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No mention of optimal location (outside Tastee Freez), gtfo.

The Web Is a Customer Service Medium, by Paul Ford I look forward to your feedback.

Sometimes it's this.

www.ftrain.com/wwic

by @ftrain.bsky.social

We biked to get penny candy in my town. The space where the little general store used to be is now mixed-use industrial which is amazing for the town's revenue base. Also the woman who owned the store (not sure about her husb) was racist. (I don't live there but my sis chairs the historical society)

The library is here for you. We've always been resisting subjection.

Hello I also went to AB!

Yay!

One of mine worked for Western Electric helping site and building telecom factories and the other was a bit of a raconteur, a stockbroker and an antiques dealer and ran the Hudson Manhattan Railway for a very brief time.

Thank you very much for this. Please make sure you add alt text to your text-based images so everyone on this platform can see your good ideas.

I've seen them in my backyard in Vermont some nights and I always wave and say "keep on eating ticks little buddy"

She was kind of fired. Now let's abolish ICE.

I like to think they have staffers who hate them who set all this stuff up.

And people like three simple-sounding campaign promises.

A ballot showing two options for monkey and robot and a write-in line. The write in line has a crayon drawing of a gecko and the word "gecko" written in on the write-in line.

This election did not go how I was expecting. Seahorse dominated their race, getting eight votes to starfish's two. Monkey got ZERO votes, robot only got two, tied with axolotl (what?), with one write-in each for duck, t-rex, gecko and zebra.

congratulations and how great for both you and the Bluesky team.

Showing up. Showing up on time. Showing up on time prepared.

American Library Association employees forming union with AFSCME Joining the wave of union organizing among cultural workers, employees of the primarily Chicago-based American Library Association (ALA) announced they are forming their union with AFSCME Council 31.T...

Good for them.

"Joining the wave of union organizing among cultural workers, employees of the American Library Association (ALA) announced they are forming their union with AFSCME Council 31."

afscme31.org/news/america...

Somehow missed your reading list before. This looks great and I'll read it. (also agreed with you about Enshittification - there was enough of Cory's voice in the text version of it, can't imagine the audiobook version)

Yeah I've spoken to him about that specifically and he said "They won't bother with us..." as a way of saying he wasn't going on record, imo. And yes, not good enough.

NOT THE WHITE GLOVES AAAAAAAA.

I feel like there could be an entire podcast "Your movie fucked up this library scene. Three librarians discuss how you could have done it so much better."

Agreed. One of the things I love about being on my town's Board of Abatement is sometimes we can give them money BACK. So good.

Imagine living in a hamlet so upstate that they have to tell you how far it is from MANHATTAN as a way to indicate where it is. Like they could have said it's 30 miles west of Coxsackie, home of Owls Hoot Barn. Missed opportunities abound.

That is looking so sharp. A great day for plants today.

My friends had this on the wall my entire childhood.

Our police chief is a nice guy but very very expensive.

Thanks -- we'll be fine either way but the numbers the town manager used for this year's budget calculations were based on previous years' staffing and not the most recent year (and then they declined to fix) so we're all a little aggravated about it.

Monteria was the real deal, more people should know about her.

My canvas backpack with a town report for my town peeking out of the zipper compartment. On the wall a "How to report ICE" zine is hanging.

I spoke against the budget. There was a lot of support for the library. Someone spoke about how we underpay the so-called feminized professions and I was here for it. I spoke against the police. I spoke in favor of democracy. More people at town meeting than last year. Maybe we can do this...

Black and white photograph of Clara Stanton Jones, a Back woman wearing large round glasses, short curly hair, a white beaded necklace and a white dress with a scoop neck. She is at a podium looking down and smiling widely.

Clara Stanton Jones was the first Black president of ALA, guiding them towards a resolution about awareness of racism and sexism. The UAW backed her as the Detroit Public Library director when the Friends and some board members didn't. #BlackHistoryMonth
www.library.illinois.edu/ala/2016/02/...