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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Stopped at a rest area in Ohio on the way home and this cracked me up. #goblue

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Well that’s that I guess

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There are faces everywhere!

Vintage green double coat hook and the screws look like eyes with elaborate winger eyeliner to me. I guess you had to be there.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I neglected to post the bouquet of the week! I bought it at the farmers’ market on Saturday and it’s still looking perky.

A colorful bouquet with red zinnias, orange marigolds, yellow coneflowers and some fill.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I hear a great horned owl right outside our house!

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The "dusty archives" trope in The Chronicle -- drink! "Segal’s archive, though, which consists of more than 53 dusty unprocessed boxes at Harvard’s Houghton Library...." www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

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Opinion | The Yale Classicist Who Wrote a Best-Seller and Lost His Job

Remembering Erich Segal’s academic love story.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Belated bouquet of the week is the same as last week! No wonder they called Meijer’s the “thrifty acres” back in the day — these have held up well #flowers

Week-old flowers, mostly mums,in an oatmeal pottery vase

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I have so many questions and the article doesn’t have a good answer for any of them

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Michigan "make a first down on second and one" challenge....

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'm a big old nerd, so this title got a "hell yeah!" from me -- Annotation Is Decision-Making: Metadata between Identification, Visibility, and Power Especially because the description of the talk ended with "And how is all of this to be balanced with limited resources?" Library life in a nutshell

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

OMG it’s a sauna out here. False fall is truly over.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

“Another One Bites the Dust” absolutely blaring out of Glick this morning. Livens up the walk up State Street to campus for sure.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Vibes were bad. Nothing you can do about that.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Same result even when not on vacation

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Every hometown’s got the ominous megastructure, what’s yours’?

Norfolk Scope, an arena that looks like a flying saucer, built in 1971

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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

"the left ceded all notions of patriotism to the right"

Bruce Springsteen onstage at Nationals Park in May of 2026. There is a giant American flag superimposed on the giant video screen behind him

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Last repost is pretty much what I hear from the people in their twenties I deal with.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I asked the two Youths™️ (my 21-year-old cousin and her boyfriend) how People Their Age™️ feel about AI, and apparently it's so broadly unpopular - at least in their anecdotal experience - that a lot of kids who DO use it, especially if it's just to lowkey fuck around, will lie and claim they don't

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

On every campus I've ever worked on, it is a constant battle to keep the buildings standing. Where there are workers, there is music. I have heard a lot of country, classic rock, and tejano music over the decades, but today was a first: Oompa Violet by Primus. Brickworkers are just built different?

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Oompa Violet

YouTube video by Primus - Topic

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

This is a cat checkpoint. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone

A tabby halfway on her back showing her pale fluffy belly. She’s on a red striped cushion atop a blue cat carrrier.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Introduce yourself with 10 bands / musicians you've seen live OMD Thompson Twins Big Country David Bowie Randy Newman Elvis Costello Cowboy Junkies REM Janelle Monae Rhiannon Giddens

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Between requesting Dudamel bobbleheads and Kristin Scott Thomas as James Bond, @musicologyduck.bsky.social is representing my cultural interests well so far this weekend.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Wow, I have just made myself the most kickass Manhattan. I am not sure what measurement I misjudged but this is probably my last post for the night.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Post both an iconic blonde AND a movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Portrayals of marriage in French lais and canon law reform in Gratian’s Decretum.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

@ryancordell.org Were you the one asking about a student whose recent findings about an understudied writer suddenly appeared in a little ProQuest author bio? Did they create a research profile or whatever it is I am being prompted to create since I have been using a resource for an hour or more?

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Go see The Christophers if you like art, Steven Soderbergh movies, excellent actors, hating on James Corden, and/or movies that don't drag on forever. It has it all.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Drop your crime-fighting Catholics.

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 10/04/2026

Trump promised we'd get a terrible economy, foreign wars, and high prices if I voted for Kamala Harris. He was right!

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

@greene.haus I'm working of a digital project for the Gage Papers, and we store our collection scans in directories nested in the first three characters of the project name. Every time I type g/a/g I think the three letters in my head and it reminds me of emailing you back in the day.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

So many fireworks going off here in the neighborhood. I’m too old to go down to South U though.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

TIL that one of the reasons this place has been full of cops is because a fraternity was doing thefts from the cafe in the undergraduate library as a group challenge. WTF?

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

My American Studies friends in undergrad were all about Rorty, but as a Medieval Studies major this post is possibly the first thing I ever read by him.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Question for my archival research people -- do you have a favorite finding aid, or at least one you keep coming back to? How do you use it? Scroll through top to bottom? Search it? Use any series menus to focus in on what you know you are looking for? Does that change when you get more familiar?

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I block people I don't know who follow me and have profiles/replies that I don't like the look of.

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