Went to the post office to buy a few postcard stamps and they said they were nearly all out. People had been buying them by the roll to send out Get Out The Vote cards. "One lady bought a thousand! I've never seen someone buy so many stamps." said our postmistress.Our little state's electoral votes may not matter much in the grand scheme of the general election, but we're all doing our part.#vermont

@jessamyn @phire "I looked at the person on my left and the person on my right and they were both using AI. That's 100% of the sample"

The spookiest time of the year.Backstory: our town does a thing before Halloween where local businesses get these PVC pumpkin people. The heads light up. There's a "for the little kids" small trick-or-treating thing that happens downtown. Each business decorates its pumpkin person in a way that fits with the business. It's festive. Also our property taxes are due on Halloween which is some kind of sick joke. Well done town offices, you're the scariest of all.

There are a lot of tiny libraries in Vermont, some of them serve communities so small they don't have a "capital campaigns" option for doing needed improvements. Many aren't accessible. Vermont just announced awards of over $15mil in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) money much of which will help our smallest libraries get more accessible.In one case, they're expanding a library so that it can have a bathroom. Not just a public bathroom, a bathroom.https://www.westonlibraryexpansion.org/#vermont #libraries

Language Log asked why there was no Wikipedia article about badass bibliographer (you heard me) Julia Emily Johnsen. Well, now there is one.https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=66743https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Emily_Johnsen