On Rex Manning Day we remember that you CAN annoy The Man into giving in and also Rexy was a fuckin’ creep.

Hear me out- the Boston Marathon, but for cats.

Show offs.

There was once an enslaved man who stole a Confederate ship and sailed his a bunch of families to Union controlled waters & got everyone free. Then he fought as a soldier in the Union Army. Then he was elected to US House of Representatives. Robert Smalls was born 187 years ago today

This came up in a Google search and, in light of the librarian shenanigans (firings) in the news lately, I'm reposting it. Read it again, especially the last paragraph. Make sure your local library knows you expect diverse collections, programming, and staff. raforall.blogspot.com/2025/01/libr...

I’d like to be less aware of what’s going on for once. Just as a treat.

Fun fact! I really shouldn’t have bought my encyclopedias from the dollar store. I’m afraid some of my previous Fun fact! entries were incorrect. Sadly we’ll never know which ones.

Fun fact! Before he became a car dealer, Larry Bird was a tufted titmouse.

Fun fact! Norman Mailer invented the business size envelope.

Fun fact! Daniel Fahrenheit and Anders Celsius had a dance battle to decide whose temperature system was better. No one knows who won.

Fun fact! Former White House Chief of Staff James Baker invented cake pops.

Fun fact! Leon Trotsky briefly owned a harness racing stable called “Trotsky’s Trotters”.

Fun fact! Nikola Tesla was the original lead singer of 90s rock band Tesla, but left because of creative differences.

This is why we need the history! There's so much insanity here I can't keep track.

Fun fact! Rigatoni pasta was invented by Toni Morrison in 1976.

Today is National School Librarian Day. THANK YOU, school librarians & school library workers. We celebrate you. For so many library kids, the school library is the only place they have access to books. It is where they learn to believe that stories are for them. Thank you for your library joy 💛📚🥹🤟🏽

Applied for multiple jobs this week and I always forget how much I hate the waiting that follows.

Why, and I can’t believe I have to ask this, does my good* knee hurt??? *less frequently injured

What I keep thinking about is how the PRA is pretty toothless, to the point where you’d only really make this argument if you had something to hide. It’s the Streisand effect of federal record keeping. But this administration is so devoted to playing stupid games and winning stupid prizes.

🚨JOB KLAXON! The Winterthur Library is hiring a collections processor for the manuscript collection! secure10.saashr.com/ta/6002811.c...

Harlequin has spent the last 50+ years neglecting its core product at the expense of shiny new things. Pivoted to video so many times they got whiplash. And this will end no differently- corporate write offs, authors screwed.

I finally sat down today and read John Green’s Everything is Tuberculosis and it is so good. I love medical anthropology because it connects so many dots, and Green’s conversational tone makes this such an easy read. If you need a little hope, try this. www.johngreenbooks.com/everything-i...

Line I just saw in a recently published book, spoken by one of the characters on New Year’s Eve 2019- “Something tells me 2020 is going to be the year everything changes!”

Thanking Ms Abrams for making my morning. <3

I’ve been rereading the Hithchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy series and I can’t help but think that Douglas Adams would be offended but not entirely surprised that we’re actually letting Zaphod be president.

No gloves are needed for handling non-toxic books and documents.

Kathleen Woodiwiss (however problematically) created the modern historical romance, almost by accident. Jayne Ann Krentz was one of the first wave of modern contemporary romance AND pioneered (though not alone) romance with fantasy elements aka romantasy.

A lesson I sometimes forget- if you are trying to convince yourself you’re okay, you are not.

If Angine de Poitrine isn’t proof that humans will always find way to be weird and awesome, I don’t know what is. youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?...

There’s cursive writing discourse again? It’s torture for most left handed people to learn cursive. If you’re okay with that fine, but let’s not pretend it’s good for everyone.

Masculinity is a trap.

Thanks to @stegan.bsky.social I can share this beautiful glimpse of the past with y'all youtu.be/CjCxE2C2eRQ?...

Everyone is whaling on this article. Has anyone read it? It argues that the Trump administration and University presidents effectively colluded to clamp down on further protests. I imagine that’s a position that accords with the views of most everyone engaged in excoriating it.

Detroit Michigan is in the eastern time zone. Glad to be almost home.

Got to the airport two hours early to find that totally unnecessary. Now stuck with two hours to kill!

We love a completist!

If the Saudis still cared about Newcastle, they’d be pissed right now. 🙃

Is Dunk auditioning for Liverpool or playing for Brighton?

That feeling when your travel anxiety has helped you ultra-prepare for your trip and now you’re waiting for your ride and the anxiety won’t let go.

True joy has no short-lived shelf life. It doesn’t dim when the weather of your life changes. It appears when you come back into tune with yourself, when you stop pulling in opposite directions, when the search for what you’re “missing” finally loosens its grip around you.

I’m tired but if I sleep tomorrow comes and now I see where my child gets it from, whoops.

It was an Applebees.

This is so far from the point, but (as far as I can tell) the blue fields on the flags on his suit all point in the appropriate direction for the side of his body they are on and I love this level of detail.

Civil Rights icon, @doloreshuerta, made a brave move today, revealing a secret she had been holding for 60 years for the sake of the Farm Workers movement. You can read her letter here: medium.com/@dolores_hue...

1934- Mussolini splashes cash to host WC to promote fascism. 1978- Military junta in Argentina hosts WC blocks away from its most notorious prison 2018- Russia hosts WC four years after occupying Crimea It’s more unusual for the WC to be held somewhere that isn’t perpetrating evil.

Pre ordering is Live. Tap that link America!!. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

This @the-independent.com story is such an obvious lift of mine that they didn’t even bother deleting my site’s referral URL. And no, they do not credit me for reporting it first or (intentionally) link to my story. In j-school, rewording someone else’s reporting was called plagiarism. 1/

The Mayflower/Plymouth Rock/Plimoth Plantation combo. Again and again.

If you’re wondering why everyone is so enthusiastically sharing this just click and read it. I promise you won’t regret it.