I don’t know if I haven’t looked in the mirror lately or if I just slept like a rotating gas station hot dog last night, but I just noticed that three of my piercings are missing studs and I am PISSED

feel that chill in the air? the season is upon us, all my eczema baddies know what I’m talking about (suffering, the season is suffering)

Libraries, Archives, and Collective Grief -new title due out in 2026. Co-edited by Kaylee Alexander and Robert Spinelli Bristol Press

the student tour guides always stop their groups in the same corner of the library to avoid people studying. they always say "let's gather over here so we're out of the way and not bothering anyone," directly in front of the open door of my office, often while making eye contact with me

Grammys announcing Gaga's nominations this morning

All things must end. Even the Farmer’s Almanac. abcnews.go.com/US/farmers-a...

I ruined the workplace today by starting a debate about our favorite Mass Effect companions in the slack. Correct answer is Garrus btw but I will also accept Jack and Legion

man this is a good year for feminine rage albums

A thing about AI in higher ed right now is that half of us are scrambling to deal with the implosion of our information environment that broke reading/writing/source verification, while the other half is trying to achieve a massive institutional buy-in of the very thing that's causing the implosion

The first time I was reprimanded by a boss was because I told a male coworker he needed to stop watching hentai on the clock while sitting right next to me, and actually contribute to the project I was carrying. According to our boss, I needed to take "a softer approach" bc I "hurt his feelings"

The weird thing about doing library school in a program based in Silicon Valley (@sjsuischool.bsky.social) is that one is constantly confronted with the specter of undead technology. #GradSchoolGripes Undead tech takes a couple forms:

it has finally happened, someone has finally asked me to help emulate an old + very niche indie PC game for a class!!! I have trained for this!!!!!!

Happy World Digital Preservation Day! "Perpetual access" is a fairy tale

all the Gen Xers whose sapphic awakening was Gillian Anderson in The X-Files and all the millennials whose sapphic awakening was Sigourney Weaver in Holes

Netflix tapping into the lesbian westerns fan market

"Are 30-50 feral hogs ruining the workplace?"

something i've started doing that i really recommend other educators do is to DOWNLOAD all of your key youtube video examples so that you have a local file on hand instead of relying on youtube to host it in perpetuity!

Love seeing sustainability as a core principle here - especially as it is conceptualized holistically as "environmental, social, and economic." Sustainability is, by definition, the central work of cultural heritage institutions

no, but the workplace sure ruined me

Newly released Stockholm 𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲 Declaration recommends the following _alternative_ agenda: 1. The current situation is just fine, actually. 2. No changes necessary. 3. We like who's in control and the incentive structure. 4. Thanks for your concern though!

hey y'all! my questionnaire on player experience in historical videogames is now LIVE! if you play videogames about the past, we want to hear from you! edu.nl/7w3yn

Increasingly the Venn diagram of my intellectual interests & commitments—digital humanities, book history/bibliography, book arts, critical making—perhaps meet in the region "Luddite Humanities" Not technological rejection—but slower, deliberate, critical, historicized engagement with technology

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Hello @archive.org - do you folks have any kind of data available about energy usage, climate impact, etc. for any of your services or collections? Any help would be much appreciated!

If you don't like Florence's new album that's fine, it's just for me it's not for you

Truly playing Mad Libs with the op eds right now "An unexpected champion in the Mamdani mayoral race: the Aperol Spritz" "The Democratic Party is imploding; could a Halt and Catch Fire reboot save us?" "Here's what Mamdani's win teaches us about Doc Martens and cryptozoology"

looking forward to the fights that break out over this

congrats new york!!!!!!!

Rejecting the premise here. "AI" is not coming for your job. Companies are dumping people because they are putting more money into AI investment, not because there is labor replacement via productivity. Even in the Amazon announcement, Jassy backed away from the framing that AI took those 14k jobs.

Was recently accused of posting stuff on Instagram “for attention,” so let me be crystal clear: literally everything I post anywhere is for attention

TGIF, am I right

Still need more baseball? We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.

This is why we can’t have nice things

Choosing to believe that my grumpy senior cat keeps peeing on my greyhound’s winter clothes because he loves her so much

They literally ruin everything they touch

My secondary Halloween costume is 2011 Emily: on my couch in a Snuggie™️ watching Parks and Rec and playing Pokemon White on my Nintendo DS

ZOOM

we did it fam, we posted so hard we broke the bots 🥹

shout-out to our new provost for choosing to visit special collections for official business when I'm on the desk in a halloween costume

"We absolutely know that expertise, research skills, patience, and understanding how to go about investigating and evaluating truth and falsehood will always be in demand" Moratorium on this sentiment from anyone who is employed.

If we put half as much resources into metadata and cataloging as we do into dumb AI stuff, we’d way better off in terms of the info/data ecosystem

I love kids. I have two of them. They’re amazing. However, kids are the absolute least self aware, clumsiest little puffins on the planet. Please don’t drive tonight unless you have to, and if you do drive, drive super slow and pay 100% attention at all times. Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻 💀 #PublicHealth

I hate gay Halloween what do you mean you’re an uncataloged book someone tried to rebind with duct tape

It’s a bunt but it’s effective

Misread a post about “National Medical Librarians Month” as “National Mediocre Librarians Month,” was so excited to finally be celebrated

I haven’t come up with a costume idea at this point so I’m probably going with the “white woman with long dark hair and all black clothing” standby

The only good recommendation algorithm is on HBO Max when you watch a Studio Ghibli movie and it’s like: would you like to watch one of the other Studio Ghibli movies next? Yes, how did you know!!

Final verdict: meh

I’ve been playing the new Pokemon Legends for 60 hours and I’m still not sure if I like it