I am transfixed by this thread.

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

this is the America I was raised to love

My husband and I went out to dinner in San Jose CA last night and the place was packed with Super Bowl revelers. The guy at the table next to us said he used to work at a company in Chelmsford MA and I was like, “me too?”

It would be difficult to overstate the influence of Fobazi Ettarh's work on a generation of library workers. Sending love to all in her orbit. Join me in supporting her family in this difficult time. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

News: I was cut yesterday in a newsroom-wide layoff affecting 300+ staff at The Washington Post. I spent the last decade leading and building the award-winning Graphics team. I'll miss them. I'm now exploring senior graphics, cartography, or leadership roles. Intros welcome. timmeko.com

Even when I’m feeling great, my day always feels a bit brighter and lighter after reading one of Megan’s posts.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Annette Lewis Phinazee was the first woman and the first Black American woman to earn a library science PhD from Columbia University, in 1961. She was the first Black president of the NC Library Association in 1975. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annette... #BlackHistoryMonth

From Surprise, AZ last night, where 62% voted for Trump in 2024. bsky.app/profile/azrw...

Jersey says if you back this Kickstarter, he and Luna gets treats.

Fantastic cover.

Your daily shelter cat…a beauty like this could be yours if you adopt, don’t shop 😽

Story time. 🥷💥🐈‍⬛️ #art #comic #ink #artsky #sketch

If any of you is looking for someone to write about / explain science to children, including fact-checking, I am looking for work. You can see why I’d be a good hire here at alomshaha.com

Good grief. This is an entire KJ Charles plotline in real life! It's in the Will Darling trilogy, by the way, if you like M/M historical romance, set in the 1920s. I especially like the way the books tackle foreshortened future with regards to combat PTSD. And that it has a love scene that is...

Welcome home, Liam! #Comics4Liam

here's my entry!! #Comics4Liam

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Democrat Taylor Rehmet won a special election for the Texas state Senate on Saturday, flipping a reliably Republican district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024. n.pr/4kcbr5h

Democrat Taylor Rehmet has won a special election for the Texas state Senate and flipped a reliably Republican district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024.

The public library is an essential component of a 21st-century left political project as an example of both what is already available to us and what can be improved upon in the future. The library is a public good, and it is free as a public service. I want more people to make the connections.

The opt-out deadline for the Anthropic copyright settlement has changed again--to February 9. The wording has also been changed to make clear that if one person opts out, they also automatically opt out every other rightsholder www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/dates

The Apatosaurus/Brontosaurus story you probably learned as a dinosaur-obsessed kid is substantively wrong!

"Make sure to get my good side", said this Carolina Wren when it saw me with my camera. North Texas #photography #birds #birdphotography #nature #naturephotography #Texas #backyardbirds

Just finished my first painting of 2026, I’ce titled it ‘Woodpecker & Shadows’ - painted in watercolours. #watercolours #birdart #woodpecker 🪶

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.

Journalist Georgia Fort has been released from custody (video @fox9mn.bsky.social)

I am surprised by how sad the news of Catherine O’Hara’s death makes me. I didn’t go out of my way to watch things just bc she was in them but I always enjoyed them more because she was there.

How I feel about the news today:

Are you a marginalized author (or the editor/agent/publicist of one) who has a trad pub book coming out in 2026 that is science fiction, fantasy, or horror and either adult or young adult? This book critic wants to know about it! Small press strongly encouraged. bookjockeyalex.com/contact/

TL;DR there is a role for you in this work that is at a pace you can handle. Find your lane.

in an ideal world the trauma this couple went through *shouldnt* resonate stronger than a latino family terrorized by ice. but we dont live in that world. we live in the real world. so i applaud it when the most minnesota people possible link arms with us and FIGHT like this.

even when I, as a self-publishing author, am setting my books up for sale, platforms like Draft2Digital "recommend" that I set the library price as a multiplier of the retail cover price. (I do not do that) it is awful and I hate it, it is incredibly predatory.

Libraries need to be more vocal about the digital pricing problem. I only buy for Sora (the school version of Libby) when specifically requested by a patron. I talk a lot about why I don't buy on the regular and patrons are always shocked at the price difference. I have to pay $75 not $1.99!

On Jan. 28, 1813, the novel “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen was first published, anonymously, in London.

If America -- any America -- survives this, I want an entirely new discourse about how racism ruins EVERYTHING for EVERYONE

This is the robotic book retrieval system at the Shenzhen Library north hall, it has millions of books and can retrieve the one you want i 10 minutes

Paul Walter Hauser is partnering with Cameo to help raise money for James Van Der Beek’s cancer treatment. James has already auctioned off most of his Dawson’s Creek memorabilia. This is the state of “healthcare” in America. A serious medical even can destroy you financially:

A little stop motion video I made of an almanac in the University of Rochester collection to try and give viewers an idea of how it functions 😊 (Video of RCL cod. a.1, a late 14th century folding almanac from England, likely Oxford)

Take a moment to remember the good things in life; I know it’s hard to do this, when it feels like the world is tipping this way & that, but if my little mouse can help you connect with “la vie en rose” again just for a moment, then my job as an artist is done for today 🩷

This is the end of the sale for the eBook! Audiobook goes until the end of the month.

“Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve… The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once”

“If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme.”

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

"LinkedIn has become more prominent. While it is not yet part of most researchers’ daily routines, it is now the third most-used platform in our data — and the leading one for work-related activity." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/29/g...

Countdown! The People's Library will be released in 1 week. Preorder at your local bookstore or get a signed copy here: sistahscifi.com/products/the...

Every little bit helps. EVERY. Little. Bit. Don't listen to the haters and the self-appointed purity/heroism cops. Do what you CAN, and don't self-bash for not doing more.

This is one of the things that I find is most shocking to people outside Minnesota who don’t realize it yet—the scale at which everyone who isn’t white has been forced into a spectrum of hiding. Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.