Alejandria

I spent some time reading Elon’s tweets this morning (one of my least favorite activities) and it’s hard to overstate how much he and his allies have constructed an alternate reality for their audience to believe in. In their world, Elon is a superhero fighting government fraud, like fanfiction

Like it smokes 10 packs a day?

What does a pterodactyl sound like?

Public art, consisting of clear frosted square panels. Each panel has a different face pressed into it.

I took a closer look at the public art at the train station. It's the teeth that make this so unsettling.

Snake protecting a blue, white and pink flower from a shoe trying to crush it, with the text PROTECT TRANS KIDS

Oh hey it’s the year of the snake! Here’s a drawing of a snake I made.

Saying it louder: Utah has banned TWO MORE BOOKS from public schools *in the entire state*.

These are YA books that were available only to high schoolers.

TWO schools in the state are responsible for over 80% of the state-mandated book bans.

So much for "local control."

How much was our pin budget ?

Abandoning trans rights means abandoning ALL rights. They are inseperable.

Abandoning trans people is to abandon all people, and indeed our very humanity.

Think about what the fascist asks for, and then think of the totality of its cost. And then say no. To all of it.

it’s wildly irresponsible for mainstream media to call romantasy books “smut” or “p*rn” in out-of-context headlines during an era of increasing book bans and purity culture hysteria.

this mischaracterization and willful ignorance of an entire genre is how you normalize book bans.

U.S. Department of Education Ends Biden’s Book Ban Hoax The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) today announced that it has dismissed 11 complaints related to so-called “book bans.”

This is the inflection point.

For schools and teachers. For libraries and librarians. For books and reading.

For young people.

This is an information and literacy death knell.

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Dark Horse takes seriously the allegations against Neil Gaiman and we are no longer publishing his works.

Confirming that the Anansi Boys comic series and collected volume have been cancelled.

I think they invented dual screens so you could have birdcams on the 2nd.

While Trump pursues more fossil fuels, Europe posts a record year for renewable energy use Nearly three-quarters of the EU's electricity doesn't emit planet-warming gases into the air.

A record 47 percent of the European Union’s electricity now comes from solar and other renewables, a report Thursday said, in yet another sign of the growing gap between the bloc’s push for clean energy and the new U.S. administration’s pursuit of more fossil fuels.

When your spouse also works at a library sometimes you end up with weeks where neither of you have the same night off. The joy of programming.

Have these been here all day?

Illinois transgender resources Below are resources in Illinois for our community, part of this site’s American resources by state. See also major US-based trans websites and national advocacy groups. Legal National Ce…

Gender identity is a protected classification under Illinois law. Here's a list of organizations to reach out to if you need help. And if you need help navigating the system, you can reach out to me and I'll do what I can.

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I felt bad erasing this. It took these teens 2 hours to do this.

Am I supposed to introduce myself? I'm Alejandria. By day I library, by night I rot.