The Bibliotheque Carnegie is one of the thousands of libraries worldwide funded by Andrew Carnegie, but the only one in France. Designed by architect Max Sainsaulieu, it opened in 1928 and is still a working municipal library, so the public areas can be visited for free.

Hi hello yes please, I need this on a t-shirt immediately and also stickers. (Book sounds like fun also!)

it's crazy that being like "how do i explain gay couples to my kids?" isn't an unthinkably embarrassing to say in 2025. it's actually incredibly easy to explain, that should be like indignantly saying "how am I supposed to explain to my kids where the sun goes at night? did a bird steal it?!"

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funny story, I signed up for personal training at a local gym and was assigned a former NFL linebacker as a trainer giant man, covered in tattoos, big muscles, loud voice I am someone who just… doesn’t have a particularly well-assembled body

The uninformed public relying on stereotypes: librarians are very quiet, easily shocked people who love a beige cardigan and shushing people. Actual librarians:

Crocheted a geode, like you do 🧶 #crochet

When we invest in the Public Good, we realize that the public is good. Imagine if we replicated this effort in every community in America. Imagine how good we could be

Hermes, suffering the indignities of teenagers

As someone who mostly reads horror, I'll never understand the vitriol towards "cozy" books. People say they are escapist, unserious, allowing readers to avoid big issues. And I'm like, girl, WHEN did your dark romance book fix society? Did I BLINK and miss your detective thriller solving crime?

*me, turning on the news* there better not be any goddamn news

i'd rather ask ursula from the little mermaid for a favour and life advice than ask chatgpt anything

If you're coming here for "what do we do about this" related to anything book censorship or library attacks or library funding, a reminder that I have MORE THAN FOUR YEARS' WORTH OF READING ON THAT in my pinned post.

People reallye ynto Gen AI summaryes seeme to thynke of bookes as annoyinge litel labyrinths whose onlye benefit ys that thei leade to a tastye magical glowing orb called "informacioun" that when consumed doth turne you into a man wyth a bow tie and the righte to talke over everyone else.

Told my colleague that I’m omnivorous and they said “love is love.”

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

Kyoto Tower Hotel says Trans Rights and Happy Pride!

Like most things, child development is a spectrum. Human beings are complex. There’s physical growth, cognitive growth, social emotional growth, and these things can follow their own paths. In an ideal world we would never group kids solely by ages.

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

If watching library workers resist leads you to expect us to save you, you're taking away the wrong message. You should be viewing this as a clear indicator that YOU can and should stand up and push back, too. We need help, not acclaim.

I absolutely refuse to believe that the pheasant who regularly visits my mum and dad’s garden is real and has not in fact been crocheted.

every day we see more and more evidence of society descending into utter lawlessness and chaos

This is the most Gen X mood thing I’ve seen for a long while. I don’t care if it’s not originally of the period. It is the bullseye.

Don’t bother asking if you are doing enough, for enough is a destination that you can never reach, no, don’t bother asking if you are doing enough, ask instead if the something the something you are doing is at least a step towards that destination.

i think it was descartes who famously said, “to be human is to select all the pics with crosswalks in them.”

And their hiding behind their conditions—using them as a get out of consequences free card— makes things harder for the rest of us. Many of us *already* fighting stigmatization.

This is, as far as I can tell, a real ad by a company trying to get more Tesla owner business.

Hey, so it's National Library Week. You're going to see a lot of calls to get a library card and check out books. All well and good. But I'm going to ask you to do something a little more supportive: speak up.

Cat Distribution System (Part 1) - Gator Days

Hey, it's one of my favorite Brooklynites @edrabinski.bsky.social speaking truth to power in The Guardian today: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Oh no! I love the Phryne Fisher books so much!

1. They must not be looking very hard. 2. Wow, imagine what I felt as a little femme queer kid having to relate to stories about boys because girls didn’t have high fantasy adventures. (Remember, dudes feel like women are “dominating” conversation if they speak 30% of the time.)

Anybody who’s seen pictures of my apartment knows I love books, but weeding is so satisfying and some of the most fun I’ve had in libraries.

I've worked in places where "books go to die" and it's always the least romantic place: old driving test books from 1982, dummies guide to Netscape 95, and 505 copies of the Celestine Prophecy. Not anything you'd want to see in your public library.

As the AI discourse heats up, I recommend people familiarize themselves with the concept of "sealioning" and disengaging with said individuals the second you recognize it.

🚨GOV HOCHUL IS TRYING TO SNEAK A MASK BAN INTO THE STATE BUDGET 🚨 Mask bans are a new pretense for stop-and-frisk, for criminalizing protest, and for pushing disabled people further out of public life. And they’re a public health nightmare.

The latest crime stats for Midsomer were revealed today. Burglary down 18%, Street Crime down 12%, Car Theft down 8%, Murder up 214%

Libraries aren't neutral? Correct. Big tech companies don't have our best interests at heart? Correct. We need to act and not just know things? Correct. How any of this leads to the conclusion that we must use AI is still a mystery to me. #CILDC

I befriended a crow. I'd put scraps of food out on the balcony and watch it eat. After a while it started to bring gifts in return. Bottle caps, disposable lighters, that sort of thing, left on the table. I accepted them. But this morning it was waiting for me, holding a diamond ring. Should I?

Some books in my TBR have been with me so long, they’re basically family now. I’d read them, but it feels rude to change the dynamic. Good morning, readers. #BookSky 💙📚

Good morning 🌞🦋 Take some deep breaths & let’s get this last day of winter started

This post is possibly one of high points of the entire internet. Years from now we’ll be saying to one another “Do you remember where you were when you first saw the MERL’S Absolute Unit post?”

only by an act of either courtesy or gullibility do we ascribe to LLMs any cognitive states at all—even a sense of what is an “appropriate response.” it’s just statistics applied to character strings. the semantic content of the strings that they manipulate has nothing to do with it.

🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen. Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it. Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Who doesn't love dogs jumping rope