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Ramadan Mubarak to all who celebrate, wishing you strength and patience as you observe this holy month.

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today a student told me she read this article I wrote for the Chronicle about mental illness & academia—& that it gave her the courage to face her depression, so I’m sharing a non-paywalled version in the hopes it might help others it hasn't reached yet: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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What I would give to be able to dig my hands into my chest and let my caring heart go free, terrorize someone else for a change. There is only so much a person can take before hitting self-destruction.

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Aaron Bushnell died by self-immolation in protest of the Gaza genocide a year ago today. His memory should stir a fire in our souls, and force us to evaluate our commitment to a better world. mondoweiss.net/2025/02/reme...

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Come here. I want to tell you something. Maybe you need to hear it: I'm really really proud of you. It's not easy, none of this is. It's unfair and it's brutal and every day there's a new set of fresh horrors. They persist but so do you and I am so very proud of you for it.

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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

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Once I have energy it's over for y'all...let me just nap some more first.

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Hey: If you made it through the week, and you tried to do some things to help other people — large or small — where you could, and you need to hear it, I’m here to tell you thank you. Get some rest. Figure out today, then figure out tomorrow.

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I love how people think librarians are all sweet and kind when, in reality, they can be some of the pettiest people alive. Signed, a petty af librarian.

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I figure if some of my previous actions, words, or writing don't make me cringe then I'm not growing as a person.

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Today is the last day to submit comments about proposed LCSH changes, including changing to Mt. McKinley and Gulf of America. h/t @katscade.bsky.social classweb.org/tentative-su...

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It was about this time 2 years ago I applied for job in Montana (ok 2 actually) - since then I got the job, moved to Montana, found community, fell in love, started healing from religious trauma, have become happier. Which is wild cause I swore I'd never leave the MidWest, but thank g-d I did...

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#academicvalentines

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The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

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Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it. Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on. Making this my pinned post.

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I am so lucky to be marrying the most wonderful woman.

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Kendrick Lamar proves that being a hater wins

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Have I mentioned I've got some solid friends? Also yes I know it's after 2:30 in the morning - insomnia is a total bitch.

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Channeling this energy

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I got to apply for graduation today so hurray for still being on track for an August finish date - I can continue my collection of kind of useless degrees 🥳

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Shout out to the polite lady answering the phone at Alex Padilla's office who heard me say "WHO DID A NAZI SALUTE ON TELEVISION, BY THE WAY" three different times

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I was brave last week and asked a friend if I could write about him for a journal for one of my classes (I don't write about people I know in a serious matter) and I realized it might be part of a bigger piece - this is probs how I get into nonfiction...

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The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American flying unit in the U.S. military. Altogether, 992 pilots graduated from the Tuskegee Air Field courses, and they flew 1,578 missions and 15,533 sorties, destroyed 261 enemy aircraft, and won more than 850 medals.

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"Look mom, I'm the Wicked Witch of the East!" -Moose, my cat.

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We all know what it was. Blaming that salute on Elon’s autism does autistic people no favors.

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Musk: Does a Nazi salute, twice Neo-Nazis: Those were Nazi salutes! Holocaust Scholars: Those were definitely Nazi salutes! Literally Everyone Who Saw It: WTF those were Nazi salutes! ADL: What awkward gestures.¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Anyways the real antisemitism is believing Palestinians should have a State

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reminder, there’s only one acceptable way to interact with a nazi

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Here to make a difference #skybrarian

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Do me a kindness! Share this if you love and support your local library & librarians (and remember: that includes your school library & school librarian) 😊📚 Thank you libraries & library workers… for everything ✨💚

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January is good at making sure the really cold weekend is the weekend that the Student Rabbi comes to Montana, last year it was -40ish, this year it's still cold but the roads are skating rinks - tldr; I'm not going to services, gd will understand.

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Yall, for some reason, my library's best post on Instagram is of my coworkers running to Defying Gravity. It has over 4500 views...make it make sense. #skybrarian

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We now know UnitedHealth—under Brian Thompson—illegally overcharged cancer patients for meds by more than 1000%. What we don't know is how many cancer patients died or were financially ruined as a result? What we demand to know is why that act isn't deemed corporate murder & where are the arrests?

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This is so much harder than it was when I first started social media...maybe I should bring back Emo Emily that nut knew how to vague post with the best of them

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Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚 Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏

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#academiclibraryproblems we have a talking cardboard cutout of Gollum on the main floor to help promote a trivia event and it is terrifying - please send help I want it gone

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New semester starts in one week and I am updating my shell for the class I'm teaching - in case anyone didn't know, I hate D2L.

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I'm here to cause problems as per my normal MO.

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