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Jesus wept.

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Sign at the Toronto Marathon today.

submitted 4 days ago • 30 comments

you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you

submitted 7 days ago • 60 comments

Yesterday I was at an all day IFLA event at York U. A librarian from Norway, Mariann Schjeide, who was there repping FAIFE and facilitating a panel unwittingly absolutely DESTROYED the notion of libraries as neutral institutions in the blink of an eye. I actually squealed with glee. 10/10 no notes.

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Genuinely unbelievable how blatant the ongoing trans rights scandal is in the UK

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

MPOW is rolling out Gemini on our campus. I just tried it out with a prompt fairly representative of a typical essay assigned to one of my departments. On the bright side, it did a TERRIBLE job. On the down side, it did a TERRIBLE job and students will still use it.

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In the authoritarian year of 2025, I desperately want adults to be okay with me or anyone else not enjoying something that they enjoy. Amen.

submitted 25 days ago • 11 comments

A theme that I brought home from ACRL was to focus on relationships and community right now; to celebrate the smaller moments. I just had a research consult w/ a student and her face lit up as we found articles relevant to her topic. Her smile had wattage! We stopped for a moment to enjoy that. 💡

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

I can only imagine the bailout package they are drawing up for themselves. As the saying goes, privatize the profits, and socialize the losses.

submitted 31 days ago • 295 comments

Closing keynote at #acrl25 with @theferocity.bsky.social asking us how our hangovers are… not his first time speaking to librarians. 😂🙃

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Here’s the thing about all the advice I’m reading about crossing the border. I just don’t have a burner phone kicking around?!?! (please don’t give me more advice… I’m good on that front)

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This reminds me of the infinite wisdom of @baharaky.bsky.social pointing out that using the wifi sponsored by Elsevier while listening to Lawrence Lessig talk about Aaron Swartz was kind of fucked up. Just bought myself an eSIM so that I don't have to avail myself of the "free" wifi.

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Just got around to updating StoryGraph after finishing Carol Off’s latest. Struck by the number of reviews that basically say “we are all so fucked and this book tells you exactly why and how it happened.” Definitely recommended reading to understand These Times app.thestorygraph.com/books/5c39ed...

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Yes, hello librarians out there. I just helped a student who was (correctly) using a very fancy Boolean search in a database but she wasn’t finding what she needed. I got her to switch up to using four keywords (no operators) in library discovery layer. 💥 Sorted. Please, start with simple.

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The Special Libraries Association announces dissolution. 📚 sla.org/news/697073/...

submitted 43 days ago • 6 comments

Does anyone know what the future of ERIC will be? I presume it would also be a casualty of Dept of Education’s closure? Just looking for the folks who are talking about this! 📚

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

What stage of capitalism is this now?

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

everyone should listen to this in its entirety but journalists should listen to it multiple times. this is how you ask questions. you just keep asking simple, easily answerable stuff and the evasiveness becomes that much more glaring

submitted 55 days ago • 72 comments

I will never be one of the elders that has to be told by younger people to exit stage left. It's important to cede the stage & to do so with grace. Go do other work. [stay out of my mentions about ageism]

submitted 55 days ago • 17 comments

Maybe I'm just hormonal or overwhelmed by ~the world~ (or both?) but this just made me cry a little bit.

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

Apple and Costco are two organizations that get most of my disposable money. Insofar as I will ever root for capitalism, this is the kind I will gladly cheer on.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

My tiny act of resistance this morning was flipping off the cyber truck I saw out in the wild today. They are a rare sight ‘round these parts, thank goodness. No bigger Asshole flag out there.

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“If you are confused when you see Musk narrating a serious civic affair like a video game side quest, understand that you are not the intended audience. What looks like chaos to you is actually clarifying content to someone else” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...

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Weird how not a single one of the newspapers and magazines that have been breathlessly churning out "cancel culture" thinkpieces for the past four years have managed to use the word "censorship" at all to describe the most rapid and comprehensive campaign of mass-censorship in recent US history.

submitted 93 days ago • 78 comments

Sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme. Some crypto projects are pump and dump schemes, while others are pyramid schemes. Others are just standard issue fraud. Others are just middlemen skimming off the top. Stop glossing over the diversity in the industry.

submitted 120 days ago • 73 comments

PLSN gets a lot of letters asking for info about Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh stuff. I came across one that I thought would be perfect for my 13yo kid - with his storehouse of detailed Pokemon knowledge - to answer. He’s working away at it now. Perfect use of idle teenage time.

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I feel sick.

submitted 139 days ago • 0 comments

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New professional skill, when librarianship meets academic integrity investigations: forensic bibliographer.

submitted 142 days ago • 3 comments