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Erratic Reader

@randomreader.bsky.social
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Reader, reader, chocolate-eater. Big fan of treating all humans like humans. She/her.

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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yeah, I just wish this person had kept the bottle closed.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At least it wasn't IN the library. Still haven't gotten over that one.
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thank you to the person who recently reminded me that this exists. www.reddit.com/r/TerribleBo...
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From the TerribleBookCovers community on Reddit: "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
Explore this post and more from the TerribleBookCovers community
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The public library where I work seems to do a better job differentiating individuals than the creators of this report and I'm sure we earn a lot less.
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The president is a Gulf of Intelligence.
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If it was super, it would be able to count. And give event times and locations accurately.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There should be an X-Man called Flonase.
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's good business to help your talented staff succeed. These English classes benefit the community in so many ways. wtop.com/virginia/202...
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‘If I could do it, you can do it too’: Giant Food’s free English classes help employees move up – WTOP News
How Giant Food is helping employees progress throughout the company with English lessons.
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh for the days when a shock radio guy could conceivably feel bad about people doing violent, hateful things on his advice. Radio/podcasters like Alex Jones would never.
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I hope you feel awesome next weekend and the weather is beautiful. I hope you feel better sooner than that.
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I know. Male students (and faculty) don't face negative consequences and take the attitudes they develop from this into the workplace. Meanwhile, what of the education and careers and mental health of the women?
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Your advice is well-meaning, but Cornell admin's job is to protect students. 1st, women should not be the only ones responsible for preventing their own rape. Their community should create safety. 2nd, young men hear a message that rape isn't a big deal and take that lesson out into the world.
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Jack Phoenix (a comics librarian) @comicslibrarian.com · 26/09/2026
Oh hey, library peeps, my book is up for preorder! This edition has New interviews with folks like @monibarre.bsky.social and @noethematt.bsky.social A foreword by @kellysue.bsky.social A cartoon introduction by @oheysteenz.bsky.social And more! And it’s in hardcover this time! 📚
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Maximizing the Impact of Comics in Your Library
An engaging guide for all librarians looking to incorporate comics into their libraries. This in-depth and expansive guide on the importance of comics in the li…
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
*your mom is what I meant to say, but I can extend my good wishes to all parents and offspring in this situation.
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hope someone hands out copies of this story to women who are prospective students while they're on their campus tours.
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Great suggestions here. You might also see if your mom's friends have any ideas. By the time one reaches a certain age, one's friends have either been in a facility themselves or cared for someone who has. This is a lot. I wish our mom and her helpers well.
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We work so hard to keep people's access to the library. Depending on behavior after being informed of the rules (sometimes over and over for months), my library's response ranges from asking someone to leave a branch for the day to banning them from all branches permanently. Bans can be appealed.
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Montgomery Co. & all public libraries have war stories about visitors threatening them (in detail), slapping, keying their cars, following them, screaming slurs, and let's not get into the bodily fluids thing.
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wonder what led to this article. Bans are not for just talking a little too loudly. wtop.com/maryland/202...
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Disorderly behavior in a Montgomery Co. facility could soon lead to 2-year ban – WTOP News
Officials in Montgomery County, Maryland, are considering extending the amount of time a person can be banned from county facilities for certain behaviors that result in what are known as Disruptive B...
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Whoa.
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My mom won the "Outstanding Young Man" award from the Annapolis Jaycees in the 1970s. She has always insisted on women's rights. I find this hard to reconcile with her belief that my brother is the only one of her children who can un-jam her printer or power-wash her patio.
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I got to watch a colleague have A Moment. A kid who came to the US just a year ago joined her Teen Advisory Board & has been outstanding. He came in today to tell her hee got a job. We don't always get that moment in the library. So good to find out someone aced a test or found housing, etc.
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Our models did what we programmed them to do."
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yes, okay. Just draggy and a wee bit gloomy. Thanks for checking.
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Did a "super intelligence" tell him this?
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 23/09/2026
Incredibly important message from the heroes protesting NYU Langone's denial of health care to trans youth: "WAKE UP, WAKE UP, THIS IS YOUR FIGHT TOO "WHEN THEY'RE DONE WITH US, THEY'RE COMING FOR YOU"
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I know we need the rain, but the dark and the gray is bringing me down.
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Json Momoa @jotatx.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026
"This does not necessarily have anything to do with the quality of one product over another. Instead, Claude has gained popularity because it’s easier for users to anthropomorphize something with a human name." Nice article, really nice article
productpicnic.beehiiv.com
Assigning agency to AI means surrendering your own
Claude is not a colleague, collaborator, or sentient being. It is a SaaS product.
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'd be okay if they just managed to do their one big Constitutional power of the purse thing and pass a budget. Not a continuing resolution, a budget. They shouldn't be allowed to recess until they do.
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Literary AND civic-minded!
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Day 6 without a washing machine. The part just arrived so hopefully the spouse can fix it while I'm at work. Having flashbacks of walking in 3 feet of snow pushing my laundry in my grandma cart to the laundromat when I moved into my 1st off-campus apartment. And the 2nd. And the 3rd...
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Adequate, affordable healthcare and disability accommodations are good for the economy. And the soul of the nation, for anyone who cares more about people than capital.
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Staff often don't enforce the rules because people flip out on them, sometimes violently. A woman spoke to my manager for 20 mins just last week after I asked her to turn down the speaker on her phone in the library. Neighbor, 24/7 device use is not a human right.
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
And pay your interns.
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You mean the problem isn't low testosterone?
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
With Tara Hoot!
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Guy (aka glecharles) @loudpoet.com · 18/09/2026
“There's nothing stopping libraries from not accepting [the Big Five’s] terms right now." The Big 5 have shown their cards. I think it's time to call their bluff. www.wordsandmoney.com/in-the-libra...
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In the Library Ebook Market, Can Librarians Learn to Just Say No?
If recent tensions over library ebook legislation has shown librarians anything, it is that maintaining the status quo in the digital library market is ultimately a choice being made by librarians. Le...
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Stoop kid’s afraid to leave his stoop!” See you at the Baltimore Book Festival 📚 Reading books from the stoop 🩵
Blue sign: Reading is Freedom. Stoop Read with Mychal Threets. Sunday 9/20 at 12:30pm
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Have they started firing weapons with their dicks?
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Pie is breakfast! It's what Pop Tarts dream of being.
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fascists, but make it fashion.
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dc4hope.bsky.social @dc4hope.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Please, everyone, please come and stand against Trump and save our Kennedy Center 🥺😢💔🙏
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Local govt. guy the next county over says there shouldn't be a moratorium on data centers because of all the construction jobs they represent. 1) construction ends once a thing is constructed. 2) this is a bit like saying a carpenter is lucky to be employed building the gallows where they'll hang.
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Efficiency!
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I GOT CALLED BABYDOLL TODAY. It was a long-time volunteer, so I was reserved. Ahem.
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It says a lot about the capabilities of the humans around them. Perhaps they are related to/choose to spend time with non-intuitive, uncreative, uncurious, and/or deeply stupid people. These folks sound like complete pills.
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Waiting for a media outlet to show a graph with the Center's donations and/or sales over the last 20 years. I expect there will be a pretty big dip starting in 2025.
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Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I'm waiting for a graph showing the Center's donations and/or sales over the last 20 years. I expect there will be a pretty big dip starting in 2025.
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