Cathy McCarthy

As of today, there are more kids infected with measles than there are trans athletes playing in college sports in the U.S.

it was bad when the worst poster on my favorite website bought that website and made it terrible but it has been worse having that person also buy my country that i live in

Repost if BlueSky is now your primary social media site.

Optimist: the cup is half full

Pessimist: the cup is half empty

Adaptation planner: can this cup be transformed into a self-rising floodwall by 2040? And who will pay for it?

It's weird that Looking for Alaska is the second-most banned book in the U.S., and mostly challenged by evangelical Christians, because the novel is about Radical Hope and how forgiveness is available to all people at all times, which are Christian concepts I wrote about because I'm a Christian.

Hank Green is so ambitious. It's exhausting. My life is like being the co-author of the Federalist Papers.

I'm all like, "John Jay got sick after writing five."

And Hank's like, "HAMILTON WROTE THE OTHER FIFTY ONE."

‘We all know our party is full of rapists and pedophiles so if you don’t let my second favorite rapist pedophile take the spot atop our entire justice system, I’ll tell everyone about all of you other rapist pedophiles.’

— Marge Greene

Never forget: READING FOR PLEASURE has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. So never stop sharing books with kids. Never stop reading to them, and helping them to read. Never stop changing lives. #literacy #kidlit #books

Look them in the eye and don't let them look away. I aspire to this level of "fuck you" in my life. Rock on, Stevie.

But don’t worry. Oklahoma is buying thousands of Bibles for their public schools.

Peter Gabriel - Red Rain YouTube video by Peter Gabriel

Yes.

Release the Gaetz report.

Pass it on.

Hello all. Librarian here wanting freedom to read for all.

The Handmaid's Tale is a good book. But did you know that there's a book written by a Black woman about a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and societal decline. The book was published in 1993, but is set in 2024 following a presidential election 👀 #BookSky #BlackBookSky

Eric Adams's Budget Cuts Have Set Up New York City's Parks to Burn By cutting the exact people meant to keep the city's parks free from fallen, dead trees and keep the forests healthy, the mayor has set up a tinderbox that's already igniting.

NYC is on fire because Eric Adams took a hatchet to the Parks Department budget, firing 51 forestry specialists who remove the dead trees and invasive species most likely to ignite during dry periods.

If civil war breaks out, meet me at the library.

To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.

To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.

To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.”

Octavia E. Butler - Parable of the Talents

“Freedom is dangerous, Cory, but it’s precious, too. You can’t throw it away or let it slip away. You can’t sell it for bread and pottage.” - From Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower

You don’t bury an ethics report that would exonerate Trump’s pick.

You don’t skip FBI background checks unless his nominees have something to hide.

See what they’re doing? Please tell me you see what they’re doing.

#edusky

soft pink cover of dorothy roberts’ killing the black body twentieth anniversary edition

light brown cover of “at the dark end of the street: black women, rape, and resistance— a new history of the civil rights movement from ross parks to the rise of black power” by danielle l. mcguire

people are sharing books they’d recommend folks read in ~this moment~ and my essential book recommendations never waiver:

“killing the black body” by dorothy roberts and “at the dark end of the street” by danielle l. mcguire

I know people keep saying but, but these mostly white starter packs are a real problem. I keep seeing them in spec fic land, which is especially frustrating given how diverse our field is. It's not hard to find us.

Elon Musk's AI turns on him, labels him 'one of the most significant spreaders of misinformation on X' His posts, it added, “can have real-world consequences."

AI is not always hallucinating…

Grok, owned by Musk, concludes:

“Based on various analyses, social media sentiment, and reports, Elon Musk has been identified as one of the most significant spreaders of misinformation on X since he acquired the platform”

fortune.com/2024/11/14/g...

I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.

I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/

If you love video games, don't EVER let anyone ruin that for you.

💫It doesn't matter if you don't get trophies.
💫It doesn't matter if you play on easy.
💫It doesn't matter if you like games that got bad reviews.

All that matters is that YOU are having fun and finding some peace.

That's it.

Librarian weekend…