TAPPER: If Trump had the power to pay TSA agents this whole time, why only start going it now? HOMAN: Look, I don't understand -- I'm a cop -- I don't understand the whole appropriations language, appropriations law

TFW they have no eyes to see how an appreciation of the supernatural can bring about a fullness of the spirit.

allegory for dummies (from @latimes.com)

Man with his dog flees from bombs in Tehran. (Photo by Pooria Hatami)

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

Pope county #Arkansas where I live is losing all but one OB/Gyn soon. Unlikely to continue OB services at the one hospital in the county if this happens. #arpx @medsky.social

Let’s go youtu.be/5OtOlvesN2w

Gary, for #Saturday

Un Jour/Une Chanson🎧 Shabaka - Dance In Praise LP : Of The Earth (2026) youtu.be/YJrC3RLSjhs?...

There are so many reasons we moved from rural Arkansas to rural New York, climate change chief among them, but also a big one is that we didn't want to live in a place that didn't want to fund its libraries. Look at this glorious main branch near us.

"Write what you know"

Happy Friday Here's famous dipshit Trevor Bauer getting domed by a 100 mph line drive

RETVRN* *-bring back gender-affirming ostentatious crested hats

Yes 📚 www.instagram.com/reel/DWW7hNJ...

Ceci n'est pas une pipe

Everything reminds me of her

"Patrons of the library find calm, joy, inspiration and community in their visits. In a time of increasing dissatisfaction, the library becomes an antidote, as a source of well-being." @clauersen.bsky.social @iamjasonk.bsky.social @janecowell.bsky.social

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

first principles, clarice. simplicity. read marcus aurelius. of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? what is its nature? what does he do, this man you seek?

Any sufficiently advanced library science is indistinguishable from magic.

as I believe I have discussed, the most frightened child in your class should be given access to the complete works of Stephen R Donaldson at age 12.

Tired: Buzz, why did you fake the moon landing? [gets punched in the face by Buzz Aldrin] Wired: Buzz, why did you quit the moon landing? [gets punched in the face by Buzz Aldrin]

Gang. GANG. Here's that Ghanian bootleg Cheers artwork you were looking for.

[6:51am] with the conference coming up, no point in squirrelling away the usual amount from my paycheck into savings. I will need it for travel/experiences/books. [7:55am] spend all that on the Criterion half-off sale

TCM is so damn good at these montages. The Academy should put them in charge of all the film clips for the Oscar ceremony youtu.be/Lou_AbJ6qdc?...

A computer can never pack a bowl therefore a computer must never make a playlist

"Gif" has broken some of y'all. I heard someone pronounce "gesso" with a hard G. I thought there was some new slang for "guess" for a minuto.

27% is famously the Crazification Factor "Half just have worldviews which lead them to disagree with what you consider rationality even though they arrive at their positions through rational means, and the other half are the core of the Crazification" kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/10/lunc...

Threads like this make social media worth it

“I Will Not Comply”: Librarian Luann James Fights Censorship Demands of Rutherford County Library System’s Board RCLS's director continues to fight back against a library board that demands she remove books, share private info. This is the job, folks! bookriot.com/librarian-lu...

You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don't wanna know about it, believe me. I'll get you a toe by this Friday--with nail polish. These fucking amateurs. propstoreauction.com/lot-details/...

Page 62 of Hell's Heart: Bulkington! 🐋

Planted: cabbage, kale, spinach & radishes Sunflowers and other sunflowers. Peas and luffa. Herbs and peas sprouting on the deck. I have a volunteer maple I need to relocate from raised beds. I have so many flowers to plant and sweated in the noonday heat pulling chickweed from the flowerbed.

Bessent: "Sometimes you have to escalate to deescalate"

You always could have spoken to a librarian, my guy

many of you

Heat index of 92 on the last day of winter.

Today for the first time in this brief life a bag boy asked if I needed assistance loading my groceries into my car.

I am 1062 questions into my annual report to the state. I have a couple dozen questions left, & can comfortably say I will be done by Tuesday's deadline. Had I not jumped into the hiring of two staffers I might be done by now.

amazing to think that in just 20 years we've gone from an ostensible cognitive surplus to an overly leveraged sub-prime cognitive deficit crisis

IT’S CALLED HENTAI, COOP. NICHE PORNOGRAPHY FROM THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN. REAL WACKYLAND STUFF LIKE TENTACLES. HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE GETTING A PROSTATE MASSAGE FROM AN OCTOPUS? ME TOO.

Unscheduled #SaturdayLibrarian after a brutal week and a late Friday night isn't ideal, but we are hosting a seed swap today and I have so many things to plant.

WTF is a “Cyber Easter sale”?

Classic Reba