Asking how people can partake in joyful acts during a period of immense suffering leads me to believe this is your first time at the suffering rodeo.

I have seen more of the Discourse and have chosen to go play video games about it

This is not gender-specific. We are watching Lord of the Rings. You will react appropriately when I tell you about Viggo’s toe or there will be no chance of hanky panky after the 14 hours it takes us to watch Lord of the Rings.

I'm seeking a tool for Arabic OCR—anyone have anything they'd recommend? Specifically I'd like to run it on an early-mid-20thC printed periodical, and would really like hOCR or ALTO output So far I've had moderate luck with Kraken and not much with Tesseract

Hell yeah we are

Reminder that our next open submission window is August: www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/submission-g...

Finally playing Hades 2 and I like it much better than Hades. More ladies, more creepy stuff. 10/10

I think it must be pretty hot because my cat just stuck his whole face in my iced coffee

If you want to set off fireworks in an urban neighborhood for days and weeks surrounding this accursed holiday, you should first be required to look my dog in the eye and tell her you hate her, and then I should be legally allowed to hit you with a baseball bat as hard as I can

seeing a lot of people posting about crying their eyes out to “take me home, country roads” because of the world cup but I’ve been doing that for decades 💅

So. Today is Wings's birthday. His present has been sitting in a FedEx sorting center in Colorado for two weeks now. So. The best gift I could give him at this moment, I suppose, is a few sales. So if you're in the market? wingssilverwork.com

The World Cup should employ a team of commentator Historians who describe the historical relations and tensions between the two countries over the course of the match.

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Did somebody say schism? (chart by Geoffrey Kaiser and available for purchase in updated form)

With the discussion of physical media it is also important to remember that you don't have to assume you need to save everything yourself. Support your local libraries! Donate to memory workers! There are so many ways to support the work of preservation and access

You are not calling about my unresolved tax file. This is never going to work. For the love of god, pick a different angle

Instructure doesn't want the public or journalists knowing more about the ShinyHunters breach. This 6/28 "incident update" is still not a disclosure. Two months into this story, we don't know the specifics of what was stolen. Students deserve to know. Link: www.instructure.com/incident_upd...

The Phanatic's tongue is now down Ben's throat

In my opinion the whole alt-ac thing only works when you are committed to treating your job as a real thing with real stakes and real people who are not your stepping stone to something somehow Better

This is obvious #notallcolleagues but gee does a man with a PhD who has been given a senior, managerial position in an archive, library, or museum hate to see a production schedule or someone who chose to pursue cultural heritage work from the get-go coming

I’m at the Phillies game sitting in a group of Irish teenagers discovering our culture 🥹 they think the peanuts are ass

I am texting with my chapter head right now and APPARENTLY the delegates had to hold the floor for TWELVE HOURS without a PEE BREAK to keep the TERFs—who showed up WEARING DEPENDS—from pulling a sneak vote Y’ALL

Pundits: "History will not judge them kindly." Historians: "Actually, we'd prefer that judges started judging them." 🗃️

Much love to my sisters who are trans and who are hurting. We’re going to keep fighting these assholes.

if you're trans, you have to live. one day you can live to see these guys all die.

Go eat something buttery and do some good

I don’t need participation trophies, but I do need to be rewarded with a cookie and a nap every time I silently choose not to pick a battle that you know I want to

I have been in many contexts in my life in which men are extremely comfortable talking to me like I’m a servile robot, and I’m really not enjoying men around me now falling into those patterns because they’re so used to interacting primarily with LLMs

It’s impossible to replicate the face I made while reading this

I’m on a fantastic blocking spree lately. Debate fetishists, people who post ragebait from other social media sites, anyone who describes themselves in terms of decades-past elections. Poof! We love to not see it

Eavesdropping on a double date next to us at this restaurant, two men with two women that are obviously several decades younger than them. I’m usually pretty good at doing this without being obvious but one of the women just asked “so you guys are both podcasters?” and I absolutely lost it 🤣

Robert Eggers marketing his movies:

I'm in love with this button in the ALA 150th history display ✊️ #alaac26

happy Shirley Jackson lottery day. may you always remember that society’s rules are often cruel and capricious and you can just decide as a group to not do them anymore

Due to personal reasons I will keep posting

You're laughing. Socialists are buying Culver's shrimp and you're laughing

Job posting: The director and curator administers and oversees all operations for the List Gallery, a regionally acclaimed exhibition venue. . .including contemporary artists, student work, and works from the Swarthmore College Art Collection.” careers.swarthmore.edu/cw/en-us/job...

We have been moving through horrifying news cycles at a fast clip, but I hope that the Prarieland defendants will remain at top of mind (collectively) until it’s possible to free them.

Absolutely love this approach to digital projects -- robust, dynamic projects with fully functional static versions for sustainability and longetivity. Hybrid minimal computing for the win! 👏 #ACH2026

I am not at ALA, I am at home in my basement digging the deepest hole I can straight down into the Philadelphia earth, which I plan to crawl into until the semiquincentennial is over

how do I pin someone else’s post

The Herald of Summer

What we have is the product of 1000s of years of diligent study and care. If you find yourself wanting to sad post about the Library of Alexandria, consider instead reading the surviving Hymns of Callimachus.

I know I’m garbage but if we’re rolling back every bit of regulation and embracing the social hells of the aughts, can I AT LEAST have cloves and four lokos back

I really shouldn’t be on the internet when library workers lose their jobs en masse and the resulting “outcry” is people getting emo about losing their favorite study spot or not being able to browse for books

Public Universal Friend with Benefits, is that anything?

Hello from this FANTASTIC collection of trade literature we recently received as a gift, but ESPECIALLY hello from this dazzling bead sample book 🤩