I am WHEEZING. I love and respect Grumbo.

RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.

i'm happy for everyone who got to see the beautiful aurora borealis tn and am not at all jealous and crying 🥹

as someone with two children who are talented at math and need (especially the younger one) a lot of help with social and emotional stuff this makes me want to scream please help your children learn to interact with the world, it will make their lives (and everyone else’s!) so much easier

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

starting a list of actual problems actual coders could tackle to make modest but real improvements in work n life mac mail search that actually works scamproofing that isn't freakin' 2 factor for a restaurant res citation format conversion generator reliable synching of bluetooth devices

I know, everybody should leave X, but I think an exception should be made solely for Joyce Carol Oates so she can keep wounding Musk's withered soul on his own site and he can't do a thing about it.

More National Book Award-winning writers need to spend the later portion of their careers picking one billionaire and just absolutely going to town.

Joyce Carol Oates: Demonstrating the Value of the Humanities through Public Ownership of the Richest Man on Earth

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

I've been carrying my DFF pass like everywhere for the past few days (taking it off outside of venues so as not to look like a mark and a tourist, which is evergreen advice about conference badges from one of my library school profs) and now I feel like I'm forgetting something when I go out.

I cast spiritual weapon so often that my DM knows what happens when I say "for my first trick" at the start of every combat AND another player in that game says "I cast bonk" in the game that I run even though his cleric's weapon isn't a war hammer. Clerics aren't for healing. Clerics are for bonk.

This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Something fun about me is that I'm in an entirely 1-sided competition with a VERY elderly man at DFF to see who can see the most movies. He sees so many that the "see everything you can possibly see" pass is named after him. I have seen 26/36 movies +2 shorts programs. I am losing this competition.

I promise, it can be so easy

And this is why I stress that we cannot let genAI take over library processes. Try having genAI figure out how to catalogue that book. Humans use reasoning, our knowledge of the field, patron needs, and yes, our own biases and priorities. Cataloguing tells you a lot about a system's values.

Personally I cant wait for Lego Tuvix! Do you pull him apart… or put him together?! What a moral quandary this lego is! Available for ages 6+ and up.

Q.) What do you call an openly licensed medieval studies textbook? A.) œr

Now... @helsinhashtags.bsky.social, what do you think, should we ask for copyright clearance to put this in our book proposal?

I didn't realize it was possible but those weird impersonal marketing spam e-mails have somehow gotten even more depressing now that they're being written by LLMs. At least before it was an actual human pretending to be interested in my work!

Actually kind of rude of Outlook to send me my own vacation responder. Like yeah I'm at a film festival, but I also have a grant and a book proposal...

I strongly recommend everyone do research sometimes 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘶𝘯. Look something up on Wikipedia. Go to the little citation. Follow it. Read the article it's referencing. Follow links to the original interview. Read the paper written by the interviewee It genuinely makes you appreciate journalism

#dff48 is proving to be more and more like an academic conference. I'm already dehydrated.

I definitely need to watch Sorcerer someday soon, because my most FilmGuy™️ reflex is definitely becoming "actually that was based on The Wages of Fear" whenever people compare a movie to Sorcerer like it was the original material. This is a skeet about Sirāt.

Day 1 of the Denver Film Festival, let's fucking gooooooooo I'll build out a list as things progress: boxd.it/PQL9o

Here's my problem: I need to pack for DFF and when I'm done with that I get to play Stardew Valley. BUT I laid down for a minute to check my phone and now I'm scrolling. I *want* to pack. I **want** to play Stardew Valley. I *am* comfy. You see the dilemma.

"We know what happens when private equity gets involved with businesses not expected to generate high growth or returns, as well as what happens when there's too little market competition in any given sector." B&T is gone. And now--guess who?--Amazon, famous friend of libraries, is making a play. 📚

Literal perfection. ;) www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...

Trying to schedule DH Journal club and I got an email back from the head of IT like "just so you know, the 'find time' time button in outlook automatically searches for a time =)" yeah bud, I know that, but this is an opt in? and also a lot of faculty don't put stuff on their calendar?

One of the things I really like about D&D over zoom is that we can have intense character moments AND have the chat going crazy with goofy stuff. I got to reveal a bunch of backstory for one player tonight and it was Awesome! AND the chat was fully left shark and Katy Perry/Justin Trudeau chat.

I love the time of year when the nursing students get to needing the bone boxes with the skulls, because you get people casually "Alas poor Yorick"-ing throughout the library and it's a great vibe for this season.

It was my turn for a machine refresh at work and I haaaaaaaate it. I just want everything back the way I had it! I can't put chrome on my new computer because no one gets admin permissions anymore so I have to set eeeeeverything up and it suuuuuucks. 😫😫😫😫

Being a DM means texting one of your players "do you think your character remembers her heart being replaced?" with ZERO prep or context and it's a beautiful thing

"What's the first web page archived in the Wayback Machine?" We get that question all the time. There's no singular first page. There is, however, a first collection, and it's a really important one ⬇️

“one day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” that was Omar El Akkad’s tweet. 2 years later, i’m preparing to discuss this with the senior center’s book club. 📚

UCCS is hiring for my old job. I am happy to answer any questions. Tenure Track pre-1600 . www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=a...

bold choice for an English King Charles to be taking on Catholic vibes. historically speaking. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I love Guillermo del Toro calling ages 19 to 29 "sublime confusion"

In my most himbo moment of the day, the heat is broken in some parts of the library rn so we're pooling space heaters and, as I was carrying mine to the admin office over one shoulder, I replied "what are muscles for if not for helping people?" when someone commented on the way I was carrying it.

Actually how is it only Tuesday

No spoilers, but the other part of this review in my heart is a shout out to the USCPSC. Their memes about generator safety work! At two points in this movie I frowned, crossed my arms, and thought to myself "that generator isn't far enough away from that house." boxd.it/brmtit

Let's go back to getting our news in the traditional way: by waiting until a privateer anchors at Port Glasgow with a bunch of intercepted letters and a renegade priest. [Aberdeen Press & Journal, 25 Sep 1780]

It's never too soon to block the US government on Bluesky.

Okay! This is going to take a while so I had to finish some stuff first, but: Why Da Pope Fucking Up Opus Dei Is A Huge Fucking Deal: a thread

This week was so good! I bought Hard Boiled I liked it so much! I don't even have a blu-ray player! I love movies! #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #filmsky

wrote briefly about architecture and the situation at u Chicago www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Add this to your reading lists!!📚