my explicitly aromantic little piece is now award-nominated 🥰

my explicitly aromantic little piece is now award-nominated 🥰

Hi again! The app closes FOR REAL on Sunday, November 16, but we wanted to give you all one last weekend to apply. 😇

this is my role! kinda! I'll still be around as Social Media Manager but I simply cannot do it all anymore 😄

Hi! I wrote a thing about swimming and trans athletes and [*checks notes*] Santana for @defector.com, would mean a lot if you give it a read

#6294 was seen outside Madison a few days ago, change is coming

sometimes to read a book of poetry is to be reminded that another person is much funnier and better at expressing their pain than you are

this is my role! kinda! I'll still be around as Social Media Manager but I simply cannot do it all anymore 😄

the worst part about adulthood is that you are constantly running out of stuff and need to replace it

today at work i joked to the correct person "we have a tool library, why not a fool library" and ten minutes later i had a meeting on my calendar for the beginning of next semester to make it happen librarians are never beating the world's weirdest people allegations

you wouldn’t download a hockey team

yes!

UCLA Maryland Michigan Washington USC Iowa Michigan State Minnesota Ohio State Nebraska Illinois Oregon Indiana Wisconsin Northwestern Penn State Purdue Rutgers 18 Previews. 32,853 Words. In 18 Weeks. ‼️ OFFSEASON GRIND IS OVER, READ ABOUT ALL THE BIG TEN TEAMS ON HOOPLA ‼️

Ok, back to rooting for the Giants like a civilized person

wrote letter #300 today and starting to reflect on what it'll be like in 2026 to not be thinking about a different person in depth every day

Did you know that if you chant “add alt text” three times in the mirror, a social media manager appears behind you with a cat meme!

just had the epiphany that the reason everyone thinks I’m so busy is that I AM so busy, and the reason I don’t see how busy I am is that I don’t write things down anymore because I don’t like seeing all the things I have to do

regular PSA that when an independent literary magazine is “hiring,” it is likely unpaid because no one is paid, not even the people doing the hiring if you’re looking for a paid literary opportunity, the “we operate at a loss so we can share cool art with the public” crowd is probably not for you 💕

happy #AceWeek, please enjoy my zine “not like that,” a reflection on my ace journey from 2021 (freshly divorced & allowing myself to be myself) to 2024 (when I annotated and published this). it meant a lot to be to be able to write so much about my asexuality even a little coherently!

one of the best bits I’ve committed to (really joined others in) in 2025 is referring to Madison as a northern suburb of Chicago

i liked tolkien’s “beowulf” and got bad vibes from seamus heaney’s

gonna be thinking about this one awhile

my institution is also going in this direction. alums and current students got a survey over the summer asking us to pick the new name for the (already merged) compsci/datasci/infosci school, most of them mentioned AI, zero mentioned libraries

melchie ballon d’umornay

icymi, i lost my job and am running some workshops to make money to uh, live? tickets for the first run of THE RANDOMIZER are up now at natraum.com/links. the rest are coming soon!

here for Iowa to continue collecting 6’2” wings named McKenna W.

Added some @cms.bsky.social zines, some buttons, and some resin experiments turned into necklaces to the local take art / leave art box. #DHmakes

I have a new poem out today at @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social called “#latergram” about social media, growing up on the internet, and the expectations of ~*being online*~

it's unexpected expense season AND weird income season, so I'm offering all my zines at once for $10 in case you want to support and/or just read some stuff about gender, or gender, or the mistakes i made in college, or asexuality ✨

I’m still doing this btw! and now that we’re somehow in the last third of the year, I’m thinking about how I’m going to write about this experience, the (digital) data I *did* keep and why, etc. 👀 #DHmakes

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spent most of my time while transcribing these interviews nodding vigorously and going “sameeee”

new zine! NONTRADITIONAL, or the time I tried to legitimize my fleeting interest in journalism by going back to school & had an internal crisis about being unconscionably old (25) #DHmakes PDF (free+): cms0008.itch.io/nontraditional physical copy ($2, U.S. only): ko-fi.com/s/af4d8de1c0

asexual and aromantic people are so great such an important part of lgbt community I love asexual and aromantic people

today in midwestern librarian: patron called but had the wrong number, so i apologized

Going to go ahead and suggest that everyone get an antenna! Before the forces of capital take free broadcast TV away with everything else.

sorry not to be a weird alpha male type guy for a second, but I've shaken a lot of hands in the last three weeks and I'm wondering why so many people's handshakes are just them offering their hand and applying no squeeze whatsoever

I have a ms where the main characters (rising college freshmen) communicate a lot through facebook and email, because that was true to me in the late 2000s. anyway, that’s when today’s incoming college freshmen were born 🥲

my last 3 weeks: • job offer (start date 7 days later) • frantically finding a place to live • 35th birthday • started new job (at library where i spent the most time in library school) • 2 weeks of 3-hour round-trip commute and today i got the keys to my new place in the same city where i work 🌈

I would love if anyone creating surveys about using AI in librarianship would include the option "I have never used it and I will never use it" instead of just assuming it is a thing we should be and are using

hot take: i missed college soccer and i'm glad it's back

It’s weird to me that people keep starting new Substacks and still don’t know that Substack is extremely bad news Please get off Substack 😭 www.anildash.com//2024/11/19/...

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you’ll never guess what your friendly neighborhood human freelance transcriber doesn’t do 🤓

cool textures from humid domes 🌱☀️

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really loving a lit mag's vibe reading about it somewhere else, visiting the mag to submit, and learning it's a substack 🤢