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@otterdidact.bsky.social
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Systems Librarian and occasional cataloger in Maine.

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Otters @otterdidact.bsky.social · 3h
happy Friday youtu.be/yOlrurhsmwM?...
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I See Red
YouTube video by Release - Topic
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 7h
YOU NEED MORE POTATOES THIS WEATHER — Claude Atkinson (for the British Potato Marketing Board), 1930s
A poster featuring an image of a plate of baked potatoes  radiating a Heavenly light. underneath, a couple of line drawings of chefs in tuques respond with delight
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Otters @otterdidact.bsky.social · 5h
While I'm being cranky on the internet, I'm sad that all of the talented Nobel Prize in Literature laureates have to share the stage with Bob Dylan
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Otters @otterdidact.bsky.social · 6h
They only reason they don't want you to "abuse" their pile of math is because they don't want the pile of math to send abusive messages to customers.
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Otters @otterdidact.bsky.social · 6h
We do know that they are not conscious. Your dishwasher is not conscious, either. Children know this!
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Portland Press Herald @pressherald.com · 21h
Nearly half of Maine is now in at least severe drought
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Nearly half of Maine is now in at least severe drought
A large swath of northern Maine is now in severe drought, while a chunk of the coast remains under extreme conditions, according to the latest update from the U.S. Drought Monitor.
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Otters @otterdidact.bsky.social · 7h
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Indiana Jones: It Belongs In A Museum!
ALT: Indiana Jones: It Belongs In A Museum!
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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 20h
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LAURIE ANDERSON O SUPERMAN
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GIFS GALORE @gifs-bot.bsky.social · 9h
FANTASY/CAST.GIF
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Ascension, by Ford Madox Brown, 1844, 📸 by Kirsten Schmitt
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The reason young people vibe with liminal horror is that the wealthy have spent the last half century destroying all anthropological spaces they can exist in, leaving *only* non-places en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-place
en.wikipedia.org
Non-place - Wikipedia
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Jennifer Szalai @jenszalai.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It was a short call, Carlberg said: All the poet would say was she
was "in Iceland," where she was
"listening to the wind."
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Otters @otterdidact.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I always want an additional cat, but Current Cat has veto power and wants to be the only animal in the world
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Otters @otterdidact.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wanted to be a film archivist and couldn't afford film archivist school 😩
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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
'The great green sweep' - my last big aerial embroidery (except the moorland one) until ~February as I'll be focussing booked on commissions until January. I'll still be doing small projects 😊 You can read the full details of this landscape on my site: victoriaroserichards.co.uk/work/green-m...
An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial view landscape. It depicts green meadows, crop fields, tilled earth and groups of trees.A close-up of an aerial view embroidered landscape. It shows sheep in a rough meadow.Pools in a flooded field and a farmer tilling a meadow for crops - a cloud of gulls following!
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Otters @otterdidact.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
oh my god, I just came across one of my authority records from when I was in training (looks all right)
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Otters @otterdidact.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Confused about the legality of my current favorite snacking cheese" is a real weird mood to be in this morning www.oldquebecvintagecheddar.com
oldquebecvintagecheddar.com
High Quality Lancaster PA Cheddar | Old Quebec Vintage Cheddar
Old Quebec Vintage Cheddar is an award winning Canadian cheddar cheese made in Quebec, cured in Lancaster County, PA.. This cheese is cured a minimum of three years and is only sold when the flavor me...
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Otters @otterdidact.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don't even remember what these tasted like, but I *do* remember that they were made with spider eggs and that's what made them so chewy. This was confirmed to me by a fellow six year old on the playground.
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Shirokuma Cafe Bot 🐻‍❄️🐼🐧 @shirokumascreen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 07/10/2026
chesapeake strawberries, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1909
chesapeake strawberries, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1909
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Otters @otterdidact.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I never actually finished my NACO training because COVID + switched jobs, but I feel like starting over sometimes because the number of duplicate headings and improper 4XXs drives me up the wall. I'm no longer an active cataloger, though - just the person who reviews authority reports.
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Otters @otterdidact.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
my tax dollars are paying for this!!!
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Otters @otterdidact.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Inside baseball, but this makes it so everything in your catalog that's, say, about a French novel looks like it's about the English translation of the French novel, even if the original book and the book about it are in French.
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Otters @otterdidact.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Things I shouldn't have seen more than once: title authority record in the form of [author] [title in original language] $$l English and a see reference of [author] [title in original language]
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Otters @otterdidact.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
happy Friday youtu.be/tFNnvQLvs7I?...
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Sonic Youth - Shadow of a Doubt (Restored)
YouTube video by Sonic Youth
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Otters @otterdidact.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Q. Hath AI consciousness? A. youtu.be/459CuGBnD9E?...
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Sesame Street - You're Alive (full, HQ)
YouTube video by LittleJerryFan92 *RETIRED CHANNEL*
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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 02/10/2026
Flat, colorful illustration of a simplified Herring Gull gulping down a starfish. An x-ray view inside reveals 7 other starfish like puzzle pieces inside of them.
