iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm a little upset that as a large busted girl it never occurred to me to just sew my button up shirts closed until now. It's slightly less convenient, but I don't have to worry about inadvertently flashing the world anymore.

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Don't know why no one has cashed in on an alarm app where it's just sounds of pets vomiting. Nothing can rip me out of the deepest slumber faster than that first, gentle *hurk*.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 05/10/2026

🤣😂 Anytime a company offers a new AI integration.

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm writing a column for a local community newsletter and for once, I have Something to say. And it's fascinating as I craft my piece, how clearly I can see the influences of my favorite authors in the voice I've developed over years of writing. Erma Bombek, David Sedaris, the Harvard Lampoon.

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My younger coworkers wanted to get away from their computers so I'm running a game of "find the book with the most [insert category here] title" in the stacks while I catalog. Currently they are looking for books that would be the best country album title.

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TekknoNerd @tekknonerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Voyager, walking on those tiny legs.

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Attribution to @eastcoastitnotes.bsky.social My goblin believes that time does not exist when she wants booty scratches at 0430.

Four panel comic. Panel 1: a cat says "Why do we wait for a certain time for things we want? Time isn't real.". Panel 2: the cat is still talking "Schedules limit us. They restrict us. We should have and we want when we want it ". Panel 3: the cat continues "Do I not deserve to be happy? Am I not entitled to whatever it is you are cooking'? Panel 4 shows a cat meowing at a person cooking who yells "oh my God, shut up."

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

For everyone horrified by rare books being scanned and destroyed to feed AI, let me introduce you to Rainbows End by Verner Vinge. Published in 2006, this novel is depressingly prescient. If your local library doesn't have a copy, ask if they will get it for you through inter-library loan.

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Some people were never taught to host a dinner party, and it shows.

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I love how our cats have their own little patterns. The Goblin expects @hotsake.bsky.social and I to be on the couch at 7pm or she will walk around the house screaming. The Baby wants to be petted but only on the ground with us bending over. And of course, we oblige.

A tabby cat realizes it is 6:59 and she must soon start screaming.

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Of course the water heater goes on a Friday afternoon after all of the local plumbers have closed.

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

So jealous. Apparently some people get the taste of cilantro in their throats when they get saline run through an IV. I just get generic chemical taste. I also get the dubious distinction of having the tallest spacer my surgeon has ever put in on a single level spinal fusion. Winner?

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I do not have “feminine energy” I have Marjorie the Trash Heap From Fraggle Rock energy

Majorie the Trash Heap with some very nice cats eye glasses

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Confirmation that my mental health might not be doing amazing right now is catching myself thinking that I'm not adequately optimizing my gameplay strategy for Stardew Valley.

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Anniversary bouquet*. *Some assembly required

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I wish we could have a law where a company couldn't put you back on their marketing lists just because you order something. No Lush, I don't want to have to unsubscribe again every time I order my shampoo and conditioner. It makes me like you less.

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I'm too irritable to spend 8 hours on the ref desk today. I'm too tired to listen to my cast of chatty students talk at me incessantly. I just want to go home and curl up with my cats and read. Spine surgery can't get here fast enough so I can get a damn night's sleep.

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I can't recommend Chef Tova's substack enough. I doubt a middle aged suburban librarian is someone she ever thought would connect with her work, but she speaks to the wounded 20 something I'm still trying to heal. substack.com/@tovasterling

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Tova | Disrupting Nicely | Substack

I'm a chef & content creator based in NYC. I'm also the host of Sinners Shabbat a monthly burlesque event. I write cultural criticism about the internet, gender expression & class performance.

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Today a fourteen year old told me that I'm an absolute gremlin. And yeah kid, you clocked me.

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

So many social media discussions seem to boil down to: I want (thing) and because I'm a good person (thing) cannot be harmful because as a good person I would not want something harmful. So, since I, the good person, want (thing) your information on why (thing) is harmful to not me must be wrong.

