Megling

It is becoming more rare, true. The Atlantic & Vanity Fair can still keep my attention. And I have the best conversations over the next few weeks afterward!

We use birthday to narrow down patrons who have lost their card. That’s how I look myself up to check our books, etc. it never fails to astonish me how many active patrons in our system share my exact birthday. I don’t know why I expect all the peeps born on a random Friday 51 years ago to be dead.

This is perfect, please, all, spread this and do this. Libraries need you to take a stand

Lemme try. Does ‘I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) by the Proclaimers count? It must be the Doctor Who version youtu.be/2c6qENWh2jQ?...

Waffle Houde workers inside a store speaking out holding signs demanding health and safety

workers rallying outside Waffle House in Atlanta

🧇✊ Waffle House workers are holding simultaneous speak outs all across the South today to launch a petition of demands, including a $25/hr minimum wage for all workers.

Sign & share the petition: bit.ly/Smothered-Covered

I would LOVE to have that kind of “win!” I must research this! (Luckily, I have easy access to an amazing reference department at work. Who helms this amazing team? Why that would be me!) #humblebrag
#butnojokeiwouldbescrewedwithoutthem

It’s one thing to be an adult hearing this news. It sucks. But what really tears me up is thinking about the kids that are watching themselves, family or friends being legally ‘removed.’ Part of the identity they are trying to figure out is illegal to read about?

Went to a (very interesting) talk and accompanying exhibition on Friday about the areas where art meets mathematics and geometry.
Was most impressed with this daring exploration of geometric form until I realised it's where they display the cakes when the café is open.

Like I tell the THIRD GRADERS who visit our library, “books love us, just like we love books. Would you staple your ear to your face? No!!! Please don’t make the book sad.” Then we make bookmarks & get back to fun.

Also federal law enforcement agents, wildland firefighters, and anyone else who actually puts their life on the line for the country

I didn't even know it existed! How cool!

one day we’ll just turn around and instead of twitter there will be a Spirit Halloween

I’m shocked and disappointed that this arises from a suit brought by Valancourt (which I’ve long recommended for their work to republish early Gothic works). I don’t know that I will going forward.

@vfo.bsky.social please add me to library lists. Please?

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I am so glad I have an alternative to that place!

Texas is bluer RIGHT NOW than Georgia was in 2012. Forsaking the south is a moral and strategic mistake. Elevating disenfranchised voters across the country is one of the single most effective tools (with regard to electoral politics) we have for curbing the encroachment of fascism

Sitting in an Orlando hotel waiting out Hurricane Idalia, I figured rather than write a new screed about TV reporters standing in dangerous areas during big storms, I'd just repost the last diatribe I wrote for the last storm. READ: loom.ly/NMCfEYI

me: what’s crazy is that rudy giuliani first rose to fame because of 9/11

teen born in 2006: ohh. like he helped do it

me: ok no, but i see how you got there

It's a fucking crime so many people under 40 know nothing about Bill Hicks.

Weekend!

The Philadelphia Bookstore Crawl

Next Saturday is the Philadelphia Bookstore Crawl! (I plan to dedicate a week (or two) to bookstores + libraries in my local media class next semester :) https://www.phillybookstorecrawl.com

New College students find new campuses and a tuition deal A college in Massachusetts offers a price break to allow transfers to ‘pick up wherever they were at the end of last semester.’

New College students find new campuses and a tuition deal: "To date, 88 students—more than 12% of New College's student body—have transferred to Hampshire or are in the application process"

There could be some hiccups on the way to transforming New College of Florida from a normal college into a sports mecca:

"New College doesn't have any athletic facilities and hasn't yet been accepted to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics."

Weird. I tried pulling that up in my Kanopy account. Disappointing!

Join @Andrea_Trudeau @guybrarian and I as we talk about @byStickTogether with the amazing @shannonmmiller in her Aug 31 4PMCST webinar! There will be giveaways! Register here: bit.ly/sticktogetherwebinar #teachers #library #librarians #makerspace #teacher