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Last night I heard someone say “think smarter, not harder”. I’ve been thinking hard about that.

bunch of employees who work at the government facility where they keep ET wet freaking out because they need five things for the email but all they did last week was spray water on ET

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Hey hey if you use patreon through the apple app...uh stop doing that. Go through the browser instead. They're about to hork a huge percentage of your money from your creative pals otherwise.

Libraries are not anti-commerce. They are public institutions that balance access with sustainability. IFLA’s position on copyright acknowledges both intellectual property and the necessity of broad knowledge dissemination. A strong literary market includes strong libraries

Desperate to see the alternative version now.

TV On The Radio play "Wolf Like Me" on Letterman (2006)

If dachshunds were wide

Do you always vote but want to know how to make your voice louder? Here are 5 ways to make some (more) noise

If you see something (horses), say something ("horses")

Budgets reflect priorities. CPS needs to prioritize school librarians to ensure students understand media literacy and can access information in this age of increasing propaganda & data manipulation.

Dear lots of you: if you put a bunch of emojis in your name, screen readers will read the descriptions of all of them, every time. One or two isn't bad, but a lot is, well, a lot.

If you can’t handle me at my “Good day, Sir!”, you don’t deserve me at my “I said 𝙜𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙙𝙖𝙮!”

Is there a march somewhere to protest how the I-Phone updated have screwed up our photos?

I really needed this poem today and maybe you do too? "Good Bones," by the wonderful Maggie Smith. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...

After backlash, Ohio GOP split over cutting public school funding. Half a dozen GOP legislators vow to protect K-12 education by Morgan Trau www.news5cleveland.com/news/politic...

the LA fires inspire a lot of thoughts, one being how absolutely baby-brained some people are to think that journalists with personal blogs can replace the resources, teamwork, and coordination of actual newspapers

Excel just told me “spill range is too big”. Girl, I know.

10 years after #CharlieHebdo

'How Bad For The Environment Can Throwing Away One Plastic Bottle Be?' 30 Million People Wonder theonion.com/how-bad-for-...

if you can’t handle me at my worst, yeah alright that’s fair I get pretty bad

Tonight, near midnight, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed bill into law to charge public for footage from law enforcement, including body cams This follows a massive bill passed in December at 2 am (via @morgantrau.bsky.social) www.news5cleveland.com/news/politic...

Quotes like this are exactly why I'm addicted to Vibe Check! Another one that comes to mind is Sam's "get there when you get there, love yourself the whole way"... It has stuck with me ever since.

every tech company in 2025

Telling myself this every year but WELP

youtube.com/live/6LYRxL5... Sgt. Peppercorn’s Marathon in s my favorite thing about Columbus. I hate I’m missing this year’s show.

I have always loved public libraries, but having young children has exponentially increased my gratitude and sense of indebtedness to them. Our local library is such a huge part of our lives. The books, the programming, the very intentionally curated kids’ section. It’s all such a gift.

Library purchases are purchases. They pay the press. The press counts them towards advances and royalties. And (gasp) the book is in a library!! It’s wonderful and no one should ever feel bad about getting a book through a library instead of buying it.

Linus piously Jesus-shames the Peanuts gang about the true meaning of Christmas but three months earlier he was attempting to indoctrinate Sally into his pagan gourd sex cult.

ICYMI: “A federal judge on Monday struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing ‘harmful’ materials to minors.” apnews.com/article/arka...

I haven’t shopped on Christmas Eve in many years—like maybe a decade ago—and my lord, I don’t know how some of y’all do it annually.

He died as he lived, clicking “Forgot password,” then checking his inbox for a code, then putting in that code, then setting up two-step verification, and then waiting for the text message that doesn’t come, and then calling the 800 number, and then downloading an authenticator app, and dying.

olive oyl: i'm going to the store, be back later popeye: ok just don't forget the s- olive oyl: i'm not gonna forget the fucking spinach. jesus christ

I realize that we are in kind of a funk hole of capitalist hellscape, but there are things that are just public goods. To send and receive letters and packages safely and reliably is a public good that is important to many. Preschool aged children having educational programming is also important.

One reason people insist that you use the proper channels to change things is because they have control of the proper channels and they’re confident it won’t work. - Jon Stone

Secretary Of Interior Asks Nation’s Help Identifying Leaf theonion.com/secretary-of...

Libraries matter now more than ever. They stand for the powerful idea that knowledge is free and belongs to everyone. In a time when books and free thought are under threat, we must defend and support our libraries and librarians—they are guardians of access, learning, and freedom.

A helpful gift shopping algorithm that I made for @theguardian.com a couple of years ago.

Once in a great, great while someone says something and disables replies and I think to myself “ok fair, because my reaction to this is honkers bonkers”’

In case you didn't know, librarians are educated professionals with a master's degree and don't just willy nilly buy any old books for their libraries.

Massive away win for the little fella.

"what cut shape is made / whole by opening? I mean besides the heart." @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social #poetry #poetrysky #poem