Beth
@bethplusbooks.bsky.social
Public librarian, trash TV watcher, crochet addict, dog and human mom.
Through no conscious effort, recently I have 1) listened to The Princess Bride audiobook, narrated by Reiner, 2) watched When Harry Met Sally, 3) listened to Cary Elwes' audiobook As You Wish, where Reiner was a contributor, read his excerpts, and obviously was the heart of the story. What a loss.
December 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Through no conscious effort, recently I have 1) listened to The Princess Bride audiobook, narrated by Reiner, 2) watched When Harry Met Sally, 3) listened to Cary Elwes' audiobook As You Wish, where Reiner was a contributor, read his excerpts, and obviously was the heart of the story. What a loss.
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The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.
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Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
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I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.
November 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.
My staff at the library organized a pumpkin-decorating competition. Patron voting starts on Wednesday. Because I have old taste and no chill, here is my submission:
#CapsForSale #50centsacap
#YesIMadeThoseCaps
#CapsForSale #50centsacap
#YesIMadeThoseCaps
October 21, 2025 at 2:29 AM
My staff at the library organized a pumpkin-decorating competition. Patron voting starts on Wednesday. Because I have old taste and no chill, here is my submission:
#CapsForSale #50centsacap
#YesIMadeThoseCaps
#CapsForSale #50centsacap
#YesIMadeThoseCaps
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Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.
September 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.
This is always my "WTF" moment. I am raising my autistic darling as best I can, and cannot fathom them being anything other than themselves as they are, and choosing danger and death over having this delightful creature?! I could never.
I don't believe that vaccines cause autism.
But the concept of someone just letting a baby die in case they perceive the world differently than their parents? Is repugnant.
But the concept of someone just letting a baby die in case they perceive the world differently than their parents? Is repugnant.
September 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
This is always my "WTF" moment. I am raising my autistic darling as best I can, and cannot fathom them being anything other than themselves as they are, and choosing danger and death over having this delightful creature?! I could never.
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Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results:
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial
: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex
www.theregister.com
September 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results:
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
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More than 300k Black women being pushed out of the labor market while white men gained 365k more jobs is what we mean when we refer to racism as systemic.
September 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
More than 300k Black women being pushed out of the labor market while white men gained 365k more jobs is what we mean when we refer to racism as systemic.
Prepare for a guy punch of the best kind, from Scalzi's "Being Poor." He has written many great things, and I agree that it's among the best.
1/3 20 years ago today, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, I wrote a piece called "Being Poor," to answer, in a way that I hoped would stick, why so many people stayed in New Orleans to face the storm. It was and remains one of the best things I've ever written.
whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/b...
whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/b...
Being Poor
Visit the post for more.
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September 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Prepare for a guy punch of the best kind, from Scalzi's "Being Poor." He has written many great things, and I agree that it's among the best.
Sweet baby jeebus WHY would you want to be paying someone caring for your family LESS?!??? This would simply be a path to more elder abuse and worse outcomes for our most vulnerable.
hey if youre american the department of labour is proposing getting rid of minimum wage & overtime protection for homecare workers thanks to a loophole from the 1970s pls let them know these protections need to be kept and expanded up. deadline is on sept 2nd
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Application of the Fair Labor Standards Act to Domestic Service
In 1974, Congress applied the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to "domestic service" employees, but exempted employees who provide "companionship services" from the minimum wage and overtime requiremen...
www.federalregister.gov
September 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Sweet baby jeebus WHY would you want to be paying someone caring for your family LESS?!??? This would simply be a path to more elder abuse and worse outcomes for our most vulnerable.
I am 11 crocheted blankets destined to be Buy It Now items for next summer's @romancingthevote.bsky.social auction, because I crochet when I feel helpless or sad or mad. Trans flags, non-binary flags, and just some pretty colors. Wonder how many I'll have by next June!?
July 26, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I am 11 crocheted blankets destined to be Buy It Now items for next summer's @romancingthevote.bsky.social auction, because I crochet when I feel helpless or sad or mad. Trans flags, non-binary flags, and just some pretty colors. Wonder how many I'll have by next June!?
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I have two things to say about the judge being arrested by the FBI.
1. Obstructing immigration is illegal but also morally correct.
2. I don’t believe a word the FBI or ICE says. They are lying. The judge is innocent.
1. Obstructing immigration is illegal but also morally correct.
2. I don’t believe a word the FBI or ICE says. They are lying. The judge is innocent.
April 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I have two things to say about the judge being arrested by the FBI.
1. Obstructing immigration is illegal but also morally correct.
2. I don’t believe a word the FBI or ICE says. They are lying. The judge is innocent.
1. Obstructing immigration is illegal but also morally correct.
2. I don’t believe a word the FBI or ICE says. They are lying. The judge is innocent.
Ohioans, they are coming for our libraries. The state house has passed a budget proposal that removes the PLF and moves libraries to a straight line-item of funding for ~100m loss. The Public Library Fund (PLF) keeps libraries in Ohio independent and they just hate that we aren't under their thumb.
