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Specialist at a film library + curator @ Urban Dictionary. I pick the word of the day.
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Lol this sign "Do not bring food into the library Food residue will attract mice Mice will acquire knowledge in the library Get into university Then replace you" 😂

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hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

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Im not stressed (started playing Balatro)

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If you're more comfortable learning to save sites via a website tool see zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... for the website/data-saving method the global group that's crowdsourced saving Ukraine sites for years (@sucho-org.bsky.social) uses to successfully teach many (public! kids!) how to back up data

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Also known as “degooglization” (made it word of the day last week, surprised by the level of positive engagement it got!) Here are some resources.

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The archetype for the fool is the dog pulling the strings in the major arcana of the tarot - needs an amended version with a shiba inu

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On Aaron Swartz: “He stood for freedom of access to information, especially for scientific research — things the public had already paid for.” - Lisa Rein, co-founder of @creativecommons.bsky.social sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/a...

submitted 12 days ago • 11 comments

I don’t know if I’m into the “Audible Original” adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 but I do like hearing Andrew Garfield’s voice in my ear, I guess…

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Important PSA

submitted 13 days ago • 19 comments

Is it just me or has WIRED been dogwalking the rest of the media on this story

submitted 15 days ago • 186 comments

One of the joys of working in a film library is the break room giveaway book cart, where I scored this incredible text this morning!

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ABC News reported Marco Rubio has been acting as head of the National Archives for weeks. This is news to everyone at the National Archives, including, apparently, the current head of NARA: www.404media.co/national-arc...

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'sif @edzitron.com is on the frontpage of Urban Dictionary.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

After seeing my first two David Lynch films in uni (Blue Velvet + Mulholland Drive) I promised to watch the rest of his work in a theater. Last night I finally saw Eraserhead. I can now stare at this framed image next to my cubicle at work and better understand their facial expressions.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

So it turns out that compared to centralized distribution of digital information on the web, printed material in libraries provided a kind of distributed defense against the casual whims of an authoritarian government aiming to rewrite history.

submitted 19 days ago • 30 comments

Archivists are working to identify and save thousands of datasets disappearing from Data.gov 🔗 www.404media.co/archivists-w...

submitted 23 days ago • 8 comments

God grant me the power to turn my life around as comprehensively as every single tennis player after a bathroom break

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

I saw Wild at Heart for the first time in the theatre last night. The magic of movie-watching always coincides with what happens after: as I stepped out onto Hollywood Blvd, a raindrop fell on my cheek. LA finally got its wish: rain! Thank you, David Lynch 💗

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At Urban Dictionary, we regularly have convos about what the role we can play in the next 4 years. Past week, I chose Word of the Day’s that are useful (ex: yesterday was “broligarch”; today was “Rule of Goats”). If anyone has other favorites, I’m all ears. I’m planning on making useful guide.

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

Looking for any librarians, information science professionals and archivists to follow, if any of my followers have recommendations to share ❤️

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

✨ Bluesky search tips and tricks Add `from:me` to find your own posts Add `to:me` to find replies/posts that mention you Add `since:YYYY-MM-DD` and/or `until:YYYY-MM-DD` to specify a date range Add `domain:theonion.com` to find posts linking to The Onion See more at bsky.social/about/blog/0...

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