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I'm pretty limited on what activities I can do while I wait to get my spinal fusion. It's frustrating. I'm still strong. Still want to move. But most activities send my pain levels to the point where even my stoic ass can't hide it. So I'm making cute scrunchies out of my scrap fabric. Small wins.

An arm with 5 scrunchies made with various colorful fabrics.

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Visit a local independent bookstore. Buy zines and small publications (and a silly book about dumb birds. Fuck the algorithm.

Shows the front covers of for publications. How to organize inclusive events, On community civil disobedience in the name of sustainability, anarchism: the feminist connection, and S.C.U.M. manifesto.

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Today my boss's new boss met with the LRC for an airing of grievances. The library stated with HOLY SHIT YOU CAN'T RUN TWO BRANCHES WITH THREE PEOPLE WE ARE SO TIRED. Then tutoring came in with HOLY SHIT YOU CAN'T RUN TWO LIBRARY BRANCHES WITH THREE PEOPLE. THEY ARE SO TIRED. Solidarity.

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Just super happy with how my bathroom looks after a fresh coat of paint. Floor to ceiling beige was just too sad.

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Extra benefit of not adding to the clutter when you return them!

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 21/12/2025

*deep breath* Okay. I am cranky on a lot of levels today, so. But I got a comment on another platform that said, "you are going to save us in the future. Libraries and librarians are the backbone of society." Let me tell you why I hated this seemingly innocuous comment.

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

This article was so good I read it twice. I hear a lot of the language of awe at my institution. "Librarians are our heroes" "I love the library so much!" (From our President who hasn't interacted with the library the entire time I've been here.) And yet, here we are, three people, two branches.

inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org

Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves – In the Library with the Lead Pipe

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

As we come to the end of the year it's a time of reflection. Of our victories. The promises we made to ourselves and whether we were able to follow through or if we fell short. All that to say is I reached my goal of 300 unique beers on untapped so I'm good.

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

There is something about my custom chain maile lanyard I specifically got for PAX about 15 years ago that brings me so much joy

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

It's been a while since a book was so bad I didn't finish. Congrats Dan Brown, the dialogue in The Secret of Secrets reads like an alien learned human communication by watching 90s sitcoms. #booksky

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Had to grab up this amazing vintage black velvet painting for what is becoming the unicorn room. My inner 9 year old is thrilled.

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Holy crap. @jamieloftus.bsky.social's Ack Cast is fucking fantastic. It is well researched, engaging, and full of empathy. Seriously. Go listen now and then reflect on how you can be racialized to step off the self hatred train.

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

@lpontheleft.bsky.social "If you're still listening, you are damaged". We know Ed. You don't need to remind us.

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I feel this so hard since running out of my brain meds. Breathe next to me. I dare you.

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

My birthday will be upon us soon and I have asked that my only present be not having to make any decisions about how we celebrate it. This feels like a step in the direction of joining the sisterhood of middle age women.

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Claw back your attention span and read a damn book. Don't know what to read? Go ask a librarian.

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

So happy with how Lady Kluck turned out. What a great event. #tir-y-don #SCA

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

One room to go only restaurants that look like this are a siren call to us.

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

That feeling when you grab the correct size socket on the first try.

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Y'all, Texas is afraid of a tiddy. Terrified of a boob. Frightened by a breast. Next thing you know they are going to be banning any fried chicken that isn't a wing

Terrifying depiction of a boob (Virginia State flag)

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Dear designers, the pay gap is bad enough. Can I at least get the last 1/4 of a sleeve you give to men? #fashion

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

If you did the whole 23andme thing it's time to delete your data and have them destroy your sample. Get it done before who knows who buys your genetic information.

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Still waiting for the people who were screaming about her emails to make a peep about their slack group chat.

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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss @eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

@iwriteok.bsky.social lol, probably zero chance that you will see this but my librarian brain had to chase down the factor 8 documentary. There are three libraries in the US that have it available for inter-library loan, one in California, if your local public library does that. (Most do)

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