Drop an old person you’re going to turn into. (if I am lucky)
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Drop an old person you’re going to turn into. (if I am lucky)
Thank you.
Truth!
Well I think you can talk about how audiobooks are a different kind of reading, they may light up different parts of the brain but if you've listened to a book you know the same things as if you read it with your eyes (besides accessibility issues). Graphic novels, similar. Fewer words, same stories
I lived in a rural area--this was both safer and more dangerous than it sounds. I'd shut off all the lights, lock the door behind me, walk home down the runway (airport was already closed) and across a big field to my house. Biggest danger (after possible creeps, never met ine) was snapping turtles.
I think there is a room for these positions to move towards each other. Not the "dumb" statement about graphic novels which is just hurtful but the other two I think there's some semantic nuance too. I AGREE WITH YOU, but my advice is always do you want to be right or do you want to work it out?
My first job (not babysitting )was at the coffee shop in the local tiny airport. I walked to work, and on weekdays after school I would be running the entire place by myself - grill cook, waitress, cleaner. I was maybe 15? $2.10/hour, plus tips. Home after a 3 hour shift with less than $7 some days.
In the rural pl world: we're usually getting more "tough to Google" questions since most people can use Google. Otoh, we're getting asked to find books that ChatGPT says are real. I mostly don't do reference but my tech help is more "how do things fit together?" rather than "how do they work?"
It's funny that you mention that because there *was* actually a bit of a conspiracy but it's no longer secret. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General...
And it sounded like it was in or near Manchester which is busy and has terrible visibility at the best of times much less before 10 PM on a holiday weekend www.nhsp.dos.nh.gov/news-and-med...
I can actually walk to the Amtrak in my town but I can't take it anywhere useful and get back in the same day. It takes over eight hours to get to New York City from here by train a trip that takes a little over four hours by car. I miss commuting by train from when I was in Europe.
Reading between the lines I'm assuming there was a situation on the other side of the highway that caused G's car to stop because he thought he could help? But that maybe he stopped in the high speed lane pretty unexpectedly.
Things We Said Today.
I love that place! And what a slightly odd story. I am glad we have reporters willing to write about these things. It's also odd to see them written about in such "not from here" ways.
This story makes even less sense in the "news" version of it. www.cbsnews.com/news/rudy-gi...
I've tracked down nine in total. www.flickr.com/photos/iamth...
Now ChatGPT just eats it. AI can do *everything* now....
As a longtime moderator in an old popular community I more or less agree. I think they can sometimes make a call that's not popular (rarely: one that needs to be undone b/c of context maybe *they* didn't have) but their job is to be decisive and, if possible, consistent to keep the community going.
Pretty Persuasion, Orange Crush, End of the World &c.
1. YES 2. Please use alt text in your images. Alt: a young white man with a light brown hair and a mustache standing in front of a set of library shelves with his arms crossed, looking affable.
Want to read more library news from this sort of perspective (publishing too, but library-centered)? Andrew and Erin have you covered. www.wordsandmoney.com
Very happy to read about these young, principled, and interesting librarians working in various places in Philadelphia 📚 www.phillymag.com/news/2025/08...
Milwaukee Public Library has such a good social media presence. I love this!
Mazel tov!
Absolutely WILD to get to see footage of that show now on YouTube.
We were bummed to miss out on Drop in the Park, Pearl Jam's free show in Seattle in 1992. Were walking around the same park the day before and PJ's "street team" drove by us, offered us tickets. Got to see them, Cypress Hill, Seaweed and Robert Anton Wilson (??). www.youtube.com/watch?v=AumG...
As a Masshole currently relocated to Vermont who missed this at the time... could we have just uploaded a picture of ourselves? Here for all the chickadee and whale flags, mostly.
Here's the rest of that story... jessamyn.medium.com/here-is-a-st...
The Internet Archive is amazing for researching historical librarians because they have a pretty good back run of Library Journal and Wilson library bulletin.
We have them in Massachusetts. My dad was midwestern and he really liked going there for the simple, predictable food and ambience. Other than the biscuits being too salty I always thought it was fine. I also love grits.
