TheSkeptibrarian
@theskeptibrarian.bsky.social
Government agency librarian in Columbus, Ohio. Old and still liberal AF. I drink bourbon, I have 3 library cards, I protect people’s right to information, and if you don’t like that you are still welcome in the library. She, her, hers #protecttransrights
Too many Hallmark movies.
"Listen, I have to put my foot down. I can’t do this anymore. Every year we get so overrun by burnt-out single women looking for love during the holidays that it becomes like SantaCon but for white privileged Insta girlies. You all have to stop coming here."
Small-Town Mayor Is Done with Visitors Looking for Love at Christmas Time
Listen, I have to put my foot down. I can’t do this anymore. Every year we get so overrun by burnt-out single women looking for love during the hol...
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December 10, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Too many Hallmark movies.
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@ninawest.bsky.social is a national treasure. What a bunch of tools.
Florida’s attorney general is panicking over a Christmas-themed adults-only drag show.
Thankfully, the local city council has so far ignored his "unsolicited opinion."
The only obscenity here is the manufactured outrage.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/florida-at...
Thankfully, the local city council has so far ignored his "unsolicited opinion."
The only obscenity here is the manufactured outrage.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/florida-at...
Florida Attorney General declares war on adults-only holiday drag show
Attorney General James Uthmeier's frantic letter to Pensacola officials exposes the emptiness of the right’s anti-drag panic
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December 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
@ninawest.bsky.social is a national treasure. What a bunch of tools.
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Only 2% of @wikipedia.org users support. I am one. As a professor in 2006, I hated it; thought my students would get wrong info. Instead, I found it a great starting point for them & me, plus *rigorously* corrected. Now it’s one of few places not skewed by misinformation. Low as $2.75 a month. Give!
December 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Only 2% of @wikipedia.org users support. I am one. As a professor in 2006, I hated it; thought my students would get wrong info. Instead, I found it a great starting point for them & me, plus *rigorously* corrected. Now it’s one of few places not skewed by misinformation. Low as $2.75 a month. Give!
Fuck these people that this was even necessary.
Incarcerated women would have free access to feminine hygiene products in Ohio correctional facilities if Gov. Mike DeWine signs a newly passed bill into law. ohiocapitaljournal.com/briefs/bill-...
Bill requiring Ohio correctional facilities provide free tampons and pads goes to Gov. DeWine’s desk • Ohio Capital Journal
Incarcerated women would have free access to feminine hygiene products in Ohio correctional facilities, if Gov. Mike DeWine signs bill into law.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Fuck these people that this was even necessary.
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Salami Advent Calendar, Czech Republic. podnikovka.cz/uzeniny_c103...
November 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Salami Advent Calendar, Czech Republic. podnikovka.cz/uzeniny_c103...
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects a call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.
Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects a call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.
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Anyone voting in 2026 without a full understanding of the information below is not an informed voter.
November 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Anyone voting in 2026 without a full understanding of the information below is not an informed voter.
These are typically all worth your time to read. We all need a little humor.
The semi-finalists for the 2026 Thurber Prize for American #Humor! 📖🎉
thurberhouse.org/2026-thurber-prize-in-writing-semifinalists
@riverheadbooks.bsky.social @henryholtbooks.bsky.social @crownpublishing.bsky.social @putnambooks.bsky.social @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social @amistadbooks.bsky.social
thurberhouse.org/2026-thurber-prize-in-writing-semifinalists
@riverheadbooks.bsky.social @henryholtbooks.bsky.social @crownpublishing.bsky.social @putnambooks.bsky.social @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social @amistadbooks.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
These are typically all worth your time to read. We all need a little humor.
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Posting things as facts without providing citations
What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?
August 23, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Posting things as facts without providing citations
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The f*&%ing library.
2. What is something “low effort, high reward” you wish more people knew about?
August 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The f*&%ing library.
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July 2, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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When I hear people say “why do children today need so many more shots than I did?” all I hear is “why can’t children today get infected and sick as much as when I was growing up?”
