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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
No, cat, you do not need a bite of chocolate pop tart
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Fred the Vampire Accountant series is so wonderfully dorky. The author continues to be very careful to preserve the original "nerd in a sweater vest" even as the character has grown and developed significantly
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Does anyone have any thoughts about the Remarkable or Boox epaper tablets?
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
And what did I get? Grand Theft Equine. 😁
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I just saw someone exposing their physical TBR and.... It's was something like 30 books. That's not even approaching my TBR multi bookcase overflow.
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Me, seeing this preview:"Are they making another Large Man Being Large movie? Does @mostlybree.kitrocha.com know?" Apparently he does more than Reacher, unclear if the movie will be the same ethos youtu.be/m8JUmBgHejI?...
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Runner | Final Trailer | 16+ | In Theaters Sep 11 | Alan Ritchson, Owen Wilson | Angel
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Well, the institution won't be able to say I *didn't* sufficiently engage with the candidate's external review materials. (She says as she provides three distinct examples of concern on one point.)
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@sappnelson.bsky.social and @hedgielib.bsky.social are thrilled to announce that we have been awarded a $187,554 two-year Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant from IMLS to conduct Missing the Middle: Identifying Structural Issues Facing Mid-Career Librarians @missingthemiddle.bsky.social
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Zenodo and OSF are both presently down and/or straining and/or scrambling to do maintenance because of crawlers/bots that are desperate to suck up the information included in them. Another "benefit" of the push for AI
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
You had TWO ANNUAL PHYSICALS IN 12 MONTHS okay... the president is having them about every six weeks, your point is? (Also, I did not, which is obvious if you go look at when you -- health insurance company -- last paid for one)
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Them: "Can you draft some thoughts on this?" Me: Oh I'm not sure I have anything to say Three Single Spaced Pages Later.
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yes, let's have the LLMs make up my circulation stats.... www.emerald.com/pmm/calls-fo...
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Deriving library metrics using Generative AI/LLMs | Performance Measurement and Metrics | Emerald Publishing
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Since every headline I am seeing now is about "AI CEO says we must slow down" I look forward to all of the higher ed administrators and ed tech bros breathlessly shoving AI into all of our vendor tools, classrooms, etc pausing to thinking critically and actually slowing down.
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The earrings I have from @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social always get compliments. Highly recommend
@wingsndnsilver.bsky.social@wingsndnsilver.bsky.social
Next is "Bending Cosmic Light": wingssilverwork.com/bending-cosm.... Solid sterling silver. ~1.5" long, again with hand-made ingot overlays on the ends. Stampwork is freehand zizagging waves and blocks of light:
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Irritability Cheese Slice
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Low Libido Beef Burrito
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Meanwhile I've been told to spend enormous amounts of time figuring out how to deal with AI in the classroom because "I must accept it" So I'm supposed to do both simultaneously
@thathoberekguy.bsky.social@thathoberekguy.bsky.social
All of these things require well-compensated faculty with small enough teaching loads that they can devote considerable time to each class.
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's been 25 years. It happened during my first class of the day. By midday we just sat staring at the TV in our dorms I managed to get 3 phone calls thru. My mom, my friend Adam who I got out of the shower as he was getting ready to go to AF base, and my friend Devin, just to say I was okay.
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Reads the Libra column *Snork*
@davidshor.bsky.social@davidshor.bsky.social
We cross-referenced the psychometric personality data of ~ 1 million people with their zodiac astrological signs: 1) There is a small but statistically significant effect of zodiac sign on personality controlling for demographic and attitudinal variables
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
When the timeline lines up @tressiemcphd.bsky.social and @mostlybree.kitrocha.com perfectly...
A screenshot showing TMC talking about Beans and Seeds over a post by Bree talking about freeze drying jalapenos.
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Publishers seem so willing to forget that libraries are a giant revenue stream. roncharles.substack.com/p/libraries-...
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Buying a lot of books in all formats. Print, E, Audio...
@karenattiah.bsky.social@karenattiah.bsky.social
What are you doing with your midlife existential crisis? No wrong answers. Just trying to see something, as the kids say.
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Abigail Goben and Dorothea Salo are pleased to announce that IMLS has awarded us a $290,116 3-year Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant to conduct Valid or Void: Critically Evaluating Technology Trends for Academic Library Adoption. @validorvoid.bsky.social
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Spoke today about "we're told hourly sometimes that AI is here and inevitable and we just have to accept it -- and I'm going to push back on that" Next speaker on the panel, Slide 1 "So AI is here and inevitable and ...." He did at least seem chagrined to be repeating what I'd just said.
