I've been holding off to see how the episode was handled before getting into this. For background, I'm autistic. I sometimes say things that other people don't consider to be normal or polite. IN NO WAY is this to diminish the nature of having to hear slurs of what's supposed to be...

I regret to inform you it is less fun the Foucault thought it would be

I liked Judah but did not want to be BJ (or AJ, my first choice of first name started with A). And I had recently read a sweetly beautiful book that I knew was going to be imprinted on my soul and the hero had exactly the sort of nontoxic masculinity I wanted for myself. So that's the name

Really interesting article about UVA’s approach to preserving provenance and archival control for institutions investigating potential use of AI to speed up digitization.

Canteloupe. No question

My undergrad thesis (linguistics) involved a lot of far right spaces to like... sample their language. And if I'd been really hitting it hard for a few days I'd see something and be like "well obviously the big picture is ugly but maybe I can kind of see where they're coming from?" 1/x

Discourse is the mind-killer. Discourse is the little-death... I will face the Discourse. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the Discourse has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain

It’s funny because you don’t even need to know what someone said about bluesky to know what they said about bluesky based on everyone reacting to them saying that same old thing about bluesky

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No work tomorrow. We are now looking at up to 15 inches. This shit better clear out before this weekend as that's the big moving day

im in from the cold reading the spy who came in from the cold

So um. I'm guessing I won't be starting the new job tomorrow. Since the latest update to the forecast is now 10-12 inches. I like the South because the winters are milder, I did not miss the pre-storm mass hysteria or the post-storm paralysis.

As I am professionally obligated to say that there are no shameful books, my five popcorn authors are: Stephen King Robert A. Heinlein Anne McCaffrey Charlaine Harris Louis L'Amour Bonus points for James A Michener, poor aging aside I can't believe I gobbled up his writing style between 12-16 yo

Had a lengthy discussion with a library child regarding the fact you rarely encounter zombies in the library. We concluded that probably they just don't have library cards.

I remembered this show today and everything about it makes me laugh

I wasn’t allowed D&D. This was 20% satanic panic and 80% due to the fact that mom dated the guy who ran the only game store in town before she met dad. Could not set foot in That Place Well, That Place was in the center of town, a convenient distance from anywhere Mom would be to catch m

Today's anti-FB rant (and I foresee many more, so I'll put them in this thread for easy muting): I have a friend I used to work with. Call her Lynn (yes, this is the magic Amish broth lady). Lynn shares... absolute garbage. AI puppies, Bible verses with flowers, you name it...

Will always remember watching Michael Knowles call for the “eradication of transgenderism” at CPAC … news outlets reported (correctly) that what he was calling for was the eradication of trans *people* but then bowed to pressure from Knowles’ lawyers at Daily Wire to change/hedge

I moved two states south in no small part to get away from this blizzard horseshit and I demand to speak to the manager

It is difficult, as a Jew whose family was massacred in the Holocaust, to watch people come to this realization. Millions of us died because of people like this. The Holocaust was not that long ago! People have not evolved out of racism and bigotry. Folks like this will always live among us.

Misunderestimate gets a lot of play in this house, don't think any Trumpisms do? Although I have to say, I don't remember much of Clinton, Obama had fairly standard speech patterns, and I already said "C'mon, man" so I think it's lack of opportunities for bipartisanship more than anything else

Verdi’s Dies Irae

I feel like a major difference between Gen X and the boomers is revealed by the fact that our big 80s nostalgia trip is a horror series about the evils of unchecked government, and their 50s equivalent was "Grease" and "Happy Days."

THIS IS JUST TO SAY I am sleeping in the blankets that are in the basket and which you were probably going to make the bed with forgive me, they were fresh from the dryer so fluffy and so warm --- William Catlos Williams

Oh. So that's why gas jumped ten cents between the time I went to work and the time I left. Well then.

When I was 11, I had chicken pox. I had never been so miserable in my life and I was crying in bed feeling sorry for myself. Dad came to check on me and asked why I was crying. I didn't want to worry him so I said it was because my little chum had just had it and HER uncle brought her SPIDERMAN...

That joyous noise you hear is the barbaric yawp of every four year old in the world exploding in glee

Gen. O. Cide. Say it with me. Genocide. That's exactly what this is.

