Thank you for asking this! I'm really heartened to read all the responses to you and learn more about the challenges and that there are people working on it.

And it's like using sunscreen every day - little changes make me feel better in my body because I know I'm taking care of it well!

Face washing is *much* harder than folks think, so I'm super proud of you for asking. I'm actually allergic to soap (specifically the ingredient that makes it foam), so I'm scarily versed in weird hygiene tricks. But I can always learn more and it's fascinating stuff!

My politics is that I care how you vote when you vote or write an op-ed or a policy but I don’t care when you need food, water, housing, health care and other human rights met.

Half of my problem was that I had to update my message on the website and couldn’t do it on the phone app? So even though I use my phone for everything else, I had to log into the website to change it. And that extra step just kept me from doing it for so long.

I've been at this job for a year and a half now, and I only *just now* remembered to finally update my voicemail message so that it isn't the guy who had my phone number before I started here.

Yeah, I definitely picked that gif on purpose

That dog is living my best life right now.

S: "hey, do you want to go to [fancy event on a work night]? It requires socialising and networking." Me: "i see here that there are passed appetisers and an open bar. Socialising will be no problem at all." S: "Okay, but you have to be slightly professional, cause this is for my work." Me:

a man in a leather jacket is smiling and says ugh that could be a problem

Alt: a man in a leather jacket is grimacing and saying ugh that could be a problem

the fact that we had a "librarians protecting their community post-apocalypse" book drop in 2020 means I got to talk to a lot of librarians mid-covid, & the extent to which we just made libraries our disaster safety nets without giving them the budget, tools, or resources to safely handle that...