Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I don't deny that dogs can sometimes be quite lovely but what I will say is I don't trust their opinions. If a cat recommended me an album it had bought, I'd totally check it out. If a dog did the same, I'd promise to listen to the album, out of politeness, with no intention of actually doing so 3551961
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialBen (Bee) Kahn @benkahncomics.bsky.social · 02/09/2026They call him Batman Beyond because he's made entirely of plant proteins 201623317
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialSwedens Softest Kitty @chizita.bsky.social · 01/09/2026 6367445161
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialMary Jo Richards @mjrichards.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I’m fascinated by what @ryancordell.org and @skeuomorphpress.org are doing with printing technologies. I have been talking about doing something similar with an unnetworked/analog writing lab for students at my college. Having it also be a makerspace like this? Exciting! youtu.be/5MJG4_q7vcc?...youtu.beSkeuomorph Press: Slowing down in the digital ageYouTube video by Liberal Arts & Sciences at Illinois 2114
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Historian: The cup can teach you a lot of things that you do not want to know 56916145
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialMel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 09/08/2026my prediction for the near-term future is that the most technologically savvy among the general populace will be driven to a kind of neo-luddite revolution being the demographic that understands that everything that surrounds us is increasingly broken by design 29119
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialDan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026New study shows that — contra widely accepted narratives — there is NO EVIDENCE that professors change their students’ politics and make them more liberal through their teaching 61785451
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialLise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This is a huge issue for scholarship, not just for library collections. We can’t keep ebooks, etexts, ejournals, only rent them. Which means: - paying over & over again to achess the same titles, & - no guarantees of finding the same works later; they can be yanked at any time. 17136
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026Zuckerberg refuses to acknowledge that he owes his fortune to the fact that his users love each other more than they hate him, so he has set out to shatter those bonds of love and sharpen that hatred. 43/ 124942
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026For Zuck - who owns a controlling share of voting stock in his company and need not answer to his board - it's a spectacular act of delusional self-sabotage. Zuck refuses to understand that the majority of his users are on his platform because they love their friends more than they hate him. 36/ 324629
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026Zuck has benefited enormously from the fact that you love your friends more than you hate him, but (because hell is other people), you can't all agree on when to leave and where to go next, so you stay put on Facebook and Instagram: locusmag.com/feature/comm... 22/locusmag.comCommentary: Cory Doctorow: Hell Is Other People“So this is hell. I’d never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the ‘burning marl.’ Old wives’ tales! There’s… 321842
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialAdam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast. 10346161519
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialDr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 04/08/2026We've spent our lives, until very recently, reading predominantly human words, human sentences, human text, poetry. What is it doing to us now, emotionally, to have to wade through so much written material which simply isn't written by a person? If you're a big reader, love words, I think it hurts. 3429
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialRobin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Book 1 is $59.99 went out 4 times. Cost per circ $14.99 Book 2 is $59.99 went out 4 times. Cost per circ $14.99 I'm not buying book 3. If the cost per circ was $5 or $3, I wouldn't mind. But that is WAY too high, especially for a thing that expires after 2 yrs. 57112
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialjessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful 193126137999
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.social👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 31/07/2026Happy Friday everyone, as promised, here is my personal theory on this. I think Redwall takes place in our world, after an apocalyptic event of the nuclear variety caused rapid but varied growth of all animals, including humans, leading to our extinction and their mental development. Okay? 🧵 21626124
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialdrewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 31/07/2026organized crime 018532
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialGC is Doing Whatever @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 30/07/2026The thing about books, as that repost earlier today mentioned, is that the words on a pdf can be changed. But to edit an already printed book, you have to cross the lines out, and if you do that to a book, people will ask, "why did you do that?" No one gets to ask a question they don't know to ask. 194
nofunfortrish.bsky.social @nofunfortrish.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Southern grandma's are just looking for someone to look deeply into their eyes and say, "hominy hominy hominy." 011
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialHannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The fundamental, delicious paradox of studying history is that: 1. These people are radically different from me, and I may never properly understand them. 2. These people are exactly like me. 751493
