Salvia Plath

when people say "but students are so distracted, what is there to do but teach excerpts," i always think, "teach books"

Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.

Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:

www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness

"Real working-class politics does not assume the worst of working-class people’s impulses. It does not launder their concerns for political points. It certainly does not argue, directly or indirectly, that a little racism is a good thing for reaching them."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

Famous 1987 American Library Association poster of David Bowie, holding a book with a look of rapt intensity on his face, wearing a varsity letter jacket and jeans, pose seemingly caught in mid-leap. In the original poster this image was surmounted by the word READ, which I have replaced with WEED.

i put this on my office door (my attempt at a tech services librarian joke) 📚

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Every ninety years, twelve gods incarnate as humans. They are loved. They are hated. In two years, they are dead. Get The Wicked + The Divine Vol. 1 - 9 in the Roll for Initiative with Kieron Gillen comics bundle!

Supports Binc Foundation.

Democrats in Southeast Virginia Endorse “Pro-Trump, Pro-ICE” Sheriff Immigrant rights advocates were already dismayed that no Democrat ran against their local GOP sheriff in Chesapeake. Then the local Democratic Party rallied around him.

“This guy has clearly stated what his values are, and we’re going to completely ignore that and put the Democratic enforcement on him?” says a Virginia Democrat who opposes her party’s decision to endorse a “pro-Trump, pro-ICE” sheriff.

wake up, babe, Mother Sloth is recommending horror games for the Steam Halloween sale

They keep saying "AI" will reduce workload and make my life easier.... and yet...

I told them I would always rather see what they had drawn themselves.

"But I can't draw it as pretty"

I hate this fucking technology and it should not be anywhere near a classroom

Yesterday my 5th grader told me their teacher gave them an assignment:

write a description of their own secret garden (apparently they've been reading it)...that she would then feed into ChatGPT to make a picture of it

I hate this so much

Perry: How can AI be used ethically when it’s been linked to suicide? "It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products," David M. Perry writes.

Here’s where it gets personal for me. When I was 9, I started experiencing suicidal ideation … disinterested in living, and at least some of the time contemplating death and how it might happen … It’s easy to imagine how I would have used programs like these chatbots.

absolutely shameful that the university has embraced the administration’s demand that it discriminate against its students. this is the board of visitors telling UVA students that if they aren’t white and cisgendered then they don’t belong.

Screenshot of the Viabundus website.

A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments.

#medievalsky

www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...

Statue of Thomas Jefferson stands in front of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia

What Did the University of Virginia Agree To?

One legal expert told Inside Higher Ed that the flagship institution essentially agreed to be bound by what was nonbinding guidance. https://bit.ly/4hq4zQt

#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Pete Hegseth is the kind of person who, if he were a character in CK2, you would put in a chaff army on a boat and send up to the North Sea so he eventually catches a disease and is no longer your problem.

why did microsoft make the new Clippy a lil ghost made out of cum

NOVEMBER 3, 2025 THE ART WORLD RECONSTRUCTED In "Monuments," the Confederacy surrenders to nineteen artists. By Julian Lucas 6:00 AM Picture is the statue described in img 2

•he hirst thing you see is a horses - ass, protruding, upside down, trom the thorax of a monster. A man's arm descends from the beast's stomach, his gloved hand clutching the blade of a fallen sabre. There's no sign of a rider's face, but a head of well-coiffed hair dangles from the creature's eyeless muzzle. Every part of the work comes from a statue of the Confederate general Stonewall Jackson that was removed from Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2021. It was subsequently given to the artist Kara Walker, who carved it up in accordance with a butcher's diagram. The finished sculpture, "Unmanned Drone"—on view at the Brick, in Los Angeles, as part of a joint exhibition with MocA called "Monuments" —is at once an act of carnivalesque retribution and a recognition of the Confederacy's zombie-like persistence. A rebellion defeated more than a hundred and sixty years ago refuses to stay dead; between the creature's legs, a horse head emerges from a gape in the bronze, like a new Jackson already foaling.

well this kicks ass www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

So Northern Illinois University Library is looking for a metadata librarian/cataloger. $70k, and you'd be working primarily on the special collections that I helped to build while I worked there, along with some amazing Southeast Asian holdings. employment.niu.edu/postings/87516

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

is that all your poo, grandpa?

U.Va. rejects Trump administration Compact for Academic Excellence The University has rejected the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” which he received from the White House and Department of Education Oct. 1, according to a community statement rel...

relieved to see uva declined to play the role of quisling in the administration’s attempted takeover of higher ed

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

If a book really sucks, it's ok to throw it in the recycle bin instead of donating it

People are probably gonna yell at me for this one but I don't care--there's some truly shoddy stuff out there that should be vigilante taken out of circulation bit by bit

Picard AI meme

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

“If the car’s gone,”

“I’ll give you another cookie anyway”

“because I love you.”

Happy Columbo’s Day

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