Thirdbird
@thirdbird.bsky.social
Just another aging fandom librarian.
Pre-nor'easter cemetery sky, HOW is it this color
September 26, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Pre-nor'easter cemetery sky, HOW is it this color
I gritted my teeth and signed up for the AI Essentials online course they've been shoving on us at work, because knowledge is power and I want to know the enemy in order to be able to combat it more effectively. Hold me, friends, I'm going in.
September 23, 2026 at 8:42 PM
I gritted my teeth and signed up for the AI Essentials online course they've been shoving on us at work, because knowledge is power and I want to know the enemy in order to be able to combat it more effectively. Hold me, friends, I'm going in.
Oh wow, I'm outdoors and it's actually CHILLY
September 19, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Oh wow, I'm outdoors and it's actually CHILLY
At long last on this sad day I am getting around to this podcast (it's been on my list since a random library patron walked in and all but begged me to listen to it with tears in his eyes) and yeah it's...really good, I should have heeded that random guy eight years ago
I recommend to you this podcast series about Dolly Parton by Jad Abumrad (creator of Radio Lab). You may ask: how did a MacArthur Award winning pub radio guy meet Dolly? Because she personally funded his father's vaccine research, that's how.
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dol...
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dol...
Dolly Parton's America : Episodes | WNYC Studios | Podcasts
The story of a legend at the crossroads of America’s culture wars.
www.wnycstudios.org
August 26, 2026 at 12:32 AM
At long last on this sad day I am getting around to this podcast (it's been on my list since a random library patron walked in and all but begged me to listen to it with tears in his eyes) and yeah it's...really good, I should have heeded that random guy eight years ago
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The thing is that Dinios Kol cant help that he is beautiful and bisexual and horny in the middle of books that are DEEPLY unsexy and horrifying and I love that about him
August 18, 2026 at 1:12 AM
The thing is that Dinios Kol cant help that he is beautiful and bisexual and horny in the middle of books that are DEEPLY unsexy and horrifying and I love that about him
Anyway, I am fostering a cat this week for @amyelizbennett.bsky.social and she is a super polite cutie little sweetie pie who loves cuddles in case you know anyone in the NYC areas looking for a new friend
August 6, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Anyway, I am fostering a cat this week for @amyelizbennett.bsky.social and she is a super polite cutie little sweetie pie who loves cuddles in case you know anyone in the NYC areas looking for a new friend
Just sat and watched my college kid type up a business email in clear, formal, grammatically correct and properly spelled English without using AI and I am so relieved and proud (yes I know the bar is on the floor these days but many of my adult colleagues cannot do this so I'm impressed!)
July 25, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Just sat and watched my college kid type up a business email in clear, formal, grammatically correct and properly spelled English without using AI and I am so relieved and proud (yes I know the bar is on the floor these days but many of my adult colleagues cannot do this so I'm impressed!)
Hiiiiiiii it's very nice here in horrible Florida
July 8, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Hiiiiiiii it's very nice here in horrible Florida
Escaping the heat wave at Riis Beach with my friend's huge shade tent and Dungeon Crawler Carl 5, we are are actually a little chilly in the breeze
July 3, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Escaping the heat wave at Riis Beach with my friend's huge shade tent and Dungeon Crawler Carl 5, we are are actually a little chilly in the breeze
I just climbed up and down a five story elementary school speaking to twenty-nine classes in six hours with one fifteen-minute break and I am never, ever, EVER doing that again
June 23, 2026 at 5:57 PM
I just climbed up and down a five story elementary school speaking to twenty-nine classes in six hours with one fifteen-minute break and I am never, ever, EVER doing that again
Oh! I loved her. Nicest author I ever worked with. She sent flowers and a card when my daughter was born and I couldn't believe she remembered a lowly associate editor like me.
Author Jane Yolen (b.1939) died on June 11. She wrote books and novels for all ages, including Briar Rose, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?, and The Devil’s Arithmetic. Yolen won 2 Nebulas, a World Fantasy and was named Grand Master by SFPA, SFWA and World Fantasy. She served as SFWA President.
June 11, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Oh! I loved her. Nicest author I ever worked with. She sent flowers and a card when my daughter was born and I couldn't believe she remembered a lowly associate editor like me.
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Pour one out for one of the smoothest voices to ever do it and while everyone is sharing their own excellent favourites from Tony Head's body of work, please enjoy this voice-off with Roger Allam from John Finnemore's radio sitcom, Cabin Pressure.
Cabin Pressure s3 - Rotterdam
YouTube video by Pozzitive Comedy
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June 5, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Pour one out for one of the smoothest voices to ever do it and while everyone is sharing their own excellent favourites from Tony Head's body of work, please enjoy this voice-off with Roger Allam from John Finnemore's radio sitcom, Cabin Pressure.
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Persepolis is available to read for free on internet archive.
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PERSEPOLIS : Marjane Satrapi : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
book topic: light comic.note: press the Zoom in and Zoom out buttons so that the writing is visible.see the front cover of the book here.read second book here.
archive.org
June 4, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Persepolis is available to read for free on internet archive.
archive.org/details/pers...
archive.org/details/pers...
archive.org/details/pers...
archive.org/details/pers...
Overheard from one of the kids in the Teen Tech Time room at the library: YOU SON OF AN AI...!!!
