Shauna
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Nemophilist settler. Further: Hopepunk public librarian/runner/cyclist who knits. Likely to be emphatic about music, the environment, books, politics, libraries. Unbothered about most else. Habitually contented. She/her. Work does not endorse this mess.
And, if you live in Canada, the authors you read will get a little kickback, even if you borrow from a library instead of buying! Not enough people know that. publiclendingright.ca/about/overview
November 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
And, if you live in Canada, the authors you read will get a little kickback, even if you borrow from a library instead of buying! Not enough people know that. publiclendingright.ca/about/overview
About as disappointing as any news can be. Hard to believe neither he nor his family ever dug further into Elvin’s family history, given everything he’d made of the connection he thought was there. www.thestar.com/entertainmen...
Thomas King, who built prolific career telling Indigenous stories, reveals he is not part Cherokee
In an essay published in the Globe and Mail, the author of “The Inconvenient Indian” said a whistle-blowing organization shared his ancestry.
www.thestar.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:41 AM
About as disappointing as any news can be. Hard to believe neither he nor his family ever dug further into Elvin’s family history, given everything he’d made of the connection he thought was there. www.thestar.com/entertainmen...
Your Sunday good news story:
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Your Sunday good news story:
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Neither my 11yo nor my partner of 5.5 years knows my birthday. This means I drop hints quarterly until they figure out that it can’t possibly be my birthday again.
November 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Neither my 11yo nor my partner of 5.5 years knows my birthday. This means I drop hints quarterly until they figure out that it can’t possibly be my birthday again.
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"Looking into a mirror that makes you insane" is the sort of story that has been told in countless iterations for centuries and yet here he were
November 7, 2025 at 12:58 AM
"Looking into a mirror that makes you insane" is the sort of story that has been told in countless iterations for centuries and yet here he were
Man was not expecting Canada *and* Mamdani.
November 7, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Man was not expecting Canada *and* Mamdani.
I... am pretty sure David Frum just tried to say Mamdani said that all our problems are Israel's fault, on Metro Morning? Did I hear that wrong?
I am thinking I must have... I can't imagine David Common would have just let that stand. Though at this point, we know what plays like that are worth.
I am thinking I must have... I can't imagine David Common would have just let that stand. Though at this point, we know what plays like that are worth.
November 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I... am pretty sure David Frum just tried to say Mamdani said that all our problems are Israel's fault, on Metro Morning? Did I hear that wrong?
I am thinking I must have... I can't imagine David Common would have just let that stand. Though at this point, we know what plays like that are worth.
I am thinking I must have... I can't imagine David Common would have just let that stand. Though at this point, we know what plays like that are worth.
Public good is cool again. Eat shit, Reaganomics.
BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.
Follow AP for live updates.
Follow AP for live updates.
Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power
One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.
bit.ly
November 5, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Public good is cool again. Eat shit, Reaganomics.
Please tell me the NDP is taking notes. Please.
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Please tell me the NDP is taking notes. Please.
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I really don’t understand why it’s so hard for certain people to understand that Mamdani is doing so well because he is advocating for more than “keep Trump from taking the few good and/or semi-decent things that remain” and is articulating a real vision for how to make New York better.
November 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I really don’t understand why it’s so hard for certain people to understand that Mamdani is doing so well because he is advocating for more than “keep Trump from taking the few good and/or semi-decent things that remain” and is articulating a real vision for how to make New York better.
We are complicated. And that is okay.
I didn't even know I could combine this much genuine hope with this much delicious schadenfreude.
November 5, 2025 at 3:47 AM
We are complicated. And that is okay.
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And people *all over the world* can rhyme off Mandani's key campaign planks. It's amazing.
For all that people are bemoaning that Mamdani is radical, the central issues in his campaign are actually relatively small.
“This bus will be fast and free” saves people a few dollars and twenty minutes every day. This isn’t huge; it’s concrete and imaginable.
“This bus will be fast and free” saves people a few dollars and twenty minutes every day. This isn’t huge; it’s concrete and imaginable.
November 5, 2025 at 3:45 AM
And people *all over the world* can rhyme off Mandani's key campaign planks. It's amazing.
Me: Okay, time to learn laundry. Like you promised.
11yo: I need a bribe. Candy.
Me: You do not. No one gives me candy when I do laundry.
11yo: There’s candy. You don’t even need to ask permission. That’s a you-problem. My terms are candy for laundry.
Touché, little fucker. Touché.
11yo: I need a bribe. Candy.
Me: You do not. No one gives me candy when I do laundry.
