People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

Goodreads' "readers also enjoyed" feature is just giving the same 12 books for everything, no matter what type of book you're looking at, & Storygraph's "books similar to" feature suggests the most esoteric, hard-to-find, and often low reader ratings titles. Can we have a functioning readalike tool?

Buffy Summers Xander Harris Willow Rosenberg Rupert Giles

Well now I ACTUALLY hate the US men's hockey team

Free us from our snowy prison or the posting will continue.

So the women’s team only inspires the next generation of girls to play hockey but the men’s team inspires all Americans, got it got it got it.

Ngl I'm a little salty that while I saw hockey ppl celebrating the record-setting US women's hockey run to olympic gold, it's only now that the US mens team has gold that posts celebrating US hockey are absolutely flooding my feed. Like...

YouTube homepage is down. Just in case it DOES have something to do with the Colbert Talarico interview, I will now watch the Colbert Talarico YT exclusive, which luckily can still be searched up.

I keep seeing women make these long, well explained posts about how the SAVE act will make voting more expensive/difficult for married women & trans folx and how it relates to Jim Crow poll taxes and on every one of these posts there's their one White Male Friend who just comments "Bullshit."

"We understand that your doctor thinks this drug is medically necessary for you, but we asked our Very Special Doctor who is paid by us, your insurance company, and he said it's not medically necessary, so 🤷‍♀️"

I effing love public transportation. Might be my favorite part of being on vacation. I got on the $1 local shuttle this morning and I was like "damn, I love this shit."

o rly

Student at the beginning of class: "I've been wanting to learn to sew, but didn't know where to start, so I thought a class would be good." Said student near the end of class: "yeah, I'm ready to make this my entire personality."

Yesterday I was casually looking around the files and found an email to JE from Soon-Yi Previn, Woody Allen's wife, where she said she found it disgusting that Andrew Weiner's 15 year old victim was publicly accusing him and ruining his life. These people are awful.

Do people actually not know what a central role fashion has played in social movements??????

So the guy who argued with a Black lawyer/journalist bc she said putting your name on a protest list is bad opsec. Got kicked out of ICE Rapid Response for... bad opsec. And he's confused about it.

There was a case in Upstate NY two(?) yrs ago a o-d VT deputy was in a bar fight. Local PD found him with gun drawn, shouted commands to drop it for a good 10-20 secs. He did not. They fired. Deputy lived. Later said he never heard them. If a trained LEO can't act perfectly in hightened situation..

There are no more than like 12 ICE agents assigned to my county that we've been able to document. There are 6 different polling sites in my city ALONE, not to mention the rest of the county. I'm sorry, what are you talking about?

I dress to match my own perception of myself in my head that day, and then when people comment on my outfit I freeze like a rabbit spotted in a hedgerow, because I do not wish to be perceived, actually.

*incoherent screaming*

Transphobia is a cancer of the heart and mind. It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty. Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face. Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up.

Five concerts you’ve seen with women lead singers The Judds (I was like 4) Nightwish Rasputina Pink Martini Joan Jett

U.S. in a battle royale with all these right now

Let's punish those living in the U.S. with higher prices because Europe doesn't want us to take over Greenland? Truly, 4-D chess. Just, slow clap, everyone.

This continues to be the language of abusers. "Look what you made me do." "If you wouldn't talk like that, I wouldn't get so mad."

I hope Tesla's sentinel mode records sound, because I just informed an incorrectly parked Tesla that "this is not a PARKING SPACE. This is a SIDEWALK."

"Get civil" to them means "shut up and take it." It means "if you speak up for your own rights, you're being UNcivil." This is the language of abusers.

If you have time to doom scroll, you have time to read books!

Having 3 Drs appointments, 2 library programs, and PMS the first week I'm back to 100% after having the flu is just the unfortunate, mostly out-of-my-control confluence that just really sucks and there isn't much I can do about.

Working at a deli, cut my finger on a bagel. Not the bagel knife, the edge of the bagel. Didn't realize it went into my skin at first. Finished buttering it, wrapped it for the customer, took glove off and squeezed my finger. When blood came out I snatched the bagel back yelling "don't eat that!"

I was once Very Wrong on the Internet, and among the snark one person very calmly explained why I was wrong, and changed my life. And now, unfortunately, that has made me one of those people who feels like I Must Say Something when someone is Wrong on the Internet, bc if it worked for me...

Can't wait until the library late fee fans who scream "just return your books on time, it's not hard!!" find out I'm a librarian who wouldn't use the library before I got my FT library job bc I could never remember to return my books on time while working 3PT jobs, and didn't want to accrue fines.

Seriously, this administration can cover up the Epstein files and bury the victims WHILE ALSO destroying the lives of lots of other people and the foundations of our US government. They can do all that at once. On purpose. With intent. We don't have to ignore one crime for another.

Some professional things I'd like to do in 2026: •submit a proposal for a NYLA program •get my bestseller ordering back into a good flow, where it hasn't been since we broke up with McNs and B&T went kaput •Local History Fair 2.0: now with more History

Okay, I'll brag a little. ✅ planned a Read-In & open mic in support of libraries where we collected 100 supportive testimonials from patrons that we then scanned, printed, and mailed to our Senators & Reps ✅ started a program series w/a PoliSci prof teaching civics; gets 50 attendees on the reg (1/)

Staying up until midnight just so I can set my 2026 reading goal.

Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice. Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.

When I worked as a barista we learned a dropped shot glass has no lid--we'd sometimes pull espresso shots into a shot glass, & sometimes the vibration of the machine would shake that half full glass right off the tray. Trying to catch it meant 1st or 2nd degree burns. You let that thing fall & break

I've been watching a lot of TV while home with the flu, and the ad where the guy describes his girlfriend to an AI so it can tell him what to get her for Christmas is killing my last shred of hope for humanity.

I am two books and one sewing project away from completing my 2025 goals, but now I have the flu and cannot concentrate or sit up for long periods. 😫

Me, but replace the word "novel" with "sewing project."

If you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.

It took me 3 months to get an appointment with a neurologist.

"I use AI as a shortcut to reading the whole book." Yeah, well, I guess we all might as well pack it up and ask AI to shortcut our lives, because wtaf

Just ask them "hug, handshake, or high five" and then you still get to engage with them while allowing them agency? Plus their little face is so cute as they very seriously consider which one they'd prefer (at least my nephew's is).

This morning's cringe, "okay, Milennial" thought: Fuck these companies trying to make me/my eyeballs/my attention span a customer; I just wanna go be a costumer.

You will be visited by three spirits

Me in December: "you can do things after 6pm, you know." Also me:

Anyway, time to share some art. Finished this after letting it languish in the UFO pile on and off for 2 years. Mid-1890s, made in silk taffeta and cotton velveteen.

I'm re-reading @georgetakei.bsky.social 's They Called Us Enemy for book group and I want to scream? Why aren't we all screaming??