There are fuck-ups, and then there's this krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/cisa...

Staffing and financial pressures are stretching academic libraries thin (...if they're not being cut or closed all together): www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

I used to be a person who loved to compliment women in the bathroom at the bar and now I’m a person who loves to send a round of drinks to the young women out for girls night. Whatever resources I am given in this life I will be using to hype up the girlies, always

young dumb and full of gum (I don’t know why I keep swallowing it)

I am dolled up and worthy of your admiration

Word of Power Learned: Yank Big Bread

JOB for recent MLIS grads! Nadia Sophie Seiler Rare Materials Residency Split between Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, July-Dec. 2026) & Yale Center for British Art (New Haven, CT, Jan.-May 2027) Application deadline is May 22 amherst.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FSL_Em...

Kicking my feet and giggling frfr

My man looks like he just heard the irresistible siren call of a circus calliope

Pop, six, squish, uh-uh, Cicero, Lipschitz

billypenn.com/2026/05/15/n... We got to meet them when we were in Japan last year and they are exactly as lovely as you would expect, both the cheesesteak and the roast pork were 10/10, I just want the absolute best for them ok

the cool kids all have this hanging in their offices, hurry

Just three little girls putting belt to ass.

man it's great that my daily emotional regulation is totally dependent on two geriatric pets

staring at this digital collection that isn't completely broken, wondering what I accidentally did right

Everybody else vs. millennial nostalgia overload

For the #DHmakes letterpress crowd 🚺 ♀

For sale: Baby bootstraps: never pulled up

well that could’ve saved my parents thousands of dollars in testing

Werner Herzog's Air Bud

Agnès Varda's Good Burger

"Take your tee-hees while you can. Soon enough, all the silly is gonna get beaten out of you for good." -Cotton Hill, shinless asshole who was very right this one time

Academic departments deserve to be saved, supported, resourced, allowed to grow even if they're not "best in the country," "first in the REF," "top-ranked," "at a Russell Group uni," or whatever other austerity-brained nonsense senior managers have been using to flimflam you out of solidarity

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

l’ve seen several major respected library vendors try to sell products for astronomical price tags that were just open models without any further value add from their programming teams. Seems like a poor strategy for maintaining trust imo

Hey, doing this kind of human-clearly-not-in-the-loop AI transcription is a complete shirking of our duties as historians, archivists, and allied professions when dealing with records of enslavement especially. If there are records that can be automated ethically, it’s certainly not these, full stop

This is not the first time *this week* that I’ve seen folks discuss something that needs to be done, & done WELL with a lot of time, trust, & responsibility, & then see someone decide to be Firsties by fair means or foul, which will only make doing the work RIGHT harder for folks later.

i am begging you not to quote dunk the lame ass WaPo opinion podcast into doing numbers. let it die in darkness

if stuff "just works" where you live-the water's clean, trash goes away, bridges don't collapse--you can live in an illusion that a) this place is clean because YOU are clean (not because it is cleanED for you) b) maybe you don't need those services anyway (bc you don't understand what they do)

I’m not going to be able to sleep because I can’t stop thinking about the batch of files I saw today that all had two leading spaces in the file name, typewriter style. I am haunted

there are candles that keep burning day and night that show you nothing and lead you nowhere and they are in my brain

every time I say something like "well-formed file names do matter in a lot of contexts" some guy pops up from reddit with the "um unicode can do emojis so actually there are no rules anymore, grow up" and that's why it's 11pm and I'm fixing stuff called "2020_05 _ ,College_Chorus's program.mp3.wav"

I know everyone is like 37 on this app so I have a gift for you if you're really looking for your midlife crisis to kick in www. youtube.com/watch?v=Pzn_TBf65xk

no i don’t want to “hang out” i only want to be perceived two sentences at a time by strangers on the internet

Hey #digipres folks, anyone want to contribute to this bloggERS! call? #digitalarchivesfail Redux: a Celebration of Failure saaers.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/c...

Evergreen, but also of the moment: Sometimes ethical stewardship of data means not having it. Including deleting it. Even at personal cost.

Now's a great time to support LaVonnia Moore, a rural Georgia librarian who was fired because she approved a library display (set up by community members) that included a book featuring a transgender character. Her legal case enters the mediation process this week. 📚 www.gofundme.com/f/help-lavon...

happy 250

Helpful info re: things you can do for your postal people.

Imagine watching Oh Brother, Where Art Thou and thinking all these guys have the same accent

I found an archived UBC webpage about Canvas privacy, with FAQs about why it is safe to trust a third-party software company with student data: web.archive.org/web/20250903...

Salome Viljoen argues that we’re thinking about “data privacy” all wrong. It’s not that there’s a guy in a room tracking my movements through the web; no one GAF about me individually. It’s that this entire apparatus has *society-wide* effects we haven’t reckoned with. www.jstor.org/stable/45400...

You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose.

sorry I'm frontloading my lukewarm takes before I log all the way off for the weekend 🌱🌴 I'd mute me too tbh

Right on time to prove the point, IT just sent us an email about Canvas with the greeting: “Dear Academics, Postdoctoral Researchers, and Staff” because status above everything else. Faction fights faction and the whole is undisturbed.

Nintendo can say "CAN'T LET YOU DO THAT STAR FOX" all they want but they're wrong. I CAN do that Star Fox