@Liberalibrarian.bsky.social 💙 Retired librarian. ☮️ 🇺🇸🇨🇦 🇺🇦 The Hippies should have won. Artwork by Jim Williams 1959-2013
Tucson, AZ
Joined April 2011
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I love Jane Austen, but for pity's sake STOP ADAPTING HER. Her novels have been done to death. There are many other unfilmed authors to do instead. Burney, Edgeworth, much of Trollope. Non-Hannay Buchan. Most of Wilkie Collins. If you like Regency romance, Georgette Heyer.
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メキシコ最大級の伝統行事「死者の日」が今年もオアハカを中心に開催されます💀🌼
鮮やかなマリーゴールドとオフレンダ（祭壇）で街中が彩られ、故人を温かく迎える幻想的な祝祭が行われます。
伝統と文化が息づく特別な秋のメキシコをぜひご体験ください✨ #死者の日
日程: 2026/10/31 - 2026/11/02
Liberalibrarian retweeted
Stewart, his text held sacred.
Stewart and Picard at El-Adrel.
Stewart, when the stagewalls rose.
Stewart and Shakespeare at Elsinore.
Stewart, his sails unfurled across the stars.
Temba, his arms wide to the stranger.
Sokath, his eyes uncovered.
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Liberalibrarian retweeted
If I was trying to harm Abdul's campaign, it would look a lot like the PR roll out we've seen from Cenk that started with his ad, then Hasan Piker’s bizarre tirade comparing the heavily Jewish community of West Bloomfield to a Ku Klux Klan neighborhood, and now this crazy, hyper online, conspiratorial statement about a TV ad Abdul denounced.
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Wil Wheaton telling Hitler's anal polyp to fuck all the way off back to Adolf's shithole wins the internet for me today
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🚨 El video más HERMOSO que verás el día de hoy
Así quedó el Zócalo para el #DiaDeMuertos con la Catrina más grande del Mundo...
Liberalibrarian retweeted
Just so you understand: Leah runs the most consequential grassroots, Dem-aligned coalition in the country. She and Indivisible will make your life a living hell and end your tenure in Democratic politics.
Act accordingly.
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Patrick Stewart’s gone. Eighty-six, Alzheimer’s and Lewy body dementia, at home in Los Angeles. The soft-focus tributes will be out already - the bald head, the captain’s chair, the “make it so” quotes. Fine. Here’s the bit that matters.
The man could act. Not the modern version where the camera does the work. Proper stage work, RSC years, Shakespeare that actually landed. Huddersfield roots, not finishing-school polish. That voice wasn’t a brand exercise; it was decades of doing the job without treating the words like a prop.
Picard and Professor X get the headlines, and fair enough. He took roles that could’ve been pure costume and made them into men who thought before they spoke and still cared about something larger than themselves. He didn’t treat the science-fiction stuff like a joke he was too good for. He treated it like work that still had to be honest.
Off stage he was less of a professional hypocrite than most of the famous. He talked about his father hitting his mother and put his name to the unglamorous business of trying to stop other people from doing the same. No logo, no gala dinner - just the statement that some things are not all right and silence is a choice.
He kept working. Kept turning up. Money and a knighthood sand the edges off most people; he kept a few. That’s rarer than it should be.
The world is full of people who are very good at looking like they give a damn. Stewart was better at actually doing the work. Most of us can’t even manage that.
#PatrickStewart #RIPPatrickStewart #StarTrek #ProfessorX #Shakespeare #MakeItSo
Liberalibrarian retweeted
We do not talk enough about how the decline of broadcast tv in favor of streaming has negatively impacted society
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Fred Armisen breaks down the fascinating evolution of conversational accents and speech patterns decade by decade on The Tonight Show.
"I've been working on some impressions of accents through the decades"
1900s: "the manufacturer and the farmer, people thought it was very British, but it's actually very Dutch and German"
1920s: "They start getting very aware of the microphone"
1950s: "It starts to flatten out a little bit. I'd like to on a Friday night, I'd like to read a book on a Friday night"
1960s: "Diverges a little bit where there's an official sort of news hour... and then the sort of people in interviews looked like they were in shock"
1970s: "There's a whisper to it. There's a sort of confusion as to what's going on, there's a whisper"
1990s: "Very kind of laid back, wow, the nineties laid back, yeah, very sarcastic and ironic, wow"
2000s: "You start to hear the vocal fry... guys are in a meeting and they can sort of hear that throughout when they're talking on a conference call"
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I think a lot about dehumanization. One easy method is to block off all contact.
I genuinely think people immediately turn to empathy when they have regular interactions with others.
If you are isolated however you can tell stories and make up straw men. Really start to spin out caricatures.
It really all comes down to looking someone in the eye.
If youre not doing that regularly you probably have a straw man in your mind.
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Trump/Republicans phased in two economic bombs for us after the midterms
1. Health insurance premiums will be quadrupling
2. Students loan payment will also quadruple
Pass it on
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Watching all the posts fly about Patrick Stewart, I have noticed something incredibly interesting that reaches deeper into the core of humanity: everyone, across the political spectrum, loved Picard.
