Stacey Nerdin
@staceynerdin.bsky.social
Chicagoland transplant. #PublicLibrary associate. Avid reader, multi-crafter, and pop culture junkie. Mary Oliver stan. Quietly raging most of the time.
Cats are so smart. Here’s to each of us finding a patch of light in our worlds today. 🐈❤️
April 13, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Cats are so smart. Here’s to each of us finding a patch of light in our worlds today. 🐈❤️
My porch goose is ready for the Easter season! 🪿
March 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
My porch goose is ready for the Easter season! 🪿
Current creative fixation has been discovering Coco Wyo coloring pages and alcohol ink markers. This is a big deal because I lack major skill in art or color theory. But there are so many helpful posts/videos online that make this doable for me. I’m pretty pleased with my results! ☺️
February 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Current creative fixation has been discovering Coco Wyo coloring pages and alcohol ink markers. This is a big deal because I lack major skill in art or color theory. But there are so many helpful posts/videos online that make this doable for me. I’m pretty pleased with my results! ☺️
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What the world needs now is a healing MySpace Top 8 meetup of Kindness Avengers. Panel featuring LeVar Burton, Ms. Rachel, Elyse Myers, Bindi & Robert Irwin, Tabitha Brown, Steve from Blue’s Clues, and Dolly Parton in conversation with Elmo at a library?
Kindness for our hearts! I’m just sayin’ 💚 🌎
Kindness for our hearts! I’m just sayin’ 💚 🌎
February 3, 2025 at 1:18 AM
What the world needs now is a healing MySpace Top 8 meetup of Kindness Avengers. Panel featuring LeVar Burton, Ms. Rachel, Elyse Myers, Bindi & Robert Irwin, Tabitha Brown, Steve from Blue’s Clues, and Dolly Parton in conversation with Elmo at a library?
Kindness for our hearts! I’m just sayin’ 💚 🌎
Kindness for our hearts! I’m just sayin’ 💚 🌎
Sharing because it brings me joy, and maybe it could be useful to you, too? I make custom lock and home screens for my iPhone for each holiday/season. Here’s my set for Valentine’s. If it works for your phone, please feel free to use!
February 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Sharing because it brings me joy, and maybe it could be useful to you, too? I make custom lock and home screens for my iPhone for each holiday/season. Here’s my set for Valentine’s. If it works for your phone, please feel free to use!
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Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.
a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it
ALT: a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it
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February 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.
Just bought my first dozen Liberal Rocks! Love the tagline "Activism for Introverts." 😁 Give them a follow on Bluesky and buy your own rocks here: www.liberalrocks.com
Liberal Rocks was designed for a regime like Trumps. When protesting becomes more dangerous & people are afraid of speaking out, we need to spread our messages while remaining anonymous.
That's what I exist to do. Go to www.liberalrocks.com, choose you messages, and start protesting on the DL!
That's what I exist to do. Go to www.liberalrocks.com, choose you messages, and start protesting on the DL!
January 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Just bought my first dozen Liberal Rocks! Love the tagline "Activism for Introverts." 😁 Give them a follow on Bluesky and buy your own rocks here: www.liberalrocks.com
1000% yes! I've seen patrons spend hours at our reference desk trying to get information on these services, but in truth, we have limited experience and expertise in these matters. More training would be helpful, but dedicated resources would be a dream! #publiclibraries #socialservices
If you ask library workers to describe their dream library, one of the first things they’ll mention is having a social worker at the library (emphasizing the extraordinary helpers that they are!) 💚
Love that the Miami-Dade Library has social services to help neighbors access resources & programs ✨
Love that the Miami-Dade Library has social services to help neighbors access resources & programs ✨
January 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
1000% yes! I've seen patrons spend hours at our reference desk trying to get information on these services, but in truth, we have limited experience and expertise in these matters. More training would be helpful, but dedicated resources would be a dream! #publiclibraries #socialservices
Bookmarking this energy. 👏👏
Jennings: This salute trutherism is outrageous.
