Socialist A. Philip Randolph saw in the porters’ struggle a symbol for the strivings of all Black working people. Believing they were “made to order to carry the gospel of unionism in the colored world,” he threw himself into his newfound leadership role labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...

"On Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner's coming up, they were all pressed to go into the house and take some- 🎵CERVEZA CRISTAL🎶" -Pride & Prejudice, Chapter I of Volume III (Chap. 43)

My favorite part of therapy right now is: what do you think is triggering this anxiety? Well. I have high pattern recognition, study history, and have seen The News on any given day. So.

50 runaway sheep ram-paged through a German supermarket in rural Baa-varia, causing shear mania on Monday morning. After breaking away from their 500-strong herd, the brazen sheep spent 20 minutes milling around in the Penny supermarket before ewe-turning and seeing themselves out.

Zohran just went out and fixed the Williamsburg Bridge bike entrance. Just did it. No faffing, no nonsense. Bam. Fixed.

I’m fully in favor of calling it MicroSlop.

And here's more on public libraries as infrastructures for local knowledge production and cultural distribution! placesjournal.org/article/extr... And Mamdani's commitment to dedicating 0.5% of the city budget to libraries (thx to advocacy by NYC PLAN) www.instagram.com/p/DSYRoJ7gf-3/

I made it 0 in office days before getting caught rocking out at my desk.

I stand by the silly things I make from collections I have worked on.

I’m going to start charging for internal reference requests. You want me to compile a history of your regional office/department? In exchange I need you to send over the last 10-20 years of records so we can be ready next time you ask.

Ultra Q (1966) Episode 6

What I said: let’s circle back in January What I meant: let’s let ourselves enjoy the liminal space and the end of the year and never talk about any of this again. Honestly quite rude that you would “circle back.” You’re living in the past man.

You cannot value the librarian code of ethics while also being pro-genAI. GenAI is a direct violation of our code of ethics.

What a year

Me, in the kitchen not remembering why I am there

Listening to Tim Curry read his memoir “Vagabond” and hearing him discuss the joy of working with the Muppets is delightful.

Perhaps not THE highlight of the whole thing for Mr. Mayor, but man, how satisfying when the end of your lease lines up so nicely with a new and much nicer place to live suddenly coming into your possession.

New year, new me! *wakes from uneasy dreams to find I’ve been transformed into a gigantic insect*

2025 was fucking rough but here are some of my favorite things from the year I had a re-do on Craft Camp in Estonia (I went in 2024 and immediately got covid so.) Tried my hand at silver smithing, learned I don’t know how to swing a hammer, some traditional knitting, and more.

2026 Quests (or “resolutions” I guess) -2 new to me museums (year 3 of this) -continue the 2025 trend of aiming for a 50/50 fiction/nonfiction reading split -take some fun/weird/specialty classes or workshops

Back at work but GOD, at what cost?

Obsessed with this juxtaposition

Mamdani:

Oh hello there

This is not a hard message. Localize it. Embrace it. Win.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Love that Bernie Wagenblast voice of the NYC subway is the announcer for Zohran’s inauguration. www.them.us/story/bernie...

I should have kept a tally of tears while I keep up with inauguration coverage. Coming up on double digits and I missed the first part. Feels like listening to Nina Simone sing “feeling good”

If I ever become someone important or important-adjacent, the New York Post can look up the prices of the yarn I use in my handmade clothing and kvetch about that. Good quality materials are not cheap, even before you get to fairly paying for labor.

A motorcade of taxis. Yellow cab drivers adore Zohran Mamdani like a brother. He spent 45 days camped outside of City Hall with them. He took all of his meetings and calls from the protest site. And, spent 15 days on a water-only hunger strike with them. They won and saved lives.

Mamdani arrives to his mayoral inauguration at City Hall in a motorcade of NYC taxi cabs—workers he went on hunger strike with in 2021.

If you start Itchy and Scratchy Land at 11:52:53 on New Year's Eve, Homer will say "Now remember, we're in the Itchy lot" at the stroke of midnight. Start your new year off right.

New York Public Library 1917

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

He’s so good at storytelling.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

SUCCESS! AND! I won bobbin chicken! It is a Christmas miracle!

Plan for the day: buttonholes on the jacket I am making. The vintage buttonholer attachment holds all the power in this relationship and can smell fear. Odds of crying are high.

Remember, the Secretary of Transportation is absolutely terrified of this subway system. Just mentioning the ACE line will reduce him to tears. And yet ...

The Week Between Christmas and New Years

We're watching Labyrinth which is in reality a Christmas Movie because David Bowie delivers his package

This is the set up for a great album by The Decemberists

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

i had to drop what i was doing to make this

Student loan servicer: Hey, you missed 3 payments Me: but I have auto pay and you took the full amounts Student Loans: correct Me: and I actually made *extra* payments these last few months Student Loans: you sure did! yay! Me: so...how is that possible? Student Loans: PAYMENT PAST DUE!

The Weissand effect

And that digitising requires highly-skilled staff (often wildly underpaid) to do a lot of work in arranging, describing and preserving both the OG documents and digital surrogates. Nothing works without good metadata & long-term thinking.

Email: let’s meet before end of year to discuss an exciting new project! Me: are we in a holiday movie? Because it is December 22 and this has big villain of a holiday film vibes.