Got to do a pride display at work today- some are my favorite picks, some are my coworker's choices!

Happy Pride to queer librarians!

When you've made up your mind to shout out who you are to the world, it's a relief to know you can do it in a whisper. Terry Pratchett - Feet Of Clay

Every year for Pride, I repost Hue. I made him to send love and comfort to those who feel Pride isn’t for them because they aren’t out. You matter, you are valid, and it’s ok if you aren’t ready yet. Coming out is not a requirement for being part of this community. Happy Pride 🌈

Sometimes a good pun helps with everything.

happy Pride Eve to all the people who are about to paraphrase this tweet from 2022 or repost it with my name removed as if it’s a thought they just had themselves

Had a great time talking with Renan about The Dragon Has Some Complaints, as well as the fraught concept of "monstrosity." Along the way, I couldn't help by gush about @gen-dimova.bsky.social and @breebird33.bsky.social.

It's a small grump in the grand scheme of things, but google is unreliable on a laughable scale now and every single other weather website I go to for forecasts now feels functionally unusable. Where do you get your (non-hallucinated) weather forecasts from, US-based internet friends?

the only voice UI that I am interested in is an app for road/rail trips that listens for when you say "cows!" and increments the cows counter by 1

Interview with the vampire 2nd interview with the vampire Just circling back with the vampire Final interview with the vampire Hiring the vampire Probation period with the vampire Everyone’s going in on a card for Geoff, it’s his birthday on Saturday but we’ll do a party on Friday with the Vampire

This is better motivation for me to consider getting my PhD than any pressure my mother has ever put on me. 😂🥰

Sunshine and smiles!

Block this shit if you haven't already

This is a cat checkpoint, post your most recent cat picture: Smidgen is not a model, the camera just went off.

Oh I am so ready for capybara summer, time to grab all my printed button up shirts out of my closet...

I know there's not one specific way to look like a librarian, but I really feel like I nailed it today.

If I'm giving my brain a rest and re-reading a favorite junior fiction series, do I count each book in my books read total, count the entire series as one book (~60 pages per book for 6 books) or just treat it as a bonus and note that I read them but not "count" them on my yearly reads list? 🤔

Finished T. Kingfisher's Nine Goblins. Took me forever because pneumonia is a bastard that doesn't respect reading time, but I'm so glad I picked it up! So cute and funny, highly recommend reading this when your morale needs a boost.

Can confirm that Nicholas is a brilliant, funny, creative person and a very hard worker. 1000% recommend hiring this guy.

Painted a pair of barefoot shoes I don't wear very much and OH NO I LOVE THEM NOW.

Storygraph users! This is my very professional post promoting the very professional giveaway for my real book for adults about a deranged dragon whose heads can’t stop arguing with each other. Damn it, I was almost normal for a whole sentence. Anyway! Here is a giveaway!

Hey internet! You know how you love to be mad? Well now is a great time to put that skill to use and contact the FCC.

Overheard at the library: Loud sirens suddenly go by. Little kid playing with the toys looks up. "Big sirens!" Kid's mom nods and says thoughtfully, "Yeah, there are probably a lot of people going to help with something." Little kid: "Sirens means hope." And goes back to playing.

I look quite pretty today!

Cool Mint, Cinnamon, Wintergreen, Citrus, Bubble Gum, and Original.

You're gonna want to meet this dragon! This book is delightful, I highly recommend nabbing it if you haven't yet!

It's an after hours bar exclusively for paladins looking for love. She's a rogue who was just disguising herself as a hero, until she met the bar tender of her dreams. Coming this summer... THE KNIGHT LIFE.

Wednesday shelfie time! Our new arrivals shelf features @omarhussain10.bsky.social's Thousand Natural Shocks @brandonsanderson.com's Tailored Realities, The Everlasting by @alixeharrow.bsky.social, Wearing the Lion by @wiswell.bsky.social, and The Elsewhere Express by Samantha Sotto Yambao.

In honor of being well enough to leave the house, I'm stepping up my masking game with a little bling. I made the chain myself, the bee and leaf charms were borrowed from a charm bracelet my sister made me!

This would be a great time for people to recommit to masking. There are so many good options that are all better than 'hope I don't get that!' Hope is great, but a kn95 is better.

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.

You acting humorless and miserable does not actually make the authoritarians go away

Turns out I am not a weenie about a tiny chest cold and pneumonia and the flu will absolutely kick your ass.

That there is a particular species of extant arthropod, of which most other species have been long extinct! The scientific name is Solanum trilobitum, usually known by its common name: the frylobite.

Friends, a new poem for you, from me! Fresh from the sea for Mermay… at @uncannymagazine.bsky.social www.uncannymagazine.com/article/a-me...

Turns out I am better enough to move from my bed to my couch, but not better enough to get fully dressed and work a 7 hour shift. Go figure.

This book series is one of my favorites - I made sure to add it to my library branch's collection. I highly recommend all of Meg's works. If you haven't read them, this is a great opportunity to and a brilliant place to start. Many happy returns to Meg!

Played an an obscene amount of Graveyard Keeper while recovering. My line stuff up neatly brain is so delighted, and the spooky hits just right.

Diminish a book: The Dragon Left A 4 Star Review.

After two weeks laid out with a sinus infection/chest cold, being able to inhale and exhale comfortably feels like a minor miracle. I lay in bed just breathing with the biggest smile on my face this morning. Be kind to your lungs, folks.

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only. M*A*S*H LOST Better Call Saul The West Wing Call The Midwife Downton Abbey Star Trek: Deep Space 9 Farscape Letterkenny Batman: The Animated Series Vicar of Dibley Chernobyl Gravity Falls Diners, Drive Ins and Dives All Creatures Great and Small

I'm resting with my knitting and recovering from the second wave of a bad chest cold. Pattern is one recreated from the one I lost, when I went to buy a new copy I discovered the website had shut down. Excited to be recreating it to the best of my memory.

So anyway. Look at this hedgehog in tiny lil flippy floppies!

I look way too cute for the amount of migraine I'm wrangling today...

🩷 let's make some magic 🩷 this community turns two days a year into a magical day defined strangers saying "I got you" to people that really need a bright spot in their life. we don't want birthday presents. we want to run it back. happy mox day everyone.

This is one of my favorite books! It's on the staff recommends shelf at my library because I can't stop telling people about it. Definitely worth spending monies on!

Also, whales used to have legs. Someone told us that, but we're not the whale agency so we'll never know for sure.

We were told dinosaurs have feathers.

Got the most "Therapy sucks but it's working, keep it up" ass card pull last night. (Deck is Rabbit Tarot, by LouisArtTarot on Etsy: www.etsy.com/shop/LouisAr...)