needleclicker
@needleclicker.bsky.social
Archivist, IR overlord, and doer of ALL THE THINGS. When I'm not sidetracked by books, knitting, chain maille, etc. Opinions my own.
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[comes back] Look, I just need tech bros to understand that when people say "I do not want to use genAI", they don't mean "I want the ability to ignore it". They mean "I want the ability to nuke it from orbit because that is the ONLY way tech bros will respect people's choices NOT to use genAI".
December 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
[comes back] Look, I just need tech bros to understand that when people say "I do not want to use genAI", they don't mean "I want the ability to ignore it". They mean "I want the ability to nuke it from orbit because that is the ONLY way tech bros will respect people's choices NOT to use genAI".
I am on Santa's naughty list because I had the chance to visit the archives.
December 7, 2025 at 5:43 AM
I am on Santa's naughty list because I had the chance to visit the archives.
Mezcla pistachio chocolate (snack) bars are seriously gross. Taste burnt and also like alcohol, with bonus weird aftertaste.
December 7, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Mezcla pistachio chocolate (snack) bars are seriously gross. Taste burnt and also like alcohol, with bonus weird aftertaste.
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☝🏻For those of you who want to be inclusive, but aren't quite clear on how to use ALT text, here's a good reference! 👇🏻
It's time for the "How to do ALT text" image again.
Writing a perfect ALT text is impossible, but please try 💚!
Visually impairment is a wide spectrum and doesn't keep people from loving the visual arts.
🐡 #art #kleinekunstklasse #artadventcalendar
Writing a perfect ALT text is impossible, but please try 💚!
Visually impairment is a wide spectrum and doesn't keep people from loving the visual arts.
🐡 #art #kleinekunstklasse #artadventcalendar
December 7, 2025 at 1:57 AM
☝🏻For those of you who want to be inclusive, but aren't quite clear on how to use ALT text, here's a good reference! 👇🏻
In the waiting stage of figuring out whether the extreme nausea is my body doing its semi regular bs or if I've picked up a bug.
December 7, 2025 at 1:51 AM
In the waiting stage of figuring out whether the extreme nausea is my body doing its semi regular bs or if I've picked up a bug.
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The library's Saturday passive program is knives.
Make your own fun.
Make your own fun.
December 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The library's Saturday passive program is knives.
Make your own fun.
Make your own fun.
I drink almost exclusively herbal teas (can't do caffeine) and generally don't sweeten them. I have one tea where the bitter is overwhelming (and disappointing bc the previous batch of that wasn't). Finally thought to pop a bit of sugar in it and yup, all better.
December 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I drink almost exclusively herbal teas (can't do caffeine) and generally don't sweeten them. I have one tea where the bitter is overwhelming (and disappointing bc the previous batch of that wasn't). Finally thought to pop a bit of sugar in it and yup, all better.
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Support us dry dry humans
December 2, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Support us dry dry humans
Half day of work because I'm the Sunday librarian this and next week. I: did the graphic design for upcoming exhibit, approved edits for other exhibit I contributed to, taught a class (that I had forgotten about until prof emailed me at the start of the class), and started dealing w 3 new requests.
December 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Half day of work because I'm the Sunday librarian this and next week. I: did the graphic design for upcoming exhibit, approved edits for other exhibit I contributed to, taught a class (that I had forgotten about until prof emailed me at the start of the class), and started dealing w 3 new requests.
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Using AI to provide 'feedback' to students should be a fireable offense.
December 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Using AI to provide 'feedback' to students should be a fireable offense.
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The annual reminder from knitters everywhere.
#blueskyknits #knitsky #knittersofbluesky #sockknitting
#blueskyknits #knitsky #knittersofbluesky #sockknitting
December 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The annual reminder from knitters everywhere.
#blueskyknits #knitsky #knittersofbluesky #sockknitting
#blueskyknits #knitsky #knittersofbluesky #sockknitting
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All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI.
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
December 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI.
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
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This is unreal. The 2026 code4lib conference has been cancelled unilaterally by Carnegie Mellon University because the Department of Education raised issues with the diversity scholarships:
> An applicant must be a member of a group not well-represented within the code4lib community, including […]
> An applicant must be a member of a group not well-represented within the code4lib community, including […]
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December 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This is unreal. The 2026 code4lib conference has been cancelled unilaterally by Carnegie Mellon University because the Department of Education raised issues with the diversity scholarships:
> An applicant must be a member of a group not well-represented within the code4lib community, including […]
> An applicant must be a member of a group not well-represented within the code4lib community, including […]
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"This fall, I presented my paper, 'More of a Comment than a Question, ' at the main conference in my field. Because the college has eliminated travel funding for faculty, I covered the cost by selling off-season Girl Scout cookies to adults having panic attacks over the election."
A Faculty Member’s Self-Evaluation at the End of the Semester
Dear Committee Members, As part of the faculty review process, I am pleased to report to you on my work. In this letter, I will offer information ...
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December 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"This fall, I presented my paper, 'More of a Comment than a Question, ' at the main conference in my field. Because the college has eliminated travel funding for faculty, I covered the cost by selling off-season Girl Scout cookies to adults having panic attacks over the election."
