iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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ceej @ceej.online · 03/06/2024

Unfortunate, but true: the only antidote to poster’s madness is having a rich and fulfilling personal life

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 15h

I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living.

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The Shire-Reckoning @shire-reckoning.bsky.social · 16h

Gandalf reaches Bree. Butterbur confesses that the hobbits are gone—with Strider. ‘He got at them, in spite of all that I could do, and they took up with him.’ ‘Ass! Fool! Thrice worthy and beloved Barliman! May your beer be laid under an enchantment.’ Gandalf spends the night.

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Bex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 17h

Lately I've been thinking a lot about Terry Pratchett's "Reaper Man" and AI. He was so ahead of his time in so many ways - or maybe squarely in his time but so many missed the very obvious signposts of where we were heading. Gonna be spoilers in this thread for a 25-year old book.

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Emily @becausechaucer.bsky.social · 17h

happy "Quincey P. Morris attempts the American method of vampire removal" day to those observing #DraculaDaily

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ImPRESSed Yet? I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social, thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! #CoverReveal 1/5

Cover art for Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric!

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Emily @becausechaucer.bsky.social · 19h

No we are not going to scan 178 pages for you, what's wrong with you

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 19h

Heading to Alaska to get Backpack to sign the release forms.

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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 30/09/2026

Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.

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Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ

Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 21h

unpopular opinion: food almost everywhere was worse 250 years ago

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 30/09/2026

watch out that thing's mad

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The Shire-Reckoning @shire-reckoning.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

An hour before dawn, the Nazgûl attack the two places to which they have traced Frodo—his new house, and the hobbit rooms on the Prancing Pony’s ground floor. In Crickhollow, Fredegar Bolger barely escapes. The horn-call of Buckland sounds for the first time in 100 years.

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The Shire-Reckoning @shire-reckoning.bsky.social · 23h

Strider and the four hobbits, walking east along the Road, set out from Bree in front of a crowd of onlookers. Bill Ferny—who earlier this morning sold them the scrawny pony who now carries their baggage—openly taunts them. In response, he gets an apple in the nose from Sam.

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this fool’s spoon isn’t even runcible

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explore.org @explore.org · 30/09/2026

Introducing your ultimate fighter and champion: Bear 89 Backpack 👑 Thanks for joining us for the biggest Fat Bear Week to date.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

u can not convince me these are not orange popsicles left in the freezer for three years

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 24/11/2025

there is no such thing as a bad trope, just tropes I haven't seen one of my favs execute flawlessly yet. lol

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The Shire-Reckoning @shire-reckoning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

‘All that is gold does not glitter Not all those who wander are lost The old that is strong does not wither Deep roots are not reached by the frost…’ Strider knows the rhyme from Gandalf’s letter! ‘I am Aragorn son of Arathorn and if by life or death I can save you, I will.’

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The Shire-Reckoning @shire-reckoning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The crowd presses another drink on Frodo and asks him to sing again, but mid-song he falls from the table and vanishes—the Ring has slipped on his finger. The crowd is startled. Frodo removes the Ring in a far corner. The customers leave without offering him a single good-night.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 29/09/2026

it's a lovely michaelmas day and you are a horrible goose

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

chips: we put more air in the bag cookies: we put fewer cookies in the box fruit cups: we have bent the laws of time and space to fit 4 litres of juice in this 250ml cup. God himself told us "stop, that's too much juice" and then we flipped him off and added more juice.

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

nothing can go wrong if we tell the cataloger to teach a library instruction session for a comparative literature seminar on the Brothers Grimm, they said

A slide deck for a one-shot on the Brothers Grimm titled "My Mother, She Killed Me; My Father, He Ate Me; The Librarian Was Helpful, Though."

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The Shire-Reckoning @shire-reckoning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s dark as the hobbits reach Bree. The gatekeeper lets them in, but is suspicious. He doesn’t mention that Black Riders have been asking about a party of four hobbits from the Shire. The hobbits head for the Prancing Pony. Strider quietly climbs the gate and follows them.

