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BiblioPhilous

@bibliophilous.bsky.social
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He/him. Bookish, bikeish, brewish, bluish. Kjipuktuk. Burgeoning #DalhousieU Digipres/Archives person, former tome-slinger & metadataist. Coffee crusher. #Critcat, #Critarch, #digipres.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 01/10/2026
Map of the Lighthouses of the World. Each lighthouse sweeps out its actual arc and the reach of the beams is true to scale. Very cool. [kottke.org]
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Map of the Lighthouses of the World
From mapped.earth, a map of every lighthouse on the planet, along with other charted lights like lighted buoys and such. The screenshots above are static but the lights on the real map move: each lighthouse sweeps out it
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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“He’s just one of those people you can’t help but smile and honk and wave when you see him.” More Bedford residents should try getting about their community without driving. I hope he returns home soon.
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BiblioPhilous @bibliophilous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not sure how this Halifax Skate Archive crowdsourcing project slipped by me, but will be following closely now! www.dal.ca/alumni/news-...
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Dal alumni carving out a home for Halifax's skateboarding history
With the support of the community, Maddie Hare (BA’17, MA’21, MI’23) and Taylor Brown (MI’26) are creating a public archive of Halifax’s skateboarding history.
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 15/04/2026
an incredibly important project by Connie Walker — most Canadians don't know that the government has an archive of 38,000 residential school survivor testimonies, which are slated to be destroyed next year www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
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Journalist plans to create new archive of residential school survivor stories — before it's too late | CBC News
A new project from award-winning journalist Connie Walker aims to create an archive of testimonies of abuse at residential schools before the accounts are destroyed in September 2027.
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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Non-market housing that people can actually afford to buy.” I think I know what they’re trying to say but I am begging the NSNDP to chase down some of that Mamdani YIMBY energy. Well-off owners in my neighbourhood who kill apartments are a bigger threat to housing than “luxury condos” or w/e.
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BiblioPhilous @bibliophilous.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
M83 album release day! While I was hoping for more of the shoegazey feels that were promised by the lead single, it's still a beautiful ambient record with moments of euphoria. And to listen to it for the first time under an autumnal morning sky like this borders on the epiphanic.
Moody cumulus clouds with early morning sun peeking through, over lacewood terminal, halifaxAlbum cover of M83's record I Wrote You A Letter
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/09/2026
‘Everyone can relate to pain and struggle. So I’m sharing mine’: Michael Kiwanuka on life after his devastating stroke
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‘Everyone can relate to pain and struggle. So I’m sharing mine’: Michael Kiwanuka on life after his devastating stroke
The Mercury prize winner hasn’t been able to go home since falling ill last summer. In his only interview, he opens up about the ‘poignancy’ of finally releasing the new album his stroke shelved
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BiblioPhilous @bibliophilous.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Background on one our Archives/RM institution engagement success stories from recent years: archiving and digitizing the history of the Dalhousie Faculty of Dentistry. www.dal.ca/faculty/dent...
Members of the Dalhousie University Faculty of Dentistry archives working group, posing around a table
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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 23/09/2026
I couldn’t check on this thread for the last few hours because of teaching but it may be my new favourite autobiographical novel.
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Laura White, P.Eng. @lecwhite.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🚲🦽🚶🏼‍♂️🛴🚍🚑🚒🚛 Morris St cycling connection public engagement: I did this survey last night. It is quite complex. Please take some time to read and have your say. There is a lot of free form text entry opportunities. Attend in person on the 29th if you like. Please share.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 18/09/2026
if you EVER get called for a meeting and they say “don’t bring a union rep” bring a union rep
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Digital Preservation Coalition @dpc-chat.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
Three new resources are now available in the DPC’s Digital Preservation Toolkit for Community Archives: 📷 A Basic Digitisation Guide 🗂️ Adding Digitised Records to a Catalogue 🤖 Thinking About Using AI? Practical guidance to help community archives care for […] [Original post on digipres.club]
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Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Libraries, DH centers, other folks w/printer access 🖨️ who can make a stack of free-zine copies: there's a "take one!" poster you can print to go alongside them on our zine page! zinebakery.com//homemade-zi...
