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Larem Ipsum

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Librarian. OER enthusiast. Star Trek. Omeka S.

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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Last week, we welcomed Joseph Pold from @plos.org for a seminar on navigating academic publishing. Joe shared practical advice on open access, choosing journals, indexing, research impact, submission pitfalls and building a professional profile. #OpenScience #AcademicPublishing #ResearchCulture
Joe presenting in front of the researchers.Joe presenting in front of the researchers.
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C. Scott Smith @cscottsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New BABY orca!!! Taken this past Saturday. T137's Bigg's Transients T36A1 ("Tierna"), and T36A1A ("Drift") -- who is also just a couple months old -- and a new baby taking lots of air and trying to keep up. The Orcas are cruising slowly past Bretland on Camano Island, Washington.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Once again, one of the primary reasons we have arrived at this point (completely out-of-control & unconstitutional abuse of executive power to conduct wildly illegal foreign policy) is that no one, including the most senior people involved, went to jail for the rest of their lives for Iran-Contra.
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briclondon.bsky.social @briclondon.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Heron and dinosaur (Crystal Palace Park Dinosaur Reservation)
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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Like Octavia E. Butler said, “We don’t have to wait for anything at all. What we have to do is start.” “Do the thing and you will have the power.”
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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#Poetry #Painting #Nightime Blanket of stars in the sky Seemed to tuck me to sleep tonight. - Nicole Anne Sia 🎨 Hannah Willow
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Thread of things to read today and tomorrow. ❤️ If you’re fasting, don’t forget to hydrate like a mofo today (and drink extra caffeine if you’re not weaned- will help) + if there’s any health reason, mental or physical, NOT to fast, you’re REQUIRED to eat. Here, on Kol Nidre + abolition:
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What one line in the Yom Kippur liturgy teaches us about transforming society
Plus: Survey results!
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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Cutting school librarians hurts academic achievement. It’s a sad reality that in the American educational system, students are more often defined as data points than as distinct individuals. buff.ly/ukgZ0ni #library #libraries #read #reading #book #books #librarianship #lit
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The Secret to Better Literacy Scores Starts with School Librarians
Cutting school librarians hurts academic achievement.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/08/2026
COYOTE VS ACME is legitimately great
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Meredith Farkas @librarianmer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Knowledge Commons #scholcomm folks, I have what is probably a really dumb question. I put a book chapter into Knowledge Commons works.hcommons.org/records/ejb0... and was hoping it would be indexed by Google Scholar, but it never was. I must be missing something obvious. How can I make that happen?
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Neoliberal Time and the Promise of Slow Librarianship.
Chapter from the book Slow Librarianship: Reflections and Practices that describes how neoliberal time has operated to intensify and center work time, encouraging overwork, constant growth, and individual achievement while discouraging solidarity and community care. Slow librarianship offers a communal and values-driven vision for thinking about time, the purpose of our work, and how we view our relationships with and responsibility to others. This chapter describes the problems neoliberal time has created in libraries and the alternative that slow librarianship offers the profession for creating libraries more attuned to the needs of patrons and more supportive of library workers.
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Democrat Cats @democratcats.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I want a donkey now
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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
"Dress for the job you want, not the job you have" Me on my way to work:
Illustration of a squirrel in a green cloak with a snake wrapped around it, holding a wizard's staff. Art by Lily Seika Jones.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Heed the Council of Shawn
6 blackface sheep in a field

“hello
We have come to make sure you are• indulging in weird and wonderful things today”
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The most impossible furniture to find is a good bookcase.
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Annie, MLIS, Schrödinger's Librarian 🍄📚🥌 @dharmascholar.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Paying staff (and hiring enough staff) a living wage is less expensive than paying for AI shit.
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mean things I say to myself @meantomyself.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Old enough to recognize this as a data center
Lockable floppy disk holder from the late 20th century
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
City dog: “these country dogs are huge!”😂
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Rex Dinero @rexdinero.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
they're paid protistas.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Algae is loving this news cycle. They’ve never been more relevant. Microzooplankton sitting at home changing the channel like, what about us? we even have cilia and pseudopods, this is bullshit.
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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Sorry to be a hater but I literally got a doctorate this year in computer science without needing to use genAI. Just letting you know its still possible to do research and write tens of thousands of words without it
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I think we should bring back black armbands for grief.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Flavors of fruit Newton lost of time
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The Onion @theonion.com · 01/05/2026
James Comey Indicted Over Seashell Photo theonion.com/james-comey-indicted-o…

“If he wants to kill political opponents then he should just run for president.”

