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Jennifer Goodland, Revolution Nerd

@libraryjenn.bsky.social

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Neurospicy librarian; Olympic hopeful. Lazy, but bad at it. Very busy, so tell me why you’re DMing me if you expect a response. Content: obscure primary sources, #ALA. Mocking my horse, #GarbageMare, who I found in a trash heap.

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Jennifer Goodland, Revolution Nerd @libraryjenn.bsky.social · Jun 9

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

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Jennifer Goodland, Revolution Nerd @libraryjenn.bsky.social · 6h

Technically, @amtrak.com has never suffered a mass zombie casualty incident… that we know of.

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Jennifer Goodland, Revolution Nerd @libraryjenn.bsky.social · 18h

The way my breath caught in my chest…

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Jennifer Goodland, Revolution Nerd @libraryjenn.bsky.social · 18h

AI has write permissions

TheNumbersTzar @thenumberstzar.bsky.social · 19h

AI refactored our codebase.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Jennifer Goodland, Revolution Nerd @libraryjenn.bsky.social · 18h

Vibe coder: what’s dev?

(Seriously, vibe coders, at least learn workflow and dev/prod environments…)

The Reanimated Corpse of Revontulet (they/them) @revontulet.bsky.social · 19h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I develop in PROD.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Jennifer Goodland, Revolution Nerd @libraryjenn.bsky.social · 18h

a close up of a white cat with its mouth wide open

Alt: a close up of a white cat with its mouth wide open screaming in anger

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Jennifer Goodland, Revolution Nerd @libraryjenn.bsky.social · 18h

“Migrate to Windows 11” is still giving me fits. Just about every day I leave tabs open when I go home, because i’m working on fifty different things. Then I come in the next morning and there’s been a Windows 11 mandatory update restart that closes everything. 😡

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Jennifer Goodland, Revolution Nerd @libraryjenn.bsky.social · 18h

This one and “microfilm smells like pickles” from @marccold.bsky.social gave me chills

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In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"withdrawal from regional consortium"

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

Screenshot from Farm Bureau article on farm bankruptcies. It shows farm bankruptcies climbing steadily 2014-2020, falling by half in 2021, & continuing to fall through 2023.

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Jennifer Goodland, Revolution Nerd @libraryjenn.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine being so bad in a rap battle that you decide to pay a lawyer tens of thousands of dollars to bring your loss to a court of law

And then your L becomes legally codified

Jennifer Goodland, Revolution Nerd @libraryjenn.bsky.social · 5d

Owning a Ford truck means that sometimes you pay $100 just to find out that your main problem is driving a Ford truck.

(Why would anyone program circuits like this?)

Jennifer Goodland, Revolution Nerd @libraryjenn.bsky.social · 5d

Worked for the grocery industry. Baggers and cashiers used to have a really strong union. Then they rolled out the self-checkout.

Jennifer Goodland, Revolution Nerd @libraryjenn.bsky.social · 5d

My theory is that Waymo is anticipating the regulation of the gig economy. As cities start to peg Lyft and Uber to minimum wage, Waymo will be positioned to eliminate gig driving entirely. Don’t have to care for workers that don’t exist!

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Jennifer Goodland, Revolution Nerd @libraryjenn.bsky.social · 6d

Brezhnev needed barbed wire, land mines, and guard towers with the guns pointed in at their own people. What’s Sarah Huckabee Sanders gonna do to keep people in Arkansas, other than mass incarceration?

Jennifer Goodland, Revolution Nerd @libraryjenn.bsky.social · 6d

I think that’s what they’ve been doing, on purpose: destroy the republic itself, envisioning blue states as weak and unwilling to mount a defense. But I don’t think balkanization works out well for authoritarians - look at East Germany’s efforts to keep people from fleeing.

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Jennifer Goodland, Revolution Nerd @libraryjenn.bsky.social · 6d

If Illinois and Oregon may no longer depend on the protections of the Republic to keep their borders and laws sacrosanct, then presumably they no longer have any obligation to be governed by the Republic - or to respect federal jurisdiction that no longer acknowledges the state.

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Jennifer Goodland, Revolution Nerd @libraryjenn.bsky.social · 6d

Much of how the United States works, as a concept, relies on interstate agreements that we will not invade other states; and that we will not interfere with each other’s commerce or free travel.

Abbott has been building to a repudiation not of the politics of other states, but the Republic itself.

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Jennifer Goodland, Revolution Nerd @libraryjenn.bsky.social · 6d

We’re allowed to invade other states again? That worked out so well the last time…

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Jennifer Goodland, Revolution Nerd @libraryjenn.bsky.social · 7d

Went to Canyon of the Ancients NM. Yeah it’s closed because of the Epstein Files Shutdown. But guess what, there were volunteers out there anyway, with brochures and guides pilfered from the building, directing tourists. Because this land belongs to us.

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Jennifer Goodland, Revolution Nerd @libraryjenn.bsky.social · 7d

I love Bradbury’s work, but he’s like Bloom and Lehman in this way: frames his own demographic as “normal,” while women can’t possibly say anything of consequence and are therefore only included as a political quota.

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Jennifer Goodland, Revolution Nerd @libraryjenn.bsky.social · 7d

I kept thinking about another “bigot in intellectual clothing,” Ray Bradbury. He asked what was being assigned these days in the schools.

The interviewer said The Handmaid’s Tale.

Bradbury thought that was awful. That such an unimportant, non-literary work was being studied.

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Jennifer Goodland, Revolution Nerd @libraryjenn.bsky.social · 7d

Honestly this epitomizes New Mexico a lot more than the hot air balloons

Jennifer Goodland, Revolution Nerd @libraryjenn.bsky.social · 7d

A very good piece about the politics of the apolitical. (Bloom and Lehman: Including women and minorities in poetry is political, while white male poets are apolitical. Also, poetry isn’t supposed to be political.)

Matt Anderson @mattandersonut.bsky.social · 7d

Good Riddance To The Best American Poetry defector.com/good-riddanc... via @longreads.com

Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector

When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...

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Jennifer Goodland, Revolution Nerd @libraryjenn.bsky.social · 7d

The wind blew an AR-15 bullet right to my front door #NewMexico

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Jennifer Goodland, Revolution Nerd @libraryjenn.bsky.social · 9d

Had a meeting with three people who love talking about integrated data analytics.

We had one item on the agenda.

We talked about it for two minutes and now need another meeting.

This is diagnostic criteria for a number of things really.

Jennifer Goodland, Revolution Nerd @libraryjenn.bsky.social · 12d

Anyone else watch Bleak Old Shop Of Stuff or am I alone in my madness?