slow day in the office so figured we'd start some beef with museums

We need to go back to a medieval/Renaissance view of translation, which is basically that translating requires a level of interpretation that creates a new artistic work

Honestly one of the best to do it

Hi! Are you a game dev or studio who’s released soundtracks on Bandcamp? I'd like to chat about your experience with the platform for a piece, especially if you’re a composer. Dm here or email me at [email protected] if interested. If you know someone, boost this or send 'em my way pls!

it’s St Lucy’s day, so you know what that means — time for the best John Donne poem

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Emily Dickinson was born #onthisday in 1830. Celebrate with an exploration of her unusual manuscripts, including poems scribbled down on concert programmes and chocolate wrappers – offering a fascinating insight into how the poet worked: publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... #OTD

Mother's day has been making women miserable since 1916 at least. From Nephi Anderson's "Mother's Day" archive.org/details/reli...

I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary. www.icrc.org/en/article/i...

Reed Smoot, later a US senator, owned a drug company that sold pills to keep your menstrual cycle regular (likely a kind of first trimester abortion pill). From Amanda Hendrix-Kimoto's "The Other Crime" www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/u...

Universalism creeping into libraries

Have you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too! preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵 Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/9

Julian of Norwich after eating a hazelnut: bro

Children who had already been baptized (usually at age 8) used to do baptisms for the dead (LDS Church). These days you need to be turning 12. From Hearts turned to the fathers A history of the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1894-1994

In academic writing it is vitally important to know when you have said enough to prove your argument. It is at this point that you must add every single other piece of evidence you have come across

I rewrote the Wikipedia page on Biblical paraphrase for a class assignment in my sonnet seminar. It was fun to learn about how this genre was used for exegesis and devotional purposes by men and women in English-speaking history. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblica...

Why yes, I did study English literature.

today's public domain find: The Hexaplar Psalter: bring the Book of Pslams in Six English Versions archive.org/details/hexa...

The year is 2025, and the NSA is recruiting the nation’s top poets

Watching the film The Name of the Rose and I'm surprised at how gay it is. Am I projecting my modem sensibilities on it?

Looking to speak with academics/experts specializing in video games studies specifically ideas around conquest, environmentalism, and land for a piece. Please repost this or give recs.

Reading from Chad Flake's copy of Prophecy and Modern Times in the BYU library, nbd (he's a legend in Mormon rare book collecting)

It's time!!! Independent Games Festival judging is wrapping up and thus comes my list of IGF Games I Want To Talk About for the year! As usual, I'll threadpost this later (maybe tomorrow) but people willing to click on a link can read it in full right now on my blog! auratriolo.com/blog/2025/11...

she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October

I'm researching Amanda Wilcox for my research assistant gig. There are some fantastic family stories on FamilySearch about her life. She and her husband moved to Mt. Trumble (now in Northern Arizona) to cut lumber for the St. George temple. Initially, they slept outside. 🧵

Brigham Young on going hungry: "do not go more than five days without eating" March 16, 1856 sermon as found in the Journal History of the Church catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/19cb5...

azhdarchid.com/against-metr... I really do hate the term 'metroidbrania'. I think so do many of you. Let's nip it in the bud before it becomes something people are financially invested in.

I started rewatching Twin Peaks. How the heck did Laura Palmer have time to tutor English and writing, see her psychologist, cheat on her bf, and everything else? Were there two of her??

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

CAMPUS VISIT WITH THE VAMPIRE TEACHING DEMO WITH THE VAMPIRE SIT-DOWN WITH THE DEAN WITH THE VAMPIRE APOLOGETIC EMAIL THAT THE SEARCH WAS CANCELED WITH THE VAMPIRE

Prosaic: "If we don't know what we have, we can't manage it and nobody will use it" Poetical: "Cataloguing unlocks collections' potential." Absurdist: "Cataloguing is springtime for hibernating collections."

back in my day we had the gramophone, not the 'gram on your phone

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

the investigative journalism I crave

Many apologies for resurfacing this

Check out my review of the LDS Critical Art Reader on Dialogue. this volume does foundational work for lds art criticism from a pro-Mormon perspective scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/dial/art...

Coming to you today from the traditional homelands of the Timpanogos Nation. #IndigenousPeoplesDay timpanogostribe.com

IMO this has always been a choice gamedevs have had to make - fidelity vs scale. it's just that the common wisdom tilts heavily towards fidelity these days. chrono cross on ps1 made a choice when it decided to have 50+ playable party members and what it sacrificed was unique per-char dialogue

Six years ago, I wrote most of the Tragedian dialogue for Pathologic 2 in iambic pentameter. I'm back now doing the same for Pathologic 3. I figured it was helpful to write a guide on *how* I did it – in case I get hit by a bus and the team has to carry on without me. azhdarchid.com/so-you-want-...

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

Could you use help explaining the value of #cataloging & good metadata to your admin, coworkers, #MLIS students, etc.? Happy to share this set of resources put together by an ALA working group chaired by @magsjoy.bsky.social. All of these & more are available at hdl.handle.net/11213/22872. 📚

I'm saddened to find that there is currently no Wikipedia page for Encarta Mind Maze (it currently redirects to Encarta). Is Mind Maze something that would have been reviewed in videogame magazines?

this one is part of my Halloween decor

you already know what's up (steam sale rec thread (extremely condensed version cuz they did it way early and only a week long this year) is what's up) as always, i focus on older, obscure, and just plain weirder games, as big name titles don't need the help. so, onwards!

I know there are angels in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir because the pre-conference pieces were pre-recorded and I saw my decreased neighbor in the soprano section

My employer’s remote work policies are changing, and Salt Lake City isn’t “commutable distance” from Boston, so I’m looking for a new job. If you’re hiring software developers to work on something that’s prosocial and technically ambitious, DM me, or check my website for my email.

ah yes, a material culture vulture www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

as the friend of a few professional library catalogers I really appreciate these kinds of lists

please tell me there will be a forthcoming essay on this topic