Kellyanne

Mom, yesterday, watching curling: Curling's not the most interesting of sports.
Mom, today, watching curling: This sport is older, that's why I think I like it so much. You really have to watch. It's like chess. Did you know a pair of the stones costs just under $10K?

I'm CACKLING.

#olympics

In our library, we call the series Game of Thrones for kids.

I loved this movie when it first came out and I still love it now. It's so misunderstood.

I also SOBBED at the evil Josie scene in the theater. I'd just gotten my first puppy several months earlier and it hit 11-year-old-me very hard.

I won't lie, when they cut to him realizing he was going to medal after the French skater got his scores, I turned to my mother and said "no offense to Ilia, but I want this guy to win gold now."

I am stunned. STUNNED.

Holy shit, I got my wish but not in the way I expected at all.

But Mikhail Shaidorov is absolutely adorable and I am so happy he won. The first ever gold medal for Kazakhstan!

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE TOP THREE, HOLY SHIT

I really want the Kazakh skater to medal.

Eluded him?! THIS LITERALLY IS HIS FIRST TIME AT THE OLYMPICS.

We're just the worst. The audacity of wanting to eat and eat healthy.

WSJ likes dunking on Millennials and younger for the clicks, that's for sure.

Avocado toast, Part 2.

Someone needs to write a MASSIVE piece on all of the companies that were bought by private equity or hedge funds or investment groups and then went bankrupt. And all of the companies that are currently struggling under their private equity owners.

Post a banger that's not in English if you'd like

(I will use any and all excuses to post Marco Mengoni, per favore e grazie.)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiU2...

Patriots-fandom aside, O’Shea’s lifting strength is bananas.

THE PUPPY BOWL WAS JUST DECIDED ON A REVIEW.

There is only one Bowl that I care about and that is THE PUPPY BOWL.

To the person walking their dog this morning when it is 2°F, with a “feels like” of -9°F and gusts of 30+MPH,
ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR EVER LOVING MIND?

Kid Olympians: Winter Triumphant, relatable, and totally true biographies tell the childhood stories of a diverse group of international athletes who have captured the world’s a...

On a bookish note, I adore that both she and Michelle Kwan made the cover of Kid Olympians: Winter, which just came out this past fall.

www.quirkbooks.com/978168369393...

I remember her '98 Olympics with a beautiful eff you backflip and ending her skate with her back to the judges. US commentators Verne Lundquist totally short circuited and Scott Hamilton went back and forth between being really impressed and being like 'the judges are going to nail her for this'.

It is. That said, he likely has no staffers maintaining it and/or answering it. That's more than likely by design.

There are quite a number of places in the US that are actively defunding them and criminalizing librarians and librarianship. Unfortunately, the people in charge in those places are exactly the kinds of people you'd expect to do that.

Support your local libraries, friends and followers and random strangers that might see this.

Mine, no joke, lends out a laser tag set (when it's not being used for summer kickoff).

#librarylove #loveyourlibrary #GLAMs #skybrarians #librarysky #edusky #publibs 📚🍎

Paging @samhelmick.bsky.social, @edrabinski.bsky.social, @cindyhohl.bsky.social, @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social 📚

I hope the French ice dancing team loses horribly and looks silly doing so.

I sometimes wonder what the @bookculture.com staff thinks when they see a sizable, NJ library-bound order from their remainder sale not fifteen minutes after they send out sale emails. Do they realize how much they enable my book buying addiction? Do they think I'm bananas? 😂

#librarianproblems 📚

It never ceases to amaze me how many people (mostly men) will target / falsely accuse / blame others for their individual failings instead of HEAVEN FORBID self-reflecting and taking accountability for their own shitty actions.

Ok, I know it’s the age thing but the 2000s were absolutely NOT chill, what is this historical erasure?

It was, I think, settings > account management > download data. There's a few steps to go through. Now that I am going through the data itself, it's not the pins, but the metadata (with title and description so it's better than nothing, I suppose).

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What was supposed to get done today, among many things:
-monthly meeting with supervisor
-NJLA presentation meeting
-meeting with PR coordinator
-Eid and ICBW prep

What actually happened:

#librarianproblems 📚 🤧

Awesome. Fantastic. While I wait for over a decades worth (I think it's actually closer to 15 years) of pins to be sent to me before I delete my account, does anyone have any NON-AI (none AT ALL) alternatives?