Taylor Swift training her fans to look for tiny clues in everything and then using AI promo videos for this latest scavenger hunt stunt is a very funny combination of things to happen. She’s got them looking at AI hallucinations and trying to decode them for meaning. Pop star induced schizophrenia

would be cool if we could give indies the gift of a great sales day I have a lot of books you can buy and get FREE SHIPPING ON FROM BOOKSHOP.ORG RN bookshop.org/beta-search?...

It's here! Listen to us discuss the wildest edition of Fodor's Miami ever written!! 😎🌴💀

ok yeah this speaks to me. Like I consider myself a mid-tier Swiftie and I like her music! I'm on her email list! But every time I got an ~exciting new~ email about...a different color vinyl of an album that wasn't even out yet...I got a little bummed

It's #BannedBooksWeek We had our Right to Read event last week, but there's tons of other stuff happening in Mass & around the country. Follow @massaabb.bsky.social & @authorsabb.bsky.social for events, actions, & other info!

It's Friday night baby

there's already so much going on rn, I do NOT have time nor bandwidth to be emotionally affected by Bobby Flay posting a tribute to his late cat Nacho on the occasion of Nacho's birthday. But he set it to "See you again" by Wiz Khalifa & Charlie Puth and I'm only human 😭

If you think you're safe from ICE, you're not. They're not just deporting people back to their home countries to live out their lives in another location, they're arresting and imprisoning citizens and non-citizens alike, without due process.

of all the dumb shit going on, this sword thing is such a funny little encapsulation of our dumb president's terrible schtick. firing the director of a Presidential library...for not deaccessioning a sword from a national museum collection...to give to King Charles?? for Christ's sake

To put it more bluntly: Everything people were afraid the National Guard would do is what ICE and other federal agencies are doing right now

big personal news: this morning I finished off a bottle of flavored coffee creamer that I did not like but forced myself to finish out of a sense of frugality

hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

Teachers: Please name the illustrator when you read to students. Discuss the art. Invite illustrators to visit. Show next generation that art in book was created by a HUMAN, that their work matters. www.picturesmeanbusiness.com/teachers/ #PicturesMeanBusiness Art @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social #EduSky

The bees have discovered Brutalism

me: Hey do you smell something like...delicious in here? coworker: I wouldn't say delicious but it smells like a scented powder. me: I think it smells like those roasted cinnamon nuts. coworker: Hm. No, I just smell powder. me: I think you'll find cinnamon is often a powder.

“Wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?” is an all-timer that I missed by being offline most of the day. Chef’s kiss stuff.

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teen: You helped me before! me: Oh good! My name's Renata, I'm one of the teen librarians teen: Renata...like the pasta? me: .... teen: It sounds like a kind of pasta anyway me: Well I guess it kind of does, yeah

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This cozy YA fantasy features a cat-sized dragon and a dragon-sized cat. If that isn't enough of a sell, I don't know what is. reactormag.com/book-review-...

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

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I love Wolverine. The way he just *clenches fist* wolves all those rines.

Seeing a local production of Rent & the set decoration implies that Mark & Roger have a dead pigeon (do not eat) in their apartment

It's Library Card Sign-Up Month, which means we're visiting the schools to get high schoolers library cards, which means it's time for an annual reminder that teens do NOT know what the word "suffix" means. Also the Rose song has not taught home-dwellers what "apt" means yet.

Just to pile on here... I worked with food banks for years. Yes, food donations are good but (as Nicole encourages) MONETARY DONATIONS ARE BEST. Food banks stretch $ on food (fill gaps donations miss etc) really well. Moreover, they need money for operating costs like power and staff wages.

Julie does book fundraising for kids. These kids witnessed ICE yoinking a dude out of his car today. The middle schoolers are in counseling as we speak. Can you help these kids get some Scholastic Books to maybe get through the horrors of *gestures* Thanks. <3 Julie

Been talking to people quite a bit about how it's easy to understand "cancel Disney+!" but harder to understand the initial and bigger problem is with Nexstar and Sinclair, so lemme make it easier. Find your local Nexstar channel Find your local Sinclair channel

podcast for mother!! eleven years podcast!!!

I did in fact re-instate my Bluesky in time to promote this very fun podcast

This is unironically a lot worse than Jimmy Kimmel but you won't see 1/1000 of the outrage

WHAT IF...you were a sleepy little cat...and you didn't have a job or basic understanding of civics...wouldn't that be nice??

i know i just finished fundraising but i also gotta buy 300 cans of sardines for a mutual aid grocery day in MacArthur Park - are there three people who want to give me $150 for a custom reverse mermaid painting? you pick fish type and the leg type.

stop pivoting to video

look at this! look at this shit! after everything he already gave to the fight LEONARD PELTIER isn’t giving up! why should any of us get to?

gif of the last movie you watched

They keep doing this study, and they keep learning that it works, and they keep withholding money from people anyway.

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I was reminding the teens not to eat in the computer room (aka gamer cave) and accidentally said, with full sincerity, "That's how we get ants in here!" 😑

today in the teen room: the kids kept calling the computer room their "goon cave" and I was like "PLEASE DO NOT CALL IT THAT" and they seemed genuinely confused and then I cautiously googled it and I guess SOME places use "goon cave" to mean "gamer cave" & these kids might not know the NSFW meaning

My computer's specialized library software wasn't working right and I realized it was bc I had a typo and was using a user profile that started with "MAM" instead of the correct "MAN." I was misgendering my computer! SO sorry sir, I am listening and learning.

Until I guess yesterday, he was a Kimmel writer

Today is Thursday, Sept 18 Good morning ❤️ eat take your meds hydrate tell your people you love them let them love you back We are here. This is real. Let's build a home for each other and fight like hell.

A lot of people remembering Jimmy Kimmel from the Man Show, which yeah yikes, but remember when he became a big advocate for Obamacare after his baby needed heart surgery? (baby's fine btw) He's been on a Growth Journey for some time now & I love that for him. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017...

I tried to figure out a Rivers 11 joke here, but couldn't make it swim.

The address to target is: Disney-ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution 500 S. Buena Vista St. Burbank, CA 91521-3515

Let's fund a fifth classroom today. This one's in Massachusetts, and it serves an incredibly diverse student body. $422. www.donorschoose.org/project/book...

Last night I dreamed I was at a party at a depressing apartment & I was like "this place is depressing, whose house is this?" and the guy in front of me turned around and it was Jimmy Kimmel & it was his house & I was soo embarrassed, hate that I have stress dreams on behalf of Jimmy Kimmel now

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."