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Hi. I'm a librarian. More importantly, I have five cats.
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Yet more mask off from the "pro-life" folks

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

I just C'mon The tool that gives you like 50-100 words when you're stuck is inside your skull!!!! Or maybe weed! Or a nice walk! Or literally anything else!

submitted 2 days ago • 129 comments

The idea that the Culture War can be resolved is on its face absurd; the Culture War is entirely made up to be exploited by the GOP, it is not real, organic, natural, or popular. The only response is to reject its premises and cut off its tendrils

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

We also have no good way to separate Legitimately Researched and Corroborated Information from weirdos sharing random anecdotes all over the internet AND news media. Rumors, speculation, and conspiracies are treated with the same gravitas as peer-reviewed scientific discoveries.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The best shrimpy boi, Hamlet. 🦐

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

the modern information environment

submitted 1 day ago • 120 comments

the people here probably already know this but really spread this far and wide: tell your normal offline friends and family to stop using ChatGPT for legal advice. it's happening constantly now. I'm always explaining to people why the advice this silly thing gave them is not real legal advice.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

Planning a module of Intro to Media Studies on the Internet Archive with my librarian buddy is giving us both LIFE

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

A tiny but wild snapshot of the current chaos

submitted 1 day ago • 64 comments

also cannot ignore the impact of late stage capitalism & related rampant public health/environmental abuses overwork destroys executive function not to mention sleep issues & screens, with netflix saying it’s “biggest competitor” is SLEEP rest is resistance but also resistance is resistance

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Lumi beans! ❤️

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Society was a mistake.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This sociopath destroyed countless lives and made life worse for millions of Americans, sneering at them as he indulged his narcissistic impulsivity. But now he has feelings. What are they and will he feel better soon? We asked in a six-part series. Today in the New York Times

submitted 1 day ago • 124 comments

"Separating the art from the artist" is for people like Picasso, who was a total bastard a very long time ago but also an artistic genius whose work is actually important to human culture It is not for a mid tier kids' author that is actively trying to eliminate a whole group of people right now

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

I feel like most of my followers know this but because I see a lot of cis folks who have a specific blind spot for it: This includes the theme park. I don't care if you want Butterbeer or want to get a wand or are already there so why not just walk in. It's all Her. Everything with the name is Her.

submitted 2 days ago • 84 comments

Industry Today: "We won't need Junior Position In This Role Anymore, AI will do it All" Industry in about 2 Years: "We can't find skilled Senior Position In this Role, UNIVERSITIES HAVE FAILED US"

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

"do we really wanna go down the path of implying being a trump supporter makes you a bad person?" oh my fucking god dude they're sending innocent people to foreign concentration camps based on the color of their skin are you fucking kidding me right now yes! it makes you a bad fucking person!

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

If you still endorse, engage with, or talk positively about the Harry Potter franchise, I have no respect for you and I want nothing to do with you. I will engage with almost any other fandom (not Ender's Game) and I feel you have a right to like whatever you like BUT NOT HARRY FUCKING POTTER.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Another pulp-inspired art for Murderbot! @marthawells.com

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

I know many people my age still have a lot of nostalgia around Harry Potter and might be tempted to watch the new HBO TV series. Please, I'm begging you, do not tune in. J.K. Rowling is singularly motivated. The new Harry Potter series is a cash cow intended to fund anti-trans bigotry.

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

Chessie looking very regal. ❤️ She's right at the age where sometimes she still looks like a kitten, but sometimes she looks like the cat she's going to be.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

I would totally get up and do things, but Bogart has other plans.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

“We are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you any different.” — Kurt Vonnegut

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Great , now we need to watch out for this fucker stealing the black materia and heading north to a huge crater to summon the meteor. (I laugh to keep from crying that this man can apparently be untreated for a very obvious mental illness and still work in the AG’s office in Texas)

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Look at this little man waiting for breakfast.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

It's all about the diligence!

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Terry Pratchett actually predicted Sam Altman and I do not think knowing he was right would have given him much pleasure

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

If you have any relationship to TX-- you're from there, you have family there, you know people there-- now's the time to get on the ringer and rally against this truly disastrous bill. It's a death wish for school libraries statewide.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments