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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Tagine de Poisson (too far from Angine de Poitrine?)

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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

speaking of sentient time-traveling moss, I finally got around to reading Dead Astronauts. Masterpiece. Bravo.

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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 · 18/11/2025

Brian Jonestown Massacre, that is. Less starvation, more kool-aid. OK, back to drinking tea.

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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Compelling! I saw the Dears open for the Brian Jamestown Massacre and was blown away. This would have been twenty-odd years ago, I'm estimating, during the No Cities Left era (ahhhh, The Death of All the Romance!) Time to tune back in.

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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 · 06/06/2025

Looks like maybe an expired cert for cdn.roll20.net? @roll20.net

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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Malört is the blood of Christ, celery salt wafers the body

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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

She doesn't think so but she's dressed for the H-bomb.

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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 · 25/03/2025

these lil dumpers looking gooood: www.reddit.com/r/Mariners/c...

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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

plus it sounds like kenji's gonna be selling teriyaki at TMo too

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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I dream now of them taking an extended vacation together in a model S at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.

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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 · 23/02/2025

mommy's alright daddy's alright they just seem a little weird

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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

25% for Canada and Mexico. 10% for China.

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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Gasp, not an "urbanist!" Perish the thought.

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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

If 0.015 is "big" to Donald #Trump, well, that explains some things.

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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

The land area of Seattle is 53,113 acres (www.seattle.gov/opcd/populat...). Protestors took over 0.015% of the city.

seattle.gov

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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

The protestors occupied part of the Capitol Hill neighborhood, ranging from 2-6 city blocks over the course of the 23-day protest. A city block downtown averages 1.3 acres (www.theurbanist.org/2024/01/19/t...), so to be generous, the protestors "took over" roughly 8 acres of the city.

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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

if my brain has to have this rot in it, so does everyone else's

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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

Men are highly skilled and trustworthy when estimating sizes. /s

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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 16/05/2024

Yeah, not even that. No mention of even a hint of real evidence linking the scrape to the defendant.

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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 16/05/2024

One wonders how these developers feel today about working with @OCLC, given how easy it is to expose oneself to significant liability.

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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 16/05/2024

Page 4 of the same document praises the entire @OCLC Developer Network (numbering 220 developers as of 2009) for building ”applications that use WorldCat search and retrieval of holdings to transport people from the Web to library services.”

github.com

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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 16/05/2024

“Developers can use [this] module to quickly build working prototypes using the bibliographic, holdings and citation information available in WorldCat records.”

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Mike Giarlo (he/him/his) @mjgiarlo.bsky.social · 16/05/2024

“[Defendant] has developed a mashup that links WorldCat and Google Maps. The mashup takes a bibliographic record and a user ZIP code and displays on a Google Map the nearest libraries that have the item...

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