Is it kind of sad that this is the only release I’m remotely interested in this Record Store Day? I mean, that Boy George duet is really pretty…hm.
RSD ‘23 Special Release: P.M. Dawn - The Bliss Album…? (Vibrations of Love and Anger and the Ponderance of Life and Existence)
Thursday, April 20, 2023
🎵 Now Playing: Heart and Soul by T'Pau from the album Bridge of Spies on Music
Thursday, April 20, 2023
🎵 Now Playing: Let's Go All The Way by Sly Fox from the album Let's Go All The Way on Music
📚 Finally some good news and good sense! 📚 HB 2789 Ties Illinois Library Funding To Anticensorship https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/hb-2789-ties-illinois-library-funding-to-anticensorship
💾 I really like my new job. Only complaint? The stronghold IT has on the agency. Like, they won’t even enable OneDrive. Everything is email and shared network drives. I’m used to using sorely outdated technology in the public sector, but this is beyond what I’ve grown accustomed to.
👩⚖️ Tennessee would make it a felony -a felony- for publishers to provide books to schools that the state does not approve of. Utah would force publishers to pass a review every time they update educational material.
S.O.S. :)
🎵 Now Playing: iTunes media by from the album on Music
👠 I haven’t yet changed my LinkedIn profile picture to the one of me in drag. I’ve been too scared. Hearing that Missouri now has a page where people can report trans individuals and the people who help them to the state, I think it’s time to make a statement. Here’s hoping I don’t lose my new job.
They’re gonna getcha every time…
That irony was certainly lost on one politician! In 1978, a bill was introduced in the Maryland state legislature to make it illegal to play “Short People” on the radio. Delegate Isaiah Dixon wanted radio stations and employees to be criminally charged and fined for playing the song, but the bill was not passed.
🎵 Now Playing: Short People by Randy Newman from the album Little Criminals on Music
Once the Nazis took power they banned books, outlawed drag shows and homosexuality, changed school curricula to remove mention of their atrocities in WWI, and rewrote election laws so they’d never again lose an election.
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Legislation of Concern - EveryLibrary
Politicians in state legislatures across the country have filed bills that are detrimental to our school libraries and public libraries. Some of this legislation calls for the arrest and incarceration of librarians.
🗣️ Ironically we won’t go quietly.
😕 Ok so apparently posting to status.lol with a markdown hyperlink doesn’t exactly translate very well when it feeds into micro.blog.
🍎 Let’s follow each other on Apple Music. Like seriously, I’d love to follow more people on there. Add me!
📚 Felt a little bit of nostalgia reading this old blog post about where I used to work: The State Library: A Theme Park of History from Ohio and Beyond
⛔ I’m glad there’s no emoji for gun.
📚 If at first you don’t succeed, defund the public library
These religious extremist right wing whackadoos claim libraries “groom” children. I thought churches did that.
The only thing libraries groom children to be is better citizens who won’t shut down public libraries.
💊 Every Sunday I dole out my meds for the week and ugh. Staying alive is expensive.
But, while the company may be perceived as an LGBTQ ally, its corporate PAC activities suggest otherwise. Over the last few years, the brewing giant has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars supporting the campaigns of anti-LGBTQ politicians at the federal and state level.
I knew their “support” was all for show. Corporations are the worst. Especially during Pride month.