Nicholas Schiller

Seriously. The Reason software in the first Dirk Gently novel NAILED IT.

Working on being a pleasant and healthy pessimist. I may have to read more mid-20th century Eastern European novels for pointers. Just because we are hopeless does not mean life is without meaning.

Simply because things are inevitable, we do not need to frame them as benevolent.

At a library conference and the Futurist has a “mandatory optimism” approach I find intolerable. Morally and intellectually bankrupt.

Anyone I know at the Massachusetts Library Association conference today? It feels like a decade since my last conference and I’ve lost all my connections.

"Please make this social media post unreadable and inaccessible by cramming too much unnecessary text onto the frame."

I am not a trained graphic designer, but I used to work with some and I can do basic things in the kinds of software graphic designers use.

I don't know how trained designers deal with the constant requests that are basically: "please make this ugly bad design choice for me."

ah yes, the strong, masculine, non-emotional leadership we've all heard so much about

No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.

An image from the Rhode Island Library Association depicting a lighthouse and the words ""FREE PEOPLE DESERVE TO READ FREELY." The words "FREE PEOPLE" are placed in the lighthouse's light-beam.

An image from the Rhode Island Library Association depicting a Rhode Island Red holding a sign that says "Free People Deserve to Read Freely."

I am once again marveling at the A+ design of the Rhode Island Library Association's "Free People Deserve to Read Freely" campaign imagery.

Both of these are just perfection.

History is repeating itself.

There were more LGBTQ people removed from government during the lavender scare than were suspected communists during the red scare. They only really taught the latter in history classes.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavende...

All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

There's always a Pratchett quote

I find comfort in that

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bs... • 27m New — Edward "Big Balls" Coristine of DOGE now has digital access to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an agency source has confirmed to me. Two Sets of Testicles, So Divine... • 19m You don't have to say his dumb user handle every time, right? .. Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsk... •18m i'm afraid i do, two sets of testicles

incredible exchange, @marisakabas.bsky.social

Squeeeeee!!!!!

BREAKING: every goddamn thing

I kind of intended to. When I burned out of academe I got a professional cert. in instructional design. Then I took a job in public libraries and didn't do anything w/ the cert. (Yet.)

I hope no one is still teaching that you can largely trust .gov websites.

This reference librarian has learned that the process is more about improving the questions that we are asking and much less about finding one definitive answer.

So the LCSH are going to make the new-speak name changes official. (Denali & Mexico are renamed)

Some are asking for comments, despite the fact that the comment period is only one day.

Since they don't care about what we think, I don't understand why responding is useful. Does it serve a purpose?

No one person is all powerful.

One is only powerful with the cooperation of others.

Lots and lots of people are complicit.

It’s like what Douglas Adams’ created for Dirk Gently. Software called Reason that provides arguments supporting your chosen conclusion.

A tiny handwritten sign at the Tesla dealership as a big crowd protests Musk reads “We hate him too” yup 👍

Big crowd at the SF Tesla dealership protesting our unelected overlord. A tiny sign hangs from an upstairs window

A selfie of cyclist Egan Bernal in his new Colombian national champion jersey

Eganito 🥹🥹 what if I CRIED 🥹🥹🥹

If we weren’t in 2025 — with a U.S. government trying to bring Nazi sympathizers to power in Germany — I’d say this article must be in the Onion.

But it’s not the Onion. It’s stone-cold real life in this country.

The Republican Party has a Nazi problem, in addition to an LGBTQ elimination problem.

It has been a problem for me my entire life, but I’d rather be on the losing side than give up. I made a lot of people angry in a previous career by saying: “I won’t agree. You have the votes to do it without my assent, I accept defeat, but I won’t agree just to get along.”

I keep reading well written and compelling think-pieces on why it is necessary to move to the center to defeat fascism. I can’t do it. I’d rather lose than abandon LGBTQ+, Palestinian people, and whomever else we’re supposed to strategically abandon.

https://www.youtube.com/live/3gn1cv-PvgI?feature=shared