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got word this morning that everyone in my COVID-accurséd PhD cohort ("Cohort Sanitare" @ UBC iSchool 2020) has finally made it through the wringer (I suspect each of us more crawling than walking, &etc). But all the feels, love & hugs to DOCTOR @alvionne.bsky.social & DOCTOR @kotlet00.bsky.social 🥳

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 3h

I think they've started to accept the kitten

three cats sleeping. the two older cats form a sort of ying yang shape with their heads on each others butts. the third,a small kitten is smooshed between the two but looks so relaxed that she must be overjoyed

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Year Progress Bot @yearprogress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Did you know that the United States officially withdrew from the Human Rights Council last Friday. The day after a UN group accused the Administration of multiple war crimes in Iran. Seems like something shithole countries do.

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 25/09/2026

afaik they've chosen to make it unavoidable I think from a place of people need to know if they're being recorded

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 25/09/2026

one of our cats is named THOT bc that is how the Egyptian god Though is spelt in Spanish, and my poor spouse was horrified to find out. to be fair, he is a bit of an attention hog

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 25/09/2026

@darringtonpress.bsky.social could do the most-baller thing…

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 21/09/2026

so glad to hear from you!! fingers crossed that recovery goes smoothly as it can ❤️

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Dot Porter @leoba.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

*bangs pots and pans* NEW SPECIAL COLLECTIONS CATALOGING JOB JUST DROPPED (and it's at the University of Rochester, which is pretty great) rochester.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UR_Sta...

rochester.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com

Special Collections Metadata Librarian

As a community, the University of Rochester is defined by a deep commitment to Meliora - Ever Better. Embedded in that ideal are the values we share: equity, leadership, integrity, openness, respect, ...

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 18/09/2026

hell yeah I'd use this with something like mousemaster in a hot second

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: EU chief Ursula von der Leyen says she wants to open the door for Canada to become the bloc's first associate member.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

She was Rachel, weeping for her children, because they were not.

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Himal Southasian @himalsouthasian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

An American scholar spent years buying Nepali gods out of Kathmandu Valley shrines, often for less than a bus fare. She then built a career as an expert on the culture she was quietly dismantling. She kept meticulous records. We found them. A new investigation, soon at himalmag.com

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 15/09/2026

thinking of you Martin!! ❤️❤️

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 13/09/2026

this has been so much more involved than previously suspected. Thursday's speech will be a very significant day indeed

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

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Mark Sample @samplereality.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I love reveal.js for its portability and ease of embedding websites into a slide deck. But I don't always want to work in markdown. So I made Small Reveal, a lightweight, browser-based WYSIWYG editor for reveal.js. Demo: slides.samplereality.com

slides.samplereality.com

Small Reveal

Build reveal.js presentations in your browser. No build step, no backend, no account — your decks live in your own browser storage.

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Emma Molls @emmamolls.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Just mind blowing. These are the palaces for the people.

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

New post at ACRLog about the breakneck speed at which the Library of Congress implemented the #LCSH changes to Lake Ontario—just 8 days from proposal to approval, with no comments allowed. 📚 The title is from a letter written by our friend Sandy Berman. acrlog.org/2026/09/12/l...

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Library of Congress: “POTUS pawns” - ACRLog

In March 2025, I wrote about anticipatory obedience at the Library of Congress, describing how LC fast tracked changes to the Library of Congress Subject Headings relating to the Gulf of Mexico and Mo...

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 11/09/2026

forget how to spell is a really good tip; I think of it as "spell like a bad captioner"

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

📣 Brand new zine published to celebrate Labor Day: "Don’t Cross the Picket Line : Strike Solidarity for Beginners." Free to print or read online at violetbfox.info/dontcross/. This 24-page zine was created for anyone who's *not* part of a union and doesn't know much about unions or strikes.

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 08/09/2026

also kinda weird that there are no authors listed!

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 08/09/2026

it's not bad, but reads a lot like it was AI generated and then lightly edited; I'm not sure if that's because it was, or because of my experience of reading too much AI generated stuff about metadata. imo overall helpful but doesn't strongly support either side of the divide. what do you think?

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Lady Froldmagen (she/her) @zinelib.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Sandy Berman said it better. "DON'T DO IT. You are not Potus pawns nor MAGA minions."

photo of an article from the Star Tribune headlined "Trump: Lake Ontario now Lake America in the U.S."

underneath is a typewritten letter that reads:

8-28-26
Training, Policy, & Cooperatie Programs Division
Library of Congress
Washington, DC 20540

Dear Colleagues,

DON'T DO IT. You are _not_ Potus pawns nor MAGA minions.

With warmest regards,

Sanford Berman

4400 Morninside Road
Edina, MN 55416

952 925-5738

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 07/09/2026

man, what a gorgeous letter. such a perfect snapshot of a mensch

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 07/09/2026

happy labour day Mary!! thank you for all the labour and love you've contributed to this field!!

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 05/09/2026

labour is entitled to bread, roses & all that it creates. ✊🏻

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 02/09/2026

getting "loonie sized hail" is the most Canadian weather alert yet

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 02/09/2026

you're trying to sound smart but you're doing the thing where you post something on the internet that can be used by apple's lawyers to demonstrate why you don't get plausible deniability in court.

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 02/09/2026

got asked on very short notice to talk about the "renaming" of #LakeOntario for the Canadian Post; I can't bear to watch myself on video but perhaps you might enjoy! ca.news.yahoo.com/why-maps-can... (there are Globe and Mail and Toronto Star articles too but this is the easier link)

ca.news.yahoo.com

Why maps on Canadian websites are inadvertently adopting 'Lake America'

The Lake America name has popped up on maps available on the websites of Hydro One, Ontario transit service provider Metrolinx and the Liquor Control Board of Ontario. Bri Watson, an assistant profess...

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 31/08/2026

We’re going to be talking about everything from psychedelic data to blank pages in our “Media Necromancy” series @skeuomorphpress.org this fall. Check out skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/our-research... for more about both!

skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu

“Media Necromancy” Series – Skeuomorph Press

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 31/08/2026

Congratulations Hugh!! well deserved and a great fit! The folks there are wonderful.

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 31/08/2026

it's at 42.4011828, -71.3291484 maps.app.goo.gl/ebJP77wxjQyg...

maps.app.goo.gl

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 31/08/2026

tell him to go to poneyhenge in Massachusetts; it's a 30m drive or an hour on the T from your Cambridge stomping grounds

a picture of ponyhenge, which is a large circle of toy rocking horse ponies on a field

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 29/08/2026

because I stand it to two people and watched them give up on navigating the site on mobile and never see it!

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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Us: An 80-something who was on TV. Death: Shelley Fabares. Us: No... one with lots of business interests. Death: Dolly Parton! Us: No!!! One who was in Home Alone 2! Death: Tim Curry! Us: NO! The leader of a country who's linked to the Epstein scandal! Death: Oh! King Harald of Norway! Us: