iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 1h

Fuuuuuck. My Kindle is being bitchy. I think it's 5 or 6 years old but I don't wanna replace it. Getting content transferred over is a PITA when you have many many hundreds of books on the device. (Yes, yes, Amazon evil and also no way I'm rebuying something like 2k books)

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needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 4h

Came home early because I couldn't focus and turns out, it was an early warning for "body hates me".

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needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 12h

I forgot just why I relegated these running shoes to work/inside. They're comfortable enough but the soles are hella slippery.

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needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 22h

My current emotional support lie is that things will get better/slow down if I can make it through October.

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needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the books I'm reading has 3 POV characters. I love one, tolerate the other, and dislike the other (ironically, the archivist). Currently halfway through. We'll see if I make it.

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needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

First yeast bread I've made in a looooong time, the whole wheat bread from Go Dairy Free. Definitely over rose on the 2nd rising, but it's decent. #bread

Rectangular loaf of medium golden bread, with a flat top

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needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bought 2 skeins of yarn for projects with planned pooling....and just looked again at the hat pattern. It uses 2 separate colors.

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needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Pancakes for dinner, one chocolate chip, one poppyseed, and one plain. The first two got topped with vanilla suger. The last one got cinnamon sugar. Yes, I'm bougie.

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needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Friday afternoon all staff meetings suck. 95% either stuff I know (when Library is presenting) or don't care about (when Success Hub is presenting). Hopefully tired and overwhelmed will keep my face neutralish...

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needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ugh. I have to call the PO tomorrow. There are two package boxes. The keys are unlabeled. I guessed wrong, or the carrier left the wrong one because the box I got open was empty.

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needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Me: next week will be less busy. Also me: schedules 3 more things for next week (all three were initiated by other people, to be fair).

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needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Some of my colleagues need to evaluate their deodorant use and/or bathing habits.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 24/09/2026

what I’m real tired of is “oh don’t you mean HIS REAL NAME” there is no such thing as a real name!!! unless you are the fey in which case YOU KEEP THAT TO YOURSELF

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wow: “To be a librarian is to dance along the cracks of the institution, engaged in a thousand small teaching acts.” Good thing this is OA or I’ll soon be in violation of copyright.

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needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you want to know how I'm doing, it took me about 5 looks to realize that this DOESN'T say "vestibular limited trains". Made much more sense when I realized it was trains with vestibules...

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needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

No idea what I'm teaching for tomorrow's class. It's not until 2pm, I'm sure it's fine. But if anyone has brilliant overland trails primary source activities....

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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/09/2026

This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Dr. DooDiddle theonion.com/dr-doodiddle

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needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@quinnanya.me, I had the k-12 digital preservation talk today (that I promised I'd share about). Kids were talkative (complimentary). Video game archiving as an example went over REALLY well. Only 2 of 80 had heard of Internet Archive or Wayback Machine. Pointed them to your web archiving zine

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needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@bookjockeyalex.bsky.social called it, as expected. Almost all the examples kids gave when we talked about video game preservation were Fortnite. One Mario. Kids were talkative (positive) and a teacher who didn't need to talk to me at all thanked me after so I think digital dark ages went fine.

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needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yes, I do have Strong Opinions about apples. And one of them is I hate the trend for everything to be ultracrisp and generally very sweet.

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needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Why do I live so far from my parents? My apple tree (planted the year I was born) has a bumper crop this year, so my dad has been making all the apple things. Messaged to say he just put an apple pie in the oven.

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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My Rage Against the Machine/Les Mis mashup is complete. This is my interpretation of the quilt guild’s summer challenge “quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current ‘democracy’” all hand stitched.

Quilt hanging on a card catalog. Neutral background with navy cursive appliqué “Do you hear thr people sing?” The background is embroidered in red starting light and getting bolder the lyrics to “killing in the name” the quilting effect is a focused sunburst from the center.

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needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Migraine again/still and not super convinced that even ginger + zofran is going to be enough. I have meclizine around and looks like it's fine to take w zofran...

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needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not super happy w where digital preservation presentation for tomorrow is but I also do not feel well at all so we'll see. Might just have to call it good.

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needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Is Minecraft still somewhat in with the youths (middle and high school)? I'm talking about preservation and want to use a game most kids would at least know a bit about even if they don't play.

