Reposted by @werelibrary.bsky.socialKJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 25/09/2026Whenever I think about AI anthropomorphism I come back to Murderbot and the AI in Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, for both of whom I have shed tears. Because a human made them up *really well*. 820216
werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"To my little bush, from her Ilse. Christmas 1929". I have so many questions, starting with how "little bush" ended up a pet name. Anyone know if that was common in Germany in the 1920s? 010
Reposted by @werelibrary.bsky.socialDr Darren Abbey @thebiologistisn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I rarely talk about those with multiple PhDs because it is very unusual for a real person to do that, but I will henceforth be using their PhD count as an exponent on their title. 0152
werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This book is part of the series Studies in Education and Religion in Ancient and Pre-modern History In the Mediterranean 110
werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026From a book of medieval Iberian cooking: "If you want to cook the lentils without onions, you may do so, with the help of God Almighty." That last clause is clearly just a thing one says in this culture... 121
Reposted by @werelibrary.bsky.socialElle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Pope Leo XIV has been gifted a massive green orb and honestly not now massive green orb 76869771132
werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 11/09/2026For me the worst is when it offers to summarize the latest chats with friends. Um, no. I am talking to people I like. I want to read all 57 messages in this thread; that's the point. Even if I've been away for two weeks, AI doesn't know what I think the important bits are. 041
werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Large Francis Building, from @tkingfisher.com 's Daggerbound 627133
werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 03/09/2026@tkingfisher.com 's Large Francis Building 000
werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The whole thread is great, but this particular line is even funnier with no context 020
werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 25/08/2026@tkingfisher.com , in the halcyon days of Twitter, I seem to remember you sometimes resharing posts from someone trying to grow blue beans. Do you know if he's still around and beaning? Our community garden has produced *spectacularly* blue beans by free cross-pollination this year. 350
werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I need everyone to appreciate this absolute CHONK of a bristlefly. 100
Reposted by @werelibrary.bsky.socialMargaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 16/07/2026fuck yeah apocalypse sun is out, shining down on us in fearful red, and I can play the game "am I low energy today because of the heat wave, the wildfire smoke, maybe i caught covid and didn't notice, because I work too much, or is it because I ate uncooked vegetables and got a parasite" 747963
Reposted by @werelibrary.bsky.socialneeds emotional tuning @persian-slipper.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Any time I come across an article about a weird form of organized crime I think of @ilyenasylph.bsky.social @niq.aeli.net and @rahaeli.bsky.social and how it would fit into their version of Gothamwashingtonian.comInside the Food Truck Mafia Wreaking Havoc Around the National MallTurf wars. Food and fire hazards. $15 ice-cream cones. How an organized network of unlicensed food trucks took over America's Front Lawn. 3124
werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 02/06/2026@tkingfisher.com thank you, the exciting new collection of phobias I'm acquiring is sincerely made up for by the phrase "patented caterpillar inflator". 000
werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Mis-overheard at work: "My thumbs are very confusing!" 010
werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Hey, my Christian, pals, can we not equate the Hebrew Scriptures to "the bad, angry god" please? Judaism has a long tradition of wrestling with those passages and is not generally in favor of war. 131
werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Someone has written a kabbalist fantasy Western, and someone else has requested it, and that makes me very happy this morning. (Merkabah Rider, by Edward M. Erdelac. I can't speak to whether it's any good, and in particular I want to check how he handles Indigenous people, but it exists.) 000
Reposted by @werelibrary.bsky.socialOpenly Gay Animals 🌈 @openlygayanimals.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Congratulations, you have discovered the happiest owl ☺️ all curses are now lifted 1017822955
Reposted by @werelibrary.bsky.socialKingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 19/03/2026Please soothe your soul with this footage of an enraged muppet being treated at the wild muppet center. 10658131815
werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 22/01/2026My emotions are so weird right now. "Oh, I'm doing well! I'm actually really inspired by the resistance in Minnesota right now, and I'm doing real work in my own community and even finding some time to do some cooking and... 110
Reposted by @werelibrary.bsky.socialMargaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town. 142153735719
Reposted by @werelibrary.bsky.socialNaomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 21/01/2026ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next! naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...naomikritzer.comHow To Help if You are Outside MinnesotaI’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That said, I do have a section of lo… 1614601086
werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Overheard in the office: "Technical Services is where furniture goes to die, [Department Head]!" 010
werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 03/12/2025I've been using LibroFM for audiobooks and other than a bafflingly terrible search function, it's amazing. I love that they're doing this partnership! 000
werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Food Not Bombs got a donation of 10 crates of bananas becaise someone in the produce department made a mistake. LOOK UPON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY 131
werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Normally I have a limited amount of patience for art and design books that do unnecessarily art things with the layout or structure of their exhibition catalogs. But MOMA in 1968, you're doin' it right. This is an exhibition of machines in art, and it is bound in *steel*. 1103
werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Ayep. Growing herbs is one thing that can actually save you money, since they're expensive, highly perishable, and usually sold in more of the herb than you actually want at once unless you have a large family. But that's if you have the budget to buy fresh herbs in the first place. 172
werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Ditto. I give approximately 1/12th of a fuck about the White House as a historical object, but the utter hypocrisy of blowing up one of the major Rah Patriotism symbols while being the Rah Patriotism party is just...what. He is good at propaganda when he wants to be and this is the opposite. 000
werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 20/10/2025This book was signed, yearbook-style, by several dozen people involved in the Nürnberg war crimes tribunals. I have already found records for "Alice E. Lecht, Capt WAC (MB) (small but mighty)" and "Helen Ann Richardson, (the girl and "pest" next door in room #41) 252
werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 14/10/2025The author of this biography of a certain terrible person clearly learned a fact and is now gleefully taking every chance to refer to his subject as a "failed chicken farmer from Bavaria". 000
werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 01/10/2025"The name xenotime is written originally kenotime from the Greek words kenós (κενός) 'vain' and timē (τιμή) 'honor', akin to 'vainglory'. It was coined by French mineralogist François Sulpice Beudant as a rebuke of another scientist, Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius... 100
werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 01/10/2025That's a remarkably good way to describe the feel of a lot of AI-generated writing. It's bologna or Wonder bread. Technically, this object is bread, but it has no personality and falls apart if you poke it too hard. 200
werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Ok now I've finished it and it's spectacular. A large section of the middle I actually didn't find frightening at all, but readers who don't recognize Ingold as a kindred spirit will probably disagree. 010
werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 30/09/2025This is *amazing* so far. Do not read at night. Ursula Veron and @kjcharleswriter.com are pretty much tied at this point for writing books where I realize I *was* reading the book and now I'm five citations deep in a rabbit hole about the Angel of Mons or horrifying mine gases. 310116
werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 23/08/2025@dikleyt.bsky.social I made this at Yidish-Vokh inspired by some of your designs :-D (Trans.: "This language kills fascists" [Yiddish]) 020
werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 18/07/2025How the newspaper article presents my work on this project: 100
werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Stopped clock, etc. I'm curious if anyone has reasons I haven't heard of that we *shouldn't* do this, but it seems both relatively low-impact and long overdue. 100
werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Today's @xkcd.com presumably explains this extremely wrong globe that turned up in the work supply closet: 110
werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 02/04/2025WOW! Not the kind I would be getting when I need mine replaced, since these are temporary, but the advancements in pacemaker tech are seriously awesome. I'm hoping that ones using piezoelectric charge to power themselves off your own heartbeat will be available when I need a new one. 100
werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 02/04/2025@becausechaucer.bsky.social is a good friend who goes "Hey, I just scanned an article on gay subtext in Yiddish theater and I thought you should be alerted to its existence" :-D 020
Reposted by @werelibrary.bsky.socialSimon Parkin @simonparkin.bsky.social · 14/11/2024My new book, The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad, is out today. It tells the story of the botanists who worked at the world's first seed bank during the 900-day siege––and how they were faced with a terrible decision: eat the fruits of their research to survive, or protect the collection for science. 1053696225
Reposted by @werelibrary.bsky.socialCortland Coffey @cortland.me · 13/11/2024watching cabinet appointments get announced like 462362002091
werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 17/07/2024Place hold...place hold...borrow...place hold... 030
