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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 8d

i've never seen a bigger bullshit stat than the claim from some HR software company that 6% of us workers took a day off work for a taylor swift album when the day in question is a friday in one of the last weekends of the year with nice weather

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Riley L Hopkins @badfuckinpodcasts.com · 9d

This counts got physical copies too, us only

Riley L Hopkins @badfuckinpodcasts.com · 9d

There is a sale on my website now for ANY OF MY GAMES! If you use promo code "DIGIMON" then I can get one step closer to buying the new digimon game and you can get 30% off your order!!

linksmithgames.com

Linksmith Games

roleplaying games about family and connection by Riley Hopkins

linksmithgames.com

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Tensei, but spoopy @tensei.bardrockcafe.com · 10d

This tag line is a heck of an understatement.

Binary Break - A Digimon Actual Play Podcast @binarybreak.bsky.social · 10d

Episode 27 - Partners

The digi-destined face a new type of challenge.

binarybreak.libsyn.com/site/2...

Binary Break: 27 - Partners

The digidestined face a new type of challenge. Featuring Claire Mulkerin, Jake Mason, Tanner Vogelgesang, and Annie Craton. Edited by Claire Mulkerin. Logo by Ann McShane and Christina Woods. Our opening theme song is performed by Hashme Lloyd (), Samantha Bower (), and Kylee Brielle (), and our closing theme is performed by Nice Wizard (. "Nowhere Land" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License The game system we're using is Digidice, created by Claire Mulkerin. Find it at You can support Claire and join her Discord by becoming a member of the Claire Makes Art Patreon! Find us on Bluesky or Tumblr, where we are @BinaryBreak, or send an email to Content warning: discussion of death, death/digidusting of friendly characters, grief/mourning, reckless self-destructive behavior

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Binary Break - A Digimon Actual Play Podcast @binarybreak.bsky.social · 12d

After a short intermission, our next performance will begin on the first!

(@planxty.bsky.social, @anniezard.bsky.social, @jakemason.bsky.social)

Graffiti on the wall of a stage, lit only be two spotlights. The well is gray brick and the new art is a mural made by Jordan Battle and Olliemon, two characters from Binary Break. The centerpiece is a large purple tiger wrestling mask for Jordan's wrestling original character Phantom Tiger. Around the mask are brightly-colored stars, swirls, a cool "S", flowers, and hearts. Further away are sad messages in black. The work is signed with Jordan's tag, "PNTM," and by Olliemon. The background shows spots of paint on the floor, red curtains, a step stool, abandoned spray cans, and the lighting rig overhead.

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An 🌻 Mc @planxty.bsky.social · 12d

huge dork

pitts.emory.edu/2025/09/29/a...

Digitizing a scroll: comic edition!

Thousands of patrons around the world benefit from the library’s digital collections site, which hosts digital surrogates of some of the library’s most important archival and rare book holdings. Th…

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 15d

No. Your friends don't secretly hate you. You're just dehydrated.

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 16d

manuscripts reading room: do not bring anything in, including yourself. place your internal organs in a clear plastic bag and keep it on the table at all times

office at rare books seller: hold manuscript at least 20cm away from your face if eating a hotdog. ashtrays must be kept on the windowsill

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An 🌻 Mc @planxty.bsky.social · 16d

If you've been on the fence about joining in for an early live-stream, this is ABSOLUTELY the right choice for your first

American Clairewolf in Tucson 🏳️‍⚧️😈 @clairemulkerin.bsky.social · 17d

FYI, a few days before each new Binary Break drops, we do an early livestream premiere for patrons only on the Claire Makes Art discord. There's a live chat, visual aids, and I do a Q&A! It's a wonderful communal experience that I really look forward to each month. If you wanna join, here's a link!

is making art (obviously)

www.patreon.com

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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 18d

Lol we made a discovery layer that lies to you, it's a learning experience

"the team has worked hard to minimize such results, but they can and will surface. Importantly, these moments are opportunities to learn more about both the technology and user expectations."

Launch of Collections Explorer (MVP)

On Monday, September 15, Harvard Library launched the MVP of Collections Explorer, the first working prototype of the Reimagining Discovery initiative. This marks a pivotal moment: for the first time,...

circblog.library.harvard.edu

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 19d

The price of books for individual consumers has largely remained flat from 2022 to 2025

Meanwhile, in libraries...

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www.readersfirst.org/publisher-pr...

2025 Summary

Since the first posting of Publisher Price Watch prices in May 2022:

HarperCollins library eBook prices have increased at an annualized rate of 12.9% per year

Macmillan library eAudio prices have increased at an annualized rate of 12.5% per year

The annualized rate of increase for all five publishers is 1.9% for library eBooks and 3.6% for library eAudiobooks.

By contrast, retail prices on print and eBooks remained flat and retail prices on eAudiobooks fell at an annualized rate of 4%.

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An 🌻 Mc @planxty.bsky.social · 19d

radical, my dude

Sketch of Naelmon, a character from Binary Break. He is a strong, bipedal sabertooth tiger man with a backwards baseball cap. This sketch depicts him from above, pointing upwards and holding a boombox (I did not draw the boombox). His design is mostly there, with some details still in progress.

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An 🌻 Mc @planxty.bsky.social · 20d

Meant I paid in-state tuition and those in my cohort already working in the uni system as parapros went for free. I didn't go into debt for my masters and if there are places that haven't considered my application for that, I genuinely have not noticed.

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An 🌻 Mc @planxty.bsky.social · 20d

My archives masters wasn't an accredited LIS because it was an archives-specific program. Got a CA after graduating and made the jump from parapro work for pretty cheap. The only accredited ALA degree anywhere near me had nothing on archives. Didn't make sense to go there.

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morgannox @morgannox.bsky.social · 20d

I couldn't help myself...

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An 🌻 Mc @planxty.bsky.social · 21d

:3

CSX diesel locomotive at the Southeastern Railway Museum. Has a cute kitty face like ":3"

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An 🌻 Mc @planxty.bsky.social · 23d

Look. If we're going to live in a world where Adobe is a company and Photoshop is something I need to do my job. Then I think it has to be available exclusively on CD-ROM.

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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marn s. lastname @corpserevivers.bsky.social · 25d

CAN WE ERASE OUR HISTORY is a two-player, diceless hack of Time To Drop in which you relitigate a toxic relationship (or situationship) while listening to The Beths and being thrown across other realities in which it might have gone differently

marns.itch.io/can-we-erase...

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 24d

fascism is here and you can no longer find your favorite shows and movies on Poob. it’s not on Poob anymore.

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 25d

“Cataclysmically bad”

This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.

1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/

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ECR in 2025: Part One- What is it like? – SSFH

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk

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An 🌻 Mc @planxty.bsky.social · 26d

fellas, you ever have a shindig go so bad you end up norted about it?

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An 🌻 Mc @planxty.bsky.social · 26d

...I totally forgot it was digimonday and surprised myself with this one. Love this little dweeb

Binary Break - A Digimon Actual Play Podcast @binarybreak.bsky.social · 26d

🐾😦🐾😦🐾😦

Digimon: Emolliemon
Player: @anniezard.bsky.social
Partner: Jordan
Level: I'm Just A Kid
Concept: Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Demeanor: I'm Not Okay (I Promise)

(drawn by @planxty.bsky.social)

Drawing of Emolliemon, a character from Binary Break. Olliemon's become emo. He is a bipedal, purple tiger cub digimon with a sad demeanor. Emolliemon traded his vest for a black hoodie and his mullet for fringe covering his left eye. Emolliemon's coloring is desaturated, with yellow eyes and a sad little kitty mouth. Poor baby!

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Sep 11

Biology Department

xkcd.com/3140/

Comic. [Building with large sign in front of it[ SIGN: Welcome to the *Biology Department* It has been [changeable sign: 3] days since we discovered something existentially horrifying about bugs that makes you question your whole reality

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josh boerman @bosh.worstpossible.world · Sep 10

goth girls are one of our most important natural resources and must be protected at all costs

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The Home for Wayward OCs @waywardocpod.bsky.social · Sep 9

Welcome to the Home for Wayward OCs! Today’s episode features @planxty.bsky.social & their assorted stern femme OCs! We discuss archetypes, Pokémon World Tour United, gender parity in Kingdom Hearts, seeing things out, and, Is This Anything?

#newepisode #podernfamily #indiepodcast #OCsky #pwtunited

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An 🌻 Mc @planxty.bsky.social · Sep 8

Final bonus stern femme not appearing in this episode

Black pen sketch colored in gray marker. A girl with a wide face and messy hair holds a metal pipe in a threatening way. She is wearing a polo tee and plaid skirt -- maybe a school uniform?

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