No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

Going to rage watch the Game of Wool.

Roundness!!!

Tiny baby sleeping on me!

sound on. I’m still laughing

OMG did not realize there was a Sisu 2 movie!

“Cactus” is another series by the creator of “Mars” (which is getting a new 30th anniversary print edition from @kodansha.us in spring 2026)

Tiny baby Helo, new addition to the fam

Job alert! @ischoolui.bsky.social is hiring in 4 areas this year Early literacies: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Information behavior/HCI/UX: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Information, Culture & Society: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Open IS: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

UK folks, THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR is a monthly Kindle deal for November: just 99p! Often this sort of deal leads to price-matching at other online retailers, too. Happy reading!

Having a unique ORCID identifier is one way for academics to distinguish themselves from other researchers with the same name, but a far simpler solution would be for the bigger one to consume the smaller one.

Good morning. I don't know who did this, but I love you.

That’s the Wallace Shawn story? It’s akin to Ranganathan’s first law: Every reader a book, every book its reader, and every generation its Wallace Shawn.

Miss Piggy's Chauffeur ran over that poor guy!

What the French-fried fuckity fuck? I emphatically did not opt IN to this and now I have to log in and opt OUT? When you’ve already done a thing I not only disapprove of, but that also makes literally no sense? You can’t turn my old paper into an analogy. That’s not how papers or analogies work

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Dear friends and colleagues, I am recruiting prospective PhD students for Fall 2026, in Digital Humanities, Cultural Analytics, Critical Data Studies, Social Media, and/or Platform Studies. Please feel free to reach out to me with questions, or share this with anyone who might be interested! Thanks!

oh my god

Polls show that only 33% of Americans blame Democrats for the shutdown. But at this Atlantic staff Zoom meeting, that percentage feels much higher.

Closing Utah's Cache County Library, a proposal by a county commissioner, would leave 30,000 residents without a public library. It's everything of the far right's wildest dreams. If this happens, it won't be the last. It'll be the blueprint nationwide. www.sltrib.com/news/2025/10...

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming. Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

This man? Not actually related to me at all, yet claims to be from U.N.C.L.E.

If you haven't read this yet and study education, I would strongly recommend that you do. The treatment of students is appalling and I need to see these test scores (and information on the sample that took them) before I believe any of their claims. www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...

The Power Fantasy of Superman is you still have a staff job on a newspaper.

absolutely shameful that the university has embraced the administration’s demand that it discriminate against its students. this is the board of visitors telling UVA students that if they aren’t white and cisgendered then they don’t belong.

hey digital humanities nerds heeeeey want to solve a mystery

Superman Covers (issues #29, #30, #31 and #32).

@climatecentral.org hired the NOAA scientist who was in charge of maintaining the billion dollar weather disaster data set and is going to continue it! Here is the new home of the Billion Dollar Disaster's data set: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...

Day 19 - NOSTALGIA 📺 #SuperBatober #Inktober #inktober2025

I have been waiting for news coverage of this and it’s chilling that the coverage has to come from another country.

Kanoya Kanpachirou (PR chief of Kanoya City) is a skilled dancer with the head of an amberjack.

I just bought my copy!!!!!!

Creating the market it intends to capture.

Whether it's young Democrats expressing their support for DEI or young Republicans saying "I love Hitler,' both sides have expressed controversial opinions.

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

Was listening to Going Rogue podcast and was reminded about Diego Luna on press tours talking about how he wanted to touch Jabba the Hut.

Family movie night tonight is Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

Happy Columbo’s Day

Found this just incredibly depressing, more than anything.

. @404media.co is investigating book bans. They could use your pointers on where to be looking. You can do it anonymously. "We need help deciding... which school districts and cities to seek public records from and... where we should point our reporting efforts. " www.404media.co/help-us-inve...

"Faculty were not consulted" 👀

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

Weber State administrators told student they couldn't present their research on the state's anti-DEI law at an on-campus conference on censorship(!) unless they removed all mentions of DEI from their slides www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Rare Book School is searching for a detail-oriented, self-motivated, and forward-thinking full-time Program Manager to assist in facilitating excellent educational programming. Review of applications begins 30 October. Details at rarebookschool.org/about-rbs/employment/ #Booksky

Michael Stipe, best known for his role as Mr Scrummy the Sludgesicle Man in The Adventures of Pete & Pete,