Means testing costs money and burdens clients as well as service providers. It's the red tape conservatives claim to hate. Excluding the rich makes the service feels like charity to those who qualify, and it ensures that those who don't qualify have no stake in protecting the program.

Our military is currently directed by a small handful of people who are violently immoral and I don't know how we can stop this but it has to stop.

“Serendpity doesn’t come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody ask you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.” Not me sending this to a library list this morning

They’ve killed the US Forest Service. 🤬

Learning manners was much different in the 1950s. Take this children’s book I was given. It really does provide you with advice on manners for all occasions – even when someone pulls a gun on you. 🧵1/4.

Attention historians of medicine and/or France: according to the @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social email list, moves are underway to dismantle the incredible Medica-Histoire de la santé digital collection (BIU Santé Médicine). Oppose this move by filling out the "Enquête de satisfaction" at the link🗃️

Wolverine using his claws but not quite in the way you’d expect

Hare, The Flowering Tree, Catherine Hyde.

Still this one (I hear the angel voiced as Samuel L. Jackson):

I have a perennial affection for "Jail for mother"

Hey Librarian friends 📚 : the Discourse is riffing on the Awfulness and Sameness of (other profession) professional conferences, so spill the tea: what are the best library conferences (or sessions) you've been to, and what made the cool and/or unique?

Let us all root out, or at the very least label, the Chortlemuffins.

Source : www.wired.com/story/the-te...

Per aspera, ad astra. Godspeed, Artemis II. 🌎🚀🌕

As a Jewish adjacent gentile let me say chag pesach sameach to everyone who celebrates & remember to put on the soup when you get to Dayenu.

My poor teenager, having grown up in a very laid back tri-religious household, was stuck listening to my high points recap of the historical/mythological bases of Passover & Easter in the car today. He is patient with my attempts to be sure he is culturally literate.

holy shit they are finally just actually saying "we do wars, not healthcare." I mean, WE'VE been pointing it out for decades, but to hear it casually said that yeah, we do wars and kill people and that's where our money goes, so we can't take care of our citizens. there's no bottom to this dig.

Reminder to next dem government: take all of SpaceX’s federal contracts and give the money back to NASA.

So JF books are the comics no reasonable grown up would complain about being in the hands of a 3rd grader (Tea Dragon Society, Witch Boy, Bone) Adult are the comics that'd get side eye on a HS media center shelf (Attack on Titan, Strangers in Paradise) And YA gets all the fun stuff.

Ah, Bone. The *actual* book you should hand to someone who's interested in comics, but doesn't consider themselves familiar with the format (all due respect to Watchmen, but for all its impact and mastery, it's not the thing you hand someone as an access point)

Be careful folks, today is April Fool's Day, which means that the internet will be rife with misinformation and posts designed to deceive. Don't worry though, tomorrow we will be back to normal, and the internet will be rife with misinformation and posts designed to deceive.

A rare evening I get to scroll thru a MS. Tonight it is a 15thC Dutch translation of Guy de Chauliac's surgery. Last time I looked at a Guy MS, it was the Bristol copy which I got to peruse in person w/ the great @themedievaldrk.bsky.social. Bristol wins, b/c it has better pictures!

Orazio Gentileschi, Annunciation (detail), c. 1623, Oil on canvas, 289 cm x 198 cm (Galleria Sabauda, Turin) #earlymodern museireali.beniculturali.it/le-collezion...

This is a verified GoFundMe for librarian Luanne James from the Rutherford County Library Alliance. gofund.me/f7704eb98 Read what happened to this hero: www.newschannel5.com/news/rutherf...

As I understand mutual aid, checking on your neighbors is mutual aid.

New Scarry librarian just dropped. youtu.be/V4bRrGqJ_SA?...

The two types of librarian conflict management as illustrated by Richard Scarry. Which are you?

Bunny reporting for duty! 🐰📚

It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. Here's new patterns for my carbon fiber foldable walking sticks!! Each pattern needs to sell at least 50 each to make them a reality!! Or else I'll have to refund them. Please support! Store: Bibipins.com

It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. These dragon convertible bags can be worn as a backpack, crossbody bag, waist bag and can be hooked up to a wheelchair & other mobility aids!! They are high quality! Get them now! Store: Bibipins.com

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. -Desmond Tutu

On this Trans Day of Visibility, a reminder to never force someone to declare their pronouns. They may not feel safe. They may not want to lie. They may still be figuring it out. They may feel put on the spot. Sharing pronouns is a great way to be inclusive in spaces, but do not make it mandatory.

Happy trans day of visibility, here is a wrasse design I made awhile ago because all wrasses change sexes as they age.

Today is trans day of visibility. I see and love and celebrate all my trans friends. Also, I know that in many places it's stressful or terrifying or dangerous to be visible, and whatever decisions you've made for your own safety are valid and don't change who you are.

Today's little bonus: #TDOV

RUTHERFORD COUNTY: “library director Luanne James fired for refusing to relocate 132 children’s books to the adult section…. The board deemed the books inappropriate, citing LGBTQ+ themes, female empowerment, diversity, witches, social justice...” www.dnj.com/story/news/2...

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! #transdayofvisibility www.brokenfrontier.com/tag/trans-an...

This editorial cartoon is an homage to the great Dutch master Hieronymus Bosch (1456-1516) and his trippy visions of sin and torment. Couldn't be more perfect for this surreal, hellish period in politics.

If our self esteem is damaged, unrealistic affirmations are going to leave us cold (the scientific literature bears this out). I'm not a believer in telling yourself you're awesome when you feel sh*tty. I believe in reminding yourself of reality: you're a work in progress.

We've got choices. One choice is to run w/ Trauma Brain's insistence that we need the sh*t kicked out of us for our last misstep. No one will stop us from doing it. Another choice is to say, f*ck that. I won't play along. Not today, anyway. Not in this minute.

Medical Objects in Context 30: 𝐏𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐫 ("𝐓𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐢 𝐝𝐞 𝐝𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐡𝐚"), 𝐜. 𝟏𝟔𝟓𝟎 Italian Maiolica, Object number unknown, Odescalchi Castle, Bracciano, Italy. #CSMBR #MedicalHistory #Pharmacy #Trochisci #Pills

This morning I am reminded of the ballet that is watching Black Girls jump Double Dutch. ❤️ #DoubleDutchOver40

ICE CBP Are Felons October 14 2025 CBP in Chicago engaged in a dangerous car chase for 18 minutes against orders to stop. Video shows that agents ignored repeated direct orders to stop the pursuit, and crashed due to a tire blow out. They lied on their reports. unraveledpress.com/border-patro...

Passover begins at sunset of 1st April. Here is the depiction of a seder table from the 'Ashkenazi Haggadah'. BL Add 14762; the 'Ashkenazi Haggadah'; c.1460 CE; Germany, S.; f.6r @blmedieval.bsky.social

No. No more.

This is a bibliography of resources relating to 'no, social media is *not* universally bad for young people' research!

Spotted outside my dr's appointment. I wonder if this is the Evangelical Christian equivalent to the people who hide little resin ducks everywhere.

Changes that Republicans made to SNAP will kick a lot of people off food stamps starting April 1. If you can, please support your local food bank. www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/...

My sister in Christ, if the violet has no smell it is not viola odorata.

As much as NCIS is awful copaganda, I am greatful to have learned from it that there are specialist firms that deal with cleaning up after unaccompanied deaths.