A Republic, if you can keep it.

You put it out into the void and the librarians, booksellers, and authors appear. What kind of books do you like to read?

Got mistaken for a mannequin again, but at least it kinda makes sense when I'm sitting, sewing, in costume.

Damn

All of the videos of the turn out at the Freedom 250 fair thing look like the worst nightmares I have about how my library programs will be received. I hope this helps cure me of my perpetual programming imposter syndrome.

"When we talk about the true history that happened, we have the opportunity to make this country better so that we can hopefully have a tricentennial." This, pretty much ⬇️ www.instagram.com/reel/DaL09eZ...

When I'm at a house party past my bedtime and someone starts telling me how they use ChatGPT for meal prep recipes.

I love how he claims at the end that DSA "hates the USA" when literally every video Mamdani posts is a love letter to NYC.

Every end of June for the last like 5-6 years feels like the Supreme Court is just video game combo punching me in the gut.

I don’t know man, who is “the Democratic Party” if it’s not the voters?Democratic voters choose candidates, not party leaders. And party leaders need to listen to what voters are telling us - and right now they are demanding our party be bolder.

Tish. Tish, no. Tish, I liked you, but what is this take, Tish?

Please stop asking libraries to be the Manic Pixie Dream Girl of Democratic society.

I need everyone to understand that internalization of the concept this headline is promoting is how I nearly worked myself into a breakdown this spring.

I just want companies to know that I never want to log into anything. If I have to log in to "view article for free" or to look at my package tracking info, I just won't use those things. All these password data breeches all the time, and you want me to put more passwords in more places ffs

Anyway, I finished a new gown today that I've been picking at on and off for two years. It's mint green, I swear. I can't get it to photograph mint green, but it is. I promise.

If I was worth $1 trillion, kids would never pay for school lunches. Libraries would always have all the budget they can use. Nonprofit hospitals would have everything they need to treat anyone & everyone. Housing-first programs would be funded up the wazoo. I daydream about it.

When I joke that I'm psychic, what I mean is that last night I had a dream that the buckle fell off one of my latchet shoes right before my program, and then today the heel cap fell off one of my latchet shoes right before my program, and shit like that happens to me all the time.

Humid af today. Better go do an 18th C dressing demo

I was reading the Cosmo article about the Hot Girls Read trademark drama and learned that some bookshop in Boca Raton has filed an application to try to trademark Blind Date With a Book. It's too Saturday for me to be this book angry. tmsearch.uspto.gov/search/searc...

I'm sorry for what I said in the hours before my dentist appointment. In my defense, I had a dentist appointment.

My closest "international" airport doesn't actually have a long enough runway for the aircraft often used for international flights. So please allow me, an airplane plebe, to just point out that diverting international flights from these sanctuary city airports is dumb for this physical reason.

a good portion of what people mean by “crime” is “visible homeless people, some of whom are behaving erratically“

You don't need to look at the 250th events as celebrating whatever tf this country is now; you can instead look at it as celebrating that time a whole bunch of people on this continent got fed tf up and did something about it, and use it as inspo to do the same. But better this time.

Sunday snuggles

“No texting and driving” they say as cars are manufactured with touchscreen tablets built into their dashboards

This... is going to make my job impossible. Time to start convincing my coworkers to make our Reference stations default to Duck Duck Go, I guess...

A handstitch a day keeps the cortisol at bay

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to get a library card and explore your local public library. I plan to do so next weekend.

I took a long walk and bought two rudbeckia plants from some teenagers running a plant sale this morning; my camicia fabric arrived so I prewashed that and then discovered that I may get TWO peonies blooming in backyard this year (last yr only one). Idk I'm just trying to have a nice day, fam.

Trying to stitch through it as the doggo groggily recovers from an unexpected procedure today.

Libraries need hardcovers because they stand up better to repeated loans.

I take Fluoxetine one week per month because I have PMDD and the one week per month that PMDD was giving me depression, panic attacks, and temper tantrums was impacting my ability to do my job and maintain relationships. Do you want worker bees or not? Fuck off with this.

The way I constantly pingpong between "omg I'm so lazy and useless, I'm a waste of space" to "oh no, I've overscheduled myself to the point I'm so stressed I feel like I may die" and yet somehow never learn moderation

Adulthood is just cycling between "If I don't say yes to every opportunity, no new opportunities will ever be offered to me" and "Oh no, I have said yes to too many things" over and over until you die.

Stressed, depressed, but 18th century dressed.

Friendly reminder that you can get the Blockbuster browsing and borrowing experience at your local library. Your taxes probably already pay for it. And some of us don't even charge ANY late fees any more.

$5.25 an hour at a local shoe store, in the stock room, in 1999.

I will not apologize for being immediately distrustful of everything that happens around that man. He spent the last decade yelling that the media and gov't officials were liars and I have learned the lesson too well, but not in the way he wanted.

Me after I've been left behind by AI

My breaking point today is ppl who insist they've never ever had to log into their account, it's just always taken them there, and refuse to acknowledge how web browsers and smart phones work that lets them remember their shit

"There's a point in your life where you see a bunch of evil shit happening, and you have a chance to stop something particularly egregious, and if you walk away from it, I just don't know why you're alive." Chisel this in stone and send it to every congress person & billionaire

Did a costume talk today; on the venue's social media post about it someone commented that they "learned a lot. Mostly that the time period undergarments were more supportive than uncomfortable" and that's really everything a historical costume girlie could wish for 🥺

"We need to use science to thwart the science threat that we created." Is that what I'm hearing? Big "I'm a hero for putting out the fire I started" energy.

I'm impatient to put new phlox, rudbeckia, hostas, and asters in the ground to replace what the moles and rabbits have eaten the last 2 years. But while it's hot enough I just had to get my shorts out, it's going to be 30° overnight for the next few nights and I am frustrate.

(1997-2003)

If you really want to be "tough on crime" you'll support investment in schools, training programs, and affordable housing, and make companies pay their workers a living wage. You want to end the poverty-crime-homelessness cycle you'll start there. Period.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

Me patiently waiting for Dr. Mel King reenactor memes

This is catastrophic.

"I don't want to happen but it probably will" is classic abuser language: "look what you made me do." Except it's not on the scale of a household, but of a nation of 90 million and millennia of civilization.....