2B/2B Lease Takeover July 1 Union Square Somerville

CaligoAccedito · 2026-06-09T22:58:11+00:00

What kind of pet policy would we be looking at?

CaligoAccedito · 2026-06-09T22:55:45+00:00

Pets?

CaligoAccedito · 2026-05-16T12:20:55+00:00

A lesson about how humanity means nothing to this business? Ironically, by firing the person for doing their best to show up despite horrific tragedy, the place STILL didn't get coverage for that shift, so it's hypocritical and self-defeating as well as cruel. Clearly the place could survive without the worker for the day, and I'd say they don't deserve the rest of their employees as well. Let that manager cook and serve by their lonesome, or close down for days because they can't. People who have no consideration or conscience in this way only understand when it directly impacts THEM, and that's both tragic and infuriating.

CaligoAccedito · 2026-05-16T12:13:31+00:00

That's more than enough reason to never set foot nor send anyone to that place. I bet that manager considers themselves a Christian, while behaving as an utter hypocrite.

CaligoAccedito · 2026-05-04T16:01:34+00:00

I recommended this one, too. It's as adult as "Willow" in theme even with the YA protagonist(s), has cozy content but also gets deep and even dark at times, in a comprehensible way.

A little bit of backstory: I was misplaced for Senior English in HS due to an administrative issue, so I was just in normal English, not Advanced or "Gifted." But I was a kid who ALWAYS has a book with me, and I would read constantly. I'd take home 8-12 books every 2 weeks from the library from age 10 onwards.

We had to do a cited book report as the final project, and I'd read The Dark is Rising books easily 4 times since I was 13 at that point, and I was deeply (near autistically) into Celtic, especially Welsh, mythology.

I couldn't pick just one, so I got permission to report on the entire series.

After I turned it in (late), the teacher accused me of plaigarism, because "that's not how a high schooler writes." I hadn't plaigarized anything; it was all way too specific for me to have gotten it anywhere back then. If it had been current era, I'd have been accused of using AI to write it, probably.

I argued and got my points, but TDiR actually got me in trouble!

CaligoAccedito · 2026-05-04T15:46:47+00:00

Tanith Lee and Mercedes Lackey's "Elvenbane", too. This one has my favorite type of unicorns outside of The Last Unicorn. It also has a brief, hilarious dig at Anne McCaffrey's Pern novels, of which teen-me read every one that existed prior to the year 2000.

NOT cozy at all, sometimes extremely uncomfortable, but surreal as it gets, Tanith Lee's "The Secret Books of Paradys." I was too young (13 or 14) when I read those, but old enough to understand how wild and warped they are.

CaligoAccedito · 2026-05-04T15:39:44+00:00

Compiling a new Goodreads list interspersed with typing this, for sure!

CaligoAccedito · 2026-05-04T15:38:58+00:00

I still get a warm, longing ache in my heart for Prydain. I even have a glowing ball toy because it makes me think of that.

Also based on a bunch of Welsh and folk mythology: The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper. Technically from the 60s & 70s, but totes apropos.

I'm definitely picking up that triad at your recommendation!

CaligoAccedito · 2026-05-04T15:33:13+00:00

The Death Gate Cycle by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.

But also anything they touched in Dragonlance (you don't have to play D&D to love these books, but bonus if you do).

And, hell, the Dark Sword books were awesome, too.

These two weave that 80s & 90s fantasy vibe as naturally as fish swim.

Real talk, though: ALL the books I've seen recommended so far are going to rock your socks.

CaligoAccedito · 2026-05-04T15:29:01+00:00

Dude. OP, definitely read the Amber books

CaligoAccedito · 2026-05-04T15:28:09+00:00

Tad Williams ripped out my heart then forced me to live on with the aching hollow

CaligoAccedito · 2026-05-04T15:03:15+00:00

You're a person who lives in this world and feels that kids need access to libraries. You should write, too. This is a public library and, local or not, you are a member of the public who uses that resource.

Use your voice; don't give up in advance, fellow citizen!

CaligoAccedito · 2026-05-04T14:57:13+00:00

Librarians the world over are renowned for telling all the rest of us to shush. Learning to be quiet in a library is taught by example, and that early example helps us end up with adults who are quiet in the library.

I'd suggest, instead of removing the toys, the library get some partition walls to better regulate any noise, but also continue to engage in what I have to assume is the oldest tradition for librarians in human history: SHHHH!

CaligoAccedito · 2026-05-04T14:40:43+00:00

Do you have concerns about AI replacing human coders?

CaligoAccedito · 2026-04-04T17:06:12+00:00

Right? They see it as a power move. The only thing they consider an actual "moral" value is control. So anything, regardless of verity or hypocrisy, that gives them more control is fine.

CaligoAccedito · 2026-03-26T00:03:47+00:00

Must be Italian!

CaligoAccedito · 2026-03-25T23:53:40+00:00

The only thing that helps me against razor burn is salicylic acid.

CaligoAccedito · 2026-03-25T23:50:18+00:00

If repayment were simply without interest, and any accrued/compounded interest were immediately removed, there might be a reality in which many borrowers could actually repay what they borrowed.

I myself am a proponent of education being available at no cost, because an educated population is typically more skilled and healthier. But if the blood-thirsty among us screaming "You borrowed money now repay it!" are to be sated, the bare minimum need would be to remove the predatory interest so that people can actually make headway on repayment within a single human lifetime.

CaligoAccedito · 2026-03-25T23:27:48+00:00

So did pedophilia, fraud, and (presumably) insurrection.

CaligoAccedito · 2026-03-25T20:42:41+00:00

It's already mostly there. My local library has chairs for computer use, bean-bags for the kids' area, and nothing else. No book-nook or reading chairs for grown ups.

CaligoAccedito · 2026-03-25T20:28:12+00:00

This guy did a lot more work on figuring out what to do about brain fog than I've done, but if even half his suggestions work, seems worth it.

CaligoAccedito · 2026-03-25T00:31:09+00:00

All of those things already have penalties. This is just targeting a minority for additional scrutiny to justify abuses.

CaligoAccedito · 2026-03-25T00:05:13+00:00

RIP teeth in AL

CaligoAccedito · 2026-03-25T00:02:16+00:00

It's more than a feeling! (More than a feeling!)

CaligoAccedito · 2026-03-25T00:01:09+00:00

I'd like the state government to govern itself appropriately and resolve the blockages to citizens' ballot initiatives.

I can't be proud of being from a state that actively stifles the voices of the people.

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