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Aletheia: Why isn’t mommy eating dinner with us tonight?
Me: Because she’s at a restaurant watching the Carolina-Dook game.
Aletheia: Yeah, we don’t like Dook.
Amiens: Caaaaaaaaat!
Aletheia: You know, daddy, some days we are fairies and some days we are not.
A weekend examen
I literally just bought Girl Scout cookies out of the back of a van in a poorly lit parking garage.
Fighting fake news
“Rather than focus on identifying fake news, then, we decided it made more sense to teach students how to recognize good journalism.” (Source: ARCLog)
We did a fake news workshop at mpow. I like this approach as well.
The very powerful and the very stupid
“You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don’t alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views.”
Source: The Doctor
I wonder if this is how Buffy felt the night before graduation day #snakedemon
We reaffirm
“We would like to reaffirm our commitment to long-standing library traditions and values, which include the promotion of intellectual freedom, the protection of information from loss or erasure, and the mindful and critical use of information.”
Source: LMU Library News
Can you make a flier for that?
“I stopped making 8.5-by-11-inch fliers this semester and I haven’t regretted it for a single moment.” My latest post for Programming Librarian. (Not really: I’ve printed a few flyers, but it’s no longer part of my standard workflow.)

