A Fierce And Unrelenting Joy

Internet hugs for anyone else out there dealing with burn out or other mental and/or physical issues that make it hard to interact right now

being on an airplane is a lot like being in kindergarten

I wanna hear where you're going with this

Endlessly funny to me that in Economics/Finance/Fundraising we have a term, The Great Wealth Transfer, which is an accurate but wild way to say The Accelerating Boomer Die Off.

The webinar I was in when I posted this, which was about bequest giving, reminded me that August is National Make Your Will Month which does make me worried about what's going to happen in September.

This is an absolutely FASCINATING cultural snapshot.

they got married btw

this post was written by Microsoft Excel

So Libby has AI-generated book tags now and apparently Spanish lessons are "exotic" and "primitive" according to that. So that's probably not a good sign.

That should probably be directly reported. That's just egregious.

this may be library-specific, my library system is not showing those tags on any spanish lessons. maybe your library system opts-in to ai tags? i'd try reaching out to them honestly

Inspire Me recommendations are generated when a book is returned

Implementing AI in your library system in 2026 isn't outrageous enough; you have to be mask-off racist too. For Daddy Trump./sarcastic

had a friend who used to make new ones up on the spot. The only one that stuck with me was 'good golly jelly beans'. If something catastrophic happens I go for 'that's not ideal.'