Chris
@cynicalgrrl.bsky.social
Still libraries, websites, Ann Arbor politics, college sports (mostly Virginia and Michigan with a newly-added parental interest in Nebraska). You know, the usual. XML alchemist.
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when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
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I’m a lifelong democrat. But if anyone tries to raise my taxes to pay for schools, libraries, or sidewalks, I will be forced to campaign with Republicans for the fifth consecutive election cycle. #a2council
by Kathy Griswold
by Kathy Griswold
November 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I’m a lifelong democrat. But if anyone tries to raise my taxes to pay for schools, libraries, or sidewalks, I will be forced to campaign with Republicans for the fifth consecutive election cycle. #a2council
by Kathy Griswold
by Kathy Griswold
The architect whose name is attached to the project -- James McCrery -- went to THE Ohio State. I'm just saying.
He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
October 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The architect whose name is attached to the project -- James McCrery -- went to THE Ohio State. I'm just saying.
@averysafecat.bsky.social Important question -- were you still in the UK for the Bruno Brookes BBC Radio 1 Top 40 years? We were there 86-89 and so was he. For some reason I woke up this morning with the sound of him saying "Bananarama" in my head. Is this a sign I am losing my mind?
October 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
@averysafecat.bsky.social Important question -- were you still in the UK for the Bruno Brookes BBC Radio 1 Top 40 years? We were there 86-89 and so was he. For some reason I woke up this morning with the sound of him saying "Bananarama" in my head. Is this a sign I am losing my mind?
I’m over here near Side Biscuit and frankly, everyone has sounded great except John Mayer — weirdly distorted keyboards. Crowd didn’t sing Mr. Brightside nearly as loud as a football crowd, though. The Texas Gentlemen were more to my taste than the headliner tbh.
I’m two blocks away and can’t hear anything. Maybe a vague thumping noise? Like, we were astonished how quiet it is. I think we are below the bowl and the sound must be going over us.
September 28, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I’m over here near Side Biscuit and frankly, everyone has sounded great except John Mayer — weirdly distorted keyboards. Crowd didn’t sing Mr. Brightside nearly as loud as a football crowd, though. The Texas Gentlemen were more to my taste than the headliner tbh.
As promised. It’s decorative gourd season!
September 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
As promised. It’s decorative gourd season!
This week’s floral fantasias
September 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This week’s floral fantasias
This weekend’s Floral Fantasia (thanks @dorothyjberry.bsky.social) is getting a little tired but that’s an aesthetic too
September 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This weekend’s Floral Fantasia (thanks @dorothyjberry.bsky.social) is getting a little tired but that’s an aesthetic too
Without downloading any new images, where are you mentally?
August 27, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Without downloading any new images, where are you mentally?
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A very special letter to Damn Arbor from former AALD Director, Josie Parker. www.damnarbor.com/2025/07/lett...
#a2Council
#a2Council
July 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
A very special letter to Damn Arbor from former AALD Director, Josie Parker. www.damnarbor.com/2025/07/lett...
#a2Council
#a2Council
Another new-to-me EV, the Cadillac Celestiq. This is a good place to spot new car models.
July 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Another new-to-me EV, the Cadillac Celestiq. This is a good place to spot new car models.
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In 2018, we promised voters we would fund a park on the library lot without taxpayer dollars. Instead, we spent our 501c3's money on mailers opposing proposals that'd fund the park for free. Here's why it's everyone else's fault that the parking lot has remained desolate and uninviting. #a2council
July 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
In 2018, we promised voters we would fund a park on the library lot without taxpayer dollars. Instead, we spent our 501c3's money on mailers opposing proposals that'd fund the park for free. Here's why it's everyone else's fault that the parking lot has remained desolate and uninviting. #a2council
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As the August 5th election nears, we've been getting a lot of questions from patrons who have heard or read false claims about Proposals A&B. So, we've put together this page with the false claims we've heard and the facts that refute them:
aadl.org/morefacts
Please share and tell your friends!
aadl.org/morefacts
Please share and tell your friends!
Things you may have heard about the August 5th Vote | Ann Arbor District Library
aadl.org
July 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
As the August 5th election nears, we've been getting a lot of questions from patrons who have heard or read false claims about Proposals A&B. So, we've put together this page with the false claims we've heard and the facts that refute them:
aadl.org/morefacts
Please share and tell your friends!
aadl.org/morefacts
Please share and tell your friends!
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If you zoom in on this 18th C. chart of the solar system, you will see that the Sun looks like a lion.
quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wcl1ic/x-7...
quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wcl1ic/x-7...
The solar system displayed / Bartholomew Burges.
Engraved by: J. Norman. / Produced to accompany Burges, Bartholomew. A short account of the solar system. Boston. 1789. / Chart of the solar system. / Dedication cartouche includes figues of terrestri...
quod.lib.umich.edu
July 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
If you zoom in on this 18th C. chart of the solar system, you will see that the Sun looks like a lion.
quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wcl1ic/x-7...
quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wcl1ic/x-7...
I was boarding a plane from Detroit to New York and there was a jam up ahead so I was just standing in first class for a while. I caught eyes with someone -- it was Patti Smith. I raised my eyebrows and smiled at her, she smiled at me and winked, then the jam cleared and I shuffled along to my seat.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I was boarding a plane from Detroit to New York and there was a jam up ahead so I was just standing in first class for a while. I caught eyes with someone -- it was Patti Smith. I raised my eyebrows and smiled at her, she smiled at me and winked, then the jam cleared and I shuffled along to my seat.
Saw my first Vinfast EV outside of Battle Creek. Usually first sightings are closer to home.
May 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Saw my first Vinfast EV outside of Battle Creek. Usually first sightings are closer to home.
This is the one I think of every day, though.
May 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This is the one I think of every day, though.
I thought I was the only one.
May 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I thought I was the only one.
@greene.haus Politicking hard
Santa Ono explains why he’s leaving University of Michigan for Florida
Ono announced on May 4 he was taking the University of Florida president's job later this summer. He explained his decision in an Inside Higher Education column.
www.mlive.com
May 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
@greene.haus Politicking hard
This is interesting timing.
Michigan AG Dana Nessel drops all charges against U-M pro-Palestinian protesters
The case has been politically charged with calls for Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel to recuse herself.
www.freep.com
May 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
This is interesting timing.
Go Blue!
So, if I have this right: this dude junked diversity programs at U-Mich just to pad his application to ditch it for a new job?
May 5, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Go Blue!
When Isaac Chotiner emails me for an interview
April 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
When Isaac Chotiner emails me for an interview
Okay, so I was a medieval studies major, and yet I can come up with the word MURIATIC, so what is the excuse of the Spelling Bee team, I ask you??
April 15, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Okay, so I was a medieval studies major, and yet I can come up with the word MURIATIC, so what is the excuse of the Spelling Bee team, I ask you??