@elorenia.bsky.social
Librarian, cat lover, romance reader, knitter. She/her
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Discworld QOTD, from Snuff
January 7, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Snuff
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Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms
September 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms
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It's that time of year again! Drowning doesn't look like drowning; familiarize yourself with the instinctive drowning response
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
slate.com
June 20, 2025 at 3:03 AM
It's that time of year again! Drowning doesn't look like drowning; familiarize yourself with the instinctive drowning response
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Just so you know, the whole concept of "tragedy of the commons" was made up by a white supremacist, and has been thoroughly debunked aeon.co/essays/the-t...
The tragedy of the commons is a false and dangerous myth | Aeon Essays
Far from being profoundly destructive, we humans have deep capacities for sharing resources with generosity and foresight
aeon.co
May 24, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Just so you know, the whole concept of "tragedy of the commons" was made up by a white supremacist, and has been thoroughly debunked aeon.co/essays/the-t...
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A timely quote from Dr. Carla Hayden: “Libraries are a cornerstone of democracy—where information is free and equally available to everyone. People tend to take that for granted, and they don’t realize what is at stake when that is put at risk.”
May 9, 2025 at 2:37 AM
A timely quote from Dr. Carla Hayden: “Libraries are a cornerstone of democracy—where information is free and equally available to everyone. People tend to take that for granted, and they don’t realize what is at stake when that is put at risk.”
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"I see you.
You’re not burned out because you’re weak.
You’re burned out because you’ve been relevant, valuable, over-functioning for too long—inside systems that reward your ability to endure dysfunction and call it leadership."
brilliantcrank.com/eject-disk/
You’re not burned out because you’re weak.
You’re burned out because you’ve been relevant, valuable, over-functioning for too long—inside systems that reward your ability to endure dysfunction and call it leadership."
brilliantcrank.com/eject-disk/
Eject disk.
A manifesto for everyone stuck in the system that keeps crashing you.
What follows here isn’t a framework or a fix—it’s a declaration. A reckoning. And a call to return to ourselves before we try to ...
brilliantcrank.com
April 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
"I see you.
You’re not burned out because you’re weak.
You’re burned out because you’ve been relevant, valuable, over-functioning for too long—inside systems that reward your ability to endure dysfunction and call it leadership."
brilliantcrank.com/eject-disk/
You’re not burned out because you’re weak.
You’re burned out because you’ve been relevant, valuable, over-functioning for too long—inside systems that reward your ability to endure dysfunction and call it leadership."
brilliantcrank.com/eject-disk/
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today is National Library Workers Day, and i am asking you to support library workers by
-using your library (it matters!);
-defending library workers against the ongoing efforts to intimidate, silence, and criminalize them;
-advocating for better pay for them. 📚
-using your library (it matters!);
-defending library workers against the ongoing efforts to intimidate, silence, and criminalize them;
-advocating for better pay for them. 📚
April 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
today is National Library Workers Day, and i am asking you to support library workers by
-using your library (it matters!);
-defending library workers against the ongoing efforts to intimidate, silence, and criminalize them;
-advocating for better pay for them. 📚
-using your library (it matters!);
-defending library workers against the ongoing efforts to intimidate, silence, and criminalize them;
-advocating for better pay for them. 📚
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This is an excellent thread
March 20, 2025 at 4:15 AM
This is an excellent thread
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The biggest reason why I dislike the idea of respectability in dress is because it conflates the *appearance* of virtue with *actual* virtue. Wearing a suit doesn't make you respectful, intelligent, or capable, just as wearing a leather jacket doesn't make you rugged.
March 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The biggest reason why I dislike the idea of respectability in dress is because it conflates the *appearance* of virtue with *actual* virtue. Wearing a suit doesn't make you respectful, intelligent, or capable, just as wearing a leather jacket doesn't make you rugged.
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I've seen an old misunderstanding going around; that libraries don't benefit authors. But they do! A lot! Here's how:
February 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I've seen an old misunderstanding going around; that libraries don't benefit authors. But they do! A lot! Here's how:
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I wish more people were talking about egg prices as less of a “muh egg prices!” thing and more about the fact that there is an organized egg cartel that is illegally price gouging and almost certainly illegally price fixing and reaping massive, gigantic profits.
February 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I wish more people were talking about egg prices as less of a “muh egg prices!” thing and more about the fact that there is an organized egg cartel that is illegally price gouging and almost certainly illegally price fixing and reaping massive, gigantic profits.
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The backsliding on vaccines is awful but the backsliding on basic germ theory is grim in its own way.
Yes, it's "natural" for humans and pets to eat raw meat. It's also just as "natural" to die from the numerous pathogens in it. That's nature; nature is always trying to kill you and your pet.
Yes, it's "natural" for humans and pets to eat raw meat. It's also just as "natural" to die from the numerous pathogens in it. That's nature; nature is always trying to kill you and your pet.
February 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The backsliding on vaccines is awful but the backsliding on basic germ theory is grim in its own way.
Yes, it's "natural" for humans and pets to eat raw meat. It's also just as "natural" to die from the numerous pathogens in it. That's nature; nature is always trying to kill you and your pet.
Yes, it's "natural" for humans and pets to eat raw meat. It's also just as "natural" to die from the numerous pathogens in it. That's nature; nature is always trying to kill you and your pet.
