Don't be jealous but I completed a task today that's been on my to do list since the last week of August.

Scott Bessent sends me over the edge.

“She got one of ✌🏿them✌🏿” Does she have healthcare? Is there a roof over her head? Does he have food on his table? A sex worker has never kidnapped an immigrant Denied snap benefits Or blown up Venezuelan fishermen

Just yesterday, I told my BIL we weren't coming to OKC for Christmas due to the shutdown chaos.

I can't believe the assignment I pulled out of the air was confusing to students.

I don't know what will happen in NYC tonight, but I do know that regardless of outcome, any number of public figures, celebrities, politicians and institutions that oppose Mamdani have done so with a level of rhetorical ugliness, racism, and dishonesty that should neither be forgotten nor forgiven.

It's the trait I want most to encourage in my students.

I am a man of the people… if there are no gay people involved i don’t wanna participate

It doesn’t matter what I think. Also, none of this would ever happen. But if I had a zillion dollars: 1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…

New (dare I say spicy?) Guest Editorial just dropped. Co-written with @meganmk.bsky.social crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr... 🌶🌶🌶

My favorite thing about her is that she's been an ambassador and cheerleader for the character of Wonder Woman for almost fifty years now. She never stopped being that girl

My students read this. They really don’t like the idea of their work going into an LLM and they want professors to be transparent about how AI will be used or not used in class.

No, you’re the one who was “on” and being funny for the person observing my pcp visit, not me! Sometimes the youngest child in me comes out swinging.

Please respect my privacy in this moment as I cry over a student actually using a hanging indent. 🤣

Apparently I woke up and decided to set a new personal record for how many tabs I can have open that are D2L. I'm grading an assignment where I need to see what they did the previous assignment and what I said about what they did. Plus the usual tabs when grading.

I'm reading The Eagle & The Hart by Helen Castor. It's about Richard II & Henry IV. This passage was LOL: To no one's surprise, the French proved unwilling to pause their preparations for war while Richard tried to kill his uncle and assault his archbishop.

This past week I've spent time pulling ephemera off our shelves in the Zs. Begone 3-ring binders and spiral bound documents! Also, random tiny pamphlets about libraries in other states from the 80s and 90s are outta here!

With all the bad shit going on, this is a mid-complaint. I am angry that CBS gave Michael Weatherly another show.

I believe in redemption in a great many cases, but it has to include regret, which you signal by doing all you can to reduce the harm as soon as possible.

Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull” First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided. With me so far? 1/x

Too cute. I have no defense against Cookie Monster interacting with people. Can't stop smiling!

Left a webinar discussion immediately because they started us off in breakout rooms.

Harper, I'm looking at you! Queen of the "how did you get there?" cats.

Dying over the purple in today’s Connections!

Thinking of a friend who asked her students what they wanted for snacks to celebrate finishing a project. They said meatballs, then nachos. They got cookies, cupcakes, & fruit. Meatballs! 🤣

Portland's attitude towards protesting is very much "all the cool kids are doing it" so it's not within my direct experience to have to weigh it as a potential reputation ruiner, but a lot of people did that calculus today and were brave anyway and I just think that needs to be said more often

OKC was just one of 19 cities in OK to have a No Kings rally. These are the others: Tulsa, Norman, Lawton, Stillwater, Ardmore, Durant, Idabel, Pauls Valley, Ada, McAlester, Chandler, Guthrie, Enid, Ponca City, Bartlesville, Tahlequah, Muskogee, and Miami. www.newson6.com/story/68f39d...

We believe that in the wealthiest city in the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, working people deserve a dignified life. And to the billionaires who think this movement is an existential threat to their corruption of our democracy: you're right.

I'm grading the assignment where students have to find a scholarly article for their topic. It's always chaos but it also helps me know how each student is doing so far in class.

I don't have something I can link y'all to yet, but I have some very credible and important information I need to share. The American Library Association laid off what I've heard is 15 people this week. Among them was the director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom. ALA has no OIF anymore.

Dying over my university asking me to complete a survey that takes 30-40 to complete.

also many things about her life and by extension mine are more challenging than they might be otherwise, but many things are great and I’ve never wished her different—that just feels very foreign to me. like, she just is who she is. I don’t want a different kid! I want the world to be better for her

<inside SCSU baseball>I do not want standardized D2L course shells. I hate the one for accelerated courses so much and I'm worried we'll do something like that.</inside SCSU baseball>

not directing this at Greg but this is what BLM was all about. trying to explain to people that the guns they aim at Black folks just minding their own business will be turned on everyone if we dont course correct and here we are.

I figured out today that I'm the oldest library employee. How the hell did that happen?

re: conversion therapy: if your religion goes against the science in your field, you SHOULDN'T be doing the job. like you shouldn't become a science teacher if you don't believe in evolution. like what are you even arguing?!

if one day—one day—we finally get an athlete who is a vocal atheist … i am gonna be their number one, die-hard fan i get so sick of all this god and jesus crap all the time #wnba

As a Black girl from Oklahoma and Texas, Beyoncé creating Cowboy Carter made me feel incredibly seen; these parts of my identity made sense out loud and the concert was otherworldly. Beyoncé is also a billionaire artist who borrows the aesthetics of civil rights

I loathe Sean Payton!

To sum up: interactions you have with other human beings through text are still interactions with other human beings. Interactions with LLMs are not, but they are designed to look and feel like that, in ways that will train you to forget that other people are people.

RIP Patricia Routledge one of the best ever to do it.

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

My workplace is even more CHAOS than normal but my students are giving me life with their research questions. Topics include: social media and mental health, consumer satisfaction with car makers; Green Day; greenhouse emissions and weather; bladder obstructions in cats, just to name a few.

Are Nerds Gummy Clusters the human equivalent of Churus?

I know Phee looked Cathy in the windows of her soul, and she just said it. She said “biiitttttccch, get it together, before we keep making other options” #wnba

If I send you this, just know I'm about to speak my truth 😤 #wnba #napheesacollier

napheesa put that boot on, took her belt off, and swung it at cathy's ass! 🔥🔥🔥

Napheesa Collier woke up and chose violence

The Spark notes version of Phee's statement: #WNBA

Wonder if my students will mind if I skip grading to like and repost every post about Phee's exit interview?