What a terrible, irresponsible headline. The answer is infection is *far* more of risk than vaccination. www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

In my small Newfoundland town growing up, Bonfire Night was always something I looked forward to. Brought over by settlers from England, hundreds of years later and hundreds of miles away, we still celebrate here with fires and effigies (unless it’s too windy).

I hate to break it to some of you but the way you talk about some women who are right wing is still misogynistic even if their politics are deplorable.

Imagine being wealthy and not building libraries. Embarrassing.

“Minds fed diverse knowledge become resilient and can recognize harmful ideas when they see them, because they’ve analyzed the varied ways they are presented. Book bans, if they are successful, will ultimately backfire, fostering a brittle and uninformed foundation for society.”

You wake up. It was all a bad dream. The year is 2003. Tonight you’ll do sourpuss shooters with your friends and wear a baby pink and brown going out top to a bar where they will play “Dirty” by Christina Aguilera. Your phone only makes phone calls and social media doesn’t exist yet.

Super don’t recommend reading the comments on local Facebook group posts about the reinstatement of masking in NL Health facilities if you want retain your hope in humanity.

"It’s not on us to figure out how to use this technology ethically. It’s on the companies that make it to make sure it’s ethical." h/t @tracynovick.bsky.social www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c...

I’m just a Canadian, looking at her fellow Canadians, begging them to connect the dots between rising anti immigrant sentiment and what is happening in the states.

I don't think we understand just how bad the decline of the Internet is to knowledge. 3 years ago, I could perform a very basic search in any engine and get an absurd number of relevant links, research articles, etc. Today, I can perform the same search and find absolutely nothing.

Visited Corner Brook for work and did the classic visiting somewhere different thing of asking myself “should I….. move here?”

Drove most of the way across my province today and I am pooped. 8 plus hours of driving is no joke.

“When I came here, I used to spend $400, $500 per month [on] groceries. But nowadays, for the same amount of food, I have to spend $700… it's pretty tough to manage within my salary.” Food prices have spun utterly out of control. Overdue for the government to step in, ensure supply/affordability.

I wonder how many submarines are in the Great Lakes at any given time? It's probably zero, right?

I’ve been doing library outreach for 15 years and it’s only in the last 2 that tweens have started to ask me how the public library makes money. I do think it’s interesting that when I meet kids now, they have trouble imagining a free public space, especially if they haven’t been there before.

Highlight of this week’s classroom presentations to grade 5s about the library was when one boy stood up and told me everything I was saying was “too good to be true” and that “That can’t all possibly be free”. Thanks for the great advertising, kid!

Canadian Thanksgiving (or just Thanksgiving, as we call it), happens at a better time than American Thanksgiving, sorry to say.

Woke up to the sound of someone close by cutting wood with a chain saw- a sound you don’t hear often in the city but because of my rural upbringing always makes me feel nostalgic for my childhood autumns.

Diane Keaton, nooooo!

I feel like a lot of people went through Covid and instead of coming out of it with an increased understanding of illness and wanting to not spread it, just go everywhere sick now and don’t really care about who they also make sick and it really sucks.

Can you imagine how many threads and tiktoks there'd be about Empire Records if it came out today?

Something specific that I am nostalgic about is the scent of Herbal Essences shampoo in the 90s. It doesn’t smell like that anymore and I use different products now but every so often I remember uncapping the bottle and taking a big whiff.

Being a part of so many listservs advertising AI webinars that don’t even mention any of the ethical issues with AI is a real trip.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

"The chatbot struggled to correctly answer questions about books . . ." This would be hilarious if it weren't for the fact that the authors, and many library administrators, weren't still insistent that chatbots are something libraries should implement. 📚 preprint.press.jhu.edu/portal/sites...

Something that just does not sit well with me recently is most things

Outside of buying direct: if you're buying ebooks, google play pays authors the best royalties. If you're buying paperback, Amazon is probably the highest. If you're buying audiobooks, anywhere but Amazon or audible if it's available pay the highest.

Recently read the Monk and Robot duology by Becky Chambers and found it to be quite delightful.

Help I have a lot of friends who are Swifties and I’m very lukewarm on this new album. Do I tell them? They’ll want to know! But they won’t like my answer.

Covid is a social justice issue. Mitigations like masks, anti virals, air purifiers and tests cost money. We should have free respirators in public places. Mandatory masking in hospitals. Clean air benchmarks. Paid time off. Those steps would drastically reduce spread.

My love language is looking up the weather and telling you when you it’s going to rain. It’s knowing that it’ll get cold later, so you should bring a sweater. It’s sharing the forecast so you’re not caught unawares.

These AI slop dictionaries are really out here teaching me new words right in their title! Side note, is vetenarian similar to veterinarians or?

A tactic that has worked to get young teens interested in coming to the library has been to tell them that my library is a Pokémon Go gym and to challenge them to come knock me out of it.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

The @cla-acl.bsky.social has issued a press release "calling on the Government of Québec to reconsider its decree banning forms of gender-inclusive writing, specifically the inclusive pronoun 'iel', the word 'toustes' and the interpoint." cla-acl.ca/pdfs/Ecritur...

As ever, I will remind folks that the last federally funded residential school closed in 1997. It's not just survivors who are alive to this day, there are staff members who are only in their 60s. None of this is vague "ancient history".

Canada Post and the library go hand in hand. They deliver our interlibrary and out of province book loans for us at a reduced book rate. If we lose them what does that mean for shipping cost? Will it be passed on to patrons?

"Canada Post is on track to lose money" Hum. Duh. It cost less than a toonie to send a letter across Canada. "Canada Post is a service and not a business" was common knowledge until late stage capitalism brain rotted most people into think if it ain't making money for shareholders, it's failing.

"of course ChatGPT is full of errors when it comes to my specific area of professional or technical expertise, that's why I only use it for other stuff, where I can't tell if it's bullshit or not" 📰🗞💥

Have decided I’m only voting for people who use public libraries from now on, please present your library card to me while door knocking.

Goosebumps mode is the best

“I think I can say there’s certain groups of people who take no vaccines and no pills who have no autism. Does that tell you something?” Trump at his “big autism announcement” This is the Wellness movement on steroids. They’re going to blame & shame people for their disabilities. Eugenics.

You might wonder how much water a child can get on the bathroom floor during the course of a bath, and the answer is far more water than you are imagining.

I recommend reading some books

What's free and has 37K items available? Look you don't get much for free anymore and you can get a library card for free and have it mailed to you. You don't even have to go in person. It's an introvert dream.

If you’re canceling subscription services with giant companies with ties to terrible people, you should think about replacing them with a library card. Many library systems give you access to physical media (some of which you can’t find on streaming!) as well as other great stuff.

My husband’s idea of a good time this week is playing the same boss battle in Silksong for 3 days until he defeats it.

I bought too many peaches in a peach frenzy so now I’m on the clock to eat all these peaches before they rot.

Reading the Percy Jackson series with my 10 year old and the Greek mythology obsessed youth inside me is very happy.

"One of the report's 110 calls to action states the Newfoundland and Labrador government should 'provide learners and educators with essential AI knowledge, including ethics, data privacy, and responsible technology use.'" 🤔