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Maureen Babb 🍁

@librarian-m.bsky.social
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Science Librarian. Fond of Classics, Archaeology, Paleontology, Comics, and of course Library Stuff. Queer.

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Maureen Babb 🍁 @librarian-m.bsky.social · 32m
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Kermit
Alt: Kermit making a .____________. face
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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
boo
simple doodle of a black kitty loafing on top of a very orange pumpkin
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Maureen Babb 🍁 @librarian-m.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Ha ha I mean I'd be salty about that too 😆
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Maureen Babb 🍁 @librarian-m.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
My dad (who also has an NM title) is curious to see your brother's games - can I get his actual name?
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Maureen Babb 🍁 @librarian-m.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Take back the scholarly apparateses for ourselves.
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Maureen Babb 🍁 @librarian-m.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I am 100% serious.
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Maureen Babb 🍁 @librarian-m.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
If T&F is for sale, I think a massive consortia of academic libraries should pool funds to buy it and then transform it from a for-profit organization into a for-scholarship one.
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Maureen Babb 🍁 @librarian-m.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Congrats to your brother!
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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Rastan Mosaic Names Amazons Unknown From Ancient Texts greekcitytimes.com/2026/10/13/r...
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 12/10/2026
@alexandraerin.com once observed that to trump, words don't mean things, words *do* things it's true of fascists generally. if you ask "what do they mean" you are already misunderstanding. you need to ask "what are they trying to do"
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/10/2026
There are many ways in which every billionaire is a policy failure, but the most corrosive and destructive way in which billionaires are policy failures is this: billionaires, despite being unelected and unaccountable, possess the power to control - and ruin - millions of peoples' lives.
The Warner Brother tower posed against a vintage map of Burbank, keeling over, tearing up a huge clot of sod and concrete. Standing atop of the tower, forcing it down, is a sad, spavined donkey in Democratic Party livery. Being crushed under the tower is the California flag bear, with blood pouring out of its eye and mouth.
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Maureen Babb 🍁 @librarian-m.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
(Yes, the actual content actually matters, wild, I know.)
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Maureen Babb 🍁 @librarian-m.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Attn: Vendors - If all you say is "We have a [product] in [generic subject area] on sale right now at [price]! Do you want it?" that tell me nothing. Nooooothing. I am never going to make a decision on that alone. Send me a title list. Send me a title list. Send me a title list.
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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 08/10/2026
Happy #WorldOctopusDay!
Digital drawing of an octopus against a black background. Its eight arms are winding and twisting about wildly. Its eyes are blue, its main body pink, and its arms transition from blue at the ends, through white to pink near the body to echo the colors of the trans pride flag.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
i feel this more and more every day
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Maureen Babb 🍁 @librarian-m.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
JEALOUS!!!
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Maureen Babb 🍁 @librarian-m.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Jealous
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Maureen Babb 🍁 @librarian-m.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Do everyone a favour and define your acronyms.
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Watson's dishonesty and nastiness is multifaceted here...“Without further hesitation I implied that she was incompetent in interpreting X-ray pictures” was about A-DNA, but he conflates this with B-DNA (photo 51) to claim the helical insight was his. Wilkins comes off much worse in this light too.
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Maureen Babb 🍁 @librarian-m.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Covid boosted and flu shotted 😷
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Maureen Babb 🍁 @librarian-m.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Instructions: submerge in water Item: *floats*
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this.
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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
For context, that's a typical size of a jurassic pterosaur (juvenile) found in the fossil record
Small sparrow coloured pterosaur
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I can’t really believe this is happening in our country. And it makes me very angry people aren’t doing more to stop it. An entire group have had their civil rights gutted, and are having their lives made unliveable (especially children who are most vulnerable). And what’s anyone doing about it?
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New blog: Leaving the UK with a heavy heart. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...
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Leaving the UK with a heavy heart
Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
The most important way to fight data centers is to take everyone you meet protesting one and organize with them to scare the shit out of "your" politicians so they don't *dare* compromise on *anything*.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
There aren't enough of us doing politics right now. We can tell, because our politicians are so contemptuous of the grassroots that they will sell us out without a moment's hesitation, smugly certain that they will face no consequences for doing so: pluralistic.net/2026/09/22/h...
