my dumbass stickers have arrived aplante.com/shop/

HARE-HEARTED #art

Hello someone I know is doing a survey on sentiments re AI in museums & archives - relevant whether you work in the field or just like going to museums forms.gle/MUcvs9oGStUU...

I habitually use Tumblr meme language without intending to in meetings at work, which is okay because I'm the youngest person in my department. If anyone my age ever gets hired I'm cooked.

As someone who recently had all their money seized, boy is it hard to get anyone to let you prove you didn't have it coming after the fact. Banks don't care. They'll take all your money & give it away without warning. Be worried about this no matter who you are.

May she find peace --- Marjane Satrapi, French Iranian artist and author behind ‘Persepolis,’ dies at 56 www.cnn.com/2026/06/04/m...

There's an active German Nazi infestation on Bluesky, most of them following AfD accounts. I've added a handful to the block list, but that whole corner needs a clean out. Lots of homophobic and Islamophobic content, easy to see regardless of language barrier. bsky.app/profile/did:...

I told Fred that he was not allowed to eat the socks off of my feet in bed (again) and he thumped at me 😭😭

Any #digipres folks have recommendations for A/V vendors around the St. Louis, MO area? I haven't worked in region before but I've got a donor with a film reel in need of digitization.

🧵1/3 🎮 What if cultural history disappears because no one is allowed to preserve it? Jordan Mechner, creator of Prince of Persia, reflects on the fragility of games, media, and cultural memory in his essay in VANISHING CULTURE, from the #InternetArchive. Read it here: archive.org/details/vani...

Making the group chats wish my cat a happy birthday

Taking a few preorders for my Ammy figures as I am in desperate need of funds. I am slowly getting back up to speed, but have open orders from back into March. I estimate it won't be until at least Aug before I can get to these. Plz only order if you can wait. verdantsculpts.com/products/ama...

Going to think about this every time people try and act like WotC is somehow a "progressive" company or that D&D has become a great "queer game" somehow

Freds of the last few days

Waiting with dread for the inevitable day I get brained by a horse chestnut falling on my deck 😔

FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE. The ghost of David Lynch is with us. Happy Pride <3

All the bunnies I follow are so young in comparison to my 6 year old boy 😭

In light of bluesky + a huge majority of other popular social media sites trying as hard as they can to destroy the livelihoods of people who make porn, I want to thank the non-creators who consistently stand up for us, support our work, share our posts, and treat us like they'd treat anyone else

I really hope this BlueSky account labeler doesn't devastate my feed. I'm in Ohio and I refuse to give random websites my ID so adult content is usually turned off automatically for me. (Though not always, because IP tracking is not reliable)

A rabbit might be the best thing ever

GenAI is antithetical to librarianship as a profession, ethics, & pedagogy; it is v. depressing to see library workers pushing to insert it into all our systems and services. So I love the new Luddite Lab Resource Hub, partic. the 'AI Implementation Bingo' activity (under Political Education) 👇

National Public Radio is no longer public radio for the nation, because its existence is dependent on corporate funding. Stop donating to them. Let them rely on their sugar daddies instead, because it's clearly what they want to do.

I have recovered from pneumonia for the second time in two years 🥴

Faculty: libraries and librarians need your advocacy BEFORE our collections are shuttered and our workers are fired. Whether you think your library is in trouble, and it almost definitely is, write to your provost and tell them how essential the library and library staff are to your work. Right now.

Awful news. This isn't just a loss for the staff, it's a loss for the entire community. Dozens of people out of work and those who remain will be forced to do more work. Researchers, students, and faculty will lose access to information. Others will lose access to ILL material.

My brother sent me a totally random text compelling me to tell him "when I want to play Valheim" and I haven't felt this sense of fear in my heart since the college COVID lockdowns got announced

look. is everything more expensive now? yes. but you have to look on the bright side too. now every time you open a computer, it doesn't work

On Tumblr we call him the chocolate guy and everyone fears him for his dark gift

I took a full week off for the first time since I got my MLIS. In that week, my family dog had to have emergency spinal surgery and I caught pneumonia again. 🫩

I deleted that one comic I'd reposted with alt-text because the format of the repost completely obscured the original article, which was about the federal government targeting databases of Black doctors. In retrospect replying would have been the move.

Good to see outlets get to where I was uh, somewhere between 6 and 18 months ago lol

people liked google because it worked and they don't like AI google because it sucks

Y'all for the past week or so I have absolutely sucked about alt-text and I'm so sorry. I reposted way too much without alt-text and without adding it myself.

After the Wheel of Time got cancelled I swore off of currently airing multi-season TV and I've stuck to it. But the Vampire Lestat calls to me 👀👀👀

for people who weren't alive or paying attention to games yet I feel the need to point out this GDC talk mentioning the game industry was surprised by how myst continued selling years after it released was in *1997* I've bought 8 ports/updates of myst, and I have become exceedingly efficient at it

I pirated fan translated visual novels as a teenager because they weren't available anywhere in the US. I could change my systems processing language in two clicks, and it taught me what virtual machines were. Direct line from this to digital archiving 😁

You can bulk edit all your videos to turn this off btw!

TV companies should just let people install some fruity version of Linux or Android on their TV, the number of people who would actually do that is basically a rounding error and it would make TVs less annoying.

I think tech tutorials should be text with screenshots

Other people have already posted about it here, but I have now released the Virtual OS Museum. Sorry for the issues with downloads before; the server I was hosting it on had a failing drive. I now have torrents and direct downloads from archive.org linked on the site virtualosmuseum.org

Last month, Aleanna Royal Bechdel, a 31 year-old Black trans woman who was a DJ, promoter, and artist, was murdered in a housing complex in New York, and a 54-year old man was arrested. There has been very little press coverage on this, including by queer outlets run by cis white people.

If you're looking for a cost effective way to reduce your local mosquito population that doesn't affect other species, please check out the mosquito larva trap method! Thread for how-to and more info!

When a trans person so much as jaywalks there's a month of calls for all of us to die screaming and I need people to bring that energy to holding every transphobic monster that helped make this murder happen accountable for it. Juniper's death is the intended outcome of transphobic propaganda.

To be clear since the headline isn't: a study that claimed GenAI was good for learning, actually, turns out to have been bullshit.

If you're interested in institutionalist, open-hearted, realistic archival administration, @boxreceiver.bsky.social and I wrote this! digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/libr_pubs/78/

The Pope of Trash

My school's web department keeps trying to explain the wayback machine to me 🫠🫠🫠