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Don't be gaslit: They are Nazis. This is a Nazi salute. They are not hiding it, or dog whistling, they are announcing it. They have come out as Nazis. Show the people in your life these images all together. Make them understand this is not an accident, or a fluke. It is happening here.

CAT: More competent and coding-capable than every member of DOGE.

he is a certified datacenter operations professional

Styopka’s wisdom The cure for stupidity already exists. Read books. #StyopkasWisdom

Finish one paint by number? Start another.

Absolutely do not get it twisted: Libraries are next. If you give a single shit about libraries, you need to start fighting NOW. Don't give me "I love libraries" lip service if you are not calling your reps and raising hell *right now.*

Those are Nazi salutes. They're Nazis.

Buy. Paper. Books. (and download ownable ebooks onto your own devices) New from me at @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-261/

🚨🚨If you use kindle, Download your books before Amazon removes the ability next week. That is your money you spent and those are your books. 🚨🚨

The DOGE Muskrats are having a house party in DC on Saturday. Everyone is invited. 1375 Maryland Ave NE, 8 pm - late. #forkoff 🥄🥄🥄

Good news: Yankees can grow beards. Bad news: No beard will ever be long or glorious enough to cover the shame of being a fucking Yankee.

Btw, finished this one last night!

No, the mail is not “the least of our worries.” It’s a fucking important worry. It is the only postal service that delivers to every address. They are only provider of complete mail services for overseas military bases and provide free overseas PO boxes. They help prepare passport apps. Ship meds…

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a tongue and little AI knowledge will interrupt me (a woman who is an expert on AI) to mansplain AI to me and tell me why my critiques are outdated, irrelevant, or invalid.

i find it comforting on a deep emotional level that Bruce Campbell sized up our present political moment and decided to become an anti-AI activist

The Huntington Beach City Central Library has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

Paraphrasing a colleague jokingly told me, "maybe you can be less loud for a few years about issues to be safe". Let me tell you something, I lived that life in my childhood when people step by step lost their rights to be safe. Once day we opened our eyes and we were living a dictatorship.

Mood: 📚

The conglomeration of commercial digital services are looking to replace the role of libraries as collections of knowledge, indexes, & discovery layers. They're trying to put librarians out of jobs and strip libraries down to being the tunnel by whuch they extract cash from institutions. Pass it on.

The Huntington Beach City Central Library has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

One danger of embracing generative AI as a learning device and in language assistance is that you're letting the keepers of that AI have power over what you learn and how you write. It will be programmed with biases, unintentional but often *quite* intentional, that you will unknowingly adopt.

Gathering a few resources for LIS job seekers around disability and accommodations in the job search process - would love to hear any of your suggestions (looking for resources specifically aimed at job seekers, rather than employers). 📚 #libraries #librarians #LIS