Carol the Librarian
@paroo1.bsky.social
Proud public librarian. I read books and I know things. Professional nerd.
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Overheard conversation between my boyfriend and Marcel last night:
BF: No, you can't touch my food with your paw.
Marcel: Mew.
BF: Why? I think you know why.
BF: No, you can't touch my food with your paw.
Marcel: Mew.
BF: Why? I think you know why.
November 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Overheard conversation between my boyfriend and Marcel last night:
BF: No, you can't touch my food with your paw.
Marcel: Mew.
BF: Why? I think you know why.
BF: No, you can't touch my food with your paw.
Marcel: Mew.
BF: Why? I think you know why.
I have the same thought anytime someone says “ but they meant well.”
Good intentions don’t matter if your actions hurt people.
Good intentions don’t matter if your actions hurt people.
I’ve written about a lot of horrible historical figures in American politics and I always get earnest questions asking “but did they really believe that?”
I get the curiosity but I tend to remind people what they do in public is vastly more important than what they tell themselves in private
I get the curiosity but I tend to remind people what they do in public is vastly more important than what they tell themselves in private
I have no idea what Graham Platner's religious views are, but the way our culture is obsessed with trying to divine a person's "real" interior views, by definition radically private and unknowable, above and beyond external actions in the world, is a sign of how culturally Protestant we all are.
October 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I have the same thought anytime someone says “ but they meant well.”
Good intentions don’t matter if your actions hurt people.
Good intentions don’t matter if your actions hurt people.
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the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
October 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
I could totally see him saying this, since he apparently doesn't know anything about anything.
INTERVIEWER: You were born January 30, 1972 in Shreveport, Louisiana, correct?
JOHNSON: I don't know anything about that, it's the first I'm hearing of it
JOHNSON: I don't know anything about that, it's the first I'm hearing of it
October 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I could totally see him saying this, since he apparently doesn't know anything about anything.
Natchitoches, LA.
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
October 8, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Natchitoches, LA.
Oh this is fabulous!
4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day.
On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day
So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day
So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
September 14, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Oh this is fabulous!
That is a bird on a mission right there.
A Great Egret getting a running start to chase off other Great Egrets that landed in the pond. The pond is pretty small, and this bird decided it was big enough for only one bird.
August 30, 2025 at 9:51 PM
That is a bird on a mission right there.
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White people often have trouble recognizing racism when it’s not intentionally malicious because we were taught it’s about hating people of color, when it’s often about not considering people of color at all or assuming you know what’s best.
August 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
White people often have trouble recognizing racism when it’s not intentionally malicious because we were taught it’s about hating people of color, when it’s often about not considering people of color at all or assuming you know what’s best.
Ohhh, that’s how you spell it!
Pshhhkkkkkkrrrrkakingkakingkakingtshchchchchchchchcch*ding*ding*ding*
AOL ditching dial-up service, a relic of the internet in the '90s and early '00s
The online service provider said it will end the service on Sept. 30.
www.nbcnews.com
August 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Ohhh, that’s how you spell it!
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Pure Americana.
August 5, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Pure Americana.
Justices Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson must be so tired.
Kagan leads the dissent for the Democratic appointees as such: “Once again, this Court uses its emergency docket to destroy the independence of an independent agency, as established by Congress.”
![And it has accomplished those ends with the scantiest of explanations. The majority's sole professed basis for today's stay order is its prior stay order in Wilcox. But Wilcox itself was minimally (and, as I have previously shown, poorly) ex-plained. See 605 U.S., at —-_ (KAGAN, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 4-7). It contained one sentence (ignored today) hinting at but not deciding the likelihood of success on the merits, plus two more respecting the "balance [of] the equi-ties." Id., at _ _—_ (order) (slip op., at 1-2); see id., at _-
(KAGAN, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 4-7). So only another under-reasoned emergency order undergirds today's.
