Finally got around to reading Dark Archives by Megan Rosenbloom! @libraryatnight.bsky.social As a fellow death-positive LAMs professional, I thoroughly enjoyed her thoughtful & occasionally witty work on the otherwise macabre subject of anthropodermic bibliopegy.

Thanks for reading!

🧵Some #librarylove for the present moment 📖🖤📚

I saw a writer I like refer to April 1 as DAY OF LIES and I’m about as fond of that name as I hate the day itself. So Happy Eve of Lies, I will be staying off the Internet as much as possible tomorrow.

Hey union families and teachers—you are going to want to mark your calendars for May 10th, when @kimkelly.bsky.social is here to talk about their brand new book on labor history for young readers! withfriends.co/event/230691...

is there such a crying need for reams and reams and reams of additional writing in the world that we need to ask computers to pitch in

lmao getting fact checked irl

At today’s reopening of the Altadena library, Levar Burton read us a story & every adult cried & healed a little bit. Blair Imani (!) painted 8yo’s face, helping her live her feline dreams! What a morning for library love, especially with so many of us librarians under attack these days. 🥰🌈📚

The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.

Season finale of Severance was so good I’m doubling down on the corporate isolation by listening to early 2000s Radiohead.

For my book people: the sliver of the nerd population who would appreciate the joke of this button made at my library is so narrow and I’m right in the middle of it. Drop an emoji if you knew both references without me explaining, which I’ll do in the comments. 📖 🐬

Wow LONGLEGS is the scariest movie I’ve seen in a long time, maybe ever? Nicholas Cage is unforgettable. ::shudders::

In honor of Gorey’s 100th birthday, here is my giant orange cat I named after him.

"The law is king." Thomas Paine #CommonSense #UpholdAndDefendTheConstitution

Anyone ever read Irvine Welsh’s MARABOU STORK NIGHTMARES? I’d be like put me back in

I have been hearing so many bone chilling stories from librarians across the country at conferences last year and I know it’s going to get so much worse.

So excited for this one, go go @malloryomeara.bsky.social !

Sign at Tesla dealership in #SanFrancisco reads, "We Hate Him Too."

If you’re a writer who wants to publish in traditional outlets I cannot recommend @annasplat.bsky.social’s newsletter enough. Yes, she’s my agent, AND her industry knowledge was a huge driving force behind why Dark Archives got published & did so well. I learn new things with every post. #booksky

New blog post! Check out my review of DARK ARCHIVES, a study of the practice of binding books in human skin by one of the world’s foremost experts, @libraryatnight.bsky.social #BookSky www.thegothiclibrary.com/review-of-da...

It’s terrifying, honestly, when I realize how dependent we are on Amazon and how hard it is going to be to disconnect from it. But this is one piece of the effort — another better approach to E-books. Because admit it. You think Jeff Bezos won’t disappear disfavored e-books if Trump demands it?

Or as my Bajan mom likes to say “wrong and strong about it”’

Storytime: I plan to go to a low key Super Bowl party, because even though I don’t care about football, I’m still from Delco / Philly so #gobirds. Anyway I got this vision in my head that I’d do a more modest riff off of an ELGSES cake I saw, referencing the Philly mayor’s recent spelling gaff meme.

We do the coolest stuff at UCLA Library and the Modern Endangered Archives Program is chief among them

Having a typical morning here. 8yo: “Mom did you know if your hand is bigger than your face it’s a sign of intelligence?” Me: “Do not cite the deep magic to me, witch, I was there when it was written.”

If you wish to dissociate, and who doesn’t, I highly recommend this world to visit. What a fantastic book Susanna Clarke’s PIRANESI is.

Reading Colin Meloy’s UNDER WILDWOOD at bedtime, 8yo: “iPod? You mean iPad?” Me, heaving a sigh: “iPod came before, it was like a phone holding music. Here I’ll image search it.” 8yo takes one look & cracks up: “Oh my god what even is that, it looks so babyish! It looks like an alien remote.”

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane…”

Observation watching Grammys red carpet: you can tell America is in trouble because a lot of these celebrities have done horrible things to their bangs. Ladies no

Baby’s First Grammys 🥹 (That’s my husband, he’s baby. And has a job that is sending him.)

This is the way forward, all around the globe. A resounding, vociferous resistance to hate, bigotry, and depravity, in the ongoing fight of good vs. evil, democracy vs. autocracy. 🙏🏼🌎🕊️

funny how the most popular takeaway from this is "oh no, I'm old" and not "yeah, this music's timeless"

people are losing their right to exist but at least groceries are more expensive

AI investors are probably really mad they didn’t put their money in eggs

Today’s convalescence bed reading rabbithole: remember those vibey orange and yellow flower paper cups that you used to see everywhere from the 70s to the 90s? Inspired by: seeing Scully drinking from one in a meme. www.retroist.com/p/orange-and...

www.ala.org/news/2025/01... 📚

1/ Angelenos right now: oh thank goodness it’s going to rain. I can’t wait for it to rain. But not too much, or there’ll be landslides.

I stand at the ready

when you say red states deserve this what you mean is liberation is conditional based on where their house is

For more actionable tips than I could fit in this 101 post below, here's a more robust conversation I had about how to stop disinformation. Jumping off a lengthy 🧵 I wrote after the shooting at Trump's July rally, @samhita.bsky.social interviewed me for @themeteor.bsky.social (out Q&A's @ the end):

Good we libraries shouldn’t embrace it, it sucks, is detrimental to the environment and information literacy.

LA is losing film & TV production to other markets, and now, after the fires, our city is hurting even more. People can’t afford to live here without work. We need lawmakers & studios to act now—bring production back to LA. Sign & share: STAYinLA.org #STAYinLA

a nazi speaking at a nazi rally. it’s really not deeper than that.

What if we made my radical labor history book for young readers age 10-14 a bestseller, and got the stories of Black socialists and trailblazing trans autoworkers and Indigenous labor organizers in front of the kids who need them? #booksky www.simonandschuster.com/books/Fight-...

Me every time I see any news even by accident

Don’t believe it? Watch the beginning of DIE HARD. The obviously bad air was a shock to me as someone who moved to LA in 2009. It’s so much cleaner in general here now due to all our regulations

I haven’t liked how little time I’ve gotten to spend with 8yo since the surgery so we decided to have a reading tea party on the foldout couch in the den. Hey whatever works