iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I participated in some public library ai courses. I’m telling you that the state of literacies and the complexity of lives deeply enmeshed in the bowels of late stage capitalism cannot find a use case for an agent & if they could, people don’t have the scaffolding to imagine one that could be useful

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Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We observe gotcha day with a new and infuriating treat puzzle

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It is a profound indictment of most media coverage of Big Tech that your best bet for getting an informed understanding of AI and its dangers is following a decently curated list of Bluesky shitposters

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Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Saw a note on my chart over the physical therapist’s shoulder this morning - “is not okay with AI.” Brother you have no idea how true this is

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In any reasonable society the next sentence would be ‘and so they were all put in jail for admitting to gross negligence and malfeasance on a scale previously unthinkable’

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Abstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I appreciate this perspective because we don't need to act like this is a new or futuristic problem with no precedent in human history. It's the familiar problem of people with a lot of power not giving enough of a shit to think about what they're doing

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Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In addition to bringing this to Wiley’s attention through their socials (decent move) and assuming you are seeing this via your institution’s library subscription to a Wiley product, complain to your librarians

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 20/09/2026

Real baddies don’t use AI

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Dave Bloom @drumkitdave.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

AI can be the hot potato between writing instructors and librarians. "Don't offload the work of writing! Use it to find information!" "Don't offload the work of research! Use it to outline and develop your arguments". I've seen both cede ground on brainstorming because AI MUST BE GOOD FOR SOMETHING

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Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I LOVE this! I’ve been having conversations in recent weeks about how we need to stop throwing AI over the fence into other people’s areas of expertise in a needless quest for a use case

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Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I succeeded in giving my 14-year-old an updo for Homecoming without destroying our relationship ama

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Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This problem is a constant part of my job now. Our catalog and institutional repository were struggling with outages for months. We were being punished for not hiding them behind a login. My library IT colleagues had to do so much work to restore our catalog to reliable functioning

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Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is what I mean. I’ve know Emma forever and she’s a serious, knowledgeable, experienced professional who is just being ignored because the vibe is off? I know a million stories just like this! It’s sick!

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Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We are in the midst of a civilization-destroying information crisis caused by LLMs. The only field truly positioned to understand all of the implications is librarianship. Our expertise is being ignored because of misogyny and what capitalism teaches us about who to respect based on wealth

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"You might think I'm making this up; I'm not. I'm reporting on things that other people made up" "I wish I were making this up, but I'm not" ... things we have to say when talking about the apocalyptic AI Harry Potter fanfic sex cult.

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Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I am watching this and having so much fun/rage with all of the people who live in my phone!

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

when you work at the BPAF but you’re beginning to realize there’s not going to be a successful IPO

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Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Babka enjoys finding the many ways to hang out without actually making physical contact

A very fancy, fluffy tuxedo cat perches on a white and yellow striped pillow behind the head of a reclining white woman wearing glasses

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/08/2026

The most crucial part in each "AI Winter," & the thing that I genuinely think cannot come soon enough, is when we as a culture remember that we're able to disambiguate the term "AI" & we go back to actually descriptively naming the process(es) we mean. Really can't wait for that to come around again

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Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

We’re trying out a new hook for our generalist service. We’re pretty happy with it

A red and white sign on the side of a book truck that’s sitting in the sun. The sign has contact information for the UW Madison Libraries and the slogan “Real Humans, Real Help”

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Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Tag yourself I’m “I’m gonna blow this damn candle out” 😭

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Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

There was an obvious error in the puzzle today, I was annoyed and taking a break from working on it, and OH HEY GUESS WHAT.

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Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

One could do this with long-standing legal research resources and the support of a law librarian. It would a) be free and b) actually work, unlike this incantatory pile of clown shoes.

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Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

People who work in higher ed who try to schedule something with colleagues anytime in the next two weeks: We see you and ARE YOU KIDDING ME

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Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Didn’t get a chance to post Sunday’s nap on Sunday. Babka knows where all the academics are at this week, though

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 16/08/2026

A lot of people don't know this, but when you brush a cat, you are legally required to show them the wad of cat hair that came off of them and tell them "this is enough for another whole cat"

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Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It’s just better for me that I don’t have reliable access to Rowntree’s fruit pastilles. This message brought to you by the import grocery store booth at Irish Fest

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The idea of a Black academic being hounded to death for alleged acts of plagiarism in an era when universities are entering into contracts with AI companies and encouraging AI use among students, while Big Tech is stealing EVERYTHING humans write...

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ceej @ceej.online · 12/08/2026

you perverts like staring at wisconsin, huh? you like looking at maps with all of our stupid little counties? you can't help yourselves but whisper "fond du lac" and "shawano" while reading about ballot drops. you want to taste a cheese curd? huh?

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Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Madison on Election Day. There are reporters everywhere, a new flier in my mailbox every time I open my front door, and the group texts are extremely silly. I think Hong’s party is happening a few blocks down. Truly the Super Bowl for a particular type of upper midwestern nerd

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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

the ideal academic life is being an eccentric Victorian lord. Invent a stamp licking machine at 22. Get elected to the Royal Academy for counting the beetles on your estate. Die in an arsenic explosion. The perfect life.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The goal is to satisfy the *emotions* behind every information need without providing real information.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The debates about the necessity of the MLS are exhausting in the best of times. Right now, as education, libraries, public goods, are all under assault... it feels like I'm going insane watching y'all entertain this stuff.

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Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The speed, timing, and density of Lindsay Graham jokes on here already is how I know that some of you people apparently do not sleep

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Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Soccer post: speaking from personal, pasty experience, the white English folks turning bright pink in the heat are fine. It’s protective coloring. Like an octopus trying to scare off an attacker. Trust.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Being totally at peace with the USMNT getting humiliated by Belgium is praxis.

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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

With 11 minutes of stoppage time, England subs out Harry Kane and replaces him with Harrier Kane. Will it be enough? Harriest Kane quietly fumes on the bench.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

it is impossible to post about this game because something else happens before your finish the last thought

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Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

So I’m supporting England because ancestry and it’s the hope that kills you and I’m supporting Mexico porque vivo en el EEUU y Americanos apoyan Americanos entonces I’m going to be happy no matter what and I’m also going to be sad no matter what. What a great game let’s do this every summer

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Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Bunch of elite clubs watching Vozinha like “We don’t really recruit a 40 year old. Do we? Guys? Do we?”

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Audrey Farnsworth @audipenny.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 03/07/2026

Sorry, this is slander of the Egyptian team who apparently know all you should do is just run up and kick it.

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Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

My favorite Egyptian PK was the one where he dropped the goalkeeper on the ground and then put the ball right where the keeper had been standing. Vicious behavior, horrible game, I love it

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Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

There are 10,000 rabbits in this neighborhood and they don’t know fear

An Eastern Cottontail rabbit sprawled in a dark blue ceramic planter on a brick patio that really needs to be weeded

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Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

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Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Woke up this morning to a bunch of new followers, thought that the silly picture I posted of the cat was still doing numbers somehow, but no! It was Emily being kind!

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