you guys ever think about, darth maul

one thing that happens regularly at work is that children will refer to our computers [small-format lenovo desktops with dell monitors] as "chromebooks." i'm not confused about why this happens i just don't like it + wanted to complain

so what's the idea with "barrel pants." are you trying to look like a bowlegged cowboy or is there some other artistic vision at work here

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

i just want everybody to know that obsessively remembering awkward conversational turns finally came in handy (recalled cringe chat about birthdays with colleague, suddenly figured out why i haven't been able to log into my health insurance) (she put my birthday in wrong). huge day for me

shoutout to the person i saw on facebook arguing that their premiums were going up because of democrat waste, obamacare, & socialized medicine, all of which would be fixed if we just paid doctors directly with some support from the government. like a. you know. like a single-payer system

Am obviously not anywhere near the first person to point this out, but I think it's a pretty useful framework. AI is also a nuts-and-bolts logistical nightmare for a workforce that is constantly being harassed, threatened, and forced to defend their work. They are fixing/fending off AI bullshit

we just had to ask the library's IT for help with facebook ads! we were getting at least a patron a day who clicked on a malicious ad. it's extremely difficult for us to keep ad blockers updated on our machines with our setup, staff, and budget; meanwhile, facebook is exploiting low-income people

xena: warrior princess contains a truly unimaginable variety of hats

excellent piece as always!! doesn't mention that the entire state reporting infrastructure in NY is also abruptly offlining with B&T, so every public library in the state is affected whether they buy through B&T or not and nobody knows what's going to happen

this particular bandana comes from the digital collections of the west virginia mine wars museum, which does vital work to preserve the labor history of west virginia for west virginians, including artifacts from the site of the battle of blair mountain. check it out: wvminewars.org/online-exhib...

as everyone has already observed the back to back aws & azure outages are bananas dude i'm starting to think that the 'store all your stuff on some other guy's computer' strategy might have some flaws

this whole book is a banger (not without its issues) & i wish people read more twain instead of arguing about huck finn

i love you instant noodles

given how complicated & annoying it is to set up a gmail filter to forward some of my mail to a different address i'm really getting the sense that perhaps this feature was not always used with the best of intentions

Black lung is still killing America’s coal miners. Last week, a group of black lung patients made the long journey to Washington D.C. with a simple plea for Trump’s Department of Labor: enforce the silica rule, and stop this plague. My report for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

my favorite pokemon is striped trilby

fulfilled my true calling at work today: printed out a one piece coloring sheet for a nine year old (was declared "sick"; infinite victory)

no idea how anyone works in a public library for more than ten minutes without becoming a revolutionary socialist. everything is so fucking mean

open-source software rocks. i was like "wow i love listening to my bandcamp metal albums but they're a little too loud on my in-ears :(" and there is someone who wrote a lovely little firefox extension that adds a volume slider just to bandcamp pages! it's beautiful it's perfect it's free <3

metal guitar sound so good, are others aware of this

was asked today if i have a "gentle personality" based on my handwriting. no. i have a 0.5 mm tombow monograph shaker

you don't understand the depth of the themes in the pregnant salamander alex ovechkin fic

is taylor swift's new mid-list song "wi$h li$t" an open endorsement of housing segregation? let's discuss <3

my boss told me i "should do stand-up." should i quit my job right now

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every day a new thing which causes one to weep blood

y'all ever think about wilfred owen writing to siegfried sassoon. "you did not light me: i was always a mad comet; but you have fixed me." i'm thinking about it

i do think the public library is a doomed institution, which kind of makes librarianship goth if you think about it

BUCKWHEAT NOODLE !

even the high lifted and chivalric Crusaders of old times were not content to traverse two thousand miles of land to fight for their holy sepulchre, without committing burglaries, picking pockets, and gaining other pious perquisites

library patron mad that the social security office in our city was shut down + we couldn't just materialize a social security card for him told us he was going to "call trump" to get this figured out. sir. many questions here. first: how. second: do you know what 'austerity' is

for various reasons i watched the NFL's video of the shocking buffalo bills victory from last week (whatever) & i should've known better. it covered 4 minutes of game time & yet the video was TWENTY-FIVE MINUTES. even in the highlights the NFL refuses to cut out all the standing around time

chappell roan was so right when she said come get me out of california. that is not a good environment for some of y'all

shadow the hedgehog is so cool. have middle schoolers noticed this

recounted the time a grocery store clerk asked me if i am from pennsylvania (horrible) because i was buying birch beer in a knoebels shirt (i understand how that sounds) & my coworker consolingly said that she would just assume someone was a lesbian before accusing them of pennsylvanianism

mostly i think it's tacky to pontificate about what History will say (study historiography, dweebs!) but nevertheless professional historians do it all the time. and now i join their ranks: i think in a few decades historians will agree that things right now are not going so well

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all of my semi-serious calls to abolish grad school are really being undermined by the actual ongoing efforts to abolish all of the reasonably decent parts of higher education, leaving behind only student debt, hazing, & dubious real estate practices

THE BUS EMAILED ME BACK!!!!

found footage of me having a semi-casual work conversation and oh my GOD i wave my hands so much more than i realized. flapping away like an agitated chicken, loose cardigan not helping matters at all, really focused on talking about, uh. intralibrary courier service,

i'm really angry in my heart at all times. just. SO mad.

my long password was mockingly exclaimed over at work today 😔 password is not even that long. coworkers simply have no respect for my data security regime,

if you think about it busman's honeymoon is really a novel about why batman isn't allowed to stay married. just one way in which ms. sayers was prescient

erate mentioned!!!!!!

have to get up two hours early tomorrow so you know what that means! that's right, midnight fire alarm 💖

local grocery store has PICKLED OKRA, peace and love on planet ME

i linuxed my laptop (with assistance) & i kind of get why linux guys are annoying about it. i too feel a vague sense of superiority even though i had to duckduckgo "how to install font linux mint"

did you guys know that dorothy l. sayers was really good at writing books

ok sorry to arrive late & i agree the guy from the bear is hot but why on earth did they make a biopic about bruce springsteen. he's alive. he has a podcast. what question begs to be answered on the silver screen. you can just listen to nebraska right now, like. for free