Tamreen

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:

Our funding depends on usage.

So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

what does Q stand for

this one

And with voter records being public, it's really easy to look up someone's address with just their birthday and zip code. It's...not great

Het white girls are fighting over the same redneck ex boyfriend

“Are you getting shot? Would you like your baby to be your first line of defense?”

The goal of social media is to find the one motherfucker responsible for all systemic injustice

Unsolicited writing advice, no: 216: RESEARCH. If you're writing about a time, place, culture, historical figure, profession, etc., it pays to research it properly. That might mean: reading; travelling; going to libraries and museums; consulting archives; talking to people with lived experience.

My adulthood is haunted by a European friend once having told me, “I don’t feel like my vacation has really begun until after the first two weeks”

probably needs a fair bit of funding to work out the long tail of weird edge cases for something like that

why can't we at least have minority report hand gesture stuff. At least that's slightly less dorky

did anyone at microsoft stop to think that a whole office of people trying to talk to their computer might not end well

extremely firm in my belief that we should all understand every agent and cop and servicemember marching through the streets of los angeles and dc as committing an act of betrayal against the country, and so should they

In anticipation of my book on the Roman emperor Julian coming out next month…

1 like = 1 fact/opinion/observation about him.

*looks at some of the posts here*

yeesh

living in new york rocks because you’re not allowed to like it for some reason according to many online weirdos. “a bodega is the same thing as a gas station minimart” okay i’m literally just hanging out

I honestly think we should be able to make people pass a reading comprehension quiz about a post before they can reply to it

Moderation is overrated In 2024, moderate candidates for the U.S. House barely outperformed the average partisan

I put a lot of work into this. I would be so happy if you would read and share:

Why moving to the center won't save democrats:

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/moderation...

I like to blame every trivial thing on the Vicissitudes Of Fate

hypnofindom is a pokemon and you can't convince me otherwise

visited Westchester for the insider trading festival

The first thing I saw was a gang of health insurance execs denying claims in the street. One of them rejected chemo as an elective treatment

so forgive me if I don't think crime is down

We actually never could, and the mythos around the nuclear family hinged on devaluing the underpaid and unpaid labor of women and children

visited Westchester for the insider trading festival

The first thing I saw was a gang of health insurance execs denying claims in the street. One of them rejected chemo as an elective treatment

so forgive me if I don't think crime is down

they want to stop thinking. thinking is too hard. their earnest desire from AI is not for more accurate or faster results, it is just that it allow them to stop thinking

Check out the documentary on Hulu

otoh it's fun seeing the history channel reenactment of "guy invents the pizza box"

there's this really corny show about famous business rivalries of history. A depressing number of them just end with one company buying the other lol

Jesus heals so you can be ready faster for round two

yeah it's basically fried cod/haddock and...jellied eels

Eel is great on its own, why'd they have to jelly it

which is weird cause fish and chips is pretty decent