I know this might be a weird question but... do you have a favorite? My mom made a website a long time ago (before she passed) and she has some of her faves on it. eduwrite.com/histpc.html
Alt text more or less available at this link. dmv.vermont.gov/news/beware-...
My mother was a postcard collector and she was very into the "real photo" ones from way back when. It's so interesting how some people are into the postmarks, some people are into the messages etc. Here's a collection of scanned ones from my local historical society. www.flickr.com/photos/rando...
I reached out to him at the address I had for him and pointed to your Bsky and book. I'll let you know if I hear back.
I found a postcard in a thrift store with a cryptic message/address and decided to try to find out more. Please enjoy my research quest to find out more about "Miss Crabb, Librarian" 📚 (and stick around for the LLM's answers if you're up for a good eyeroll) www.librarian.net/stax/5702/mi...
Jack! You should really meet Bill Vrantsidis if he is still at TPL. He (used to?) run the library's Reddit account and was a great guy/host when I gave a talk in Toronto. I am so happy for you.
Thank you, but no.
Every time I left a temp job I didn't like, I'd change the theme to this.
You can call him a mensch.
Everyone's making risk assessments. Bluesky is small, decided they didn't want to chance it. X DGAF and is going to see what happens.
It was one of the less fun responsibilities that came along with being the class president of the library school. 😆 I noticed you're Siberian, my partner's best friend since childhood is from Novosibirsk. Come for the etiquette, stay for the Siberia facts.
Thank you for writing this. I saw it linked on Mastodon, came here to say thank you. I have a first name that could be described as "a tiny bit tricky" & always appreciate when people make the effort. I've been the person who reads names at graduation and I know it's possible to ask, or to apologize
Quite possibly the only thing me and Sydney Sweeney have in common.
I sometimes talk publicly about libraries' responses during various stages of the pandemic and the phrase I use the most is "during early COVID..."
I feel like you could determine the temperature outside within about 3° by looking at my night's arrangement of pajamas, sheets, and comforters.
We went from a day in the high 90s to a night in the high 40s in a weekend. I'm absolutely a fan of the cold I'm just not 100% sure I know where my heavier socks are.
I'm not quite used to Autumn showing up fully formed in 36 hours.
That's so true, I edited an index.html page earlier today.
(I also love that big concrete building, it's so wild to drive under it!)
If people know one thing about Fall River it's Lizzie Borden. If they know *two* things, it's her and chow mein sandwiches.
My father was definitely the technologist but my mother was the one that gave me the love for civics and helping people.
Yes, but I'm from Massachusetts and he's local.
Did you somehow not know this about me? Haha, it's the gift that keeps on giving. I am convinced that a few scenes from "Halt and Catch Fire" are from my actual childhood. Also you should know that my uncle (other side the family) is Peter Coyote.
Yeah, Tom West, Soul of a New Machine "protagonist"
Thanks, that seems readable. Fyi, this was him. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sou...
My father was a computer engineer in the 70s and when dial-up Internet became popular it used to drive him crazy that he didn't exactly understand what was happening with the electrons anymore.
👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻
This webpage is a good consolidation of the arguments people have made. leavesubstack.com
They were having that debate over on MeFi a few weeks back. Like, there is a rule against linking to Stormfr*nt and a guideline about not linking to trans coverage on the Guardian, but Substack still has people writing there who others want to read. Messy. metatalk.metafilter.com/26715/Ban-Su...
I just remembered why they might've thought it was me. This was my project from last year and I swear most days I forget it's even down in the basement. mltshp.com/p/1QE7Z
Quality googlin'!
I have been known to take zolpidem.
I asked the water department guys if it was them and they said no but maybe they'd have to send a guy to unstick those eyes (but then they said lol) and now I'm worried that I'm a cop.
Someone has "re-googled" the fire hydrants in my neighborhood (it was done once a long time ago, before my time with only one still googled) recently and no one will fess up to it. I have been asking lots of people and they mostly say "I thought YOU did it!" #vermont
My fave trivia fact about that image is that it's based on a guy who stood up and spoke against funding the local school (with some good reasons, but still...) so it's both about speaking truth to power but could go either way depending on what you focus on in the story.
