I feel like your kid and @heykellyjensen.bsky.socialās kid would get along swimmingly.
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I feel like your kid and @heykellyjensen.bsky.socialās kid would get along swimmingly.
As a librarian and academic, this is such a painful truth.
Good lord, y'all are weird.
Sweet Home Chicago.
I'm so sorry, Barb.
I will not "get comfortable" with these pathetic attempts to push a transphobe who is currently rallying a task force to destroy homeless encampments as "the only alternative" to fascism a full THREE YEARS before the primaries. You've got plenty of time to find a better candidate, so get started.
Scenes from the nightmare hellscape that is Chicago!
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Double vaccinated today. Learned I was the first person at the CVS to get the new COVID booster. Thanks, Illinois, and eff you, RFK.
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This positively effervescent mood brought to you by a much needed end-of-week dinner with the spouse at one of our fave local spots. We think we should be regulars.
Did I just play Nasty and attempt the dance moves from way too long ago? Maybe. Also, those lyrics are imbedded in my brain.
Just scheduled COVID and flu for Sunday!
Omg turning on the heated blanket 30 minutes before climbing into bed... bliss. And yes, the room must be icy and the timer is a must.
There is nothing in this world I love more than sleep. I daydream about my bed.
New career plan: live the life I've always wanted as a cryptid.
Oh, good -- so a little help. But yeah.
oh, this is a REAL thing. and household labor isn't just cleaning and cooking. you're the only one if you need a repair or delivery.
ooh, I hadn't seen this one but it's definitely helpful. Thanks!
Does anyone else remember an article about the problems with using AI to summarize documents? That they only summarize the first part of the doc and then bungle the rest. Or did I make that up?
lol yes
I appreciate all of the feedback. I was posting this morning in a particularly bad fit of ennui but I did spend some time thinking. To be continued...
I'd have to go full time for that, and done see that happening soon :(
I kind of love this...
we always tell our kid she should never pay for a ph.d.
I mean, how else is one supposed to live a full life?
Teaching!
Ha ha the answer is neither because I'm almost 50 and have to pay for the kid's college.
Ok but do I get a PhD in English (for horror related studies) or LIS?
Anyway Florida's interlibrary loan delivery service ends October 1. That's in a month. Call your representatives in Congress if you don't want this to happen.
Missed an opportunity and found out a revered and loved former colleague passed away. I should have stopped for ice cream on the way home.
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holy shit, this is awesome (did I mention my kid spent two months in Italy working on two separate digs and is now an archaeology major [along with Classics and Psych]?)
yay depression
a huge point that decorum-obsessed Democrats are missing is that everyone I know is literally boiling with rage 24/7 watching their country fall to fascism and desperately want to hear a politician acknowledge that and say "I am also angry"
children in minneapolis shot while praying, children in DC passing armed military when they take the metro to school, this country is so sick
The bean knows what it did
All jokes aside, everyone knows this is entirely for show. People living in LA and in DC have seen this farce play out in areas that have low crime and high visibility.
Ah, yes. Notorious hot bed of crime, our tourist district. Theyāre gonna arrest the Bean.
With a new crop of students starting to consider what schools to attend, I urge prospective and parents to look at how schools are meeting the challenges higher ed is facing, whether itās from the administration or their own making.
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The summary of facts presented by the plaintiffs in Rhode Island v. Trump offers some REAL insight into what actually went down with DOGE showed up at IMLS.
I spent about two years serving weekly on a federal grand jury. The cases presented are so well put together, they're designed to get indictments. I think we declined to indict twice in 100 weeks. This is bonkers.
note how Trump on a daily basis is trying to normalize the idea that he's a dictator
Happy birthday!
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A student is in my classā¦without realizing what it was about. And they donāt like horror. I have a semester to change their mind.
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
Pritzker exhorts the news media to "tell it like it is:" "Donald Trump wants to use the U.S. Military to occupy a U.S. city, punish his dissidents and score political points." "Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. You are neither wanted here nor needed here."
People are shouting "LOOK HE'S THE BEST WE CAN DO" about the Governor of California, meanwhile the Governor of Illinois is out here talking like John Wick while *also* standing up for trans people.
Few things to note here: 1) "slip in your mental faculties": please repeat early and often, 2) the detailed, thoughtful concern for upending National Guard's lives for a political prop is GOOD, and 3) EVERYONE in city and state politics is there, people who don't always get along--that's power.
