Last night at the pizza place a lady gave Hugo five dollars so that he could buy ice cream. It must be amazing to be cute and blonde and three years old.

US universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them”

I opened Facebook so that I could go to FBMP (only legitimate reason) and saw a post complaining about 20 mph school zones and calling it a "cash grab". 80 comments in agreement. "Teach your kids to look both ways!" Is this one of those times where posting could ACTUALLY be praxis? Do I wade in?

It's true, the chapters are like loam, or clay loam, for archives

Just passed a bunch of guys in fire department t-shirts that said "Let no man's ghost come back to say his training let him down" and does that go harder than any t-shirt you've ever seen or what

I am on here because I told myself that I can be done with my day if I do the three extremely minor and easy tasks I've put off all week.

sorry all our infrastructure is so bad, but i want you to know our admin had a lot of fun drinking with the vendors of this software product! <3

My feeble hope about this whole debacle is that faculty will start paying more attention to when their institutions are gutting the staff departments that support their technical infrastructure.

If you're interested in institutionalist, open-hearted, realistic archival administration, @boxreceiver.bsky.social and I wrote this! digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/libr_pubs/78/

We are all depositors in the Bank of Brewster.

Deeply grateful for this. "Tilde webpages" will live in my brain forever as the apotheosis of the scholarly web.

Nationalize all archives. Turn the local historical society into the community archives, pay everyone a professional wage, and require accreditation.

I am a for-real archives standards person but a fake library standards person. Did we know that LC has a vocabulary of demographic terms and it includes ethnicities??? id.loc.gov/search/?q=me...

my hot take re: librarianship is that the copyright system as currently defined already has many, many, many defenders, a great many of them very well resourced, and it's unnecessary for us as a profession to defend it stringently as well.

I always wonder - usually in vain - just how big auction houses determine provenance information. Thanks to the Epstein Files, we can see exactly how a seemingly rock-solid provenance was built on shifting sands for this Hercules. 🧵

Putting back together whats been broken?? In this economy

staff in my doctor's office: oh that's an interesting way to write dates, why do you do it that way? me: .....ok how much time do you have and what is your general familiarity with and/or interest in standards bodies

I have to pay a lawyer $350 to write an addendum to a contract to note that it is also valid in Rhode Island in addition to being valid in Massachusetts so that he can then write a letter saying that it’s valid in Rhode Island.

Tunefork Studios in Lebanon has released two music compilations to raise funds for Beit Aam’s work supporting grassroots efforts for displaced people in Beirut and southern Lebanon www.tuneforkstudios.com/forthedispla...

Airline pilots and Episcopal priests are the only two groups I know of that have a mandatory retirement age. I think for pilots it's an FAA requirement, and it seems as though there should be other areas where regulators acknowledge the concrete dangers of having aging people in power!

Lol our exhibits furniture vendor was seven months late with delivery and now wants to charge us extra for travel expenses because they had to install during the winter. PLEASE DM me if this sounds like familiar behavior to you because I want to talk shit so bad.

You do "emotional labour" when you are producing an inauthentic emotional state as a product to be sold, which, like the factor lineworker producing a widget all day long that *they* don't own, is a form of alienation a la Marx.

Yeah, this one really squares my boobs as a sociologist. Arlie Russell Hochschild made one of the most important contributions to the sociology of labour ever, updating the Marxist concept of alienation for the late 20th century and it got sludged into "I don't want to call my mom."

Librarians love talking about working and do not seem particularly bothered when work doesn't actually get done.

My normally very good sleeper toddler had a bad dream last night so I crawled into bed with him. He woke me up this morning by telling me that I’m beautiful. Is this my weird Instagram boy mom origin story?

One of my philosophies of management is that it’s not really possible to get in trouble with me at work. We all have stuff that’s too much or that we don’t know how to do. But if you hand-encode a link or type in a barcode by hand, you will be sent to the archives sorghum fields for reeducation.

Everything about this picture is how I pictured trump's second term

Public school enrollment in Massachusetts is at a 30-year low, and half of the state’s 1,600 schools operate <80% of capacity. Yet “school capacity” remains a common argument used opposing new multifamily housing in many suburbs. In nearly every community, it’s simply a myth.

Proud to have cowritten two chapters with David who has the insight to know which Derrida text speaks the best to our tradecraft

WHO MAGICRUBBED MY RECORDS CARTON AND SUMMONED ME? I'VE BEEN GONE FOR 10 YEARS - TELL ME HOW LINKED DATA FIXED EVERYTHING.

Is it good to have an Outreach and Community person to serve as the archives' Omelas Child?

The most useful political distinction to pay attention to in my experience is asking whether children and young adults are most likely to suffer harm from people inside or outside their family. Only people who say “inside” are sensitive to power dynamics that matter

I definitely fouled up a Quaker School interview when I got asked about "reparative description" and I went, "It's not even the 10th most important thing we can do" Maybe that was harsh, but I have also seen repdesc become "In honor of African Americans let us transcribe the diaries of this slaver"

The discipline has been cultivating an Avoidant Personality forever, and so the notion that you would seek to meet People and treat their contemporary stuff with all our tradecraft is just, alien. None of this behavior is harmful, lots of nice people in our field. But this can't be how we are led

And real ones know this, it's worth evaluating whether your work is actually building community, or if you're just seeking a cleanup task with a contemporary flavor

I do not claim to understand LC rules for establishing subjects and from what I can tell they don't make much internal sense but any system that produces this is fine by me.

I really miss the days of archives Twitter because I have been hearing so many myths about professional practice these days and I have very few venues for reminding everyone that it doesn’t have to be this hard.

Father Pierre el-Rahi told his parish three days before his death: "We carry only the weapons of peace." An Israeli Merkava tank fired twice at the same home in Qlayaa. He ran toward the wounded after the first shell. The second one killed him. www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/pope-leo-x...

Extremely pleased to announce 🎉that the new-new @saa-official.bsky.social Selecting and Appraising Archives and Manuscripts is out now, with two crucial chapters by @meau.bsky.social and me Make it your own: mysaa.archivists.org/productdetai...

Also I am happy to say that 15 years after I lived in West Philly, Avril 50 is STILL on Sansom and is STILL grouchy and over-priced. 2004 issues of magazines asking for multiples more than cover price! My friend got tricked into buying a $20 un-marked chocolate bar!

I was in Philadelphia last week and I had a 11 am Saturday train home, and there was NOWHERE to buy a newspaper or magazine for love or money except for eight bad titles at the Hudson News. Are we a post-literate society (we're not, but it's weird that print is dead)?!?!

At Cornell, librarians are investigating how vendors are tracking patrons and putting that information library catalog to better inform them. 📚 #code4lib #c4l26

Brandon Nightengale “Archives are an engineered system that decide what persists.” He reminds us that systems are series of affirmative decisions by people about what’s important. 📚 #c4l26

Aw dang I need to write three different "sorry, I suck, we'll have to find another way to solve your problem" emails this afternoon.

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

The people of Mansfield, Connecticut are upset that students are allowed to vote in local elections. 🤡

NEW: ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.

GOOD NEWS: Want to plant flowers this spring? Bloom Rhode Island is giving away $200,000 in grants to gardeners and nonprofits to plant publicly visible flowers (or to create cutting gardens) in PVD Central Falls, Woonsocket, Pawtucket or the denser areas of East PVD bloomrhodeisland.org/grants

The DOJ’s Epstein document interface isn’t neutral. It lets you examine fragments in exquisite detail while making the totality unseeable—Jameson's classic problem of cognitive mapping, rendered as UX. Folks often forget that distant reading is how you see the forest when power insists on trees.