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Yersinia pestis

@yersiniapestis.bsky.social
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Rare-books cataloger. Dotty middle-aged cat lady. YIMBY. Fucking bitch. Jeopardy! silver medalist. She/her.

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Yersinia pestis @yersiniapestis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I am learning again that many of my colleagues fundamentally misunderstand what linked data is.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“In May, the Associated Press found that at least 10 detainees had died by suicide since President Trump took office — a pace that far exceeds the growth in the detainee population. ICE did not respond to requests for comment.”
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Yersinia pestis @yersiniapestis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We are thawed!
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the definition of cruel and unusual punishment. The state of Tennessee botched an execution and tried to hide the gory consequences as witnesses twice watched a woman survival the supposedly “lethal” injection. The death penalty is a crime against humanity.
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Isabella Lewis @irvlewis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
On Saturday, 7 November, I will be running a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon around the theme of Byzantine women & genderqueer saints. I hope that this workshop will help to improve the coverage of women and LGBTQ+ history on Wikipedia. To attend, follow this link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wiki-edit-...
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Wiki Edit-a-Thon: Byzantine Women & Genderqueer Saints
An in-person edit-a-thon that aims to improve the coverage of Byzantine women & genderqueer saints on Wikipedia. No prior experience needed.
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Yersinia pestis @yersiniapestis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s impolitic to tell a colleague to shut up and just do their fucking job, isn’t it? Sigh.
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Yersinia pestis @yersiniapestis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Or, What Republicans Conjure Up Before Every US Election
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...
One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 28/09/2026
It has been eight days since Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez was shot by ICE while making a DoorDash delivery in Austin, Texas. He is currently facing a severe medical emergency. The bullet remains lodged in his back, and he is being held at the South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall.
DOORDASH IS ABANDONING ITS DRIVERS
URGENT UPDATE:
8 days after ICE shot Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez in the back while he was making a DoorDash delivery, the bullet remains in his body. Wilber is in agonizing pain inside a TX concentration camp, and the silence from DoorDash is deafening. A photo of Wilber smiling, before ICE shot him, is shown.
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Yersinia pestis @yersiniapestis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Day 4 of it being this cold on Deck B.
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Yersinia pestis @yersiniapestis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
On rear free endpaper of a 19th-century anthology of American literature
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Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There is a corner of the internet I had never heard of before I started reporting this story. It’s called the “burnerverse”: a network of anon burner accounts ostensibly discussing college sports. But they have another goal: destroying young girls’ lives.🧵: www.wired.com/story/burner...
wired.com
A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
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Yersinia pestis @yersiniapestis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Tell us how you really feel, Fred
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the-thc-ministry.bsky.social @the-thc-ministry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
MEET A ICE NAZI SCUMBAG ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“I teach a subject that is now considered ‘controversial,’” a professor in North Carolina wrote. “As a result, I have had a non-student with a gun enter my classroom to intimidate me. I have received an email death threat from a student.” lailluminator.com/2026/09/10/u...
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University faculty in the South report culture of fear, doxxing and threats • Louisiana Illuminator
A survey of higher education faculty in the South found professors are concerned about the political environment around higher education
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 11/09/2026
"The message is simple: that the rules do not apply to white Republican men. The message is that everything that parents and teachers tell children that people have to do in our society, white Republican men do not actually have to do."
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Editor's Notes: You, Too, Can Forget 9/11
On a solemn occasion, Republicans’ message to America’s youth is a promise about their future.
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Shaker Samman @shaker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
When I wrote this five years ago, it felt like I was talking about something that had happened — not something that was happening. That’s not the case anymore. Anti-Arab and anti-Muslim sentiment feels as pervasive as it has since 9/11. www.si.com/nba/2021/09/...
si.com
‘Things Are Going to Be Different Now’
The lost story of September 11 is the story of September 12, the day Muslims in America—from Hakeem Olajuwon on down—woke up to a new reality.
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Yersinia pestis @yersiniapestis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Maybe I should go home early. I already want to slap people.
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Yersinia pestis @yersiniapestis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Also, fuck Ralph Nader.
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Yersinia pestis @yersiniapestis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It is 6:48 AM, and I have already seen my first “I remember where I was” post from someone who was, and is, nowhere near NYC or DC. Fuck off, tragedy vultures.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
Just to note, fucking YUDKOWSKY's coauthor is on market place today, I guess I do need to do a thread on him because I have nothing better to do than write about OPEN EUGENICISTS being interviewed by NPR and advising BERNIE SANDERS.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/09/2026
You’ll notice they don’t really say what it is we’re meant to be scared of and never address the actual material harms from today, because they don’t care about anything like that. If they were in any other industry they’d be called lunatics bsky.app/profile/joem...
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
It’s 9/11 eve, don’t forget to racially profile yourself and put out those little three ounce bottles of shampoo for TSA Santa
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Frankenbert Graveyardko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
On the A.I. guys warning us that their own work might kill us all: defector.com/what-if-we-c...
defector.com
What If We Could Have A Future? | Defector
Maybe you have heard of Roko’s Basilisk. This is a thought experiment, for lack of a better term, popular among a certain set: hyper-rationalists, futurists, effective altruists. Tech-industry guys. Y...
