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academic library director summer scares social media goblin 🇲🇽 🏳️🌈 📍az > chicago she/her absolutely not a professional account
This reminds me of the woman who accused me of using AI despite badmouthing it. My good woman, I do NOT use genAI. I actively avoid it. If it disappeared tomorrow, my life would be easier, honestly.
Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 20h agoMy answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.
He’s going to ruin this too.
Vanity Fair@vanityfair.com · 2d agoExclusive First Look: 'Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story,' the next season of Ryan Murphy’s anthology series, is the first installment to focus on a famous murderess, who is also the show’s only alleged perpetrator to get away with her crimes in a court of law. vanityfair.visitlink.me/EmCE37
3rd attempt—I was poking around the Library of Congress and found this map of the 1893 World’s Fair showing the location of all the Remington typewriters in use at the fair.
These AI ads are garbage & a disgrace. Chicago’s lakefront doesn’t look like this, and whoever approved this trash needs to 1) hire REAL artists to create & 2) simply do better at their job. This is so embarrassing to see, especially at a mall in the heart of Chicago’s Mag Mile.
when you have an interaction at work that leaves you feeling both infuriated and slightly insane
Feeling a certain kind of way about the news of city-backed grocery stores in NYC when we just had 7 stores close in food desert neighborhoods.
South Water entrance to Millennium Station closed until at least tomorrow due to flooding 😮
Chicago Transportation Alerts@ctaalerts.bsky.social · last wk.🚆 Metra ME: Due to flooding, the South Water Station entrance is closed until further notice. Estimated time of re-opening is midday Tuesday, July 28. Updates will be provided as information becomes available.
Not my first tornado warning as library director but definitely the first while I've been in the building. Yee haw!
This thread is one of many reasons why I love living here.
Laurie! Live!@laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 2w agopoll: what is your favorite street name in Chicago? [warning that if you reply you need to be prepared for your answer to be milkshake ducked]
The last ones that got a highlight as "pretty good" in my 2026 spreadsheet: We Used to Live Here (Marcus Kliewer) Floating Gold: A Natural (and Unnatural) History of Ambergris (Christopher Kemp) Lesser Ruins (Mark Haber) Beta Vulgaris (Margie Sarsfield) Island Rule: Stories (Katie Flynn)
Best thing I read this year so far: The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett
Borderline obsessed with The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter, both the light novels and the manga. Some nonfic I've loved: Oh My Mother! by Connie Wang, The Mind Electric by Pria Anand, and Do Admit! The Mitford Sisters and Me by Mimi Pond.
Big Chicago nerd (duh) so Will Quam's Fire and Clay: How Bricks Reveal the Hidden History of Chicago. Now I'm staring at bricks all the time!
nonfic: Epistemic Injustice, the Autism Industrial Complex fic: The Only Good Indians, Tillinghast
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald by John Bacon
A Good Person by Kirsten King. I think you'd love it.
What was the last thing you read that you loved? Share your most recent favorite read!
What was the last thing you read that you loved? Share your most recent favorite read!
Food is a human right. Clean water is a human right. Education is a human right. Abortion is healthcare. Gender-affirming care is healthcare. Healthcare is a human right.
Justin Zimmerman@jztidecat.bsky.social · 2w agoWith Trump decimating the SNAP program, Mamdani creating subsidized grocery stores seems like a policy more local government should create. Call it socialism all you want, people need to eat.
With Trump decimating the SNAP program, Mamdani creating subsidized grocery stores seems like a policy more local government should create. Call it socialism all you want, people need to eat.
An electric ice-cream maker was listed at just $17.99 at Amazon and Best Buy. Then it became unavailable at Best Buy, and more than tripled in price to $59.99 at Amazon. Here’s how it happened… 🧵
Name the chain.i don't want to shop there.
Be Jay, Do Crimes.@templinjay.bsky.social · 2w agoVolunteering at the food bank this morning and we had to discard 4 cases of Taylor Farms salad bowls that were donated by a local grocery chain a couple of days ago. They gave us recalled food knowing it was contaminated, and wrote it off as a donation. 🤬
Another essay for my memoir WAS WRITTEN tonight. Local theatre groups are a trip.
The ghoulies are having their very first meeting for this new scary season...including our new, supersecret spokesperson! #summerscares #readersadvisory
