are against gun control laws is that they see a slippery slope from (a) not being able to easily murder a crowd of people to (b) not being able to easily threaten intimate partners with a gun.

One way to tell if you're marginalized or not is whether the concept of purity works against you or for you.

here's my hot take on the HEA wars. I don't care if normies don't know about the genre requirements for romance. I DO CARE when media outlets don't bother to learn and misinform their readers, & writers who want to cash in on romance readers without respecting the HEA/HFN can fuck all the way off.

Well in MY playthrough of Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, Sparta got its ass kicked by Athens with Socrates sending me out on kill missions, so...

A colleague asked what I thought about middle schoolers last week. "I love middle schoolers as a group. They're becoming aware of the problems with the world they're inheriting. They want to know the real deal, not the little kid version, and then they want to do something about it."

My spouse saw me laugh on the couch watching Apple TV on my phone and said, "Oh I thought you were crying!" "I'm doing both. This is the state I'm in EVERY time I watch Ted Lasso."

Somehow I didn't find out last time I prepared for this talk that "Jump Jim Joe" is a currently popular storytime action song. Holy shit. You have to be kidding me. *Googles* *scrolls* *scrolls* .... *scrolls*

Scripts are really important for library staff to have and practice to help set boundaries and expectations around patron behavior. I made a Google doc for examples. Anyone can edit and add more docs.google.com/document/d/1... #publibs #skybrarians

Historical tidbit of the day: You may have known that Pepsi's Mountain Dew was named after moonshine and was intended to be a whiskey chaser, BUT did you know Coke's Mello Yello was named after the song Mellow Yellow which singer Donovan said he named after a dildo?

My high-strung cattledog is sleeping with her legs pushing against new, chill cattledog's back and he's almost pushed off the edge of our bed. Any time he shifts, she wakes up and growls at him like *he's* the problem. Anyway, he's on leash for all walks now. Came a loooong ways in two months.

I have this weird idea that manager hiring should involve asking the people the applicants have managed and supervised what they think.

Slurs have secondary impact on everyone in the class of people. You should really stop and learn this lesson before supporting misogyny against all women again.

I've been in an old lady activist group chat for the last month and it's been great.

We should all make a library display "Books written without AI" for the conversations.

I'm needing to take a little break from racist historical research. Feeling sick. But I'll get back to it because no one gets to take a break from its legacy, one way or another.

Yes. And the answer isn't, "Close your heart to their suffering."

I'm over here drowning in public domain books of 19th century dialect recitations and wondering where the popular history books ABOUT this are.

We've got a million men complaining about loneliness because they won't do care work besides leaving the house for work, then we've got this guy charting new worlds while looking like David Koresh.

At what point will it become invalid to say "I'm old so I never figured out these computers"? Or will today's infants be saying it?

guy who will definitely for sure vote for civil rights unless you say he can only have ten cartridges in his gun

Whooo just walked around a full block on a leash?

Tonight we were able to walk him on a leash to the mailbox a few houses down.

Storytimes can exclude by: * The environment failing to be as welcoming to some kinds of families as others. * Story selection being all white kids and animals. * Storytime materials containing racist elements. Our good intentions need KNOWLEDGE as a guide.

rolling into the comic book shop tmrw to pick up my supernatural valentine's day oneshot like

The commonsense reform we moderate Democrats want for ICE is no ICE.

Albuquerque area folks, come to an open mic for read alouds tomorrow, Feb 4 at 11 a.m. I'll be your guest host and I'm bringing favs from my children's librarian career. You can bring your own favorite read aloud to share too! Optional opportunity to show support for the freedom to read.

I have no qualms about putting the shadow of this label on older men pursuing young *adult* women. Purity culture is a culture of pedophilic values. And it's messing with young people's right to read and be educated because these guys want a legal form of a young girl who doesn't know anything.

"He said / she said" is grammatically formatted to express an equivalence, rhetorical cover for the fact it reinforces a hierarchy, what Miranda Fricker calls "testimonial injustice." I talk about this in BAD LANGUAGE in relation to Kassandra, the Oresteia, prophecy, law & who gets heard.

No, you're not personally expected to have known and believed a survivor of rich people's sexual violence. But you could have stopped using the phrase "he said / she said."

Police pointing guns at unarmed people has been the norm for a while. But, yes, I hope ICE ruins this for them all. I remember news photos of them pointing guns at a little Black girl where I lived in Nebraska. They said sorry that was the wrong little Black girl.

The more I hear people discuss astrological signs, the less I see it as harmless and the more I see it as another prejudicial lens that keeps people from seeing each other as they are.

This good boy whom I had to escort back out of the library often before adopting him would like to sleep on my pillow with his nose tucked under my neck if I'd just stay still for that.

For Albuquerque area readers. 📚 (My spouse and I will likely be there.)

Okay, buddy, early morning walk is done. You've gotta move so I can lie back down on my pillow. Dog:

Yep, I don't care about anyone's motivations or excuse about communication. There's too much sexist, anti-queer, and racist baggage with that term. You may as well be talking about "clean people." You should know better by now. ("Clean girl aesthetic" gets the same lecture.)

I really do believe comics are a perfect tool for curing tiktok brain and regrowing attention spans, and we should publicize that

Dear authors: PLEASE post about your books! In many cases I am following you because I like your books and want to be told when there’s another one, or a sale, or an award, or anything! You are not bugging me when you talk about your books!

What difference does "equity" make to a library? It means access for people with disabilities who can't follow strict rules about noises. ...or who've just had their ID taken in a homeless camp sweep. ...or who don't have a safe place to store extra bag. ...or who want to see themselves in books.

I assure you that no one has more overdue notifications than this librarian. We aren't judging.

Something to keep in mind about Minnesotans protesting unarmed with guns being pointed at them is that they more or less ALL have access to a gun, but are choosing not to bring one. Bravery isn't holding a gun. Bravery is standing up to other people holding a gun.

NY Times headline: "Gen Z doesn't like Harry Potter because they've fallen out of love with liberalism." Me: I'm tired of guessing when "liberalism" is supposed to mean far left, far right, or centrist.

Dog training update. Last week we tried taking him out to the driveway and back and exceeded his threshold. He's fine on leash now in the backyard but knowing he's truly "out" leashed is triggering. So today I started literal threshold training where front doors are propped open & we treat there.

Spending all day saying "Storm's comin.'"

Quite possibly THE most political assertion of our era.