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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his)

@mjgiarlo.bsky.social
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software for libraries, parent, Seattleite, GenX, Mastodon: @mjgiarlo@code4lib.social, mjgiarlo everywhere else "a piece of work in progress"

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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I can't remember if I told y'all about that time last winter when I came inside and found a duck in a tub of warm duck fat. I shook the snow off my hat and gloves and said, "brr, it's bitter outside." He gestured at himself sitting in the tub and replied, "well, it sure is confit in here!"
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
New party schtick: choose someone at random and ask them if they are familiar with "The Sacroiliad." Then tell a long-winded, epic tale of your chronic low-back pain.
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
unreasonably riled up by the velar "l"
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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Not sure if BlueSky is good for this kind of thing anymore, but do I know anyone on here who did an MLIS degree or similar at UMD?
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Very happy to read today that OCLC realized it was in the wrong and dismissed MM from its lawsuit v. Anna's Archive: www.courtlistener.com/docket/68157...
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
there is a significant shortage of organs relative to the demand for medically necessary transplants billionaires have organs they do not need, namely all of them QED
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
As the president and his pet billionaire sat in a swasticar on the White House lawn yesterday, I imagined the cozy couple taking to the open road, the greatest American tradition, a modern-day Thelma & Louise.
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I would like the president to instead consider a career as a florist, at a shop with high shelves so the flowers can be closer to the sunshine. Then he can push the daisies up there every day.
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The next time the president goes to a diner, I'd like him to be seated in the John Wilkes Booth.
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
who named it the "pine barrens" when "Loréal forest" was right there #newjersey #nj
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
For those of you who inexplicably believe #Trump is capable of occupying the same reality as human beings, let's fact-check one of his goofiest assertions from the debate on Tuesday: that protestors "took over a big percentage of #Seattle" during the George Floyd protests of 2020.
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
I do not condone elder abuse but I quite enjoyed the debate
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 08/09/2024
what dingus called it "copy cataloging" when "mutually assured description" was right there? #libraries 📚
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 08/09/2024
next time you're in a gen alpha-themed buffalo wing spot and you need to wipe the saucy mess off your hands, ask for a skibidi towelette, they will understand
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 07/07/2024
If I were working undercover to expose unsavory deeds by the Sandman author, my go-to cocktail party opener would be "I'm mole for Gaiman!"
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
who all is going to #OR2024 next week? haven't conferenced in so long (2019) that I forget how any of this works
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 17/05/2024
The OCLC quotation screenshotted in @liadanmakes.bsky.social's quote-post says the quiet part out loud: OCLC does not believe that libraries and archives should be free and widely available.
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average scottythered @scottythered.bsky.social · 17/05/2024
Mike's thread is 100 percent worth reading if you work in library technology. But if you need a TL/DR: OCLC is trying to set legal precedent that could make you a potential legal target of theirs simply by having used OCLC's APIs or having been associated with the OCLC Developer Network
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 16/05/2024
Dear #library technology community, we need to talk about @OCLC. #libraries #code4lib #c4l24
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 15/05/2024
sometimes it takes you ~50 years of thinking you're a kinda smart, pretty darn straight normie to realize you're a pretty dumb, kinda queer neurodivergent
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 15/05/2024
Reflecting honestly on my visceral reactions to restaurants using QR code menus and professional sports being broadcast on streaming services, I might finally be a boomer.
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
if the roman catholic church were founded on major league baseball lore, do you think the priests would argue about who among them is the Ueckerest?
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
this June I'm attending my first conference since 2019. can someone remind me how this works again?
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 08/03/2024
is katie britt actually a voltron of stepford wives?
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
tattoo idea: "A spell cast with a Bonus Action is especially swift. You must use a Bonus Action on your turn to cast the spell, provided that you haven't already taken a Bonus Action this turn. You can't cast another spell during the same turn, except for a Cantrip with a casting time of 1 Action."
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 03/02/2024
📉 inflation 📈 jobs 📉 pandemic 📈 dropping bombs in the middle east the old normal is back, baby
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
Part of my neurodivergence is that I legitimately forget that theism is a thing in the real world. When people talk about gods and souls and the afterlife and what not, I feel like we're doing some kind of live-action role-playing.
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
"Heaven is a struct" #pavement #programming
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
now i am become reviewer 2, the destroyer of proposals
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 24/01/2024
"a kenku, a changeling, a goblin, a warforged, and a flayer-kin walk into a bar..." #dnd #newpartytime
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
Both sportsball coaches and nostalgic alcoholics agree that you miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
bluesky so far: digging the UI but I clearly need to follow more folks because there's not a lot going on here (a problem I contribute to by not posting often)
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Really looking forward to this (hybrid: in person and live-streamed) event with Ted Chiang at Clarion West on Nov 10. Tickets are still available! clarionwest.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/c...
Flyer for the event: Clarion West presents Wishful Thinking and AI. Ted Chiang & Dr. Emily M. Bender in Conversation. A fundraiser for Clarion West: Join us for an evening with two of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in AI as they discuss the hype, realistic expectations, and whose voices are missing in this rapidly changing field.

Friday, November 10 at 7:30 PM
Town Hall Seattle

Virtual Admission $15
General Admission $50
VIP Reception $125

Clarion West supports emerging and underrepresented voices in speculative fiction. Funds raised support our year-round programs.

Photos of Ted Chiang, Emily M. Bender and a QR code for the registration link.
https://clarionwest.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/clarionwest/event.jsp?event=595&
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
apparently there is enough of me left to feel things occasionally
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
is this stoner/doom or döner's tomb
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
"Turn off notifications for replies" is self-care
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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
Do we have code4libbers on here now? 📚 Because keynote nominations are open for #c4l24! Add your nominees to the wiki by Nov. 16: wiki.code4lib.org/2024_Keynote...
wiki.code4lib.org
2024 Keynote Speakers Nominations - Code4Lib
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
wake me when the gagging is livestreamed
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
yeah yeah post hoc ergo propter hoc but after my first bout of covid and FEMA's wireless emergency alert i like jazz
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
ok then
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
hey look I'm on the news for a super-duper fun thing www.king5.com/article/news... www.fox13seattle.com/news/he-was-...
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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 28/09/2023
#SUCHO won the Grand Prix for Heritage Champions at the Europa Nostra Cultural Heritage awards tonight in Venice! 🇺🇦💙💛
Andreas Segerberg receiving an award for SUCHO at Europa Nostra awardsAndreas Segerberg's acceptance speech of Grand Prix for Heritage Champions at Europa Nostra Awards
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
singing "Final Countdown" except with the words "Gubmint Shutdown"
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
feels weird to have signed up for this here social media thing at a time when I feel like I have not a single thing to say, nor any reason to be here, or anywhere, aimlessly floating from day to day, all blurring together, existing in each moment just barely, a tiny sliver of a thing tumbling by
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
who's the numbskull who called it `docker system prune -a --volumes` when `docker-compost` was right there?
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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
OK, let's party.
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