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John Boggs

@subsublibrarian.bsky.social
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Systems librarian. Learning the violin.

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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I have received both The Calamities (Chuck Wendig) and Blacktail (Scott Hawkins) on the same day, and I don't know what to read first. Not a terrible conundrum to have.
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I just got 15 days worth of Bluesky notifications all at once. Weird.
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Introduce yourself as what almost killed you: "Hi, I'm the sailboat that you didn't see while waterskiing."
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
That ending is a gut punch.
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Memories of my 20s. Seen in the back hallways of the library.
An empty box for the software package WordPerfect.
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Look, I know you're not supposed to microwave eggs. But I had some that were not *quite* hard enough, and figured that if I partially peeled them so the shells wouldn't hold in the steam It'd be fine. Like poking the skins before baking potatoes? It was not fine.
Picture of a microwave with the insides absolutely coated in hard boiled egg mush.
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
As an Oaklander who recently vacationed in Humboldt County, I am greatly enjoying "Humboldt Cut" by @allisonmick.bsky.social ! I just happened to walk past it on the shelf a my library and it caught my eye. I love a book with a strong sense of place in it.
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Interesting piece on euphemism.
aeon.co
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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Every earthy wet stink can be petrichor if you’re desperate enough to write a poem
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Weird end to my day. All the keycards stopped working, and the outside doors locked. I went to the key-card system panel, and someone had opened it and unplugged all the cables! Trying to figure out when it happened, so I can check key logs / cameras. Fortunately nothing torn out, just unplugged.
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I am very much a Texas sheep cake guy. Oh, sure, the normies call it sheet cake, but we know that's wrong. Basically a dense chocolate cake with a denser fudgy frosting that's made up of cocoa, butter, and a whole bag of confectioner's sugar.
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
This is Norman, on a windy day. Photo by my neighbor Sandra.
A cavalier / chihuahua mix standing in the breeze with his ears spread like wings.
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
youtube.com
Ohio
YouTube video by Crosby, Stills & Nash - Topic
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I am taking a workplace violence prevention training online, and it says that it will teach me to "diffuse" tense interactions. Because having those interactions too close to each other is the problem?
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Big thanks to whoever put these tickets on the office bulletin board! My wife was so disappointed that we didn't learn about this show until it was sold out, and it was such a treat to be able to see it anyway! And a joy to see Joan Baez up on stage with him.
A couple of tickets with a Post-it on them saying FREE! Jesse Welles @UC Theater TOMORROWJesse Welles, onstage, in a spotlight.Jesse Welles brings out Joan Baez (!) for his first encore.
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.
A small magnolia in the foreground with just one flower remaining, and many leaves sprouting, in front of a blue sky.
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Tiny earthquake!
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
AGE POT BOOBS
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
What a great example of how literature can literally save lives. The arts are so important.
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Some Jazz in the library.
youtube.com
In The Stax with Connoisseur Rat - Black Power Is
YouTube video by Berkeley Public Library
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
I remember a conversation with my Dad about his new SUV over 20 years ago, when he said if he's in an accident he wants to win. I was disturbed that he didn't say survive, but win.
xkcd.com
Car Size
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Are you there, God? It's me, Ahab.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
"The secret isn’t hidden policy genius or decades of cultural conditioning—it’s infrastructure."
momentummag.com
When Bikes Outnumber Cars: What Scotland’s Cycling Surge Can Teach North America
Scotland’s largest city reached a milestone that would make any transportation planner in Portland, or Montreal do a double take.
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Is he going to stop with just the east wing? Or will we eventually have a brand new, shoddily-built, McMansion of a White House?
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The old man equivalent of stirring your hot cocoa with a candy cane is drinking coffee with a Ricola cough drop in your mouth.
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Just rage-cancelled Hulu / Disney+. We don't want to financially support media that bows down readily. You can't trust anything you're hearing from them if they kick people out as soon as the government expresses displeasure at what they're saying. They're clearly becoming just a mouthpiece.
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Downtown Berkeley this morning. Oops.
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Hey, editor and writer types, shouldn't the construction be "both ... and ..." instead of "both ... as well as ..." As in, "I am both a librarian and a husband," rather than "I am both a librarian as well as a husband"? I see the latter a lot in newspapers, and it bugs me. But should it?
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Just cancelled one of my domains, and the Google business package that goes along with it (email, calendar, files, whatever). I had to say like six times in the process that yes I really want to do this. Yes, I've thought it through. No, a discount won't entice me to stay. I realize it's on my head.
