Please please watch tomorrow night on PBS. Most people have no idea what librarians are dealing with. Some heavy hitters in our field are in this movie. @librarianjones.com @sassylibrarian.bsky.social @becalzada.bsky.social

When I was a kid, the super bowl ads were all beer, cola, and Doritos. Then it was dot-coms. A couple years ago it was all crypto. This year is all AI slop, surveillance, and online betting. What a grim reflection of the world the tech oligarchs have wrought.

Ring: Thanks to us, ICE caught the dog, Noem shot it and RFK, Jr. ate it. The Aristocrats!

Aw🥰💕

LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this

Academics on staff profile photo day

I had to stop watching football when I first became aware of the NFL’s inaction on CTE, 2014ish. I used to love watching. But after seeing a documentary on the NFL’s unwillingness to care for their former players, I started feeling barbaric watching, like a feed-the-Christians-to-the-lions thing.

“We decided that, ultimately, it would be better for us to gamble" — a sobering read by @kffhealthnews.org :

Want a change of pace? Two years ago, I published this piece on Tracy Chapman and the generational longing of “Fast Car”: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/driving-in...

Gee what a surprise

The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit. Gentle Spades "I'm a veteran"

Never understood why so many folks look down on those who can present the news with humor, ala John Stewart, John Oliver, and Dave here. Heck, imo it’s *harder & smarter* and should be respected. Glad to see Dave being taken seriously as the (entertaining) journalist he in fact is. ( #Absurdism ftw)

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“Asked how he might one day explain to Liam everything that has happened, Conejo said he would tell his son that he had become the face of hope and change.” 😭🐰

Aside from the message, which I support, his control of his instrument is impressive

The president and all his rancid enablers really demand the creation of a new word that means “shocked but not shocked, but still shocked, but also totally NOT shocked, yet somehow still shocked, also always appalled, forever and eternally appalled by the endless abhorrence, and now I scream.”

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Let’s make it viral folks. Thank you @histoftech.bsky.social.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Absolute chills

Had seen this reposted many times & finally watched. Read the whole thread, watch & share this video. Play it for someone you know who doesn’t have social media. Find courage.

Wait so the solution is…

Trump wants to “nationalize” voting. Here’s what could happen if he does.

Well said!

He’s going to tear down the Kennedy Center. The entire building. He tore down half the White House and no one stopped him; now he’s doing this. It’s annoying how many people are pretending they don’t understand this is what he’s openly saying he’s going to do.

I love those kids, so proud of them. I would have loved them to have beaten him a bit longer, but the Kindness Always shirt-wearer seemed to help break it up. Poor babies shouldn’t have been subject to assault. What kind of man punches a child in the face?

🚨Worth a read! 🚨 This @kffhealthnews.org rundown of some options you have to get affordable care in 2026 if you're uninsured:

This article has some good info but ignores Ghislaine Maxwell, who is as key as Epstein. She was the daughter of Robert Maxwell, an Israeli spy and Russian mafia operative. Maxwell got key mafiosos out of the USSR by providing them Israeli passports. This allowed them to build a global network (1)

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

Woot!

Welp now that I’m all fired up at the cruelty and meanness and lasciviousness of nearly half the population of the U.S. (the orange menace voters) it’s a great time to go to work at the library and help shelve books and find holds for our patrons, esp the littlest ones who like dinosaurs💗

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to wake up at 5 am and don 30 lbs of tactical gear you bought off amazon to sit in a chevy tahoe in the parking lot of the elementary school where you kidnapped a five year old kid to intimidate his teachers. good luck soldier

If the father of my newborn child took TEN DAYS to visit him in the NICU while he was fighting for his life I’d have changed the locks to our house by the time he got back. If I later learned he abandoned us so he could spend time with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein I’d turn into The Joker.

Protecting the perpetrators and exposing the victims.

Bastards. Fuck the DOJ.

Fuckers. Fuck ICE.

This is how Tom Homan reacts to losing a court case to free a medically fragile 5-year-old who was used as bait to lure his dad so they could be imprisoned in a measles factory. Fuck any de-escalation stories that come out.

This is the most wholesome thing you’ll see today. Timeline cleanse.

Brilliant book. On sale.

Fantastic thread on protest gear!

Ah my heart! Was about to write that Lola Young got robbed at the Grammys BUT SHE WON and I am so happy for her! Her performance earlier in the show was so amazing and I love this recognition for her. youtu.be/k-k2_Liofy8?...

Seeing a bunch of these “Five classes I took in college” and many sound so fascinating! If I were to list mine it’d just look like I was having a stroke, or maybe a cat walked on the keyboard. DBMS COBOL RPG Bowling FORTRAN 🤓

Watched the cold open of SNL and I just can’t with the MN ICE jokes. Then thanks to @dieworkwear.bsky.social all I noticed about the host monologue was the 4” collar gap on Skarsgard’s jacket. Geez Louise. I’d better call it a day.

I think my greatest joy is hearing people recount how they are mentoring themselves now. Trying to teach principles i taught them, which they in turn value, to a new generation. Shoot that shit into my veins. I build people. The fuck else is the point of the world?

End of a fun, boozy saturday with people who used to work for me. People who have flown, and i am now proud to call friends. There is nothing. NOTHING. More satisfying as a leader than helping people fly. It is my drug. When i die, let the gods stick me in a bar with the people i helped, forever.

Steve Tisch owns half of one of the worst franchises in sports, was good buds with Jeffrey Epstein, appears to have engaged in multiple counts of sex trafficking and maybe statutory rape, and if he's forced out of the NFL he'll be left with nothing but $5 billion and probably a Presidential pardon.

Bought this off Gary Whitta’s shop last summer thinking it’d be a lark that I could wear three or four times before the joke got dated. But man alive, Pam Bondi and Kash Patel have worked really hard to make sure I get every penny out of this I can.

I’m no Trump supporter but the Melania doc isn’t as bad as some are saying. The part where she’s watching work on the East Wing & her eyes roll back in her head & she unhinges her jaw & eats a contractor’s head & arm is amazing.

omg my CPA uploaded a file I requested today, Saturday. Within an hour of my request. I even said no rush, not expecting to hear from you til next week because IT’S THE WEEKEND. I didn’t think accounting grind kicked in already! I’m against grind culture but damn it sure does benefit me. MOAR MATH

I have spent the entire day doing math. Calculating projected portfolio gains minus inflation, minus withdrawals, comparing it to where I need my IRA to be for an RMD that won’t jack my future Medicare premiums, comparing for different tax brackets, all to see how much to convert to my Roth. 1/2