"We have included an advance copy of the hardcover edition of your diary, which Simon & Schuster will be releasing this winter. We think the photo of the time you laughed so hard in the school cafeteria that milk came out of your nose makes for a perfect cover."

Following Ada's lead, I'd like to do the same. Reply to me w/ a receipt of a donation to a food bank of your choice, and I'll also match your donations, up to $500. 🍎🍌🥬🍞🥩❤️

Alright, team Bluesky: US foodbanks are about to have staggering demand when SNAP ends Nov 1st. We need to help them prepare. I'll match donations: DM or reply with a receipt showing your own donation to a food bank of your choice, and I'll donate to match, up to a total of $500. 💪🥗🍲🥚🥧🥪🥣🥛 #NoHunger

here’s a great piece by @lisapeet.bsky.social about the unconventional book tour for John J. Lennon’s THE TRAGEDY OF TRUE CRIME. Over the past several years, John has showed me almost anything is possible from prison. Why not a book tour, then? www.libraryjournal.com/story/a-book...

Was this the rapture? I don’t feel any different.

I'm incredibly grateful to @lisapeet.bsky.social of @libraryjournal.bsky.social for all the recent coverage of archives and preservation, including this interview with me about @jstor.bsky.social Digital Stewardship Services. www.libraryjournal.com/story/progra...

I am living in a children’s book. Stray cat and raccoon on my next-door neighbor’s roof, and they appear to be buds.

Cucuracha is too a word, Spelling Bee.

Happy Duke Ellington's birthday! [sketch by William Auerbach-Levy]

In search of cap only for a Lamy Safari Petrol... will gladly buy or trade. Because this guy isn't as innocent as he looks. #fountainpens

So many things suck right now. But homemade banana bread, toasted, with butter, does not.

I knew if I waited long enough my Bernie Sanders t-shirt would be cool again.

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

Oh Vanguard, thanks for the notice, but if you think I want to look at my statement right now you are so, so sorely mistaken.

Trump is attempting to destroy federal funding for libraries. EveryLibrary made it easy to take action today! action.everylibrary.org/saveimls2025 via @everylibrary.bsky.social

More from ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl: "By cutting off federal support from libraries, the Trump administration is cutting off opportunity for the American people – economically, culturally, professionally and socially." Read our full statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/03... Take action: ala.org/showup

New stamps dropping this year, via USPS, and ffs I'm ordering some more of those Keith Haring stamps in opposition.

This artist is drawing entire L.A. neighborhoods that were lost in the fires

THE RESIST LIST IS HERE. Proud my team just started this @resistlist.bsky.social, which will list actions that happened and that are slated to happen.

Librarians—school or public: Are you seeing a change in user habits, such as an uptick in requests for materials/info about immigration, social justice, reproductive health, climate issues? Working on a story. #booksky #TLSky #libraries

Are you following Alt National Park Service yet? Do so.

“the applause grew louder and louder until hundreds were standing and clapping: the crowd, the choir, the bishops, all on their feet..." www.washingtonpost.com/religion/202...

The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.

Because everything is worth examining, a great article from Crossword puzzle folks—great piece by Abigail Popple in Maisonneuve on Puzzle Politics (puzzle folks—wasn't today's @nytimes.com xword the most satisfying thing?) maisonneuve.org/article/2024...

I'm thinking this summer—and the next few—might be a good time to get serious about the vegetable gardening. Has anyone made raised beds with those modular corner pieces and planks? My soil is crap, so I'd have to containerize everything (and oy, my back hurts just thinking about it).

The kids are all right. And now I'm hungry for cheese.

You know who I’m really going to miss in the White House? Besides democracy, that is. @karinejean-pierre.bsky.social.

Los Angeles City Librarian John Szabo Is Library Journal's 2025 Librarian of the Year -- beautifully written, detailed article at www.libraryjournal.com/story/city-l... by @lisapeet.bsky.social #LibrarySky #PublicLibraries #InspirationalLeaders

Thank you, Gentium Basic, for saving me on those days when I'll scream if I have to look at another page of Calibri. (No offense, Calibri, you're just so WORKY.)

The sun came out for a minute. Happy New Year, friends, and here’s to whatever sunny moments we can bask in when they come.

Well, many of you know where I fall on this one. But it's still worth saying (as someone who sends 50-60 holiday cards each year)—it's a thoroughly altruistic effort, but a really reverberative one, IMO.

Forest creature

I make a nice omelet.

Ahh, found it. Rest in power, good poet.

It's worth noting that Library Journal InfoDocket is here now 📚 @infodocket.bsky.social

It is time.

Really lovely piece on our local libraries by @elizmccrack.bsky.social texashighways.com/culture/texa...

This is my favorite hour of my favorite day of the year.

Yesterday it wasn’t raining. Jasper thought it was a much better setup than today #dogsofbluesky

Next gen! And yes I am utterly stoked.

I painted a bookcase for my grandbaby-to-be

My sweetest buddy.

SpaceX and Amazon are asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to find the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional. The federal agency is tasked with enforcing workers' right to organize.

I love this project! Anyone is interested in doing a little grassroots, not-necessarily-professional-design-participant, version? I'm into any and all ways to kickstart creativity and community right now.