Kate(rpillar)

A man playing a ukulele in a pizza place while waiting for his food to be done told me he liked my "plot twist: the librarians fought back" patch, and now I'm afraid I'm in a Stephen King novel.

PSA: if something makes you cry, you are BAWLING. Not BALLING. Two completely different things, people! [this post sponsored by a "feel good" thread in which so many people were suddenly balling in public...]

You can call fascists vile without using their tools. You don't need to make fun of bad people for being fat or ugly or for their gender or ableness of their bodies. It's just shitty, white guy behavior. None of us like Pam Bondi, but now none of us like you either.

Newly acquired Louisa May Alcott collections at the Concord Free Public Library (MA) 📜https://concordlibrary.org/events/library-news/from-a-new-eden-in-concord-to-little-women-unveiling-the-new-alcott-collections

sincerely telling myself i am a brave little toaster

IMPEACH EVERYONE WHO CAN'T BE FIRED. FIRE EVERYONE WHO CAN'T BE IMPEACHED.

Quinebaug.

On top of all of the Epstein-related shit, I just saw that Ne*l Ga*man is publicly saying everything is a smear campaign and he did nothing wrong 🙄🤬. Take care of yourself, folks. Don't let yourself fall into the doomscroll trap; go watch Schitt's Creek instead.

it’s not necessarily that all these people in the epstein files participated in the raping of girls it’s that none of them cared and if he hadn’t been arrested and died they’d still be out there trying to be his friend

Opinion | ICE Took Liam Conejo Ramos. His Classmates Have Something to Say.

"You are scaring schools, people and the world."
"My teacher said to keep it kind, so I wrote a poem"

All of my application materials for Rare Book School have been submitted! Now, we wait*.

*obsessively check my email and the application portal while contemplating sacrifices to various deities

"Oh my gosh, it was so nice to see you! Have a lovely day, fuck ICE!"
"Oh you too hon! Stay safe in that traffic, fuck ICE!'

- two older Minnesota ladies, bidding farewell after the protest

He's fighting hard but the die is cast.

Slipped in someone else's puddle of sweat on a floor mat; landed so hard on my ass that I fractured a vertebrae. FF a decade, fell down stairs at an old job, broke the one above it, much worse. Second would not have happened if the first hadn't. Only bones I've ever broken. 🥳

@kellylink.bsky.social You may like this.

If I disregard all of the author interactions I had while working at Book Moon, mine is seeing one of the founding members of Alabama at a cattle show. I was maybe 15, and there with my dad, who pointed the guy out. He apparently raised cattle after retiring from music; I can't recall his name.

Congratulations! One of us!!! ❤️

Tennessee whistleblower says library board chair sought private data as part of state's book purge A First Amendment expert told The Advocate that there are "huge" legal implications stemming from the situation.

Officials in Tennessee aren't just banning books, they're now demanding information on who checked out contested (largely LGBTQ+) books, including names, addresses, and "household composition."

A librarian who was given the directive has come forward asking for whistleblower protections.

Yeast of my/our worries.

Really seriously please take the 30 seconds and actually fill out the form.

A handwritten note reading: As I was locking things up, someone spilled what smelled like PICKLE JUICE at the computers, between 12 & 10. I cleaned it up, but the computers had already [scribble] shut down so I'm not sire if anything was damaged. PICKLE. JUICE. -wtf, Kate

Public librarianship sometimes means writing slightly absurd notes.

One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.

"don't you want to speak to your dead grandpa using ai"

I think we should bring back proper necromancers and then set the skeletons on anyone who can rotate a pdf

libraries are for everyone and i mean *everyone* 📚

every librarian reading this and thinking about all the signage people just walk by

Multiple paw prints in a light coating of snow. The prints are slightly overlapping, have 5 toes each, and are complemented by faint tail drag marks.

Possum prints after our last dusting of snow.

Remembering that I brought a slice of cheesecake with me while at work on a Saturday is the best thing that’s happened this week, except maybe for the initial buying of the cheesecake

I’m eternally grateful that I finished my degree in time to not have to deal with this; my writing style will definitely flag as AI-generated, and I refuse to sacrifice my em-dashes.

Patron today kept pronouncing “archive” as “are-chive,” like the early-spring perennial. Are chives, or are chives not? Hmm. I perhaps need more sleep. Or more chives.

Me, looking at an incunable on Instagram: I wish we had more older books at work

Alex: Well good news for you, they’re getting older all the time