Zine cover for "DIY Web Archiving" poster with additional text allowing it to be posted over a stack of the zines encouraging taking some. "Things disappear* from the internet. (*sometimes, are deliberately disappeared)
Care about stuff on the web?
art zines fan fic
videos/tiktoks photo galleries social media hashtags departed loved ones' posts museum & archival materials
that we have always existed
what really happened
cultural memory
human rights
resistance
joy
*YOU* need to act to archive it.
Anyone can do it-this zine shows you how.
Free! Take a bunch! Take more & share with friends!
DIY Web Archiving Zine
Daedel, Kijas, Kreymer, Walsh, Visconti
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We're going to have a better understanding of the 19th century than of the 21st century. I don't think people are fully appreciating this.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
BET Digital has permanently removed all its digital news articles from its website to 'prioritize video content,' I'm told. Years of news articles are now gone forever. Some writers were able to save their stories; some weren't
BET News logo
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
New solo-authored paper from me - first in a while. "Digitization, Conflict, and Crisis: Institutional Urgency and Digital Cultural Heritage". Jan 26 I sat and wrote about the relationship between heritage digitisation and climate crisis. Then watched the world burn. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Project MUSE -- Verification required!
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The beautiful chaos of a used bookstore is unmatched.
Looking into bookstore from
The street at night
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Denton Froese @denton1882.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Now Americans can remember the names of the lakes by using the acronym SHAME. Canada, meanwhile, will continue calling it Lake Ontario and nothing will change.
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Trump moves to rename Lake Ontario to 'Lake America' amid trade spat with 'entitled' Canada | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an order directing the interior secretary to rename Lake Ontario to "Lake America," as the trade war with Canada persists.
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The last time the Americans tried to claim Lake Ontario in 1813, we intentionally lured them into Fort York and then blew up our entire gunpowder magazine to kill as many Americans as possible. A foundation part of Toronto history is "blowing our own fort to smithereens rather than being American"
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Dalhousie Libraries @dallibraries.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
We're hiring! Dal Libraries is hiring a Library Service Assistant to deliver frontline library services - visit our website for more information: bit.ly/dal-librarie... #LibraryJobs #HalifaxJobs
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Steph Noell (they/them) @librarianstebbs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It is a testament to her character and legacy that the announcement of Dolly Parton's passing happened less than an hour ago and there are already millions of us online mourning her passing.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP, Dolly Parton.
Dolly Parton in a grey jumpsuit standing on a bicycle
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 25/08/2026
NO WHAT THE FUCK ANYONE BUT DOLLY
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 25/08/2026
Is it possible to be more juiceless than this
Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don’t expect to doing much business with Ontario any longer. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP



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BiblioPhilous @bibliophilous.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The 5 Simpsons lines I’ve uttered most off the top of my head: 1. Everything's coming up Milhouse! 2. Hack the bone! Hack the bone! 3. Feels like I'm wearin nothin at all! 4. Why must you turn my office into a house of lies? 5. I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
diarrhea Taylor Farms, salmonella chicken parm, bags of frozen blueberries that straight-up kill your ass heavy metal sourdough, listeria soup bowl refreshing summer popsicle that's filled with shards of glass we didn't start the fire...
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Sara K-M @sarakm.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Whenever I encounter the "frees up time for more meaningful work" framing I want the person using it to list, specifically, which parts of my work they think I'm wasting my time on and what more meaningful work they think I should be doing instead.
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"X frees up library staff time for other (more innovative/meaningful/valuable) work" claims are misguided for a ton of reasons, but one on my mind this morning is the idea that you can substitute in librarians as if we've all got identical expertise - and that we should WANT that kind of staff. 📚
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Text: Treat your body like a data centre. Consume as much water and literature as possible. Upset local city councils with your existence. 
