Ghost Librarian

Love Blueskys more mature vibe until I'm looking for people complaining about the Thrilljoy block party at SDCC.

Hey book lovers! Support your local library, of course. Also! Cool news! @bookshop.org has free shipping July 8-11. They also now sell ebooks, which is an excellent development. AND if you sign up for their email, there are periodic boook/ebook deals & I've snapped up many fine books that way. 💚📖🔥📘

AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."

a woman in a black tank top is smiling with her mouth wide open ALT: a woman in a black tank top is smiling with her mouth wide open

I just got off work to find that the two worst people in the world are fighting.

…I am intrigued.

FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness

GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

If you would like to add your name to the over 250 librarians and library workers, who have already signed this joint statement condemning the dismissal of Dr. Carla Hayden, visit docs.google.com/document/d/e...
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"The shuttering of USAID, in other words, ranks with the absolute worst atrocities in the history of the world."

Gov. Tim Walz State Address: "We have university students shoved into unmarked vans and fathers being tossed into Salvadorian gulags without a hint of due process. If you say you love freedom, but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn't freedom, it's privilege."

presidents should get a probationary period and if their approval rating falls below 50% at any point within their first three months in office we get to eject them from the country with a catapult

Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies.

Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.

"How do they know they are straight or gay?" Is she saying that everyone has to sleep with all genders before deciding on one? That seems pretty radical but okay, let's do it.

Steve Silberman's groundbreaking book NeuroTribes, which fully debunked any story of an "autism epidemic," is 10 years old this summer. The answer has been out there for a decade. He'd be LIVID about this.

California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas): "there are currently more kids with measles in Texas than there are transgender athletes in the NCAA. That's the epidemic we should all be worried about."

I think I just read this book. (No names.)

An illustration…Surreal monochrome with bands and textures resembling flowing fabric. Stars pepper the background.

A false color image of the actual Orion nebula, where you can see many of the features from the illustration, but without the foldy fabric bands.

Absolutely obsessed with this late 19th century illustration of the Orion Nebula by Otto Boeddicker.

If none of these old people calling and complaining about not getting checks then why is that the only thing my Senator does with her time according to her newsletter?

I worked in a public library. People used to threaten me regularly over DVDs.

Remember when we put up signs that said "The FBI was not here today" so we could take them down when they were and not violate gag orders?

It is time to be honest with the hardships that come with libraries. You need a notary? Sorry, we had to lay them off. You need a museum pass? Sorry, budget cuts bc funding for both libraries and education is gone. You need a book on anatomy to homeschool your kid? Sorry, someone challenged that.

Library directors/boards likely won't go for this but I want signs in any physically empty spaces explicitly saying that they can no longer provide that service bc of government orders. Preferably with calls to action after.

Yes, and I hate it for us. We're like the pinnacle of the Dem party as a whole, with all the problems that go along with it

I say this often but Germany was the preeminent research power until 1933 and in 100 since years has never caught up to where it was before the purge of Jews

“Libraries translate .003% of the federal budget into programs and services used by more than 1.2 BILLION people each year.”

- @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social

#SaveIMLS #SaveOurLibraries

Frodo don’t destroy the ring, you’ll just be playing into their hands by reacting at all imho

This. Nothing is more infuriating than the current "We're right in going against your wishes and we're not going to explain why" line they seem to be taking. If you're so right, explain it to people. THAT IS YOUR JOB.

If voicemails are full, you can also email these staffers in Schumer's office:

mike_lynch [at] schumer [dot] senate [dot] gov

meghan_taira [at] schumer [dot] senate [dot] gov

motherfucker, they fired half of the department of education *yesterday*

None of his numbers are letting me through to voicemail AND I WANT TO TALK, CHUCK.

Chuck, turn your voicemails back on, you coward. I want to talk.