sturmhaus
@sturmhaus.bsky.social
public library manager dedicated to reducing service barriers and expanding access | FIRST Robotics parent and volunteer | married with kids and a Husky pup | views expressed are my own and do not reflect the views of my employer | she/her 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
my boss is at a conference with 2 of my own direct reports, leaving me in charge of the branches
and, imagine this, one of the branches is having major building issues
I left my office to run over there yesterday and never made it back, had to ask Maintenance to turn off my office lights
and, imagine this, one of the branches is having major building issues
I left my office to run over there yesterday and never made it back, had to ask Maintenance to turn off my office lights
November 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
my boss is at a conference with 2 of my own direct reports, leaving me in charge of the branches
and, imagine this, one of the branches is having major building issues
I left my office to run over there yesterday and never made it back, had to ask Maintenance to turn off my office lights
and, imagine this, one of the branches is having major building issues
I left my office to run over there yesterday and never made it back, had to ask Maintenance to turn off my office lights
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I love this post of holiday gift-crafting recommendations from @smartbitches.bsky.social and I'm seriously tempted by both of the first two knitting patterns: smartbitchestrashybooks.com/stuffwelike/...
Holiday Gift Guide 2025: Knitting & Stitching Patterns for Holiday Gifting | Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
smartbitchestrashybooks.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I love this post of holiday gift-crafting recommendations from @smartbitches.bsky.social and I'm seriously tempted by both of the first two knitting patterns: smartbitchestrashybooks.com/stuffwelike/...
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Holy mother of bunnies, Vinca has actually done a retrospective of the whole shebang!
Today marks the UK release* of @tkingfisher.com's latest book Snake-Eater, which (depending on how you define it) is her 50th book of fiction! In honor of this milestone I wanted to do a little retrospective of her 50 books
November 12, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Holy mother of bunnies, Vinca has actually done a retrospective of the whole shebang!
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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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Love this. Teens keeping the town informed in Pulaski, WI wisconsinwatch.org/2025/10/wisc...
Meet the teens keeping this northeast Wisconsin village from becoming a news desert
Pulaski News is a fixture of the community, a tool to prepare students for the workforce and the last official source keeping residents informed about hyperlocal happenings.
wisconsinwatch.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Love this. Teens keeping the town informed in Pulaski, WI wisconsinwatch.org/2025/10/wisc...
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wow. WOW.
Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret • Kansas Reflector
A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.
kansasreflector.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
wow. WOW.
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Turns out poor people spent a lot of money on tea and sugar *because they were poor* and that was their inadequate replacement for unaffordable things like cooking fuel, food with actual nutritional content, and enough calories to slave away over a loom for 12 hours.
November 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Turns out poor people spent a lot of money on tea and sugar *because they were poor* and that was their inadequate replacement for unaffordable things like cooking fuel, food with actual nutritional content, and enough calories to slave away over a loom for 12 hours.
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I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
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I'm taking a break from the news "out there" today.
But I'm reading internal news, and someone reported that their "mystery books" are a hit with students. They wrap the books in brown paper and write the first line of the book on the cover, and kids are LOVING IT.
But I'm reading internal news, and someone reported that their "mystery books" are a hit with students. They wrap the books in brown paper and write the first line of the book on the cover, and kids are LOVING IT.
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I'm taking a break from the news "out there" today.
But I'm reading internal news, and someone reported that their "mystery books" are a hit with students. They wrap the books in brown paper and write the first line of the book on the cover, and kids are LOVING IT.
But I'm reading internal news, and someone reported that their "mystery books" are a hit with students. They wrap the books in brown paper and write the first line of the book on the cover, and kids are LOVING IT.
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Stopped reading NYT on purpose a year ago and my life has improved measurably lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Stopped reading NYT on purpose a year ago and my life has improved measurably lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Last month, it was teenagers who got 8 books banned in a statewide Georgia reading bowl back into the competition. These literary heroes deserve recognition–get to meet three of these rad book-loving intellectual freedom champions.
bookriot.com/teens-who-ov...
bookriot.com/teens-who-ov...
Meet the High Schoolers Who Overturned a State Reading Bowl Book Ban: Book Censorship News, November 7, 2025
A Georgia statewide reading bowl banned eight books. These students led the charge to get the bans overturned and succeeded.
bookriot.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Last month, it was teenagers who got 8 books banned in a statewide Georgia reading bowl back into the competition. These literary heroes deserve recognition–get to meet three of these rad book-loving intellectual freedom champions.
bookriot.com/teens-who-ov...
bookriot.com/teens-who-ov...
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you ever think about the works progress administration? I sure do. I wish that was a thing now. I would be so glad to contribute my labor to like. A random ass local bridge
November 7, 2025 at 12:31 AM
you ever think about the works progress administration? I sure do. I wish that was a thing now. I would be so glad to contribute my labor to like. A random ass local bridge
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I don't understand why this isn't absolutely blowing up. A whole public library system shutting down branches to remove books because the Tennessee Secretary of State believes that Executive Orders are above the Constitution.
The Tennessee Secretary of State handed public library boards that are eager to ban LGBTQ+ books–and particularly trans books–from their collections the biggest permission slip last week.
Rutherford County is *closing* libraries to remove books.
bookriot.com/rutherford-c...
Rutherford County is *closing* libraries to remove books.
bookriot.com/rutherford-c...
Rutherford County Library System (TN) Temporarily Shuts Down to Ban Books
Rutherford County Library System announced on social media a surprise shutdown of two libraries. Why? "Reviewing inventory."
bookriot.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I don't understand why this isn't absolutely blowing up. A whole public library system shutting down branches to remove books because the Tennessee Secretary of State believes that Executive Orders are above the Constitution.
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Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
November 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
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I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.
November 6, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.
Bookmark this:
The Find Food Illinois Community Food Map
eat-move-save.extension.illinois.edu#food-finder
updated and supported by the Illinois Extension office.
The Find Food Illinois Community Food Map
eat-move-save.extension.illinois.edu#food-finder
updated and supported by the Illinois Extension office.
| Eat. Move. Save. | UIUC
eat-move-save.extension.illinois.edu
November 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Bookmark this:
The Find Food Illinois Community Food Map
eat-move-save.extension.illinois.edu#food-finder
updated and supported by the Illinois Extension office.
The Find Food Illinois Community Food Map
eat-move-save.extension.illinois.edu#food-finder
updated and supported by the Illinois Extension office.
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Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
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We're all going to write pieces about what you can learn from tonight but it's actually pretty simple: The frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 AM
We're all going to write pieces about what you can learn from tonight but it's actually pretty simple: The frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
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One of our country's greatest war criminals just died, the president is arguing with himself about whether or not to let 40 million people starve, and there is an actual courtroom drama about a five dollar footlong.
How are any of us supposed to maintain emotional regulation.
How are any of us supposed to maintain emotional regulation.
November 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
One of our country's greatest war criminals just died, the president is arguing with himself about whether or not to let 40 million people starve, and there is an actual courtroom drama about a five dollar footlong.
How are any of us supposed to maintain emotional regulation.
How are any of us supposed to maintain emotional regulation.
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hell yes — wE muST mOVe To thE ceNTer no fuck you we’re digging in
I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.
November 5, 2025 at 4:00 AM
hell yes — wE muST mOVe To thE ceNTer no fuck you we’re digging in
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have been cutting back on the sauce lately (caffeine), and am being rewarded today with a pounding headache
November 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
have been cutting back on the sauce lately (caffeine), and am being rewarded today with a pounding headache