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True, BUT there is something to the worry that a bad enough Democratic candidate may normalize the party as a whole abandoning people.

The only thing worse than what we have now is if local politics stop protecting.

Oh I'm not giving up on a word powerful enough to make visceral reactions just because some people are misapplying it. Those guys don't get to win.

Romance novelists who are loudly anti-AI are also currently 3D printing hundreds of thousands of whistles for ICE resistance, so anyone throwing around terms like Luddite without context can go hang out in the sea.

We need to eliminate private, for profit insurance immediately.

I never want to have to read a sentence like that again about anyone.

Trying to take notes? Too bad!

People in Albuquerque act like it's a very windy city just because occasionally it's a normal level of windy for the high plains.

Yep. That's it. That's the one.

Imagining...

Two dudes on Central Ave:

"QVID AGIS?"
"CRESCIT EVNDO"

Found out the New Mexico state motto half an hour ago and I'm still snorting about it.

My illustrations celebrating Nancy Drew entering the public domain

Honestly I don't care about extreme hypothetical fear scenarios when we're having frequent mass shootings BECAUSE OF the easy availability of high capacity guns.

If this means a few people doing legit self defense don't make it, that's a very acceptable trade-off.

Your life isn't more important than people who may be beyond a target getting sprayed by many bullets.

Responsible gun owners are fine with taking that irresponsible option away from everyone.

Self defense works just fine with low capacity firearms.

I would say "25 years?!" but, yeah, it feels like that.

Beautiful work. Good cause.

But hey, find me a bunch of gun guys who are organizing just as strongly against book bans and I'd be happy to revise my judgy generalizations.

The MAIN reason men are against gun control laws is that they see a slippery slope from (a) not being able to easily murder a crowd of people to (b) not being able to easily threaten intimate partners with a gun.

One way to tell if you're marginalized or not is whether the concept of purity works against you or for you.

here's my hot take on the HEA wars. I don't care if normies don't know about the genre requirements for romance.

I DO CARE when media outlets don't bother to learn and misinform their readers, & writers who want to cash in on romance readers without respecting the HEA/HFN can fuck all the way off.

I'm something of a historian myself. 🎮

Well in MY playthrough of Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, Sparta got its ass kicked by Athens with Socrates sending me out on kill missions, so...

A colleague asked what I thought about middle schoolers last week.

"I love middle schoolers as a group. They're becoming aware of the problems with the world they're inheriting. They want to know the real deal, not the little kid version, and then they want to do something about it."

My spouse saw me laugh on the couch watching Apple TV on my phone and said, "Oh I thought you were crying!"

"I'm doing both. This is the state I'm in EVERY time I watch Ted Lasso."

www.decolonizingthemusicroom.org/jump-jim-joe

Somehow I didn't find out last time I prepared for this talk that "Jump Jim Joe" is a currently popular storytime action song.

Holy shit. You have to be kidding me. *Googles* *scrolls* *scrolls*

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*scrolls*

Scripts for Setting Boundaries, Patron Expectations, and Correcting Behavior Scripts for Setting Boundaries, Patron Expectations, and Correcting Behavior Setting boundaries with patrons is not about being unkind or rude, it’s about reducing emotional labor, preventing burnou...

Scripts are really important for library staff to have and practice to help set boundaries and expectations around patron behavior. I made a Google doc for examples. Anyone can edit and add more docs.google.com/document/d/1...
#publibs #skybrarians

I asked my spouse this question. She paused a second and said, "Well, there's us."

What in the Steely Dan was going on with lyrics back then?

Historical tidbit of the day:

You may have known that Pepsi's Mountain Dew was named after moonshine and was intended to be a whiskey chaser, BUT did you know Coke's Mello Yello was named after the song Mellow Yellow which singer Donovan said he named after a dildo?