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Yay one of my old LOC friends that didn't transfer with their job to Packard(stayed at main LOC) is going to The Nine Inch Nails show with me!!!

I've heard he is a super nice person in real life!

Happy Library Lovers Month to everyone who loves and supports our libraries! #Libraries #Librarians #BookLove

This proposal deserves serious study

a man with a beard is wearing a red uniform with a star trek logo on his chest ALT: a man with a beard is wearing a red uniform with a star trek logo on his chest

Just saw Jonathan Frakes at the Huntington Library ❤️🥰🫶

I would have offered him a chair just to see if he sat down in it funny ❤️(he's probably too old to do it safely now but a girl can dream 😉)

These fucking puds don’t have the empathy or imagination to realize that all of the kids growing up witnessing unspeakable cruelty will be able to watch these clips when they’re older, see the names & faces of the cowards & the collaborators, who will still be alive, hopefully hiding in shame & fear

“What about that 5yo US citizen?” They don’t care about the piece of paper you say makes their friend less of a person. They’ll be traumatized by the evil kidnapping of their classmate. They’ll be radicalized against you. They’ll read about this in high school the way we read about Nazi Germany 🖕

FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.

THE LIBRARIANS-award-winning documentary that features my peers & friends.

The documentary that hits way too close to my life & I cannot watch without sobbing.

It premieres February 09, 2026 on Independent Lens on PBS!!!

Watch it. Recorded it. Watch it again.

www.pbs.org/independentl...

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Yay!!!

@claytoonz.bsky.social

YouTube video by DEVO - Topic Freedom of Choice

365 days in 2026

37th song of 365

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YouTube video by A Perfect Circle - Topic Freedom Of Choice

If you want a darker version this is it. Maynard James Keenan named his son Devo!

..... This album of mostly covers was ahead of its time sadly. The song Passive guts me every time.

[laughs in music Librarian]🤣

They exist. I've had to catalog a few of them. I had to look the others up in our system and yep they have albums* 🤷🏼‍♀️

..... I didn't say they were good albums 😉

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.

One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.

Abolish the billionaire class:

CORRECTION: the NCFA’s president now has a job in HHS, not in DHS 🙃

Adoption is not social welfare. It is what happens because we *reject* social welfare—because we do *not* help those who need it most. Adoption is a *business*: the business of making affluent people into the parents of less fortunate people’s children.

The National Council for Adoption has millions of dollars, reflecting the lopsided “demand side” of the industry: affluent hopeful adopters.

Birthmothers, by contrast, repeatedly tell us that if they had even a little more financial stability, they could have chosen to keep their children. +

The Turnaway Study found that NINETY-ONE PERCENT of respondents who had SOUGHT abortions but were denied them nevertheless chose to keep their children.

Lots of people want to adopt babies, but essentially *no one* wants to surrender one. +

The second fact is that almost no one would choose to relinquish their own child if they did not feel cornered into it, overwhelmingly because of poverty and lack of social support. +

We know two essential facts from research on relinquishment. One is that pregnant women do not weigh abortion and adoption directly against each other; they treat the decision whether to terminate a pregnancy largely separately from the decision of how, or if, to parent their child. +

Their ad depicts relinquishment as the quietly dignified and heroic choice, above the noise of the abortion wars. It tries to sell the idea that relinquishment is an alternative to abortion.

But this is a lie. +

This is why the NCFA can afford a multimillion dollar ad buy during the biggest television spectacle of the year—something that no adoptee or birthparent advocacy organization could *dream*of doing. +

As a lobbying group, it represents adoption agencies and their clients: hopeful adopters, who as a class (professional, affluent, mostly white) bring a degree of wealth and social influence utterly dwarfing that of the economically desperate and marginalized people adoption preys upon. +

The National Council for Adoption describes itself as a “leading authority about adoption,” but that’s only because its mission is to *promote* adoption. It’s best understood as the adoption industry’s main lobbying group. Its president recently resigned to take a job in Trump’s DHS. +

Shot of a Facebook post from the National Council for Adoption. Photo of a young white woman sitting on a toilet. Caption: “Adoption *is* an Option”

a thread of (some of) my thoughts about the Super Bowl ad the National Council for #Adoption is touting. +