Background image: a bearded man putting up the frame of aparge tent in a muddy field with trees in the background.
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Association of Canadian Archivists @archivistsdotca.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We are pleased to announce a call for workshop proposals for the ACA's upcoming Digital Preservation Workshop Series from November 5 –20, 2026. If you have expertise you'd like to share with the community, we encourage you to submit a proposal by September 1st, 2026: archivists.ca/Workshop-Pro....
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/08/2026
14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!
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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
fantastic, thorough piece by a rare books dealer on AI companies & scanning
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All the Books in the World
Five Fallacies about AI and Book Scanning
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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BiblioPhilous @bibliophilous.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I did not expect to hear Ben Howard's music playing in a Nova Scotia establishment, and to have it being played in the Freeport Legion is just mind-boggling and a welcome surprise.
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Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This thread is such perfect satire of the type of hysteria you hear on local call-in radio shows, facebook threads, etc about cycling:
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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I desperately want libraries to have a reckoning with themselves about the amount of trust and money we are putting into for-profit monopolies who claim they are “serious” about protecting patron privacy and then show you in-depth usage data about your users.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Local man suggests jailing own boss.
Screenshot of an Aaron Rupar clip of J.D. Vance saying on Fox News: "If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer"
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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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BiblioPhilous @bibliophilous.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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It Begins Nasa
Alt: Simpsons character Barney Gumble wearing a NASA suit and drinking from a chalice, stating "It begins!" in response to triggering a drinking relapse, from the episode "Deep Space Homer" (season 5, episode 15), used in reference to the start of the 2026-27 NFL preseason, and a slide into addiction of football and football media coverage.
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Luke McKernan looking at three lost digital resources making a strong case for a true registry of endangered and lost digital archives (not simply a high-level symbol of endangerment) lukemckernan.com/2026/06/28/l... #digipres #DigitalPreservation #Archives #GLAM #LegalDeposit #Registry
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Lost resources
To lose one database is a misfortune; to lose four feels like a conspiracy. Recently three online databases and one audiovisual digital archive with underlying database, on each of which I worked f…
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s*w*a*c @swac.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Boiling a big pot of water to pour down my drains for fruit fly prevention, feeling like an evil king pouring boiling hot oil to dump on the attacking hordes at the castle gates.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
"We searched the entyre internet!" What archivists heare: "We searched the entyre small airport bookeshoppe!"
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Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Within this enormous collection are 288 reels recorded during the Spanish Civil War. They amount to nearly 30,000 meters of film, most of it unknown.
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Spain, a country in arms: How the Civil War was reported in US newsreels
On the 90th anniversary of the coup d’état against the Second Republic, EL PAÍS explores one of the largest audiovisual archives on the war and analyzes how the conflict was covered on the big screen
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BiblioPhilous @bibliophilous.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Sounds reminiscent of those print-on-demand companies from 15 years ago (that we stopped selling to once we got wise to what they were doing): buying up rarities, scanning them quickly/cheaply, selling garbage photo-copies and destroying the originals, but ramped up to the nthshittieth degree.
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Halifax ReTales @halifaxretales.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
FYI this site exists experience.arcgis.com/experience/0... shows all the current ,year's wildfires including those which are out
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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Sam Neil has so many great performances that it feels almost reductive to focus on one scene. Except it's one of the most iconic scenes in movie history and all of it, The groundbreaking CGI, the sweeping John Williams score *doesn't* work without the authentic joy and wonder of Neill's performance
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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
📢 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.
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BiblioPhilous @bibliophilous.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I could have driven to Moncton in the same amount of time it took to bus from Dal to Clayton Park.
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BiblioPhilous @bibliophilous.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Sounds like a lovely day trip for me. I was always enamoured of a video I came across once of Eco strolling casually through his library, periodically pulling books out. A victory for respect des fonds!
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