Rampell: Do it right now on TV! If you think it’s a normal way to greet people, do it right now on TV. Why won’t you?!
Rampell: Do it right now on TV! If you think it’s a normal way to greet people, do it right now on TV. Why won’t you?!
January 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Bookmarking this energy. 👏👏
I ran the adult Game Night at the #library tonight, and everyone had a blast with Camel Up. It's a quirky, unpredictable betting game for 3-8 players, ages 8+, with an average playtime of 30-45 minutes. Bonus points for unique design elements and A+ storage, too. I highly recommend it! #boardgames
January 28, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I ran the adult Game Night at the #library tonight, and everyone had a blast with Camel Up. It's a quirky, unpredictable betting game for 3-8 players, ages 8+, with an average playtime of 30-45 minutes. Bonus points for unique design elements and A+ storage, too. I highly recommend it! #boardgames
Fabulous thread! And numbers aren't just used to determine funding, but the justification of staff positions and our ability to meet community needs, so please - interact with your librarians! Ask for help! We are required to tally every service interaction to show we are actually necessary.
1000% this. Public libraries are actually pretty radical--free to all, and based on the idea that info should be available to all. Get a library card! Use your library! Those numbers often play into their funding.
I also keep thinking that we have to support our libraries.
January 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Fabulous thread! And numbers aren't just used to determine funding, but the justification of staff positions and our ability to meet community needs, so please - interact with your librarians! Ask for help! We are required to tally every service interaction to show we are actually necessary.
Get in, loser, we’re posting lock screens.*
*I customize mine for holidays and seasons, etc. 😁
*I customize mine for holidays and seasons, etc. 😁
January 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Get in, loser, we’re posting lock screens.*
*I customize mine for holidays and seasons, etc. 😁
*I customize mine for holidays and seasons, etc. 😁
Something you don’t know before moving from the West Coast to Chicagoland is how your dog will adapt to the winters. Well…Chewie doesn’t seem to mind at all! (Here he is basking in yesterday’s 32-degree temps. 😂) #snowdog #midwestwinter #midwest
January 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Something you don’t know before moving from the West Coast to Chicagoland is how your dog will adapt to the winters. Well…Chewie doesn’t seem to mind at all! (Here he is basking in yesterday’s 32-degree temps. 😂) #snowdog #midwestwinter #midwest
Four winters ago, as a West Coast transplant to northern Illinois, I was panicked watching the neighbor kids on the frozen pond behind our house. Now, it's a particular joy to watch them clear the outline for their hockey rink and play well into the night. ♥️❄️ #MidwestLife #MidwestWinter #Midwest
January 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Four winters ago, as a West Coast transplant to northern Illinois, I was panicked watching the neighbor kids on the frozen pond behind our house. Now, it's a particular joy to watch them clear the outline for their hockey rink and play well into the night. ♥️❄️ #MidwestLife #MidwestWinter #Midwest
How do things get so badly misdiagnosed? Last year, I saw a podiatrist about chronic pain in my left foot. After an exam & MRI, he attributed it to "inflammation and overuse." He prescribed orthotics and suggested surgery to either fuse joints or cut the nerve running across the top of my foot.
December 3, 2024 at 4:36 AM
How do things get so badly misdiagnosed? Last year, I saw a podiatrist about chronic pain in my left foot. After an exam & MRI, he attributed it to "inflammation and overuse." He prescribed orthotics and suggested surgery to either fuse joints or cut the nerve running across the top of my foot.
I'm in charge of creating the monthly take-home craft kits for adults at my library. This week's abbreviated hours meant a more-than-usual rush to get the new kits ready for Dec 1. I hope our patrons enjoy making this little fella & that he brings lots of joy this season! #PublicLibraries #crafts
November 27, 2024 at 11:15 PM
I'm in charge of creating the monthly take-home craft kits for adults at my library. This week's abbreviated hours meant a more-than-usual rush to get the new kits ready for Dec 1. I hope our patrons enjoy making this little fella & that he brings lots of joy this season! #PublicLibraries #crafts
I often wonder if people know that librarians spend roughly 42% of their time troubleshooting the public printer. (Ok, not really, but some days...gah! 😣) #PublicLibraries
November 27, 2024 at 3:11 PM
I often wonder if people know that librarians spend roughly 42% of their time troubleshooting the public printer. (Ok, not really, but some days...gah! 😣) #PublicLibraries
Oooof. I feel that!
