Rebecca L
@bibliobeque.bsky.social
Stereotypical librarian, I have three cats and I knit my own cardigans. Opinions are my own.
I like to tell the story of how, at the library where I used to work, the first poetry book that ever had a hold list so long we had to buy more copies was Milk and Honey, by Rupi Kaur
To be honest I’ve always found the Rupi Kaur hate manufactured and incredibly tired. There are countless writers out there doing a worse job. Sorry if that’s upsetting to the people who have made hating her their whole personality.
November 14, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I like to tell the story of how, at the library where I used to work, the first poetry book that ever had a hold list so long we had to buy more copies was Milk and Honey, by Rupi Kaur
I can't put my fuzzy slipper-socks away any more, because where would she sleep then?
November 6, 2025 at 5:44 AM
I can't put my fuzzy slipper-socks away any more, because where would she sleep then?
You know, I usually can't stand to listen to political speeches--something about the cadence and the shoutiness throws me off, so I nearly always read the transcript the next day instead.
But I listened to this.
But I listened to this.
in case anyone hasn't watched the full thing, do it. it's a damn treat.
I don't think I realized it until now, but I'd been waiting my whole life to hear a politician sound like they want the people to govern with them
I don't think I realized it until now, but I'd been waiting my whole life to hear a politician sound like they want the people to govern with them
FULL SPEECH: Zohran Mamdani's victory speech following historic NYC mayoral win
YouTube video by ABC News
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 8:14 AM
You know, I usually can't stand to listen to political speeches--something about the cadence and the shoutiness throws me off, so I nearly always read the transcript the next day instead.
But I listened to this.
But I listened to this.
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Teen Vogue has had more guts to dissect and expose the truth when so many veteran media outlets have bent their knees to a criminal despot and his regime and this news is absolutely appalling and unacceptable
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Teen Vogue has had more guts to dissect and expose the truth when so many veteran media outlets have bent their knees to a criminal despot and his regime and this news is absolutely appalling and unacceptable
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Evergreen sentiment
Not the reason I moved out of Louisiana, but one of the big side benefits is that I no longer live in Clay Higgins's district
November 1, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Evergreen sentiment
High concentration of cats per square foot today. #ProofOfCat
October 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
High concentration of cats per square foot today. #ProofOfCat
I am also 56 now after my birthday and I concur with every part of this statement.
I have officially begun exercising again, and resuming it confirms what I already knew about myself: I fucking hate it, never get the benefit of "endorphin rush" and therefore participate in it only under duress, ie, the knowledge that as a 56-year-old person, if I don't, later life will suck more.
October 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I am also 56 now after my birthday and I concur with every part of this statement.
Define your taste in books with 8 authors. In no particular order:
Barbara Hambly
Ben Aaronovitch
Laurie R. King
John Scalzi
Martha Wells
Claudia Gray
Simon Winchester
Heather Cox Richardson
Answers extremely subject to change. This is just TODAY'S list of LIVING authors.
Barbara Hambly
Ben Aaronovitch
Laurie R. King
John Scalzi
Martha Wells
Claudia Gray
Simon Winchester
Heather Cox Richardson
Answers extremely subject to change. This is just TODAY'S list of LIVING authors.
Define your taste in books with 8 authors:
Martha Wells
Ursula Vernon
Terry Pratchett
Douglas Adams
Becky Chambers
Seanan McGuire
Naomi Novik
Deanna Raybourn
(First alternate: John Scalzi.)
(Not listed in any particular order, answers always subject to change.)
Martha Wells
Ursula Vernon
Terry Pratchett
Douglas Adams
Becky Chambers
Seanan McGuire
Naomi Novik
Deanna Raybourn
(First alternate: John Scalzi.)
(Not listed in any particular order, answers always subject to change.)
Define your taste in books with 8 authors:
Martha Wells
Ann Leckie
John Scalzi
Lois McMaster Bujold
Julian May
Seanan McGuire
Hajime Kamoshida
Raymond E Feist
(Let me be very very clear - Not listed in any particular order. Also, answers always subject to change.)
