Notes
Little coding update! Completed the freeCodeCamp projects “Learn HTML by Building a Cat Photo App”, “Learn Basic CSS by Building a Cafe Menu.” This is all familiar stuff, but I always appreciate the reminder to use semantic tags like section & the refresh of how forms work.
🔖 Read Primark launches clothing range designed for people with disabilities.
I love this. I hope we see it spread to other retailers.
It’s hard to feel much like writing these days. I’m going to be building some hand-coded projects and learning more hand-coding stuff, so I’ll be blogging about that process.
Finished reading: A Seditious Affair by KJ Charles 📚
A Tory pursuing seditionists for the Home Office and a radical pamphleteer fall in love in Regency England and it’s just as perfect as you’d expect. 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Finished reading: A Fashionable Indulgence by KJ Charles 📚
Just excellent.
Help me out, Internet. I saw someone talking about a cross-posting service a while back, maybe @pratik@writing.exchange? What is that service called? Thanks!
Me just now: I think my boots don’t look as cool with the laces looser on the foot and tighter on the ankle.
Also me: Kimberly, you are a middle-aged school librarian. You don’t need to look cool.
Stepping away from timelines and replies for a little while, but still planning to share resources and blog. If you want to be sure I see what you have to say, every post on my website has a Reply by email button.
Sharing more resources to help you defend libraries. Kelly Jensen works so hard on the Book Riot Literary Activism newsletter. It is the best place I know of to get news about censorship. Sign up here.
🔖 Read Please Don’t Use Generative AI To Mimic Historical Figures.
This is all kinds of a bad idea. The BlueSky thread linked in the post shares a conversation that makes me think the LLM wasn’t trained on Anne Frank’s writing, given its ignorance of the ethnic part of Jewish identity.
📚💬 “Kill the protestors, arrest the leaders, gaol the journalists. It’s what they do. It’s what tyrants do.” K. J. Charles, A Fashionable Indulgence
Just… In case you were wondering whether romance tackles serious issues.
Information is my love language!
GLSEN is my go-to resource for LGBTQ+ issues in K-12 education.
The Trevor Project is a suicide prevention and crisis intervention program for LGBTQ+ young people.
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♥️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎🩷🤍🩵
Your mind is valuable.
Your attention is an important part of your mind.
Stop treating it like slop.
Finished reading: On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder 📚
This was a good book to read today, full of helpful ideas. Reading notes coming soon. Highly recommend.
Not everything I post on my personal site is getting pushed through to social media. If you want to learn how you can see all of it, I have a /follow page.
🔖 Read Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.
I first read this in high school and was long overdue for a re-read. If you’ve never read it, I urge you to read it today and let it prompt you to consider what is just and what work remains.
Finished reading: The Ruin of Gabriel Ashleigh by KJ Charles 📚
A fun short story. A hot 🔥🔥🔥.
Bit of venting (no advice needed): it’s frustrating to have multi chronic illnesses because a good day for one condition can be a bad day for another.
💬📚📝 “For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are the ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
💬📚📝 “…we no longer need Chicken Little to tell us the sky is falling, because it already has. The issue now is how to take care of one another.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
💬📚📝 “…a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
💬📚📝 “The core, ethical concepts in which you most passionately believe are the language in which you are writing.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
I really needed my past self’s advice to stop trying to optimize myself.
Thanks, me.