This mural at the union hall in Chicago where we go for YarnCon is my favorite thing that is extra.

All of my friends are too classy, smart, and educated to do a 9x9x9 with me at a baseball game. :(

Between Artemis II and Jamie Ding's Jeopardy run, I can barely contain the excitement.

This is how I'm rolling these days.

Elmo head guy carrying out the scentences at a Wawa Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Stocks soar on 2-week postponement of Armageddon.

The other way a whole civilization dies is by committing war crimes

I think it's bad for the President to threaten to annihilate an entire culture and i do not think you are being alarmist if you take his threats seriously and literally.

The depths of human grief, love, memory, and solidarity are so beautiful.

Some products are having a better time on the Artemis II mission than others.

I love eating dinner with the Artemis crew.

My Artemis II spread at the library today. Public Science and the indomitable human spirit was up today and so was my festive attitude.

My employees all dressed like me today and I didn't notice until they put on the fake facial hair around 2pm.

The Chicago Con mascot is actively applying ketchup, but who am I to question the existence of this creature. It's just my job to vibe.

We are *pumped* for THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME, the new book from astrophysicist, occasional @popsci.com contributor, and the all-around coolest @chanda.blacksky.app! It comes out April 7th but you can read a sneak peak right here! www.popsci.com/science/edge...

Anyone else cranky today? Apologies.

@farawaypress.com giving an incredible session on writing within existing universe. There's a reason JJM's contributions are the gold standard of several literary universes.

I'm kind of known amongst my people for promoting kindness and being gentle but I didn't think that was something we expected out of Chappell Roan?

Celebrating the holiday with my staff at the library today. Say what you want about Eddie, but say he commits to the bit.

This weekend is the annual event where I go from having an weekly average tumblr notifications of zero to several hundred then back to zero thanks to this dumb picture I posted of some letter openers that I stuck into a cheap box of pizza:

Give me a chance at being a CEO. I can house a burger in three bites and not seem like a lizard at ALL.

i bring this up periodically but goddamn is it easy being a dude. so little is expected of us. you can coast and people will treat you like a champion

They spent billions on regime change in Venezuela and left the Maduro's head of torture in charge. They are now spending billions on regime change in Iran, knowing the most likely outcome will be harder line leadership. We do not have serious people running our country.

I have two rules for myself when I am overwhelmed with a lack of direction and feelings of dread. The first is that it is always morally good to feed people. The second is that reading can't hurt either.

“Dozens of U.S. strikes are being carried out by attack planes based at bases around the Middle East and from one or more aircraft carriers, a U.S. official said.”

It should be a moderate, middle-of-the-road, commonly accepted position that nobody should have so much money they can control the laws, governance, religious institutions, and overall health of an entire nation, much less one as vast as the United States.

of the likely choices available i don't see us doing much better

When I watched the John Candy documentary last year, I wrote a quick note to Catherine O'Hara's office to thank her for her work.

I wonder how much money Hoopla makes from patrons impulsively borrowing audiobooks without noticing that they are in German or Italian. Project Hail Mary in Italian is in the top 25 borrowed audiobooks rn and I refuse to believe its because that many people knew that it was in Italian.

It is a monumental victory to hold the unwavering conviction that all people are deserving of safety, dignity, health, and community. It is a *triumph* that your heart is tuned to react to suffering, injustice, and violence. So much power has been exerted to prevent you from meeting this moment.

I always really liked this picture of these two.

Did David Lynch and Werner Herzog ever meet? I could look it up but I don't really want to know the answer bc I want to imagine that interaction for myself.

I never want to hear a Texan talk about their state being the bravest, toughest, and most freedom loving. It's Minnesota. As an incredibly proud, lifelong Illinoisan, it's Minnesota. Keep fighting, my beloveds of the driftless, the lakes, the hot dishes, and the Twins.

Repeal the Homeland Security Act of 2002.

Reconstruction was a failure. Nuremberg was a failure. J6 hearings were failures. The ICE trials will not be failures. There can be no Jim Crow Laws, Operation Paperclip, and presidential pardons for these crimes against humanity.

My vote to anyone who will prosecute the administration and every ICE agent for sedition, treason, murder, and crimes against humanity.

Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.

If I give the president my LJ Movers & Shakers award, will he leave libraries alone?

Mark my words, the minute I no longer need a reliable vehicle for professional commuting purposes, I'm buying a sh*tboxx and airbrushing a wizard on it.

Sven's NY resolution was to be more mischievous. He's doing great so far.

I'm not gonna research this, I'm just gonna call it my once a year little conspiracy theory as a treat: I think Dubai Chocolate is a marketing conspiracy from that evil pistachio family in California that is stealing everyone's water.

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

Also good time to note that Tarantino victim blamed a 13 year old child in defense of Roman Polanski so nobody should ever listen to him ever.

It's a Sven kinda Saturday.

Hot take: I generally don't like remakes but every generation deserves their own Pride & Prejudice.

Halloween is also John Candy's Birthday so every year I dress up as a different character of his. 2025 is The Polka King of the Midwest, Gus Polinski:

New reporting about AI slop in libraries from rockstar reporter @clurrese.bsky.social featuring some rockstar librarians! 🥰 www.404media.co/librarians-a...

Icymi new from me 🫠 s/o @giantlibrarian.bsky.social for putting this on my radar like two years ago. Sorry to report it's much worse now. Ty @404media.co & @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social for picking this up!

"It always made me feel less alone." I've heard this said by other MST3K fans, and I think it's just about the most gratifying thing you can hear about something you worked on.

You know what we need? We need there to be a legal requirement for AI-generated works to indicate that they are, in fact, AI-generated. Barring that, vendors and libraries could explore a required metadata field indicating yes/no. americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/09/02/b...