Gordon Frazier, Chief Banjoist
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Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Today's library cookbook haul was apparently focused on dinner from people who have a habit of not writing liar recipes that say you can caramelize onions in 5 minutes.
ATK dinner tonight and Recipetin Eats Dinner from Nagi Maehashi
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 11/04/2026
🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, ANIMAL FRIENDSHIP (1930) 🎨 🖼️ Celebrate U.S. National Pet Day with Paul Klee’s delicate, whimsical work exploring the poetic bond between humans and animals. See it in our collections ➡️ archive.org/details/tier... #NationalPetDay #AnimalArt #PetLovers #PublicDomain
Paul Klee's 1930 painting, Animal Friendship, set in a graphic frame reading Welcome to The Public Domain.
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.
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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
ds9 holosuite coupon codes
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Attn: Pete Hegseth
Screenshot of a tweet by Christopher Hale quoting a religious message attributed to Pope Leo XIV about rejecting war and condemning violence. The image shows a pope in ceremonial robes reading from a paper at a microphone.
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DC Leclair @dcleclair.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
A step further: Excel "is" a database.
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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 18/03/2026
i love how so much of digital accessibility is just reaffirming what librarians have been trying to tell you for 1000 years: METADATA IS IMPORTANT, ACTUALLY
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God @thegodshow.com · 13/03/2026
Quick note for evangelicals: war in the Middle East doesn't trigger the second coming. Jesus isn’t Beetlejuice.
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Paul Wren @elevenpointtwo.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Wash might still be alive on the Kelvin timeline
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God @thegodshow.com · 22/02/2026
The reason they’re going to stuff you all into concentration warehouses instead of camps this time is because you have drones now and might take pictures.
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gabby ❦ @wraithbride.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
the first signs of spring ⚘ [ #art #creatureart ]
digital drawing of a hare/rabbit framed with snowdrops
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
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Larem Ipsum @laremipsum.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
"The Sycophancy Fallacy: Why You May be Worried About the Wrong Bias with Search" open.substack.com/pub/aarontay...
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The Sycophancy Fallacy: Why You May be Worried About the Wrong Bias with Search
AI search tools aren't "agreeing" with users—they are retrieval systems. Confusing the two is a category error that obscures the real risks.
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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
are the muppets real
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Franklin Sayre @franklinsayre.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Honestly that was better than I expected. The only part that seemed unrealistic was when the she gets the times literary supplement in the mail and it’s “overflowing” with ads for archivists
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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 01/02/2026
4 Powerful Black Queens From History "From ancient Egypt to Jamaica, meet four powerful black women who led their communities, embodying the traits of courage and independence." www.thecollector.com/powerful-bla... #history #blackhistorymonth
Lithograph of Njinga Ana de Sousa Mbande. Shows her with a crown upon her head, blue necklace, and royal robe wrapped around her and pinned at the shoulder with a jewel.
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 01/02/2026
I'm still writing code the hard way. I'm slow. I like to think critically about every line of code and fiddle with variable names until everything looks right. I treat code as a liability and try to ship only what's necessary. It's hard to imagine writing code any other way.
JetBrains GoLand IDE showing sqlite3 bindings written in Go.
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Sabrina 💫 @melancholytwist.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Black Anthropology is the study of Black American culture, history and language. The study addresses themes of inequality, racism and political resistance. Association of Black Anthropologists (ABA) is a great resource to learn more about Black Anthropology.
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Christine Hall @brideoflinux.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Upgrading do Zena is on our todo list, but we've been putting it off. Maybe this will change our minds: Linux Mint just made the terminal easier to ignore than ever buff.ly/XgwbKSz
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Linux Mint just made the terminal easier to ignore than ever
Linux Mint keeps improving without telling you to use the terminal.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 30/01/2026
Trump’s right hand cannot be responsible for investigating his left hand. We need an independent, impartial investigation now. www.cbsnews.com/news/alex-pr...
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FBI now leading investigation into fatal shooting of Alex Pretti
Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations branch had been leading the investigation into the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
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CAM @noremacflak.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Without fail.
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Larem Ipsum @laremipsum.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
"Licensing Is Speedrunning the Destruction of the Historical Record (Again)" open.substack.com/pub/copyrigh...
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Licensing Is Speedrunning the Destruction of the Historical Record (Again)
Or, please stop setting the open web on fire and then invoicing libraries for the smoke damage.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 26/01/2026
Fun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
A frankly astounding Humble Bundle of about 70 books by women SFF writers, including the Iskryne series by @pennyvixen.bsky.social and me and my first two Karen Memory novels, for $25 for the whole bundle, benefitting youth mental health. www.humblebundle.com/books/fierce...
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Humble Book Bundle: Fierce Women of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror by Open Road Media
Our latest ebook bundle has over 60 of the best sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books written by women! Every purchase supports Active Minds charity!
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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 26/01/2026
In the latest episode of A Meal of Thorns, biographer Jon Tattrie (TO LEAVE A WARRIOR BEHIND) joins to talk about Charles R. Saunders' sword-and-soul classic IMARO, and its many lives & afterlives:
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A Meal of Thorns 42- IMARO with Jon Tattrie
Charles Saunders’ sword and soul narratives, pulp-fantasy-inspired tales of Black and African heroes, helped blaze a trail for the genre—but, like Saunders himself, they have a complica…
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.
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