NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c... gratis ht @slwalter123.bsky.social

Go follow through for a bit of joy.

This is a good thread

I redrew my Watership Down sticker!

It passed unanimously. Override the veto.

Abolish ICE This is not a crazy take, It didn't even exist until 2003 and it should absolutely go away

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@telekitnetic.bsky.social It was fun to have you on the show. www.youtube.com/live/cq7WT9w...

@cvkvlv.com You were so fun to have on the show. Thank you! www.youtube.com/live/cq7WT9w...

The world’s first fully 3D-printed microscope went big in 2025 www.newscientist.com/article/2507...

Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta. Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.

If you’re looking to ground yourself in a topic with fact-based research, librarians are still your best friends. “There’s information,” the librarian said to me, “and then there’s the right information.” nautil.us/viva-la-libr... #libraries #skybrarians #publibs

I can vouch for the excellent quality and fast shipping. Buy real art from real people.

Today I continued my streak of doing something every day on Peloton. 2,000 days in a row. Featuring my top 3 instructors from 2025. Continuing tomorrow.

Stay a bit longer. Use your time together a bit more. Time is the only finite resource.

I think we should teach about genAI the same way we teach about drugs and alcohol. But like you said, that doesn't mean we teach them how to use it. We should be teaching the context and caution. Abstinence doesn't work, but that doesn't mean the only other option is handing them meth.

I should write an essay about organizing titled "All Those Boring Meetings Paid Off."

About to start the last session of the year. Tonight will be session number 1,569 Almost every week since May 1993 Looking forward to see what happens in the coming years. dragonslayers-society.org/pmwiki-old/p...

Happy Christmas and Merry New Year

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

andor spinoff called ifthen

THIS IS VERY BAD FOLKS

I’ve been the squeaky wheel about enabling AI tools in the databases, and this is why. We need to be able to assure users that information provided by the library is vetted and accurate, to the best of our knowledge, or no one will trust us to provide the one service we were supposed to provide.

I did not see fake OPAC pages making their way into the mix though. That looks very much like an Alma/Primo page.

Dead people have limited mobility

It is. It’s called Marbury vs. Madison and it’s interestingly the one SC precedent that the Supreme Court seems unwilling to toss out. The other two branches could at any point have played hardball and said “ok cool, originalism it is then. you want judicial review, go get an amendment”

Every descendant of slaves has more American heritage than Trump. But I don’t imagine that figures large in the minds of most people using the phrase.

If you live in one of the TWENTY-ONE (WTAF) states who want to tell you what you can and cannot read by banning library books, call your attorney general. Talking points for calling are in this post. This is disturbing. Get mad. Get loud. Don't let up.

If you know a reader they should have read this wonderful series. If they did not you can correct that sad condition easily.

Today I wrote about what it means to write a free newsletter with voluntary subscriptions, and the delicate gift that it is to have a readership, and re-shared 12 essays from the year that was. www.the-reframe.com/goodbye-to-2...

My news for the day - I turned in my paperwork to retire on January 31st.

NEW: US Postal Service plans to start taking bids from large & small shippers in late January or early February 2026 for access to its "last-mile" delivery network as part of Postmaster General David Steiner's plan for boosting revenue at USPS, which generally receives no tax dollars to keep running

Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:

The real divide in America isn’t whether or not you believe this. Literally no one believes this. The real divide is between the people who think lying should matter—and the people who’ll make an exception for our Great Leader.

They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead

This is your annual reminder that if you are in the US and have FSA funds that you won't use, Menstrual products are covered by FSA funds and can be donated to food pantries and shelters.

Records on more than 6,700 people housed in the Everglades concentration camp since it opened reveal #Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous’ claim in July that all had final orders of deportation was A LIE. www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/s... via @nbcmiami.com

Redistricting fails to pass the Indiana Senate, 31-19. #Indiana #Redistricting

Be fair. This was just a routine Kavanaugh stop

According to a new court filing, the Trump administration has a six-page list of banned words that Head Start locations are forbidden from using when describing their programs. Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵

Love to see the Sedgwick County Zoo putting out a good explainer on why GenAI slop videos of animals are a problem & how to identify them! It’s succinct, easy to read, and doesn’t shame people for not knowing better. A+ useful link to share with family and friends. scz.org/blog/the-rea...

We are currently three seconds from an @older.bsky.social short story.

Graduation at the library today. We help people get a high school diploma. Our oldest graduate this year is 69.... It is never too late to reach for your dream.

Reporting goals, right here.

More Canadians, including children, detained in U.S. for immigration violations, new data show “An estimated 207 Canadians have now been held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody at some point since January…” www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

oooh I've been pushing against "hallucination" for some time for this very reason, and "mirage" never occurred to me as a solution. Now I'm #TeamMirage.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Same, Peter, same

FYI