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Jill H.@librarianjill.bsky.social · 3w ago

I dunno, man. She looks very sweet, but approximately 42% of cats are actually criminal masterminds. There’s a possibility Magnolia was behind the whole thing herself. What say you @darthbluesky.bsky.social? Innocent? Or is the “bank robber” just her patsy? www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-n...

Just realized I have been harboring a mug in my desk cabinet that is neither dishwasher nor microwave safe? WTF why does this mug even exist? (I think it was part of a holiday gift or something?)

Liz Climo @lizclimo.bsky.social · 3w ago

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 3w ago

[Exit Queen.]

American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 3w ago

ALA is heartbroken at the passing of country music legend and literacy champion Dolly Parton. Her Imagination Library initiative, inspired by her father's inability to read or write, has put millions of books into children's hands and was considered by her to be among her greatest achievements.

An ALA READ poster featuring Dolly Parton holding copies of "The Little Engine that Could" and "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"

Jill H.@librarianjill.bsky.social · 4w ago

My very sweet, submissive scruffmutt Oscar (RIP) either adored or hid from everyone he met, no in-between. One of only 2 people he ever GROWLED at instead was a friend's fiancé acting normal at a cookout. Some years later we all learned fiancé had been abusing friend (she left his sorry ass).

The Writer of Dragons@writerofdragons.bsky.social · 4w ago

There's a reason that DJT doesn't have pets. There's a reason that you don't see him in pictures with animals. Animals don't like him. Sometimes the best judge of character is a dog or a cat or a horse. 🐎

Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · last mo.

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Image: In a childrens library, a small boy contentedly reads a small picture book, while an angry-looking small girl storms past, carrying a very heavy book.

Caption:
Unfortunately for Charlotte, the adjudication committee decides that, for the purposes of the under-nines summer reading challenge, the six volumes of proust's 'in search of lost time' is considered to be one single narrative, whereas each of Roger hargreaves' mister men' books is a distinct work, thereby awarding the library's 'top reader' sticker to her brother Toby.

Phew! Served 74 hungry kiddos at summer lunch today, & loaded them down with fruit & snacks to carry for later. The last cohort to eat volunteered to help clean up. They were quite little, so VERY enthusiastic but only marginally effective 😂. But I will never squelch that urge to help! #LibraryLife

Having a very normal day, chilling at the park with 160+ of my friends and a bunch of cool reptiles. Is it even summer reading season without a reptile show and a giant snake? #LibraryLife #SummerReading

In a park pavilion, a man in a khaki uniform and several adults pulled from the audience hold an absolutely enormous albino snake.

In a crowded park pavilion, a man in a khaki uniform and 2 teens pulled from the audience are carrying a large dark-colored snake through the crowd to allow other kids to touch the snake.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · last mo.

Accessibility & adaptive tools & tech. Example: I have dysgraphia in my brain & nerve-damage in my hands, & my dad is dyslexic. Now accurate & easy voice-to-text and text-to-speech tools are literally in our pockets all the time- absolutely life-changing.

Air quality. I grew up in the Los Angeles basin in the 70s and 80s and remember having to stay inside because the smog was so bad - Stage 2 smog alerts, they were called. Apparently they haven't had one of those since 1988. Haven't had a stage one smog alert since 2003.

Garden kitten crop coming along nicely. They’re getting braver and more used to us; will eat with us nearby and clearly feel safe enough to relax on the deck. They’re all healthy & growing (still no luck finding help to get them trapped and fixed, but we’re working on it).

A small black-and-white kitten is snuggled very cutely in between herbs in a raised garden bed.

Two tuxedo kittens sleeping on a wooden deck, one stretched out very long with their white belly fully exposed.

An all-black kitten passed out in a ridiculously flopped pose on a wooden deck, a cat food can on its side beside him. It looks for all the world like the kitten has passed out drunk on wet cat food.

Out to dinner for my birthday… is it wrong that I want to put this napkin on my head and wear it as a hat?

A dark red cloth napkin folded in a shape very similar to the Pope’s hat, sitting in a white ceramic plate on a restaurant table.

B/c everything is stupid, I just emailed my doc to see if I should get a measles booster and/or antibody titer test. Folks my age probably only got 1 shot as a child (which wasn't always good enough), I work with young children & the public daily, & there are now active cases in the local area. 🤬

Now I'm extra sad that all my garden lettuce bolted in the heat wave. Bye, salads. Bye, lettuce on sandwiches. I'll miss you. 💩🪱🙅‍♀️

Man allegedly tries to rob Beltsville bank with stolen kitten

The nonprofit said that now that Magnolia’s “life of crime” is “behind her,” she is ready to find her forever home.

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Reminders to self today: - Strangling people does solve many problems, but then you have different & usually worse problems. - Violence is rarely the answer, without a solid plan to dispose of the bodies. - I love my job, I love my job, I love my job, I love my job…

Sigh. Apparently I own almost every conceivable color of thread EXCEPT a neutral gray, and therefore I will not be hemming my nice new gray pants today. I am a thwarted short lady.

A clear plastic storage box overstuffed with a rainbow of sewing thread in different colors, plus a heap of additional spools of thread in even more colors, are resting on a white table. On the table behind all the thread are an older model Pfaff sewing machine and its cover, and a metal cookie tin full of sewing tools.

I’m proud of my colleagues. It’s going to be deadly hot here on Saturday & every public building is closed for July 4. The county administrator appealed to every agency to open a cooling center. Only the Library mustered enough staff willing to give up their holiday- 8 ppl volunteered w/in an hour.

Well… dammit. The neighborhood cat we call “Not-Alex” (b/c they’re such a perfect doppelgänger of our indoor-only cat Alex that we do double-takes & check that Alex is actually still indoors when we see Not-Alex outside) is, in fact, an “Alexis” w/ a whole litter of adorable kittens. On our deck.

A mother cat with a startled expression stands with back arched on a wooden deck, seen through a window and screen. A small pack of kittens is swarming under her belly to reach her teats. Mama cat has a tuxedo coat pattern, and all her babies are various combos of black and white.

A clearer photo of the mama cat, now lying on the wooden deck without her kittens in the frame. This picture was taken from a different window without a screen. She is mostly black, with white patches on her chin, chest, and paws and white whiskers. There is a recent but clean & healing pink wound on her nose, and she looks a bit thin and rather tired, like any mother would be with a bunch of toddlers to keep alive.

A mostly black kitten with white feet & whiskers and small white markings on its chest and one side of its face, sitting under a raised planter on a wooden deck and being unreasonably cute.

A fluffy black-and-white kitten with a cow-spot coat pattern crouches next to a flower box on a wooden deck, eyes locked on something and about to spring.

Good Trailcams@goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It’s called FASHION, Bradley.

Exciting times this #SummerReading Monday! 174 people came to our morning concert at one branch. Meanwhile, there's a tree-shaped hole in another branch, & a scramble to move books & equipment from below before it rains some more. And 1 more concert this afternoon! Wheee!

OH THANK DOG. The first half of the #SummerReading t-shirt order is ready & in my co-worker’s van. At 8am tomorrow everyone available will blitz the checking/counting/sorting/repacking and we’ll get them out to the branches by mid-day. Saturday is the first day to claim prizes. We’re gonna make it.

The screen-printing shop is trying to kill me. #SummerReading starts this week & our t-shirt order is still not ready. People here are RABID about their summer reading t-shirts. We are going to get MAULED if the shirts are not here by the time folks complete the 2nd challenge badge to earn shirts.

I'm at my desk, only person in this office at the moment, working away & vaguely aware of hearing someone walking around upstairs & banging on something. Then remembered this is a one-story building. Checked: no work trucks outside, & no one has accessed the door to the roof stairs. ?????