Had to run to catch my train home and of course I fell. Now my phone screen is scratched and my thumb is wonky. But I did manage to say, āWHOOPSYā really loud as I ate it.
The simple act of Chicago telling Trump to fuck off is making me emotional
Lake Michigan is a Great Lakeā¢ļø. Spread the word
From NPR: When pressed ... [Trump] hedged, saying he may or may not send in federal troops to Chicago. "I didn't get a request from the governor... And I think until I get that request from that guy, I'm not going to do anything about it."
Sweet jeebus. Iām glad I didnāt hear this piece.
Teaching this class brings me so much joy. Seeing new college students grow, talking about why horror is so important, and helping them find their pathāI was unprepared for how fulfilling it would be.
I was yelling in the shower. āWell, are there circumstances when you would let the National Guard into Chicago?ā Eat a bag, Inskeep.
Fist day of classes! Thereās a good chance this my last time teaching our FYS so Iām going to try and enjoy every moment.
Good lord. Steve Inskeep is the worst.
View of the Ferris Wheel at the 1893 Worldās Columbian Exposition
Ok. Kid and spouse en route to Ohio. I must finish this syllabus. But nap. And perhaps a scary movie. And nap.
The Kid leaves tomorrow for year 2 of college. Time is cruel.
I'm screaming at him but it's definitely for different reasons
Opinion: Mental illness in Black people is criminalized, and Lil Nas X being thrown to the ground and arrested is no laughing matter, Mey Rude writes.
Ack! lol
19yo me sitting at this, listening to Tori Amos and typing my History of England essay.
I'm glad Ryan shared this, and I appreciate the thread. The use of AI to mean everything under the sun related to machine-learning is problematic. On the train, I heard a woman tell her family, "I asked AI." This is terrifying to me.
I really appreciated this, thanks for sharing. I'm definitely of the belief that artificial intelligence/machine-learning can be very helpful but genAI sucks. And the overarching term conflates all of this.
So, Research Assistant (AI feature, Primo) is censoring the following topics: Genocide in Palestine Gaza war Rwandan genocide Armenian genocide Genocides across the world History of genocides lynching lynching in the united states lynchings in the united states january 6 covid covid data COVID-19ā
The most impactful thing currently happening is the weaponization of law enforcement to target people. It will have the most chilling and long lasting effect. And I said when Ras Baraka was arrested and then LaMonica McIver was indicted that the Rubicon had been crossed. Full on federal fascism.
Go see WEAPONS! Go! Now!
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I am very tired this morning and I read this headline as referring to a single business where you could drink and make clothes. I am disappointed to learn that, in fact, it is not.
Gosh, I didn't think about that at all -- thanks for sharing.
"(with four or six or maybe no fingers!)"
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administrationās failures.
lol that one would actually work as an instrumental but yeah, not first thing
Good morning. Immigrants are #HereToStay.
I blame Bridgerton lol
Duolingo's CEO has been vocal about replacing human staff with trash AI that's more likely to get translations wrong and make your learning subpar. Stop using Duolingo. Uninstall it. Leave comments and reviews that you'll come back once they put people first again.
Trump take salad
If you order a biscuit!
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Today is the first meeting for @summerscares.bsky.social 2026 edition! Going to meet with the (not announced publicly yet) spokesperson. Then recording with @booksinthefreezer.bsky.social Plus finishing a book for review in @ala-booklist.bsky.social Let's do this!
Itās our first meeting of the new season, spooky friends! Meeting our new spokesperson and starting to plan a whole new summer of scares! What was your favorite ghoulish read *this* summer?
Heās another great example of
I am constantly conceding even if I disagree. Both in terms of arguments and space. One day I wonāt and it will feel like a revolution (or totally wrong and Iāll go back to it).
Perhaps it was my fault by starting with HP but the focus of my thread was less about that and more how folks tend to either not be aware or not care until/unless it impacts them directly. And itās crazy-making. Weāre not going to defeat anything if we wait for it to show up on our front door.
Iām aware of the damage theyāre doing.
The creator of it is actively working to destroy trans rights. That is a ābigger issueā and continuing to provide her money is complicity with her actions. IMO.
Thank you for validating this. Itās crazy-making.
It. Explains so many things.
@whtabtpineapple.bsky.social I have a show rec for you! Ludwig, on BritBox. Funny, light, utterly charming.
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