hannah

If it’s worth banning, it’s worth owning.
#BannedBooksWeek

I would really like to see your costuming photo challenge!

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[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

really exciting to wake up today. whole new world of possibilities. dang what a blessing

“i asked chat gpt” “i asked grok” Jeeves would kill you where you stand

"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance

every day i am just floored by humans ability to do good. we have these choices before us and the terrible ones make headlines, but i have no doubt love is so much more potent when it counts. so blessed to be a human being, because all human beings trot with this potential and i hope to honor it

[post from Jessica Malone Grinder that reads, “Just your friendly neighborhood English teacher turned librarian here to remind you that literacy has always been political.”]

People think I'm kidding when I say there is a fascist agenda behind the promotion of AI. These devices are designed to kill literacy. We grew up in one of those rare periods of history where most people could read, and those who can read are harder to control.

born to read fanfiction all day, forced to read work e-mails 😔

No more April Fool’s Day. As a society we have enough foolishness and need not more.

There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

I hope you’ll join me in the Cool Person challenge (being a Cool Person by getting a library card, lengthening your attention span and sharpening your mind through extensive reading)

hi everybody! soo exciting to run from app to app like a plague rat fleeing the whims of the dork ass losers who control our freedom of expression! what a chill and sustainable media landscape!!

the december lazies have truly set upon me. I can't do anything because my brain doesn't perceive december or january as real

I have that same copy of Carrie! Full agreement on E.T., by the way.

You're not "late to the party" when you enjoy an old book for the first time. Books don't have an RSVP deadline. The party started long ago, and guests show up when they're meant to.

i either read for 8 hours straight or don’t touch a book for 8 months there is no in between

I think adults should get a personal pan pizza for reading books too

Imma need some of you to think about thriving out of spite. I had big plans for 2025 and I’m definitely not gonna pre-derail them for likes of Elin and Tromp. I’m getting more involved. Loving harder. Writing hornier. Having more fun. I’m gonna be so kind to my neighbors, bitch.

“Imagine dragons” I don’t need to. I’ve read dragonology. I’ve felt their scales

“ADHD is when your heart’s too big and your mind is racing but it can’t keep up <3“ no. shut up. ADHD is when you forget to close your parentheses

please please please! 🩵

The fact that there still isn’t a moth emoji continues to be an affront to me, personally. Give the people (me) what they want (moth emoji), Apple!