So the last season of The Mentalist is very Leverage-coded and boy is it a better show this way BY A COUNTRY MILE

A fun part of having anhedonia on top of a bunch of other mental illnesses is that I’m working really hard to find a treatment that works knowing the whole time if I do it will just return me to my “normal” state. Of mental illness.

If you are growing a tree from seed, and the sapling includes multiple stems, how and when do you prune it down to a leader stem?

Don't rely purely on taste/smell/visible contamination. Pay attention to things like the container food is in, too--if it bulges weirdly while still sealed? Pitch it (and don't buy it if it's at the store), that can be a result of contamination that you might not be able to detect otherwise.

I may be tiny… but I have places to be, people to see, and absolutely no idea where I’m going. #cats #BlueskyCats #gato #adoptdontshop #fosterkittens #DMV #adoptme

Here’s a PSA for people like me who were raised not to waste food (perhaps rather aggressively) we are now dealing with an unreliable food safety system in the US. If something tastes weird or funny or off IN ANY WAY just throw it away.

Had a good talk with the bestie today. Trying to foster some hope that I will actually really for real escape New Jersey someday.

jen from springshare has really got my back with these tutorials. she has separate trainings for upgrading your header from BS3 vs. starting from scratch in 5. much love to you, jen.

i finally watched a tutorial about upgrading libguides to bootstrap 5, and because i customized the hell out of our site, it looks like it will make more sense just to re-build the header and footer from scratch. which, honestly, whatever. it's the internal alignment issues that will be the pain.

I know my neighbors think I’m insane for watering the plants right before a thunderstorm but obviously if I DON’T water the plants the storm will miraculously pass without precipitating and I’ve got precious babby plants so momma’s not risking it

PICS OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN

trent reznor throws a lovely dinner party featuring personal nine inch quails

“Fuck this, I quit.” “Wait Stan, you can’t just-“ “Later, losers!”

today has been a truly odd day

I bang on about alt text and I hear from people (and libraries) that they often don't feel confident that they're doing it correctly. This guide from Perkins School for the Blind is what I suggest #DisabilityPride www.perkins.org/resource/how-write-alt-text-and-image-descriptions-visually-impaired/

Life’s ok

I have a sudden intense desire to attend a Boyz II Men concert

Jay-z is not ketamine friendly but not because the vibe is off Big Pimpin is just REALLY FUNNY when you’re high

I think I’ve finally definitively decided that the PhD route is not for me, but I am very VERY curious where all the hot human information behavior research is happening. Perhaps I could just be a groupie of sorts?

Jenny Lawson/Mychal Threets is my 2028 dream ticket

Thank you for helping me on my journey to survive depression 💚

I’m going to a place where bad opinions can’t reach me

Alright it’s ketamine o’clock let’s get real weird

Hidden Barriers: The Experience of Academic Librarians and Archivists with Invisible Illnesses and/or Disabilities. A good article with a good list of resources at the end of it. crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr... Learn about this flag. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disabil... #DisabilityPride

It frustrates me that I can’t know if I’m just bad at making my point, or if people are so stuck in their own little world that they can’t hear what I’m saying. I always just assume it’s me, but I’m also a childless cat lady librarian, so I know I’m not a voice that will ever get much respect.

Ok ok I give up. Blocked.

lol sorry everyone but I found that to be a quite fun discussion¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Baby I was born to filibuster

I also want to separate out this post as well. Stereotypes affect our wellbeing. Being constantly told my job was obsolete because of Google (and now genAI) is not great for my mental health, because America is a capitalist hellscape. No job means no health insurance and I require meds to live.

Separating this out from the thread, because I wonder how many professors know this about their librarians? Most profs never visit the library so they have no idea what goes on in the building.

Do people actually still use the GLAMS feed? I feel bad that I’ve neglected it, but I thought people moved from feeds to lists. I’ve kept it up because why not but if people still use it I’ll try to promote it more going forward. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Sometimes you smoke pot and you have no thoughts at all and that’s great but sometimes you smoke pot and you think about how they should do a sci-fi/fantasy remake of The Mentalist where Patrick Jane is a trickster god who falls in love with his accidental partner-in-crime (or justice¯\_(ツ)_/¯)…

Every time someone talks about the cost of AI tokens I think of DIALOG I know my OG librarians know what I’m talking about

I was talking to a (non-academic) friend about how Trump and RFK Jr are trying to dismantle academia and honestly we are not doing a good job of getting the word out to the general public. They think it was all just DEI stuff and that the administration lost interest and moved on.

RIP Bonnie Tyler. And RIP Tandi Iman Dupree. This remains the best stage entrance by a drag queen of all time, even some 25 years later, and the best use of Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” ever. youtu.be/IHQA5vqn6rw?...

Academics so love you to read their stuff you could probably get them to pay you $35 instead

Sitting at the beach next to a piece of wood that would make an excellent mantle

Bonnie Tyler nooooooooooooooo

I’m worried about Gordon Ramsey. What demons is he trying to outrun? Godspeed you little angry man.

It is REALLY hard for me to watch romantic partners as co-hosts I cannot NOT keep wondering about their dynamic and real-life situation

Watching home improvement shows hoping they can somehow inspire me to care about state of chaos my house has become

Every single person who was like, “hey you probably shouldn’t trust a guy with a Nazi tattoo too much, it’s not a great sign of character”

Half priced plants you say?

Centrists had ten years of The Most Important Election Of Our Lifetime to take decisive action to save us from fascist implosion and at every turn you insisted you couldn’t do anything—yet. Manipulating the anxiety of our need and fear to collect reluctant Lesser Evil votes. People are done.

This will be a thread of tips for people suffering through their first god-awful heat wave with no or subpar AC. I'm a perpetually broke Southern Californian so my ideas run cheap.

#MusicChallenge #IsmuasMonthOfMusic A song that balances hope and despair.

fuck thomas jefferson. he likely fathered children into slavery. i cannot fathom sentencing my own children into such a life. to do so you must truly believe that race is real and there are lesser races. i don't care what good you did. others did that same good without being monsters.

ok ok ok my new crazy idea is maybe i'll just do an MA in English so I can focus on poetry stuff?

i've finished day 2 of TMS. it feels a lot like a woodpecker pecking on a wood block that's been strapped to my head. it worries me a bit that no one in the entire office appears to be over the age of 35, but that's just me being an old, i'm sure.

Being on Bluesky means constantly being surprised by people I follow popping up on all my favorite podcasts. Today it’s @chanda.blacksky.app on Reveal! revealnews.org/podcast/chan...