Next time, though, the majority will have two (if still under-
Cite as: 606 U. S. _ (2025)
3
KAGAN, J., dissenting
reasoned) orders to cite. "Truly, this is turtles all the way down." Rapanos vnited States, 547 U. S. 715, 754 (2006) (plurality opinion). The majority rejects Congress's design of a whole class of agencies (except, as Wilcox somehow has it, the Federal Reserve) by layering nothing on nothing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreicdfbvu4hne3t7jjwernzlnwuv3qu5wejkjfo5fkmnoyvrvrxjlo4@jpeg)
July 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Justices Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson must be so tired.
Good way to scare people and keep them in line, though.
The US is preparing for potential Iranian terror attacks on the Fourth of July, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce says.
No suggestion they’ve had any actual intelligence, though.
No suggestion they’ve had any actual intelligence, though.
July 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Good way to scare people and keep them in line, though.
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No better testimonial than this one on how federal job cuts put lives at risk.
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
June 3, 2025 at 3:16 AM
No better testimonial than this one on how federal job cuts put lives at risk.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.
April 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.
Bless their hearts.
Members of the class of 2025 say they expect to earn an average $101,500 per year for their first job. That’s much higher than what the average recent grad actually makes.
New grads expect to earn over $100K right after college, on average—these are the top fields to achieve that
Rising college graduates have high expectations for their starting salaries, according to a new report from ZipRecruiter.
cnb.cx
April 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Bless their hearts.
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This is the ideal male body. You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like.
April 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This is the ideal male body. You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like.
Exactly
Many people think cats are sneaky. The word sneaky implies that a cat is hiding what they're doing. Anyone who has ever lived with a cat knows that cats are brazen and will look you dead in the eye while doing something they're not supposed to do, with a mutinous look on their face daring you to 1/
March 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Exactly
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"Cat puke? Sir, I know nothing about this 'cat puke' of which you speak, and frankly I'm offended at the suggestion that I might. Good day, sir. I said, good day!"
January 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
"Cat puke? Sir, I know nothing about this 'cat puke' of which you speak, and frankly I'm offended at the suggestion that I might. Good day, sir. I said, good day!"
I'm honestly not sure this was the goal, but it's certainly a handy side benefit.
Republicans have been defunding education for decades for this reason. An uneducated electorate is easier to control.
The sad reality is, the overwhelming majority of Americans don't know there's a voter for the Speaker going on, don't care & won't be able to name him after the vote. This is what happens in a country where civics education is no longer universal. Its absence lets darkness settle in over democracy.
January 3, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I'm honestly not sure this was the goal, but it's certainly a handy side benefit.
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I have always loved public libraries, but having young children has exponentially increased my gratitude and sense of indebtedness to them. Our local library is such a huge part of our lives. The books, the programming, the very intentionally curated kids’ section. It’s all such a gift.
December 27, 2024 at 2:12 AM
I have always loved public libraries, but having young children has exponentially increased my gratitude and sense of indebtedness to them. Our local library is such a huge part of our lives. The books, the programming, the very intentionally curated kids’ section. It’s all such a gift.
Nope. It’s the best.
November 28, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Nope. It’s the best.
@ellceegee.bsky.social recognize the last name?
Blytheville doctor David Diffine’s license was suspended last month. Newly uncovered videos show the disturbing reasons why.
Video shows suspended doctor walking around nude in clinic, touching himself in front of others
Dr. David Diffine's license was suspended last month. Newly uncovered videos show why.
arktimes.com
November 18, 2024 at 9:12 PM
@ellceegee.bsky.social recognize the last name?
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I’m a public librarian in a degenerating democracy, and I am pleading: Care about your library. Use it. See what programs and events it offers. And pay attention to its governing body. See who the trustees are. Consider running yourself. Libraries will need all the community support they can get. 📚
November 7, 2024 at 12:11 PM
I’m a public librarian in a degenerating democracy, and I am pleading: Care about your library. Use it. See what programs and events it offers. And pay attention to its governing body. See who the trustees are. Consider running yourself. Libraries will need all the community support they can get. 📚
Why yes, yes I am having cheese dip for dinner, why do you ask?
Sassy would also like some cheese dip for dinner.
Sassy would also like some cheese dip for dinner.
November 6, 2024 at 1:24 AM
Why yes, yes I am having cheese dip for dinner, why do you ask?
Sassy would also like some cheese dip for dinner.
Sassy would also like some cheese dip for dinner.