I'm pretty used to coming out, lol. But TODAY I'm excited to come out about a Very Cool Thing that my colleagues and I have been working on, fairly hush hush, for about a year now. And heck, #P4A2026 seemed like a great opportunity to do so. So -- behold! www.youtube.com/watch?v=83wz...

I did a thing! If you're looking for the very last, most recent data captures of the CIA World Factbook, I (very respectfully) copied the data using @archive.org's wayback machine: github.com/pmusser/cia-... Don't expect a pretty recreation of the site, but it's all JSONized!

So, uh, has anyone checked in with Ken Sim about his grand idea of investing Vancouver in BTC?

I'm no foreign policy expert but when SOMEONE decides to implement a 10% tariff on allies for disagreeing with him doing something foolish on the same day the Canadian prime minister announces major tariff reductions with China, it really makes ya think.

Less niche, I submitted a short story to a lil mini contest for the first time ever so that's exciting!

Niche bsky incoming, but: 若你是说中文或是想联系听中文的一个人，我送给你的新年礼物是鼓励你听到所谓《声东击西》现代人文的播客：https://etw.fm/ So, y'know, happy new year.

Can confirm, decent opportunity! I worked as an enumerator in the 2020 one, and aside from being a great way to make some extra money during the pandemic-triggered layoff I was in, it was just a really nice way to get to meet my community.

So apparently I've taken to coping with the continuously unprecedented times by writing a cameo from @kairyssdal.bsky.social and some of my other @npr.org favorites into a wee bit of short fiction. I don't know if it's going to be any good, but I guess we'll see if it can do the numbers.

It's wild that "I managed to avoid getting a cold this month until everyone else in my household got better and we made it past Christmas!" is such an obvious win. Parenting, folks.

This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write." A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption. B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.

Librarians are one of the groups that have an opportunity to serve as a kind of "third person" in young people's lives. We aren't parents or teachers, and if we treat them with respect for their personhood, they get practice dealing with adults not as much in power over them.

music.youtube.com/watch?v=nqAv... This is, like, such a great music video.

Ho ho ho, who wouldn't go?

In what may be the most on-brand experience, I could have sworn that @nightvaleradio.bsky.social came out when I was in high school. After looking into it after reading the first book (thanks @humblebundle.com !) I have learned that apparently it came out a decade later. So. Uh. Hail glow cloud?

The only H-index I care about is the H[ave to tell Peter about it on social]-index.

Getting a lot of emails from different orgs saying happy holidays, so voila. As you can see, I am an artist whose talents are wasted in librarianship. :) OER Commons is open, but our responses may be delayed because we're all so, so tired, and taking much needed rest. We hope you are too!

Useful thread from our reporter @bxroberts.org 🧵

Hey y'all, just taking a moment to tell you that you are spectacular, and you deserve to wear mismatched socks if you dang well want to.

I'm a sucker for connections. So sue me.

With all this talk about public domain day on the horizon, I need to go to my local archdiocese and find out what the church's ecclesiastical stance on Bible fanfiction is. I mean, the Bible is already in the public domain, I just... Listen, it's been a WEEK y'all.

Apropos of last night's convo, @mrpeterjulian.bsky.social @matthtfld.bsky.social @openmedia.org

When @ztirfhtor.bsky.social presented abt this yesterday, I appreciated mention of the gap btwn tech skills & librarianship as a hurdle to sustaining repositories -- and also that librarian compensation doesn't really attract the tech skills needed. And many other things. All around good session!

In light of everyone wrapping up, if you use transit in Metro Vancouver, try out Compass Card Wrapped! kevindeyoungster.com/compass-card-wrapped/

Behold, the spirit of Christmas

The Trump era is so long when you think about it. 2012 was the last time he wasn’t on a ballot.

Hey Metro Vancouver! If you're free this Thursday at 6p, I'll be talking #misinformation at New West Public Library with @mrpeterjulian.bsky.social and Kristen Gilbert from Options for Sexual Health! Many thanks to @openmedia.org and Tactical Tech for organizing. www.nwpl.ca/events/reali...

