Sarah Tillery

PETITION: Don't Let the Federal Government Regulate Your Reading Not one country's freedom and liberty has ever been increased by banning books.

The people banning books have NEVER been the good guys.

Sign the petition to stop the Federal Book Ban bill!

action.everylibrary.org/hr_7661 via @everylibrary.bsky.social

Jeepers, Ursula, that's on the nose.

Data center tax breaks cost Phoenix residents millions, city audit says Statewide tax breaks for data center developers are costing Phoenix taxpayers over $12 million in yearly revenue, a new city-sanctioned audit showed.

Data center tax breaks are costing Phoenix $12 million dollars a year.

A new audit says Arizona’s tax breaks for data center developers are costing Phoenix taxpayers the same amount as the city is spending on arts and culture initiatives and environmental programs put together.

Giving a repost for the morning crowd!

Left can't resist being on wrong side of a war Whether it's Jeremy Corbyn or Zack Polanski, their foreign policy stances terrify voters outside core supporters

Well, here’s the thing about being antiwar as an ethical belief: it means you end up opposing most wars. Almost all of them, in fact. This is quite common in people who have consistent beliefs but looks insane to people who have none, or mostly just believe superior people should make the decisions.

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

I keep seeing posts about ai models like "actually they're good at this thing now!"

but once you understand that ai tools are being built by fascists in service of attacks on humanity, whether or not they can generate useable code or do basic searches kind of stops being the main question

Doodle sketch of giant Meh figure in clouds with flying eyes around them. There are big letters around Meh saying: "Just sketch, bro. Be free." There is small person down below with pen and paper saying "but my lineart". Meh is my sona!

"I love the look of my sketches but I hate doing linearts and..."

THEN STOP DOING LINEARTS 📣💥

It's thats simple. No "if's" or "but's", just do what you enjoy, not something that you feel obligation to! Don't feel miserable, stick to things you love doing! ❤️

Seeing people in the news industry say that articles should be AI-generated is absolutely bonkers and the antithesis of why so many of us became journalists in the first place—because we aspired to the art of reporting AND writing. I will never release AI slop under my byline.

If you maintain your work and business WITHOUT generative "A.i.," you will be ahead of the game when these companies jack up their prices before crashing and burning.

Also, your work won't be trash.

No matter where you are, they’re using the same playbook

HELL YES

A digital illustration of a young, brown skinned gentleman lying down in brambles. He looks at the viewer solemnly.

classical art but make it my archfey warlock 🌿✨️🎩

[ #DnD ] [ #art ]

8 panel comic p1: Imagine the most non-descript middle aged white fella you can. Even that isn't as vanilla as this guy. Your eyes look at him, and then immediately slide off, like he isn't even there. A title above him --all lower case-- reads "the wednesday man" P2: Same POV (we see him from the chest up), as he raises his right hand in greeting and says "hi there, folks. I'm the Wednesday Man." P3: He continues "As the name suggests, I'm a middling kinda guy..." P4: He folds his arms as he says "none of the oppresive lows of Mondays... none of the dizzying highs of Fridays" P5: An extreme --and way too detailed-- closeup of his open mouth. "Just sorta... there." P6: Another closeup of WM, looking very intense indeed. "The fulcrum point between those highs & lows" P7: We cut to a a side-on view of a desert scene, as a tumbleweed bounces through from left to right P8: Back to the chest up view of WM, as he holds a comic with a smile on his face. He leaves us with "anyways, have a nice Wednesday, all, and go buy some comics."

I really needed to see this today, so I'm sharing in case you do too.

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.

And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

It was also...fun? I think that's something we don't talk about enough. The process of discovery is very cool.

Ah, interesting gambit, let's just check how pivoting from reliable software people actually use to an AI focused subscription service is going for Adobe real quick

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

"yeah haha actually i don't even do my job anymore! AI does it for me!" wow that's crazy. i hope your RAM explodes

Neighborhood Nights #oilpainting #art

requiem for vanished birdsong

Hi guys, im so sorry but I need...a lot of help this time. Due to my IIH ive become near partial blind & need new glasses, I cant afford them on my own. I also still need to pay bills. As well start saving for inevitable surgery later this year. Im sorry to constantly ask for help.

Good. It's created from stolen work!

World Central Kitchen head José Andrés confirms Israel has closed Gaza’s borders indefinitely and warns the NGO will run out of food this week. The group is currently cooking about 1 million hot meals a day.

World Central Kitchen head José Andrés confirms Israel has closed Gaza’s borders indefinitely and warns the NGO will run out of food this week. The group is currently cooking about 1 million hot meals a day.

I'll take this in one more direction. How about when you're reading for a lit review and you come across something that's NOT relevant, but you mentally file it away, and then years later, it becomes the cornerstone of something else? A whole new project? gAI can't do this.

okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.

This reminds me of when I was a PhD candidate during comps (prelims). I was surprised that *I* had to put together all 3 of my reading lists instead of my committee. But then I realized that the act of compiling was an important learning experience.

a bright orange canvas jacket with bright blue, green, and magenta letters in a 3x4 pattern reading a b c d e f u c k i c e

finished embroidering my jacket :)

NNLM Reading Club March 2026 Food and Nutrition Covers of The Comic Book Guide to Growing Food by Jospeh Tychonievic Butter by Asako Yuzuki Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken

For March, we added 3 new titles and reading guides to the NNLM Reading Club on Food and Nutrition!

The Comic Book Guide to Growing Food by Jospeh Tychonievic

Butter by Asako Yuzuki

Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken

More: www.nnlm.gov/resources/re...

#medlibs #GraphicMedicine