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aj-boston.neocities.org @aj-boston.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

[*a horrifying Eldritch creature ushers me into a literal Borgesian library*] Me: "This cannot be." Creature: "You find this unfathomable, don't you?" Me: "Was this built before 1990?" Creature: "It is timeless." Me: "I don't think it's exempt. You're gonna have to make this ADA accessible."

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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Please, uhhh, enjoy today’s cursed item in the archives in the form of a fax cover sheet

“Clown Rushmore” with an oval depicting Mount Rushmore as different clowns.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My library has the most comprehensive Bram Stoker collection in the world, with over 4,000 items connected to Stoker, Dracula, and vampires. A large bulk of it is still unprocessed/uncataloged, but I’m really excited to have a new staff member working through it now! news.emory.edu/features/202...

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The vampire in the library

Bram Stoker collection celebrates his literary immortality at Emory’s Rose Library

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ah the two main food groups of the fall growing season- leafy greens and candy

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"In 2022, Wiley removed over 1,300 ebooks from academic library collections; [they said] perpetual access is not an option for subscribed content. In 2025, Clarivate,... announced they would stop offering libraries perpetual access licenses for ebooks and primary-source digital collections."

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Consumers Are Worried About the Loss of Physical Media Ownership. Libraries Are Leading the Conversation. — Association of Research Libraries

Sally Sax is head, Collection Strategy and Partnerships, MacOdrum Library, Carleton University. In a recent Atlantic Monthly article about Sony’s plan to end physical sales of PlayStation console game...

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Emily @becausechaucer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

OOC QOTD: "I literally learned how to pronounce schadenfreude for this."

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bluesky, the app for books

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Emily @becausechaucer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ah, fall, the season of introducing new student minions to the LC Easy Wizard

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

*mid-eulogy, looking down at casket* you’ve read your last free article

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Daniel Solis @danielsolis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This week's t-shirt is a very silly joke for fans of linguistics, Ghibli, and milky drinks. #WeeklyTshirt #Ghibli #Boba danielsolis.threadless.com/designs/kiki...

A black spikey shape wearing a red bow and riding a witch's broom.
A blobby shape filled with milk and tapioca balls, with a red spiral stripped straw.

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The Shire-Reckoning @shire-reckoning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

‘Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow. None has ever caught him yet, for Tom, he is the master: His songs are stronger songs and his feet are faster.’ Tom opens the barrow, sings away its spell, and awakens Frodo’s companions.

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My neighbour told me archivists keep accessioning his documents so I asked how many documents he has and he said he just goes to the shelf and gets a new document afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding documents to archivists and then his librarian started crying.

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Only In Boston @onlyinbos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

RAINY DAY REMINDER: In Massachusetts, if your windshield wipers are on, your headlights must be on too. State law requires headlights and taillights when wipers are needed due to weather.

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Emily @becausechaucer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Surely I am going to get emails every day for the rest of my life until I die and then I will still get them they just won't be my problem anymore

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Scissors @scissors.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026

a bagged salad rotting in my produce drawer while i tend to my refrigerator bonsai

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Emily @becausechaucer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

choir director: yes we are about to start choir and I need to get my act together and pick out music, do you have anything you've done before that you like? me, who has spent the last 16 years...acquiring...and stashing rehearsal tracks for favorite choir songs: I Might Have A Few

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I had a fever dream that I was flying through my Google Calendar

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For 9 years this cat has attempted to get me to feed him at 4 am every day and for 9 years he has not succeeded one time and his only takeaway has been well it's certainly not happening if I don't try again, and I'm starting to find him quite inspirational

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The Shire-Reckoning @shire-reckoning.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The four hobbits reach a hilltop and rest. To the north they see the hills ending, and might even see the trees along the Road. To the east are the Barrow-downs, topped by ancient burial mounds. After having lunch against the cool east side of a standing-stone, they fall asleep.

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I just read a third or possibly fourth news article where the reality of an 'AI has discovered something marvellous!' story turns out to be GenAI somehow accessed material it had no permissions for, which was the outcome of an expert's years of work, and presented it without attribution. GenAI lies.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 28/09/2026

Bananas will not warn you of carbon monoxide.

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