This is really disappointing news: www.cbr.com/she-ra-and-t... And this is the reason I still buy some things on dvd when I can.

www.standwithminnesota.com When things feel helpless look for ways to help. Here's a list of options.

Laundry done, and we’re charging up every device in the house!

Tell me your pets' names in a gif

Going to throw a few more out here to add to Twin Cities Bookstores: Black Garnet is a newer bookstore in St Paul that specializes in BIPOC literature and has done a lot already to build a community space and there's also Louise Erdrich's Birchbark Books in Minneapolis

I would absolutely love to give you a personalized book recommendation if you promise that tomorrow, not today, you purchase from Bookshop.org to benefit a Twin Cities bookstore.

How you report and monitor an outage depends on where you get your power.

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Amazing news. Definitely get your shingles vaccine when you turn 50!

New trailer for @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social just dropped. If you haven’t had a chance to see it, then mark your calendars because it will be streaming on PBS and Independent Lens beginning February 9th! youtu.be/2y151tS5Ntc?...

I hadn’t really looked to see who was on the community panel because I just wanted to see the documentary. Imagine my delight when I saw who was there because I am kind of a Justice Anita Earls fan girl!

I’m really looking forward to watching this documentary and listening to the panel afterwards! carolinatheatre.org/events/live-...

I would probably buy these!

Spending most of this three day weekend looking at Heated Rivalry memes and playing Animal Crossing because I can’t deal with much else.

My non professional tip for adding Alt Text to an image is to pretend you want to show me something on your screen and you yell "Arnica, come see this!" And I reply "Babe, I'm frying you homemade donuts, can you just DESCRIBE it to me?" Whatever you would holler to me is the Alt text!

Literally the dumbest timeline. Could not be dumber. DUMB.

SPEAKING OF THE COLD!!! Activists have given @lefttheprairie.bsky.social another list of things they desperately need to stay warm & safe in the streets in the coming days! All of this is going to the twin cities! www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... If you hate the 'zon our GFM does direct help.

364 - Digital Humanities, AI, and Teaching the Comedia Friday, 9 January 2026 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM mla.confex.com/mla/2026/mee... #mla26 @modernlanguage.bsky.social

Thanks everyone who joined us for Distant Coding at #MLA26! I've updated the resources page with a transcript of the workshop as well as some of the examples we created together during the session, please enjoy the millennial nostalgia 🤩 See it all at: anastasiasalter.net/DistantCoding/

CFP: Rethinking the Codex, A Biennial Symposium Celebrating the Book Arts library.unt.edu/news/2026/01...

see also: my touching faith that surely this will be the Amtrak ride during which I tire of just staring out the window

I think some of my fellow librarians may be interested in seeing some of this conversation. 📚

The #MLA26 exhibit hall is open! Come by PubCentral to get 50% off new and forthcoming titles, including Manual MLA. www.mla.org/Publications...

I’m bad at BlueSky, but I’m good at #mla26, so please come to these two fabulous panels tomorrow!

Starting now, online, at #MLA26: When Do We Need to Know What Is AI and What Is Student Writing? How Can We Know? mla.confex.com/mla/2026/mee...

For anyone at #MLA26, the session "233 - Collections as AI Data?" is today at 10:15 AM in MTCC - 601A mla.confex.com/mla/2026/mee...

I look forward to sharing Erin's thread here every year

Learn how to build assignments and teach research using the MLA International Bibliography at this afternoon’s session: mla.confex.com/mla/2026/com... #MLA26

I'm attending #MLA26 virtually this year, so I won't be able to attend this panel tomorrow, but I hope people attending in person will consider attending 233 - Collections as AI Data? mla.confex.com/mla/2026/mee... It's sponsored by my forum Libraries and Research.

If you're at #MLA26 I'll be talking virtually at #s67 this afternoon at 1:45 PM ET. Shared a version of what I will likely touch on, but it's a roundtable so conversation about writing is likely to range broadly.

I can’t figure out why it’s taking me so long to type today!

Double checking my records to see when I last got an MMR booster. What a world that I have to be worried about it!

Just sent this to the mailing lists! Another ND related webinar, this one on "Teaching / training neurodivergent students in the library", 23rd March, £50. That makes 3 ND related webinars for Feb / March lined up :) libraryteachingnd.eventbrite.co.uk

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

Just saw a clip of Oscar Isaac on a red carpet with Teyana Taylor, and he was so charming. Someone put this man in a rom-com. The people need it.

Hey friends! I’m psyched that so many folks want to read Mary Shelley’s prescient climate/pandemic apocalypse novel, THE LAST MAN, in community, in this, its bicentennial year. #LastMan200

I’ll take it!

We are *all* Real America in the same way a naturalized citizen who took his oath five seconds ago is exactly as much of a citizen as someone whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower.

There are only 45 million foreign-born people living in the United States right now, about half of whom are naturalized citizens. So this ridiculous edge-lord post by taxpayer-funded trolls is suggesting deporting 55 million native-born citizens.

Happy New Year! We love sharing these pro-book posters from the Works Projects Administration Poster Collection in the Library's Prints and Photographs Division. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more than 900 is the largest.

HAPPY PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY! And Happy New Year! Books published in 1930 will enter the U.S. public domain, such as: The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie #books #literature #publicdomain 1/

Terrifying!

Just texted a friend "can you remind me when you're around tomorrow/overmorrow" and I just think if a few of us really gave it a try suuuper casually we could bring back this word for day after tomorrow next year

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Biro does not hold a grudge! He started making biscuits immediately!

The current attack on higher education is an attack on subject-matter, evidence-based expertise—the subject specifics are now completely irrelevant.

"Because access without accountability risks becoming a kind of digital settler colonialism: where archives are opened but not contextualized, where stories are extracted from communities but not returned to them, where knowledge circulates but the people who shaped it are left behind."

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

"The great honesty and authenticity of both editors and contributors should help put close reading where it belongs: in the center of the humanities."

I actually really enjoying doing this for patrons at the library because it’s like solving a puzzle but also yeah, it can be very revealing!