I think Tumblr would be less of a cesspool if the US had universal healthcare with no copay.

Falling asleep. What if I used birthday candles as Shabbat candles? Then they have a prayer of burning out before I fall asleep every Friday night.

Maybe the real Zionism is the friends we made along the way.

Valid.

*Youth rabbi voice*: Do you know which other authoritarian regime was taken down by an army of large frogs as well as a plague of assorted wood animals?

What the fuck.

I feel like he’s making a point and a dig with no effort here.

So…I’m bummed. Tell me some good news in your life.

I thought 5786 was gonna be my year 😂

Job hubs interviewed for was all commission and we can’t live on that so that is a no-go.

Holy shit yes. This is where I’m at now.

Today’s daf: Just not vibing with it. I feel like a kid in algebra asking when I’m ever going to need this.

I’m so tired. I’m like…can you eat the four species? I mean…more than once.

I took off the week of Hanukkah for funzies. But based on my level of burnt-out-ness, I really need it and I really need it sooner rather than later.

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

FWIW it is both possible and appropriate to be grateful for the possible freeing of the hostages and withdrawal from Gaza without praising Trump, Bibi or Hamas, none of whom cares about anything but keeping power.

Woo hoo! A victory monetarily, sure, but also a social victory.

My face has been hot and my throat has been raw since my storytime this morning. I’d better not be getting sick. Especially since I kissed my nephew’s chubby little face this morning. Don’t want him getting sick.

I hate getting up before the MyJewishLearning email shows up at 5:03. There’s just something wrong about that.

My ADHD-fueled procrastination has lead to a variety of speed-runs through writing papers. It’s definitely made me a better writer. For fiction, working at a leisurely pace, I can write 2,000 words an hour when I’m on a roll. And it’s usually functional and readable. Unlike AI.

Titanic.

I’ve been up since 4 a.m. so that’s fun 😂

It may be time for second dinner. I could have a snack like a normal human being. But really I just want to shovel the food into my face hole.

I’m beat. I haveta get up super early to drive Jim to work since I need the car. They think I’ll know tomorrow if the motor in the Soul is under warranty. If the guy doesn’t get to it tomorrow, I’ll be waiting till next week. 1/2

I have 666 followers.

I used to think librarians weren’t doing a good enough job at conveying our value when stuff like this happened. Now days I see it as either willful ignorance or a willful desire to keep others ignorant.

I’m burning out. Partially on life problems and partially on work. I’m the only person in my department and it’s a lot. A job opened up elsewhere in the organization and I am really thinking hard about applying. It depends mostly on how much my self esteem has been crushed by my last job or not.

I knew the statistical odds of me tripping over the Dust Buster behind my desk was high and today I lost that lottery 😂 I’m ok. Just a bruised ego.

I’m contemplating painting the ceramic dog on my desk purple just to annoy the children. I am a good children’s librarian.

Y’all this headache will not abate today.

I needs a nap. Man. Today is going to be rough. I’m at work till 8:15 p.m. whew.

I’m sure that nap will not hinder my sleep tonight. Maybe.

Mom was in an accident. She says she’s ok, but her car is totaled. I reminded her to get a police report for the insurance and begged her to go get looked at even though she says she’s ok. I hope she listens, because I worry.

I’m being super-clever and I’m doing a candy tournament with the library kids for Halloween. Unfortunately, the bag of candy I got is low on both candies we’re putting against each other right now 😂 I’m working on sourcing gummies from alternate vendors right now. My job is weird sometimes 👻

I’m sleepy like a little kitty. I propose a nap for me and the cats when I get home. I’m sure they’ll be willing to help.

What I’m completely in love with right now is the leftists whom I’ve never spoken to before drop in on a thread where a bunch of Jews are talking about something other than I/P, shit on Jews then pull out and think that’s activism. I love this for us.

Got my banned books shirt and my banned books pin and I’m ready to promote banned books today and throughout the week. May you all have a meaningful Banned Books Week observance.

This is not actually a contradiction, because the dog whistle "globalist" is specifically about the kind of rootless cosmopolitan diaspora Jews the Israeli right also hates. The Trump admin "anti-antisemitism" campaign is really about defining who counts as a good Jew and who does not.

If you see this post, a random photo (or meme) from your photo gallery without explaining it.

No way. I wrote about this in the paper I had to write that this is how I thought that went down and I explicitly said I got the idea from absolutely nowhere but apparently I got it from somewhere. I feel better that I’m not mean, Rabbi Meir is mean.

The enshittification of the enshittification. Ouroboros. Of shit.

Short version - we've had 24 years to thoroughly debunk Marc Presnky's assumption that rising students have some kind of innate digital literacy that absolves educators from taking responsibility for proactiviely teaching information literacy, visual literacy, digital literacy, etc. VITAL skills.

Oh FFS

Huh. Funny, that.

I made dinner. I feel like I need a nap before I eat it though. It’s true we need to bottle the energy of the youth and save it for middle aged adults.

I can’t believe the things we let computers make decisions about.

Ok ok ok. My nephew looks like he’s wearing a toupee and it’s hilarious. Happy third month birthday to him!!

I’m like… put up a sukkah? Eat in the sukkah? Sleep in the sukkah? I don’t have the energy for that! I also feel like I’m failing at Judaism for all the things I don’t have the spoons or energy to do.

I’m making food now, and I’m drinking something. If that doesn’t work, I’ll take a nap and maybe after that I’ll feel less like a failure.