Someone go get Bentley and Ferrari! You WANT a brother-sister bonded pair. It's one of the best cat combos out there. (I'd add a third they both like, because cats do best in triads, but two is still pretty good.) Also, they are beautiful! Look at those faces!!!

If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Apologies to the public opinion pollster who just got both barrels of my feelings on whether California should break up with @pacificgaselectric.bsky.social.

Just read this terrific essay by @miquai.bsky.social. The last sentences hit so hard for me, as I've been showing up professionally in very different ways than formerly. Reckoning with my ‘ghost years’: why a low publication rate doesn’t always reflect failure www.nature.com/articles/d41...

If you have children asking difficult questions about war and conflict then this selection of picturebooks may help begin answering them in ways they can understand. 📚📜 #readersadvisory jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/disp...

In a deliberate strategy, to harm women and hits rural women first & hardest. The U.S. State Dept. ordered public libraries to cease processing passport applications, disrupting a long-standing service that communities rely on and that has run smoothly for years. krcgtv.com/news/nation-...

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

Archivist Q: is there such a thing as a series that is arranged intellectually AND physically? I can't square it. Like, sure you can put it physically in alpha order but if you end up adding to the series, phys arrangement is out the window

I've been off the socials for a while, but wanted to pop over here to replicate an old thread from Tw*tt*r with citations supporting salary transparency in library job postings. Please feel free to share widely, and DM or email me if you need a PDF of any of these articles!

Student publication broadsheet A sign held by young person smiling fist in the air reads: Fuck Giuliani and Pataki [former mayor and former governor] The main theme and goal is in the headline: SHUT THE CITY DOWN! link: x.com/Bronxbanlieu...

Programs focused on mindfulness, resilience, etc, only deal with the symptoms or the outcomes of policies, procedures, and culture and cannot address long-term problems like compassion fatigue and burnout. #workplacwellness #wellness4libs librarianbyday.net/2024/01/17/w...

Nice set of Commonplace articles about "reimagining how we measure success" in tenure + promotion, particularly in libraries; f/t pieces about recognizing team projects and tech development, expanding what counts as "evidence" of "impact" and permissible forms of "output"

I'd like to learn more about people's experiences of living with Graves Disease including managing (potentially associated) hypertension...any fellow travellers with this?

If you missed @shannonmattern.bsky.social’s brilliant essay “Fountain Society,” @nytimes.com's David Brooks recommends the read & we do too! His Sidney Awards feature the best long-form essays published this year in small publications. Read "Fountain Society" here: placesjournal.org/article/drin...

My latest for Filmmaker magazine: on the time and labor and anxiety of being your own archivist filmmakermagazine.com/123900-joann...

The sun will go down. The sun will rise again. It has has gotten darker. It will get bright again. The dark has wrapped and sheltered us, but now its time is done. And if we want the light back, and not just the sun, we better build a damn big fire. Happy solstice.

I have somehow only just discovered the Letterform Archive lecture series this year, and they have been an absolute DELIGHT. The zoom comments if you’re attending live are a constant stream of “OMG THOSE SERIFS 😍” and “look at that 4! *swoon*” They are font-dork heaven, AND they’re FREE

You had me at “Tesla-killer”

The New York City Council has voted to ban the use of solitary confinement in city jails www.reuters.com/world/us/new...

BUT THE ARCHIVES 😭

LiveWire Warrington @YourLiveWire are currently advertising a prison library assistant role, salary listed as "£8.82- £9.37 per hour. National Living Wage of £10.18 per hour for age 23 years and over, National Minimum Wage £10.42 age 21 – 22." livewirewarrington.c... 1/8

All workers, no matter their age, deserve to be paid enough to meet their needs. But beyond that, prison library work is skilled, valuable, difficult labour. Prison library workers should be paid more than the legal minimum. 3/8

I just coined a word for when you string emoji together to connote a word, phrase, or concept for which a single emoji does not yet exist: PORTMANTEAUJI

Thank you @asheeshksi.bsky.social! The CSU teaches 480k students, most of which are first gen and minoritized. Please care? Literally anyone?

Here’s some of the data that backs it! (And CPC = cetylpridinium chloride) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34282982/

can't i just want to fuck an elf like everyone else. i'm literally normal

- It's no longer 'brave' or a sign of hard work to show up sick to work. It's a terrible Christmas present that your colleagues will hate you for. - Get boosted (for Covid, flu, and RSV if available), will hopefully prevent some infection and ensure a milder course of illness for most.

this picture taught me the word "kerning"

Whuff.

WE JUST GOT NATIONAL FREE TEST-TO-TREAT FOR COVID AND FLU IN THE US www.test2treat.org/s/?language=... If you’re uninsured/underinsured, on Medicaid or Medicare, or get VA or Indian Health Services care, you can also enroll *without* a positive test and get free Lucira tests sent to you.

Given the discussions on the Other Place recently on the purpose of public scholarship for historians, I want to re-up my "How Your History Gets Made" (acoup.blog/2020/07/09/c...). One of the two main goals of my public scholarship is to make clear that academic historical research is necessary.

Destruction of heritage is part of genocide

Run for Something Civics just rolled out a new hub of resources for people considering a run for school board, including detailed videos, how-to guides, and more -- check this out. runforsomethingcivics.net/run-for-scho...

Happy #Krampusnacht to those that celebrate! Here is a list of Dark Christmas tales called "It came upon the midnight fear" jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/list/share/1...

I published a new pattern, but for some reason, I didn't post a picture here. Anyway, here's the Wyndmoor hat! Tell your knitting friends if you don't knit, and if you are a knitter, knit one for yourself or someone else. Ravelry: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/s/7ea9908a93

As it is getting to be seed catalog season, a rundown on why Baker Creek sucks and a bunch of alternative source recs.

Yeah. We’re at the point now that we need to teach everyone to be on the offense with most medical interactions. They’re not safe, they want compliance without responsibility, they don’t respect boundaries, and they’re so burnt out they don’t care.

I am now old enough to understand why people used to wear hats to bed

They say “DC is Hollywood for ugly people.” So this makes George Santos the Matt Bomer character in a politics-flavored reboot of “White Collar.” I’m kinda here for it, ngl

don't forget to leave milk and cookies out for the grim reaper tonight to congratulate him on a job well done 🖤

Ding dong, etc

Do you live in the United States? Do you make comics? Then you qualify for one of our $500 inaugural CAG Mini Grants! We hope you apply!

Year 1966. Univac 9000 Series disk cartridge prototype with a 2.2 MB capacity. Large enough for a JPEG photo from your phone.

@scalzi.com said “the failure mode of clever is asshole,” and I think about that every day. If I had a time machine, I’d frame it and stick it on teenage me’s wall.

Sadly Americans have sorted themselves in a “culture of sameness” This unfortunately means that a young woman who doesn't want to be replaced by a robot may never encounter a young man who would like to replace her with a robot, and thus never be exposed to his new perspectives and ideas.

Hey Library BSKY, do your thing

Horses and their knights BL Royal 12 F XIII, f. 42v @BLMedieval