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Ruth [β˜•οΈ πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’»πŸ“šβœπŸ»πŸ§΅πŸͺ‘🍡]

Thousands of archivists and librarians over here gesticulating *yes, finally, we've been saying this for a decade+*

Ruth [β˜•οΈ πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’»πŸ“šβœπŸ»πŸ§΅πŸͺ‘🍡]

In some ways, maybe it's fine, but also maybe it's not. However the broadsides and pamphlets metaphor is a good one (and one I'm pretty sure I've heard at least one archivist use before)

Ruth [β˜•οΈ πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’»πŸ“šβœπŸ»πŸ§΅πŸͺ‘🍡]

Fun mastodon thing -- there's a lot of GREAT artists on here, so a) you can enjoy people's art! and b) you can commission things! In the 5 years I've been on Mastodon, I've commissioned a patch, gotten digital art, all kinds of little things.

Ruth [β˜•οΈ πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’»πŸ“šβœπŸ»πŸ§΅πŸͺ‘🍡]

my husband informs me that today is the Feast of the Ass

... I am torn between "heh heh" and "that's actually very sweet"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of

Ruth [β˜•οΈ πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’»πŸ“šβœπŸ»πŸ§΅πŸͺ‘🍡]

I unironically love this 1996 version of our library catalog...
web.archive.org/web/1996101814

and by catalog, I more mean a site where you can click to launch the catalog in telnet! And do other things.

also the LOGO

Ruth [β˜•οΈ πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’»πŸ“šβœπŸ»πŸ§΅πŸͺ‘🍡]

Every. single. university:

"We're transforming education for the 21st century and our new digital environment."

ALSO YOU MUST BE BACK IN PERSON

Ruth [β˜•οΈ πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’»πŸ“šβœπŸ»πŸ§΅πŸͺ‘🍡]

Discussing privacy in libraries today and was reminded of this Calvin and Hobbes cartoon which influenced me early re: surveillance...

(I had to ask my mom what a CIA spook was)

Ruth [β˜•οΈ πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’»πŸ“šβœπŸ»πŸ§΅πŸͺ‘🍡]

TIL a really cool, safe method for GROUNDHOG DETECTION!

If you have a hole that you think a groundhog might be living in (and we have several at the new house), place a light object over it.

Something that a groundhog could move and something you'll notice if it's been moved.

We trimmings from a tree that was scraping the house.

And now? WE WAIT.

Ruth [β˜•οΈ πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’»πŸ“šβœπŸ»πŸ§΅πŸͺ‘🍡]

Reading the book HYPE which is, of course, the biography of Clifford Lynch.*


*it’s actually about influencers and online hype/scam/grift

Ruth [β˜•οΈ πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’»πŸ“šβœπŸ»πŸ§΅πŸͺ‘🍡]

Looking for an alternative to a David Brooks article...

Someone on a project I'm in wants to cite David Brooks's 2020 piece "The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake" which is honestly... pretty good for Brooks?

theatlantic.com/magazine/archi

But I know that this has been said before and better by POC and I am looking for a good piece on the subject to support the concept of extended family/kinship/chosen family networks vs. focus in nuclear family.

Boosts ok/appreciated!

Looking for an alternative to a David Brooks article...

Someone on a project I'm in wants to cite David Brooks's 2020 piece "The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake" which is honestly... pretty good for Brooks?

theatlantic.com/magazine/archi

But I know that this has been said before and better by POC and I am looking for a good piece on the subject to support the concept of extended family/kinship/chosen family networks vs. focus in nuclear family.

Ruth [β˜•οΈ πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’»πŸ“šβœπŸ»πŸ§΅πŸͺ‘🍡]

Looking for YouTube channels reccs for a 75-ish old white dude with mild dementia who wants to be entertained by things like documentaries and how stuff works videos and is just generally a gentle and curious person who also takes EVERYTHING he hears at face value and thus is v much at risk to the YouTube algorithmβ€” albeit his wife is trying to stay on top of it but she still works and stuff.

Darius Kazemi

@platypus very calming cooking, farming, and carpentry videos with high production values: youtube.com/channel/UCoC47do52

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