Martha Wells
Ann Leckie
John Scalzi
Lois McMaster Bujold
Julian May
Seanan McGuire
Hajime Kamoshida
Raymond E Feist
(Let me be very very clear - Not listed in any particular order. Also, answers always subject to change.)
October 21, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Define your taste in books with 8 authors. In no particular order:
Barbara Hambly
Ben Aaronovitch
Laurie R. King
John Scalzi
Martha Wells
Claudia Gray
Simon Winchester
Heather Cox Richardson
Answers extremely subject to change. This is just TODAY'S list of LIVING authors.
Barbara Hambly
Ben Aaronovitch
Laurie R. King
John Scalzi
Martha Wells
Claudia Gray
Simon Winchester
Heather Cox Richardson
Answers extremely subject to change. This is just TODAY'S list of LIVING authors.
I like to joke that what every library needs is a basket of name tags with fake surnames, so staff can pull one at random at the start of their shift. And I made that joke at a library that changed the policy to allow just first names on badges back in 2010.
This is an issue in libraries as well. Having your full name on your badge can lead to harassment or stalking.
University of Iowa Health Care administrators say they’re “evaluating our badge naming practices based on employee feedback and evolving industry standards” after 500-plus nurses and staff covered their last names with union stickers in protest. www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...
October 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I like to joke that what every library needs is a basket of name tags with fake surnames, so staff can pull one at random at the start of their shift. And I made that joke at a library that changed the policy to allow just first names on badges back in 2010.
Atchafalaya.
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
October 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Atchafalaya.
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If you can hear this image, it's probably time to schedule your colonoscopy. If you can sing the whole song, it's also time to get your shingles vaccine.
October 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
If you can hear this image, it's probably time to schedule your colonoscopy. If you can sing the whole song, it's also time to get your shingles vaccine.
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Saw someone say, “Stop hoarding books, we don’t need paper books anyway” and I can’t express how misguided this is. Online libraries disappear, digital books can be altered, and with Big Tech seeking to destroy history and literacy, print media has never been more essential.
October 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Saw someone say, “Stop hoarding books, we don’t need paper books anyway” and I can’t express how misguided this is. Online libraries disappear, digital books can be altered, and with Big Tech seeking to destroy history and literacy, print media has never been more essential.
The fundie baby voice can be used for good purposes
I learned in Kansas that I’d get read as harmless if I pitched up my voice and stayed super sweet, a privilege that only someone read as a white woman can get I think.
September 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The fundie baby voice can be used for good purposes
Eddy Arnold. Or possibly the Broadway cast recording of Oklahoma.
It would have been an 8-track, though, not a cassette
It would have been an 8-track, though, not a cassette
September 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Eddy Arnold. Or possibly the Broadway cast recording of Oklahoma.
It would have been an 8-track, though, not a cassette
It would have been an 8-track, though, not a cassette
Some of the best advice I ever got was, "If you're not cool, don't pretend to be cool."
In my case the specific context was for a librarian working with teenagers, but I've found it broadly applicable.
In my case the specific context was for a librarian working with teenagers, but I've found it broadly applicable.
God, these people are such absolute losers. Nothing they do can ever buy the cultural capital that they are so desperately after. They are simply not interesting enough and nothing they can ever say nor do will ever give them the validation they so desperately crave.
It's not just the authoritarianism — it's how shameless, how *gleeful* this administration is about it
September 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Some of the best advice I ever got was, "If you're not cool, don't pretend to be cool."
In my case the specific context was for a librarian working with teenagers, but I've found it broadly applicable.
In my case the specific context was for a librarian working with teenagers, but I've found it broadly applicable.
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Today the internet lost Maru, cat of legend, so I'm putting out an empty cardboard box for him.
September 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Today the internet lost Maru, cat of legend, so I'm putting out an empty cardboard box for him.
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First time in half a century that Queen has countenanced one of their songs being published in a language other than English.
And it is beautiful.
youtu.be/gbljPQbxtTQ?....
