Cosimo Giovine

With your experiences, you’d be a perfect fit at a library. I’m rooting for you.

Have you thought about working at a library? I got an MFA & taught English for 20 years. But my big mouth got me run out of academia (I was a faculty union rep & exposed financial mismanagement). Working at the library now & hosting poetry open mic & writing groups, & preschool puppet storytime.

An image of CBGB’s public bathroom with graffiti all over the walls.

The original LLMs were more accurate & relevant.

Transcending - North Atlantic Books A compelling collection of the many voices and experiences of trans, genderqueer, and nonbinary Buddhists Transcending brings together more than

“the firsthand accounts, thoughts, and reflections of trans Buddhists from a variety of different lineages in an open invitation for all Buddhists to bring the issue of gender identity into the sangha, into the discourse, and onto the cushion.”
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I needed that advice, thanks

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Viggo says hello back

I host a poetry reading open mic at my library and been looking for a new format. Think I found it.

Trump stated “we sampled it from them, but it is not the same bassline”.

This post should be required reading for students enrolled in comp classes.

As Putin’s Illegal Invasion of Ukraine Causes Gas Prices to Rise, Reed, Khanna, Colleagues Urge Biden Administration to Tap Strategic Petroleum Reserve | U.S. Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island WASHINGTON, DC – In an effort to combat a sharp rise in oil prices amid Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI)...

In 2022 he suggested “Drawing down oil from the federal government’s stockpile now and then replacing it later with less expensive crude.” We reached “later” I guess.

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There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on, shame on you. Fool me, you can’t get fooled again.

Anyone who eats only meat & salt for seven years is going to feel like there’s a demon possession in their guts for sure.

AI Librarians will fail spectacularly when faced with patrons asking “what’s my Gmail password?” and “why’s the printer not working”

Il Popolo d’NPR

Tired: My friend’s older brother who got a D in Philosophy 101.

Wired: “As machine learning tools win more trust, they could produce dangerous content that slips by unnoticed.”

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Tried and true tech that never failed:
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Me & another local writer are starting a Philly branch of the long-running NYC Writers' Circle. It's going to be the 2nd Tuesday of every month at Ray's Happy Birthday Bar (one of my favorite places, even tho I don't drink). If you're a Philly writer, come read with us! Open to all levels of writer!

Medea Benjamin, the pro-Putin “left” and the far right in America The world crisis revolving around the war in Ukraine has a deep influence in US politics. This makes understanding that war all the more important. In January, the fascist-linked Republican Party w…

This should have us wondering if this was Putin signaling to Trump just how close he can get his people to him.
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1. Become a college president

2. ?

3. College president uses $2M gift from a donor to jump start a state senate campaign

I really felt that Lol at the end, like deep.
“I was under the impression that evangelicalism was a deep personal commitment to love Jesus for the sake of making the world a more just and beautiful place for all of God’s children. Lol.”

Sucks that feminism became politically verboten at exactly the moment when the right calcified into a masculinity death cult

A webpage from a Suggest a Title on a library website: Type of material? Book Title What’s Left Is Tender Author/Performer Travis Chi Wing Lau ISBN/ISSN Year of Publication 2025

Don’t forget to Suggest a Title Purchase at your library!

tl;dr They learned about the per pupil funding mandated in every state constitutions. Gotta get that sweet sweet guaranteed taxpayer money.

Same. I turned 5 poems into short stories and used them as writing samples for my MFA applications, was accepted to Columbia (attended SoA ‘03), Brooklyn College, NYU, & Sarah Lawrence, and published 100+ poems & stories since 1999. But still can’t celebrate any of it because imposter syndrome.

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Hey #BookSky!!!

One of my favorite children’s book writers is opening a new bookstore on the southside of Atlanta and could use your help getting it off the ground. Pleeeeeeeeeeeaaaaasssse donate. Yes $5 is enough!!

We need more Black women-owned bookstores.

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The utter unfairness of people disparaging me because I hate them.

by John Boyne

A black and white Akita dog wearing a pack with books in a pouch and sitting in front of a little free library.

The app is great for finding LFLs on our dogmobile rounds around the neighborhood.