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Rii Abrego @riibrego.bsky.social · 9h

happy october! #art (wallpapers below!)

A drawing of black cats climbing in a pile of pumpkins

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 24/09/2026

Saw a woman on TikTok who said she quit corporate at age 46 to become a beekeeper because “I would literally rather get stung by 10,000 bees than write ‘per my last email’ again” and you know what? I respect that

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 17/02/2026

JCO is the only one who gets a free pass to stay on twitter because it's better for us, emotionally, if she's not here, but also it's worse for them, emotionally, if she's over there

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026

LOOK AT THIS FUCKING SHIT. The easiest way to tell that trans women are women is that the right is so desperate to control what they do with their bodies. WE HAVE EVERYTHING IN COMMON.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When you hear a fantastical story about AI, you should ask yourself, "How does this serve the political project of AI?" Because, as others have pointed out, that's what AI really amounts to: a political project.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 11/05/2026

"In '99, Smash Mouth released ASTRO LOUNGE, their most iconic LP. Their undisputed masterpiece is 'All Star,' a song so catchy, most people say they're sick of it. But they shouldn't be, because it's prophecy. It was composed by an Xer, but it's the definitive Millennial Song. [lifts ax] Hey, Paul!"

Patrick Bateman at the stereo system in a raincoat

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TekknoNerd - Commissions open @tekknonerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Voyager, walking on those tiny legs.

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Telling your co-Directors/Co-instructors you had an idea? Mundane, could have come from nothing. Telling them you received a vision? Mysterious, implies higher knowledge. Anyway this is how I'm going to refer to all syllabus edits from now on.

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Ian Linkletter @linkletter.org · 14/09/2026

"Zero procurement and zero red tape" so long as you verify your identity "using a government-issued ID and a selfie, through our verification partner, Veriff." Do not trust Instructure with this information. They have yet to come clean about what was stolen in April, and now they want more info?

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Andrew Wasserman @onceatrophic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I know, girl. I know.

A poster included in the current PS1 show Artists Against the Bomb, an exhibit that seems to have made the completely enraging decision to not label/credit creators of individual works (among other things about this show that left me fully exasperated)

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The real value of a task manager is that you can experience the heart-dropping feeling that you have to be doing an amorphous something and instead of dropping everything you can just leave yourself a note like "surely I'm responsible for something I'm forgetting rn" and keep trucking

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Brosephine Wires, Perennial Soup-Lover @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You know… I would really stop using AI chat bots if I were you

Inside 'Project Lily':
The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
JOSEPH COX • SEP 14, 2026 AT 10:22 AM
Humans are reading ChatGPT users prompts to improve OpenAl's models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.

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Adam Carnevale? @retroarchetype.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Me being lackadaisical: hey you guys aren't upset by how carefree I am right now right?

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 11/09/2026

So rather than increase faculty payroll and lower student:teacher ratios, UMass would rather spend it on Claude. I would argue that a better investment would be hiring 100-200 tenure-line faculty.

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Two actually good movies, one INSANE movie, and one pretty generic movie. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

The Harder they Fall 2.5, Akira 4.5, The Presidents Analyst 5, Camp Miasma 4.5

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Starting The Name of the Rose (a cool and normal thing to do when I was just telling a colleague how little time there is in the day), and it feels appropriate that it's one of those dark green, buckram bound library books with some illicit marginalia penciled in in cursive. 📚

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Jeremy Markovich @ncrabbithole.com · 03/09/2026

With a ton of help, I tried to tackle one of North Carolina's greatest mysteries: Why are there so many Chinese restaurants next to Food Lions? I learned a lot! www.ncrabbithole.com/p/there-real...

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There really is a Chinese restaurant next to nearly every Food Lion

It's been a meme for years. But one man actually ran the numbers and found proof that the correlation is very real in North Carolina. So, in this Rabbit Hole investigation, we enlisted others to help ...

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Teddy Focaccia @kmaustinyoung.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The fun thing about waiting to hear about a grant today is that I’ve convinced myself both that I’m definitely going to get it and also that I’m definitely not going to get it.

