There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.

System email: "We're at an exciting point in <library system>'s evolution!!!" Me: <doesn't read the rest of the email> We're all crabs now. crabcrabcrabcrab. 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

"the go the fuck to sleep baby is a they / them going to Bard, feel old yet???"

Lot of fractious tiny people in the library today. I agree with them, but for some reason I am prevented from screaming my head off in the middle of the picture book section. Injustice, I call that. :p

Congratulations to Dara of Bulgaria with the biggest bangaranga of the night. Afternoon. Time warp. ;)

We'll be closed on July 3, but not July 4. Independence Day may be a federal holiday, when the library is normally closed, but apparently that doesn't apply when it's on a Saturday. So we can close July 3 for July 4 Observed, but we'll be there on July 4. o.O

Me: "Okay, do we want a book about going places, or a book about stinky things?" Almost unanimous chorus of tiny voices: "Stinky things!" Me: "Why did I even ask?"

I'm having a hard time expressing how incandescently angry this makes me. As an employee of one of an immigrant family's frequent first stops in the US, I see so, so many missed opportunities in those numbers. So many abandoned lives. Are we f***ing great yet?

Я: "Все говорят что пить нельзя / Я говорю что -" Ваня: "- спать пора." Спокойной ночи, Блускай.

Traveling this week. Planning out some things and realizing there's kind of a lot of Colorado: Me: Look, there's a lot squished into the map, I just didn't realize how zoomed out I was. Spouse (bone dry): Ah, yes, the famously compact Midwest.

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

we've noticed and i'm glad he's getting help

The Art of War is very funny once you understand it for what it actually is, which is Warfare 101 For Dipshit Nobles the intended audience is exactly people like Pete Hegseth

Turtle hatchling release at Pangumbahan Beach, Indonesia, involving the release of endangered green sea turtle hatchlings. IG: malasabuzzhub

perversely proud tbh. somehow, as a nation, we manufactured a man so instantly, intensely off-putting that he can lose elections in languages he doesn't even speak

Gratulálok to the people of Hungary! May we all be inspired by your achievement today. ;)

Family formation, my ass. Support the right to have the kids you want and not have kids you don't want. This finally triggered tonight's long-overdue drunken breakdown. And yet, we keep going and run storytime tomorrow. @_@

Unexpected upsides of adulthood: having a chronic headache problem severe enough to prevent you from developing a drinking problem. :p

So is California still celebrating Cesar Chavez Day after finding out he was a predator?

Hey BookSky - is it even realistic to try to make a career as a book translator anymore? My spouse has been translating kids' books for me for most of a year, and I'm trying to help him parlay that into work. English-Russian, mostly, but he can do the other way as well.

I've started appending "The ShiiiiiiitShoooooow" (to the tune of "The Siiiimpsooooons") to every bit of news I discuss. Other music stings welcome. >_>

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

thank you, McSweeney's. Does Your Country Need Regime Change? A Quiz www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/doe...

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin

Need to replace the flag outside my library today. Wondering if I can get away with hanging it upside down. (Probably not.) Fuck every bit of this impulsive imperialistic thoughtless heartless gloating bullshit.

Do you think there's ever been a bobsled team made up entirely of Bobs?

Ski mountaineering looks completely insane. o.o

Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson may not have been in medal range this time, but that Scottish routine was utterly delightful. Thank you so much for sharing that with the world. <3<3<3

KAGIYAMA IS SO FLIPPIN' COOL quad god who? I mean, Malinin's cool, but I'm here for the little Japanese dude dancing on his toe picks. :D

Hot take: if you're selling books about protecting yourself from 5g with crystals - as well as selling the crystals - you should not be tabling at a childcare conference. Also, crystal lady just asked me for the wifi password. o.o

When the consultants start bringing in their own consultants, you know their budget is too big. It's consultantception.

Find you someone who acknowledges that the world is terrible right now and will make you jambalaya while you take a hormone-depression nap on the couch. Going to try to go protest tomorrow if the hangover allows.

One country, hundreds of homelands, 340-ish million people, a multitude of heritages, and zero tolerance for racist dogwhistling from our own government.

Timeline cleanse: kitchen hacks! Mayo at home is super easy if you have an immersion blender and a quart mason jar. Win! And now, back to doomscrolling, but with remoulade.

If I want the same in-depth national coverage as the Washington Post but have gotten tired of paying Bezos, where do I go? BBC is great but fairly limited on the details of American buggerups.

Do we know her name? Victims are much easier to lose track of - and crimes much easier to brush off - if they're anonymous. When we learn it, say her name.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Met some sneks today!

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics. It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.

Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them

Proposal: New Year's Resolutions are normally a serious self-improvement sort of affair. This year, I propose we each make one resolution solidly for fun, as an antidote to too much seriousness. This year, I resolve to wear more random cool things in my hair.

May every weirdo reading this have a better year than the one before it. And may that continue into eternity. 💖, your drunken online bestie. 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖👍

Protect trans kids. Support trans teens. Show up for and with trans adults. Treasure trans elders. And just in general, don't make a big friggin' deal out of anyone else's gender identity. This has been: TDOV with a cranky cis librarian who is going back to bed. Peace, y'all.

You go to war with the baby snowy plovers you have, not the baby snowy plovers you want. That being said, this is the baby snowy plover i want. 🪶 🐣

Week and a half ago: "sign up for our emergency management system, we're testing it for a flood evacuation drill." Message never goes out. This evening's message: "LOOKING FOR CSI FOR HOMICIDE" followed by "internal communication, please disregard." Go home, emergency message people, you're drunk.

Jesse Hamm had the take to end all takes on children's media. "People who disdain writing ‘just for children’ fail to realize that those children will remember what they read, maybe for the rest of their lives. You’re not writing for permanent children; you’re getting an early start on adults.”

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