I also had a PC Jr. as my first computer. I remember having an extra module that screwed on the side with actual metal screws that gave it slightly more memory.
The airport has a meditation room, treat yourself! Seriously, I used to travel in/out of this airport a lot for work and sometimes the plane would get in so late they'd have to *lift the gates* back up after they'd closed for the night. Easy to drive in and out of. It's a marvel.
Heads up library workers, Overdrive is shoving AI into Libby. It will be making book recommendations and they are rolling it out over the next few weeks. Smoke is pouring out of my ears. 📚
Such an incredible classic.I saw John Sayles in a recent episode of Poker Face and I screamed!
We are here! We are free! We have a lot of stuff including good AC! (...in summer, and it's warm in the wintertimes and there are clean bathrooms and places to sit. We are for EVERYONE. Come say hello.)
Polaris. But don't update it *too* much.
That was me just a few weeks ago.
We deal with this in the public library world all the time. Everyone thinks they can reinvent the public library better, until they actually try to do it.
I both feel like it's a manufactured scandal but also that people are nudging the idea of "good genes" into a place where, historically, you'd have to also add a lot of "but not like that" qualifications. Those qualifications are IMPORTANT and also missing where they should be present.
We did this in my town in Vermont, a very small branch of the White River and it's been a really good thing.
And he always shows up where you least expect it.
And there's so little social media coverage because the cell signal is so bad.
Buses full of Googlers on team building exercises for work.
No true Masshole would. But it is true that we're not quite at the point where you need to start "traffic calming" by adding random noise to Waze so that my sister's neighborhood doesn't become undriveable/cycleable (she's in a different apple town that rhymes with GO)
I'll allow it.
Oh thank you for this, I drove by there on my way home from Ferrisburg last night and was wondering what the HUGE crowd was there for.
Hey nice shout out for Burlington VT!
"Bricks for the Blind is a non-profit organization that brings the joy of building Lego sets to blind people." As someone who works in one of the many libraries with a hefty Lego collection, this is RTMI bricksfortheblind.org More about the man behind it www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha... #Lego
that's two of a/s/l !
Age verification? My parents were hippie enough to want to go to Woodstock but square enough that they would not bring a one-year-old.✌️☮️
I'm a little surprised they didn't try to blame Anna's Archive a little bit more.😂
I am very sorry Violet, that completely sucks.
Should have checked their website first! newtonfreelibrary.net/about/more-i...
I wish I had a photo of it but Newton Public Library (MA, iirc) had display cases that were just for the display of people's collecting hobbies. Could be kids or adults, so ti would have so-and-so's rock collection or so-and-so's lego collection, everything with labels like a "proper" exhibit
Every now and again you'll see one coming up for sale and it's all I can do to not think seriously about uprooting everything just so I could live in one.
For people who want to know more about segregated Carnegie libraries "The Roots of Community: Segregated Carnegie Libraries as Spaces for Learning and Community-Making in Pre-Civil Rights America, 1900-65" one of the many things IMLS funding has helped bring to life. aquila.usm.edu/rocoverview/
Carnegie Corp now has an interactive map of all their libraries. carnegie-libraries.carnegie.org In Meridian MS Carnegie funded two separate and unequal libraries. carnegie-libraries.carnegie.org/map/?lib=cul... The primary source materials are a journey dlc.library.columbia.edu/carnegie/cul...
Awww, we lost her eight years ago this week. 💗
omg!
Cosigned. Sincerely, Someone whose zip code starts with a zero and it's a crap shoot whether it's going to show up the right way in shared spreadsheets
My #FantasticFour This one might need a little context for some people. americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2021/09/01/d...
I checked all the sources and I don't see it. My best guess is that there may have been a bad source used for this and the source got removed and maybe the fact remained? Or perhaps it's inside one of the early animations he was in.
As someone who works at the public library, I absolutely feel you on that, and appreciate this post.
The podcast now has video episodes, so there's that?
