Christie Burke, MLIS
@ceburke.bsky.social
Twin Cities, MN, USA. Librarian & educator, maker of stuff. Professional journalism is worth paying for. (she/her)
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The post office — now 250yrs old! — is amazing. But I'm surprised they're advertising, given that the regime is trying to kill it. Maybe they want people to use it for holiday shipping, find everything delayed + lost, then be all: Damn these worthless public services! Defund! Privatize!
USPS Commercial (2025)
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November 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The post office — now 250yrs old! — is amazing. But I'm surprised they're advertising, given that the regime is trying to kill it. Maybe they want people to use it for holiday shipping, find everything delayed + lost, then be all: Damn these worthless public services! Defund! Privatize!
MN DFL trifecta went big and got universal free lunch, as well as increased protections for workers, renters, and the environment, on top of increasing the child tax credit.
This is the way.
This is the way.
Suicidal for centrists to be begging for moderation when now would be a great time to pass some big, ambitious policies and remind people why Democrats are better than Republicans.
Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...
November 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
MN DFL trifecta went big and got universal free lunch, as well as increased protections for workers, renters, and the environment, on top of increasing the child tax credit.
This is the way.
This is the way.
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Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.
November 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.
This is pretty great. Good thinking, comforting and challenging theology, a call to action.
realize that I should have re-shared this already, in honor of Rabbi Arthur Waskow's passing (it's got a bunch of his Torah in it, the famous "acid rain" teaching) --
On Vending Machine Theology
God is not a kiosk
your prayers are not a quarter
On Vending Machine Theology
God is not a kiosk
your prayers are not a quarter
On Vending Machine Theology
God is not a kiosk and your prayers are not a quarter
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:25 AM
This is pretty great. Good thinking, comforting and challenging theology, a call to action.
Just a mildly entertaining sequence of skeets from the middle of the end of that baseball game :)
November 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Just a mildly entertaining sequence of skeets from the middle of the end of that baseball game :)
Logging off for the weekend (I don’t even know what day it is). I am working so hard to control the information firehose, and it is still too much for me rn.
Thank you for the audiobook recs - I will pick up any others next week.
xo
Thank you for the audiobook recs - I will pick up any others next week.
xo
October 30, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Logging off for the weekend (I don’t even know what day it is). I am working so hard to control the information firehose, and it is still too much for me rn.
Thank you for the audiobook recs - I will pick up any others next week.
xo
Thank you for the audiobook recs - I will pick up any others next week.
xo
I am wallowing in some despair today, but I did make some muffins and turn them into mummies, so
October 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I am wallowing in some despair today, but I did make some muffins and turn them into mummies, so
#Skybrarians, pls recommend me some audiobooks for commuting. I like popular fiction mostly (some literary but take it easy), YA or adult, narrative nonfiction about most anything. Realistic, historical, SFF, humor, witchy magic, essays, biography.
Just tell me what you’ve liked lately! 📚
Just tell me what you’ve liked lately! 📚
October 30, 2025 at 2:55 AM
#Skybrarians, pls recommend me some audiobooks for commuting. I like popular fiction mostly (some literary but take it easy), YA or adult, narrative nonfiction about most anything. Realistic, historical, SFF, humor, witchy magic, essays, biography.
Just tell me what you’ve liked lately! 📚
Just tell me what you’ve liked lately! 📚
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"All present or accounted for." My mom, a veteran of the US Army, drummed into us that this was the proper response, *not* "all present and accounted for." Each member of the unit is *either* physically present *or* there's an account of why they are absent. Relevance? Read on.
October 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"All present or accounted for." My mom, a veteran of the US Army, drummed into us that this was the proper response, *not* "all present and accounted for." Each member of the unit is *either* physically present *or* there's an account of why they are absent. Relevance? Read on.
I do think it’s very, very funny when a kid wants to explain something to me like Goosebumps or Magic Tree House. So earnest, so genuinely interested in helping me understand their request, and so wildly wrong about who needs to be told that. :)
October 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I do think it’s very, very funny when a kid wants to explain something to me like Goosebumps or Magic Tree House. So earnest, so genuinely interested in helping me understand their request, and so wildly wrong about who needs to be told that. :)
Quote post with your favorite reaction gif of all time.
October 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Quote post with your favorite reaction gif of all time.
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This is lovely, short, and moving, perfect timeline cleanse.
October 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This is lovely, short, and moving, perfect timeline cleanse.
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The first of two @mndot.mn.gov Rethinking I-94 public meetings is tomorrow at the Minneapolis Central Library, starting at 11am.
www.ourstreetsmn.org/event/mndot-...
www.ourstreetsmn.org/event/mndot-...
MnDOT Rethinking I-94 Public Meeting - Our Streets
Attend the first of two public meetings hosted by the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) to prepare for the upcoming official public comment period.
www.ourstreetsmn.org
October 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
The first of two @mndot.mn.gov Rethinking I-94 public meetings is tomorrow at the Minneapolis Central Library, starting at 11am.
www.ourstreetsmn.org/event/mndot-...
www.ourstreetsmn.org/event/mndot-...
