May the Fourth be with you!

Okay folks, because this happens every year: 1. The Met Gala funds the Costume Institute which does not receive any of the money the Met Museum gets from tickets or money from the general donation pool to the Met.

This is such a flagship moment for where America is right now. Gun violence, showmanship, celebrity, mass confusion, and also according to C-SPAN, people are opening the bottles of wine still on the tables.

Happy "Perfect Date" Day!

Oh boy. I see we’re opining about digital media and libraries. Ebooks are not the enemy. They provide access for people who cannot use physical media or spaces. They are a boon for people who require accessibility features. What you really need to critique is the ecosystem of greed.

As a consumer, I prefer physical media, the ownership that confers. At scale, and especially with accessibility in mind, there are problems with that.

Every now and then, I think “over 1 million people died from Covid and as a country we mainly think about that as an annoying time we had to stay in our houses.”

Reminder: you don’t have to be good at something to enjoy it, you don’t have to get better at it, you don’t have to monetize it, and it doesn’t have to be useful.

I am deeply proud of my alma mater. (No institution is perfect, but Carleton always /tries/.) Dacie Moses House exemplifies the Carleton spirit. I didn't go to nearly enough brunches there when I was a student. I'm glad the tradition lives on. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/d...

I think there are a lot of people online who will not be happy with that last hour of television because they want this show to be something it is manifestly and intentionally not. I loved it. True, it's not without its flaws. But (Dana voice) we can't all be perfect.

Ich did not make thys, but Ich wisshe Ich did. Repost yf you are a proud member of the Gen AI Backlash.

This is a truth I experience daily - as a chronically ill person myself and in community with others.

I guess my point is that bad or bland info is already in the environment and LLMs are making things infinitely worse. 1 bad or bland thing gets SEO'd by the google algo or gets passed around by LLMs, and all bets are off. Good luck out there. 9/9

it's maize and blue daze time (if you know, you know) (and if you don't, earnestly: don't worry about it)

Legal eagles noticed, and there’s been SOME mainstream coverage. But overall the political class has underreacted to this month’s OLC opinion, ordered up by Trump or on his behalf, declaring the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional. Things are likely being stolen and/or destroyed *right now*.

Everyone in the DMV seems to be marvelling/complaining today that there are still snowpiles in corners from our massive January storm... My memory keeps replaying that my MN college once put up a "guide to campus" sign for prospective students in April on a lingering snowpile. It read: "Winter."

I think that in terms of character richness, narrative pacing, and full use of the ensemble, that was the best season of Bridgerton yet. #benophie

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

Everyone is just trying live our lives—watch our little stories, have our little snacks—and these motherfuckers are doing absolutely everything possible to put an end to that.

people just want to live their damn lives free from all this monstrous shit

me needing romantacy audiobooks to survive the horrors puts my grandma's soap operas in a whole new light lol

i always read a lot of fantasy but it's much more key to mental health these days

Bluesky is not the commons. Twitter is not the commons. You can’t have a privately held commons. That’s not what words mean

Finance guy’s guest op-ed in the local gazette: We don’t need libraries, we have Amazon anyone with a pulse: LIBRARIES ARE FREE YOU DORK me, cataloger: Amazon’s uncontrolled keyword search interface is HORRIBLE at supporting the core user tasks of Finding, Identifying, and Selecting 📚

We cannot separate the history of the nation from the history of slavery. George Washington was an enslaver. As President he brought enslaved people to Philadelphia, and rotated them out to evade a Pennsylvania law that promised emancipation after six months in the state. /1

Many of you already know that our colleague and founding board member, Fobazi Ettarh, has passed away. We want to take a moment to acknowledge her loss and honor what she meant to libraries, our community, and her friends and loved ones. www.thrivelib.com/news/honoring-fobazi-ettarh

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

I just feel warm and fuzzy knowing this performance pisses all the right people off

this is so joyful and beautiful, like how could you look at this and hate it

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

Goodnight, friends. I'm thankful that Catherine O'Hara had a chance to bring some peach crabapple to our Riesling Rioja. I love you.

now I have to return to our nations capital, where just existing is doomscrolling

I keep thinking about the toxic, pervasive mythology of "rugged individualism" as a driving force in American culture, and how the collective efforts in the Twin Cities right now are proof that the only way through hard times is together, as a community.

You cannot value the librarian code of ethics while also being pro-genAI. GenAI is a direct violation of our code of ethics.

film bros stop misappropriating genre terms challege: impossible

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

Talking to somebody yesterday about a Cdn oral history archive that disappeared - turns out LLMs were scraping it so much it crashed their servers so it’s offline. Vile vulture technology.

When you see this, post an image from your gallery describing your mental health.

there’s an interesting thing we’ve done in our social circle as a result of Covid which is: now we let people know before social activities if anyone has any symptoms of anything potentially contagious, so everyone can make their own risk assessment

Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...

Oh, man. So saddening 💔 Alice was a wonderful disability activist and writer. I was always moved that deliberately included those of us w/ post-infectious illnesses. As we say in Greek, may her memory be eternal 💙🕯️

Rest in peace, Alice Wong. A great light in disability justice has gone out.

I've looked at all the details of this deal to end the shutdown reached by a small group of Senate Democrats. I've talked to a number of friends on the Hill to see if there's anything I'm missing. Sadly, I am not. This is a shit deal. It's a betrayal. It's cowardice.

The response to Zohran Mamdani's campaign reminds me of the stories I've heard from ambitious, optimistic Millennials (esp. BIPOC) whose ideas are repeatedly shot down by managers, are told they don't have enough experience to be leaders, and are constantly subjected to microaggressions and racism.

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.

Obligatory I follow royal news because I find it fascinating from a historical-anthropological lens. HOLY SHIT THEY'RE STRIPPING ANDREW OF HIS TITLES. HOLY SHIT. No one in my life IRL cares, lol.

the Andrew formerly known as Prince