dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Saw what appeared to be a vignette of a skeleton strike on a rural lawn this afternoon 000
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Just confirming that yes all of this could have been an email. I guess we are also doing staff sharing stories at these meetings, which was nice in theory, but I feel like I should volunteer to do one and just go up there and do a tight five 010
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026A couple times a year we have all-staff meetinga scheduled before the museums open. They uses to open at 10 but now they open at 9. I now live an hour away from work. The carpool is picking me up by 6.30 for us to attend a meeting that absolutely could have been an email 130
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I feel like I am so benumbed by the daily collapse of things that I cannot quite wrap my head around the spiral of suffering embedded in this story 070
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I spent the first 24 years of my life in Maine and you know what, I kind of agree with this 031
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026My work is having a lecture about Mercy Brown next week and are encouraging people to wear vampire costumes and it feels very disrespectful. This poor woman. 030
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Sadly, I needed this reminder today. Solidarity? 110
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"Can't process for a little while because I got a paper cut from a file folder under my fingernail and now I'm bleeding everywhere" is such a specific interruption to my work day 171
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I need to actually plan a 40th birthday party so I can use that picture of the Pope as the invitation 010
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Update from Newport: Larry Ellison is still doing weird shit over at the old Astor mansion. 000
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This morning I was once again reminded that I wish I could make a living as a consultant on names. Let me name your kid. I will bring erudite honor to your family 030
Reposted by dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This is why I get so annoyed at people posting garbage like "don't cover our farmland with solar panels! grow food instead!" as if that's the tradeoff 27621
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I am so sick of people from other departments coming in here and performing shock at the amount of papers &c piled around my desk. Maybe if you left me alone I could process some of it. 160
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Hitting the mildew vape (refoldering a new accession) at 9 am has me thinking about how the increased storms and humidity of climate change are going to absolutely wreck our collections and lungs with mold 040
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It's giving Doubtful Guest, it's giving A is for Amy who fell down the stairs 020
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Now that have a lil balcony I want to get a deck umbrella and I kind of want an insane black amd white striped one with fringe because apparently there is a market for Edward-Gorey-ass umbrellas 120
Reposted by dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2026An American president is encouraging an enemy to destroy American cities. This is treason, though he will claim we are not at war. 61366362472
Reposted by dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 05/10/2026If you run into a goddamn dumb asshole in the morning you ran into a goddamn dumb asshole. If you run into goddamn dumb assholes all day that makes sense because there are so many of them everywhere. Welcome to goddamn dumb asshole town. 622321
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I filed my taxes on paper because I am tired of paying to file a pretty simple tax return, and the state of Rhode Island cannot seem to get it together to send me my refund. I'm so annoyed. It's just another enshittification data point. 020
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"...And into the pagan fire they threw books in their hundreds. He knew whose books they were: Thomas Mann, Heine, Lessing and a host of others. And Smiley, his damp hand cupped round the end of this cigarette, watching and hating, triumphed that he knew his enemy." 020
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Messed up the alt text so here it is: "And there had been a night, a terrible night in the winter of 1937, when Smiley had stood at the window and watched a great bonfire in the university court: round it stood hundreds of students, their faces exultant and glistening in the dancing light..." 100
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Once I did a presentation for some freshmen about censorship and cultural heritage destruction during Banned Books Week. A guy who was vibing through class announced, "This is fire" when he saw this quote from "Call from the Dead" on a slide, and had me pause so he could take a photo 1173
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I just made a sweet potato and plantain burrito and it is changing my life 0100
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Will I ever stop having stress dreams about my job at the university, or is it like high school and just part of the anxiety repertoire now? 000
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026One of the pharmacy techs told me it was her favorite vaccine 110
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Niche af but there are so many good linocuts of cats on Etsy rn 020
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026So when the HPV vaccine came out I never got offered it and also people were afraid of it (??? idk, rural healthcare) & then I thought I was too old, but I just want to let this website of entirely people who are ~38 years old that the age limit was raised to 45 in 2018. CVS hooked me up last year. 120
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Does the RI AG or some other entity want to know about scams? Like, so they care that I get a mortgage or home warranty scam in the mail almost every day 001
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026We don't have an actual retention schedule or RM policy because no one will listen me or my predecessors, so I'm just trying to move records (and they are records!) from Sharepoint to Preservica. Like I'm going to keep them!! But am being told no 000
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Too much of records management is "we need to transfer these records out of active use" "no those are my emotional support meeting minutes from 2010" like what am I even doing here 171
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026These works have never been in this order 040
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Obviously the concept of an individual's energy/carbon footprint is fraught, but I still thought this was interesting and could perhaps inform collective decisions about what we want our digital lives to look like your-digital-life.orgyour-digital-life.orgWhat your digital life uses.Estimate the energy and water behind a day of cloud-connected digital activity. 000
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I would like to add that among a company of underwater engineers, Bastard John is chief of security 100
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"He is 68 years old and has been for decades" has sent me to the moon. They're using the AI to make crime family vampires 020
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Much in the way I have visceral reactions to certain colors, I am instantly angry when I see JD Vance's smug spawn face 021
Reposted by dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚Jose @josendhelp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Have you seen Werner Herzog watching and discussing skate clips? www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQLI...youtube.comDiscussing Skateboarding with Filmmaker Werner HerzogYouTube video by jenkemmag 1021762
Reposted by dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 03/09/2024the three genders 271946435
Reposted by dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I don't think they'll ever recreate what it was like to be on twitter in the 2010s. Soap opera stuff happening constantly. Poster you were vaguely aware of involved in federal fentanyl bust. Poster whose jokes you occasionally liked posed as his aunt (or wife?) for 6 years. Pastor who steals jokes 1875583486
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026OK so I confess that apparently I had not read Cymbeline and all I remembered was seeing a brief outdoor performance of the beheading bit (a real Choice). & so I read it today & it really takes a hard left toward things being Surprisingly Fine at the very end. 010
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Spending too much time trying to figure out how hard I would have to drive to see the restored director's cut of The Devils. Remember when the Internet actually gave you information 000
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It is truly wild how many people think there is historical evidence of an exact thing they want in the archives. Highly recommend just sending them the Sanborn fire insurance maps at LOC and letting them figure it out 110
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'm thinking about people just not knowing what code looks like or its basic logic. My tech class in grad school was awful but I skated thru it bc I already knew HTML. Wondering if we are sufficiently preparing LIS students who have never seen markup language to have to hand code EAD. 110
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My brainworm waffles between the two main songs from the game Dispatch: "Radio" by Bershy and "I'm a Bitch, My Name's Robert" as performed during the in-game karaoke 000
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This isn't a "kids can't do anything right" post, because generational punching-down is loser behavior; my point is that plenty of archives don't have good software and the archival labor of writing EAD depended on a skill that most people don't casually develop anymore. 130
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I started making little websites when I was 14. It was 2001. I've never been great at it and definitely couldn't do web development today, but I also can survive hand-encoding EAD since our CMS won't generate it for me. 140
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Realizing how badly we need to build better archives infrastructure for all the professionals/interns coming in who were not HTML nerds on Livejournal in 2005. We've been needing this but you figure EAD came about with an Internet that needed people to code it, & now we are a generation removed 180