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I'm not going to RT the fucking Atlantic but I do want to remind everyone that one in four U.S. adults is disabled, so one in five students accessing accommodations at their uni is among the most non-story stories ever penned.
December 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I'm not going to RT the fucking Atlantic but I do want to remind everyone that one in four U.S. adults is disabled, so one in five students accessing accommodations at their uni is among the most non-story stories ever penned.
I opened my bag of Upton Tea's ginger, carrot, beetroot herbal blend. It's a bit sweeter than I expected (not shocking once you actually think about the ingredients) but nicely balanced. I'll happily drink more. #tea
December 3, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I opened my bag of Upton Tea's ginger, carrot, beetroot herbal blend. It's a bit sweeter than I expected (not shocking once you actually think about the ingredients) but nicely balanced. I'll happily drink more. #tea
Trying to plan my outfit for the AI panel I'm on tomorrow, where I get to be the "fuck AI" person. I COULD look generically adult professional but where's the fun in that?
December 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Trying to plan my outfit for the AI panel I'm on tomorrow, where I get to be the "fuck AI" person. I COULD look generically adult professional but where's the fun in that?
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Yes our Christmas tree DOES have a mini Chicago Manual of Style 18th edition and yours could too www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/dam/jcr:a46f...
December 2, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Yes our Christmas tree DOES have a mini Chicago Manual of Style 18th edition and yours could too www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/dam/jcr:a46f...
Do recommend. I preordered and it came in after 11pm last night. I made bedtime....choices....aided and abetted by good storytelling. Finished the book in 2 sittings.
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS A MERMAID is finally here!
*throws confetti*
Go grab your copy and escape into a magical holiday romance!
All the juicy background gossip and teasers: www.lianabrooks.com/...
Buy it now: books2read.com/chris...
*throws confetti*
Go grab your copy and escape into a magical holiday romance!
All the juicy background gossip and teasers: www.lianabrooks.com/...
Buy it now: books2read.com/chris...
December 2, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Do recommend. I preordered and it came in after 11pm last night. I made bedtime....choices....aided and abetted by good storytelling. Finished the book in 2 sittings.
My arms ache down to the bones. Right elbow has a tendonitis flare, so not unexpected, but the left? I'm assuming the temp in my work space being below 60F, plus weather changes. Bodies are dumb.
a black and white cat is sitting on a bed next to a pillow .
Alt: a black and white cat is sitting on a bed next to a pillow, crossing its paws and pouting
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December 2, 2025 at 1:20 AM
My arms ache down to the bones. Right elbow has a tendonitis flare, so not unexpected, but the left? I'm assuming the temp in my work space being below 60F, plus weather changes. Bodies are dumb.
Me: I'll be good and stop reading my book, despite there being under an hour left, so I can go to bed earlyish.
Also me, more than an hour later: doom scrolled then started another book.
Also me, more than an hour later: doom scrolled then started another book.
December 1, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Me: I'll be good and stop reading my book, despite there being under an hour left, so I can go to bed earlyish.
Also me, more than an hour later: doom scrolled then started another book.
Also me, more than an hour later: doom scrolled then started another book.
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Does it strike anyone as weird that we have a ratings board that counts the number of times a movie says fuck or shows a boob and decides who is allowed to see it, and yet GenAI was dropped on the entire with no restrictions, no age verification, no checks, no regulation whatsoever?
November 29, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Does it strike anyone as weird that we have a ratings board that counts the number of times a movie says fuck or shows a boob and decides who is allowed to see it, and yet GenAI was dropped on the entire with no restrictions, no age verification, no checks, no regulation whatsoever?
I know my duty: I provided horizontal(ish) human time for Tatum, while Her Human is away. She was Very Pleased. I got ALL the purrs. And then I was a monster and evicted her (after 1.5 hrs). #cats
November 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I know my duty: I provided horizontal(ish) human time for Tatum, while Her Human is away. She was Very Pleased. I got ALL the purrs. And then I was a monster and evicted her (after 1.5 hrs). #cats
I loved the first one and have the rest queued. I highly recommend them!
THE REANIMATOR MYSTERIES series is perfect for lovers of Gothic coziness. There are 4 books with
💀Pushing Daisies x Sleepy Hollow vibes
🫀An autistic necromancer
⚰️His reanimated lover
🪦 Solving mysteries in 1890s NYC
🏳️🌈MM paranormal historical romance
🔗⬇️Available wide!
#romancelandia #booksky 🌈📚
💀Pushing Daisies x Sleepy Hollow vibes
🫀An autistic necromancer
⚰️His reanimated lover
🪦 Solving mysteries in 1890s NYC
🏳️🌈MM paranormal historical romance
🔗⬇️Available wide!
#romancelandia #booksky 🌈📚
November 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I loved the first one and have the rest queued. I highly recommend them!
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Now this is journalism.
Point it out. POINT IT THE FUCKOUT. They are PRETENDING to not get it.
Point it out. POINT IT THE FUCKOUT. They are PRETENDING to not get it.
November 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Now this is journalism.
Point it out. POINT IT THE FUCKOUT. They are PRETENDING to not get it.
Point it out. POINT IT THE FUCKOUT. They are PRETENDING to not get it.