3yo: “daddy’s phone is in his pocket!” me: “that’s true!” 3yo: “why isn’t mummy’s phone in her pocket?” me: “… buckle up, kiddo, we’re gonna discuss five hundred years of fashion and misogyny”

I read this book and loved it, but didn't pick up on the neurodivergence because the character seemed perfectly typical to *me* and *I'm* not considered neurodivergent. Multiple friends: "Uh, you are, it's obvious; we've known since the minute we met you. Did you... *not* know?" I guess I do now!

"but it's everywhere now so we just have to accept it's the new reality" motherfucker we can just stop putting it everywhere! we did it with asbestos and CFCs and lead-based paint or petrol and make-up with arsenic in it! if everyone is using something and it's bad, we can choose to stop!

I will forever be the cranky old lady yelling at AI to get off my lawn. This was a worthwhile perspective. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

Book math is showing up an hour early to pick up your preorder on release day just so you can take it home and let it cure like a prosciutto for eight months

I'm so sorry to not alt-text these, but I have Story to Tell You All. Screenshots from where I told it to my library team group chat. (1/?)

Healey tells RFK to kick rocks; all MA residents can get covid vaccines. Governor Healey Announces Immediate Steps to Ensure Vaccine Availability in Massachusetts Amid Trump, RFK Rollbacks | Mass.gov www.mass.gov/news/governo...

This book was short, and packed--not a bit of wasted space. The dark side of being a teenage girl and young woman--the obsessions, desires, power--and finding your way to who you are and who you want to be, but not in the happy-sunshiney way. Really good, and yes, very weird.

i can see this one is going to get a lot of use

Our IT guy sent my school laptop for a warranty repair of a purely cosmetic issue, and the loaner he left immediately gave me an error message about "the trust between this workstation and the primary domain failed" so I'm looking into couples counseling for them so I can get some work done

As I'm going to bed, I remember that I woke up this morning with a particular song in my head, a song that started in a dream. At some point last night, my subconscious Rickrolled me.

JUST IN: The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

JUST BECAUSE THE CLOWN CAR GOES VERY FAST DOES NOT MEAN IT ISN’T FULL OF CLOWNS

This is the best piece of reporting I’ve seen so far on what is going on at IMLS. I encourage everyone who cares about the key role that libraries and museums play in the United States to read it. news.artnet.com/art-world/do...

One thing I love about Dan Sinker's writing is that he's so honest about the things that are broken and seem irreparably so, but he always has a thread of hope. That's what I try to hold on to.

If information is an ecosystem, fighting misinformation by teaching information literacy is like fighting climate change with “forest-fire-preparedness classes.” It’s still a great idea, but temper your expectations.

What's one book you read this year that you'd recommend? Doesn't have to be FROM this year. I really enjoyed Everyone in My Family Has Killed Somebody, by Benjamin Stevenson.

"I love coffee," my coworker says. "I'm kind of a connoisseur," he adds, dropping a Seattle's Best pod into the Keurig and carefully placing his Dunkin Donuts mug beneath.

Hey @alexanderdanner.bsky.social looks like @xkcd.com saw our table

I woke up out of a dream the other night that I was protecting either a baby dragon or a dragon egg from a young sabertooth named Maggie. We escaped by jumping off a low cliff into the ocean.

I disliked my job doing page production for biomed journals, so I did what I always did in times of personal uncertainty: I went to the library. As I walked through the doors, it hit me: THIS is the place I belong, where I've always felt most myself. 2y grad school, 9y public lib, 11y school lib.

This place exists in London and @alexanderdanner.bsky.social did not go? Who did I even marry? www.thecheesebar.com/seven-dials/

Reading The Bird's Nest by Shirley Jackson and remembering why I love her writing so much. "Mr. and Mrs. Arrow brought with them, and spread infectiously, an air of unfading wallpaper and practical carpeting, of ironclad and frequently unendurable mediocrity."

Me, to Alexa: Computer, play Tchaikovsky. Alexa: Ludwig van Beethoven has a new album out. Would you like to hear it? Oh, does he now.

Except in our older house, in which there are pretty much 2 circuits, "most of kitchen" and "both bedrooms, bathroom, living room, dining room, front hall, the rest of the kitchen, and possibly part of the house next door." I fantasized about buying the place just to rewire it.

I just took a good look at the 35 multiple-choice questions on Logical Fallacies I've given to half the 8th graders already and realized that I left every answer but one set to A.

The Onion publishing their "No way to prevent this" article so many times it got its own Wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_W...

“As always, Pfizer’s goal is to ensure broad and equitable access to our medicines," says the Pfizer spokesman, twirling his villain mustache and explaining why they've set the price of their life-saving medicine at $1400. www.cnbc.com/2023/10/18/p...

Today has been the Monday-est of Fridays.

I'm not NOT saying we need this... @alexanderdanner.bsky.social

From the essay: "Even if the book banners do read my books, and my writing is effective and they empathize with the queer characters, their agenda is stronger than their empathy."

I once saw something describing English as not one coherent language but rather several languages together in a trenchcoat.

Me at 2:15: I KNOW none of you have your phones in class, so I don't need to remind you about the emergency alert that's going off in 5 minutes. I don't need to tell any of you that this is a good time to TURN OFF YOUR PHONE so the alert doesn't sound. Three students' phones at 2:20: 🚨🚨🚨 BEEEEEEEP

Dreamed I was cryptid-hunting in Animal Crossing. Unclear whether this was new game content or if the dream was just skinned as ACNH.

Editor of the literary magazine, struggling with depression/anxiety in the mid-'90s when we had no idea what those things were. Not cool enough for the burnouts, not driven enough for the smart kids. But it was still better than middle school.

Hey, all. Julie Rehmeyer has made it easy to donate Blue Sky invite codes to folks in the disability community for whom Twitter was a crucial support. If you have extras you can drop them here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The attack on libraries will not end with any consensus standard for what counts as prurient or pornographic, because the attack isn’t about that. It’s about eliminating the library as a public space where a child can find the smallest measure of freedom from parental domination. 📚

For all the baking I do, pie crust has always been my white whale. But today I took a class and made the best pie crust I have ever made! (This crust is okay enough but my bar for "best" is pretty low) Blue/rasp/black berries with cinnamon and nutmeg; flowers are crust with cinnamon sugar on them.

I keep coming across posts like this on this site and wondering how I made it into my 40s without recognizing my own bisexuality

Dude just came into the teen room at the public library looking for a card catalog and the periodicals room and did I just meet a time traveler?

I was not expecting the Pop-it Wikipedia to be such a roller coaster.