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Pulsar @pulsarbird.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Every Millennial was given one of these

Sketch of a hand holding a business card. It has 10 slots labeled "once in a lifetime event". Seven of them are punched out. The center of the card reads: one free Armageddon with completed card

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needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ran out to the farm market and grocery store. Now trying to muster energy to turn produce into meals. First up: sheet pan stir fry. It didn't call for pressing the tofu first, but I did pop it into the tofu press for a bit.

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needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Binding of Bloom Mountain was great! Moderate amount of horror, bit of romance, interesting world building. Celeste loses her gvt job and follows an ad to the town of Milton. Everything's....off. With the aid of new friend (and crush) Marta, Celeste sets put to bind the mt magic. #books 📚🌈

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Emily Higgs Kopin @ehkopin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

every grievance I’ve ever had really boils down to just wanting people to be good to each other and not wanting to be stuck with data models that don’t make sense

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Honestly, the asexuality part is really important. (Polyamory too for legal reasons especially.) People always demand why asexuality requires protection, but it’s already happening in many religiously conservative places—it’s being labeled a deviant “ideology”.

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needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yes. A bit disappointed at boring (20yo me still thought things like the Peace Corps, archaeology, and wildife photography might happen) but overall impressed/satisfied. I still do fibery stuff and I'm helping people plus playing with history shinies (all things 20yo me wanted).

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

if, at the end of the day, you can't follow the will of the people because you're worried that big corporate interests will then spend too much money against your campaign perhaps consider that making sure big corporate interests don't control politics should be priority #1

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needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Me: I'm going to record from home, where it's quiet. Also me: starts the dishwasher. 🤦‍♀️

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

LIBRARIES BUY BOOKS. In fact, they buy ebook licenses with rather unfavorable terms because of how much the service benefits the community. The only people getting screwed in this situation are libraries and library users. The only people doing the screwing are publishers.

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ellison also invested in Theranos and thought Elizabeth Holmes was magnificent. He’s not playing 4d chess he’s losing a game of Go Fish to a 7 year old who’s lying about their cards.

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needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

100% this, as someone who is under 5'. I've had more probs w the medium tall people than tall tall, honestly. And back when I went to non seated concerts, I also had little shame about eeling in front of the talls. I miss Madison venues...

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needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fucking fund hospices, you bastards (US gvt). And also fund all the care to keep people from dying.

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Nora Bombay @norabombay.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The problem of course is I know a shit ton of people who produced 600k fanfiction masterpieces in their 30's and are thought leaders in their fields. This guy's not one of them.

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needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Met with Stephen and Alice Lawhead today. Best story of a publisher pitch. Publisher wanted his Robin Hood series. This giant wooden box (described as like a coffin) shows up at the house. Under many packing peanuts, a handmade yew longbow with arrows. The pitch was on vellum tied w leather #writers

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victoria @vashetc.blacksky.app · 15/09/2026

I've been filing FOIA's for info re: gov. AI use for SNAP & medicaid benefits. Agencies are refusing to turn over records. Wisconsin DHS told me my request would "Significantly impair DHS’s ability to prevent, detect, investigate, fraud, waste, abuse involving public benefit programs ...”. I'm LIVID

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needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Migraine tangent: one current migraine rescue med is an ergot nasal spray. Guess what author Mari Sandoz used for her severe chronic migraines ~80 yrs ago? Injectable ergotamine. Would be kinda funny, as caretaker of that stuff (including medicine bottle) if I ended up on same med.

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needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Cool cool. Definitely have a migraine, and the Ubrelvy I took an hour ago isn't helping. I really really have to be in the office tomorrow (major donors from the UK are visiting, to talk additional material deposit) so 🤞 that it improves. Do have Nurtec samples that I can try in the am if needed.

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needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Got a low battery warning for my key fob. Looked up the battery type and I actually had one around. One YouTube video later, battery is swapped. The real test will be tomorrow am, when I need the car.

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

mitch actually can’t die until someone finds his heart, which is hidden in a needle which is hidden in an egg which is hidden in a duck which is hidden in a hare which is hidden in a chest which is at the bottom of the sea

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needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Love neuro visits where my neuro is doing the "might help but we can't get it through insurance" with med after med.

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needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The tweens and the olds: i'm going to listen to my stuff at full volume in public.

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needleclicker @needleclicker.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Fuck. One of my best friends from grad school got moved to hospice. From what I could glean, massive infection (no success w debridement, antibiotics, etc) + underlying conditions. He's the 2nd of my close grad school friends to go. Both he and Andrea had an outsized impact on the world around them.

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