This is a hockey post.

Back in the days when a bunch of us were tweeting through truly unprecedented levels of #a2council insanity (ex: "deer lives matter," CM Hayner's stairs, meetings going until after the bars closed), a next-level stunt like this would have caused our bingo cards to spontaneously combust.

Best thing about paczki day is eating a leftover paczek for breakfast the following day.

the only way to improve Star Trek: TNG would be if they'd give each major character an episode where they fucked a ghost trapped in a candle

Dan pointing out that the people yelling about "dark money" in local politics in 2024 became the Every Accusation is a Confession caucus in 2025. #A2Council

RISE AND SHINE, you woodchuck-chuckers, and doooon't forget your booties, because it's COLD out there today!

I would like to end winter now. It’s been enough.

Cold update: I simply think temperatures should have two digits.

the only ice i support is the ice the gay hockey boys skate on

I will defeat this snowstorm with reason and logic

Doesn’t it make you crazy? Doesn’t it turn your blood to fucking gasoline?

now - especially now - a reminder that we are going to win. and this is why

they lie and lie and lie and don’t even care enough to craft plausible ones

I am running for #A2Council in the Fourth Ward! Please support our people-powered campaign and help us lead Ann Arbor forward. secure.actblue.com/donate/sova2...

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

Thank you, Canadian taxpayers!

People are out here proudly announcing that they intend be authors and that they have no interest in writing, that they deserve a large-audience of readers but they themselves only read to extract from the actual artists they plan to usurp. Baby, the cogs have learned to TALK. Wild times.

This, for the record, is what goes into a footnote. It’s the key part of the research process where I examine the practical, methodological, ethical implications of my sources before I join the stream of interpretation. It cannot be outsourced to an LLM.

Resetting the counter on the "days since the AHA did some dumbfuckery" sign to zero...

If this were true, they wouldn't be banning the medical care that does this.

Pushing AI onto university students is not about “workforce development”, it’s about creating consumers.

Have a short piece of writing due in January. Started a document and wrote 100 words. Please clap.

alright i've slept on it after leader training and: AFT radical caucus when

Now this is what we call realistic world-building! www.vulture.com/article/heat...

We wrote a book for library workers. Relevant for workers in museums and archives, too. alastore.ala.org/oryrlib

We have a long-running tradition of “no boomers allowed” turkey days. Attendees include a bunch of gen x and millennial siblings and cousins and whatnot. The meal is superb and the conversation sparkling!

We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language. It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.

Sometimes shenanigans aren't confined to the hotel. In 2009 I interviewed for a librarian job at a SLAC in Ohio. Meeting prospective colleagues in a room with portraits of the college's past presidents, someone sidled up to me and said in a stage whisper "we had a Jewish president once!"

I’m tapping the sign again… lareviewofbooks.org/short-takes/...

Kids these days are so fantastically ignorant that they can't recognize the Grand Nagus himself even when granted a personal audience. The average teenager can barely name 5 or 10 of the Rules of Acquisition.

gregnant*

“Baby is stored in the circle area,” @jasonkoebler.bsky.social said. lol. lmao, even.

This is like listening to my boomer dad who has uncontrolled type 2 diabetes talk about his blood glucose levels.

when I visited korea last year I went to haeinsa temple to see the tripitaka koreana, a set of 80k+ wooden printing blocks for buddhist scriptures, made in the 13th century en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripita...

Trump take cottage cheese?

i don't know who needs to hear this but phlox is easily a top 5 star trek character

Like 20 years ago my spouse accidentally bought banilla yogurt, and to this day we still say “oh no not banilla” every time one of us puts the (correct) yogurt in the fridge when unpacking the groceries.

Honestly, yes, one of the most personally embarrassing things is how a field so committed to parsing imaginary status distinctions suddenly cannot see that they’re pitching themselves as The University of Phoenix.

"What no one prepared us for, though, was that the logic that we followed—we want the business to succeed; we need our jobs to make money—didn’t apply to ownership." thebaffler.com/latest/a-fai...

Good union job here for an archivist! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Truly a long shot, but since your audience is basically queer librarians (and this book was written by a few of 'em), any chance @notalawyer.bsky.social & @michaelhobbes.bsky.social wanna tell people to buy our book about how to start a labor union at your library? 🥺https://alastore.ala.org/oryrlib

2025 is on pace to be Ann Arbor's worst year for pedestrian crashes. We talk with @crashesinannarbor.bsky.social's Peter Houk who complied these data. #a2Council www.damnarbor.com/2025/10/2025...

I mean if you're gonna call this symposium anything, you might as well lean in and name it after the best Trek, right?

In my late 30s/early 40s I was in a monthly wine club where we meticulously tasted a bunch of wines and got hammered (usually by accident). Today at 45, if I drink a single glass with dinner I will die.