Y'all, everything sucks but there's a cat sleeping on my stomach, if you need one small bright spot

A scepter snatch’d with an unruly hand Must be as boisterously maintain’d as gain’d; And he that stands upon a slipp’ry place Makes nice of no vild hold to stay him up

You know how sometimes you can't wrap your head around the Whole Thing so you want to explode over The Small Part? Yeah. I absolutely loathe the nickname Raisin Caine. The kind of bravado and wit that would appeal to a third grader. Everyone is 12 theory of government is occasionally optimistic

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

I legit had like eight separate conversations in the past 48 hours where I said “guys I actually feel really optimistic about 2026”

Whoa whoa whoa hold up hes saying we kidnapped Maduro and his *wife* but did not get the VP? How do you expect to do a regime change if you leave the command structure intact? And we did it with partnership with US LAW ENFORCEMENT?? Who famously have jurisdiction in Venezuela? They ain’t even trying

I believe the latin phrase the lawyers and diplomats are looking for this morning is “Hoc est fututum glomeratum.”

I miss the days of mindless insomnia scrolling until the melatonin hit. So much better than horrified insomnia scrolling that won't let the melatonin hit

One more word about the fines thing. When my aunt was seven - SEVEN!!! - she lost a library book. She told the librarian who yelled at her until she cried and her son, a classmate of my aunt's, told her she would go to jail. She was terrified. Then the fines came and her mom paid them...

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. 📚

To think that in the year 2026 we are still seeing the “I love libraries but people who damage or return books late need to be punished” discourse is really something!

Dad: *leaves for the kitchen as they start kissing* Dad: *comes back as they are getting undressed* Dad: Are you sure this is a hockey movie? Me: Oh, yes, it is very much about hockey. Look at that stick handling technique!

Two unspoken but painfully loud refrains: We have lost so much time already We do not know how long we will have

Today a young nonbinary friend talked about being screamed at and threatened with violence on the subway with their (also trans) partner on New Year’s Eve. No one was hurt, but they’re shaken up. I share this bc people are telling me that it’s unreasonable not to compromise with transphobes.

Honestly I don’t think there would be a huge difference for most choices but I do think a childhood of Arwen Elanor might have kickstarted the transition process tbh

there are endless headlines about "grok apologizes" or "grok says it will be fixed" after it generated CSAM using pictures of minors and zero headlines about "grok being shut down" or "musk and xAI in big legal trouble" and I think something fundamental has broken here

There has to be some kind of entity that enforces nutrition label accuracy, right? Did Upton Sinclair live in vain?

I wasn't aware you could just apologize and have csam forgiven, how interesting

Okay. A lot of people are getting after this lady because she had to beg to pay for a lost book and saying that doesn’t happen. So here are the (very practical, not at all woke) reasons that it might

The thing about the apology episode (and the child porn episode that led to it and a great deal of the "sentience" bullshit) can come down to this thing called speech acts Basically, there are certain forms of speech that constitute action without further action

Introduce yourself with what almost killed you: Hi, I'm conversion therapy

NYPost, being dirtbags as usual. 1) As Benjamin says, she's the 1st lady of NYC. They'd complain if she wore cheap clothes, too. 2) Turns out the boots were on loan. 3) Good boots are usually pricey, but can last a long time. 4) Vimes Boot Theory: www.law.georgetown.edu/poverty-jour...

They better not elect me to anything, I’m swearing my oath on Fahrenheit 451

Me: Okay, the kitchen is clean, the resume got sent and there’s still a good four hours left of holiday. Hm. What should I do? Tackle the closet or… Also me: DUDE. Wasn’t it LAST NIGHT that you resolved not to be productive every second? Read a book! Play video games! Me: … I don’t remember how

Happy New Year! Hope everyone is luckmaxxing today, we’re gonna turn this shit around this year

this is, indeed, a crusade by the people directly running the New York Times to destroy the rights and lives of trans people in this country they have blood on their hands and they’re proud of it

Whatever else 2026 may bring we are getting GLUTEN FREE CHEEZ ITS. I repeat, gluten free cheez its. This is not a drill

Reviving Heinrich Heine’s New Year’s Greeting that I posted last year. Hope it’s more effective this year.

I will be damned, everyone waited until midnight, made a concerted racket with fireworks and assorted other methods for 20 minutes, and now everybody has cooled their jets except for That Guy (there's one in every neighborhood)

Y'all. I did it. I wanted to end this year with fewer half finished books than I started with. On Jan 1 I had 75. Knocked it down to 74 as of 11:54 This year's goal is to further whittle away at it while giving myself permission to save MY OWN time as a reader, Ranganathan is for everybody dammit

My greatest 2025 achievement was surviving another year in a dystopian hellscape. My 2026 resolution is surviving another year in a dystopian hellscape.

It turns out that yes, I can be trusted with follow through, but my basic attitude toward deadlines remains unchanged

I have already sustained two minor injuries and knocked over a jar of coins while making hopping john, I choose to believe this is the last of 2025 working its way out than an omen for 26

right after my father died several of his contemporaries invited me to come speak at their churches ... they knew i was in college and wanted to help me out

"Show me the energy you're leaving 2025 with" "Post a gif of the energy you're carrying into 2026" sweeties I am 40 or 50 years old, what on EARTH makes you think I have energy

What is the sexiest possible 'favorite book' a male love interest could have, and why?

If, like me, you are pissed that Libby is wasting library resources on a nonsensical AI “readers advisory” that takes up half a page of UI and is absolutely worthless, there’s a perma survey link on the bottom of the settings page that will allow you to record feedback as many times as you want

So, librarians, do you have a contingency plan for when these goons enter your facility? You might not be able to block access to a public building, but how are you alerting your patrons? Do you have a plan to get them out safely? Because you should.

Excellent tip, to which i would add: Do not feed your cat immediately after you wake up or immediately after you get home, otherwise they will be insufferable trip hazards if you try to eg: go to the bathroom or hang up your jacket

I consider it a mark of the quality of the people I follow that I saw a thousand "Do not rehabilitate Marjorie Taylor Green" posts before I saw anything to indicate an actual attempt at rehabilitation of Marjorie Taylor Green

I thought I was incapable of being more annoyed with people watching videos without headphones in public but that was before the guy who was watching a horror movie and the doctor’s office full of sniffly toddlers heard the heroine screaming and joined in

If I can be brutally honest for a moment it's really weird that we very rarely see the discussion of "trans men invading men's spaces" because the implicit (and sometimes explicit) threat of physical violence and sexual assault is assumed to be successful at keeping trans men out.

Following if I have time. If not I have a personal list that fluctuates but is basically a mix of people I talk to regularly or news-type accounts so I dont get overwhelmed

In 2026, I want to read.... a lot. Please suggest a book I should read to better understand the world around me or to simply enjoy this place a little bit more. #booksky #readsky

Wowwww ok I looked at this job listing and like. These people do not want a librarian. They do not want an educator. They want someone who will replicate class structure and teach the kids that what’s fun for them is good for the world

Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice. Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.

I didn't bother reading it (thank you for doing the unpleasant work, Kate!) but what bothers me most about this, I think, is the smug implication by the 'writer' that her time is so much more important than the reader's. "I use AI because I have better things to do than write for you!"

Hold up so the singer who didn't want to be associated with an org with Trump's name on it and withheld his labor in accordance w his beliefs is getting sued and the guy who didn't want to bake a cake for a gay wedding and withheld his labor in accordance with his beliefs is a hero by the same ppl?

Time traveling medieval historian in passionate love with a knight errant, every time we meet we have forgotten every time before, and fall in love all over again I… would take that, actually 🤣