My mom shared a #TransDayOfVisibility post on instagram and maybe I cried about that a little. (I don’t know what I am but I’m not cis for sure. Queer is my current favorite way to label myself. My family doesn’t know.)

“It’s either a short story or a novel. There’s no such thing as a novella.” #TransDayOfVisibility

Yes, this is real.

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to halt construction of a $400M White House ballroom, ruling the project cannot move forward unless Congress approves it.

A judge has blocked the Donald Trump administration order to end funding for NPR and PBS.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

Quote with a line from a movie from the year you were born

NEW: Thomson Reuters, the media company which is also a data broker, has long provided personal data for ICE tools, according to documents obtained by 404 Media and sources. There are also indications its data is now part of the Palantir system ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target.

Damnit, Kelly's right, but still ...

Folks believing that public libraries should be neutral overlook the fact that they are inherently political. Public libraries were created with the belief that everyone no matter their class, status, age or income can freely gather and access materials to educate & entertain

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.

Friday spicy take: IL Librarians/Data Librarians should be talking/writing sooo much more about prediction markets, connecting back to Hayek, etc. For ex: what does it mean to be betting on the probability that the White House press briefing goes past certain length vs. seeing it as "informing"?

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

AOC was very famously a bartender, markwayne mullin inherited and sold a family plumbing business for millions, which of these two does the median american think to be more blue collar-coded?

fucking hell

when someone calls me by the wrong name or spells it differently, my typical response is, "oh, call me what you want, just don't call me late for dinner." that's kinda how i'm feeling about my pronouns. do what you will, i'm just happy to be here, and a little hungry.

RUTHERFORD COUNTY: “library director Luanne James fired for refusing to relocate 132 children’s books to the adult section…. The board deemed the books inappropriate, citing LGBTQ+ themes, female empowerment, diversity, witches, social justice...” www.dnj.com/story/news/2...

Trans Day of Visibility is tomorrow. #TDOV #ProtectTheDolls

*sigh*

"...choosing not to do something that is burning you out and isn’t supported isn’t a betrayal of your patrons. If this work is that important, it’s your institution that has betrayed patrons by not adequately supporting you." @librarianmer.bsky.social 📚 meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/20...

Ah, so Andy Weir is like... *dumb* dumb gizmodo.com/andy-weir-st...

One thing we're 100% not doing is fake "He Died" posts, okay?

looks i'm never buying a harlequin romance again lol :<

Glasses are a disability justice issue. Glasses are a healthcare issue. If you need glasses to see clearly, you are disabled. This is my bonus wokest take. It shouldn't be controversial even a little, and its weird to me people don't see glasses like this.

Considering they keep saying all the protesters are paid, I'm surprised Trump hasn't taken credit for creating 8 million jobs yesterday.

Or, maybe, it's the data centers. scitechdaily.com/why-your-dai...

AI has such a male-creep pattern of behaviour - not talking about the programmes, but the incessant aggressive pestering when you've said no.

WEEDING IS GOOD.

Library late fees do more harm than good. 📚

Star Trek: The Next Generation, possibly the best television show ever, is not about spaceships shooting lasers at each other, it is about a man who represents the best of us trying to teach his robot son to be human while debating whether humans even deserve to exist with his best frenemy, God.

Workers should never forget how quickly and easily the managerial class fell for AI solely because they thought it would replace the workers right away.

Food aversions are not a moral failing, and as long as someone is getting enough nutrition (calories, carbs, fats, fiber, and vitamins) there is absolutely nothing wrong with what they are eating (or not eating). Outside pressure can make food aversions significantly worse.

I didn't realize Barbara Walker had passed in December 2025. She is a knitting legend and will be missed.

Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ

There is a really easy check you can do to see if you need to use a mic when presenting - is there a microphone you can use? If yes, then yes, you should use it. 3/

For some reason, I never quite believed Linda when she would say Rio was big. This doesn’t really show it, but he is indeed Large. He’s an absolute cuddle monster. I love his nose freckles. He has a couple patches of black fur on his shoulder. He and Pete have started licking each other’s faces.

“Mary Jane’s Last Dance” played in double time. (I’m at a market covering for my mom and listening to the local musician playing interesting covers.)

Bossa nova Nirvana

Love seeing super alt parents with preppy kids. 🥰

A newly identified Underground Railroad passageway once used by enslaved people fleeing to freedom is putting the spotlight on a New York City museum and its struggle against a proposed neighboring development. https://to.pbs.org/4bBxKPk

OK where are my Cornish language experts? I have a series of increasingly niche questions about identifying gender from a personal name, now and historically. You'll be unsurprised to learn I have scintillating dinner party chat

It's us again, this time with @libjuiceconnect.bsky.social! Join Ella Gibson, Ruth Monnier, and Matthew Noe for a discussion about the current landscape of generative AI in libraries and what forms resistance can take. 📚 libraryjuiceconnections.org/events/resis...

🟢 Durant, OK warehouse has sold… to the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma! ICE previously sought to buy the space to create a mega detention center capable of holding 8,500 people. This is the 13th warehouse they have been denied.

she dropped her pedophile agency and hates israel and shes a lesbian

biological sex only matters to these goons if it represents femininity as currently constructed in Western culture. to some degree this has always been a thing but what Rowling is now defending is the sanctity of women as portrayed by white patriarchy and white supremacy

Saw someone say that a pizza delivery driver "technically owns a little bit of the means of production" and i just want to clarify something. If you're contracted by another company and you're using your own tools for the job, you don't own the MOP, you're being exploited like any other worker.

a 1990s-era Earthlink explainer that reminds us a time when we still had the power (and the ability) to accept - or refuse #othernetworks

*grabs mic* WE’VE HAD BAND-AIDS LONGER THAN WE’VE HAD ANTIBIOTICS.