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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 23h

”im addicted to this Buddhism game” —things someone who is good at buddhism would say???

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 1d

Ok wait listen I would not say this about absolutely anyone else but… I think I you could pull it off

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 1d

And on the fourth day God said if you cut the penis your sons will know so many facts about whales

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 1d

Do we need an Oxford comma here, or are the frogs horrific?

Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 1d

“With this attempt at a longed-for ‘post-post-postmodern sacralization,’ he has taken apocalypse to its logical conclusion, flooding the narrative with comic megalomania, petty vitriol, horrific crimes and frogs, setting it off with a match and blowing it all sky high.”

Holly Case on Krasznahorkai:

László Krasznahorkai’s Catastrophic Harmonies - Boston Review

The winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature serves up an apocalyptic vision of Hungarian society.

www.bostonreview.net

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 3d

What ICE and the National Guard don't realize is that tear gas is basically vaporized Malört. Won't work in Chicago. They love it

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah I thought it was a fun idea! Only downside is now I am creating a weird collection of water samples lmao

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 2d

Oh nice! The podcast mentioned that Jimmy Page (of Led Zeppelin fame) owns a bunch of his stuff, and I wondered about library collections!

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 2d

Also love that I still call it "This week's" Ketchup when I post approximately once every never

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 2d

I posted on my substack if you’re into that kind of thing

This Week's Ketchup

Westerns, Word games, and Watercolor

open.substack.com

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 2d

I am happy for that world to stay closed to me, thank you

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 2d

I learn new words every day and they open up into entire worlds I had no idea existed and it's just so overwhelming to me en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracteate

Bracteate - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 3d

I'm too scared

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · Apr 3

Could you use help explaining the value of #cataloging & good metadata to your admin, coworkers, #MLIS students, etc.? Happy to share this set of resources put together by an ALA working group chaired by @magsjoy.bsky.social. All of these & more are available at hdl.handle.net/11213/22872. 📚

A flyer for a set of documents "Demonstrating the value of cataloging". Six folders are labeled "talking points for administrators, top 5 reasons why you need a cataloger, annotated bibliography, resources list & acronym cheat sheet, side-by-side comparisons of good administrators bad metadata, and introduction to metadata zine. At the bottom text reads you can find these resources at the link in the post, and they were created by the ALA SAC Devaluation of Cataloging Working Group, 2025.

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 3d

… what is it tho

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 3d

(It’s a hand cream, apparently)

Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 3d

Damn Glossier is selling vapes now?

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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NEH Union - AFGE L3403 @nehafge3403.bsky.social · 3d

"What I do know is that we need the #humanities now, perhaps more than we have ever needed them, because we live in a time when so many of us have forgotten this crucial truth: We are a fangless, clawless, furless species, & we survive only in community." - @margaretrenkl.bsky.social #NEH #Tennessee

Opinion: With humanities funding vanishing, stories and those who protect them remain our greatest hope

www.sltrib.com

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 3d

I really gotta make this into something publishable

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 3d

Hypocrisy: People don't like it, but it doesn't really matter unfortch

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 3d

Hypocrisy gotchas don't work at any level because either 1) The person has already justified/rationalized/neutralized the dissonance for themselves in some way or 2) No one cares and nothing results from such a "revelation"

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 3d

You can really tell when people don't have IRL experience with these folks

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 3d

That's why they all sell Lularoe and essential oils or whatever too

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 3d

She considers a field and buys it;
out of her earnings she plants a vineyard.
She sets about her work vigorously;
her arms are strong for her tasks.
She sees that her trading is profitable,
and her lamp does not go out at night.

They love this shit as long as it's IN the home

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