this is so insane

A Father's Day card I made awhile back. Happy Father's Day!

This was anonymously leaked by several Timberland Regional Library employees. Includes: Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, and Thurston Counties.

So many wonderful moments in Only Yesterday, but one that sticks with me is when she (city slicker) is out in the country and like "ah, so nice to be finally out in nature!" And he (farm guy) says uh, what nature? This land's been cultivated for 100s of years to be this way...

Probably because calling it a ‘picture book’ would make it seem lesser & juvenile. But it is in very much the same format, and evokes emotions powerfully too. I wish they’d do more ‘picture books’ for grownups like this.

Perhaps fitting for Father’s Day… Sea Prayer is a beautiful and heartbreaking illustrated story of a father writing to his son. They have both fled from war in Syria. This is about as close to an adult picture book as I’ve seen, even though no one wants to describe it as such -

Get $130 worth of ebooks from one of modern horror’s most acclaimed voices, Stephen Graham Jones for just $20 and help support the fight against book bans! buff.ly/25Pt7wV #library #read #reading #book #books #lit #mysterybooks

Some of the ALA READ poster auctions have been very tempting, especially for their gift / office decoration potential. I was swiftly outbid on one item and am currently in the running for another. Not after any of the $200+ auctions, but the chase is on. movieposters.ha.com/c/search/res...

PSA: a live crowd makes "The Furious" at least 30% better. Knowing other viewers are also feeling the harder hits enhances the experience.

Library Cards–The New Landscape of Public Library Censorship. This is a really important–and incredibly well-done–piece from award-winning leader on the topic of library card registration, Amy Mikel at Brooklyn Public Library. bookriot.com/library-card...

A whistleblower alleged that Crawford Capital, a ‘digital payments’ firm with UK connections, siphoned the tax revenues of one of the world’s poorest and most fragile countries on a massive scale. Then he was abducted. www.ft.com/content/5056...

On this day in 1885, the Statue of Liberty arrived in the U.S. on a boat, in pieces. The Library’s Historic American Engineering Record collection has some amazing photos of Lady Liberty from odd angles, taken in 1984 and 1985 during a major restoration project ahead of her centennial celebration.

Akane-banashi is *FREE* and legal on YouTube in multiple languages and does the original manga justice. Just a PSA for anyone holding out. youtube.com/@akane-banas... #WeebWednesday

I talked with the wonderful @stevewmorris.bsky.social about his site @shelfdust.bsky.social, his journey as a reader and critic, comic sites, our upcoming battle on stage for an Eisner Award, comics marketing, his varying hats, and more. Read it or watch it on SKTCHD. It's open to non-subscribers.

First look at Jessica Cruz from ‘My Adventures with Superman’ Season 3. She will be voiced by Auliʻi Cravalho (‘Moana’) and will have her own spinoff series (‘My Adventures with Green Lantern’).

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

If you see this, drop something ORANGE! 🍊🧡🏀🟠🟧🔶️

if you're curious at least two people this afternoon have realized they may have been misdiagnosed as bipolar based on nothing but me posting this graphic 🫡

PSA: a live crowd makes "The Furious" at least 30% better. Knowing other viewers are also feeling the harder hits enhances the experience.

Hard to get spoiled by Criterion sales when the library directly advertises its own collection for checkout so well: www.richlandlibrary.com/catalog?q=Cr...

There is no quicker path to "crud" than opening fire on "Make Way For Ducklings."

30-year mortgage is around 6.5%, so on top of the FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND for a house, you can chip in an extra ~TWENTY-SIX THOUSAND and what do y'all do for work again? Is this all house flippers and corporate portfolios?

Jane Yolen passed away this morning and I am in deep mourning. I had the great privilige of being friends with her for over four decades. We laughed together, did panels together, edited each other, and eventually wrote a book together. She was my editor for several books . . . 1/2

My fourth of five connected Speed Racer covers is out today from @madcavestudios.com , written by @peposed.bsky.social, drawn by Davide Tinto, colored by Jão Canola, and lettered by Buddy Beaudoin.

I always tell ppl about how I called my librarian and she stayed on the phone with me for a whole hour looking for an SD Perry resident evil novel and got so damn intrigued by the search she went ahead placed an order and gave me some recs to try in the meantime. Don’t ask chatGPT ask them

It's a work-appropriate triforce polo these days, but yes

In the episode I talk about the time I rescued a baby squirrel that ended up sleeping through the night like a cartoon character. This is that squirrel.

Passed the purest of readers advisory tests: someone's hold expired and was not on site. I found a suitable replacement based on their genre interests. But will they LIKE it? Time to play the waiting game...

I once wrote a short story about a rich old man treating his grandson to all the amenities of VIP box seats who was oblivious to the "good old days" version of the stadium not existing anymore. Even that angle was being too generous.

Roses are Red, The Future is Wild...

An assisted living home is hosting its own comic con this weekend, and I wish I could go. Read on: www.thepopverse.com/comics-senio...

do NOT bother him while he's playing Dragon Quest VIII

A Sentiment.

Something Marianne Satrapi said at a panel has stuck with me. She kind of laughed about critics’ describing her art as being like woodblock prints or studiedly childlike. She said her art in Persepolis was what it was because she didn’t know how to draw very well yet. But she had a story to tell.

Anthropic and OpenAI are dangerous and unsustainable companies that shouldn’t be taken public. The AI bubble is a con and retail investors are the marks. AI doesn’t have ROI, it’s nothing like AWS or Uber, and it’s got no post-bubble recovery story. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbKD...

Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis,' dies at 56

This is real btw

The same way the American Go Foundation subsidized complete collections of Hikaru no Go for game clubs, Toastmasters needs to integrate Akane-banashi into its offerings. Such a great toolbox for public speaking. #WeebWednesday

The tiny + and × before a giant explosion is everyone's cherry on top. Invent a new cherry on top. Early #WeebWednesday take.

It’s Pride 🏳️‍🌈 Spare one repost for a small creator? 🥺 My science and sci fi pins raise money for homeless LGBTQ+ people. Just sent another £800 to @aktcharity.bsky.social bringing total to £47,521 New for Pride 2026: 🌈Scientist🌈 🏳️‍🌈🐥🦜🦅🏳️‍🌈 🌈pronouns🌈 www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop

the most surreal thing about this era of open yelling about masculinity is that, if you grew up anything like I did, you were exposed to several sets of standards of masculinity and would be hard pressed to identify which of them the Paxtons and Millers of the world are living up to

After today, my job title will no longer be Teen Services Librarian. That is because Monday will be my first day as a Branch Manager!

"You look like you're attempting to break free of US Tech Hegemony? Do you want a hand with that?"

After a Wisconsin town did this, the mayor said: “The fact that they didn’t take the cameras down shows that we are the product. They were never really selling to us in the first place. They're selling to much bigger agencies the ability to spy on a ton of people.” (via boltsmag.org/verona-wisco...)

Nicole Goux has "must read each new book asap" status in my reading habits, hasn't led me wrong yet

"So you're a software company" "That's right Dave" "and you spent $500 million on AI tokens in a month?" "Yep" "and you're using AI to...replace employees?" "that's right" "that's more than your entire annual SG&A, isn't it?" "uhuh."

J.K. Simmons ran into Spider-Man at the Mets game tonight 😂🕸️ 🎥 MLB

The proud flame of American literary regionalism keeps a-burnin', like the gas flare from a frackin' well

What a weekend to learn I've been listed in one comics pro's starter pack and blocked by another. Thankful for both, for different reasons.