Kir
@librarytrying.bsky.social
Librarian, former vet med staff and current cat nerd. Trying my mediumest. She/her is fine.
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"DATA CENTER WATER USE DOESN'T MATTER" is one of the silliest arguments I see floating around. unless you think re-writing 200 yr old water law (OG political third rail in the US) is a simple matter, the marginal consumption of new water is literally make or break for much of life in the western US
January 2, 2026 at 3:41 AM
"DATA CENTER WATER USE DOESN'T MATTER" is one of the silliest arguments I see floating around. unless you think re-writing 200 yr old water law (OG political third rail in the US) is a simple matter, the marginal consumption of new water is literally make or break for much of life in the western US
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It’s no guarantee but the first thing you should do if you see an outrageous story that’s just an image or screenshot or video with no link to a reputable source is to check the replies and see if someone is saying “that’s an AI fake.” And then don’t spread it either way because it’s not sourced.
January 2, 2026 at 7:40 PM
It’s no guarantee but the first thing you should do if you see an outrageous story that’s just an image or screenshot or video with no link to a reputable source is to check the replies and see if someone is saying “that’s an AI fake.” And then don’t spread it either way because it’s not sourced.
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For the most part I try to make what other folks are doing not my business. Twitter was enabling some pretty horrifying shit for a long time, but putting a "take this child actress's dress off" button on there is a level of "what the fuck are you doing on this site" that is hard to grapple with.
if you still use Twitter please understand that you are enabling and supporting this.
It’s only going to get worse, so you may as well leave now and start rebuilding your “following” anywhere else.
It’s only going to get worse, so you may as well leave now and start rebuilding your “following” anywhere else.
For the last few days on X, people (mainly women, and sometimes children) have had nonconsensual images of them in swimsuits (or much worse) requested by users and created by Grok.
Musk's only apparent response thus far has been to crack jokes about it.
Musk's only apparent response thus far has been to crack jokes about it.
January 2, 2026 at 4:58 AM
For the most part I try to make what other folks are doing not my business. Twitter was enabling some pretty horrifying shit for a long time, but putting a "take this child actress's dress off" button on there is a level of "what the fuck are you doing on this site" that is hard to grapple with.
Oh hell yeah, why not.
January 1, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Oh hell yeah, why not.
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As we move into Hate Yourself Publicly Season, I also wish for us a year in which we have the courage to value ourselves for who we are & not hate ourselves for who we're not, a year in which we listen not to those who line their pockets with our insecurities, but to voices of tenderness & respect.
December 31, 2025 at 11:35 PM
As we move into Hate Yourself Publicly Season, I also wish for us a year in which we have the courage to value ourselves for who we are & not hate ourselves for who we're not, a year in which we listen not to those who line their pockets with our insecurities, but to voices of tenderness & respect.
There was a time I wanted to be a NASA librarian *so bad.* This is gross.
(And yes, library consolidations were already planned at NASA, but like...in an orderly fashion, with a preservation plan, I think).
(And yes, library consolidations were already planned at NASA, but like...in an orderly fashion, with a preservation plan, I think).
They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?!
Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.
Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.
December 31, 2025 at 11:25 PM
There was a time I wanted to be a NASA librarian *so bad.* This is gross.
(And yes, library consolidations were already planned at NASA, but like...in an orderly fashion, with a preservation plan, I think).
(And yes, library consolidations were already planned at NASA, but like...in an orderly fashion, with a preservation plan, I think).
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Today is the last day that you can repost this image
December 31, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Today is the last day that you can repost this image
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"Show me the energy you're leaving 2025 with" "Post a gif of the energy you're carrying into 2026" sweeties I am 40 or 50 years old, what on EARTH makes you think I have energy
December 31, 2025 at 4:27 AM
"Show me the energy you're leaving 2025 with" "Post a gif of the energy you're carrying into 2026" sweeties I am 40 or 50 years old, what on EARTH makes you think I have energy
Noodle chef (yay). I think the "robot" part is not an occupation but I would also accept mechanical joints.
Well, now I'm an English professor...
December 29, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Noodle chef (yay). I think the "robot" part is not an occupation but I would also accept mechanical joints.
This thread is a really fun way to learn about wine.
I used to manage wine programs for movie theaters and I am in the extremely unique position to say with professional certainty that the answer here is a crisp Albariño.
asking the sommelier which wine pairs best with swedish fish
December 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
This thread is a really fun way to learn about wine.
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I didn't bother reading it (thank you for doing the unpleasant work, Kate!) but what bothers me most about this, I think, is the smug implication by the 'writer' that her time is so much more important than the reader's. "I use AI because I have better things to do than write for you!"
If you're wondering whether the "open letter about AI" on file 770 is worth reading and engaging, it is not. The whole thing is rhetorical mush so it was no surprise when I got to the end and she admitted "her" letter was itself written by AI. Useless bait.
December 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I didn't bother reading it (thank you for doing the unpleasant work, Kate!) but what bothers me most about this, I think, is the smug implication by the 'writer' that her time is so much more important than the reader's. "I use AI because I have better things to do than write for you!"
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No, I won't accept your framing by rejecting it. I won't even acknowledge you.
The plagiarism machine that is regularly factually errant, and that poisons the environment, and that ultimately serves the worst corporate masters imaginable, is beneath my contempt.
I'm going to make breakfast.
The plagiarism machine that is regularly factually errant, and that poisons the environment, and that ultimately serves the worst corporate masters imaginable, is beneath my contempt.
I'm going to make breakfast.
December 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
No, I won't accept your framing by rejecting it. I won't even acknowledge you.