I’m not much of a meme sharer here, but this one really hits hard.
November 26, 2024 at 5:54 PM
Oooof. I feel that!
Our unhoused patrons typically keep to themselves, but tonight, one of our regulars joined our monthly Game Night for the first time. I wondered how my other players might respond. They were friendly & welcoming & everyone seemed to have a great time. Library people are all right. #PublicLibraries
November 26, 2024 at 4:34 AM
Our unhoused patrons typically keep to themselves, but tonight, one of our regulars joined our monthly Game Night for the first time. I wondered how my other players might respond. They were friendly & welcoming & everyone seemed to have a great time. Library people are all right. #PublicLibraries
Meet Hobbes and Macaroni, bonded brothers. It will be two years in January since we brought them home from the shelter. Can now confirm: everything you’ve heard about orange cats is true. #tonsofpersonality
November 23, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Meet Hobbes and Macaroni, bonded brothers. It will be two years in January since we brought them home from the shelter. Can now confirm: everything you’ve heard about orange cats is true. #tonsofpersonality
Didn't expect to have a surprise cameo in Wicked spoiled as I sang along to the soundtrack playing at my local Target today. I stopped mid-aisle and was like...Wait! Is that...?!! 😅 If it was mentioned during the media blitz, I somehow missed it. Ah well! 🤷♀️
November 23, 2024 at 5:20 AM
Didn't expect to have a surprise cameo in Wicked spoiled as I sang along to the soundtrack playing at my local Target today. I stopped mid-aisle and was like...Wait! Is that...?!! 😅 If it was mentioned during the media blitz, I somehow missed it. Ah well! 🤷♀️
In a local mom group, someone asked for ways to meet new people, learn new things, and try new hobbies. My suggestion: check the adult programming at your #publiclibrary! Crafting classes, book clubs, lectures, and so much more. It's not just children's story time (though that's important, too!).
November 23, 2024 at 4:20 AM
In a local mom group, someone asked for ways to meet new people, learn new things, and try new hobbies. My suggestion: check the adult programming at your #publiclibrary! Crafting classes, book clubs, lectures, and so much more. It's not just children's story time (though that's important, too!).
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Words of wisdom from Matt Haig's Reasons to Stay Alive.
November 22, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Words of wisdom from Matt Haig's Reasons to Stay Alive.
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This obsession is unhealthy. Our horizons are fine. Also social media, for most, is not a job. It is not school. It is socializing. And it’s fine to say “I don’t want to hang out with Nazis, homophobes, transphobes etc in my free time.”
Opinion - The problem with Bluesky: It won’t broaden our horizons: In the wake of Donald Trump’s election win, the social-media platform has enjoyed a surge of new users looking for an alternative to Elon Musk’s X. But will it be useful, if it just creates an echo chamber for the left?
The problem with Bluesky: It won’t broaden our horizons
In the wake of Donald Trump’s election win, the social-media platform has enjoyed a surge of new users looking for an alternative to Elon Musk’s X. But will it be useful, if it just creates an echo chamber for the left?
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 22, 2024 at 3:12 PM
This obsession is unhealthy. Our horizons are fine. Also social media, for most, is not a job. It is not school. It is socializing. And it’s fine to say “I don’t want to hang out with Nazis, homophobes, transphobes etc in my free time.”
My sister died suddenly in her sleep on Mother's Day this year. Just 56 years old. It was (and has been) such a shock. This "growing around grief" feels true to my experience. 💔
November 22, 2024 at 4:56 AM
My sister died suddenly in her sleep on Mother's Day this year. Just 56 years old. It was (and has been) such a shock. This "growing around grief" feels true to my experience. 💔