This is such a clear and thorough timeline of this weird bullshit

The newish executive director and half the board of the yoga nonprofit I teach for here in Nashville ALL RESIGNED yesterday. I want the tea sooooooo bad!!!!!!

Today's Akkadian vocab mnemonic is that the word for "seated" or "sitting" or "to sit" ends with the syllable "bum" hehehe

If you want to reduce crime rates, don’t invest in policing. Invest in libraries.

There's still plenty of time to submit a book review or non-peer-reviewed essay for the fall issue of Theological Librarianship! serials.atla.com/theolib/abou...

📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.

Just saw a guy at the Christian coffee shop reading Francis Chan’s Forgotten God. Did I accidentally get in a Time Machine and pop out in 2010?????

My face id didn't recognize me bc i was looking too pleasant. Had to put a lil scowl on

Do y'all think I could wear this to work y/n

I'm sorry, did y'all know CAPTCHA was an acronym??? CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart."

Every time I’m working on one of my weirdo side quests I think of this cartoon

Tried a lil filet crochet tonight

It's been a while since this has happened, but someone I was helping just asked if I'm a student here 😇

I’ve made it to Lesson 9 of Huehnergard’s Grammar of Akkadian and I’m staring cuneiform today!!!!!!!!!!

Almost just ended an email with "See you next Tuesday!" but thought better of it

OK I was prepared to make fun of this but cheddar jalapeño madeleine sounds like it slaps and chow chow mignonette is genius and I am so down for miso grits

strong parallels to how we were told to make individually responsible risk assessments around COVID at the same time any useful sources of information were systematically dismantled

Last night in the hearings on the Nashville data centers bill, someone appealed to the good southern conservatives by saying "Imagine how much porn they're gonna make with this infrastructure" lmaooooo

My bf, groggily answering the phone: Hello? Me, sobbing: I FOUND A KITTEN 😭😭😭😭😭😭 Him: Oh no

Not a conspiracy. Not pattern matching. Mention a document that makes people look silly, and they will wipe years of documents and paid-for research to save face. Only some forward thinking to save a copy prevents oblvion. Or as the Internet Archive calls it, Friday. Anyway. archive.org/donate

Printing out this post to hang in my office

OK OK finally reading Magnifica Humanitas and damn there are some bars in here

I totally picked the right papal reign in which to become Librarian for Theological Studies

Whole story on the diabolical foolishness of my favorite bar and my favorite bartender in the @nashvillescene.com today 💖 www.nashvillescene.com/food_drink/c...

OK OK the whole "Gay not Queer" thing from Matthew Vines yesterday sounded soooooo familiar I was like didn't he publish this same thing last year? I think it was this reformationproject.org/affirming-th...

Any library folks have experience circulating tarot decks?

It's the last day of Pride Month, a great day to buy my gay book!!!! 🌈 wipfandstock.com/978172525403...

Had a rough night 🥴

Just saw a Tiktok where a school librarian made cards for students with the first book they ever checked out from the library and I'm like... yikes... why are y'all keeping that data 😬😬😬

I'm making a little progress today on an essay I haven't touched in months, and it feels pretty good. But also I feel like an absolute failure as a writer and academic, like I'll never have anything of worth to say ever again.

"Far left" positions: - Transit should be fast, functional and maybe even free. - Everyone has a right to healthcare, childcare, housing, and food. - Collective punishment and genocide are bad, actually. To quote @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.

Depression-era city planning built barriers as well as routes. Edward Hopper’s Railroad Embankment (1932) turns infrastructure into a blind wall. Seen from a low angle, the thick green embankment severs the viewer from the shuttered home above.

I want to be baptized in the Ecto Cooler Reflecting Pool

I love people who know about things

I just clicked "unsubscribe" on a library marketing email, and it wants me to CREATE AN ACCOUNT???? In order to UNsubscribe???? wtaf

Wait Clavicular is a PERSON???? I thought it was a software company or a library vendor or something

Something gives me the creeps about a man praising his wife for being “selfless” 🤔

🤬 You do not "fill the gap" in archives. You ask *why* the gap is there in the first place. That is where the real information resides. Also: LLMs train on digitized materials. Do you have any idea how little has been digitized? LLMs train on a *sliver* of the human past and human knowledge.

R u kiddin me with this dog

I haven't read The Report yet bc I need to not ragequit my job

Really sucks that the institution that gave me my PhD is now gonna be a moniker for this stupid ass report meant to appease people that hate all of us anyway and will never change

Oh wow

Spam texts are getting weird

I MADE A SOCK!!!!!!! (The toe is fucked up but let’s not talk about it)

While we're talking about Zotero (very useful! very free!), here's my semi-regular public service announcement that JSTOR lets you read up to 100 articles every 30 days for free. You do have to make a personal account, but you don't need any connection to a school, college, etc. Just go read!

I'm fucking sick of this Jay Caspian Kang person

It is so funny to me that for how weirdly broad these denominational categories are, the Church of the Nazarene gets their own

Just saw a Tiktok that said "Mormons, you aren't persecuted. They've got Dirty Dr Pepper at McDonald's now" 💀

Akkadian and knitting are all I care about rn

I love this but $55? 😩