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Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5” Adjusted for Late-Stage Capitalism In case you need help with the tune. - - -Come in on a Sunday? You’ve gotta be jokin’ Christmas bonus was a car wash token Startin’ to think our sy...

🎶 Working 8 to 6, but they call you after hours
Barely gettin’ by, lots of crying in the shower
You might prequalify, won’t even hurt your credit
Ran out of sick days--well, I hope y'all don’t catch it 🎶

I'm too exhausted today to provide any context, but here are a few of the main points from my defense yesterday.

Nettröll veitast að biskupi Íslands ef hún nefnir transfólk - RÚV.is Guðrún Karls Helgudóttir biskup talar reglulega gegn fordómum í garð transfólks. Bæði sem boðberi kristinnar trúar og móðir transbarns. Í hvert sinn verður hún fyrir aðkasti nettrölla. Baráttufólk fyr...

The bishop of Iceland has a trans child. She often talks about trans rights, but says that every time she does the internet trolls come out of the woodwork. The worst ones use Christianity as an excuse for their bigotry, but she says embracing trans people is what Jesus would have done.

They're coming for the libraries. Even if it's not yours today, it will be someday. Time to get loud about supporting public libraries and library workers everywhere.

Divine might : goddesses in Greek myth | WorldCat.org "Few writers today have reshaped our view of the ancient Greek myths more than revered bestselling author Natalie Haynes. Divine Might is a female-centered look at Olympus and the Furies, focusing on

Also read this #book for something a bit lighter: search.worldcat.org/en/title/141...
It's nice, a good look at the Greek Goddesses from a modern perspective. I'm not a Classicist student so I don't know exactly exact it is, but it's nice.

Czechoslovakia : anvil of the Cold War | WorldCat.org This groundbreaking work presents a revisionist history of Czechoslovakia's struggle for independence from 1917 to the death of Jan Masaryk in March 1948. The authors focus on three critical events in

Current book I started to read before all this and is now more concerning and sad: search.worldcat.org/en/title/216...
I have two more weeks with it, I already renewed as much as possible. It started with WW1 and will go until 1948, I'm currently at Summer of 1938...

#Librarians are your friends! Let's keep #Felon47 and #Leon guessing.

Large square book, showing simplified landscape with partly cloudy sky, simplified figures falling from the sky representing different nationalities. The title reads: National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our World. This edition is from 1979.

Oh book book book, right:
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky
#bookchallenge
14/20

Otherwise I took a physical vacation and helped make a short film, which I now get to edit, it's nice to have a creative thing on deck.

YouTube video by Charlie Chaplin Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator

Just finished watching The Great Dictator (Chaplin, 1940). It all hits different, but the speech at the end <oof> I do recommend seeing the whole thing to place it into context, but here's the speech itself: youtu.be/J7GY1Xg6X20?...

Did this make it over here? www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-sho...

#libraries #Education #Books #BookSky #BannedBooks #ClassWar #EatTheRich

What is your favorite banned book?

#Bannedbooks
#BookSky
#Libraries

I haven't read him myself, but here's a great website for seeing the series and pub order: www.fantasticfiction.com/b/c-j-box/ I used it a lot for library work.

BREAKING NEWS The California Department of Education Responds to President Trump’s Executive Order on What Can Be Taught in Schools “President Trump signed an executive order today that does nothing but require the Secretary of Education to determine what federal education funds can legally be rescinded as a penalty for teaching curricula that President Trump finds objectionable, We can give the Trump Administration that answer right now: nothing. It is against federal law for the White House to dictate what educators can and cannot teach by threatening to defund essential public services for students School curriculum should not vacillate back and forth depending on the occupant of the White House, which is why federal law already prohibits the federal government from leveraging grants to mandate specific instructional content in schools.” CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

California Dept of Education to Trump: how about you go fuck yourself?

This is the way.

Do not comply.

Everyone concerned about data loss right now should learn about the End of Term Web Archive, which I believe has been working on preserving federal websites for the past 8 months. The dataset you fear has been lost may well be here

Just an incredible project. Thank you to everyone involved

Book cover, white sky, cartoon section of the world with a man's head on a pedistal sitting on the ground. The Cover reads "The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York" by Robert A. Caro". Across the top it reads "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize".

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky
#bookchallenge
13/20

Book cover, photograph of a castle in ruins from England, sun either rising or setting but with a blue sky. The book title is "In the Land of Giants: A Journey Through the Dark Ages. Max Adams

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky
#bookchallenge
12/20

The problem with doing the book challenge now is that I don't know what #books prepared me for what's coming.

You Catch Ideas: David Lynch as Screenwriter Celebrating David Lynch's legacy as a groundbreaking screenwriter and director, highlighting his unique creative process and profound impact on cinema.

Here, maybe this will help: blog.finaldraft.com/you-catch-id...

In other news I'm starting research on a short documentary on music venues in Cleveland. Yes, I know about the Arena. Yes, I have the Agora down. And the Richfield Colosseum, original Stadium, even Peapody's Down Under/Pirate Cove, Pat's, and a couple dozen more. It's paring them down that's hard.

A book cover showing a dark blue to cyan gradient sky, with a moon, silhouetting two small figures walking towards a bare tree. The cover reads "Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in two acts. Samuel Beckett." The London Times blurb on the cover reads "...one of the most noble and moving plays of our generation, a threnody of hope deceived and deferred but never extinguished; a play suffused with tenderness for the whole human perplexity; with phrases that come like a sharp stab of beauty and pain."

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky
#bookchallenge
11/20

They wish for a simple life in a complex world. I wish I could not blame them for that, but will ask instead why their all-powerful Being can't prepare them for what that Being has created.

What have we learned Linus? That we're still the same type of people who would destroy each other out of fear. We will stop that before we destroy ourselves? Linus, I don't know.

1983 wasn't far away from Vietnam, Cold War was still chugging along, Iran-Iraq war was happening, Soviets were in Afghanistan, I'm sure there's wars I'm forgetting. But there was a hope that maybe wars would stop as we became more connected. I think the opposite happened. Some became scared.

Linus then asks CB "What have we learned?", the flashback ends, and Sally takes us out of the moment by pointing out CB's pics are upside down in the album because this is 1983 and he doesn't have the album with the sticky back and can't fix his mistake now.

Anyways it's a frame story as CB tells Sally about the rest of his trip with him, Linus, P Patty, Marcie, and Snoopy in France. No real plot, but a tour of Omaha Beach (D-Day WW2) and Ypres (WW1) with archive footage made to fit into the animation. Ends with Linus reciting "In Flanders Fields".

Somewhere I have a VHS copy of a Peanuts special, technically a sequel to "Bon Voyage Charlie Brown" called "What Have We Learned Charlie Brown?"
I'm going to spoil it in the next posts in case you want to try and hunt it down. Here's the wiki page if you like: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Ha...

It's one of my most frustrating things about all this: Despite all the tech, info, science, and all other things "rational", we're still the same people who lived not only in Rome, but possibly all the back to Çatalhöyük. We just have a different face to the faith and keep our dead elsewhere.

Julius Caesar - Entire Play | Folger Shakespeare Library Shakespeare may have written Julius Caesar as the first of his plays to be performed at the Globe, in 1599. For it, he turned to a key event in Roman history: Caesar's death at the hands of friends an...

Huh neat you can read Shakespeare's Julius Caesar online don't know why that popped into my head, funny how trying to stop something happening caused that thing to happen: www.folger.edu/explore/shak...