And it is beautiful.
youtu.be/gbljPQbxtTQ?....
Ndlovu Youth Choir - Bohemian Rhapsody (Official Music Video) isiZulu version
YouTube video by Ndlovu Youth Choir
youtu.be
September 2, 2025 at 5:27 AM
First time in half a century that Queen has countenanced one of their songs being published in a language other than English.
And it is beautiful.
youtu.be/gbljPQbxtTQ?....
And it is beautiful.
youtu.be/gbljPQbxtTQ?....
I grumbled once about how hard it is to find crabapple jelly these days, and he learned how to make it.
Also yes, phenomenal chocolate chip cookies
Also yes, phenomenal chocolate chip cookies
y'all having husbands is crazy... what all they be doing? do they make you cookies????
Husband woke up. “I had a bad dream. I was working at Florent, a table of 10 Canadians came in hungry and no one knew how to do anything in the kitchen, Diane came by and I was embarrassed, and also a lion was loose in the city.” Even his bad dreams about his job in the ‘90s are precious to me.
September 4, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I grumbled once about how hard it is to find crabapple jelly these days, and he learned how to make it.
Also yes, phenomenal chocolate chip cookies
Also yes, phenomenal chocolate chip cookies
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If you’re someone who still reads for pleasure, you are a marvel. If you’re able to unplug from all the chaos of our entertainment culture and disappear into the warmth and solace of a book, that is a rare gift and I’m very glad to know you.
August 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
If you’re someone who still reads for pleasure, you are a marvel. If you’re able to unplug from all the chaos of our entertainment culture and disappear into the warmth and solace of a book, that is a rare gift and I’m very glad to know you.
@scienceimpacts.org , what's the impact for CO-08?
August 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
@scienceimpacts.org , what's the impact for CO-08?
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What's the projected impact of the White House's proposed NIH cuts for FY2026 in your community?
Ask the @scienceimpacts.org bot 🤖
Ask the @scienceimpacts.org bot 🤖
As see in the few examples in this thread, the #SCIMaP team has released an interactive bluesky bot. You can ask for scorecards in a variety of ways:
Just send a zip (98105)
or
state (South Carolina)
or
district (MD-04)
Just send a zip (98105)
or
state (South Carolina)
or
district (MD-04)
Hey @science-impacts.bsky.social, what's the impact in Maryland?
August 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
What's the projected impact of the White House's proposed NIH cuts for FY2026 in your community?
Ask the @scienceimpacts.org bot 🤖
Ask the @scienceimpacts.org bot 🤖
Signing up for this class was one of the best decisions I made all year. I know a fair amount of history but I learned new things in every lecture.
Registration for the fall session opens on Monday! Highly recommended.
Registration for the fall session opens on Monday! Highly recommended.
Me, on teaching @resistanceschool.bsky.social independently this summer after Columbia cancelled my class on race and media:
“It’s a lesson in learning how to flow around the rocks, being like water, especially when these institutions are failing us deeply.”
flaminghydra.com/an-antidote-...
“It’s a lesson in learning how to flow around the rocks, being like water, especially when these institutions are failing us deeply.”
flaminghydra.com/an-antidote-...
“An Antidote to All the Despair and Misery”
An interview with Karen Attiah, Washington Post opinion columnist and head of Resistance Summer School
flaminghydra.com
August 20, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Signing up for this class was one of the best decisions I made all year. I know a fair amount of history but I learned new things in every lecture.
Registration for the fall session opens on Monday! Highly recommended.
Registration for the fall session opens on Monday! Highly recommended.
In honor of the day, here is Shadow defeating the purpose of a chair cover. #BlackCatAppreciationDay
August 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
In honor of the day, here is Shadow defeating the purpose of a chair cover. #BlackCatAppreciationDay
Told my husband I'm reading a book about Sam Altman and got a blank look. I don't regard myself as better informed than he is but I am indisputably More Online
August 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Told my husband I'm reading a book about Sam Altman and got a blank look. I don't regard myself as better informed than he is but I am indisputably More Online