Jon Harris

Library Director, Sometimes Musician, Easily Excitable, Quite obviously a personal account.

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@soundofideas if public schools want increases to state funding, they can band together and buy legislators just like sports teams and electric companies.

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@soundofideas to clarify, that’s a billion dollars total to local governments and libraries, not an additional billion dollars.

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@soundofideas do any of the suggestions include restoring or increasing state-level funding for services that have had to go to taxpayers to make up the gap with local levies?

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@soundofideas French Club? Are they that worried about kids getting high and reading Camus?

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“Pilot”
Jeremy: Right. Right. The Democrats…
Dana: Name three things.
J: Find a younger candidate…
Natalie: Yes.
J: Get someone who can activate their base.
D: Okay, one more.
J: (pause) Tell Aaron Sorkin to sit down and shut up?
D: Excellent!
N: Well, welcome to Politics Night

[New York Times Opinion @nytopinion]

“Because I needed the ‘West Wing’ audience to find President Bartlet’s intransigence heroic, I didn’t really dramatize any downward pull that his illness was having on his re-election chances,” Aaron Sorkin writes. “What if the show had gone another way?”
https://t.co/8uq5lpDWWC

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@soundofideas If the Haslams are going to ask for taxpayer funding, they should focus on the most joyful parts of the stadium. The parking lot before the game, and the away-team locker room after the game.

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@kairyssdal You mean the guy from News Radio?

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@soundofideas I work in Portage County, where one one statehouse district runs from outside Barberton (Summit) to outside Burton (Geauga). The other district splits a township in half, conspicuously around an incumbent’s house.

The process right now is an absolute farce.

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Happy WKRP gif season to all who celebrate!

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Fired up #Starfield and didn’t even get out of the mining building before seeing a guy walking about on invisible legs. Torso bro just checking his locker and stuff.

Bethesda. Bethesda never changes.

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Watching the replies to a wrong but well-intentioned tweet about worker safety and FOIA requests has been a nice reminder of what a hellhole this service has become.

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I wonder how long it would have taken to figure out “failing to meet expectations” as a trigger for my depression if I’d actually been going to therapy.

Because, surprise, parenting is teaching me all kinds of stuff.

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For @Greenmensteward Any chance of this?

https://t.co/7GQK2mguYF

Last time around I got a call from a parent asking us to reschedule our eclipse program because it was during school hours. It’d be easier than moving the moon.

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@NoetheMatt Gonna be interesting to see how this goes with Overdrive now.

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It is a minor but perpetual annoyance that seed libraries in this state largely rely on bits of ORC not getting enforced.

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The head of the state BWC just sent out an email to Ohio Libraries encouraging us to promote a great new program… that we helped get off the ground 2 years ago.

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For all that my ADHD gives me a lot of ideas I’ll never follow through on, someone in California should open a breakfast joint called The Marin Brunchhausen. I’ll give it a wildly inflated review.

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I feel like Frank LaRose sending out the sample ballots in Uline boxes is a little bit on-the-nose.

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@NoetheMatt A library board around here made minor news a few years back for wanting to loudly flounce their way out of the ALA.

It’s super fun when groups forget that recordings of meetings can be requested. Especially when they say shit like “well, we don’t want that in the minutes.”

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@NoetheMatt That’d probably be what puts Ohio out of the category. We don’t all have a local tax issue, but we do all get state funding.