The 523 could've used more double decker cars today. Unusually full.

Israel has dropped almost 75,000 bombs and shells on Gaza in 200 days, twenty times more than the US aimed at Iraq in six years of war.

The world's 200 bloodiest days since the Rwandan genocide. It’s not war. It’s genocide.

This sucks

The amount of good work, and frankly, good press, that Worcester Public Library does for the city is not reflected in the city budget.

Not even close.

If you get an article or book retracted, you should be able to include it on your CV, like wearing the skin of your slain enemy.

Anhecomics Vols. 1-3 are HERE! #GraphicMedicine open.substack.com/pub/anhecomics…

We long for a world where our neighbors are safe, where our neighbors tell their stories, where they live with joy together. Where they get home safe ❤️‍🩹

The barriers to acquiring foreign language titles are so many.

Today's frustration: shipping costs are high.

We're committed to doing this and have funds, so we can navigate it, but when you wonder why your public library can't reliably carry things...

Here's the text of a letter I sent earlier this week to the President of Tulane University, after he had the fledgling student encampment there violently broken up by cops on horseback, with 14 people arrested:

Citizen Science Empowers Environmental Understanding through Libraries (... youtu.be/aX7QvFcYG-4?si… via YouTube

T-Minus a few weeks until the very first session of Introduction to Comics Librarianship, taught by yours truly, via LibraryJuice Academy!

I'm biased, but this is a great way to spend some of those EOY funds.

libraryjuiceacademy.com/shop/course/33…

'Every book is a decision.'

Josh Cook with as succinct a way to explain what you see on the shelves of your local bookstore (or your local library); it also captures the bigger picture well.

At every stage, a person CHOSE to move that book forward.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mod…

And so when the President still hedges on a full stop to this madness by making empty promises none of us can trust…feels like another blow. “We’ll pause” “if they invade Rafah”. Rafah is being decimated. President Biden can stop this right now.