Being a parent is often great and amazing, and then sometimes it's just holding yourself together with spiderweb you found laying around because that's all you got left

The Institute of Museum and Library Services, the federal agency that provides funding for America's libraries, has announced it is reinstating all grants it had previously terminated, including those to libraries and library organizations across the U.S. Read more: https://bit.ly/4496W4V

Generally I try to keep work posts separate from personal posts, but it's been a HECKIN' YEAR in education. So here's the softest ask you'll get this Tuesday: if you've got some spare cash, consider donating to ISKME! We provide free digital infrastructure to support edu & want to keep doing it. 👇🏻

Please Donate to the Internet Archive. $25 helps.... a lot. Useful to Journalists, Useful to Students, Useful to more than 2 million people a day. Collections growing at 150TBytes/day @internetarchive archive.org/donate www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/b...

Planning your week? 📖 Join Samuel Moore & Heather Joseph as they explore PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET & how collective, scholar-led publishing can reshape open access. 📆 Thurs Dec 4th 🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET 📍 Online 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839631951... @SamuelMoore.org @HJoseph.bsky.social

Hour 6 of OERcamp.global is live! 🚀 More sessions coming up: • 🌍 Open for Norway • 📚 OER Live for Open Education Week • 🌱 Democratizing Knowledge • 🖥️ Updating Open Textbooks • 📖 Breaking Barriers to Learning Resources Join us: oercamp.de/veranstaltun... #OERcamp #OERde

Its near "super intelligence" "replacing professionals" in the PR rounds, then once everyone is convinced and uses them for legal and medical advice, following the deceptive marketing, they slip it in the terms of service that you shouldn't do that. buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

Handy resource for indicating human vs. machine provenance of works! C/O Fontys University, and @kwantlenu.bsky.social for mentioning them in their pressbooks template. mmmlabel.tech

Reference question that I'm crowdsourcing: Does anyone know of any guides or resources for someone who is trying to transition to a new name in professional settings? This is specifically in the LIS field.

for me refusal is about protest (& broadly a feminist pedagogy), which i know is not something every library worker is interested in, or even feeling capable of engaging with. the goal of critique (& the goal of my questioning, posting, scholarship) at large is to increase possibility of capability

Hey @zeerak.bsky.social! Soooo I may have grabbed the Q's from the Q&A and saw you had a couple questions. I'm in an answering mood, so here we go! Gonna use screenshots with alt text for your q's and then answer in text.

Whoever anonymously gave me (as Stacks & Facts) a shout out as their personal man-crush in the Q&A part of the session I was in: RIGHT BACK AT YA!

Hi friends! If it's up your alley, I'll be one of a few folks tomorrow "in a conversation that will explore how the evolving relationship between AI and libraries reshapes our understanding of access to knowledge, learning, and vital social infrastructure." dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/co-opt...

FINALLY!

Ok so this is a pretty neat tool to help address book bans, searchable by title and keywords! bookresumes.uniteagainstbookbans.org

A little late coming, but I'll be at ALA #CoreForum2025 in Denver this week. If you will too, gimme a holler and let's sup together!

I would like to call attention to the following about Zohran Mamdani in NYC and Rob Jettens in the Netherlands: - both won out against deeply conservative competitors - both are leftist enough to shiver Fox hosts' timbers - both are under 40 - both are just, oof, hot as beans Sunny days, folks.

A while back I mentioned that I was invited by the National Library of Korea to write something. Well, it's out! Link below is to the 1st issue of Library Plus, which contains "Vendors All the Way Down: Generative AI in US and Canadian Libraries." E... Enjoy? 😬 www.nl.go.kr/afile/fileDo...

This was a delight to stuble across. @petermusser.com! I still assign one of your videos in class. We just watched it last week. alacorenews.org/2025/10/03/i...

For what it's worth, I'm a fan of @theconversation.com because things like this: theconversation.com/many-book-ba...

📢Employment opportunity at PKP! PKP is hiring a Managing Director, who will be responsible for ensuring PKP’s long-term sustainability and continued global impact. If you are interested, learn more at: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...

@pjnewwest.bsky.social can you pass on thanks to the city staff who cut back the weeds and grass overtaking the sidewalk on Duncan, eastbound just past Mercer on Qborough? I put in a req for it on SeeClickFix app, and mentioned it to the city staff at the farmers market last week, & they delivered!