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Not me, aggressively rummaging through @hypervisible.blacksky.app 's timeline this morning for the freshest articles to add to my latest presentation where I have to explain why I am exhausted by having to follow all this "AI" stuff
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I always like to believe Future Me got more sleep
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I always like to believe Future Me got more sleep
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I've had this microphone for something like 7 years and I just found a new mute setting on it.
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Zoom Phone Day 1: Figuring out how to not have it pop up ringing in front of my screen when I'm *in* a Zoom call already.
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Just over a decade ago, Larry Yando starred in King Lear at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Directed by Barbara Gaines, who poignantly described approaching the play having seen her mother thru dementia/Alzheimer's. It was a stunning performance watching a king lose his mind.
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I have just accepted a peer review for a paper because the proposed security risk the authors introduce in the abstract is astonishing.
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I wonder how different things might be if Justin had won the first American Idol.
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Adding the @gregpak.net 's comparisons www.instagram.com/reel/DdAFdl3...
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I was knitwear model for @franklinhabit.bsky.social a sweater that @knitty.com commissioned. It was August, so we sadly couldn't take photos outside. I still keep meaning to make a version of the sweater, it was extra comfy. knitty.com/ISSUEdf12/PA...
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@sjane.bsky.social@sjane.bsky.social
Happy labor day (USA). What's one of the oddest paid job you've had? Mine was probably as a reader for a medical professor at Rutgers, whose eyes were failing. I read him many academic texts, as well as Samuel Butler's "The Way of All Flesh."
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
There's a number of new books addressing issues with AI from a critical lens. I'm trying to generally keep up (and order for myself and/or my Library). If you're looking for a reading list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please let me know any additions.
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Box Drive is doing this too. I have a *huge* amount of storage used on my local machine but every single document I have to wait for it to download now. This is a regular issue when I'm working on things while on Metra and am *required* to hotspot just to open a Powerpoint.
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Aaaaand Proton Drive is doing the same thing - making files go online only without my asking. Here's their explainer. So I have to go and manually tweak the settings on every file to keep them on my computer??? proton.me/support/prot...
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Pretty much how I'm trying to survive. www.instagram.com/p/Dc6X-N0RKb...
Don't be foolish. 
Um. 
My silliness is the only thing between me and The Horrors. In fact, if manned properly I believe my giddy playfulness keeps me mostly Doom proof. Consider me armored in absurdity. Behold, I am one with the chaos. JK Kennedy
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Saw Coyote vs. Acme yesterday. There is an absolutely GLORIOUS soundtrack moment about halfway thru. #NoSpoilersPlease Philosopher and I both broke out loudly giggling. *BEEP*
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The fact that they *fit* ... That took effort and planning
@onlychyld.blacksky.app@onlychyld.blacksky.app
Where did they even find some of these?
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I love that the Internet has taught me that ducks love to eat peas. www.instagram.com/reel/DcccYP3...
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Will have to visit this weekend. Bennisons is one of my favorite bakeries
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Boswick just rejected a Parmesan goldfish. Who even is this cat?
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Saving this post for a presentation I'm giving next week where *yet again* I'm the one talking about the time suck and having to be exhaustively informed even as I do my best to avoid GenAi
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"Notta said the draft budget is based on the assumption the contract will provide a 2% raise for 2027" evanstonroundtable.com/2026/09/03/d... Ah yes...the horror of the public library staff getting a raise unlikely to even cover increases in health insurance premiums.
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"they want AI to make people more productive" y'all I can't even get reimbursed for a hotel to attend a system conference without 18 steps and 4 uploaded documents.
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It's more work even if you aren't using the tools hedgehoglibrarian.com/2025/10/27/2...
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20 Ways “AI” Has Created More Work for Me
To listen to the generative AI enthusiasts and vendors with exclamation riddled decks, you would think that every boring and mundane task was now easily handled, freeing me up to lead that mythical…
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It is so humid. Chicago commuters displaying their best array of "what is the lightest thing I can wear to the office"
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I was unable to schedule my third vaccine appointment in a series because my local system had done a remarkably crappy EPIC upgrade two days before. How long do we think I will now be on the phone on hold because there is no way for me to schedule this online? #ExecutiveFunctionTheft
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In case you weren't sure, still an immediately full body EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I am fascinated how poorly external vendors seem to be at (a) acknowledging time zones when scheduling meetings and (b) remembering that we rescheduled meetings.
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hedgielib.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Does anyone have a link or screenshot back to the whole "motion to her to take her headphones out... remember, she's excited that you approached her" which got soundly derided everywhere? I am trying to find the original -- from about 7-8 years ago.
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