Christina Bell

Librarian, voracious reader, queer femme, intersectional feminist, nerd, cat person. #BlackLivesMatter Opinions my own. She/hers pronouns.

[Christina Bell @librarybell]

A friend thought it was weird that strangers in a bar would interrupt us to ask me abt the Oxford comma. Nope, just Resting Librarian Face

[Christina Bell @librarybell]

@hannendez @catladylib We have something similar at my institution. All our chat promotion emphasizes that it is done by a human. I’ve never been asked if I’m an AI.

[Christina Bell @librarybell]

Curiosity and connection drive learning #critprax #fourwordpedagogy #dhsi2024

[Christina Bell @librarybell]

@NoetheMatt I lost my maternal grandparents young, but my paternal grandfather just died last month. In the last couple years I’ve had more funeral notices on my fridge than weddings or births and it is a strange phase of life.

[Christina Bell @librarybell]

@amtcastle I remember when they raised 136 because it flooded so often!!

[Jorts (and Jean) @JortsTheCat]

Team javelina

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

*crab-walked

[Christina Bell @librarybell]

I work in in the Phoenix area. This morning there were sandpipers running around our parking lot. #HurricaneHilary

[Laura Robinson @LauraRbnsn]

I've returned several times to the strange social question, "Why are Americans so angry at the idea that child sex trafficking - particularly by large organizations and by kidnapping American kids - is not as common as people suggest?" Because they are, this comes up every

[Plague Poems @PlaguePoems]

They say that the cactuses
in Phoenix, Arizona
have been collapsing
due to the extreme heat
but please bear in mind
you are a human being
and not a cactus
should you collapse
due to the extreme heat
you will be told
that you’d better get used to it.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

The largest public school district in Texas is eliminating librarian positions and converting the libraries into 'discipline centers' at 28 schools this upcoming year

https://t.co/PhO0TkEpBi

[rosa 💫FREE PALESTINE @petalblizzardz]

pre season 2 and post season 2 good omens fans

[Christina Bell @librarybell]

#GoodOmens2 #GoodOmens2Spoilers

[Plague Poems @PlaguePoems]

In shame, I confess
I am beginning to fear
that my years spent reading
about past destruction wrought
by plagues and disasters
by machines and fascists
has only really prepared me
to sit here and read
as current destruction is wrought
by those same forces.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Holy shit what is wrong with you?

“Sound of Freedom” is a dangerous child-trafficking exploitation film being weaponized to incite a death cult to target Democrats in order to destabilize American democracy.

It was funded by actual sex traffickers and accused sexual predators.

The brainwashed “star” believes Satanic Democrats are drinking children’s blood and regularly appears at Mike Flynn’s QAnon radicalization events.

The alleged “hero” of the film has funneled tens of millions of dollars from donations to his own bank accounts after raising money from conspiracy theories like children being shipped in Wayfair furniture—and from selling “the raid experience” to wealthy donors.

At the end of the film people are invited to donate money to frauds using their phones.

Your “review” elides all of this and gives it credit for having an authentic purpose or story.

It’s QAnon propaganda and you just helped it along.
Par for the course for you guys these days I guess.

[Plague Poems @PlaguePoems]

As the warning signs come down
I hope an archive is collecting them
placing them in folders
storing them in sturdy boxes
writing a clear finding aid
so that some day
when the history
of the pandemic is written
historians will see
that for a moment
we, at least, kind of tried.

[Christina Bell @librarybell]

#Deadloch is seriously the BEST thing to happen to me all summer and I need everyone else to open Prime and watch it. All eps are out. Lesbians. Tree huggers. Small town crime. A seal named Kevin. You’re welcome.

[Christina Bell @librarybell]

@ultramaricon @NoetheMatt I read this thread to my dad (who is in an ongoing and ever- escalating battle with roof rats) and he replied-

That is a GREAT idea!!

[ACLU of Texas @ACLUTx]

BREAKING: Gov. Abbott signed #HB900 into law, which will ban books about LGBTQIA+, Black, and Brown experiences in public schools.

Lawmakers have no right taking away the freedom of Texas students to read — just because they don’t believe certain people are worth reading about.

[Christina Bell @librarybell]

@HiringLib My institution offers a multi-session “how to get a TT job” training for internal temp/ adjunct candidates thru our CTLE. They’ve been advocating this format for a while. I like a bullet list- qualification: the many ways I meet it.