Erratic Reader

One thing you can do to support the preservation of history even if you can't visit the Smithsonian or National Historic Site is to learn your local history. They can't hide, erase, or "reconstruct" everything. www.npr.org/2025/03/27/n...

Nuance is a thing.

do you think even if they wanted to (they don't), that democrats could pull off forcibly transitioning kids?? best they could do is a blue ribbon committee to explore the idea

Imagine doing something as bad as book banning, and also doing it so badly. I don't know if this is the same custom AI that recommended banning imaginary books I made up, or if they just asked ChatGPT. Hopefully we get a list of those 1800+ books soon, keep an eye on @flfreedomread.bsky.social.

I was brave when they put a needle in my hand today. Trigger finger. Pew pew.

Five spotty babies and their mom! 🐆 nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams/chee...

Today was my last day as Sunday Librarian for a while. We close for renovation at the end of the week. I brought bagels, because bread things make most people feel better.

No corporation is gonna silence our message! ❌👑 Keep helping us amplify #NoKings today so we can drive HISTORIC early vote turnout, and overcome Trump’s election sabotage.

I'm in!

Trick-or-treating Tufted titmouse!🎃🍂

In her 1992 book Dreamships, Melissa Scott writes about an AI construct on a spaceship possibly becoming sentient. The oppressed workers on the planet Persephone are outraged that a machine would be given rights that they don't have. There are riots. Been thinking about that today for some reason.

Stopping, dropping, and posting instead of covering for the Great Southeast Shakeout.

The notes from my visit with the doctor yesterday say I gave verbal consent for note-taking. I did not. I was not asked. My assumption is that they mean AI transcription since I don't recall any permissions ever being requested for a health care provider taking, y'know...notes.

Public #libraries: Is anyone getting calls about lending anatomical models, skeletons, or bones? We've had 3 or 4 from different numbers.

Dammit, Bluesky! You’ve connected me with yet another book to go into the TBR pile!

I’m surprised it’s not on demand Trump TV for $49.99 and you get a Trump commemorative souvenir coin.

"one of the biggest forms of censorship is not having a school library" ~ Melissa Jacobs at a NYCC panel (or so I hear) --- CORRECT

what was health insurance

I have become bizarrely sensitive to the sound of a crinkling candy wrapper or a bag of chips. I don't want to go to work every day and play stupid hide-and-seek games with adults in the library.

Moth 🔦 first picture in my October series!

Protect the freedom to read during Banned Books Week by learning about the issues and how to get involved on a local level.

Happy Spooky Season! May you triumph today.

Up past my bedtime, drinking some wine I got at the gas station and listening to the rain.

The high cost of diesel is going to really bite into state and local governments. If the school district is spending an additional $35,000 a week on fuel, the money has to be taken from other things.

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

Thank you to the person who recently reminded me that this exists. www.reddit.com/r/TerribleBo...

There should be an X-Man called Flonase.

It's good business to help your talented staff succeed. These English classes benefit the community in so many ways. wtop.com/virginia/202...

My mom won the "Outstanding Young Man" award from the Annapolis Jaycees in the 1970s. She has always insisted on women's rights. I find this hard to reconcile with her belief that my brother is the only one of her children who can un-jam her printer or power-wash her patio.

I got to watch a colleague have A Moment. A kid who came to the US just a year ago joined her Teen Advisory Board & has been outstanding. He came in today to tell her hee got a job. We don't always get that moment in the library. So good to find out someone aced a test or found housing, etc.

Incredibly important message from the heroes protesting NYU Langone's denial of health care to trans youth: "WAKE UP, WAKE UP, THIS IS YOUR FIGHT TOO "WHEN THEY'RE DONE WITH US, THEY'RE COMING FOR YOU"

I know we need the rain, but the dark and the gray is bringing me down.

Day 6 without a washing machine. The part just arrived so hopefully the spouse can fix it while I'm at work. Having flashbacks of walking in 3 feet of snow pushing my laundry in my grandma cart to the laundromat when I moved into my 1st off-campus apartment. And the 2nd. And the 3rd...

“There's nothing stopping libraries from not accepting [the Big Five’s] terms right now." The Big 5 have shown their cards. I think it's time to call their bluff. www.wordsandmoney.com/in-the-libra...

“Stoop kid’s afraid to leave his stoop!” See you at the Baltimore Book Festival 📚 Reading books from the stoop 🩵

Please, everyone, please come and stand against Trump and save our Kennedy Center 🥺😢💔🙏