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Any favorite local locksmiths in Saint Paul to help rekey a new house? We're hoping to do at least one keypad entry lock.
October 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Any favorite local locksmiths in Saint Paul to help rekey a new house? We're hoping to do at least one keypad entry lock.
CO detector reached end of life this morning. I’ll replace it, that’s no problem, well done good and faithful servant, etc.
but it won’t stop beeping and I had to put it outside. Where it is beeping.
I don’t need anything from you, I’m just complaining. 🙂
but it won’t stop beeping and I had to put it outside. Where it is beeping.
I don’t need anything from you, I’m just complaining. 🙂
October 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
CO detector reached end of life this morning. I’ll replace it, that’s no problem, well done good and faithful servant, etc.
but it won’t stop beeping and I had to put it outside. Where it is beeping.
I don’t need anything from you, I’m just complaining. 🙂
but it won’t stop beeping and I had to put it outside. Where it is beeping.
I don’t need anything from you, I’m just complaining. 🙂
I am not cleaning up your breakfast leftovers
Library had a book sale.
October 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I am not cleaning up your breakfast leftovers
Three.
1) The Listeners / Maggie Stiefvater
2) Frostbite / Nicola Twilley
3) Tuck Everlasting (graphic adaptation) / K. Woodman-Maynard (original Natalie Babbitt)
Do we think “be honest” is for people reading several at a time or just one? 😊
1) The Listeners / Maggie Stiefvater
2) Frostbite / Nicola Twilley
3) Tuck Everlasting (graphic adaptation) / K. Woodman-Maynard (original Natalie Babbitt)
Do we think “be honest” is for people reading several at a time or just one? 😊
Be honest. How many books are you in the middle of reading right now?
October 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Three.
1) The Listeners / Maggie Stiefvater
2) Frostbite / Nicola Twilley
3) Tuck Everlasting (graphic adaptation) / K. Woodman-Maynard (original Natalie Babbitt)
Do we think “be honest” is for people reading several at a time or just one? 😊
1) The Listeners / Maggie Stiefvater
2) Frostbite / Nicola Twilley
3) Tuck Everlasting (graphic adaptation) / K. Woodman-Maynard (original Natalie Babbitt)
Do we think “be honest” is for people reading several at a time or just one? 😊
What a cool idea to get people out in the community and enjoying public art! (Lake Street Mpls, not wherever else you are 😉)
Thank you to Metro Transit for sponsoring the Lake Street Mural Day on and providing FREE transit passes🎨✨🚌
🔗to download the transit pass:
www.surveymonkey.com/r/2025LakeSt...
#LakeStreetMuralDay #MNArt #MinneapolisEvents #MinnesotaEvents #MinneapolisMurals
🔗to download the transit pass:
www.surveymonkey.com/r/2025LakeSt...
#LakeStreetMuralDay #MNArt #MinneapolisEvents #MinnesotaEvents #MinneapolisMurals
October 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
What a cool idea to get people out in the community and enjoying public art! (Lake Street Mpls, not wherever else you are 😉)
Where I am today:
October 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Where I am today:
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Pls. repost and share: #OA #OER free scholar-produced resource for teachinge and readinge *The Canterbury Tales* at the Universitye level: THE OPEN ACCESS COMPANION TO THE CANTERBURY TALES
opencanterburytales.lsusites.org
opencanterburytales.lsusites.org
The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales – The new way to learn about old books
opencanterburytales.lsusites.org
October 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Pls. repost and share: #OA #OER free scholar-produced resource for teachinge and readinge *The Canterbury Tales* at the Universitye level: THE OPEN ACCESS COMPANION TO THE CANTERBURY TALES
opencanterburytales.lsusites.org
opencanterburytales.lsusites.org
Very interested in reading this book.
Once a sign of democratic progress, the automobile has instead produced ecological ruin. Our book of the week calls for a radical reimagining of public space and collective power to dismantle our car-centric culture.
By @sgoodyear.bsky.social et al. on @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
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By @sgoodyear.bsky.social et al. on @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
buff.ly/HcZA1vL
October 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Very interested in reading this book.
Local MSP: I desperately hate bagging my own groceries but I’m not sure continuing to shop at The Most Expensive Store in the Universe is sustainable. Where are you shopping that isn’t Cub? (I like the store just fine but the BAGGING. AGGHHH.)
October 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Local MSP: I desperately hate bagging my own groceries but I’m not sure continuing to shop at The Most Expensive Store in the Universe is sustainable. Where are you shopping that isn’t Cub? (I like the store just fine but the BAGGING. AGGHHH.)
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Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.
October 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.
I went and voted today. It’s a local school board election, and there are three people running for three seats, so there’s a limit to how much it matters. But it made me feel better, and IT IS A RIGHT THAT I HAVE as a 19th amendment person. 💪🏻
October 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I went and voted today. It’s a local school board election, and there are three people running for three seats, so there’s a limit to how much it matters. But it made me feel better, and IT IS A RIGHT THAT I HAVE as a 19th amendment person. 💪🏻