Ben Freeman 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Boosts welcome

and it does have a laptop on which we could theoretically install the program the patron needed (booth is designed for telehealth/digital divide intersection needs). Thoughts?

Librarysky! Had a patron the other day trying to contact an incarcerated loved one, couldn't figure out the specific app that the specific institution used for like... zoom call substitute. Does anybofy provide assistance with these kinds of calls? We do have a private communication booth...

2) any person of any gender is protected from sex discrimination. In other words a straight cis man who presents as not rugged enough, for example. A cis woman with short hair or who never wears makeup. Those protections are pretty broad and cover every expectation re sex AND gender

For anybody reading this there's something not quite right.

The article says that the person featured in the article is protected from discrimination because they were assigned female and thus part of a protected class.

1) post-Bostock, trans identified individuals of any kind are protected and

I spent 4 months trying to answer a simple question: has this book been translated into my language?
Turns out no one tracks this. Not ISBN registries. Not Amazon. Not Google. Not libraries.
So I built a tool that crosses four databases to piece it together.
zenodot.app

📌 ooo thanks

Thermonuclear take: it’s incoherent to acknowledge that many trans women must spend time learning makeup, fashion, voice work, &c. if we want to fully engage in those aspects of femininity while also decrying any suggestion that we may also need to UNlearn certain social behaviors as transmisogyny.

Cats are also hindered on occasion by the attitude of "I mean, sure, I could get into some Grade A trouble right now, but quite frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn"

In fairness to cows, this was largely due to Goat Shenanigans because goats are demonic little chaos machines

Narrator: it was not a good idea

That would conservatively pay for the salary and benefits for more than 4500 school librarians for 10 years!

A previous boss decided the world would end if we didn’t have a petting zoo event with farm animals and assumed I would be delighted to take charge since I grew up on a farm. My response was “Ma’am, why do you think I moved to Philly????”

The real reason no one is allowed behind the desk is for patron privacy but what I tell the kids is “no, sugar, I have sharp things back here”

Them: Librarians know everything!
Me: I’d like to know everything! I should be a librarian!
*becomes librarian*
Me: ah. Librarians know things bc there’s a curveball every ten secs. So are those termites, ants, or what and how do I keep them out of the playset? Gotta be a book around here somewhere…

I feel like trust is important with food, too. Allergies aside, when I order food I trust the pictures and descriptions to decide what I want. I mean, ppl get upset abt the definition of “warm pink center”, imagine if it was “the picture had avocado and there’s no avocado in this!” or w/e

I’m almost certain Christie used it. I’m not sure if she was the first

Do you know what I wish? I mean, there's lots of things. Lol. I wish we could let people be new to things instead of instantly trying to gatekeep. This isn't a subtweet, btw. Or, maybe it is but not of a particular post. More of a consistent practice.

Also apparently someone bombed Bahrain?

Ok actually you’re right, I just assumed it was only one, that was a failure of imagination on my part and I know better. Mea culpa

Apparently *something* went down so badly that it can only be described in traditional acronyms of military origin in the single hour it took me to cook and eat dinner and I’m really not looking forward to combing the feed to nail it down

Idk if it will grow in a pot tbh, I should check on that

This is a delightful image, thanks

Constitutional?

Not even a garnish of catnip. Just throw the bowl on the floor. THE FLOOR!!! Room temperature water! AND stupid rules like "no cats on the stove" and "stop fucking with the blinds" jesus

Funny how she screams every morning that that's a pitiful amount of canned food, cat does not live by kibble alone, this is an outrage, a scandal

So just... what we decide the problem is informs the solution and the problem is rarely people.

...Ok, the problem is sometimes people but every case I've seen it was based in entitlement and an assumption that they owned the space. This approach would make that worse not better

Will you still have drug use? Yes. Will you still have needles laying around? Probably *but there will be a lot less* AND you've directed members of the community to a place that can give them the help they need.

... solutions look different. The problem isn't that people are doing drugs in the library, the problem is that needles are unsafe.

So... safe disposal? Needle exchange? Even just *a flier listing nearby needle exchanges??*