Nathan F
librarypoweruser.bsky.social
Nathan F
@librarypoweruser.bsky.social
Pro libraries, PIC abolition, and cats
Midwest, U.S.
Keep hanging on
October 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Feeling this after vacillating over whether to buy an electric scooter. My joints are sore peddling everywhere and I’m only a mile from work. A scooter would help but the fear of being hit is overpowering
July 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I baked these while washing the dishes I dirtied making them 💅
June 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Edit: Seeing this for other sites (e.g. The Verge), seems to only affect hypertext links though. non-hypertext links open without the interstitial
January 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
really hope this modal to... *open* a link from @kottke.org is a mistake
January 30, 2025 at 7:32 PM
January 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I’m sure Pocket’s homepage of reading suggestions is some mix of manual curation and algorithmic recommendation, but it’s all trolling all the time
January 8, 2025 at 2:44 AM
the fun police are approaching (the person being quoted, not apocalypticanow:), here's to outrunning them for a while longer
December 9, 2024 at 10:16 PM
December 1, 2024 at 7:01 PM
when I have the occasional rude or uncooperative patron interaction, as I did today, I recall this post: “bad customer service is actually a form of kindness” marginalutilityannex.wordpress.com/2016/01/
November 19, 2024 at 10:07 PM
made black bean burgers
November 18, 2024 at 2:24 AM
a couple pts I took from this: the farm workers & non-human animals being coworkers (obviously), who're all already compelled by industry to work closely in "hot, stifling" conditions during summer--making all sick/more prone to getting sick--before accounting for H5N1
fortune.com/well/2024/11...
November 10, 2024 at 5:08 PM
in the spirit of the seasons—spooky & election—I baked snake breadsticks lol! 🐍🥖

from this recipe / how-to www.dbrl.org/kids/snake-b...
November 3, 2024 at 11:14 PM
Anne Trubek: “The writing is not gone, or lost, but it’s much harder to find, literally and metaphorically.”
notesfromasmallpress.substack.com/p/we-have-no...

(paywalled but there’s a free trial; found after reading Anne Trubek’s post on print on demand publishing which was illuminating)
October 30, 2024 at 12:05 AM
In Lebanon, Israel Is Forcibly Displacing Civilians. That's a War Crime. - Foreign Policy
archive.today/2024.10.12-2...
October 13, 2024 at 12:16 PM
"rotting in our beds" rotting...?

also why is every other link on Pocket's homepage some variation on this
September 27, 2024 at 9:27 PM
with a judge in Missouri blocking the abortion ballot amendment, revisiting this article by Melissa Gira Grant on this and similar ballot measures was clarifying to me
newrepublic.com/article/1799...
September 9, 2024 at 12:58 AM
“Empathy means / laying yourself down / in someone else’s chalklines / and snapping a photo.” !

and those final two lines 💀

Solmaz Sharif - “Dear Aleph,”
August 12, 2024 at 10:13 PM
this awning, for how high it is, should be a third wider at least. sunlight’s shining over most of my body and into the glass doors
August 10, 2024 at 8:57 PM
robhorning.substack.com/p/companions... “Companionship without companions” by @robhorning.bsky.social
August 4, 2024 at 4:27 PM
gukira.wordpress.com/2024/07/23/i... “Interrupted lives are interrupting lives. Does that sound too pat?”
July 29, 2024 at 12:14 AM
friend wrote this poem, a response to Gretchen Henderson’s Dear Body of Water project, drawn from a local nature area
www.dbrl.org/teens/dear-b...
July 18, 2024 at 2:08 AM
“Dancer” by idles has been stuck in my head for weeks (I suspect I heard it on Inhailer), but could not remember its name, thanks Inhailer #2024Indie500
May 27, 2024 at 7:42 PM
May 27, 2024 at 3:25 PM
May 17, 2024 at 10:53 PM