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It’s a good day for looking very closely at mosses

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

I get the sentiment behind these kinds of posts, but I really wish folks would stop doing this. Librarians are not superheroes. We are not the last stand for democracy. Please stop putting us on a pedestal.

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

sometimes I do believe in gods, like right now looking at what's clearly the handiwork of whatever gods handle glass and perfect aim

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

guys we fixed the humanities phd jobs crisis

submitted 47 days ago • 10 comments

Drawing of a snail to start 2025. #snail #biodiversity #drawing #nature

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments

in doing research for a chapter called "Library science is the OG data science," I'm always stricken by just how much library lit out there that is always somehow omitted in contemporary data science discourse, and how much there is to learn from radical + progressive librarianship practice

submitted 73 days ago • 18 comments

night. mare.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

I saw this just before Shabbat came in, and I've been thinking about it all day, because I think that while the event itself is lurid and enraging, this is the part we should pay close attention to. Oklahoma teachers are showing us that noncompliance works.

submitted 107 days ago • 111 comments

For possibly the quadrillionth time in my life, I am begging people to stop using "girls" as an insult. Trump & Musk are grown ass men who have behaved like this their whole lives. They are the embarrassment, the cautionary tale. Not middle-school girls. Can we please let middle-school girls live.

submitted 107 days ago • 14 comments

I have so many dreams and so much executive dysfunction.

submitted 110 days ago • 2 comments

You might be trying to write an entire novel this month! But don't get too swept up in the cult of the Garbage First Draft. And don't obsess too much about your daily word count. Neither of these things works for everybody or guarantees productivity. Write your way! buttondown.com/charliejane/...

submitted 119 days ago • 9 comments

Some snail drawing

submitted 133 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine being a librarian and thinking "I'm totally fine with destroying the environment just so I can have a computer give bad book recommendations instead of doing the job I paid tens of thousands of dollars and spent several years in grad school to learn how to do."

submitted 139 days ago • 3 comments

my favorite slugs

submitted 147 days ago • 0 comments

Still thinking about this one a day later.

submitted 152 days ago • 0 comments

Obviously this is an unusual situation, but libraries functioning as one of the few places you can go where the community is welcome and everyone is trying to help them? That is not unusual.

submitted 156 days ago • 6 comments

Yes. My baby came so early we had nothing for her yet. No one was excited to meet her. The homemade gifts welcoming her meant a lot. Cosy additions to the isolette also give parents something to do—something to choose and talk about—and a way to care for a child that's not centered on what's wrong.

submitted 169 days ago • 1 comment

Love that the new edition of the Chicago Manual of Style has a meme entry

submitted 200 days ago • 17 comments

Ah, the Olympics, a testament to human ability through effort and perseverance, where every third ad is about how a plagiarism engine can shortcut around the difficult task of writing.

submitted 219 days ago • 21 comments

she is two.

submitted 237 days ago • 18 comments

WE COULD HAVE HAD ELIZABETH WARREN

submitted 249 days ago • 77 comments

:dons librarian hat: Digital preservation is more expensive than preserving paper; it takes more staff, active attention, and consistent computing resources. Libraries have discussed “digital dark age” since the 1990s. Corp archives often 1st to go b/c suits haven’t figured out how to profit.

submitted 249 days ago • 24 comments

Look I cannot recommend a better way to improve your life than going to the local animal shelter and asking, “what is the nicest cat you have” and then adopting them, especially if they are plain and old

submitted 252 days ago • 60 comments

Consider all the tropes of the 20th century high powered white executive man who barely knew his own children’s names, how to tie his shoes, or how to make toast without starting a house fire.

submitted 315 days ago • 16 comments

does anybody know if everything will be ok in the end

submitted 373 days ago • 14 comments

"can you explain the gap in your resume?" lol, no

submitted 377 days ago • 2 comments

"Everything is hard, so pick your hard" is another phrase that unlocked something in my brain. It highlights agency and choice present and future circumstances. I don't like cleaning, but living in a messy place is also hard, so I try to remind myself why cleaning helps me avoid the latter.

submitted 400 days ago • 7 comments