Notices by Tammy Garrison (hauntedhideaway@babka.social)

@kolev a very long dog 😂

I see a lot of "I survived..." memes from Boomers and Gen-Xers. Spankings, playgrounds, drinking from the hose, you name it. Yeah, you survived. But 1) There are those who didn't. And 2) One would think you'd do more than survive your childhood. God forbid you actually THRIVED. Can you thrive under those conditions you brag about when combined with all the other conditions of those eras? I don't know.

Well. That episode went pretty hard. Not sure where you can go from there. #XMen97

Here's the thing: the censorship issue doesn't just affect school and public libraries. It affects you too. If they succeed in getting books pulled from libraries and librarians fired or prosecuted, they won't stop at libraries. They're going to move on to book stores and your home book shelves. And then they're going to move on to speech outside of books that they don't like. They're not going to be satisfied at just stopping a few book checkouts and taking a few jobs at the library you don't even use, so it doesn't affect you. When your speech on the internet is monitored and "corrected," and when what you say out loud is criminalized, maybe you'll see that it affects you. It starts with getting an LGBTQ book off a public library shelf. It ends with the death of free speech. Don't let it come to that. #libraries

I'm sure everyone in Library Land has seen this by now, but I figured I'd post it for my non-library followers. John didn't get deep into all of the legislation that is being proposed and passed in places like Florida to criminalize or terminate the employment of librarians for doing their jobs and choosing books for collections. It's bad out there, kids. If you want to stop this, stand up for libraries when they are attacked. Join school and library boards. Talk openly about the dangers of censorship; don't let your pro-censorship friends and acquaintances go unchallenged. If this isn't happening at your library, it's coming. #libraries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42xZB80sZaI

Sapphire is having a really bad day. She sat in the water bowl and couldn’t get up, and ended up doing her business in and around the water bowl. Now her back legs aren’t working. I’m going to give it a little bit of time and see if she bounces back the way she always has when her health has seemed dire, but I’m not feeling good about it.

I get a lot of ads for luxury goods on LinkedIn. I know I'm an ED, but of a moderately sized public library in a rural area. I don't make what you think I make, algorithm.

@alison Nice. Is it a paid service?

Fight for your libraries. Don’t let them take away your library by defunding it out of providing vital services. Don’t let them shackle the library with rules meant to prevent the right people from getting the right book to change their life. Don’t let them close the doors, because you know they will never open again. Fight for the freedom to read and explore new ideas. Fight against censorship and denying people the materials their souls need. If a library closes, it will never open again. You couldn’t create libraries today. You want to loan out books? And people will just willingly give them back? Are you mad? Naïve, perhaps? Once a library closes its doors, it’s over. The book banners have won. Do not let them win. Fight for libraries. Fight for library workers. Fight for patrons. Fight for free people reading freely. #libraries #censorship #librarians #LibraryWorkers #LibraryPatrons #BookBans

This is one rolly polly bastard. Even his head is fat. I love him so much.

@scottsantens The people in charge don't want that. They want a desperate population willing to work for pittance wages out of fear of destitution and homelessness. If people had security and comfort, those employers would have to pay better to attract employees and have a better work environment and work life balance. Desperation is a feature, not a bug.

Someone dear to me changed their pronouns for a while then changed them back. No harm done. Experiment terminated successfully. They know what they don’t want. It was easy. It was FREE. It left no lasting changes. This should be a normal part of finding yourself. That doesn’t mean everyone has to do it. It means it’s no longer outside the range of possibilities for actions when you’re trying to figure out where you are and where you fit in. Respect when someone changes their pronouns. And respect if they change them back without harassment and “see I told you sos.” It’s simple, it’s empathetic, and it doesn’t cost you a damned dime.

“When did Doctor Who get woke?” Excuse me, are you FUCKING NEW?

Transphobes are losing their minds over the most recent episode of Doctor Who. Good. Go away. Leave my fandom alone.

My mom’s boyfriend, who is stone cold sober, attempted to sit on a baby gate that was leaning against a lamp table. I am flabbergasted.

Y'all...I can't 😂 https://traditionsjewishgifts.com/hand-painted-resin-sushi-menorah/?fbshop=1&utm_medium=paid&utm_source=fb&utm_id=6445493692970&utm_content=6471147937770&utm_term=6471147937570&utm_campaign=6445493692970&fbclid=IwAR3gAuGehpBt9uyPd2_WXVZ1eoMuipoJT4FOwkEGqEuugEGFuha807NvUrk

@inthehands @indigenous_commentator there is a recession on.

Today, I learned that there are two Ts in “enshittification.”