The original Picard, from the 1990s. It seems people from all walks of life feel a heartfelt loss, and I think there is more to it than just nostalgia or a celebrity passing.
The TNG stories spoke true to everyone, no matter their politics. It was an era where we were able to agree on fundamental things, where our shared humanity and its complexities were spoken through timeless storytelling. It makes you wonder if that balance is why the 1990s feels like such a golden age in hindsight.
I often see the argument that when the original Star Trek came out, traditionalists were offended by it, and that heavy-handed ideology and corporate pandering in the recent Star Trek series are the same thing. But I would ask: what about The Next Generation? It, too, asked deep, challenging societal questions about the human condition - yet everyone, left and right, loved it.
I realize it was just a show, just a fictional character. But I think there is more to it. It represents something we are all sorely missing today: depth and a sense of shared humanity, delivered without constant virtue signaling, and without corporations trying to monetize every last ounce of our attention.
Perhaps the true magic of Picard - and the era he represents - was that he challenged us to be better without ever making us feel talked down to. He invited us to reflect on our flaws rather than policing them. In losing Patrick Stewart, we aren't just mourning an icon; we are mourning the standard of grace, curiosity, and mutual respect he embodied so brilliantly - and which is becoming harder and harder to find.
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I'm not 67 YET but getting closer, but ALL of this is true!
I need to make a very PUBLIC announcement on behalf of those of us who are 60-something.
If you see a 67-year-old who seems a little boring now, understand something…
WE ALREADY GOT IT IN.
Like…GOT. IT. IN. 😂
We’re not sitting home on Friday night because we never knew how to have fun.
We’re sitting home because WE’VE HAD ENOUGH FUN FOR THREE LIFETIMES.
We went to parties in farmhouses, machine sheds, gravel pits and cornfields. Nobody sent a location because THERE WERE NO CELL PHONES.
Somebody just said, “There’s a party out at Johnson’s.”
Which Johnson?
Nobody knew.
But somehow 75 people found it.
We cruised Main Street for hours with absolutely nowhere to go. Gas was cheap, the music was loud, and somehow 11 people fit into a car made for five.
We drank Boone’s Farm, cheap beer and mysterious concoctions somebody handed us in a plastic cup.
Nobody asked what was in it.
You drank it and trusted the process.
We closed down the bar and instead of doing the responsible thing and GOING HOME…
somebody would yell:
“RED ROOSTER!”
Or…
“LET’S GO TO THE BOONDOCKS!”
And suddenly at 2:30 in the morning, the whole crew was sitting around a table eating eggs, hash browns and greasy breakfast food like we’d just finished a hard day’s work.
Then somebody would say:
“Well…might as well stay up now.”
😂😂
There was no Uber.
No GPS.
No Life360.
No Find My Friends.
There was just somebody saying:
“Follow me. I know a shortcut.”
And for reasons nobody can explain…
WE FOLLOWED HIM.
We made entire weekend plans without sending ONE text message.
“Meet me there around 8.”
That was the plan.
And somehow everybody showed up.
We did stupid things.
We did REALLY stupid things.
And the greatest gift our generation ever received was:
THERE WERE NO CAMERA PHONES.
There are events from approximately 1975 through 1985 that exist only in the memories of the people who were there.
AND THAT’S EXACTLY WHERE THEY NEED TO STAY.
So yes…
Now we’re 67.
We like our recliners.
We like comfortable shoes.
We like restaurants at 5:00.
We like being home by 8:00.
And if somebody calls at 9:30 and asks:
“What are you doing?”
The answer is:
“Why the hell are you calling me this late?”
😂
We’re not boring.
WE’RE RETIRED FROM ACTIVE DUTY.
We’ve already closed the bars, stayed out until sunrise, made questionable decisions and somehow lived to tell about it.
So when younger people see us peacefully sitting at home and think:
“Man, you guys are boring.”
Sweetheart…
YOU’RE NOT LOOKING AT BORING OLD PEOPLE.
YOU’RE LOOKING AT RETIRED LEGENDS.
And thank God there isn’t much photographic evidence.
Liberalibrarian retweeted
These AI CEOs talking valuations sound like kindergarteners who think “big numbers sound smart.”
“We need $800B, we’re valued at $2T, projecting 35 quadrillion on the way to a centillion.” These people can’t even take care of their own kids without asking ChatGPT. They can STFU.
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Did you know the average Social Security check is about $25K a year, for people who spent a lifetime working. How hard is it to live on that, even if you own your house?
A trillionaire for over 80 years makes that in ONE single minute. About the time it took to read this.
And that's every minute. For 80 years.
In a day, the retiree gets $68. The trillionaire, $34 million.
A teacher, a firefighter, and a nurse pay 6.2% Social Security tax on every dollar they earn. The cap is $184,500, so someone earning billions pays it only on the first $184,500.
That's why they should contribute with no cap, and at the very least pay the same rate a teacher, firefighter, or nurse pays.