11yo: There’s candy. You don’t even need to ask permission. That’s a you-problem. My terms are candy for laundry.
Touché, little fucker. Touché.
November 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Me: Okay, time to learn laundry. Like you promised.
11yo: I need a bribe. Candy.
Me: You do not. No one gives me candy when I do laundry.
11yo: There’s candy. You don’t even need to ask permission. That’s a you-problem. My terms are candy for laundry.
Touché, little fucker. Touché.
11yo: I need a bribe. Candy.
Me: You do not. No one gives me candy when I do laundry.
11yo: There’s candy. You don’t even need to ask permission. That’s a you-problem. My terms are candy for laundry.
Touché, little fucker. Touché.
You cannot put the Jays, Halloween and the new Florence and the Machine album release on the same day. I will simply explode.
October 31, 2025 at 12:19 PM
You cannot put the Jays, Halloween and the new Florence and the Machine album release on the same day. I will simply explode.
If Jays pull this off, there’s definitely going to be a movie about this season. The characters are just too good.
October 31, 2025 at 11:59 AM
If Jays pull this off, there’s definitely going to be a movie about this season. The characters are just too good.
Nothing will ever add up, because this guy is just a geyser of shit spraying through an interdimensional portal that somehow is always creating more shit. He's tapped into the higgs boson of shit. Like it was some kind of lost force none of us were correctly accounting for.
October 25, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Nothing will ever add up, because this guy is just a geyser of shit spraying through an interdimensional portal that somehow is always creating more shit. He's tapped into the higgs boson of shit. Like it was some kind of lost force none of us were correctly accounting for.
Trump was going to blow up trade talks no matter what. He knew about the ad Monday. Deals kept happening all week. Carney came out with some details, and Trump sold him out with literally anything he had, because he doesn't want a deal. He wants vassal states.
Stop trying to have a deal. Move on.
Stop trying to have a deal. Move on.
October 24, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Trump was going to blow up trade talks no matter what. He knew about the ad Monday. Deals kept happening all week. Carney came out with some details, and Trump sold him out with literally anything he had, because he doesn't want a deal. He wants vassal states.
Stop trying to have a deal. Move on.
Stop trying to have a deal. Move on.
Something I will never get over about librarianing in a fairly small town: when people get their overdue notices, they just scoot over and return their books. But, like, TO MY HOUSE. 🤣
October 23, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Something I will never get over about librarianing in a fairly small town: when people get their overdue notices, they just scoot over and return their books. But, like, TO MY HOUSE. 🤣
Juncos are here! Perfect fall day, now that their little round butts are bouncing around the feeders.
October 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Juncos are here! Perfect fall day, now that their little round butts are bouncing around the feeders.
The work on the Gardiner being done *this* early feels a bit… what part did they forget to do?
October 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The work on the Gardiner being done *this* early feels a bit… what part did they forget to do?
RIP to D’Angelo. He brought the highly skilled playful raunch back to R&B after a few years of sappy sentimentality. No one did it like him before or since.
October 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
RIP to D’Angelo. He brought the highly skilled playful raunch back to R&B after a few years of sappy sentimentality. No one did it like him before or since.
Trump's second term has been a nightmare for research and data management in so many ways. One small, unsung impact? His tariffs are stopping inter-library loans from moving internationally: www.404media.co/libraries-ca...
Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs
Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’
www.404media.co
October 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Trump's second term has been a nightmare for research and data management in so many ways. One small, unsung impact? His tariffs are stopping inter-library loans from moving internationally: www.404media.co/libraries-ca...
Five and a half years in, I just caught myself getting excited to see the handsome man friend in sweaters again.
He wears the hell out of a sweater. Knives Out-level sweater game on this man.
He wears the hell out of a sweater. Knives Out-level sweater game on this man.
October 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Five and a half years in, I just caught myself getting excited to see the handsome man friend in sweaters again.
He wears the hell out of a sweater. Knives Out-level sweater game on this man.
He wears the hell out of a sweater. Knives Out-level sweater game on this man.
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I wrote this blog about how feeling like a killjoy whenever I talk about GenAI.
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/o...
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/o...
On Being a GenAI Killjoy
Maggie Fernandes, University of Arkansas Photo by Maksim Romashkin on Pexels.com At a recent teaching talk about GenAI refusal, an audience member asked Megan, Jen, and me this question: how d…
refusinggenai.wordpress.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I wrote this blog about how feeling like a killjoy whenever I talk about GenAI.
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/o...
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/o...