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 02/10/2026
Butterbutt. An older comic.
A four-panel comic titled "yellow-rumped warbler poem". In panel 1, a yellow-rumped warbler stands on a branch in a late autumn scene, and says "Fall is here." In panel 2, the warbler watches a brown leaf fall to the ground, and says "Winter's near." In panel 3, the warbler faces the viewer as brown leaves fall, and says "Need some cheer?" In panel 4, the warbler is showing its luminous yellow rump, and cheerfully says "See my rear."
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Who, Me? was a top secret, sulfurous, non-lethal chemical weapon developed by MIT-graduate Ernest Crocker for the U.S. Office of Strategic Services during World War II.[1][2] Who, Me? smelled strongly of fecal matter, and was issued in pocket atomizers intended to be unobtrusively sprayed on a German officer to humiliate him and, by extension, demoralize the occupying German forces.[3]

Who, Me? had a high concentration of extremely volatile sulfur compounds that were very difficult to control: more often than not, the person who did the spraying also ended up smelling as bad as the one targeted.[4] After two weeks, it was concluded that Who, Me? was a failure.
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Gustav Klimt @klimtgustav.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
After the Rain (Garden with Chickens in St. Agatha) botfrens.com/collections/109/conten…
“After the Rain (Garden with Chickens in St. Agatha)” by Gustav Klimt depicts a serene garden scene where chickens roam freely on a lush, green lawn beneath tall trees. Unlike his typical ornamental and symbolic style, this piece reflects Klimt’s interest in landscapes, showcasing a peaceful countryside setting.
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Art thou a silk-worm? Dost thou spin thy own shroud out of thyself?
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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just a quick reminder that the Vietnamese Crested Argus exists. Critically endangered and restricted to humid forests of Laos and Vietnam, it is widely considered to have a huge-ass tail. 📷 Robin Arnold, eBird
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👻 Retro Commercial Screams 🎃 @retrocommercials.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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nona @shadowswithal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
enamored with the lowpoly katamari cat
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Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 01/10/2026
Buying music on Bandcamp = supporting artists. Tomorrow is Bandcamp Friday! From midnight to midnight Pacific Time, we’ll waive our revenue share and pass the funds directly to artists and labels. What will you be adding to your collection? bit.ly/4AE4LVl
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Otters @otterdidact.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reminder to everyone to watch Lucky!
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"What could be more American than Tom Cruise – Teflon Tom, our national Scientologist, the country’s second most notable couch enthusiast–finally choosing to act to the back rows with a performance that’s the equivalent of one of those shoot-the-works banana splits that no one ever actually orders?"
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Apocalypse Yow: "Digger"
Alejandro Iñárritu and Tom Cruise go for baroque in a love-it-or-hate-it supersized satire.
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Otters @otterdidact.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Lord, please do send him to fight the Redcoats, it'd be so funny
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QZAP - The Queer Zine Archive Project @qzap.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Another Zine of the Gay!! Bella's writing about 1993's Going Homo No.2 in this episode: gittings.qzap.org/honey-i-thin...
1950s advertising image of a man holding a buttplug. Speech bubble over his head says "Honey, I think I'm Going Homo!" Issue No. 2 - October 1993 - A homo zine for Queer Fellows"
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In the autumn of 1883, a national paper reported that "an Iowa woman has spent seven years embroidering the solar system on a quilt." Ellen Harding Baker used her stunning quilt to teach astronomy in an era when women could not attend college www.themarginalian.org/2018/12/06/e...
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Cosmic Threads: A Solar System Quilt from 1876
A serenade to the universe in wool and silk.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Shirokuma Cafe Bot 🐻‍❄️🐼🐧 @shirokumascreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
they'd better pay this off
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Otters @otterdidact.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh my god, I need to read this www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/...
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Murder and the First Lady
A young woman who is in Mrs. Roosevelt's employ is suspected in the murder of her boyfriend. Mrs. Roosevelt is certain that the young woman (Pamela) is innocent and with the help of a few officials, s...
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#OnThisDay in 1940, the philosopher, literary critic, and essayist Walter Benjamin died by suicide in the Spanish border town of Portbou whilst on the run from the Nazis. Here's Anca Pusca on the relevance of Benjamin’s oeuvre in a digital age: publicdomainreview.org/essay/o... #otd
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Otters @otterdidact.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today I learned: Eleanor Roosevelt's son wrote a mystery series in which his mother was the detective: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott...
en.wikipedia.org
Elliott Roosevelt (general) - Wikipedia
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Maine Public @mainepublic.org · 28/09/2026
Wild Blueberry Land, a longtime roadside attraction on Route 1 in Columbia Falls, is quietly up for sale. www.mainepublic.org/maine/2026-09-2…
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Wild Blueberry Land among new additions to Maine's most endangered places list
Wild Blueberry Land, a longtime roadside attraction on Route 1 in Columbia Falls, is quietly up for sale.
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
there is no earthly way of finding out precisely what the whale really looks like
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