I just wish some of y’all fought for libraries as much as you romanticize them.

100% agree. This goes for all libraries, really, but especially academic and school libraries, which are always on the precipice in terms of staffing and funding.

Faculty: libraries and librarians need your advocacy BEFORE our collections are shuttered and our workers are fired. Whether you think your library is in trouble, and it almost definitely is, write to your provost and tell them how essential the library and library staff are to your work. Right now.

We should be clear that the MIT library closings were announced in December. A mournful faculty letter six months later does feel about right though. thetech.com/2025/12/04/m...

I keep an eye on our local auction house sales for funsies (for books, mostly) but there’s a sale with a porch goose that comes with hats and clothes and now I’m in a bidding war. Wish me luck.

One of my oldest friends was hit by these layoffs. She's one of the most talented television editors in the business, and America's Test Kitchen's content will be meaningfully worse without her. She's looking for remote/Boston area work if you know of any. bsky.app/profile/steg...

Well this sucks. America’s Test Kitchen laid off 10% of its workers. From the ATK United insta:

Went to the Human Society to drop off blanket donations and met little Buffalo Chicken Dip. He’s so cute and he’s got a permanently runny nose just like me! Such a sweetie. www.wagtopia.com/search/pet?i...

I’m just tired of being angry, y’all.

Now’s a good time for a rewatch of Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe.... youtu.be/JU1IVW6uqM0?...

I get all the counterpoints, but this does matter. Luna has been the public face of this team, especially for casual fans. Now the team goes back to being anonymous and identity-free.

This is a Pope who’s watched ST:TNG the whole way through.

My dad’s cousin and her husband were interviewed on News Maine for a Memorial Day story. It’s a tear jerker. youtu.be/T0X1FLGmQ6s?...

fund abortion. fund housing. fund teachers. fund long-term care. fund public health. fund public transit. fund mental health.

Good news! Cheese rolling races are also live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/jymEHVV...

Sending out a @romancingthevote.com reminder since I have all these cool comics adjacent people following me now (thank you @gregpak.net lol) We are looking for folks to do joyful/rageful/whatever themed coloring sheets that can be shared as a $1 PDF as part of the auction!

“I’m still here, asshole!”

That Lewis Hamilton is real good at car driving.

There's a theme in these lawsuits where a librarian has been fired for refusing to remove books or discriminate against LGBTQ+ folks. They are not losing. www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/edu...

This was such a tense game! Whitehouse was standing on her head (not literally) saving those penalties, incredible work.

Hair not frozen in place? Bryl issue.

Only if we show up and support them and their work—they are not our heroes or saviors. They are humans.

This is your occasional reminder that because of the materials used in the binding process, hardcover books cannot be just chucked in the recycling bin. You can recycle the pages, but you have to remove and throw away the covers.

It’s the pure sincerity that makes it truly hilarious. youtu.be/2ut8bjqglxQ?...

F1 is easily one of the most problematic sports there is, but also cars go vroom real fast. It’s a pickle.

This thing that we already have is of greater concern to our Ohio legislators than I dunno, proper school funding. Or making sure kids have enough to eat. Fuckwits.

Every interview with a tech CEO youtube.com/shorts/ZseOJ...

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live: Indigo Girls Jonathan Richman Broken Social Scene Kesha The Mr. T Experience The Wedding Present Jawbox Luna REM Tori Amos (I did also see the Monkees! With Peter Noone!)

Piper J. Drake was one of the coolest people in every room she was in. She rocked a steampunk cosplay so hard people would stop and stare en masse in the hotel lobby. She was smart and funny and expansively welcoming. May her memory be a blessing. 💕

This whole thing has been hilarious. Anyways, up the Tigers!

“I Cannot Let These Doctrines Be The Face of My Education”: Elizabethtown (PA) Students Protest Book Bans This is a moving and honest piece from a high schooler who has been protesting book bans in her school–and the defunding of their library–for months. bookriot.com/elizabethtow...

Via IG 💔

This is so delightful. youtu.be/MefjBnCSKrU?...

On the other hand Arsenal won the league and Spurs can still be relegated so life ain’t all bad.

“Ah, imagine being a kid again!” Doc: “You’ve got an ear infection” “NOT LIKE THAT!”

#Romancelandia ICYMI www.kickstarter.com/projects/ahp...

So @lishmcbride.bsky.social and I are teaching a romance writing class with @hugohouse.bsky.social this summer! Six weeks of critique, information, craft, reading, and workshopping. Members can register now; general registration opens next week! #booksky #romancelandia

When you spend the day plotting and scheming and thinking, and then an email comes out of the blue to maybe help put some of that into action!

because I know that I have a lot of historian followers here, I'm doing a giveaway on Instagram with two other authors for three paperbacks about historian characters in love. www.instagram.com/p/DYe55TJGzK...

When the world gets you down, just remember the wonderful variety of dumplings out there...

Was in Meijer yesterday and they were selling generic World Cup shirts for 30% off. Now it did not help that they were hideous. But still.

M: “If you write this thing you’ve been talking about, you’ll have to go visit (redacted name of former employer) again, won’t you?” Me: Yes. *shudders*

I know symbolism changes over time, but kiddo showed me a boy band video where they were dressed in dark clothes with thin red suspenders and boots and my brain went into red alert mode.

It makes sense. And then you live somewhere where those exchanges are weaponized.

"I have cryogenically frozen my penis and filed it down to a fleshy icicle to replace any feminine roundness on my body with a masculine point."

Today was my last day, and I find myself really mad about this. I was very good at parts of this job. The other parts I would ask for help with (not easy for me!) and be told in so many words “oh you’ll figure it out”. This is not a recipe for success.

If Wild Kratts is the only way to keep these second graders quiet on my last day, so be it!

He added, "Read books, punch Nazis."

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I am once again begging someone to hire me as the curmudgeonly but kind caretaker of their historic house on the Maine coast. Barring that I’ll accept commission as your estate’s itinerant hermit.