the world isn’t very good, but counterpoint: juca

Cataloger’s intuition : new methodologies of cataloging with tarot

Meeting my younger self: alexwlchan.net/2025/meeting... Rounding out this week’s trilogy on social media archiving, I looked back on 150,000 posts I’d saved from a decade of social media. Some fond memories I want to keep; some regrets and mistakes I’d rather forget.

I really love how many big names are explicitly stating "AI is so fucking boring" in public spaces, for mass dissemination. They're right, they should stay it, and I hope people start internalizing confidence that their humanity and experience of themselves and their lives is deeply interesting.

You heard it here first: Jacob Elordi tells @beccamford.bsky.social he'd rather kiss on the beach than talk about AI vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/frankenstein-jacob-elordi-euphoria-interview

it’s a waxing posters’ moon

my new years resolution is to learn to use eye drops without making a huge mess

just learned the phrase "boy aquarium" and I will now be using it exclusively and often

The Illinois Luddite Society’s last project of the semester is a (badass) cover for a forthcoming course packet. Their guillotine cut has now joined @skeuomorphpress.org’s Lino library, where I suspect it will be popular

Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.

spent some time touching these up before submitting them to a call for art :) the series is called "Leviathan", they're made by video microscopy of ink in alcohol, imaged on a high resolution black and white CRT

gift idea! Buy this book, highlight every part that you relate to, and then mail that copy to your parents

I showed my bluesky account to my psychiatrist and she said I could pick whatever medication I want

happy stylish but illegal monkey day to all who celebrate!!!!! by the way his name is darwin and he lives a farm now

A thread 🧵from today's @cilipmdg.bsky.social Practical Cataloguing webinar on MARC data cleaning using Python. A way to identify errors/inconsistencies in legacy metadata & automate specific clean-up actions. - A bit like running a MarcEdit Tasklist or an Alma Normalization Rule on a set of records

The story of the 'Hot Dog Stand' theme. www.pcgamer.com/software/win...

wow do you want to be an editorial intern at a cool cooperatively owned company and write blogs for the summer???? apply here! defector.com/would-you-li...

me soon

I am brimming with holiday spirit

tfw your means of production are no longer brought into contact with living labour power

i'm taking a look at the forecast and i've decided we should cancel all work and school until Feb 1 2026, nothing pressing and we should take 6 weeks to improve vibes

Chicago: "The Busy Person's Correspondence Card", circa 1950

the unroyal we

An incredible piece of writing, a gift of a sort I had not known it was possible to receive

you can have 70%, 90%, or 99% storage left in your Drive account and Gmail will still act like it's the end of the world

Thank you! I love doing this kind of stuff, because it really does feel like I'm visualizing my brain—even thought I know it's so sensitive to my hand-labeling on the one hand and the whims of the algorithms I picked on the other.

🎵 It's the most wonderful time of the year 🎵 End of year list time! I'm working on my 2025 "Year in Books," and feeling pretty good about how it's going to turn out.

Looney Tunes: Back In Action really was ahead of its time.

cars are such an abject horror

sometimes I swear delivery systems look at my schedule and are like "surprise! We will now be scheduling a delivery in the exact window in which you are not at or near home :)"

Always important to remember that this is because these robots are "faking" being human Theyre actually capable of way more and way weirder stuff

One thing these sloppers won’t appreciate: real fun to draw something messed up on purpose

this thread about cookie recipes really took a turn (www.reddit.com/r/Old_Recipe...)

This is so amazing and underrated, and probably great for like a low(er)-key Advent of Code datasittersclub.github.io/site/index.h...

me soon

just took a shot of coffee concentrate so let's do this I guess

at this professional conference letting everyone know my 2026 goal is "getting into edibles"

logging off because I just started feeling nostalgic for  

This is such a powerful image

carnegie mellon gotta be in your top 10 if not top 5 universities to smelt

you KNOW it's gonna be some real shit if I'm linking to a listserv url

what the fuuuuuck lists.clir.org/cgi-bin/wa?A...

This is unreal. The 2026 code4lib conference has been cancelled unilaterally by Carnegie Mellon University because the Department of Education raised issues with the diversity scholarships: > An applicant must be a member of a group not well-represented within the code4lib community, including […]

Hi friends! I need advice: a dear friend and art critic is asking me for advice on where to digitize some material (see pics). 4 reels of what we think is 16mm film. It's believed to be an unfinished documentary that is part of an unplaced archive. They'll pay! Just want to know where to go

Thinking of the student Mary Young who 106 years ago today 'said "shan't" under [her] breath when told to repeat poor work'.

being sent home from work due to overconsumption of brrrchata

back in my day this is how we did this