TheSkeptibrarian

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Government agency librarian in Columbus, Ohio. Old and still liberal AF. I drink bourbon, I have 3 library cards, I protect people’s right to information, and if you don’t like that you are still welcome in the library.

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A man who fakes his wealth paired with a man who fakes his poverty. Sounds about white.

Allow me to reiterate

I live in Ohio and in the US and apparently JD. Vance learned no history in his years of elite education at Yale. I learned how immigrants made the US in my public school classrooms.

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There is never any shame in using the library, and much benefit in doing so. They are the closest thing to an unmitigated social good that we have in these United States, which is why the hard right is gunning so fervently for them these days. A world without libraries and librarians is a poor one.

My book-buying budget is not what it once was, which is precisely why I’m using the library more. It also gives me the opportunity to read books that I’m not sure I want to add to the home library (not that there’s a lot of room to do that anyway).

I live in Ohio and in the US and apparently JD. Vance learned no history in his years of elite education at Yale. I learned how immigrants made the US in my public school classrooms.

I oppose this worldview—this theory of America—with every fiber of my being.

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If you need a break from...everything...there are so many bears on the bear cam right now: www.youtube.com/live/d1YoGAx...

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Well that was fun. @scalzi.com is such an extrovert and so funny. The whole panel at the Columbus Book Festival was amazing!

Amy Madigan’s speech 35 yrs ago about censorship and book burning in Field of Dreams is still spot on.

If you think your employers will take action to keep you safe at work without OSHA regulations you are wrong. If you think they won’t try to remove Workers’ Compensation rules too you are wrong. You will be on your own if you get hurt.

What the hell is wrong with people. Allow your safety librarian to remind you. “NEVER EVER BYPASS SAFETY SYSTEMS”.

hey everyone i invented a way to sous vide my baby

I’ll bet very few people outside my 3-person library staff know that we have an archive of Workers’ Compensation History in Ohio at the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation dating back to 1913. We are slowly working through cataloging all this amazing history.

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“Satan is in Libraries” Well if he can provide photo ID with his current address then he is entitled to sign up for a library card. We also have other ways he can sign up if he is currently without identification

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Planning a trip to The Internet? Learn this handy phrase before you go: "I do not have the required background to form opinions on this topic"

Reskeet with how old you are using a vague proxy: youtu.be/4P6GHjANqyo?...

Reskeet with how old you are, using a vague proxy: I'm as old as Channel 4

NBC "In Living Color" Peacock logo (March 9, 1962)youtu.be Reuploaded from Jordan Rios' VHS Archive

So many sours this year! 10 full pints of jam from this haul. 🍽️

Good evening from my patio friends.

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this is the funniest thing happening on the internet today: people claiming the newly elected president of Mexico isn’t really Jewish because she thanked Jesus (she thanked Jesús, her husband)

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I salute E. Jean Carroll and Stormy Daniels for being braver than all three branches of our government.

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It's positively beautiful that all-time racist Ty Cobb is now second to Josh Gibson in career batting average in pro baseball apnews.com/article/negr...

Josh Gibson becomes MLB career and season batting leader as Negro Leagues statistics incorporatedapnews.com With a .372 batting average, Josh Gibson surpassed Ty Cobb’s .367 when records of the Negro Leagues for more than 2,300 players were incorporated after a three-year research project.

“Watch what they do, not what they say.” open.substack.com/pub/jefftied...

Republicans hate our troops — and no one hates them more than Donald Trumpopen.substack.com watch what they do, not what they say

Today’s project strawberry margarita jam ala The Preservation Society Home Preserves cookbook. 🍽️

If you see this quote post with a famous landmark you’ve seen.

If you see this, quote post with a famous landmark you've seen

A video like a warm cup of tea.

Lovely gentle mini documentary about artisan soft pastels made in the old way. You don't see much coverage of this underappreciated medium in the mainstream, so I enjoyed it a lot. youtu.be/Eu6po8_sPco

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This picture of me with my mom always makes me smile

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(Thread) In 2014 I moved from Borneo to Scotland and ended up in a house on the edge of the Highlands in a small country community. Within 20 minutes of arriving we were greeted by our 75 year old neighbour Barbara with a thermos of tea, two china cups and the genteel bellow "DO YOU RIDE?" (1)

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I got you www.youtube.com/watch?v=42xZ...

Libraries: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)www.youtube.com John Oliver explains why public libraries are under attack, where those challenges are coming from, and how you really spell “Berenstain." Trust us, it’s not...

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Lots of Kent State news popping up and I’m worried some people might not remember that about a week later, Miss. police fired guns indiscriminately into a Jackson State dormitory, murdering two students and injuring 11 others. It was overshadowed by Kent b/c Jackson was a Black research university.

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Today's the 54th anniversary of the Kent State Massacre. Ohio Governor James Rhodes, the day before the massacre: "They're worse than the Brownshirts, and the Communist element, and also the Night Riders, and the vigilantes. They're the worst type of people that we harbor in America."

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Today in History: Four killed during anti-war protest at Kent State University.