Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

How stupid are these people?

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

“Alexa, change the president.”

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Let there be snark.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

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These little stories are from an article about people who are making a difference, and I thought little pieces of it might make good late night posts.  A little bit of inspiration, perhaps, at the start of an open thread.

But talk about whatever you want!

In a year that made many of us want to give up, these unsung activists found a way to help others.

h/t hazmat

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The Librarian for Teenagers

Ricci Yuhico says the teenage students who study and socialize at her branch of the New York Public Library have formed real friendships there.Credit…Brittainy Newman for The New York Times

Covid has cast an especially long shadow on teenagers, both in terms of academic outcomes and social emotional development. Ricci Yuhico, who manages the Teen Center at the New York Public Library’s newly renovated Stavros Niarchos Foundation branch on Fifth Avenue in Midtown, has been there to help. The center operates essentially as a full-service joy machine, where kids can connect over studying, produce a movie or a song in the recording studio and media lab, get help with college essays, dance and make crafts.

Students come from all over the city, Ms. Yuhico said, some from nearby homeless shelters. Others might use the center as a stop-off point to do homework when they attend a charter school in Manhattan, say, but live in the far reaches of Queens. There’s a strong cohort of teenage volunteers from which real friendships have emerged, Ms. Yuhico said. She and her team see as many as 100 students a day, and one of their greatest successes this year was a building-wide Halloween party.

“The day after, one of our regulars came in and I asked him what the best part of the party was,” Ms. Yuhico recalled. “He said, ‘Just having fun with people I didn’t know.’”

From Six New Yorkers Who Made the City a Better, Cooler, Fairer Place in 2023.  Written by Ginia Bellafante, who writes the Big City column, a weekly commentary on the politics, culture and life of New York City.

In a year that made many of us want to give up, these unsung activists found a way to help others.

h/t hazmat

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  2. 2.

    lollipopguild

    Kids having fun and getting things done at the library! OH NOES!  If this was FREEDOM FLORIDA(TM) the gov. would have the place shut down right away.

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    Harrison Wesley

    @lollipopguild: Reminds me of something I read earlier today – apparently Bill O’Reilly (I didn’t even know he was still alive) is most undone about having a couple of his books yanked as part of a literature purge in one Florida county.  He’s most especially undone because he cheered on the shitty book-banning movement here that prompted this.  Guess it’s just another one of those things about leopards and faces and how/when they interact.

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    JAFD

    I almost married a librarian. If I had, Mayhaps she’d’ve made a pot of chicken soup to sooth this lousy cold I’ve come down with.
    Or maybe not…
    Anyway, have a great Martin Luther King Day!

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    Mike in Pasadena

    In the 70s the Sierra Madre public librarians were still shushing teenagers. This new attitude is better, but I suspect the library needs a room or two dedicated to teenagers to give a quiet place for other people reading and studying. Sounds like a good use of city money.

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    Brachiator

    Cool library story.

    I remember news stories about kids sitting outside closed libraries using the Wi Fi during the Covid pandemic.

    Libraries are essential in all kinds of ways.

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    Ripley

    Just took the dogs out. -15F. They were good dogs and did both jobs ASAP, but I still had to carry one back in, for cold toes.

    A full week of sub-zero overnights is going to grow old very qui- oh, hey, it’s already old.

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