Another reminder of how awesome Ursula K Le Guin was.

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY SORRY FOR OUR DELAY WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS WAS A REAL DAY.

This week felt like someone ran a blacklight over the hotel bedspread of politics and it all came up smeary swastikas

checkmate, utilitarians

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Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall! Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement. Check out how tiny the crowds were: Philly: 200 DC: "several hundred" Boston: 500 Austin: 1,000 Houston: 2,000

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Does this mean he won't wear his gym clothes to the Remembrance Day ceremonies this year?

She's right. The "jail" talk is pernicious nonsense. And there are real criticisms to be made of the RCMP that aren't just blanket slurs. But you all know that. I was just wanted to give May credit here for speaking sense in single syllables.

The ship’s whistle is about to sound.

Sexy Commuter Who Sits with Legs Together on Public Transportation Sexy Son Who Has a Healthy Relationship with His Mother Sexy Real Estate Agent Who Doesn't Assume the New Kitchen Is for the Woman of the House

Shoutout to whoever was like the news sucks, let’s spice it up by doing a jewel heist at the Louvre

“the president is less popular than the Vietnam war” should be a simply irresistible headline

A 60 second summary of some of the biggest and best sights from #NoKings Day. Congratulations to every single organizer, volunteer and attendee👏 History.

“…for an AI chatbot to generate an autopsy report, contract workers have to sift through thousands of gruesome crime scene images, a gig known as ‘data labeling.’”

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Are the No Kings protests Biden’s Katrina?

#NoKings Miami!

What a great idea. We could also do this for the library where I work, or the public library where I'm a regular patron....

Everyone needs to make their own choices, but it was pretty eye-opening to see what these accounts are posting. (I had a look and then blocked each account separately.)

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Wikipedia: "To avoid problems with European censors, Borkon cautioned Franju not to include too much blood (which would upset French censors), refrain from showing animals getting tortured (which would upset English censors) and leave out mad-scientist characters (which would upset German censors)."

Do not stay home tomorrow. We must stand up.

"Legal attacks." A few years ago I would have been more surprised to hear about that part.

I feel like we could add a clever collective noun for book banners and librarian-haters here too. (Unfortunately I am not clever enough to think of a good one.)

Also a special shoutout and thank you to the librarian at yesterday's breakout session who reminded everyone that I had already raised an idea that another person (a man) went on to make later.

“Tomorrow!” cried Toad. “I will do it all tomorrow!”

I’ve been a librarian for a long time and seen some bad things come around. But this moment is so demoralizing. Maybe for the first time in my career I can see the perspective of the librarians who retired when we got rid of card catalogues and went online.

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Apparently this response isn't universal? But the name Nuggets will only ever mean one thing to me: perhaps the greatest music compilation ever released. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuggets...

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Now this is a fun Thanksgiving night TV lineup.

Halloween costume ideas from Simon Witgeest's 1739 book of magic tricks, Het verbeetert en vermeerdert natuurlyk toverboek, of 't Nieuw speel-tooneel der konsten... archive.org/details/hetv...

My smol collection of vintage cat-in-shoe pencil sharpeners. 👠

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I love how this closes with @nardwuarserviette.bsky.social encouraging young folks 💜

The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other countries.

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You know one librarian thing that I absolutely love? ANNOTATIONS. Please never send me a link to something without explaining what it is and why I should click on it. (Especially a link to something that could be anything, like YouTube.) Tell me a little something about it. Thanks.

BCIT interviewed me. I’m proud to work here. www.bcit.ca/news/stories... “Some people say AI is inevitable and we should give up,” Ian reflected. “But we can’t. This is exactly the moment to fight for an ethical future.”

real

A new (to me) but unfortunately more and more relevant expression: “ignorance and vibes.”

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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For no reason, just remembered this explicitly antifascist version of Chicken Little that Disney made in 1943. It's about the danger of following leaders who tell big lies. youtu.be/p_GaYdae4j0?...