Amanda Mae

I took a Zumba class when this came out and this was used weekly. I still remember part of that routine!

I was today year’s old when I learned Robert Heinlein invented the word “grok.” I first encountered it when I read The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test as a teen and assumed it was a hippie/beatnik word and never thought about its origins again. It’s a great word! Love that I know more about it!

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We got up early to finish watching Andor and now I’m crying and that’s some fantastic TV and Star Wars

Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.

I started to laugh when I saw my mother in law has “destroy weeds” on her calendar

Husband and I sharing a room with our sleeping baby at in-laws. Quietly sending each other memes back and forth in bed because we want kiddo to keep sleeping a little longer and we aren’t ready to get out of bed.

“You wouldn’t steal a car” anti-piracy campaign may have used pirated fonts Digging into archived site points to use of questionable text styling.

“You wouldn’t steal a car” might have stolen a font, and that’s very funny to me arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

All Things Must Pass (2015) ⭐ 7.3 | Documentary, History, Music 1h 34m | Not Rated

Watching this documentary about Tower Records and it 100% reminds me of my time with Borders and all the fun we had www.imdb.com/title/tt3272...

Thinking about the time I was staying with my grandparents in Provo, Utah. My grandma - a BYU grad and True Blue Mormon - paused to look out her window that had a view of BYU campus, noted the smokestack, and quietly said, “A new pope has not been chosen” and it continues to crack me up to this day

I’m so annoyed by “everything is communism” being the boogeyman. Some things are just your fault, your mistakes, your misguided attempts. You can’t blame everything on a concept you barely understand

Got in a workout at the city employee gym. First time since giving birth. A coworker was there. “I only ever see firefighters and librarians here!” Well that’s a romance novel waiting to happen

Two office chairs with signs taped to them saying “Urine? Do not sit. Please dispose of this chair”

A day in the life #LibraryLife

Trump signs order to ‘make America’s showers great again’ In an executive order, the president directed the Energy Department to rescind a rule limiting water flow in shower heads.

I legitimately thought this was made up, especially the quote about his “beautiful hair”

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Happy #RexManningDay to all who celebrate

I gotta say, the Huckleberry app has been invaluable for two older Millennials taking care of a baby. Absolutely worth the subscription

5 Famous People You’ve Met But One Is A Lie

Jimmy Carter
Steve Harvey
Anthony Scaramucci
Karl Rove
Jesse Jackson

Joys of motherhood: having to interrupt my sleep to either tend the baby or pump. Currently icing a clogged milk duct. Treating my dry flaky skin due to hormone fluctuations. I truly love my kid with a fierceness but I never want to do this again.

A local union set up a town hall at my library “with or without” our congressional rep. Over 400 people have shown up, exceeding the limits of our meeting space, and it’s moved outside as a result.

Glad to know our government is focusing on the important issues named in a middle school presidential campaign speech.

I have worked at 4 public library systems and there are many constants. One of them is we never buy new door stoppers despite the ones we have not really being functional anymore

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I had no particular interest in watching White Lotus until Jason Isaacs and Parker Posey showed up in my algorithm talking about their particular North Carolina accents. Now I want to watch it for that!

Yeah. So sad

From The New York Times: Gene Hackman and His Wife Died of Natural Causes, Investigators Say Hackman died from heart disease at his home in New Mexico about a week after his wife, Betsy Arakawa, died from the effects of hantavirus, which causes a respiratory illness and is associated with rodent droppings, the authorities said.

This is bringing up more questions to answer

The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler They helped him in pursuit of profit. Many ended up in concentration camps.

Catching up on some reading of articles I’ve saved since I gave birth and … yikes this is eerie to news these days www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

He enjoyed it, so at least there’s that!

Me, trying to think of a song to sing to my baby to entertain him, and only one comes to mind because I’m probably way too online:

🎶 There’s a McDonald’s in the Pentagon… 🎶

My baby slept for a 6-hour stretch last night and I feel like a whole new woman #postpartum

It’s the “possibly AI-generated” that’s giving me life

Huntington Beach will install ‘MAGA’ plaque at library with revised design, added security The Huntington Beach City Council has approved plans to install a commemorative plaque at its library with an ode to President Donald Trump, approving a slightly modified design and spending an add…

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Ridiculous and tacky. This achieves nothing but trolling

He’s so cute!!! We’re just in the newborn trenches.