This local library puts forgotten water bottles into a museum display case

We need more people to give a fuck. We need more people to care about the wellbeing of other people. You have to give a fuck all the time. You have to care about other people all the time. We do not have the luxury of selective solidarity. We have to fight this evil shit at all times on all fronts.

fwiw, i don’t personally think that either doomerism OR toxic positivity is what this moment calls for; i think what we actually need to be collectively looking towards is a secret third thing (hopepunk) it’s cool and important to give a shit, and to look for ways to help each other.

***LAST CALL*** Library workers–have you already experienced pushback, censorship, or attacks on your plans for Pride 2025? I'm again collecting those stories for an article in mid-July. Details in the form, w/ previous stories. tinyurl.com/pride-in-libraries-25

Stopped in my tracks by this sign pointing out the IMLS absence from #ALAAC25

@librarypunk.bsky.social reminds us that you can always organize, even informally. So we’ll remind you of that, too.

We are doing our first ever live show! If you are in town for ALA or just lucky enough to live in Philly! Tickets are limited and very reasonably priced so grab them now! www.eventbrite.com/e/librarypun...

Guess who bought me another pretty rock

Also my director is somewhere here lol hope I don't run into him

I'm not *actually* attending ALA so if anyone has suggestions on how to burn a few hours in the area, I'd appreciate them! (While dragging around carryon until I can check in...)

Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

Hello Philly :)

EXTREMELY grateful and blown away by the support we've gotten. 89% funded already?!?! Y'all are amazing.

We're doing a fundraising drive for one more year of librarypunk. Hosting and recording costs money, and we'd really appreciate your support to keep the show going. Everything we make will continue to be free for all, but we wanted to offer ways for people to show their support.

Data is never ‘collected’, it is only *generated*. This isn’t merely a pedantic semantic gripe; by misrepresenting ‘data’ as something that exists in nature & has only to be scooped up, evasion of accountability for data harms has already begun Data doesn’t exist until someone constructs it

I got a new phone and forgot my bsky login and forgot to reset it for MONTHS. Hello friends I did not vanish btw

had suck a nice podcast interview with @librarypunk.bsky.social a real treat. thank you for having me buckaroos. you can listen here www.librarypunk.gay/e/122-dr-chu...

The amount of tomato, mozzarella, and garlic ice eaten in the past two days is an indulgence fundie Repubs would try to make illegal if they knew. Fuckin BRUSCHETTA

The attack on libraries will not end with any consensus standard for what counts as prurient or pornographic, because the attack isn’t about that. It’s about eliminating the library as a public space where a child can find the smallest measure of freedom from parental domination. 📚

Saw someone refer to "websites from the 1900s" and I took 1d4 psychic damage

When I first started playing FFXIV I was terrified of Alliance raids but now I fuckin love them. The sheer chaos of trying to get through Dun Scaith without dying (unaccomplished)

Getting Taco Baco and I'm sorry GRILLED CHEESE DIPPING TACO???

One time I spent five minutes at lunch drawing a reverse centaur and it became one of my most retweeted pieces of art. I resented that so I deleted it but now it can be free again because not enough people follow me on here for it to go big

Wife just obliterated me by calling me "a penguin ass who will fall in love with the first fat person to give you a rock"

Final Fantasy victory theme

Also bluesky app really doesn't do push notifications or am I missing something? I never remember to check the pod account for Justin's shitposts

Who are some cool public library ppl I should be following here? Luv ya Academic ppl, but I need to balance it out

How many times have y'all stepped on a nail *through your shoe* or is it weird that it's happened to me twice?

I've fallen into a reliability engineering rabbithole today and it just illuminates everything that I love and that frustrates me to no end about my job

Read how.complexsystems.fail this morning and trying to corral my thoughts into something coherent. Overlap with security thinking, harm reduction, usable security, and security by design. Tangibly related hard stance: there is no good way to implement MFA because MFA relies on inconvenience

Did y'all know that brown bats sleep 19 hours a day? Thinking about the vampire ramifications of that

Anyway do you ever know someone and think, god isn't it exhausting to hang onto so many bad opinions?? Aren't you tired??

breakfast should be served all day everywhere. not even just restaurants. omelets at the bank. pancakes at the dmv

Current FFXIV status: avoiding the death of my boyfriend by cooking A LOT of food

098 - It's bad news roundup, pardner 2 It’s a bad news roundup pardner! We’re talking public library leases, book ratings, and Montana being a shit to Emily Drabinski.

Do we know of any libraries with a Vendor Security policy? Writing policies is not my purview but I'd love to see a decent example

Give me the pros and cons of buying an air fryer pls

they should make an ordeal of being known that isnt mortifying

Under the present brutal conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. We have never seen someone not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. Robert Anton Wilson

Finally gone through friends' following lists to find Twitter ppl again. Hello I never used Twitter so you prob don't remember meeeeee

i don't want to go viral. i want to go fungal. i want the spores of my thoughts to take root and create a parasympathetic relationship deep inside your gray matter.

*expires*

I know Dutch Bros prob isn't worth the ten-car wait but it's above 80° and I know what I am (in the PNW)