Christie Burke, MLIS
@ceburke.bsky.social
Twin Cities, MN, USA. Librarian & educator, maker of stuff. Professional journalism is worth paying for. (she/her)
@dnord.com can’t explain why THIS wasn’t obvious to me
he's the son of the man playing god and does the whole tpose and he suffers as a result of the dr's sins and forgives even when he shouldn't!! it's jesus!!!
i mean could be both. could easily be both.
i mean could be both. could easily be both.
November 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
@dnord.com can’t explain why THIS wasn’t obvious to me
This is suuuper duper cool.
Any teachers out there? Ramping this back up again and figured I would advertise.
I am on the National Weather Service National School Outreach Team. We are composed of various NWS meteorologists across the country that give school talks about the weather. We can use just about any online platform.
I am on the National Weather Service National School Outreach Team. We are composed of various NWS meteorologists across the country that give school talks about the weather. We can use just about any online platform.
November 18, 2025 at 2:17 AM
This is suuuper duper cool.
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One girl said “it doesn’t matter if you ban a book because everyone can find that information online” and then I blew their minds by talking about how your search history can be monitored and sold to the government without your permission, but your library borrowing history requires a warrant.
November 18, 2025 at 1:26 AM
One girl said “it doesn’t matter if you ban a book because everyone can find that information online” and then I blew their minds by talking about how your search history can be monitored and sold to the government without your permission, but your library borrowing history requires a warrant.
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some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops:
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 AM
some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops:
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
Hey, I need a good borscht recipe. Things to know:
1) I’d prefer a soup that you KNOW and LIKE
2) I like beets; my family is suspicious of them
3) I don’t care about Russian vs Ukrainian; my forebears are in fact German & Polish and I just need to make room for all the incoming farm squash 🤪
TIA
1) I’d prefer a soup that you KNOW and LIKE
2) I like beets; my family is suspicious of them
3) I don’t care about Russian vs Ukrainian; my forebears are in fact German & Polish and I just need to make room for all the incoming farm squash 🤪
TIA
November 15, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Hey, I need a good borscht recipe. Things to know:
1) I’d prefer a soup that you KNOW and LIKE
2) I like beets; my family is suspicious of them
3) I don’t care about Russian vs Ukrainian; my forebears are in fact German & Polish and I just need to make room for all the incoming farm squash 🤪
TIA
1) I’d prefer a soup that you KNOW and LIKE
2) I like beets; my family is suspicious of them
3) I don’t care about Russian vs Ukrainian; my forebears are in fact German & Polish and I just need to make room for all the incoming farm squash 🤪
TIA
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There is no 'congrats' loud or enthusiastic enough for the Penn State grad students, who didn't just win their union today, but did it by an utterly absurd 90 point margin.
I'm so proud and happy for them!!!!!
I'm so proud and happy for them!!!!!
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
There is no 'congrats' loud or enthusiastic enough for the Penn State grad students, who didn't just win their union today, but did it by an utterly absurd 90 point margin.
I'm so proud and happy for them!!!!!
I'm so proud and happy for them!!!!!
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🚨 We’re hiring! @CIDRAP is seeking a Digital Communications Lead to drive strategy, content, and analytics that amplify our global public health mission.
Apply here 👉 hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/371...
#Hiring #DigitalComms #PublicHealth #ScienceCommunication
Apply here 👉 hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/371...
#Hiring #DigitalComms #PublicHealth #ScienceCommunication
November 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🚨 We’re hiring! @CIDRAP is seeking a Digital Communications Lead to drive strategy, content, and analytics that amplify our global public health mission.
Apply here 👉 hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/371...
#Hiring #DigitalComms #PublicHealth #ScienceCommunication
Apply here 👉 hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/371...
#Hiring #DigitalComms #PublicHealth #ScienceCommunication
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You are the sum of your stories and regardless of where those books stand in popularity or classic reading lists etc, words on a page made you someone a little new and that’s cool as hell
November 13, 2025 at 1:08 AM
You are the sum of your stories and regardless of where those books stand in popularity or classic reading lists etc, words on a page made you someone a little new and that’s cool as hell
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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)
YouTube video by Commercial Archivist
www.youtube.com
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? 😊