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A deep dive into the current state of mental health in library work, including insight from over 200 library workers across the field. It's not only eye-opening. It includes numerous possible avenues for addressing the challenges. bookriot.com/the-state-of...

OOC QOTD: "Ooh, that *is* the good cardboard!"

Me convincing myself to buy yet another book.

In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies. I have translated some of the highlights

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

St. Agnes' Eve—ah, bitter chill it was!

Dunkin has bravely taken a stance in the war on protein

Hello everyone. This is Donnelly.

Ai summaryes for emayle: inboxshittification

How do Ich turn off the cursed AI summaryes yn gmail? How do Ich have them nevir appear agayne? How do Ich sende them back to the hell dimensioun yn which thei took form?

we found a use for the Big Sack of Unburnable Kindling

No one knows how the goblin war began. But everyone knows the goblins are to blame...Right? NINE GOBLINS is a novella of low fantasy and high mischief from the New York Times bestselling author @tkingfisher.com! ✨ Out today! https://tinyurl.com/ybyzuybt

It’s Penguin Awareness Day which seems like a great excuse to post the greatest ever Wikipedia edit.

I am once again going to fistfight a German periodical publisher WHAT DO YOU MEAN VOLUME FOUR HAS FIFTEEN SEPARATE PHYSICAL ITEMS

That is, ah, how capitalism works, my bro.

for fucks sake you don't chew a hockey puck for the flavour you do it for the texture

Over the past several days Legolas has been spending time wandering through Lórien and amongst its Elves—especially at night while the Company is asleep. Now he has started taking Gimli with him as he explores.

Question: if I can hear my upstairs neighbor (who I have not met) crying, am I supposed to go up and check on them or pretend I don't hear it?

Man, I’d be the worst if I ever got isekai’d into a fantasy world and had to solve riddles. “So we can’t kill him in day or night or indoors or outdoors with any weapon made by a man so we’ll kill him in a doorway at twilight with… you know what, have we tried just encasing him in concrete instead?”

My sister in law sent me this text today and I relate so much.

quick stoat & rat watercolor

[update] Scheduled: #AO3 will be down for about 15 hours starting at 08:00 UTC on January 21 while we make some improvements to searching bookmarks and series.

Stamina Kenta-kun, whose head is a delicious gyoza dumpling, promotes Kenta Gyoza restaurants in Utsunomiya City, Tochigi Prefecture.

😺 Nate the cat. 🛒 Aubuchon Hardware, Beverly, MA.

cow tools www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

To acquire further free books for stacking on Book Babel, a tower that shall one day reach God. Nothing bad will come of this.

When I am god empress of the universe people whose devices make noise in public will be flogged

guy who follows all the big skydiving accounts and thinks they're his friends, call that parasocial

on this weekend's episode of Better Roommating Through Toxic Chemicals, Emily lightly gasses the entire apartment if not the entire building in successful pursuit of clean tub grout

One of the most popular and crowd-pleasing arias in classical opera, "Perché non c'è cibo nella mia ciotola, donna?" tells an emotional tale of a desperately malnourished waif and translates into English as "Why Is There No Food In My Bowl, Woman?"

I used the volunteer at homeless shelters were the residents worked up to 38 hours per week doing manual labor. Many employers didn’t want them working 40 hours a week regularly, because then they’d have to offer benefits.

This week, us northern hemisphere folx will have made it through the darkest ten weeks of the year. The light is returning!

If at first you don't succeed...

The Acrobats, by Alexander Calder, 1944, 📸 by @Bessex_Joshua

The #Leverage team always has an exit plan. Watch #Leverage on #ElectricNOW. electricnow.tv/devices

Galadriel turns to Gimli, and uses Dwarvish names. ‘Dark is the water of Kheled-zâram, and cold are the springs of Kibil-nâla, and fair were the many-pillared halls of Khazad-dûm.’ Gimli bows. ‘Yet more fair is the living land of Lórien, and the Lady Galadriel…’

Woman drinking wine with her dog, Persia, 17th century

I am ready for "unputdownable" to fade into non-existence again.

Cached UK/IE #KindleBookGiveaway: 5 copies of @tkingfisher.com's Paladin's Grace (The Saint of Steel Book 1), which I have, have read, have enjoyed, and have given out before. Because this is a #UKKindleBookGiveaway, you MUST have an amazon.co.uk Kindle account to claim one!

rare photo of a dog where the halo is visible

I wish I could feel comfortable reading and sharing people's substacks, as there are really passionate people posting articles that are in my wheelhouse. But, I've not seen anything to say that they're combating their nazi bar status, only being fine with it and seeing them as 'thought leaders'.

Messages from the Lord and Lady reach the Company’s escort: the blindfolds can be removed. Haldir removes Gimli’s first. ‘Your pardon! Look on us now with friendly eyes! Look and be glad, for you are the first dwarf to behold the trees of the Naith of Lórien since Durin’s Day!’

One catte doth onlye lie, and the othir catte doth onlye telle the trouthe, and both cattes saye thei have not been fed.

After a successful election, staff at the Metropolitan Museum of Art are officially unionized. The new union will represent workers across 50 departments, including curators, librarians, conservators, visitor experience, and archivists.

Aster Omnino de Ora Fractu.

shrewdles

I called the Herr's Product Quality Concerns line and reached a nice lady. She listened to my whole little saga. She waited, then said, "I bet you believe they're made from real potatoes now!" I may never recover.