Carol the Librarian
@paroo1.bsky.social
Proud public librarian. I read books and I know things. Professional nerd.
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Enjoy your baseball team tomorrow. Even if they are terrible. Even if they make you mad and frustrated. The offseason is long and the world is full of horrors. Even very bad baseball is better than waiting for spring.
September 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Enjoy your baseball team tomorrow. Even if they are terrible. Even if they make you mad and frustrated. The offseason is long and the world is full of horrors. Even very bad baseball is better than waiting for spring.
Oh, there's a surprise. 🙄
BREAKING -- Mike Johnson says he's unaware of major news developments
September 1, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Oh, there's a surprise. 🙄
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Mike Johnson on Iranians: "It's apparently part of their religion that they can just lie to someone they disagree with"
September 1, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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I’ve heard of exactly 2 of these people. I’m apparently old and out of touch, and I’m okay with that.
August 31, 2026 at 4:25 PM
I’ve heard of exactly 2 of these people. I’m apparently old and out of touch, and I’m okay with that.
I love that I actually know what that means.
John Roberts is just acting as an umpire. Unfortunately, that umpire is Angel Hernandez.
August 21, 2026 at 8:36 PM
I love that I actually know what that means.
Yes. Yes I was. The "H" volume lived in my bedroom for years because I desperately wanted a horse and kept reading and rereading the entry on horses.
Were you a child who read The World Book Encyclopedia for fun?
July 30, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Yes. Yes I was. The "H" volume lived in my bedroom for years because I desperately wanted a horse and kept reading and rereading the entry on horses.
Dizzy is one of my favorite parts of going to a Travs game.
This is Dizzy, resident of the AA Arkansas Travelers ballpark. Dizzy is living his best life.
May 24, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Dizzy is one of my favorite parts of going to a Travs game.
I would fire any plumber who did that and never hire them again.
This is the plumbing equivalent of AI creating a person with six arms.
I'm not a plumber. But I'm pretty sure that's not how sinks work.
May 20, 2026 at 2:54 PM
I would fire any plumber who did that and never hire them again.
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It just happens that back in 2014 I made a bunch of Winter Olympic Lolcats. Let's have a look!
February 14, 2026 at 10:29 PM
It just happens that back in 2014 I made a bunch of Winter Olympic Lolcats. Let's have a look!
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Actual footage of Vince Guaraldi performing "Linus and Lucy". I'm gobsmacked that this exists, but utterly thrilled too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMf...
Vince Guaraldi - earliest television recording of "Linus and Lucy"
YouTube video by Lee Mendelson Film Productions, Inc.
www.youtube.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Actual footage of Vince Guaraldi performing "Linus and Lucy". I'm gobsmacked that this exists, but utterly thrilled too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMf...
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What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it
February 11, 2026 at 10:03 PM
What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it
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Overheard conversation between my boyfriend and Marcel last night:
BF: No, you can't touch my food with your paw.
Marcel: Mew.
BF: Why? I think you know why.
BF: No, you can't touch my food with your paw.
Marcel: Mew.
BF: Why? I think you know why.
November 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Overheard conversation between my boyfriend and Marcel last night:
BF: No, you can't touch my food with your paw.
Marcel: Mew.
BF: Why? I think you know why.
BF: No, you can't touch my food with your paw.
Marcel: Mew.
BF: Why? I think you know why.
I have the same thought anytime someone says “ but they meant well.”
Good intentions don’t matter if your actions hurt people.
Good intentions don’t matter if your actions hurt people.
I’ve written about a lot of horrible historical figures in American politics and I always get earnest questions asking “but did they really believe that?”
I get the curiosity but I tend to remind people what they do in public is vastly more important than what they tell themselves in private
I get the curiosity but I tend to remind people what they do in public is vastly more important than what they tell themselves in private
I have no idea what Graham Platner's religious views are, but the way our culture is obsessed with trying to divine a person's "real" interior views, by definition radically private and unknowable, above and beyond external actions in the world, is a sign of how culturally Protestant we all are.
October 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I have the same thought anytime someone says “ but they meant well.”
Good intentions don’t matter if your actions hurt people.
Good intentions don’t matter if your actions hurt people.
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the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
October 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
I could totally see him saying this, since he apparently doesn't know anything about anything.
INTERVIEWER: You were born January 30, 1972 in Shreveport, Louisiana, correct?
JOHNSON: I don't know anything about that, it's the first I'm hearing of it
JOHNSON: I don't know anything about that, it's the first I'm hearing of it
October 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I could totally see him saying this, since he apparently doesn't know anything about anything.
Natchitoches, LA.
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
October 8, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Natchitoches, LA.
Oh this is fabulous!
4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day.
On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day
So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day
So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
September 14, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Oh this is fabulous!
That is a bird on a mission right there.
A Great Egret getting a running start to chase off other Great Egrets that landed in the pond. The pond is pretty small, and this bird decided it was big enough for only one bird.
August 30, 2025 at 9:51 PM
That is a bird on a mission right there.
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White people often have trouble recognizing racism when it’s not intentionally malicious because we were taught it’s about hating people of color, when it’s often about not considering people of color at all or assuming you know what’s best.
August 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
White people often have trouble recognizing racism when it’s not intentionally malicious because we were taught it’s about hating people of color, when it’s often about not considering people of color at all or assuming you know what’s best.
Ohhh, that’s how you spell it!
Pshhhkkkkkkrrrrkakingkakingkakingtshchchchchchchchcch*ding*ding*ding*
AOL ditching dial-up service, a relic of the internet in the '90s and early '00s
The online service provider said it will end the service on Sept. 30.
www.nbcnews.com
August 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Ohhh, that’s how you spell it!
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Pure Americana.
August 5, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Pure Americana.
Justices Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson must be so tired.
Kagan leads the dissent for the Democratic appointees as such: “Once again, this Court uses its emergency docket to destroy the independence of an independent agency, as established by Congress.”
![And it has accomplished those ends with the scantiest of explanations. The majority's sole professed basis for today's stay order is its prior stay order in Wilcox. But Wilcox itself was minimally (and, as I have previously shown, poorly) ex-plained. See 605 U.S., at —-_ (KAGAN, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 4-7). It contained one sentence (ignored today) hinting at but not deciding the likelihood of success on the merits, plus two more respecting the "balance [of] the equi-ties." Id., at _ _—_ (order) (slip op., at 1-2); see id., at _-
(KAGAN, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 4-7). So only another under-reasoned emergency order undergirds today's.
Next time, though, the majority will have two (if still under-
Cite as: 606 U. S. _ (2025)
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KAGAN, J., dissenting
reasoned) orders to cite. "Truly, this is turtles all the way down." Rapanos vnited States, 547 U. S. 715, 754 (2006) (plurality opinion). The majority rejects Congress's design of a whole class of agencies (except, as Wilcox somehow has it, the Federal Reserve) by layering nothing on nothing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreicdfbvu4hne3t7jjwernzlnwuv3qu5wejkjfo5fkmnoyvrvrxjlo4)
July 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Justices Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson must be so tired.
Good way to scare people and keep them in line, though.
The US is preparing for potential Iranian terror attacks on the Fourth of July, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce says.
No suggestion they’ve had any actual intelligence, though.
No suggestion they’ve had any actual intelligence, though.
July 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Good way to scare people and keep them in line, though.
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No better testimonial than this one on how federal job cuts put lives at risk.
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
June 3, 2025 at 3:16 AM
No better testimonial than this one on how federal job cuts put lives at risk.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.
April 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.