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
"There’s a pollution blanket around the planet, but it’s the result of a pollution blanket around our souls."
theguardian.com
‘It’s a warning, set to a dance beat’: Jon Batiste on his new song urging climate action 20 years after Katrina
The global music star, whose home town of New Orleans was devastated by the hurricane in 2005, says ‘people power’ can change the world
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I don't fully trust anyone who doesn't adore libraries, especially haunted libraries. In terms of desired afterlife real estate, few places compare to library or bookshop. I am going to try hard to haunt my favourite one when the time comes. – #CJosiffe #Libraries #Ghosts
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Berkeley Public Library @berkeleypubliclibrary.org · 14/07/2025
Excited to have our Berkeley Public Library Tool Lending Library mentioned in this New York Times article! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/r...
nytimes.com
Need a Tool for a Home Project? Get Yourself a Library Card.
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Curious why papers aren't reporting that the cease fire never happened rather than reporting that Trump says the cease fire is in place, even though there's bombing going on. Also disappointed the Guardian reports Rutte says Trump is bound for big success when the only source for that is Trump.
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
A lovely day to work on the roof.
Sheep’s head sculpture on building facade. View of SF Bay from a rooftop.
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Mom died in fall of 2005. Today I have outlived her. Damn. This is her at my wedding just 3 months before she died.
My mother at the Otesaga
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
stringsmagazine.com
The Late Composer and Multi-Instrumentalist John Hartford Left a Hidden Treasure Trove of 4,000-plus Fiddle Tunes | Strings Magazine
Until recently, few knew that Hartford, largely known as a banjo player and country-pop composer, had a nearly obsessive devotion to the fiddle.
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
At North Berkeley BART yesterday with several thousand others. Nearly every car that went by was honking & had smiling people in it.
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Shit, man. My sister-in-law teaches here.
dukechronicle.com
Duke Center for International Development pauses activity due to USAID cuts, accelerating University’s cost reduction efforts
According to Edmund Malesky, DCID director and professor of political science, Sanford leadership paused the center’s activities “because [DCID] did not have an alternative funding model in place.”
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I didn't have a key to give to some contractors to get into our network room yesterday, so they taped the latch in so the door wouldn't catch. I said, "Just like Watergate!" and they both said, "What's Watergate?"
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
"[W]hen you memorise a poem, that’s the whole poem. You learn ‘The Fall of Rome’, and you’ve stolen it as cleanly as if you’d walked out the Louvre with the Mona Lisa."
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
They're coming for all of us, eventually. So many people I know work in libraries, public education, higher education, and are all being attacked at the federal level. I think the goal is a bunch of uneducated cogs working in factories, breathing air that'll lower life expectancy back to 35 or so.
myemail.constantcontact.com
Call to Action to Protect Libraries
Email from Berkeley Public Library Foundation   Dear Reader,  By now, you may have heard that President Trump issued an Executive Order that calls for eliminating the Institute of Museum and Library
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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 18/03/2025
Clear, concise, accurate. Must read. ⬇️ "No matter how deeply avant-garde art has engaged in shock and putative nihilism, no artist, to my knowledge, has ever made art with the sole aim of harming the already vulnerable...Those are the goals of AI art, and that is why it resonates with the right."
newsocialist.org.uk
AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
The White Worm of Pretoria actually believes that *empathy* is destroying civilization, that we need to get rid of empathy if humanity is to survive. What kind of world results from no empathy we must imagine for ourselves, but eventually I’m sure it must involve gas chambers or their equivalent.
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Time to stop using Google Maps, and find a new mail host for my personal domain. Fuck you, Google.
An image from Google Maps of the Gulf of Mexico, labeled "Gulf of America."
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Bela Ruino, a new band with an interesting, mysterious sound, based in the SF Bay Area. They don't seem to have much of an online presence right now, but I'm enjoying their stuff.
youtu.be
Bela Ruino - The Other Side of Tonight (Lila Sklar)
YouTube video by Bela Ruino
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
It is worth remembering how much mediaeval folklore stems from the male obsession with genitalia. - Dr. Katherine Wardhall, the Constantine Lecture, Woden College, University of Weychester 1981 #Folklore
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
My current read is "The Bog Wife," by @kaychronister.bsky.social Enjoying it so far! I have questions, which I assume will get answered by the end. But maybe not! I think I found it when I was simply passing by a shelf in my library, and the title (as you might imagine) jumped out at me.
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
My cubicle is the coldest room in the library this week.
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John Boggs @subsublibrarian.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Explain your username I read Moby Dick in tutorial way back in college, and I was amused by the sub sub librarian (and loved all the quotes said sub sub librarian added to the book). Plus, I am in fact a librarian. And not highly placed in the library.
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