Truly one of my absolute favorite holiday traditions!

I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary. www.icrc.org/en/article/i...

Sitting here making blueberry muffins for a finals snack break event tomorrow for students and suddenly wishing I had a weekend to recover from my weekend. It was a good one with a good trash clean up, lovely birthday wishes from friends, and our miniature horses event today at work, but I am tired.

It’s like a birthday present from the universe today! The original film! @wordnerdy.bsky.social We will need to get tickets immediately! www.starwars.com/news/star-wa...

Okay @erinbiba.bsky.social it’s time for my second-most anticipated annual thread: Cats in Christmas Trees (and Battling Menorahs). Starting off strong with Donut.

Come In From the Cold 🌨❄ The following Durham County Library locations will act as Warming Centers during normal business hours of 9:30am to 6pm on Friday, Dec 5 - Saturday, Dec 6. Main, Stanford L. Warren Branch, Southwest, South, North & East Regional durhamcountylibrary.org/hours-and-lo...

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month. This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory! Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

Very proud to say Votes for Women has been recognized with a Platinum Play award from the American Library Association! Shout out to the Games & Gaming Round Table who do such important work helping libraries of all sizes engage with creative modes of learning. www.ala.org/news/2025/11...

Don’t read this if you haven’t watched the new Knives Out movie but I wrote about how the series only works because Blanc doesn’t treat the mysteries like a game but is always protecting the most vulnerable individual in the case open.substack.com/pub/somethin...

based on how often the naughty teens of major cities throw the rentable scooters directly into the river i've formed a theory that the many iron age swords and cauldrons found in lakes around europe that we've previously assumed were ceremonial and sacrificial in nature were in fact thrown by teens

2026 Plant Humanities Summer Program from @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social Hybrid - virtual & in-person in Virginia, USA. A unique interdisciplinary experience for graduate students & advanced undergraduates. Apply by Feb 15, 2026. www.doaks.org/research/fel...

The Librarian’s Call: Documenting Is Resistance History is protected by those who collect, preserve, and share the facts. 📚 Lots of banger quotes in this @commondreams.org article by Rodney Freeman Jr. about how library and archives workers collect and preserve materials, including zines.

I posted this fundraiser for our local shelter less than 24 hours ago and we're already 1/3 of the way to the goal! This has certainly given me a much-needed infusion of holiday cheer you guys, thank you! givebutter.com/n5l31M

okay the tiny goldfish float did get me.

Thanksgiving is problematic. Giving thanks is not. As someone who wants to remember the attempted genocide of indigenous people but also likes a reminder to practice gratitude, I like to use Indigenous People's Month to support (and be grateful for) indigenous creators. A partial list! /1

Indigenous Women Rising supports Indigenous and Native people in the United States and Canada, raising funds to pay for midwifery care, to provide menstrual hygiene and contraceptive products, and to help those seeking an abortion in the United States. www.iwrising.org/%EF%BF%BC

Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s. This is the power of vaccines. The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer. Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!

Elliott Erwitt, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. New York City, USA. 1988.

Derpy Tiger balloon! Watching the Macy’s Parade on Global News on YouTube remains undefeated!

Had so much fun trawling through the restored archives of The Hairpin today!! What a thrill to have been able to take a small part. If you've never read this wonderful publication, please check it out at thehairpinarchives.com

The Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro invites applications for an assistant professor position in creative writing (poetry), to begin August 1, 2026. For more information and to apply, visit buff.ly/YXi1Y4L, click on “Faculty,” and select position #1460

when you and your co-authors try to find that one (1) footnote you definitely saw the other day

Hope Nachos Friends Not bad!

Several Indigenous short films will be streamed for free by the National Museum of the American Indian from November 21 (5 PM ET) to November 28, 2025 (5 PM ET). americanindian.si.edu/native-cinem...

Guillermo del Toro - "AI has demonstrated that it can make semi-compelling screensavers."

Some good news today!

I went to a gallery talk given by a graduate student on Thursday for this wonderful exhibit about Native American pop art. The whole exhibit was great, but I’m kind of obsessed with this image. nasher.duke.edu/exhibitions/...

Durham, you give me hope. There’s a group that has been protesting a couple of days every week since last November at a busy intersection near my house. Tonight the crowd was bigger, and there were Mexican and USA flags. I think practically every car going by honked in support.

Good!

Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!

Florence Welch is bringing it on this new album: I'll be up there with the men and the ten other women (Ah-ah) In the hundred greatest records of all time (Ah-ah) It must be nice to be a man and make boring music just because you can (Ah-ah)

Epstein survivors PSA. Please SHARE far and wide! I’m reading “Nobody’s Girl” - heartbreaking, infuriating and a must read. Hold the men to account!

Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.

combining the humanities, social sciences, and climate science into our new School of AAAARRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH

‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.

I love this!

Relating to Spider-Man at 19: I too am underemployed, unsure how to pursue girls, and trying to find my place in the adult world. Relating to Galactus at 42: I am from an unrecognizable previous millennium, hungry all the time, everything hurts and I live with a tiny person who won’t do what I ask.

Scarleteen is people-powered, NOT AI! We’re raising $40,000 for staff and volunteer health care and today, we’d like to celebrate some amazing volunteers who make inclusive, joyful sex, health, and relationships education possible. www.classy.org/campaign/scarl...

*** 11th ANNUAL BULL CITY FOODRAISER FUNDRAISING THREAD *** It's that time again! 🦃 For the 11th year in a row, we need your help providing groceries to 5,100+ schoolkids! ➡️ GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/11th-annua... ➡️ PPGF: www.paypal.com/US/fundraise... (Plus other donation options in thread!)

We went to see @thelibrariansfilm documentary today. It was so good. It made me cry! And then we had delicious ice cream at a place called @andiasicecream

I’ve been under the weather all day with a head cold, and I missed out on plans I was looking forward to. But at least Biro has kept me company all day, and Jeff and I are having a two person listening party to Earthencloak’s new album.

These students are so inspiring!

Did women ruin the workplace?

The League of Women Voters of North Carolina urges members, supporters, and the public to sign the "One Person, One Vote Petition" to move the country one step closer to adopting the National Popular Vote as a means to elect the president. (See link in bio.) #NPV #NCPol #LWVNC #LWV #OnePersonOneVote

Me too, Biro!

This is why if you learn nothing else for evidence literacy, learn to look up survey items and read them for yourself and think about how someone might interpret them.

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Ahhh. Sometimes you just need 8 minutes of doom-free distraction, and a reminder that there is still enjoyment to be found on the internet.