We can't even get job numbers anymore 😂😂😂😂

So, librarians, do you have a contingency plan for when these goons enter your facility? You might not be able to block access to a public building, but how are you alerting your patrons? Do you have a plan to get them out safely? Because you should.

This reminds me of a prof at Alabama who left because the university was becoming “too inclusive” and DEI was going “too far.” ALABAMA.

I’m up to 119 books in 2025, which indicates: - I did not want to listen to my own thoughts - I procrastinated/was in denial a lot - 2025 was very long. Usually I read like half that many books. I’ll read a short one tomorrow to get it to an even number.

I started reading John LeCarré’s George Smiley books starting with the first one so that I would understand “the spy who came in from the cold,” and the sendup of rich private school faculty in “a murder of quality” is hilarious

This spellbinding story can be hard to follow due to all the comments so here is the unroll: tbsky.app/profile/solo...

There’s so much blood on the Kennedy mens’s collective hands that even the premature deaths of a number of those men cannot offset the deaths for which they are directly or indirectly responsible.

Oh God this woman has died. So awful. Such a brilliant woman. Such vicious cruelty being inflicted on people. It would undo you. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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Reading fiction written after WWII about WWII is a completely different vibe than reading contemporary fiction about WWII by people who don’t have a living memory of it. (I’m reading LeCarré who was just a young teen during WWII but saw the direct aftermath)

I have TMJ and usually my chiropractor keeps my jaw in line but I haven’t been in weeks and now it’s out of joint again with the resulting issues. (Iykyk)

In my continuing journey to understand why LinkedIn annoys me so much, today’s complaint is that people write lonnnnng posts but each paragraph is only a sentence. They all have the same “and then … INSIGHT!” formula, like if motivational posters had soundtracks. youtu.be/BekjyAH7c2A?...

Goodnight; hope everyone else who has insomnia gets some sleep today

Charles Ryback as a freshman at Buffalo: "How do you walk into Robert Creeley’s office and not know who he is? ... It was no accident. It was public education, exactly as designed by the generations before. It completely saved and changed my life and all I had to do was be alive and show up."

Was at an open-air evening Jazz festival watching Branford Marsalis, turned around and Wynton Marsalis was behind me watching his brother. Most of my interactions w/ famous people have been w/ musicians but I especially treasure this surprise and the idea of familial love. (I didn’t say anything.)

So I'm preparing a chapter for an Emerald book, and they are amazing to work with. Very punctual, detail-oriented, nice, just super professional. www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/our-subjects...

This dog looks exactly like my dog, so I'm sharing this even though it's in Seattle. If you lost your dog in Seattle and she looks like this, go get her! If she's still in the shelter next week, someone go adopt her! She's clearly a good girl.

I enjoy getting and reading Christmas letters even from people I'm not close to, so I'm thinking about writing one and sending it out, even though my basic feeling is that no one cares (not in a bad way! just why would they?) ... but *I* care when they do it so maybe they would care when I do it?

I either need to get rid of some books, or I need to install rolling stacks. (There was a multi-million dollar mansion for sale in the area a few years ago, owned by a lawyer, which had a library with rolling stacks! I was so envious!)

Just saw a post that said, "Just here to remind you guys to give up on people. They know what they are doing." And yeah.

I’m trying to read Divergent b/c one of my students told me to but if she says “dauntless” one more time…

State universities have a fiscal and ethical responsibility to educate people of the state, so their demographics should reflect the demographics of the state (for example, 30% Black, not 11%). If k12 schools aren’t preparing kids equally for college, state unis should intercede.

This book about Jamestown (Love and Hate in Jamestown) is like “well not a whole lot has changed” - colonized by companies - optimized by shareholders - white gentlemen are lazy - old men trying to marry 12yos - grey area b/t slavery, indentured servitude, & imprisonment - racism in bed w/evangelism

It seems like some people have rolled over on AI very quickly. If you have students turning in AI work in droves, you need to redo your assignments and talk to your students, but not like this. I only get a couple of uses of AI each semester, so I really don’t feel like the fight is over — at all.

I think it’s a good moment for everyone to read or reread this book:

Penny loafers after inflation www.macys.com/shop/product...

Not only… but also

I finished my comprehensive exams, delivered some conference papers, published some poems for the first time in years, am currently finalizing proofs on a book chapter, developed a successful new course, was a pretty good mom.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t nirvana, Pearl Jam, soundgarden, or Alice In Chains

I’m reading a book about Jamestown and I’m shocked the English were able to colonize America. They are so lazy, incompetent, and unprepared.

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

Make a Bond Movie academic The writer's use of the word 'never' is problematic, and rewording might better serve the paper (1983)

"Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought." Harry Truman, who died on this day in 1972

Okay this is a very stupid and niche ask, but is anybody aware of a resource that has information about military uniforms across Europe ca. 1670-1750 which is searchable by both Nation (eg all Prussian uniforms) and by colour schemes (eg that used colours X and y) or anything like that?

A little holiday card I got to draw for a public library last year that I’m still proud of; happy almost-new-year ✨

This is a joke but this would incredible numbers for an indie author.

I will buy that Gremlins is an Xmas movie

We have moved on to a light Xmas comedy with Michelle Pfeiffer, featuring this book, so props to the props person for having good taste www.taschen.com/en/books/pho...

My parents convinced me to watch Die Hard and uhhh guys this isn’t a Christmas movie. The Muppets Christmas Carol is a Christmas movie.

Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates! 💚 And hugs to everyone who finds this day/season hard ❤️

I can never sleep on Xmas Eve

The first Reddit post I’ve been tempted to award

There’s a place for me, where I belong. It isn’t here, but it exists.

Proof that you really can’t promote your book too much. This was not the first time I learned of this book, but it somehow put me over the edge to read it.

My dad made chicken piccata and fettuccine Alfredo for dinner and it was insanely good but I haven’t had that much fat/butter in my system in a while so my body is confused

Started “endpapers” by Jennifer Savran Kelly — it seems to be about a trans book artist/conservator so I’m at least adjacent to its ideal audience. loving the little book details so far.

Look I've BEEN crashing out

The more Yoko Tawada I read the more I really want to attend an academic conference with her (My favorite is Memoirs of a Polar Bear but I’m now reading Scattered All Over the Earth)

‘Entomology in sport, and entomology in earnest’ by Mrs. W. (Mary King Ward, 1827-1869) and her sister Lady M. (Lady Jane Mahon), published in London, [1859]. University of Wisconsin-Madison Special Collections. #insectart #hernaturalhistory #19thcentury #rarebooks #bookhistory

I miss the days when you could give young men the grades they earned without worrying that they’d shoot you.