start of kleenex box: no. never. you can't take one. i'll fight you for every scrap. end of kleenex box: here's twelve at once and my firstborn child.

FISH DOORBELL IS BACK ON MARCH 2!!! visdeurbel.nl/en/

You can always tell an institution’s values based off of how it *spends* money. Even in capitalism, the goal isn’t straightforwardly to make money. It’s about power. And some things are considered worthless no matter the monetary gains while others are considered valuable no matter the cost.

To be clear, Kansas Republicans rushed through a confusing and disastrous bill, created a panic, and wasted untold number of tax dollars all to target 300 out of the nearly 3 million people in the state.

Update/Scoop— New guidance sent this AM to Kansas DMVs indicates licenses that previously had gender marker changed not actually invalid yet. However, internally DMV can see who is flagged, and keeping track of who has/hasn't come in to update. Seems about 300 trans/GNC ppl flagged across the state.

Today at my day job, at the pet store, a guy came up and asked for a furry. (He meant a fuzzy, as in a baby feeder mouse) I held it together, barely

My chapter from this new (and first!) book on Slow Librarianship, "Neoliberal Time and the Promise of Slow Librarianship," is openly available at works.hcommons.org/records/ejb0... Enjoy!!! #slowlibrarianship #oa

Students in my course, Public User Services & Technology, created an OER primer on the course content. Public User Services & Technology: A Primer for Librarians is an open-access introduction to the tools, concepts, and practices that shape technology-centered public services in libraries.

Or academic articles. Sorry, that is literally what the abstract is for. Impossible to disable Adobe shit.

But also Can we please stop throwing kids' rights under the bus to placate adults bsky.app/profile/noet...

We espouse a lot of grand ideals about the need for an informed citizenry, the importance of education, the value of free speech & expression & the promise of equality. And public libraries in more than 500 Iowa towns, big and small, are fulfilling them all. www.thegazette.com/staff-column...

yes! Fund libraries!

Dudes rock

Everybody is really sleeping on the “Oracle gets destroyed by openai and data center debt” as a possibility

No but this is entirely correct

These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.

I’m transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img acefoundationict.org

Hey man the good news is that Warner kills every company that buys it

btw, heads up: I suspect Amazon is hoping to nudge people over to registries & away from wishlists, as you can still disable 3rd party shipping on registries and they are also a lot easier to make secure from a privacy standpoint. That is why so many of the filament wishlists are actually registries

Bari Weiss has fired the Animaniacs due to a lack of political balance

We know that but most other people do not. Normies consider CNN a neutral news source.

10/10 dogs also recommend.

I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.

"labor and economics in Nevada's legal brothels" is perhaps the most niche of my hyperfixations but it's one of those microcosms that's really a macrocosm like all our national conversations about workers' rights, patriarchy, law enforcement overreach, body sovereignty etc run through it

If trans people want/need to leave, that is worthy. It’s also worthy to stay and fight, or to need to stay and still need rights. Queer folks in red states need and deserve our support at least as much as the work being done from “safer” states

Quote for the day: “Bitches love libraries. And flying buttresses.”

Doomscrolling break: Someone is requesting a book about Lemurs.

i’m tired of every paper (even critical ones) on societal impact of AI starting by both-siding the “benefits” and risks/harms of AI in academia, i would like us to arrive at a collective reckoning that we don’t need to play both sides. it's totally legit to clearly state just the harms. period

GOOD NEWS! A UNIVERSAL sarbecovirus vaccine candidate has OFFICIALLY started clinical trials. GBP511 is the FIRST vaccine to reach human testing that is intended to protect against MULTIPLE strains of SARS-CoV-2 as well as other related coronaviruses with the potential to spark dangerous outbreaks.

please enjoy brand new tingler NOT POUNDED BY THIS T-REX ON THE USA MEN’S HOCKEY TEAM BECAUSE IT TURNS OUT HE’S A MAGA DORK out now. get it here www.amazon.com/dp/B0GQ7YSVDF or on tingleverse patreon www.patreon.com/posts/not-po...

And that, my friends, is why Einstein exists. Not only are you helping train an LLM for free, but you're also being mined for your data.

“Stay angry, little Meg,” Mrs Whatsit whispered. “You will need all your anger now.”

Two very plain truths: 1) This almost certainly can’t stand any legal challenge, especially with the precedent set last year WRT passports. 2) The point of this law isn’t to last. It’s to harass, sew confusion, and force undesirables out.

I fortunately don't seem to have such people in my circle but anyone who's like "oh it's Kansas what did they expect" can fuck all the way off with that. You think trans Kansans voted for this? and it's difficult and expensive to move, many already have, and they shouldn't fucking have to!

Thinking of friends of Dr. S's family and folks he knows from HS right now.

I have 2 college age children. My oldest was college-searching when she still lived in IA. Staying in a state where all this, plus a strong backlash against queer folks, is happening was never an option. She is representative of a demographic cohort that's going to abandon the state. Why stay? /6

call for chapter proposals - Decoding Slow Librarianship: Inquiries into Conceptual Challenges and Concerns from Bloomsbury Publishers docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A bill (HF 2324) moving through the Iowa Legislature could prohibit public schools from collaborating with public libraries — a partnership that already works and saves taxpayers money. www.3newsnow.com/southwest-io...

After the State of the Union Address, House Republicans immediately introduced a bill that would ban books at schools and libraries nationwide. The bans would, of course, target queer titles (and people). www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Fuck this and everyone who helped get things to this point. Trans rights are human rights—full stop.

Years ago our admin did a red and black report. It took salaries & how much $ each instructor made in tuition $ for classes we taught-you were in the red or black. They released numbers once & shut it down bc humanities were producing huge $ for uni & engineers, business and scientists were losing $

increasingly convinced these content aggregation accounts are a net negative even if well meaning (TN Holler just one of several). In the name of engagement, they tend post way more things than they can possibly be vetting and get fooled too often

They tried doing this with SNAP funding, and a federal judge told them they could not.

I CAST WHIMSY ON THE SKYLINE

The Constitution clearly gives Congress the power to spend taxpayer funds, and no law allows the president to halt if he feels some US states aren’t being “good stewards” of the money. In case there’s any confusion on this, the Impoundment Control Act forbids it. Taxation without representation.

And even grownups who know kids well will biff it from time to time! *Stares in my eternal example, the uterine prolapse cow from the end of All Creatures Great and Small, more traumatized by that than the animal death*

stole this off reddit for the very niche group of you who will enjoy it as much as I did

historical detail I can't help but bring up: by some accounts, the event that instigated the British soldiers to open fire on Crispus Attacks and the rest of the crowd in the Boston Massacre was a soldier being hit by a snowball