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shout out to whoever invented music, that shit slaps

Dorothy Porter in 1939, at her desk in the Carnegie Library at Howard University. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Manuscript Division, Howard University

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜

The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.

Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

Olivia Hussey has passed away at the age of 73.

Before and after of central Paris street, cars have been replaced with people.

Think about all the things that can fit when we just stop surrendering most of our urban space to cars.

Urban life can fit.

Before & after street pedestrianization of Rue Rambuteau in Paris. HT to @emmanuelspv.bsky.social

Bring back TV music specials 🔥

FUCK YOLANDA!!

I’ll swing on Yolanda right now

I don’t think there’s a public institution I love more than the library.

Cillian Murphy stuns in first look at ‘28 Years Later.’

delicate florals on a textured background 🦋

available now via my etsy 🖤

#art #shopsmall #embroidery #craft

As a librarian, the constant use of library & archives in horror and fantasy works gives me infinite joy but also makes me a little sad because I’ve never stumbled across a cursed tome or found a criminal confession while digitizing a tape 😔

This account is a staunch supporter of your local public library. USE IT.

Contestants for the lookalike competition.

A UnitedHealthcare CEO murderer lookalike competition was held today in New York.

🎯🎯🎯

Honestly, bring Pharrell out as well.

people say “you need to start living in the real world” but they forget that the real world includes lupines and lightning bugs and ginger beer and starlight and sea coasts and Renoir paintings and Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos and fog banks and foxes playing in snow.

Proof your public library loves you: they leave you alone while you read, they don’t mind when you bring your kids over, and they’ll let you borrow any of their books, even the hardcovers

That would honestly be one of the funniest things that’ll happen at the SB.

Ariana Grande emotional in shock with hand covering mouth while holding up old Glinda wand from original movie.

Ariana Grande with the original Glinda wand.

Han Kang’s Nobel Prize speech next week is going to be VERY interesting

I love scary movies but living in one for 4 years seems a little excessive.

Authors love libraries. Please use them. Please support them.

Libraries are amazing. 📚

Libraries are absolutely the best places on earth.

reminder:

support your local bookstores
support your local bookstores
support your local bookstores