The deposed minor royalty who lives in my house presents the rare but fabulous dangle!yawn

Did you know that Milwaukee had a long-serving, popular Socialist mayor at the *exact same time* that Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy was doing his thing?

(When you look it up, please note the section in the Wikipedia entry titled “Electoral Successes”.)

This rant brought to you by another day of AI hell, learning about a really repulsive book challenge near my hometown, and a well-meaning grocery store clerk who lightly mansplained my job to me when I just wanted to buy a cucumber, man

We’re not cute or heroes or saviors of democracy or whatever. We’re experts in how people interact with information. We’re members of a practice-based field with graduate degrees and we help people become informed every day

“Everything is awful what should we do?!” If only someone without a profit-or-ideology-driven interest in all of this had been building a non-profit, elaborate, local but networked worldwide system of information for over a century. Finish the thought I am literally begging all of you

Truly. He’s our sumptuous fool