Bookish Oddish

Yes!

My heart is broken, for all of us.

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Does anyone know of people/resources that talk about the loss of/shift in interfaith identity after one faith dies out in the immediate family? As a Jew, I don’t want to celebrate xmas on my own, but today is still a big grief day because it meant a lot to people I love who aren’t around anymore.

Judge rules Arkansas law allowing criminal charges against librarians is unconstitutional A federal judge has struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing so-called “harmful” materials to minors.

ICYMI:

“A federal judge on Monday struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing ‘harmful’ materials to minors.”

apnews.com/article/arka...

To everyone in a similar scenario: the tactic my doctor's office has taught me is to ask, in writing, for:
1) the name, board specialty, and license number of the doctor making the determination the treatment was not medically necessary;

Background is a gradient of the colors of the trans pride flag (pink, white, and blue). Cursive text reads at the top and bottom: mourn for the dead, fight like hell for the living. In the middle reads: ASAN commemorates Trans Day of Remembrance. #TDOR. Trans Day of Resilience.

Today is the 25th Trans Day of Remembrance, a day meant to honor the memory of trans people who were lost to transphobic violence. We remember and mourn for those we’ve lost, and will continue to work towards a world without transphobic violence. https://buff.ly/3V32DDH

Friendly reminder to look at dates on posts here with how people can import old tweets. I got startled by news from 2018 for a moment before noticing the old date!

I've told this story before on the bird site, but I'll share it here.

Ask local candidates for office if they have a library card. In a past job, none of them had library cards, and consequently, and unsurprisingly, kept trying to cut library funding.

Ask. Ask if they use the library at all.

White glowing text on a starry background. Reads: “piss off a fascist: wear a mask!” with an image of a respirator mask underneath.

Step 1 for everyone pissed about the results, regardless of why:

Stop. Spreading. SARS.

Wear a mask.

Man, I miss cosplay and cons.

Wear a damn face mask in public spaces if you’re able to, so that maybe one day I can go again without risking my life or my QOL.

GOP’s closing election message on health baffles strategists, worries experts “No Obamacare.” Questioning vaccines. No fluoride in drinking water. They’re all Republican assertions in the final days of the presidential campaign.

First came “No Obamacare.”

Then a Trump ally went on CNN to question vaccines.

By Saturday, RFK Jr was vowing to remove fluoride from drinking water.

Looking at Republicans’ closing message — which has baffled strategists and worried public health.

I remember my last time hanging out with Justin. We went on a group trip to an amusement park and there was a sudden storm that closed most of the rides and he let 4 of us with no rain gear huddle together under the water resistant cape he had won earlier in the day to try to stay dry. (2/2)

Justin was only 17 when he was killed. His favorite animal was the squirrel, but he loved all animals & wanted to become a vet. He was a nerd who did academic decathlon & interned at a science museum. He read a lot of fantasy. He played the flute. He was a very caring person (1/2)

Photo of a tabby cat curled up in the window, a white hand gestures towards the cat from outside.

Good luck! I don't have a cat of my own, so my most recent cat photo is this one from a COVID cautious outdoor friend visit.

Notice above a HEPA in a library (white print on a black background, with an illustration of a HEPA pulling in & blowing out air) that reads in large letters "Please do not turn off the air purifiers," and in smaller letters below the illustration, "These are installed to improve the air quality in the library and help you stay healthy."

This is a *great* graphic - very visible, very legible, includes all the right information (in words & in the illustration), and is placed at a good height & distance from the HEPA.

Bravo to Coburg Library. (Australia, yes?)

I like it! Thanks for sharing <3

Tinu deserved so much better.

She deserves so much better.

I wish so much she didn’t have to spend these last years fighting tooth & nail for care & safety… It makes me incandescently furious & utterly heartbroken.

Wear a mask:
You are killing people if you can & choose not to.

Hey Jews, you've got a month before the Yamim to get your new COVID shots and stock up on N95s. Please consider wearing a mask to services through November even if it isn't required by your shul. Do your part to keep your rabbis and cantors and everyone else healthy!

A new study in Helsinki daycares, Finland: air purifiers led to a 30% reduction in children's illnesses.

Healthier children = healthier staff and parents = big savings.

Bonus: the sound of the air purifier made it easier to get the kids to nap.

yle.fi/a/74-20052273

Ugly Laws are ABSOLUTELY back, & I am furious & depressed AF about it.

Disabled people are being disappeared from society & no one cares but us.

Plus, cops couldn’t even handle IDing me as disabled at 17 when I used my own personal disabled parking placard— they’ve no right to Dx citizens masking.

EVERY LIBRARIAN
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Love how this openly admits that tons of Jewish orgs backed Waltz and this entire article is just made up bullshit to stoke false narratives about Jewish opposition to Dems. Which literally doesn't exist because we are the *largest left-voting religious group in America*.

VP Harris isn't "childless." She's been a stepmom for 10 years. That "counts."

Can we not buy into the Right's narrative that parenting only happens with one's own uterus, by State coercion if needed?

Sing it with me: families look like lots of things, and love makes a family.

Disabled and chronically ill people include members of *every marginalized group that exists*.

If you are doing activism but not making your spaces accessible. If you are doing activism but not for disability. You are not doing activitism, you are doing exclusion.

Happy Disability Pride Month!

QP's throne page for the dishwasher with 404 creator not found error message

I keep getting an error trying to follow your link, hopefully that means its fully funded now or something else good, but in case it isn't thought I should mention it.

Criminalizing a simple, easy, personal tool for public health is absurd and incredibly harmful. Masking whenever, wherever, for whatever reason, should be a completely normal and accepted part of life in a society.

I don’t get *angry* about the abandonment of COVID precautions that often anymore just because I don’t have the energy to be mad constantly but mask-free healthcare is a disgrace and hopefully will one day be looked back on with the same disdain and disgust as the doctors who drove out Semmelweis.

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As a former librarian, I'll add:

Rich (& middle class) ppl also close libraries bc they can't conceive of the need, aka a failure of empathy.

I was *constantly* asked:
1) People still go to libraries? (yes)
2) Isn't everything digitized now? (wow, no, let's examine just how how wrong that is)