"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried

Oh hey @xkcd.com built a flow chart of #ExecutiveFunctionTheft ! xkcd.com/3175/ (banging head against the wall)

Faint heart never won fair himbo.

I think we lost it in editing but I talked about that very thing. Real rural life is virtually invisible — no art for dollar stores and meth clinics. And its racial diversity is erased. Actual rural people, especially poor ones, cannot access its aesthetic power

ILL librarians up the arrival or each borrowing request 📚

ILL/resource sharing is likely the only reason I remained in libraries, even when it was hard to do so. I genuinely enjoyed the work, still do. Very little siloing because we’re incentivized to work in support of one another, and one another’s patrons. Quick aside: ILL is primarily run by staff 🙌

A couple weeks ago we got a lovely note from someone on the other side of the country thanking us profusely for ILLing a book to them. Curious, we looked up the book they borrowed. It would have cost $1,200 for them to purchase it. ILL is one of the things I love most about libraries.

The problem with “just one more thing on my list” is that lists aren’t lists, they are recursive trees. And when you pop a node off that tree, it might have a near infinite tree of other tasks nested under it.

0 days since our last stupid injury: cracked skin on dominant thumb now bleeding in maximally inconvenient way

Packing up the craft/sewing supplies aka oh here are all the straight pins I've been buying and losing and buying again for the last 6 years

the island danes have always been known as great seamen, but their landed cousins were no less renowned in the viking age for their abilities to march long distances. those jutes were made for walkin'

GANDALF: Can you see anything? FRODO: There's nothing…Wait. There are markings. It's some form of Elvish. I can't read it. GANDALF: There are few who can. The language is that of Mordor, which I will not utter here. In the common tongue it says, "Light the lamp, not the rat."

we care less about your listening habits than your streaming habits.

I guess at least they did it the Cornish way

Libraries are really THE place to find out without fcking around all that much tbh

Alas, it was not

it has foundations now!!! After it almost collapsed fifty years ago due to, you guessed it,

Frog knocked at Toad’s door. “Toad, wake up,” he cried. “Come out and see how wonderful the winter is!” “I will not,” said Toad. “I am in my warm bed.”

Daily bunny no.3156 can give you some recommendations

who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there

It is time for millennials to pass the torch. Or take turns carrying it because who tf can afford a new torch these days.

Eventually today's boring payroll record become tomorrow's fascinating database.

Youth pastor, who just saw K-pop Demon Hunter’s, voice: “ you know who else defeated a hell mouth?”

Oh joy, another helpful AI infographic via LinkedIn. Off I go to my job as a liberaian, maybe to run some critical evaligane workshops and of course use New! Boulean! Logic!

Yet.

What to do about foreign talent? A debate raged in the court of Qin 2,200yrs ago: ‘Important officials told the King of Qin: “People from [other] states who come to serve Qin merely travel here to cause dissension in Qin on behalf of their own rulers. We request the complete expulsion of aliens.”

This is a big part of why basically every archaeologist who gets asked "when in the past would you want to have been alive?" will answer "the present please and thank you"

Thinking about Christmas presents? Maybe you want to get a book of little paper figures from a classic work of literature for the reader in your life! crogan.bigcartel.com/category/pap...

Them: did you study abroad? Me: nope. No real traveling actually. I mean I've never been to Greenland and I've never been to Denmark and I've never buried treasure in St. Louis or St. Paul and I've never been to Moscow and I've never been to Tampa and I've never been to Boston in the faaaaaaaall

Belike you mean to make a puppet of me.

Okay, lets break down this image! Background; I have a masters in architecture, and I have worked for a firm that specialized in custom built, detached family homes, which is what this is obviously supposed to be. I also worked for a firm drafting custom high end kitchens. So lets analyze this...

Tag yourself, I’m the two bathtubs in the laundry room

"oh but isn't everything online for free now"/"well we don't need that, we've got Amazon" (interlibrary loan)

This is Jelly. She screams for ice cream. Has been at this for about 15 minutes with no luck though. 12/10 justice for Jelly (IG: jellythesamoyed)

“So the plan is to replace all their jobs with AI” Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”

Perks of working at a library: -weird (compliment) coworkers -ready access to books -ability to backdate returns (shhh) -tons of very nice used-once acquisitions boxes that can be repurposed for moving

Absolutely this! Especially if you are going away but check anyway because what with holidays, pharmacy opening hours and all, it can be harder to get a last minute repeat - be prepared!

Will this technically belong in the adult nonfiction section in a library? Probably. Am I definitely purchasing it for the juvenile nonfiction section at my library? ABSOLUTELY. #booksky #librarysky #publibs #GLAMs #skybrarians 📚

I joke with my sister that he would get no scoped as a warrior cat

today on #EarwormRadio we have a snippet of something that is a) Probably John Williams and b) from a franchise I don't immediately recognize but which I have heard enough to have stuck in my head, which means it's probably either Superman or Home Alone

Daily bunny no.3155's package has arrived

Making this my 2026 motto: yes we're helpful, but 'Librarians also do not have endless time and bandwidth and resources'

It's the most wonderful time of the year.

If a video has no captions, I don't watch If a video has no captions I don't watch I don't wanna have to listen It's hard work but have you considered That if your video has no captions I won't watch.

I’ve played a lot of simcity but I didn’t know you could go pro

#computer #tractor_feed #trypophobia

if you’re cold they’re cold let your demons in

having a fun and exciting afternoon with a

Good news! No skeletons, asphalt instead of concrete. Bad news: EIGHT. INCHES. DEEP. I said what I said, I’m too tired for dick jokes, have at it.