I’m a librarian, it is literally my job to put books in hands. And I think it’s especially important for the teens but also the littles. The reason is because books teach us things. We learn to grieve with Anne Shirley and Jo March We learn strength and quiet courage from Frodo and Sam

This was inevitable and I really don't know how we can promise privacy in libraries right now

i love having house pets bc you just get to watch an animal invent its own struggles. just watched bertie go up to the mostly-closed wardrobe and bodily force his big body through the tiny gap in the door, which involved having to push past the chair keeping it propped closed then. was upset.

I think I had a fairly normal journey where AI is concerned. The first place I saw it was in apps. Hard to tell which was first because it wasn't announced but either the meditation app I use for background noise/music or some kind of game

Imagine all the stories we’re not hearing

We took, as a society, all the wrong lessons from Charles Dickens, we were supposed to have *fewer* children starving in institutions, not more

Literally every horror/ dark speculative fiction novel begins with the premise DO NOT FUCK AROUND WITH DEATH. DO NOT INTERFERE WITH THE DEAD. ABSOLUTELY NO CONTACT DO YOU HEAR ME

Currently reading an LIS article from 17 years ago about how human catalogers/indexers are essential because machines are bad at discerning homonyms, synonyms & contextual usage. Meanwhile every LIS conference now has at least one session about how GenAI can replace human catalogers/indexers.

You know, I used to sell Mary Kay. And you go to these meetings and ladies are raking in free money and you just have to hustle more and work harder and BUY MORE SHIT FROM MARY KAY and you too can have a pink Cadillac! If you’re not rich you’re not trying! Same predatory bullshit right here

Teaching Moby-Dick is always such a towering joy and I can’t believe I get to do this for a living; my students this semester are so searingly smart I can’t even take it. They spent such a gratifying 10 minutes on Ishmael’s hands being down in the pelvis of the world!

Academic Librarian folks, I have a survey about genAI for you! If you: - hold an MLIS/MLS degree - or your primary job responsibilities include providing reference, instruction, cataloging, collection development, or other information services maybe check it out?

Got turned down for a job because they said I wrote my cover letter with AI and like... no? It's a cover letter? They're all plug and play anyway? So how would you even be able to tell??

Things that Mina has never encountered before: Airplanes Washer/ Dryer Central air Dogs Dishwasher Things Mina loathes with a passionate intensity: Airplanes Washer/ Dryer Central air Dogs Dishwasher It's gonna be a long settling in process

Long term substitute for abt three years, approx 7 classes, 30 kids each, thats 210. Work with queer and at risk youth over the course of a decade, about 75? I'm guessing? So 285 1.5 years as a youth services librarian, probably about 175. So 460 kids⬇️

I'm seeing a lot of people saying things like "we can't house ICE victims in refurbished warehouses, they're not fit for human habitation and/or so we have extra warehouses for ICE but not gor the homeless and... as someone who has been formerly homeless I don't love the juxtaposition 🧵

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

That they chose to whitewash the book that’s explicitly about the destructive power of racism by the daughter of an abolitionist—IN 2026!—is infuriating, but the articles explaining why that’s FINE ACTUALLY are what’s really making me blow a gasket

I worked in a German restaurant/ beergarden in college. No idea what it's called and my German is sketchy but it goes "in München steht ein Hofbräuhaus, ein, zwei, soffa!" Also Edelweiss, which is no better in German than in English

I’m at Five Guys and there’s (what I presume to be) a father and young adult child of indeterminate gender, green hair, neopunk fashion, and a faceful of metal at the next booth. Father looks as redneck as they come, Duck Dynasty beard, Harley tshirt They’re having a ball

Wait, I’m sorry, I know I’ve been more or less offline for a few days but are people really trashing the Wuthering Heights movie because *it’s too sexually charged??* That is, in fact, one of the main points of WH (the other being inter generational child abuse)

Raspberry. Like there’s nothing wrong with raspberry creme done right. Whitman’s ain’t it

It’s 1 AM. I have been awake for 20 hours. We have been in the new place since seven. I am now ready for bed and Mina has chosen this moment to do her Great Explorer impersonation. Including this gem. I assure you she has water in her bowl