There are ropes and contraptions everywhere on my Mom’s deck. I am convinced they are preparing to float the house to South America like in Pixar’s Up.
Nelson
@nappell.bsky.social
Public Librarian, current Library Director. MoBookFest co-chair. Bibliophile. Long Covid. Cooks, bakes, writes, sketches. Dumb Bluesky jokes. Sounders Fan in the Midwest. Overcommitted.
A severe bout of COVID-19 can wake up an army of dormant viruses hiding inside the body go.nature.com/4fDUY9w
COVID can wake up a slew of dormant viruses inside you
Reactivation of typically harmless anelloviruses, in particular, seems to be linked with developing long COVID, study finds.
go.nature.com
The book being read next to me on this flight is written by an author who appears frequently in my Bluesky feed. (Haven’t taken off yet.) @deannaraybourn.bsky.social
every doctor's appointment is either 3 months from now or the ER
So much of librarian ebook math is depressing. Ebook: $59.99 x 150 copies = ~$9,000 Eaudio: $89.99 x 150 copies = ~$13,500 Lending model: 24 months, then we need to re-buy Current holds: Ebook: 1,281 ~20 week wait Eaudio: 1,522 ~21 week wait This is a single title.
Robin Bradford@tuphlos.bsky.social · 2d agoBook 1 is $59.99 went out 4 times. Cost per circ $14.99 Book 2 is $59.99 went out 4 times. Cost per circ $14.99 I'm not buying book 3. If the cost per circ was $5 or $3, I wouldn't mind. But that is WAY too high, especially for a thing that expires after 2 yrs.
I Re-read an old favorite, Straight Man, by Richard Russo - an academic comedy. Still relevant, and still an old favorite. I get these characters. William Devereaux Jr. is funny, unhappy, an ass, out of control, lost in his life, and everyone knows it. A marvel of comic storytelling. #booksky
"This is not rare. This is one of life's worst diseases." Professor Chris Ponting speaking about harm from graded exercise therapy and hospital care, and how patients have been let down for decades because #MECFS was wrongly thought to be psychological. (Clip from 2024)
We moved to Ames in 1977 right before the iceberg arrived. I gave tours of the Alaskan glacier that calved it in the mid-1990’s.
How a giant iceberg travelled from Alaska to Iowa in 1977 for Saudi Arabia's ambitious plan to turn Antarctic icebergs into a freshwater source | World News - United Kingdom
In the autumn of 1977, visitors arriving in Ames, Iowa, encountered something they would never have expected to see in the American Midwest: a massive iceberg
europesays.com
30 percent of all frogs don’t have tadpoles? I’m only hearing about this now?
I was so tired last night. My brain was done. Morning readings confirm how I felt. Body is out of whack. Darn it. #longcovid
Found it!! I put something good in there 💿😊💿
Joey Politano🏳️🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · 2w agoSomeone in DC set up a “little free blockbuster” with DVDs inside instead of books lol
I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
digitaldigging.org
Blade Walker? Errr… Blade Walker: Steampunk Ranger?
Jake_Vig@jakevig.bsky.social · 6d agoDownplay a book or movie: "Reasonable Expectations"
Brushing my teeth for instance
Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️⚧️ Uranus Expert@elakdawalla.bsky.social · 6d agoAn ADHD lament
We will be ready to have a real discussion about Covid when we accept the fact that “the vulnerable will fall by the wayside,” said by Fauci, under Biden, was eugenicist policy.
missouriindependent.com/2026/07/28/m... The next legislative session is going to be off the hook.
Missouri Republicans threaten library funding over ‘rainbow story time’ • Missouri Independent
After a library held a LGBTQ+ themed story time, Missouri Republican officials vowed to defund the library and set stricter laws.
missouriindependent.com
“This climate emergency is exceeding every threshold and scale that scientists have long warned all of Spain and Europe about.”
Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · last wk.The Prime Minister of Spain: “This climate emergency is exceeding every threshold and scale that scientists have long warned all of Spain and Europe about.” This is the realistic climate discourse the world needs. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/w...
Speaking as a guy who only partially recovered from Covid, this is good news.
Solid Evidence@solidevidence.bsky.social · last wk.Where things stand with COVID. If you look at the normalized numbers for all of our metagenomic sites, the highs were Dec-Jan. Numbers reached all time lows this Spring. Currently the 3-week average is 79% below the all-time average and 96% below winter highs.
