“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Just came across a great gift idea www.etsy.com/listing/4423...

We gotta do a nationwide inquest into antisocial behavior. Leaving your dog's poop on the street. Not returning shopping carts. The What's Wrong With You initiative

I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.

I have this new kind of masochistic tendency which is whenever I see a Democratic congressperson angrily berating at Trump official with all the cameras on, I look up how many Trump nominees they voted for, and friends, it’s never been good news.

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

"You have to use AI." ...why?

This is your annual reminder that if you are in the US and have FSA funds that you won't use, Menstrual products are covered by FSA funds and can be donated to food pantries and shelters.

I 100% did not expect the govt to point at banks on behalf of the adult industry. We need to leverage the hell out of this Remember Mastercard and Visa blaming "banking partners"? If banks face repercussions their alibis could start crumbling as they get pinched between angry consumers and the feds

It would be so incredible if at least 12 people wrote to @librariesftp.bsky.social about why they love their library :) 100 words! Take fifteen minutes this weekend to send us something?: forms.gle/oqTvmGJreEeU...

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how do women not die of rage aneurysms every single day

I’ve worked in public libraries for 20 years, today was the first time we’ve had to tell someone they couldn’t bring their chainsaw in the library.

Every time I encounter an AI use that seems sensible (usually involving parsing large datasets on behalf of scientific researchers), it puts into such stark contrast the actual use cases we normal folks increasingly encounter. For every “detect whale grammar” there are dozens of slop hallucinations.

Turns out I can't get through Four Weddings and a Funeral (the 1994 movie) without crying my way through the funeral. 30 years, still crying.

You used to have to do a layer or two of analysis to arrive at "Generative AI is fascist, don't use it."

Media consumers who don't read Romance: "I hate it when streamers make the characters say everything they're feeling." Crave: "Here's a show where character development is explored through sex instead of long stretches of dialogue." Media consumers who don't read Romance: "No, not like that!"

Media consumers who don't read Romance: "Everyone is beautiful and no one is horny." Crave: "Here are two queer couples fucking on screen." Media consumers who don't read Romance: "No, not like that!"

Every time someone's like "I could never live in Chicago because of the winters" I'm like nah it's not that bad, but it's not even winter and this is already one of those years where it's like yeah, I get it.

Resistance can take many forms; get those slippers ready for your holiday travel. Travelers respond to Duffy video by wearing pajamas to the airport www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/...

No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.

> google a question > scroll past Google's AI slop widgets > read first actual search result > it's AI slop from a content mill

DUFFY: You should wear a tuxedo to your flight. ALSO DUFFY: But the airport will be a gym.

I think one of my most neurodivergent traits (is that a thing? I don't know how else to describe it) is that I simply do not believe in relationships that are solely maintained because of duty. Family included. People do not generally like this. It makes them uncomfortable.

here are Ranganathan’s 5 Laws of Library Science. 1. Books are for use. 2. Every reader their book. 3. Every book its reader. 4. Save the time of the reader. 5. A library is a growing organism. they can be read as a directive for technical efficiency. i read them as an ethical commitment. 📚

A very interesting interview with Chala Hunter, the intimacy coordinator for Heated Rivalry:

My sister and her children only. Her husband only sometimes. (Love you @kateromoo.bsky.social )

...They never forgot That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse Scratches its innocent behind on a tree. Musee des Beaux Arts, Auden

Can't remember if it was this bad before COVID but I'm seeing an alarming spreading of what I'll call Airport Behavior to other public places. Obliviousness to other people's existence, ineptitude at navigating the environment. "Is this your first time at the grocery store" type stuff

NEW — Cutting less than one day of the Chicago police would cover the $4.5M needed to ensure there are no cuts to library staffing and resources, one resident writes. Read this opinion submission about protecting city libraries in the 2026 budget. thetriibe.com/2025/12/opin...

There is so much gay romance TV out there, she yells into the wind. It's just not in English, she screams.

I can’t stop thinking about the “maybe build up to a chaste kiss at the end of the season” review and just laughing what if at the Red Wedding instead of being murdered everyone was just lightly bonked on the head

We live in a country where people are afraid to leave their homes. We live in a country where people are afraid to leave their homes. WE LIVE IN A COUNTRY WHERE PEOPLE ARE AFRAID TO LEAVE THEIR HOMES.

I'm co-organizing a toy drive. If you can donate, thank you. If you can share with others, thank you. Toy Drive list: bit.ly/48pJUrK Teen Gift list: amzn.to/4rDn7BG

Co-sign! Although don't look at the days metric because you'll both be shocked how big it is and surprised by how small it is. (It's only that small because it doesn't record all the rewatches you've done!)

Every time someone says how they need more of the hockey romance sexy times show (like 79 episodes more ala Phoebe Robison) I have to stop myself from opening my trench coat like a thief fencing goods and showing all the delicious delicious Asian BL I've got shoved into all the pockets.

Phoebe Robinson had something to say about this show. www.instagram.com/reel/DRz-NDV...

This remains my opinion of the Supreme Court

Just hire more people. Just hire more people. Just hire more people. Just hire more people. Just hire more people. Just hire more people. Just hire more people. Just hire more people. Just hire more people. Just hire more people. Just hire more people. Just hire more people. Just hire more people.

Looking back at all the people who told me in childhood, "Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life". Not a single one of those assholes had a full time job.

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All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”

We are living through a coordinated assault on knowledge. --Kelly Hayes

And, finally, will you be able to truly love yourself when you are the person asking for accommodation? Is that part of what you're afraid of and why you're lashing out at having to confront these systems? You will never fix what's missing in caring for people by investing in punishing people.

The problem to be solved is the system. How do we make the system want to be as generous as our hearts are? How do we make the system stop denying that there is enough to go around? How do we make them stop lying? No, not the people asking for accommodation — the liars are the systems _denying_ it.

It's very hard to understand that everyone should just be accommodated. There's enough to go around, truly. You've been sold a story that we're all scrabbling for some finite resource, and They are taking it from you, and the answer to that taking is systemic punishment, backed by systemic violence.

I can't stress enough that you should take every opportunity that comes your way to support your local public libraries. Many of them are currently struggling and are being DEFUNDED. Local action matters on this front. Don't sit back until those libraries are gone before taking ACTION.

Love to make Christmas happy for people!

there is never enough

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to