Stolen from an Animorphs Facebook group.

a really fucking exhausting thing about this current moment is that any good faith efforts to reform or acknowledge short comings of knowledge producing and sense making institutions is promptly weaponized by people who want to burn the entire thing down and drown us in avalanche of bullshit

Sometimes when I’m sad I think about the giant flocks of grackles in every HEB parking lot and it makes me smile. They look up at the sky together like they know something is coming. I love them

if you have to be around me right now, please keep in mind that I'm replaying all the Dragon Age games currently and I'm not likely to talk about other things. you've been warned

Hello fellow archivists, can anyone think of a citable source for the fact that reformatting (digitization/microfilming) seldom obviates the need to care for the original? Like, you and I know that we don't just throw out 19th-c letters when we take them off the scanner, but LIS profs need refs

quick question does being raptured count as PTO or sick leave

Working through some intense grief through copious amounts of Taco Bell, which I’m not sure counts as self-care or self-harm, but I do know that the amount of caffeine in this Baja Blast is making me feel more alive than I’ve felt in many days

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

There’s a merchant in Dragon Age: Veilguard that says, “Unfortunate times we live in. Some cheese to cheer you up?” and I feel that on a spiritual level

"i don't feel particularly strong about the JSON vs. XML API responses debate" -- someone who never worked in library technology

me to my students: LLMs are like your worst ex. They will LIE to you with the most serene, most confident face one of my students, quietly: I hate that guy so much

why do you people keep screenshotting accounts I have blocked and then posting them on my feed anyway

AI data scraping is causing major problems for digital archives. Many publishers of cool historical material (free for the public), like @hagleycenter.bsky.social, are being hit w/ bot swarms akin to denial of service attacks. Latest in The Lint Trap linttrapofhistory.substack.com/p/when-ai-da...

My colleague @linguistory.bsky.social, who is thinking a lot about A/V preservation formats and their resource costs, just hit me with the "would we have kept that tape in the stacks if it were the size of a refrigerator?" which is an excellent point and also my imagination is running with this

Despite loving video games my whole life, I largely avoided communities of gamers growing up because so many LOUDLY hated me and people like me. That loneliness often, in hindsight, feels like a dodged bullet.

Just a thought but academics on limited contracts doing major teaching and research load at universities want stability and transparent rules on job prospects not a “postdoc appreciation week” #ichbinhanna

If you use the tool that shows you who has blocked you on here, and if I'm one of those people*, and you are wondering why: maybe you said something horrible, maybe a whim, a passing fancy, a post I somewhat disagreed with, a harshing of my mellow, a killing of my vibe *how are you seeing this?

reminder that there are entire professions of people working constantly on these issues, and also we need funding

I am going to buy a Switch 2 and I am going to get Stardew Valley on it just so I can say I own Stardew Valley on 6 different platforms

history continues to be pre-gamergate/post-gamergate

WE'RE SO BACK

Excited the Spring/Summer 2025 issue @saa-official.bsky.social American Archivist is out! It includes a ✨Special Section on Accessioning✨ (edited by Audra Eagle Yun, Rachel Searcy & myself). 5 case studies straight from the field. Practice-driven, principle-supported scholarship: ow.ly/2epI50WVnyP

When the shelf location field says "Ask [Former Employee]"

if I could do time travel I'd probably just use it to solve serials cataloging problems

Some of the complaints we've received are a little hippo critical, which is a shame because she's very sensitive.

This is a start... arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

DNA cassette tape can store every song ever recorded www.newscientist.com/article/2495...

A disclaimer about current events - I will not be posting about it, I will be muting posts about it as is my preference, I will be posting/reposting stuff that may seem mundane. I will not be entertaining criticism about my reactions or lack thereof. Use this platform however you see fit.

Last of his species, which were hunted to extinction.

Adjacently, it makes me wonder if the embracer archive is just some sort of new form of "preservation washing" -- a business detracting from its obvious impulse toward mediocrity and apparently bad labor politics by foregrounding its allegedly cultural contributions

I think what we really need around here is a good old-fashioned field day

Extremely upsetting that the results for the lab work I haven't done yet aren't yet available in my LabCorp results portal

Do your mental health a favor and turn this on for today. You really don't want to watch this. It is awful.

You know what? Everything IS gnarly

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January 2023

A reminder even when things are crazy to stop and eat.

Okay, I’ve done it! If you know anyone with a little cash to burn and a deep love for their animal companions, please share this with them www.aknitomy.com/shop/p/custo...

This is a thread of ideas I have about how to make sports more enjoyable for me personally

I thought Bake Off would fix me but it’s STRESSING ME TF OUT

Hank Hill

it's aliiiiiveeeeeee! all 700 pages of my dissertation can be found here: hdl.handle.net/2429/92159

Maybe we should save the term "denialist" for the folks who are being constantly told by working people (particularly in feminized professions) how AI hype is actively making their lives and jobs worse, and are happily and willfully ignoring it

"certified trauma healer" is one of the biggest red flags I have ever seen in a professional bio, tbh

I’ve been reading a lot of economic theory lately and one thing has become clear: every single article that seems to be about worker behavior is actually a cover up of bad corporate practices

Happy "get this shit off my desk" day. We're grabbing the lowest hanging fruit until it's time to go home. Crossing off some tasks. No thoughts, just do

My morning beverage spilled in my bag, please don’t talk to me for the rest of the day unless you want to see me cry

advisor: 'and what has made you want to switch over to accounting major?' Student: ' just seems like the furthest thing away from the haunted dolls'