🚨POST AN EMERGENCY CAT PIC🚨 My coworker is astonished by some of the choices that otherwise rational people are making these days.

Today is Quintidi the 25th of Nivôse in the year 234. Nivôse is the month of snow. Today we celebrate cats.#JacobinDay More information on cats

ICE was created in the post-9/11 haze as security theater and immediately weaponized against racial and ethnic minorities. There's nothing to reform, it shouldn't exist.

Say her name. Renee Nicole Good.

Found his way home tonight, just in time before we get a chance of snow this week.

OK, wish me luck, I am about to go for a walk while shaking this idiot's treat jar in the hope he didn't get far when he got out last night.

OK, this is the year I learn to bake bread from scratch, got it. Anybody with a good sourdough starter, hit me up. I will not be entertaining alternate interpretations at this time

No cheating. Reskeet with the most recent picture of your pet.

This is the most epic Bluesky thread I have seen to date.

bye 2025👋

BEGONE FOUL YEAR THAT FELT LIKE A DECADE, I ABJURE THEE TO THE ABYSS

Uh, Temple sorcerer of the Bastard's order. Yay?

@realblucifer.bsky.social I hope you enjoyed your spa day. denverite.com/2025/12/24/b...

So yes, I am a romantasy reader, if anyone asks

FINALLY

I like to tell the story of how, at the library where I used to work, the first poetry book that ever had a hold list so long we had to buy more copies was Milk and Honey, by Rupi Kaur

I can't put my fuzzy slipper-socks away any more, because where would she sleep then?

You know, I usually can't stand to listen to political speeches--something about the cadence and the shoutiness throws me off, so I nearly always read the transcript the next day instead. But I listened to this.

Teen Vogue has had more guts to dissect and expose the truth when so many veteran media outlets have bent their knees to a criminal despot and his regime and this news is absolutely appalling and unacceptable

Evergreen sentiment

High concentration of cats per square foot today. #ProofOfCat

I am also 56 now after my birthday and I concur with every part of this statement.

Define your taste in books with 8 authors. In no particular order: Barbara Hambly Ben Aaronovitch Laurie R. King John Scalzi Martha Wells Claudia Gray Simon Winchester Heather Cox Richardson Answers extremely subject to change. This is just TODAY'S list of LIVING authors.

I like to joke that what every library needs is a basket of name tags with fake surnames, so staff can pull one at random at the start of their shift. And I made that joke at a library that changed the policy to allow just first names on badges back in 2010.

Atchafalaya.

If you can hear this image, it's probably time to schedule your colonoscopy. If you can sing the whole song, it's also time to get your shingles vaccine.

Saw someone say, “Stop hoarding books, we don’t need paper books anyway” and I can’t express how misguided this is. Online libraries disappear, digital books can be altered, and with Big Tech seeking to destroy history and literacy, print media has never been more essential.

The fundie baby voice can be used for good purposes

Eddy Arnold. Or possibly the Broadway cast recording of Oklahoma. It would have been an 8-track, though, not a cassette

Some of the best advice I ever got was, "If you're not cool, don't pretend to be cool." In my case the specific context was for a librarian working with teenagers, but I've found it broadly applicable.

Today the internet lost Maru, cat of legend, so I'm putting out an empty cardboard box for him.

First time in half a century that Queen has countenanced one of their songs being published in a language other than English. And it is beautiful. youtu.be/gbljPQbxtTQ?....

I grumbled once about how hard it is to find crabapple jelly these days, and he learned how to make it. Also yes, phenomenal chocolate chip cookies

If you’re someone who still reads for pleasure, you are a marvel. If you’re able to unplug from all the chaos of our entertainment culture and disappear into the warmth and solace of a book, that is a rare gift and I’m very glad to know you.

@scienceimpacts.org , what's the impact for CO-08?

What's the projected impact of the White House's proposed NIH cuts for FY2026 in your community? Ask the @scienceimpacts.org bot 🤖

Signing up for this class was one of the best decisions I made all year. I know a fair amount of history but I learned new things in every lecture. Registration for the fall session opens on Monday! Highly recommended.

In honor of the day, here is Shadow defeating the purpose of a chair cover. #BlackCatAppreciationDay

Told my husband I'm reading a book about Sam Altman and got a blank look. I don't regard myself as better informed than he is but I am indisputably More Online

If you count telepathy, parallel worlds, and time travel as SF, these are the earliest I remember; I scrawled my name in one of them on October 11, 1978, a week and a half before my 9th birthday. Thanks, Weekly Reader Book Club!

Obligatory photo of where I've been for the past week. I take this picture every year.

No cheating, post your lock screen. ...I have a lot of pictures of this cat. In my defense, he is ridiculously photogenic! #ProofOfCat

Oh no

My husband tells me that when his daughter was little he would wait out a tantrum and then tell her, "That wasn't your best performance, I think you should go back to your room and rehearse it again."

At my previous library in Louisiana, I was a civil servant. As a participant in the Parish Employees Retirement System, I would have been eligible to retire at age 55 if I had 25 years time served.

Important information: there's now a Bojangles in Pueblo, Colorado. Not to be weird about it, but I also feel it's important that @nome.bsky.social knows about this

Apocalypse Now. My AP English teacher was awesome

Hey y'all, check your Accessibility Settings. The newest update turned OFF my "Require ALT text before posting" setting. I just turned it back on.

Good morning, and happy Independence Day to everyone except House Republicans! And for my Colorado peeps: