Summer is fading but our garden is hanging on.

Hello everyone, my job searching has been ongoing but I am still seeking something. I am an academic librarian with English teaching experience. Background in collection development, electronic resources, reference and archives. Also open to teaching English lit. Please share with your networks!

Getting a handwritten letter with a survey to fill out by hand asking how the interview process was for a job I obviously didn’t get is just the icing on the cake. You didn’t bother to inform me that I didn’t get the job that’s how you did.

Do I know anyone living in the Triangle or have friends there that may have a room to rent for the school year? I may have a job there and the commute during the week would be a bit much. Please share widely!

All of the Republicans yelling at Fauci today for putting the public’s health at risk have spent a considerable amount of their professional lives ensuring that psychopaths can walk into a schoolroom with an easily obtained fully loaded weapon of war.

I would lose my mind if someone did that on my flight.

Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · last wk.

Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...

As you do in these trying times.

Frog and Toad Bot@frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 2w ago

All the next day Toad sang songs to his seeds.

Incredible

I miss living in Salem, MA sometimes. Like today when the mayor gave the Satanic Temple a shoutout for helping with a neighborhood cleanup.

More of this please.

TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 2w ago

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

A college classmate has started a wealth advisory business. It is based on “claiming your house name” and “ensuring that the husband is head of household” because he claims that men haven’t been given enough respect. Hard pass on your AI slop pyramid scheme for losers.

I was not expecting to be ghosted for a school system job. I verbally accepted over three weeks ago and have heard nothing since. Someone let me know that the job had been reposted this morning. Le sigh.

I consider my marriage pretty solid but I’m about to call it a day. I don’t understand what could go wrong if I bought a chainsaw. We totally need one and someone is being a buzzkill about “losing limbs” and “you aren’t outdoorsy”.

Head down and eyes open as my classics summer read-a-thon rolls along.

It’s time to mix up a batch of Calimocho to celebrate!

Haha. Have fun handing out that trophy.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

Trump: "Spain is a wasted cause. We don't want to do any trade business with Spain anymore, by the way. I'd like to cut it off. Spain is a terrible partner in NATO. Cut off all trade with Spain, please. Including visits. We don't want anything to do. They're hopeless. Bad people."

Espana!

I guess I never noticed the Uber eats/doordash kiosk at my local movie theatre. So do people order movie snacks to their home? Genuinely confused as to the point.

The Odyssey was ok. I’m no classicist but did they really say “Mom” and “Dad” in the ancient world?

Do you ever just have to sit there for a moment and realize how screwed up the world is? Like you just have to sit down and take a breathe at how utterly off the rails we’ve gone? Or is it just me?

Hank Hill Stressed - King Of The Hill

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Jesus what a week. Between my surgery on Monday and two different babies coming into the family it’s been an emotional week. Everyone is healthy and I’m getting into my new role as Great Uncle!

I count myself lucky that I’m pretty healthy. Having had two surgeries since April with minor complications hammers home the need for nationalized health care. Even with good insurance I’m swimming in medical debt from the first round and the second surgery hasn’t even hit the billing stage yet.

Welcome to Taco Bell. Your soul will be judged.

regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸@ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 3w ago

taco bell only gives you diarrhea if it can sense you are not pure of heart

It’s really wild that you can buy a cobra online from some random website. Imagine the fedex drivers surprise if that package gets damaged!

Good bye gallbladder. We had a good run. I will always remember our late night chili cheese fries.

Exactly this.

Phil Plait@philplait.bsky.social · 3w ago

When a politician dies we see a lot of hagiographies about them. If you mention they were a terrible person IRL, you get chastised. My feeling? If you don't want people to talk shit about you after you die, don't be shitty when you're alive.

A very cool, local gamer hooked my kid up with a massive Yu-Gi-Oh haul. Someone is stoked.

Found a documentary on Amazon Prime entitled “Dark Secrets of the Vatican Archives”. It’s an AI slop fest. It’s so atrociously bad my son and I can’t stop laughing.

I found this tattoo artist online. If I make it to Tokyo, I’m getting this! Masa Sakura is the artist.

Does anyone have insight into National University? It’s giving me very much U of Phoenix vibes.