Amanda B

@bookcurious.bsky.social

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Lurking around the English Department 📚🚲🦫 Once a librarian, always a librarian

NY Times Interesting Times Opinion column "Why Are We Still Driving? Confronting the weirdness of a Waymo future." Hosted by Ross Douthat
NYTimes Opinion headline "Why Are We Still Driving?"
NYT opinion headline from 2017 "Yes, this is a witch hunt. I'm a witch, and I'm hunting you."
Screenshot of skeet from Daniel Suitor "no absolutely not, you all should've been nicer to my trans homies"
Poster with Charzard, Metagross, Machamp, and Archanine that says "We're super effective against ICE"
Old tweet from The Golden Sir Me sowing: Haha duck yeah! Yes! Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
Rolling Stone headline Man Afraid to Ride Subway Named Head of NASA
Comic called Instinct is Weird with mama bird admiring her eggs. One egg hatches and she says "oh no now it's loud." 5 eggs hatch and she says "help"
Ophuls knew that by creating hours-long documentaries, he ran the danger of "not only seeming pretentious, but being pretentious." But, as he told NPR in 1978, "there's a relationship between attention span and morality. I think that, if you shorten people's attention span a great deal, you are left with only the attraction of power."
Gen Z parents are more likely than millennial or Gen X parents to say children's reading is "more a subject to learn than a fun thing to do."
Building front that looks like a cat crouching with window eyes and a door mouth.
Cover of the picture book Who Wet My Pants. A bear in a scout uniform who has wet himself asking "who wet my pants?"
Wishbone, a Jack Russell terrier, dressed in Victorian costume with a rose in his mouth.
Screenshot of New York Times headline As Measles Spreads, Kennedy Embraces Remedies like Cod Liver Oil
Plaque approved for posting at Huntington Beach Public Library for commemorating its 50th Anniversary. Black with gold font and a big bald eagle on one side. Along bottom says Magical Alluring Galvanizing Adventurous
Plaque approved for posting at Huntington Beach Public Library for commemorating its 50th Anniversary. Black with gold font and a big bald eagle on one side. Along bottom says Magical Alluring Galvanizing Adventurous
Screenshot that says: DoDEA Director Beth Schiavino-Narvsez said "This is just what we do when administrations change, and we continue."
Screenshot of Kash Patel's children's propaganda book ranked #9 in children's historical fiction on Amazon with an eye roll emoji added by me
Illustration of Benjamin Lay in Quaker garb, using a cane and holding a small book that says African Emancipation
Illustration of a doctor falling over backward off a stool, pulling a pig out of the mouth of a puppy as his surprised mother looks on.