MIT closing three of its four libraries is shocking and appalling and underscores that the source of so much of the crisis in higher education comes not from attacks from the far right or the collapse of public trust, but rather from the university administrative class itself.

Back on the air in 20, friends. The Librarian's back with another show inspired by a book - this time, T. Kingfisher's THE HOLLOW PLACES. What that means for you is the Cranberries, the Band, White Town, Doroty ahd more. See you there: bannerless.games/void-wlib3

this has always struck me as especially demented when you see it IN NEW YORK CITY. Like. There is almost certainly something that will be very good, pretty cheap and pretty quick within a two block radius of whatever you're waiting in line for

terf shitheads believe that there should be a big Richard Scarry serif font word floating next to every person that says MAN or WOMAN, there is no way to do that outside of repeating "you know.... YOU KNOW!" over and over again and you can watch them become weirder and more twisted over it

*evil vizier voice* "james talarico has tboy swag" *crowd cheering and going nuts, batting a beachball around* "no you fools!!!"

accidentally posted on my old account after logging in to RT something that deserved more eyes on it, which is embarrassing but at least I wasn't logging in to be like, "as a BIPOC I support this man"

message that comes up when you want to close mobydick.exe

reading my 2008 edition of American Psycho where there’s an entire chapter of Patrick Bateman going on about Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

figuring out that the period supplies in Are You There God It's Me Margaret were specific to the historical era instilled key skills and habits of mind and reading that have sustained me my whole life. Figuring out based on context helps open worlds, we don't need everything explained.

DAVE: incredible show tonight, ladies and gentlemen. The uh the Mandalorian. The MANdalorian, we've got him. *band plays opening line from I'll Take You There* PAUL: *visibly giggling* DAVE: what's that? PAUL: and? DAVE: ah yes. and Grogu *everyone cheers, band plays riff from Brick House*

every generation receives the Costanza they deserve

please indicate your level of mania today on the "pepsi scale"

The prevalence of AI art has already made it abundantly clear what we already knew: that many clients and employers have no taste and don't give a shit about quality. But I'm starting to think that the note-givers were only ever doing it to assert dominance.

2nd grade boys discussing what the biggest dinosaurs were

I love the @ottawatranslibrary.bsky.social, I love being trans, I love libraries 😤

Zohran Mamdani to camera: Poppy Curbeh Tuech Es Housing Assistance Vouchers Application Deadline June First Ho Ho Ho

did target even do a pride line this year. I dont think it would have won anyone back but I think if you promised them if would make it 2015 again theyd make anything. estradol and androgel throw pillows. those leather dog masks

the pope: hey just checking in on the AI encyclical designs- the pope's digital comms intern (looking up from Figma, the ancient spirit of Michalangelo speaking through him): WHEN I AM FINISHED!!!

rules out any 2028 bid. we can't afford someone too dim to realize they're deflating their own powerbase with this kind of crap

I like the idea that Hutts are like any immigrant family and Jabba refuses to speak anything but Huttese at home and his kids are like jacked zoomers that are a full foot taller than him and only speak Huttese specifically when explaining how the Samsung remote works on the phone.

Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham

I'm concerned people think I'm joking about this.

Referring to bedtime routines in conversations with other dads like they're NFL plays. Yeah we run a 730 flex, iso bath, max 2 book, backrub option

summoning the ghost of d. boon to haunt all these losers

🎶 September gurls, do so much / there’s this guy, he’s Chilchuck 🎶

The Pope has authored an encyclical declaring anime “real”

Ah yes, Friedrich Sheepsche

there's a conceit in The Sheep Detectives which is: the sheep are able to actively forget information and they use this to forget anything that is troubling. The one sheep who is neurologically not able to do this lives in a kind of weird hell where he's the only one aware that bad things can happen

we went to see the Sheep Detectives today and the kids had a good time, the eldest has been talking a lot about "murder mysteries" as a concept so tonight I was like tomorrow let's watch some columbo or murder she wrote or Rockford files and she was like, eh, I'm not that interested

Sometimes you watch a movie that you have only seen once before at a hotel horror con in 2006... a film that sucks ass and cost 5000 dollars... a film with 17 (now 18) views on youtube... but god damn do those white boys know how to put text on screen.

I grew up in a Coke-cans-in-the-fridge household, when I was 17 I dropped out of high school and moved to NYC to live with my siblings and the first time I went to the grocery I was like "wait - soda costs this much, I have to pay for it AND I have to carry it home?" and that was it for me and soda

one on the right is thinking "youre gonna have to do BETTER THAN THAT"

Night Heat: zigazig ah

"if you want to be her future forget about her past" would be a great tagline for a 1980s erotic thriller

What the US is doing to Cuba is more than a humanitarian crisis. It is a genocide as defined by the United Nations. www.un.org/en/genocide-...

I think "I want to hear everyone's parenting hot takes" is a phrase of the devil. nevertheless, I think... I don't think it's very hot but if you are co-parenting with a romantic partner - the way you interact is going to be the normative model for what they think a romantic relationship is

hey so lots going on i know but this right here is a whole fucking slow motion ongoing tragedy

*eyes rolled back in my head* mlm hallmark christmas movie where a small town Episcopal priest hires a down on his luck Broadway actor to run the Christmas pageant, in opposition to the neighboring mega-church's pageant, and sparks fly

@pattymo.com ????

more like Corey Atad Too Much

if you're not attending the klu klux klan meetings you're just ceding the space to them

I have been thinking about this a lot - largely because of famous men getting very obvious plastic surgery - but it's now considered gauche and rude for you to maintain any actual memory of your own instead of simply existing in an eternal Now, fed by the press releases of your betters

I bought a $100 used amp at guitar center today and the guy asked me if I wanted the three year warranty for $30 and I was like no thanks and he was like you're buying a $100 used amp at guitar center and I was like well fair enough add it on there

how is extruding the ice cream a robot job but putting the ice cream in the containers not a robot job

There's a kind of guy who thinks smart people talk like a mouse with glasses in a cartoon

went to a goth coffee shop and while we were there a whole family of goths came in and it's like oh yeah that's how you can tell its good

Me: so what are you, like, into? Shelob: [hissing, knocking over table setting, baring fangs] Me: that’s so cool, I’ve never tried hobbit. You’re such a gourmet [to server] yeah two more glasses would be fantastic