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Mayor Adams should have taken a tip from Nightvale: the only people who can beat librarians are scrappy teenaged vigilantes.

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The hours and hours I spent at the central branch on Fifth Avenue, in that magnificent reading room… DAMN. Memories.

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I'm so weirded out rn, dude stripped all those millions because of bullshit that didn't happen, now he's like UH WELL CUTS WERE MADE like a common passive voice. Hooray for libraries and librarians!

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So, typical asshole politician?

Won't admit to mistakes, won't give credit to others where credit is due, won't change his mind on personally entrenched opinions, willing to dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge any and all responsibility for anything his administration does that gets negative feedback.

Honestly surprised he didn't find a way to throw someone under the bus in that announcement.

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Why can't NYC get their mayor game together?

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Eric Adams is in a pantheon of major douches. So glad the library has its funding back.

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Ta, Dok. The library was always my safe space. I got my first library card at age two in Brooklyn. The rule was you could have a card when you could sign your name to it, which I practiced for a week. Then we moved to suburbia, where one was not allowed a library card until age seven. I was totally humiliated by having to take books out on my father's card.

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You could sign your name by age two??

"The library was always my safe space. "

Yes

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At that point, I only knew how to print. My mother showed me how to sign in script, and I practiced for a week because the card was small and my name is long. I remember standing on the chair at the counter and signing, because that event was so fucking important.

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I grew up in, what was then "the sticks". No public library, no school library. A (small) bookmobile came to our school once a month but it was all kids books and I was reading at adult level. My Grandfather started taking me into "the city" once a week when he went to work and dropping me off at the library- bliss!

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All the while throwing money at the police....

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Our library used to be a ciry-county partnership. The county pulled out some years ago. Now, unless you live within the city limits (I don't), you can't get a library card unless you pay for it.

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They tried the same shit in Fairfax County some years back, closing the libraries and the nature centers. Meanwhile the police had 3 helicopters. Now they only have one 😊

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Progress!

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Where the fuck did NYC dig up this goddamned troglodyte? He belongs in the Natural History Museum with the cave bears, not Gracie Mansion.

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Staten Island

not even kidding

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Stagnant Island. IMHO

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I wish I could argue - but we both know I can’t

Apparently we have a shiny brand new state park, but it’s there, so some of us can’t even go visit

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/staten-island-freshkills-park/

But of course, we should already know because it’s called “Freshkills” (really?) and also because it was built on top of a landfill

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I was lucky enough to grow up within walking distance of both a town library and a county library. I can't count the times reading the books I borrowed, and just being in those places, made me believe the world was a good place and a fascinating place.

Thanks so much for this Nice Time, it's exactly what I needed today.

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NYPL has awesome zoom discussions, https://www.nypl.org/spotlight/live

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I'm a member and life has been so insane I can't believe I missed this

https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2024/04/30/emilywilson?nref=121031

Thank you for reminding me it's here

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Signed up! Thanks for the link.

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I really needed a story like this today. Libraries save lives. Literally and figuratively.

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Never piss of a librarian.

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I was in high school when David Dinkins cut the budgets of all three NYC library systems (NYPL, Brooklyn Public, and Queens Public), and I felt it when the branches near my house and school closed and it was hard to get any schoolwork done.

This is probably what started me on the path to radicalization. Giuliani getting elected to replace Dinkins did nothing to slow my path to radicalization.

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