Well, I’ve graduated with a 4.0 GPA, after 4.5 years. I truly did not know if I would get here, and it feels very weird to be at the top of this hill.

Submitted my last assignment for grad school, grades aren’t due until 2 days before Christmas.

Finally did some baking in the new apartment after living here for *mumbles* months. They came out… not great! But I have some ideas for what went wrong, and it feels good to be baking again after so long, and with so much else going on. Maybe I will come out the other side a full person again.

Reskeet with a picture of your lock screen, you know... for science... currently listening to the latest episode of @hwatweekly.bsky.social

fuck you make me

Got an interview for a job that I’m basically a shoo in for, and I’m already getting anxious trying to figure out the schedule. Love being an anxious mess!

Just registered for my last semester of library school, which I feel totally normal about, given that I’ve been working towards this for a number of years, and will almost certainly have no issue getting a job with, right? 😀

And to be so very clear, JKR has openly stated that the money she makes from Harry Potter (in all its forms, right now) goes directly to conservative and specifically anti-trans causes. Do not financially engage with Harry Potter. Don't even engage with it for free. It's a Faustian IP, do not.

Chicago and New York should do a cultural exchange program where we get to beat up Andrew Cuomo and they get to beat up Rahm Emanuel

everyone: wow being a librarian is so cool you just get to read books all day your local librarian: today I had to break up a knife fight in the encyclopedia section

Rahm Emanuel covered up the murder of a Black teen, and shuttered public clinics and schools. Cuomo covered up COVID nursing home deaths and harassed women. These men heard "now is the time of monsters" and decided to attempt a comeback. They both belong in hell.

it also has no verification on the email address so you can use anything as long as it has an @ and a dot-whatever. it does not have to be an existing TLD. [email protected] works [email protected] works [email protected] works. anything will work. it's a well built form.

i mean this so seriously. if you are transgender. please be safe. do not get caught commiting crimes. do not get caught by the state. do not sacrifice yourself, we will survive

Something we all should remember, as we talk about worst case scenarios and ways to plan for and survive them: It's very much worth remembering that we collectively can and will survive them. And, we will build something beautiful on the ashes of their corrupt and childish violence.

drugs have taken too many beloved celebrities from us over the years but drugs also have a rare chance right now to radically rehabilitate their image

Why is this dimwitted drunk sex pest I hired for a key position making mistakes

If you’re an LGB without the T/Q person, block me and fuck off.

Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it. Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on. Making this my pinned post.

National Parks Service Stonewall page on the Wayback machine vs right now. They wrote trans folks out of Stonewall.

Working on a school paper about accessibility in libraries, and love having to write sentences like, “At the time of writing, the Americans with Disabilities Act exists.”

Cataloging friends, consider cueing up a local authority record for "Gulf of Mexico" for when the #LCSH is changed. If you're in a consortium, start those discussions now. #critcat

Ok here is the thing with action/praxis/protest/showing up: Sometimes you contribute by being a megaphone. Sometimes by being a wallet. Sometimes by being a physical body. Sometimes by being fuel or being relief. If you can’t be one thing at any given moment you can almost certainly be another.

Ah, the millennial experience of “every time you get some measure of financial and career stability, the world decides to do something extraordinarily stupid again”

Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner

Just had to tell a mother of a trans kid that I can’t in good conscience recommend they apply for a passport right now, because I have no idea if it’ll be processed correctly, let alone at all. And I fucking hate that.

trans women are biological women pass it on

so the thing is just because someone is not posting about every horror, does not mean they aren't paying attention or being active in opposition, and I do hope people can learn to read for other signs of resistance rather than demand people create a 24/7 feed of screaming it's actually not helpful

The energy I’m trying to bring for what is hopefully just the next four years

Not sure what I’m doing with this account just yet, other than having a place to follow librarians and authors and other great bookish people doing great work.