How Many Vaccine Doses Do Kids Get by 1 Year of Age? Not as many as anti-vaccine activists claim, but we are able to protect children from more dangerous diseases than we used to be. open.substack.com/pub/stopanti... via @aboutpediatrics.bsky.social
How Many Vaccine Doses Do Kids Get by 1 Year of Age?
Anti-vaccine influencers can't even agree how many vaccine doses kids get...
open.substack.com
May 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
When I hear people say “why do children today need so many more shots than I did?” all I hear is “why can’t children today get infected and sick as much as when I was growing up?”
My husband’s most recent work.
May 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
My husband’s most recent work.
Going to get an MMR booster today before it’s too late to get one.
April 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Going to get an MMR booster today before it’s too late to get one.
As usual, we are living in the dumbest times. Light up the phones people!
Ohio! It is early on a Friday morning, but this is a Get Up & Get Going moment. Start by contacting your state reps ASAP.
The new Ohio House budget would change the public library funding model, slash $100 million from libraries over the next two years, require relocating all trans/gender related books from eyesight of those under 18, and so much more.
This is *devastating*
bookriot.com/ohios-republ...
This is *devastating*
bookriot.com/ohios-republ...
April 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
As usual, we are living in the dumbest times. Light up the phones people!
I can’t begin to express my admiration of @charlotteclymer.bsky.social. She is the only person who could adequately describe this ceremony with the gravitas it deserves.
"I understand many of you aren’t familiar with dignified transfers and why what Trump has done here is so disgusting and unbecoming and insulting to the memories of these soldiers... so, I'll explain."
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/trump-pick...
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/trump-pick...
Trump Picks Golf Over Dead American Soldiers
Because of course he did.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
April 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I can’t begin to express my admiration of @charlotteclymer.bsky.social. She is the only person who could adequately describe this ceremony with the gravitas it deserves.
As if I didn’t need another reason to leave Ohio. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US Senate Republican calls top Democrat Chuck Schumer 'Fuhrer'
A Republican member of the U.S. Senate on Thursday called the chamber's top Democrat Chuck Schumer - the highest-ranking Jewish U.S. elected official - "Fuhrer," a reference to the title used by Adolf Hitler.
www.reuters.com
April 4, 2025 at 12:04 PM
As if I didn’t need another reason to leave Ohio. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
Don’t we all need a little good news? The new recombinant shingles vaccine is even more protective against dementia than the live virus. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The recombinant shingles vaccine is associated with lower risk of dementia - Nature Medicine
A natural experiment including more than 200,000 people who received a shingles vaccine reveals that, within 6 years of vaccination, the recombinant vaccine is associated with lower risk of dementia t...
www.nature.com
April 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Don’t we all need a little good news? The new recombinant shingles vaccine is even more protective against dementia than the live virus. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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An advance look at Barry Blitt’s “Left to Their Own Devices,” the cover for next week’s issue. #NewYorkerCovers
March 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
An advance look at Barry Blitt’s “Left to Their Own Devices,” the cover for next week’s issue. #NewYorkerCovers
I feel this in my bones.
Can you have my undivided attention? Look, buddy, not even I can have my undivided attention, okay?
March 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I feel this in my bones.
It would be funnier if it was actually funny
March 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It would be funnier if it was actually funny
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This Day in Labor History: March 25, 1911. 146 workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City died when the building in which they worked caught on fire. Let's talk about the horrors of the Triangle Fire, what changed, and what remains the same 114 years later (mostly it's all the same)
March 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This Day in Labor History: March 25, 1911. 146 workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City died when the building in which they worked caught on fire. Let's talk about the horrors of the Triangle Fire, what changed, and what remains the same 114 years later (mostly it's all the same)
Funny enough, I do happen to find myself in Columbus.
So if you happen to find yourself in Columbus which I know happens all the time…
March 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Funny enough, I do happen to find myself in Columbus.