jessamyn

My truck is like 90% "lending to friends" and 10% "I drive it when my car is in the shop" so I think that would work actually.

Oh gosh thanks for jogging my memory to get some peppermint sachets to keep my garage mice from being my winter truck storage mice.

Top notch caption.

Oh gosh, so heartbreaking.

Oh gosh, one important typo, the Vermont Asylum Project only has one S in it (Asylum, not Assylum). Thank you!

I appreciate this a lot. If I can send you some maple candy from Vermont, drop your address to me jessamyn.3000 on Signal. If not, please just accept my thanks.

I can only hope that the reason "librarian" is not on this list is b/c they are afraid of us. As they should be.

Solidarity with everyone who does the professional work on this list. An injury to one is an injury to all and we will fight for you ✊

(repost from before where I left off the word NOT)

Yeah my library doesn't keep this information on purpose unless a patron specifically opts IN to having it be kept.

I enjoyed learning about this. I sometimes believe that the tradition and Judaism of leaving a stone on the grave of someone you miss is because you just want to share a cool rock you saw with them. 🪨

I was curious about that too. I'll have to find some reporting about it somewhere else where they talk more about the process.

I both want these people to know how to internet more securely, as a librarian, and then also don't because fuck them.

It's for rapid response iirc. It used to be out front and center on their website and they've made it a little less obvious since I first contacted you.

This is an incredible thing. I think many people in 2025 assume these are digital copies. Nope, they will MAIL YOU THE BOOK and then you can send it back to them, at no cost to you. Truly an amazing resource.

Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.

Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days

I love those first three books, (and am also an anarchist) and maybe it was just cause I read it too far after the first ones but I was happier with it being a trilogy.

A classic! they said the library was going to be taken over by computers. and 70 years later it still mostly hasn't.

Kid in parking lot asks "What should I ask you?" (license plate: ASKME)
"Anything, I work at the library"
* Kid laughs *
"Let me ask YOU something. Do you have a library card?"
"Nope."
"Live in town?"
"Yep."
"Well, they're free. You should get one"
"Okay!"
I have become THAT lady & am OK with it 💅

My partner and I talk about this w/r/t 'kikero' (aka Cicero) and I am okay saying it wrong I think.

Oh my gosh what was that movie? I have never seen that before.

Thank you for sharing this. I felt it on the inside as the dark rages outside.

That's a good analogy. Zohran Mamdani won because of tight typeface control... among other things.

That we are snitches! Like the cops will show up at the library and we'd TELL THEM THINGS? How dare you.

Also the white gloves thing, but that's for fancier librarians than me.

It's a slightly edgy take since there is one "mean" librarian (who has her reasons) and then the Parker Posey one who is the fun, hip one but also acts like an entitled brat through a lot of the movie.

Party Girl.
Ghostbusters.

5 best movie genres

- librarian saves the day by being good at their job
- quirky unusual things happen in library
- all characters are kind and somehow also there is a plot about something
- dancing movie
- all villains dispatched by the end, no possible sequel, this is the end, goodbye.

Oh how neat. My town used to have a music box museum where many people had worked over the years and you'll sometimes see copper versions of these as decorations on the sides of people's homes.

Hey Peter is my uncle. Happy to know about this project.

I've had tall people watch me climb the shelves to grab something on the top shelf. It is a true thing.

I'm offline enough that I did have to have somebody explain to me who she was, but I read the "early life and education" part of her Wikipedia page and thought she might be a kind of person I was familiar with.

As someone who speaks mod, there was so much that was not sitting right with me about this. Thanks very much for spelling this out.