My child: I want @tkingfisher.com to write more H Hamsterbone! Wife: What if you wrote your own HH w/ a nonWestern fairytale? HH somehow gets involved with the rabbit on the moon? Backseat: an argument about whether cliff diving from the moon means moon craters or diving from the stratosphere…

Always wild how much faster other states are than MA! epic.org/virginia-gov...

Exciting!

I hate the framing “what will AI do” to XYZ. Conveniently hides *who* is benefitting and who is bearing the consequences

cruel optimism meets Cognitive Behavioral Therapy challenge

Makes sense = "sense" here seems to stand in for "is rational" and rational is often a value-laden descriptor... we describe things we think undermine fundamental values as irrational/self-defeating

I don't usually see this in my spaces, I see librarians saying: alt tool is more effective/safe this process is person-replacement & isolating even when using x tool/process ⬆️ production... is that the right strategy? or might you need to manage up (because we need better not MOAR)?

Seriously contemplating the idea of trying to write an essay on speechlessness.

Oh it was terrible, it was on Nathan moral pedagogy in 2 Samuel. I don't understand why my faculty advisor didn't at least try to talk me out of it.

Getting way overexcited about this new project & will be gutted if I can't get finding. Like, dyk that Europe's 'alternative milk' food culture is over a century old! That's older than a LOT of the things it pretends are traditional foods!! A Chinese guy was making soy camembert in FRANCE in 1910!!!

That's tens of thousands of authors whose submissions can be desk-rejected from here on out, leaving some more room for the rest of us. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is the thing, if "academia" wanted to stop this, we could easily tomorrow. Over 3 incorrect references? Rejected and forbidden to submit next year. The purpose of a system is what it does!

I'm sorry Carter didn't live to see it, but I look forward to amending my Disease Ecology lectures to say "we have successfully eradicated THREE diseases" (the other two being smallpox and rinderpest, a cattle disease): www.cartercenter.org/programs/gui...

While the Trump administration faces scrutiny over efforts to strip or alter public data, New York City elevates Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz as a leader committed to preserving it. https://mrf.lu/Xqp3

What's the name for one-sided enthusiasm with pain, again? Oh right,... Wednesday. #libraries

Just happen to be looking for really early youtube videos on a topic,... and (1) its amazing how early the "debunking" video became a form and (2) I wonder how Mom is doing... [note: not my mom, not my video]

This piece feels compelling in the days of Hegseth www.glenda-leon.com/the-holy-bib...

maura healey (demon governor) has nominated a prosecutor to fill a vacancy on the parole board which will make the board 60% cops: two parole officers, one probation officer, and this new prosecutor. the gov council meets on wednesday for a confirmation hearing. i'll thread some things you can do:

Today I learned... It is fairly difficult to get a digital image of an example of an Icelandic printed palimpsest... if one does not have a subscription to Early European Books KBDK Collection (Proquest)

Don't mind me.

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted… every date has been altered…History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” - 1984, George Orwell

"They were so lucky I was looking" Ummm no. Stopping in time for a child running onto the street is not heroic/lucky, it is your goddamn obligation as a driver. Cost of entry. Kids are allowed to be unpredictable, you are not.

98% of documented white phosphorus attacks in south Lebanon — tracked at whitephosphorus.info — fall within the IDF-declared "Forward Defense Zone." The zone Israel now claims as a military buffer is the same territory it systematically struck with that munition.

In case you aren't aware of the issue... Calvin Duncan served 28 years in jail for murder, was exonerated, ran for criminal court clerk, won with a 68% majority and the Republicans in the Louisiana Senate eliminated his position as a "cost-cutting measure". thelensnola.org/2026/04/08/o...

🚨After months of fossil fuel industry lobbying, Republican lawmakers have introduced federal legislation that would give oil and gas companies immunity from any laws or lawsuits that aim to hold them accountable for their role in the climate crisis. Time to get loud: 📣 NO IMMUNITY FOR BIG OIL 📣

And there it is.... Update in Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against his own I.R.S., in which he seeks taxpayer-funded damages for the prior release of his tax records Trump legal filing says he's in "discussions" with his own I.R.S. to "avoid protracted litigation"

TGIF

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This looks intriguing

The "shop small, shop local" folks have still failed to honestly address this stuff imo That isn't to say supporting local isn't the move but... there's more to it than blanket support for small places

If a missile hits, thousands of Bedouin can only pray the wind blows the other way www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

(to what extent can campaigns/elections/governance model the construction and operation of a reflective communal self-consciousness... definitely a social ontology question.... makes me want to read Brian Epstein again)

It's obvious why they are Centenals, but because I listened to most of the first book my mind always queries connections thinking of Centenals and Sentinels

I think some of the things about @older.bsky.social's The Centenal Cycle that I like are simultaneously some of the things that make it a kind of hard read personally.

Feels important to uplift Rep Pressley's leadership. She puts in a lot of work on issues that others often don't see as a priority. I've appreciated her anti-criminalization work over the years. She's a worker.

Put up a railing by the kitchen door for my mom‘s (76) visit and put up a new towel rack in the bathroom. Remade the bed in fresh linens for her. Made a dozen citrus palmiers for school bake sale….made enchiladas for dinner. So tired.

That's funny. I was told by reliable memes that the parties were the same on foreign policy and war-making

It isn't obscure in library circles, and it should be obvious, but it does seem to confuse a lot of people when I note that a bad economy always sees a spike in virtually every library use statistic.

NYT cooking page has basically no meat on it "Dumplings With Peas" "Broccoli Cheddar Beans"

NYT stop letting ross douthat talk about religion challenge. y’all do know that having a religious affiliation doesn’t necessarily make you a religionist, yes? having a brain doesn’t make me a psychiatrist.

one of the things i didn’t clock is how much grief comes from a department closure. it took a colleague bluntly saying, “it’s grief, shaily. we’re all grieving, and we’re all a mess.” she was right, of course. so much to grieve this year. i hope there’s much to build, too.

Constitutionally incapable of helping my child halfass an assignment. Him: Okay, ok... I added the liability insurance & health dept permit to my overhead costs, do I really need to calculate loss to profit range for the 20 batches of ingredients I plan to prep per market day? I want to go to bed.

Dream job is only… 15 hour one-way commute by car and not on a direct train or flight. (Plus, I’m not really a diversity candidate, they could do better. Nevertheless, exciting work.)

Job! They are particularly interested in increasing faculty diversity, and being Canada, are allowed to say so. Also, Halifax is an amazing place to live. And you would get to work with my awesome friend Heather!

Amazing [stares in religious studies prof]

As a historian of Catholicism in the US who was told my focus was "niche," is this the way all of this historians of abortion felt when the Dobbs decision happened?

This is the consistent early church and medieval line. Yet: bedbugs

Israel commits “domicide” in Lebanon on US tax payer dime while Silicon Valley tech moguls profit helping Israel techwash another genocide. Read more:“…techwashing is the central strategy of techno-fascist regimes; Innovation & ‘Progress’ the infrastructure of state violence.” shorturl.at/CZ3p1

Planted 2 trees, 5 bushes, a lavender plant… planted out some collards (covered tonighted) and pac choi My body is confused by this much exercise…