OK! You have convinced me! Here goes... I am positive that LLMs and AI are completely terrible and are positively bad for the creative and all other spheres!

As I have stated here before: I don't have "rights" over my children; I have a responsibility to love, care, and support the people they are and the people they will grow into.

THIS

Reskeet with your home river. The Mahoning

evergreen

I spent my whole long life in a world that loved the United Kingdom and the United States specifically because they saved democracy from the Third Reich Images like this, the reports of Nazis in the U.S., etc. are giving me such a brainsplitting ongoing cognitive dissonance

Slightly diminish a game Midairrim

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #natural; a bird in its natural habitat. Here is a Great Blue #heron at Corkscrew Preserve in #Florida #birds #EastCoastKin

[read as a reductress headline] Generational healing? Area man allows his child to perform a simple plumbing repair and merely tells child the steps.

Slightly diminish a band: Euclidean stack of eyes and one tentacle @anymeat.bsky.social

Luke Warm Chili Peppers

Good morning Bsky Sometimes, action is required of us. In our personal lives, however, some battles aren’t worth fighting. Don’t hold onto what isn’t serving you.

Verified for Renee Good’s wife and son: gofund.me/d9ab44b09

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Judge Doom will return in AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY

Good library news in the Ocean State 📚

Doing our library’s Tech Help Drop-in again, and just helped an 83 year-old learn how to arrange apps on her iPhone and she was so appreciative and couldn't believe she didn’t have to pay. 🥹😭

Why do we shame ourselves for our TBR piles? It's not our fault that we're denied the time to partake in humanity's greatest privilege. Isn't it wonderful that brilliant minds keep crafting delightful stories? Your TBR is a beautiful never-ending goal. May we all be gifted the time to attempt it.

Brief moment of confidence and trust in myself as I showered this morning. I wish I could hold on to that feeling and live fully in it. Ah, healing 😭

Never Forget #Jan6

For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines

Please read the whole article. There are some fascinating data in here!

*makes a clever ironic comment* yeah, I’m doing Wry January

#NonEuclideanMassOfEyesAndTentacles #Aaggllanomm #Zolathrastok #TheCastleAtTheEndOfTime #Industrial #DroneAndGroove #DroneMetal #DoomMetal #StonerMetal #NEMEAT #ThirdAlbum #BandCamp #Spotify #Deezer #YouTubeMusic #AmazonMusic #Pandora #TikTok #Snapchat #Tidal #AuralCosmonauts #TheYearOfOurSquid2025

I hate this. It’s a piece of clothing. What’s next, regulation on corsets and shape-wear that makes your butt look bigger? Leave me and my binders in peace you fucking weirdos.

The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:

Also, the number of these people who think late book returners are some sort of malicious evil mastermind people trying to screw other is also INSANE.

You can be a punk library or a cop library; you can care about the people or the stuff. Choose the people. 📚

Stop with statements. ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT

goodnight, and remember: library late fees suck. they simply discourage library use. you should be glad if your library abolished them, and if it hasn’t, you should tell them it should. 📚

Grok can't apologize. Grok can, when prompted, generate a word sequence that is statistically similar to the colloquial phrases we think of as "apologies," but Grok cannot actually apologize because Grok isn't sentient. But we all have a lot of trouble with this because we assume sentience IS speech

It's that time of year when we look back at all the books we loved in 2025. First up, is Host Emily with just some of her favorites from the year. Did you read any of her top books? Let us know what you loved (or hated) in the comments!

Karen Smith being sworn in to the Central Bucks school board, a district near Philadelphia. For her oath she chose to place her hand on a stack of frequently challenged & banned books. 📚 www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/l...

seems like folks could get some fun mileage out of this extremely low hanging fruit

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

[suggestively waggles eyebrows]

Hmm! Find your fate at xkcd.com/1525/

So happy to write this, and grateful to Pop Heist for caring about libraries. Support your local libraries and library workers, y’all! 📚

Hear hear! If you haven't read Woodworking yet, it was hands down my favorite book of 2025. Got me feeling all the feelings.

On it! I’ll start using it at work overmorrow, I promise!

HELLO FRIENDS! I'd like to shout out to my interdimensional aural buddy @anymeat.bsky.social for this glowing review in @organmagazine.bsky.social of their latest squidtastic album, "The Castle at the End of Time"

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

And it’s likely that the query will be “how much ibuprofen for 6 month old”

maybe my least favorite thing is when people use “self-indulgent” as a criticism. art *should* be self-indulgent! art *is* indulgence!

We are now at 75k signatures, with many messages of support on Instagram, Facebook and here. This is a genuine groundswell of love over hate, and a call to focus on the real harms faced by women and girls. Thank you all who’ve signed and shared. Let’s keep it going 💜 notinourname.org.uk

While I am yelling, stop saying sh!t like "clean books." Clean books imply the oppoaite are "dirty"--THAT LANGUAGE IS DAMAGING to readers & librarians.