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 03/09/2026

Well played, whoever posted these signs around Stanford on a morning when the LLMs are down.

Parody poster for allergy meds for LLM relief

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If nothing else, putting this class together is forcing me to actually know what all is in my TTRPG mega-folder in google drive. I've bought a lot of bundles and sometimes those bundles just got thrown in the folder. 📚📜

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Use this to teach the kids semiotics

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

we have a field in our refstats for referral, and for the student who just came up to the desk and needed directions to a building that's clear on the other side of campus (25ish minute walk) for a class that got moved minutes before it started I would love to be able to select "loving god" 📚

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Students who nod and smile during lecture when we try to make a point? Heroes

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

August was a good month!! One More Show: boxd.it/fIW0YH Call of My Life: boxd.it/fKnoBP One Hour Photo: boxd.it/fTG3zx Streets of Fire: boxd.it/fVEvqR Coyote vs. Acme: boxd.it/g83UCB

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Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Pretty sure this has already been a real article

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So like yes: the telehealth therapy/doctor-finder apps are a nightmare. But I also find it massively strange the way they tout searching by availability? Who's using these apps to only find UNavailable providers?

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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I am nearly always a “it’s important to get things right and understand the facts and how things work” but sometimes it’s just “fuck these guys”. Shouldn’t have crammed this shit down our throats and broke the law trying to power them, while all of your execs are the antichrist

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 01/09/2026

coyote theater, vermillion, south dakota, 1987

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Underrated perk of being a librarian: when you know the person behind ILL sometimes, when your expedited courier lending system is down, they will make things happen for you with ILL magic. Prospector? Occasionally down. Our ILL Librarian? Eternally magical. 📚

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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/08/2026

re: everyone yelling about Google Maps - Maps just ingests the official data source for each country, which is GNIS in this case, and most other online maps will follow for American users nobody at Google is making an active decision to go in and change names in Maps directly

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 29/08/2026

It's not right to think of LLM confabulations as error in the same way as we know error in engineering because error implies a relationship with the material world that LLMs do not have.

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

non-academic partner described me going to library for JSTOR access as “going to the J-Store”

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Absolutely crazy to move my Brent House folder out into the "Archive" folder in my google drive. I've been on this board for 11 years! It'll be so weird not to see it when I open my drive!

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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

this is beautiful work and all the more impressive if you consider the time constraints under which it was created

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“While Picasso was living in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II, one German officer allegedly asked him, upon seeing a photo of Guernica in his apartment, ‘Did you do that?’ Picasso responded, ‘No, you did.’” via pablopicasso.org The horse (loon) represents the people of Guernica (Minnesota)

Photo of the 1937 original of Picasso’s Guernica

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is absolutely not going to last but I've got my work email down to 6 conversations and my personal email down to 18, which is tantalizingly close to my life goal of being a zero inbox boy.

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 26/08/2026

The best way to honor the two who have left us recently, imo, is to keep being as gay as possible

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

like the reason Dolly feels like an exceptional human being is because all the things we're talking about today in her lifetime of philanthropy trace back to just .... having empathy and we live in the era of "I Don't Know How to Explain to You That You Should Care About Other People"

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton knew what it was like to struggle as she fought for working families her whole career. From providing free books to kids to giving working women our "9 to 5" anthem, she was an icon and an inspiration. Rest in power to our union sister. We will always love you.

A photo of Dolly Parton sitting at a desk and talking on the phone in a scene from the movie 9 to 5.

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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 25/08/2026

In honor of Dolly, get your annual COVID booster if you can. You can save lives too.

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Colleagues may wonder why I'm so ready with a whenisgood for scheduling (surely that's more complicated, adds another step, etc), but it does avoid the very particular hell of being on an email thread trying to schedule a meeting where no one is responding to the same email. I am going to scream.

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Had a bad end of the day so I'm starting Reacher and I already love the large man show. He is large and he knows his constitutional rights.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Freirean kickboxing club, me and who?

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