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Book indexer, taxonomist, avid reader, weaver. Why do bird book illustrations always show roadrunners with dead lizards in their beaks but not other raptors? I think it’s a plot.
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Y’all in all seriousness, please pray for the New Mexico Trout & Buck Fire. So many lives have been affected by the fire, some lost their lives, and all emergency services, firefighters, the national guard of Santa Fe are in this battle! Please keep us in your prayers and thoughts!!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

What we learned yesterday. The Times They Are a-Changin'

Bravo this sign.

trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.

In Albuquerque, NM…

Repost if you’re still calling it the Gulf of Mexico. ✋🏽

The Dan Savage quote that was referenced at the Hands Off protest over the weekend in Albuquerque, NM.

#handsoffalbuquerque

@booker.senate.gov thank you!

Time to speak up

One of the most persistent myths about indexing is that a computer can do it. In our Ask the Indexers series, our panel of expert indexers explain why you need a human to make an index for other humans: buff.ly/LkxamP5 #IndexDay

If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...

He should be thankful that’s all they’re yelling right now. Give it a few months, they’ll replace “tax” with “eat.”

This is important. Know you have help.

💾 Huge thank you to the Data Rescue Project and every archivist and librarian out there saving this country one megabyte at a time www.newyorker.com/news/the-led... CDC datasets prior to 1/28/25 here: archive.org/details/2025... & contraception guidelines here: jessica.substack.com/p/cdc-birth-...

The link you’re looking for enddei.ed.gov Remember, with power comes great responsibility.

If you’d like a copy of this unique Kickstarter edition, act in the next few days! The next printing (same innards) in its retail hardcover version arrives in bookstores in about 100 days!

Roadruner ALERT!!! It is Almost BABY SEASON for our State bird! The one in back is a baby #roadrunner #birdsky #skybirds #albuquerque #newmexico #birdsofbluesky

Here's a list of DOGE staff, assembled and annotated by my colleagues at BI. Whatever you do, please don't share it. www.businessinsider.com/doge-staff-l...

Project 2025's implementation is well underway. To check out how the administration's plans are all laid out and what's next to come, use this index to help you quickly locate the information you need. indexersguidetoproject2025.com

Just got a visit from our (now) local author, T. Kingfisher. Don’t worry, we played it totally cool and didn’t spend the entire time trying to remember what to do with our hands. Thanks, @tkingfisher.com !

Look forward to National Indexing Day #IndexDay 2025 event on 27 March @indexers.bsky.social. Welcome by @carosanderson.bsky.social, presentations from @tanyaizzard.bsky.social, Rachel Gee and @indexellis.bsky.social, then I’ll be getting everyone to index the same text. It’s an eye-opener.

Pleased as punch to congratulate @windexing.bsky.social for winning the American Society of Indexing’s 2024 Indexing Award in the trade (general market) book category for @aresluna.org’s Shift Happens! www.asindexing.org/news/2024-in... (I was the book’s editor/project manager)

So my kid saw this on Google street view today and I have so many questions.

Insurance cancellations, or 'non-renewals' in industry talk, are affecting homeowners across the country. The Senate Budget Committee forced insurers to disclose their data, so we now have a map of where the cancellations are happening. 🎁 link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

229,766 voters in just 3 states actually decided the 2024 election. The other 155,200,000 of us did not actually count. Time to END the Electoral College.

The resistance begins. Axios: Secretary Deb Haaland to run for Governor of New Mexico.