The plagiarism machine that is regularly factually errant, and that poisons the environment, and that ultimately serves the worst corporate masters imaginable, is beneath my contempt.
I'm going to make breakfast.
The plagiarism machine that is regularly factually errant, and that poisons the environment, and that ultimately serves the worst corporate masters imaginable, is beneath my contempt.
I'm going to make breakfast.
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When the polite, cultured Dr. Pepper consumes a special draught, he turns into the brutish, monstrous Mr. Pibb.
December 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
When the polite, cultured Dr. Pepper consumes a special draught, he turns into the brutish, monstrous Mr. Pibb.
I'm a librarian and we NEED this. People believe in books in a way that's hard to quantify. People who ask for books don't want websites or advice, they want pages to turn. There are plenty of books that set out to mislead people, but not enough that set out to help them not be misled.
All - genuinely.
If this is something you want to see, can you quote tweet this and explain why?
Since I've been fighting to write this book for years, and I keep getting told there's no market interest.
I get it; it's not a sexy book. But it's an important book, imho. LMK what you think?
If this is something you want to see, can you quote tweet this and explain why?
Since I've been fighting to write this book for years, and I keep getting told there's no market interest.
I get it; it's not a sexy book. But it's an important book, imho. LMK what you think?
Also: I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
Publishing, let me write a media literacy book, I am begging you. I keep being told that there's no appetite for this...
But how can there NOT be, when it's an urgent and pressing issue, especially with how we aggregate news + use of AI?
Publishing, let me write a media literacy book, I am begging you. I keep being told that there's no appetite for this...
But how can there NOT be, when it's an urgent and pressing issue, especially with how we aggregate news + use of AI?
December 25, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I'm a librarian and we NEED this. People believe in books in a way that's hard to quantify. People who ask for books don't want websites or advice, they want pages to turn. There are plenty of books that set out to mislead people, but not enough that set out to help them not be misled.
I LOVED cracking open a fresh Blue Book (although I don't think I should have had to buy them myself). Students today need to get on my level (providing for appropriate disability accommodations).
Does anyone else bristle at this framing? WSJ says blue books are “torturing” students with hand cramps, and “nobody likes them.”
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back.
Cheating with ChatGPT has become a huge problem for colleges. The solution is painfully old-school.
www.wsj.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I LOVED cracking open a fresh Blue Book (although I don't think I should have had to buy them myself). Students today need to get on my level (providing for appropriate disability accommodations).
This is pizza erasure.
I would love to see a hallmark movie that reflected my reality which is the lady goes home from the small town to the big city and just spends the whole trip eating bagels and american chinese food.
In the hallmark movies where the lady goes back home from the big city, they never talk about the game she must play pretending that the ethnic food in the small town is anywhere near as good as her family thinks it is. Just grimacing while eating mid Thai food.
December 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM
This is pizza erasure.
73 degrees on December 22?!?!
oh the weather outside is frightful
the lack of snow is not delightful
the temperature's way too high
we're gonna die, gonna die, gonna die
the lack of snow is not delightful
the temperature's way too high
we're gonna die, gonna die, gonna die
December 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
73 degrees on December 22?!?!
Nbd, just a pair of great horned owls sitting in the trees directly behind my house, hooting dramatically at each other.
December 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Nbd, just a pair of great horned owls sitting in the trees directly behind my house, hooting dramatically at each other.
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Happy Shortest Day of the Year to those who hibernate!
December 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Happy Shortest Day of the Year to those who hibernate!
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I want you to look me in the eye and tell me you can't tell the difference between running spell-check and asking a bot to do some work for you.
LOOK ME IN THE EYES AND TELL ME THEY SEEM THE SAME.
LOOK ME IN THE EYES AND TELL ME THEY SEEM THE SAME.
December 20, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I want you to look me in the eye and tell me you can't tell the difference between running spell-check and asking a bot to do some work for you.
LOOK ME IN THE EYES AND TELL ME THEY SEEM THE SAME.
LOOK ME IN THE EYES AND TELL ME THEY SEEM THE SAME.
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Today's a great day in Colorado to very carefully not start fires.
December 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Today's a great day in Colorado to very carefully not start fires.
Yeah, hunger games feels about right for where we're at.
Trump announces an "unprecedented four-day athletic event" with "one young man and one young woman from each state and territory"
December 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Yeah, hunger games feels about right for where we're at.
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Gender affirming care for trans people is safe, effective, and has a lower regret rate (4%) than almost any major medical procedure. It saves lives. These are facts. The right's talking-points are recycled "they are coming for your children!" scare tactics well over fifty years old at this point.
New research finds trans teens have high satisfaction with gender care
The survey published in JAMA Pediatrics showed that trans teens taking puberty blockers or hormones had very low rates of regret.
www.npr.org
December 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Gender affirming care for trans people is safe, effective, and has a lower regret rate (4%) than almost any major medical procedure. It saves lives. These are facts. The right's talking-points are recycled "they are coming for your children!" scare tactics well over fifty years old at this point.
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The US government called NCAR a “stronghold for left-wing climate lunacy” which is a wild thing to say during the 2nd hottest year on record, in the middle of horrific west coast storms and flooding, in a year that saw wildfire-red skies and hurricanes devastating Jamaica, Asheville and more
NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
www.usatoday.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The US government called NCAR a “stronghold for left-wing climate lunacy” which is a wild thing to say during the 2nd hottest year on record, in the middle of horrific west coast storms and flooding, in a year that saw wildfire-red skies and hurricanes devastating Jamaica, Asheville and more