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Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal
February 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal
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Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men
"Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices."
"Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices."
Discworld QOTD, from The Light Fantastic
“Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it…”
“Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it…”
Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch
January 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men
"Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices."
"Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices."
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I have always loved public libraries, but having young children has exponentially increased my gratitude and sense of indebtedness to them. Our local library is such a huge part of our lives. The books, the programming, the very intentionally curated kids’ section. It’s all such a gift.
December 27, 2024 at 2:12 AM
I have always loved public libraries, but having young children has exponentially increased my gratitude and sense of indebtedness to them. Our local library is such a huge part of our lives. The books, the programming, the very intentionally curated kids’ section. It’s all such a gift.
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Library purchases are purchases. They pay the press. The press counts them towards advances and royalties. And (gasp) the book is in a library!! It’s wonderful and no one should ever feel bad about getting a book through a library instead of buying it.
I got it from my local library system, which has 28 physical copies (more than half are checked out) and 4 audiobooks. The branch library is two blocks from my house so I get most of my books from there. Hope this helps because I loved the book - I'm not a historian and knew nothing of that period.
December 26, 2024 at 11:29 PM
Library purchases are purchases. They pay the press. The press counts them towards advances and royalties. And (gasp) the book is in a library!! It’s wonderful and no one should ever feel bad about getting a book through a library instead of buying it.
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Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
December 17, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
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More to say on burnout and I'm probably going to boost it a few times because folks need to hear it:
Burnout is a form of brain damage. It happens when stress conditions persist until they damage our brains.
It's an injury that needs to heal, not a weakness that needs to be pushed through.
Burnout is a form of brain damage. It happens when stress conditions persist until they damage our brains.
It's an injury that needs to heal, not a weakness that needs to be pushed through.
Man burnout can mess you up for a very long time.
And it can sneak up on you: things can seem stressful but mostly manageable until suddenly they're not manageable.
Self care and vacation are great, but they're guardrails: they don't help when you've already fallen in.
And it can sneak up on you: things can seem stressful but mostly manageable until suddenly they're not manageable.
Self care and vacation are great, but they're guardrails: they don't help when you've already fallen in.
December 13, 2024 at 2:14 PM
More to say on burnout and I'm probably going to boost it a few times because folks need to hear it:
Burnout is a form of brain damage. It happens when stress conditions persist until they damage our brains.
It's an injury that needs to heal, not a weakness that needs to be pushed through.
Burnout is a form of brain damage. It happens when stress conditions persist until they damage our brains.
It's an injury that needs to heal, not a weakness that needs to be pushed through.
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An excellent and informative thread 🧵
December 11, 2024 at 12:19 PM
An excellent and informative thread 🧵
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This response from @sbearbergman.bsky.social to @hildur.bsky.social’s post has changed my week— it is so wholesome, and human, and so the energy we all need right now. And Kerstin Langenberger, the naturalist who posted “I am on my way with the necessary equipment”? This woman is the hero we need.
December 10, 2024 at 2:19 PM
This response from @sbearbergman.bsky.social to @hildur.bsky.social’s post has changed my week— it is so wholesome, and human, and so the energy we all need right now. And Kerstin Langenberger, the naturalist who posted “I am on my way with the necessary equipment”? This woman is the hero we need.
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Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this
December 10, 2024 at 2:38 PM
Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this
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My "how to make your insurance company cry" post is going around again and this quote post of it links a "how to make someone fucking around with your credit report cry" post and it's absolute fucking solid gold advice
This is good advice and reminds me of this classic post: www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/i...
"Paper trails ... are terrifying to regulated institutions... [A]nyone who sounds like a well-organized professional with a paper trail is a problem to be swiftly addressed.
That, dear reader, can be you."
"Paper trails ... are terrifying to regulated institutions... [A]nyone who sounds like a well-organized professional with a paper trail is a problem to be swiftly addressed.
That, dear reader, can be you."
December 5, 2024 at 4:13 PM
My "how to make your insurance company cry" post is going around again and this quote post of it links a "how to make someone fucking around with your credit report cry" post and it's absolute fucking solid gold advice
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People keep saying “but how would we pay for it” about single payer, and the answer is “by not paying shareholders excess profits, and by cutting out hundreds of millions of dollars in health care executive and administrator salaries when you stop prioritizing how to deny worthy claims.”
December 5, 2024 at 2:00 PM
People keep saying “but how would we pay for it” about single payer, and the answer is “by not paying shareholders excess profits, and by cutting out hundreds of millions of dollars in health care executive and administrator salaries when you stop prioritizing how to deny worthy claims.”
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"What my students paradoxically fail to realize, in their zeal to be responsible, is that describing things by certain characteristics rather than others merely because those characteristics are countable is a profoundly subjective decision."
The Myth of Objective Data, by Melanie Feinberg
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-myth-of-... via @mitpress.bsky.social
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-myth-of-... via @mitpress.bsky.social
The Myth of Objective Data
When we view objectivity and subjectivity as opposites rather than complements, we distort the empirical realities of data collection.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
November 30, 2024 at 9:34 PM
"What my students paradoxically fail to realize, in their zeal to be responsible, is that describing things by certain characteristics rather than others merely because those characteristics are countable is a profoundly subjective decision."