This is very good

Baker & Taylor went under.

Children have rights Parents have responsibilities

ZB’s legal team better get on it. Is this retaliatory for his new clip? 😬

I don’t repost my reviews here super often, but I’m afraid this book is going to fly under the radar and I can’t stand that. Cry by @mizalisa.bsky.social is one of the best YA books I’ve read this year, and maybe ever. Pitch-perfect in character and tone, and so extremely compelling. Don’t miss it!

Are libraries famous now

Meeper (officially Souris, but if you have cats you know how it is) only wants me when I’m sad. Does she want to make me feel better or does her soul feed on the misery of others? Who can say, really?

Tomorrow morning, we have to help my 9 year old say goodbye to her babycat, who is only 4 and has suspected lymphoma. It happened very, very slowly, and then all at once, as these things do. I have no words for how proud I am of my child’s selflessness and moral clarity through utter heartbreak. 💔💗❤️‍🩹

It took me way too long to see a snake and not a snake-shaped crack in the concrete. What’s actually cracked is my brain, I think

Hiding away bibliographies at the exact point in time they are filling up with hallucinated slop references seems like a perfect plan that has no downsides if you ask me.

2025 in a nutshell

Surprising just about nobody, Joe Profiri met with ICE agents at the site of the proposed Franklin County mega prison. Sarah wants to illegally detain and disappear our neighbors, it seems. This makes what was already a bad deal even worse. forarpeople.org/ice-detentio...

Hello Sunshine is a good book, and by that I mean haunting and illuminating and also just plain gorgeous. I reviewed it here (and gave it a star!): www.booklistonline.com/products/981...

endlessly grateful to exist, to trot with my buds and share stories. to look up at the moon and think about everyone else who has looked before. to have taste buds. to watch the seasons change. so many wonderful things are just GIVEN to us by existence, it can be hard to remember to say thanks

NEW: Arkansas announced plans for a mega prison in a rural town. Since then, locals are organizing to stop it. At first they opposed it in their own town. But some now say they've taken a more critical look at how we incarcerate in the country. make time for this new feature, you won't regret it

This makes me curious where the AR contingency plans to house those they “arrest.” I just watched 3 hours of testimony about a new prison today, much of which centered on the “crisis” of lack of prison space already in the state.

So, librarians, how are we incorporating our knowledge that the news media is engaging in widespread blackouts of current political protests into our reference/instruction work?

This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law. May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.

My voice has been threatening to go out all week, and it’s finally gone. My son and niece are arguing about whether she’s speaking English (ofc she is), baby nephew (9m) is… singing? loudly, eldest is bossing; all 4 need to be prepped to go to my MIL for the day. Oh, Friday of a short week. Finally.

Warnock to RFK jr: "For the first time, we are seeing deaths of children from measles. We haven't seen that in two decades. We're seeing that under your watch. You are a hazard to the health of the American people."

FCC and Ted Cruz identify a key vulnerability to MAGA rule: school children in rural areas with internet access. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

I mean… this is basically my theory of my career. It sucks that it’s so financially untenable currently that I’m even considering leaving it because I love it. Deeply. It makes me healthier and happier in many ways.

All kidding about this nonsense answer aside: The regime is asserting the power to murder without trial a boat full of people suspected of drug trafficking, who easily could have been intercepted and arrested instead. That is unconscionable and horrifying even assuming everyone aboard was guilty.

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I don’t use AI because I’m infuriated for the artists and writers and philosophers who’ve had their intellectual property stolen. I also hate boring and impersonal shit. If someone can’t be bothered to write something, why should I be bothered to read it?

Do you like the planet? Interested in supporting kids who love their planet very much and can’t get enough time outside with it? My kiddos are Cub Scouts & I’m a brand new Cubmaster. If you can support them by placing an order or sharing this, we’d love it! Kiddo #1: trails-end.com/store/scout/...

I don’t talk about my Hurricane Katrina experience, but I could never have gone back to who I was before the events of today and the week that followed 20 years ago. Staying offline today for self-preservation.

I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.

70 years ago, on this date, Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered by white men. His family, including his cousin who was with him at the time, is repeating the train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955 to mark the anniversary

Part of me hates that they chose to interview a child for this instead of an adult but the other part of me thinks that maybe hearing from the kids is the only way to make any sort of progress on gun violence

The last time troops policed America was in the 1770s. We fought a revolution against that king, and wrote into the Constitution the Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments to prevent it from ever happening again. Pass it along…

This is one of the absolute toughest things about predatory inclusion — the predation is often fun or a little useful. Criticism makes a reasonable person sound like an asshole. LowerEd weathered me for this kind of social death. So I’ll say it: your enjoyment does not matter & should not matter.

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.

Yall ever heard of violet candies… taste kinda like soap. Delicious soap. 🤷🏼‍♀️

This is some stellar advice.

It’s sooo hideous

Yes, these bots are active on Bluesky. Yes, the accounts that constantly shit talk Democrats no matter the subject are bots. Yes, they are actively working to influence the midterms and suppress voter turnout. Yes, the corporate media are influenced by these bots.

This whole administration is insulting to information professionals

80 years ago, on August 6, 1945, the United States committed one of the most atrocious crimes in human history and plunged the world into a nuclear dark age. It dropped nuclear weapons on Hiroshima, Japan and mass murdered an estimated 70,000 to 140,000 people, mostly civilians, instantly.

Thou Shalt Redact The Names of Epstein's Victims, Not His Accomplices.

We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death

Love having a book I was just about to read be completely spoiled by an AI summary while looking up the pub date. Damn it. 🤬

I resent that I naturally tend towards nihilism because of my trauma & depression when absurdism is an equally valid outlook

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

I hear people all around me saying, “They are going to crash the economy. Surely they don’t mean to crash the economy.” I beg to differ. This is curated failure open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...