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Pluralistic: Bonta sold us out to Trump’s oligarchs (22 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
But changing the system requires systemic work. Hell is other people because other people are *great* but it's *so hard* to get them to do things your way. That takes time and understanding and togetherness and arguing and forgiving.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
We must defend voting rights - Big P Politics - to the bitter end, but we need to defend organizing - small p politics - just as ferociously.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
The right's leadership understands this very well, which is why they've spent years attacking unions, community organizers like Acorn, and activist institutions like Planned Parenthood.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
In other words, voting only matters if it's the final stage of a sustained campaign to build and mobilize popular power. Without that, voting will get you precious little.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
Voting for Mamdani was important. It got him elected. But staying organized - in unions, neighborhood clubs, affinity groups, DSA chapters and mutual aid groups - is what's letting him get stuff done, and stopping him from bailing on his promises as politically infeasible.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
Which is to say, Big P politics matter, but to *make* them matter, we need a lot of small p politics. That means that democracy isn't something you do every couple of years with a ballot paper (though that's an important aspect of the process). Democracy is continuous.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You have to accurately assess the problem to create proper solutions
Screenshot of article which reads: Partisan polarization is not the greatest threat to American democracy. 
It is a vivid and identifiable symptom of the real threat. And it is a popu-
lar frame because it blames no one. But because political polarization is 
a symptom, and not the root of the problem that ails us, “fixing” polar-
ization will not restore American democratic health.
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Maureen Babb 🍁 @librarian-m.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You know when I tell people in our city the mayor of our city brags about locking garbage cans, they don't believe me? They're incredulous every time. But here we are again. winnipeg-can.newsmemory.com?publink=01b1...
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JOYANNE PURSAGASCOTT Gillingham says he would add hundreds of locked g
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Maureen Babb 🍁 @librarian-m.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Gillingham still bragging about his locked downtown garbage cans (and promising more!) as though that's a solution to anything or meaningfully addresses the poverty that would have people rifling through the trash to begin with, I see.
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Maureen Babb 🍁 @librarian-m.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Mickey Mouse Steamboat Willie
Alt: Mickey Mouse as Steamboat Willie. Yes it's relevant to the linked article.
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UWinnipeg @uwinnipeg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New Directions in Classics celebrates 10 years of bridging the ancient Greek and Roman times to our present! Over the past decade New Directions has had over 2000 audience members from the #UWinnipeg and downtown community participate in learning about the ancient world. MORE INFO ⬇️
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Ten years of New Directions in Classics | University of Winnipeg News
New Directions in Classics celebrates 10 years of bridging the ancient Greek and Roman times to our present.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh look more and more elaborate scams using artificially generated and digitally manipulated content to prey on academics and researchers.
nature.com
Exclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star researchers
A Nature investigation reveals a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.
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🇨🇦Jackie Corrigan🇨🇦 @jackiecorrigan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Online booking for flu and COVID-19 vaccine appointments at Public Health immunization clinics is now open. #Covid manitoba.ca/respiratoryv...
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Province of Manitoba | Vaccine-Preventable Respiratory Illnesses
Province of Manitoba
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
less hot takes, more animals squashing gourds
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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻
A painting of fat blobby bears
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Maureen Babb 🍁 @librarian-m.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is wild
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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Do we teach skills that are useful in the workplace? Fuck yes we do. Did I become a history professor because I'm passionate about vocational training? Fuck no i did not
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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.
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Ian McCausland @ianmccausland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Am I gonna read into reports of Jbro and Gillingham door knocking together? Yes I am. Www.orvie.ca #winnipeg
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Change for North Kildonan
Orvie Dingwall is running for city Council. North Kildonan needs change, needs a new voice that cares about the community.
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Emèt ✡️🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️(she/they) @emetwpg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Argh. Why won’t @winnipegfreepress.com profile progressive candidates like @nat4mynarski.bsky.social or @odingwall.bsky.social or Noah Redden? Is there an agenda here?
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Cam Regier @camregier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Like why do we have to read every dingbat announcement Mike or Kevin make?? And then wonder why they're 2nd and 3rd? Maybe if the others had all this free publicity?
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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
James McVittie, assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Regina, will present a seminar titled "Analysis of extreme events with missing observations." 📍 EITC E2-160 🗓️ October 1 at 2:45 p.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...
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