Three years ago, I got a pair of Nikes. Comfortable, wore well, so I just bought (online) the exact same model and size. Put them on and OUCH! Chat. They’re a full inch narrower across the widest part of your foot than my old ones. We’re not talking stretched fabric. Narrower soles. Same price.

My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/

The goal of storytime is to *keep them from* hitting each other, this I do not need

Man, FUCK Willoughby. Be unhappy in your wealth and fortune you enormous entitled asshole.

Well, it finally happened. The one true test. I am now a full librarian 11yo: I want a book Me: Oh? Which one? 11: There’s this girl and she can’t sleep and she’s being chased by fairytale princesses and her mom is at work Me: Me: Me: can you tell me anything else? 11: it was blue

Ok, I know somebody out there is vegetarian/vegan. I’m switching to oat milk for coffee/drinking purposes but I’m not sure if I can cook or bake with it the same way as cow milk? (I am asking specifically about oat milk, soy milk is off the table, no pun intended)

God damn, settle down HelloFresh

I almost brought home a kitten today Friends, I stood strong but the temptation was real. Please respect my privacy in this trying time

I don't want to be a "not all men" guy but being at a pride event and hearing a woman in the same breath 1) gush about how much she loves Heated Rivalry, 2) make the joke "of course sexuality isn't a choice, who would choose to be attracted to men?" and 3) "I mean I love my husband but 😆" is... oof.

Yes. Those.

New twist to Tilly and the food dish. Since the food dish is a scale, so I now get alerts that she has eaten food when none has been dispensed. The scale is weighing her face and paw and alerting me when she moves, thus throwing off the statistics the app tracks. 🙄 I am in touch with the company.

Sr. Lopez, Spanish, grades 8-12. Caught me reading novels under the desk once too often and sat me down for a chat about respect and listening and then he sighed and said “I know you know this. I know you’re bored hearing me drill the rest of the class. So how about…”

5th grade. We had to present a report on what we wanted to do when we grew up. I got up in front of the class and proudly laid out my career plan in preparation for my life as an astronaut And Mr Fitch told me in front off god and everybody girls couldn’t be astronauts ⬇️

the absolute apex of this, aside from pussy galore, is them naming nuclear physicist denise richards “dr christmas jones” in the world is not enough literally just so they could make a “I thought christmas only comes once a year” joke at the end crossed over into “I’m not even mad, that’s amazing”

That is all ⤵️ #AcademicSky #MedSky #ScienceSky #MillennialFun

Regardless of what this essay is arguing, publishing it a day before Pride starts was a Choice

happy Pride Eve to all the people who are about to paraphrase this tweet from 2022 or repost it with my name removed as if it’s a thought they just had themselves

one of the infinite ways in which the existence of trans people makes the whole world better is the way my transmasc friends have totally reframed for me what masculinity can look like when it busts out of that prison and it’s beautiful actually

They're public lands because the govt holds them as a proxy and in trust for all of us who live here, the public. If the govt no longer wishes to do that the single morally correct option is to return them to the Native people from whom they were stolen.

Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

Listened to a reporter on NPR this morning who said something like “Paxton is saying Talarico is LGBT, I’m really not sure why” and the rest of the panel was all like yeah such a mystery who knows. First off, if you don’t know, find out. Second, any trans person can tell you, ask one of us.

Listen, I have been on birth control, off birth control, and on Testosterone and I assure you the closest I’ve come to attracted to alpha cavemen is post-transition, which is a change from my nerdy twink tastes in the before times

I was in a basement all day w no cell service or WiFi, my new iphone took it upon itself to connect w the satellite. I turned it off. It instantly reconnected. Many times I want to disable this capability, I have T-Mobile and that means Starlink, although I doubt any other would be BETTER exactly

Mrs. Pepys was a goddamn saint, that's all I have to say

I will build a human sized hobbit hole to live in. Not a nasty dirty wet hole, filled with the ends of worms… nor yet a dry bare sandy hole with nothing to sit down upon or eat: it will be a hobbit hole, and that means comfort

you know the kid lit publishing controversy that actually exists and I'd like you all to get on? The lack of marketing & publicity support for books by marginalized authors that don't sell and then are used as proof to not acquire more books from those authors.

i hang out with a lot of 4th graders and their favorite books are about greek mythology, historical tragedies, or violent politics as enacted by dragons and/or cats. the children do not long for verisimilitude! they long for extremity, danger, humor, and heroism!!

I keep seeing people interpret the six genders thing as “they must mean just a flatly ridiculous number” and it’s an antisemitic conspiracy theory, Jewish tradition has six (ish?) genders… reformjudaism.org/beliefs-prac...

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

While Rain is *BIG MAD* Again, this devaluing & bleeding of libraries and librarians started in school librarianship just about 10-12 years ago. There has been time to advocate & stop it...but... Well, you know--it is happening to them not me-- You get my drift.

Write to: your county commissioners or equivalent, the library board, and the library director*. Say things you like, and be specific (we always love STEAM Saturday, the kids learn so much! I didn’t realize nudibranchs were so interesting) AND THEN say things like (if applicable) 🧵

ALA employees voted to approve the formation of ALA Workers United (ALAWU), a new union representing staff at the association. The National Labor Relations Board will now certify the union, allowing workers to begin collective bargaining. Read more: https://bit.ly/4e6hCXc

I hate this so much but also it is a tiny bit poetic justice

Tolkien: well well well Tolkien: now look who's laughing! Tolkien: hmm hey clive CS Lewis: what Tolkien: remind me, has the archbishop of whatever ever quoted aslan? Lewis: Tolkien: i'm sorry i can't hear you Tolkien: what was that again? Lewis: no Tolkien: ha ha that's what i thought!

"People only ignore trans men, there's no vicious hatred against them like there is with --" Literally the only thing that could get Dems off their ass is accusing a cis man of having a vagina.

#37529 in Shit I Never Thought I Would Have To Ask but after the whole East Wing thing… that’s temporary, right?

Humiliations In No Particular Order

Mina: that is a very big box Me: yes, it is. It has your new jungle gym in it Mina: GIMME. IS MINE Me: Hey! Get down! You can climb it when I put it together, you’re going to get hurt! Mina: but I thought you said it was for meeeeee 😿 And in the background, “In the Arms of an Angel” begins to croon

I’m reading (slowly) through a biography of every president. And I feel like there are older ones, dense, dry, and occasionally objectionable (one author said of Jackson that he had shut down an illegal slave smuggling operation which he shouldn’t have done because…

Lovely. With alt text

1. If they’re old enough to ask the question, they’re old enough for some version of the answer 2. If you control for obedience you are only teaching them how to submit to authority, not to regulate their own behavior

Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch

I specifically bought a purple shirt and tie so I could wear the lilac to work today and completely missed that there’s no work today

It is the glorious 25th of May. How do they rise up?

On the Glorious 25th, we remember the fallen of Treacle Mine Road: John Keel, Billy Wiglet, Horace Nancyball, Dai Dickens, Cecil "Snouty" Clapman, Ned Coates, and Reg Shoe. For those wearing the lilac, remember their cause: Truth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonably-priced Love! And a Hard-boiled Egg!

Call me, Ishmael --- Queequeg (9:52pm)

According to my 9th grade English teacher, every book ever written is about sex, death, or both

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some day I’m gonna write some fucking rural horror-fantasy set in the appalachias because boy do some folks have the wrong idea about those mountains. there’s angry mountains that hate people and there’s mountains that just don’t fucking care, but the appalachians are practically sweet on people.

Here is a poster full of different kinds of sandwiches.