May 28, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Overheard from one of the kids in the Teen Tech Time room at the library: YOU SON OF AN AI...!!!
Oh gosh I love not writing SO MUCH, I can do ANYTHING I WANT TO now, I feel like I turned in all my final papers and it's suddenly summer
May 17, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Oh gosh I love not writing SO MUCH, I can do ANYTHING I WANT TO now, I feel like I turned in all my final papers and it's suddenly summer
I finished my long-ass Dept Q canon retelling psychic powers AU! Carl/Akram with a generous side of Carl & Hardy, rated M, 47.5K words. Hallefuckinglujah! Time to sleep for 1000 years. archiveofourown.org/works/80209851
May 10, 2026 at 8:54 PM
I finished my long-ass Dept Q canon retelling psychic powers AU! Carl/Akram with a generous side of Carl & Hardy, rated M, 47.5K words. Hallefuckinglujah! Time to sleep for 1000 years. archiveofourown.org/works/80209851
I apologize for the person I become when I'm trying to finish a long WIP. It will happen again.
May 6, 2026 at 12:25 PM
I apologize for the person I become when I'm trying to finish a long WIP. It will happen again.
Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard
Thank You For Your Service by David Finkel
In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard
Thank You For Your Service by David Finkel
In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides
The Wave by Susan Casey
More Everything Forever by Adam Becker
Unruly by David Mitchell
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
The Eagle and the Hart by Eleanor Castor
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
The End of Everything Astrophysically Speaking by Katie Mack
Re-post with your favorite non-fiction books!
More Everything Forever by Adam Becker
Unruly by David Mitchell
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
The Eagle and the Hart by Eleanor Castor
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
The End of Everything Astrophysically Speaking by Katie Mack
Re-post with your favorite non-fiction books!
May 1, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard
Thank You For Your Service by David Finkel
In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard
Thank You For Your Service by David Finkel
In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides
Deep in the hollow-eyed death march stages of my long (for me) WIP, it's been over two months in the trenches and the end is not yet in sight, being a human is a distant memory, someone come hand feed me an orange so I don't die of scurvy
April 21, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Deep in the hollow-eyed death march stages of my long (for me) WIP, it's been over two months in the trenches and the end is not yet in sight, being a human is a distant memory, someone come hand feed me an orange so I don't die of scurvy
Oh my god, what a program! They played part of the Sønderho Bridal Trilogy with a choral arrangement and I got EMOTIONAL. I felt like Murderbot trying to keep its face under control around the humans!
April 18, 2026 at 2:09 AM
Oh my god, what a program! They played part of the Sønderho Bridal Trilogy with a choral arrangement and I got EMOTIONAL. I felt like Murderbot trying to keep its face under control around the humans!
Gonna try to go get a glimpse of the Bryant Park Woodcock, wish me luck
a small brown and white bird with a long beak is standing on the ground .
ALT: a small brown and white bird with a long beak is standing on the ground .
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April 3, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Gonna try to go get a glimpse of the Bryant Park Woodcock, wish me luck
What movie did you watch over and over as a kid?
March 30, 2026 at 1:18 AM
What movie did you watch over and over as a kid?
Quote this with your AO3 fic with the most kudos:
I don't link to my AO3 from this account, but let's just say I wrote some very explicit BBC Sherlock fic in the year 2011 and my kudos emails will never allow me to forget it in this lifetime
I don't link to my AO3 from this account, but let's just say I wrote some very explicit BBC Sherlock fic in the year 2011 and my kudos emails will never allow me to forget it in this lifetime
Quote this with your AO3 fic with the most kudos:
For me it's my first Untamed RPF fic, which was also my first explicit fic. It's 5000 words of pining and porn and I'm still pretty proud of it and can't believe it has over 900 kudos.
archiveofourown.org/works/23353036
For me it's my first Untamed RPF fic, which was also my first explicit fic. It's 5000 words of pining and porn and I'm still pretty proud of it and can't believe it has over 900 kudos.
archiveofourown.org/works/23353036
March 27, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Quote this with your AO3 fic with the most kudos:
I don't link to my AO3 from this account, but let's just say I wrote some very explicit BBC Sherlock fic in the year 2011 and my kudos emails will never allow me to forget it in this lifetime
I don't link to my AO3 from this account, but let's just say I wrote some very explicit BBC Sherlock fic in the year 2011 and my kudos emails will never allow me to forget it in this lifetime
To struggle through trying to write this fic with a head cold or to get lightly baked and watch Bridgerton on my sick day...
March 27, 2026 at 3:44 PM
To struggle through trying to write this fic with a head cold or to get lightly baked and watch Bridgerton on my sick day...
The World According to Garp! I was a sheltered thirteen-year-old. It gave me some really warped ideas about what being a grownup and having sex was going to be like. But I read it until the covers fell off and then went on to The Hotel New Hampshire, so I guess I enjoyed being warped in that manner.
So what was everyone's book they read way too young?
March 21, 2026 at 8:53 PM
The World According to Garp! I was a sheltered thirteen-year-old. It gave me some really warped ideas about what being a grownup and having sex was going to be like. But I read it until the covers fell off and then went on to The Hotel New Hampshire, so I guess I enjoyed being warped in that manner.