Jen

A coworker just showed this to me. It is delightful. Great characters. Excellent humor. Don't skip the fake ads inside the covers.

I really, REALLY wish people would internalize the absolute stranglehold voter suppression and gerrymandering have over many red states with high BIPOC populations (who reliably vote blue) before consistently writing off these entire states and saying shit like “they deserved it”.

Bombing for peace is like burning books to promote literacy.

Loss of federal funding looks different at each library system 💔

Across the nation, libraries are laying off library workers, closing on weekends or entirely, stopping the ordering of new materials, eliminating summer reading programs ❤️‍🩹

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It's funny, I can immediately tell you that my favorite silent era male comedian is Charley Chase but I have a hard time choosing just one woman because I have so many favorites.

Marion Davies is an obvious choice, with her ruthless impressions slaying me every time (this is her Lillian Gish)

If watching library workers resist leads you to expect us to save you, you're taking away the wrong message.

You should be viewing this as a clear indicator that YOU can and should stand up and push back, too.

We need help, not acclaim.

May the 4th be with you.

That time I took Chewbacca to Disney World and on Star Tours.

My reaction all depends on if I'm allowed in the fort. Also definitely taking photos and checking every one of those books out as an in house use.

It's not their room. Obviously.

I'm not an in charge manager because my answer would have been that the front lawn is available.

This lady stood in our lobby happily greeting all her people after we corrected the first few that it was in B because she booked the wrong library in the first place.

Oh yeah, they paid for a room, at another library. Clearly that's the same thing. Lady literally laughed in my coworker's face when she told we have a program. All her people were asking very rudely for meeting room A. Like no. You're lucky we don't have 2 programs tonight.

We had a group just show up at our library demanding to use meeting room A. They always meet here, so obviously the fact we made unavailable because we have a program is wrong. We accommodated them by sticking them in our downstairs meeting room. Not good enough. Their boss lady is still being rude.

While we all watch the absolute decimation of trillions of dollars in 401K holdings, just remember this. 75M of you voted for this. For those who sat this one out or voted for the orange fat fuck because they didn't like a black woman who liked to smile, I have a simple message. Fuck you.

@neorsd.org I appreciate you all so much. I just got back from Florida and a certain mouse themed park. I really missed our water that doesn't have a swampy taste or looks orange. Northeast Ohio water tastes so crisp. I don't need to filter it. Thank you. You guys are the best!

Marie M. Daly was an American biochemist and the first Black American woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry. Her career included research into treatment for hypertension and cancer-causing effect of smoking in the lungs.
#BlackHistoryMonth

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 🧵

For fucks sake. We didn’t lose because of the price of eggs. We lost because Republicans SAID it was the price of eggs. Now they’re dismantling government, stripping rights, starting trade wars and Dems are saying “look at the eggs!” Leaders lead! Stop chasing their bullshit! Focus and fight back!

I feel this so hard. I just want to post about theme parks. I was worried about an Orlando trip, but flying doesn't seem safe. Now can I afford food even without the trip? Will we have electricity or water in the future? I can't trust anything now. Nothing feels certain and now I am PISSED!

Jerry Lawson, the inventor of the video game cartridge.

This is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm.

The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him.

Happy Black History Month.

We begin honoring Black History Month with a look at inventor Granville T. Woods for his invention that was first introduced on the Figure Eight Roller Coaster at Coney Island.

THE MUPPET SCRIPT - a live, celebrity-filled script reading to benefit those affected by the California wildfires - will be held on Feb. 9, and YOU can watch from the comfort of your own home!

Lots more details about the show coming soon, so stay tuned!

www.squadup.com/hosts/740859...

Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.

Tweet from Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg): Despicable. As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying. We put safety first, drove down close calls, grew Air Traffic Control, and had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch. President Trump now oversees the military and the FAA. One of his first acts was to fire and suspend some of the key personnel who helped keep our skies safe. Time for the President to show actual leadership and explain what he will do to prevent this from happening again.

One caveat to Buttigieg's statement: Trump cannot show actual leadership. He is incapable of it.

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Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.

📚📚 An EASY and FREE thing you can do right now is get a library card!! 📚📚

THEY are coming for our libraries. Libraries are the foundation of community efforts and one of the last true places you can exist and gather without a fee. Simply USING the library helps and is so EASY AND FUN!

Happy birthday Space Mountain. Finally reading the graphic novel. Haunted Mansion and Figment have the best adaptations. This one is pretty good. Space adventure with time travel.

Roller coaster station for Mystic Timbers decked out for Christmas. Picture is from the back of the train. Station has white lights and garland hung from the ceiling .

Front entrance for Kings Island featuring Winterfest sign, blue Christmas lights, and the Eiffel Tower turned into a Christmas tree by stringing blue lights vertically.

Train locomotive with wood roller coaster in the background. Night shoot with steam fog in the background.

Show stage decked out for Christmas with snow theme. White and blue colors in the decorations. People in front are in shades of red and white. Snoopy dressed as Santa in the front center stage with a large Christmas tree behind. Crowd of people watching in the very bottom of view.

Happy New Year all! I was so lucky to spend New Year's Eve at Kings Island. My last coaster of the year was Mystic Timbers. I was on the last train of the year for the KI and Miami Railroad (the train).