April 4, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Ohioans, they are coming for our libraries. The state house has passed a budget proposal that removes the PLF and moves libraries to a straight line-item of funding for ~100m loss. The Public Library Fund (PLF) keeps libraries in Ohio independent and they just hate that we aren't under their thumb.
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Lemme also just shout out ol buddy from Atlantic for not selling the Signal Group Chat for a book deal and waiting two years to reveal what was in it
March 25, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Lemme also just shout out ol buddy from Atlantic for not selling the Signal Group Chat for a book deal and waiting two years to reveal what was in it
It's Friday, I've had a week, and I'm warning my staff AND patrons to behave by wearing my Sherlock Holmes T-shirt and @measuredandslow.bsky.social knife earrings. Let's just all be cool today, shall we?
March 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
It's Friday, I've had a week, and I'm warning my staff AND patrons to behave by wearing my Sherlock Holmes T-shirt and @measuredandslow.bsky.social knife earrings. Let's just all be cool today, shall we?
This is fucking AWFUL librarianship. Parental duties to be aware of what their kids are reading and a librarians job to give any patron all the access they want work hand in hand, and should not be substituted for each other. Yuck.
This is bad librarianship.
All patrons should have the same rights, regardless of age.
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All patrons should have the same rights, regardless of age.
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New policy at Huntsville-Madison County library requires children to have parent’s permission for what they check out
Beginning Monday, a new policy at the Huntsville-Madison County Public Library will require children 17 and younger to have their parent’s or guardian’s permission for what they check o…
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March 7, 2025 at 2:43 AM
This is fucking AWFUL librarianship. Parental duties to be aware of what their kids are reading and a librarians job to give any patron all the access they want work hand in hand, and should not be substituted for each other. Yuck.
I work in a library in a rural, red area, and food insecurity is something that a huge number of my patrons are dealing with. We have a Little Free Pantry outside the library that is filled three times a week with donations from a local grocery store, and it's almost always empty in a day or two.
RFK Jr. said in his Fox News OpEd that “Good nutrition remains a best defense against most chronic and infectious illnesses”.
The best diet in the world will not prevent infection if you are unvaccinated and sharing air with someone who has measles.
The best diet in the world will not prevent infection if you are unvaccinated and sharing air with someone who has measles.
March 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I work in a library in a rural, red area, and food insecurity is something that a huge number of my patrons are dealing with. We have a Little Free Pantry outside the library that is filled three times a week with donations from a local grocery store, and it's almost always empty in a day or two.
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*frantically smashing answer buzzer* what is, the adult fiction section of your hometown public library when you're 12-14 years old
Where to start reading Stephen King
Where to start reading Stephen King
How to choose the perfect Stephen King book, out of his library of 65 novels
buff.ly
February 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
*frantically smashing answer buzzer* what is, the adult fiction section of your hometown public library when you're 12-14 years old
Goodness knows that's where I started!
*frantically smashing answer buzzer* what is, the adult fiction section of your hometown public library when you're 12-14 years old
Where to start reading Stephen King
February 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Goodness knows that's where I started!
I passed out at 6:30 pm last night. And I woke up at 4:10 am and was just wide awake. I couldn't do noisy things, so I made this, in plans to make pillows for @romancingthevote.bsky.social next auction.
February 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I passed out at 6:30 pm last night. And I woke up at 4:10 am and was just wide awake. I couldn't do noisy things, so I made this, in plans to make pillows for @romancingthevote.bsky.social next auction.
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Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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February 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
🧵⬇️
All. Reading. Counts. Jeezy peezy guys, it all fucking counts. This is a gross approach to reading that reflects and amplifies an unhealthy approach to food. 0/10 from this librarian.
February 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
All. Reading. Counts. Jeezy peezy guys, it all fucking counts. This is a gross approach to reading that reflects and amplifies an unhealthy approach to food. 0/10 from this librarian.
I just got off a statewide zoom call with 131 library directors in Ohio. While morale is not high, we all ended with the knowledge that we're not going to preemptively comply with anything and will keep on doing everything we can to provide safe, healthy, open, accepting spaces for our communities.
February 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I just got off a statewide zoom call with 131 library directors in Ohio. While morale is not high, we all ended with the knowledge that we're not going to preemptively comply with anything and will keep on doing everything we can to provide safe, healthy, open, accepting spaces for our communities.
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if the president can say “i don’t like the department of energy,” and within a week it’s closed, then the constitution means nothing, and the president’s entire claim to power is the loyalty of the military. either he is constrained by the constitution or he’s a dictator, there isn’t a middle ground
February 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
if the president can say “i don’t like the department of energy,” and within a week it’s closed, then the constitution means nothing, and the president’s entire claim to power is the loyalty of the military. either he is constrained by the constitution or he’s a dictator, there isn’t a middle ground