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialNew-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b 7778532571
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialRoland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Ideologically, generative AI is a 19th century technology: the flawed dream that once you have assembled a supposedly total archive of culture via technical media, you can use it to statistically derive new meaning from patterns of the past 24671185
nofunfortrish.bsky.social @nofunfortrish.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I am pleased to report that Kevin Kruse is back on his bullshit. 000
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialJames Greenwood-Reeves @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social · 13/07/2026As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water 312135589
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialNick Land Acknowledgement 🇵🇸🏳️🌈 @lonestartallboi.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Every cable news discussion of Mamdani treats him like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and then cuts to an image of a man who looks like he was designed in a lab to lead all four grandmas at a wedding in the Cupid Shuffle 10961179
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialregular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 08/05/2026watched this on repeat losing my shit for two nights now 14180922670
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialkaranormal activity 💜 @deadontheoutside.bsky.social · 28/07/2025when someone with a foot fetish cheats on their partner you could say they got off on the wrong foot 20553126
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialFrovo @frovo.bsky.social · 18/01/2026STUDENT TEACHER: okay class, who knows what an oxymoron is KID: you’re an oxymoron STUDENT TEACHER: well yes technically that is correct 5923179
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 07/05/2026happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time 163127074090
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialSteve Ammidown @stegan.bsky.social · 25/04/2026M and I were talking about this last night. The first lesson of doing a library reference interview is that the question is often incorrect to begin with and needs to be massaged. If you get an answer-shaped response from AI to the wrong question, you never stood a chance to begin with! 03010
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialJack Q @jackq.bsky.social · 22/04/2026A hallucinated cite means you did not engage in research. It is possible to make an error when entering or checking a cite, but its not possible to make an error when you check a hallucinated cite and find it doesn't exist. That means you didn't do it. Which means you used AI inappropriately. 1/ 1225
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialGwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Spending a lot of time ripping out crab grass by hand so my clover can take root out back, and it has me meditating a lot on what it means to take out fascists. We always used to say it was whack-a-mole, it wasn't. Successful antifascism in a democracy is a practice of weeding 13607165
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 15/04/2026“So it was, on that misty morning, that Brenda set off for the capital. She knew not what she would find there, only that the time had come to move on - away from small-minded rural attitudes and people who called her ‘Oreo’ and ‘the wide panda’ - to seek a more fulfilling life.” 23794153
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialTruckstop Vigilante @brenthor.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Women only care about one thing. A beautifully cooked ham they dont have to share. They can eat the whole thing and they dont have to share with anyone. 6lbs of ham just for themself. They can take it in the bath or on the couch and its just theirs, not to share. No one can ask for a single swallow 1231256
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialDaniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Say hi. This is an example of how human labor will be remembered when all books are digitized and we all work with digital copies only. And maybe, hand on heart, this hand was intentionally raised to greet us from the past. #skystorians #bookhistory #digitalhumanities 720444
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist. 501200268
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialA Monitor Lizard @monitorlizard.bsky.social · 27/10/2023As someone who has participated in more than one autopsy I have to announce, sadly, that there is no groove in the heart. 2122941
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialHayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 26/10/2023we all thought Twitter’s collapse would be swift and sudden like the fall of the Roman Empire but instead it’s been a steady, irreversible decay like the fall of the Roman Empire 10574871735
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialM Adryael Tong, Ph.D. @madryaeltong.bsky.social · 02/10/2023When I die, I do not want my body donated to science. They have enough funding already. Donate my body to the humanities. 310224
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialDaphna Oren @daphnao.bsky.social · 18/09/2023I do, on the other hand, highly recommend reading Iggy Popp's review of Gibbon in Classics Ireland. 15420
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14/09/2023Which celebrity is always ready for soup? Reese Witherspoon 11442
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialdan mentos @danmentos.com · 20/08/2023his palms are sweaty knees weak arms are heavy there's 402692665
nofunfortrish.bsky.social @nofunfortrish.bsky.social · 28/07/2023Barbie said she would buy the flowers herself. 061