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 09/09/2026
Just learned that Category Is Books, a lovely queer bookshop in Glasgow, has been targeted by transphobic violence, & is fundraising to cover the costs of a smashed window & roller shutters. I hate that they have to do this & would love to see them meet their goal.
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Donate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is Books
For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!
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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If you’re a subscriber to The Book Collector, my article “Friends and Subtle Enemies,” about the women who led the charge of the study of incunabula in America, is out now! thebookcollector.co.uk/friends-and-...
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Friends and Subtle Enemies: Some American Early Bookwomen of the 20th Century | The Book Collector
FROM THE CURRENT ISSUE: Most Anglophone bibliophiles today with an interest in incunabula will be familiar with Goff numbers (referring to Goff’s Incunabula in American Libraries; a Third Census, 1964...
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Yersinia pestis @yersiniapestis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I am asking once again if anyone knows of a job for an experienced and thus kind of old rare-books cataloger outside of the US in a place with fewer guns & substantially less fascism.
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Yersinia pestis @yersiniapestis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’m alone up here until about 10:30. It’s so blessedly quiet.
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Nicole Pagowsky, Ph.D. @nope4evr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A list of instructions for disabling AI in various sites and platforms from @librarian.bsky.social : www.librarian.net/notoai
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How to disable or avoid intrusive AI
One of the biggest questions I get at Drop-In Time at the library (besides "what is taking up all my cloud storage?") is how to disable or avoid intrusive AI that shows up where people don't want it. ...
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'm a staff writer at @wired.com and I'm looking to speak with parents of immunocompromised kids, especially those in areas with measles outbreaks, and how you're dealing with back to school with rising cases. emily_mullin@wired.com
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Yersinia pestis @yersiniapestis.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Please set the Nats bullpen on fire. Thank you.
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Yersinia pestis @yersiniapestis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I wish they wanted to recruit middle-aged rare-books catalogers. Anyone not in the US want to recruit a middle-aged rare-books cataloger?
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BK? @whitesox.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
MLB posting a 9 minute compilation of right field assists to third base in honor of Dolly Parton. Because 9-5. Genius. youtu.be/IokVk0-XS8Y?...
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Throwin' 9 to 5! 9:25 of the GREATEST assists from right fielders to third basemen | MLB Highlights
YouTube video by MLB
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Yersinia pestis @yersiniapestis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Dear colleagues: Shut up. Crankily, Me
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Yersinia pestis @yersiniapestis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Thanks to the bullshit that is BMI, you’re probably considered overweight, which is on the list.
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Yersinia pestis @yersiniapestis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
BENE MAIALE
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Yersinia pestis @yersiniapestis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Someone needs to do it.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Tremendously 2020s behaviour here: a malignant far right crackpot with horrifying views and aims, looking at a bunch of people protesting against malignant far right crackpots, and telling easily-led people online that he is being murdered by them. What could be more redolent of the era?
Nathan Cofnas c
@nathancon... •6h
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There is an anti-Cofnas hate rally in Trafalgar Square with ~15,000 attendees. If I were in London there is a real possibility that I would be murdered.
1000s of academics & journalists knew the truth about Jason Arday for more than a year.
Now you know why no one said anything.
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@MrAndyNgo • 6h
London - I'm at the memorial attended by thousands of DEI supporters and leftist radicals for disgraced academic and serial hoaxer Jason Arday. The speakers repeatedly target academic
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
There were a lot of articles recently about how bad it was for Cambridge to hire someone who made up stories about their experiences, and now Yale has hired this man?
phillymag.com
David Brooks: Boo-Boos in Paradise
The classic 2004 examination of David Brooks’s “Bobos in Paradise” by Philadelphia magazine’s Sasha Issenberg.
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Yersinia pestis @yersiniapestis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I cannot read Official RDA without laughing. If the RSC is reading this: are any of you familiar with the phrase “high on your own supply”?
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adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"Amazon destroying rare books" == people think they're cutting up the Voynich manuscript and wiping their ass on it, but it's way more likely to be this
The Official Guide to Netscape Navigator 3.0
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Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Super-niche question: I'm looking for descriptions/insight into how #earlymodern people would have crafted sheets of paper into provisional "notebooks" for the purposes, say, or record keeping/accounting. Not formal, bound books, but spaces for jotting things down, etc.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...
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Yersinia pestis @yersiniapestis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My DCRM-L subscription is set as digest, and the headers confirm this. Yet I receive every. post. singly.
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 16/08/2026
You know what? FOX 2 Detroit ended their high school essay contest in 1995 because of me. I was the last winner. A (white) teacher at another HS accused me and my (white) AP English teacher of cheating. Essay was "too long." Previous winners read their essays on TV. I only got to visit the studio.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
#ICYMI #earlymodern
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Yersinia pestis @yersiniapestis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
ISTC is very slow right now. Warning!
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Here are things that happened at the DNC today: 1) Resolution calling to abolish ICE unanimously adopted 2) Brand-new early state calendar that reflects the full diversity of the Democratic base 3) Rejection of insider efforts to ban RCV from being used in presidential primaries Great results here
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Yersinia pestis @yersiniapestis.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I located an incunabulum in the stacks I’d been looking for to catalog. Copy 1: fine. Copy 2: bound with another title. Copy 3: bound with a different title. I’ve been up & down the stairs half the day. Regrets: I have a few.
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