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The Knights Who Say "Rob Tomshah-NI!"
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Reply guy turned alt-text scold. Film buff (esp. animated, funny or arty stuff), music nut (polyjamorous), fan of sf/fantasy/comics. Favors extending freedom to people who can't take freedom for granted, opposes putting people "in their place". He/him
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robtomshany.bsky.social
Casablanca 2: Morocco Boogaloo
radlein.bsky.social Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.social · 19h
2 Casa 2 Blanca
kevinmkruse.bsky.social Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h
Casablanca 2: The Squeakuel
Casablanca 3: The Search for Sam
Casablanca 4: Black in Blanca
Casablanca 5: Tangier Drift
Casablanca 6: Citizens on Patrol
December 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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librarypolicy.bsky.social
Federal grants to libraries from the Institute of Museum and Library Services have been reinstated all across the country: www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...

But we're not done yet. Congress MUST #FundLibraries in next year's budget. Take action now: app.oneclickpolitics.com/campaign-pag...
Libraries and museums get federal funding back after Trump cuts
Earlier this year, the Trump administration gutted the Institute of Museum and Library Services, leading to canceled federal grants. Now, after a court order, those grants are being reinstated.
www.npr.org
December 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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ergative-abs.bsky.social
WELCOME TO THE DRACULA PAPRIKA DISCOURSE!!

(meme from tumblr, not my own, original link seems to be dead now)
Galaxy brain meme. Panel 1: Jonathan Harker found paprika hendl spicy because he is pathetically English. Panel 2: Hungarian paprika ranges from mild to very spicy; it's perfectly possible our friend Jonathan was served the spicy stuff Panel 3: "paprika hendl uses sweet paprika" recipes change quickly over time an dplace, Jonathan may have been served a regional variant Panel 4 (text running off bottom): PAPRIKA USED TO BE SPICER holy shit it used to be spicier before sweeter peppers were cultivated in the 1920s. plus the machine to remove the spicy pith and seeds was only invented in the 1860s. 19th century Hungarian cuisine was simply spicier than its modern counterpart. not to mention how even "mild" paprikca can cause indigestion which is why it's so frequently served with sour cream
December 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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knitteng.bsky.social
My family's been loving the DVD section at the library this year as we cut back on streaming $. The kids love getting to pick them, and as a parent, it's nice to have a finite limit to some of the movies. 🤫😆
robtomshany.bsky.social The Knights Who Say "Rob Tomshah-NI!" @robtomshany.bsky.social · 4d
Always good to be reminded that one doesn't have to be in thrall to the streamers for one's entertainment. As someone who's recently been dismayed at how many DVD's are out of print because their manufacturer has gone out of business, I found this passage especially telling:
December 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
robtomshany.bsky.social
Always good to be reminded that one doesn't have to be in thrall to the streamers for one's entertainment. As someone who's recently been dismayed at how many DVD's are out of print because their manufacturer has gone out of business, I found this passage especially telling:
Locating out-of-print physical media can be difficult. [Library video curator John] Scalzo knows this, which is why he keeps a running list of films known to be unavailable commercially at any given time, so that when a batch of films are donated to the library, Scalzo will set aside extra copies, just in case a rights dispute puts a piece of legacy cult media in licensing purgatory for a few years. "It's what's expected of us," Scalzo added.
December 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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libroloverjen.bsky.social
Don’t forget if the Institute of Museum and Library Services doesn’t get funded next year, many public libraries won’t be able to fund ILL anymore. Write your legislators to support IMLS funding, please!
December 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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annleckie.com
I love ILL. It is the bestest ever.
laborlibrarian.bsky.social The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 4d
A couple weeks ago we got a lovely note from someone on the other side of the country thanking us profusely for ILLing a book to them. Curious, we looked up the book they borrowed.

It would have cost $1,200 for them to purchase it.

ILL is one of the things I love most about libraries.
bakerdphd.bsky.social Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 4d
Requested a book through ILL over break. It arrived today. Libraries man.
December 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
robtomshany.bsky.social
One thing that distinguishes @ass.golf's A.I.'s (formerly "anthro-PC's", now pretty much just regular robots) from the slop-purveying software being passed off as "AI" in our neck of the woods of possibility - and I love this about them - is that they're capable of self-doubt. 1/
December 2, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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marynmck.bsky.social
You really have to read this thread. The genius of Tom Stoppard, the fragility of memory, the magic of theatre — and the glorious stubbornness of a researcher who would not stop.
bfletcherwatson.bsky.social Ben Fletcher-Watson @bfletcherwatson.bsky.social · 7d
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
November 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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loveandbarley.bsky.social
Behold! You have been blessed by the Capybara shaped chicken tender.

Repost to share the blessing.
Chicken tender/katsu piece shaped like a capybara
November 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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markharris.bsky.social
It's okay for some campaign promises to be about optics rather than policy. "We're going to bulldoze his monument to himself on Day One and rebuild the East Wing" would be a very good one for 2028.
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d
“It is something that has been needed and desired at the White House for over 150 years, but something which no other President was equipped to do…”
Trump: The Presidential Ballroom, which I am building at the White House, with all private donations and funding (ZERO cost to the American Taxpayer!), will be, at its completion, the most beautiful and spectacular Ballroom anywhere in the World! It is something that has been needed and desired at the White House for over 150 years, but something which no other President was equipped to do - But I am, and as long as we are going to do it, we are going to do it RIGHT. It will be a magnificent addition to the White House, the most important since the building of the West Wing! 4 ReTruths 9 Likes 11/30/25, 2:58 PM
November 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
robtomshany.bsky.social
Yellow Submarine
November 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
robtomshany.bsky.social
WALL-E. (Also a screwball romance and a partially pantomimed action comedy.)
sophianyx.bsky.social Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 7d
Without saying Star Wars, name a science fiction film.
November 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
robtomshany.bsky.social
The only 2025 film I've seen so far is Elio (which I very much enjoyed). Besides Sinners, the 10 new films I'm most interested in seeing are:

Bugonia
Hamnet
It Was Just an Accident
KPop Demon Hunters
No Other Choice
One Battle After Another
The Phoenician Scheme
The Secret Agent
Superman
Zootopia 2
sophianyx.bsky.social Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 19d
Without saying Sinners, name your film of the year.
November 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
robtomshany.bsky.social
Well, this was fewer than I expected, especially given [makes vague gestures at current world situation]. I wonder if some of the swear shortage comes from my tendency to self-censor (e.g. f-ck), and some from creative euphemism and circumlocution.
profanity.accountant profanity.accountant @profanity.accountant · 8d
@robtomshany.bsky.social has swears! They've used 101 profanities in their last 1,959 posts.

🥇 "dick" (13 times)
🥈 "fuck" (11 times)
🥉 "damn" (11 times)
November 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
robtomshany.bsky.social
So I've seen this from other Bluesky accounts, and now I'm curious... @profanity.accountant, how am I doing?
November 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
robtomshany.bsky.social
Alt-texting a very good question about Tim Walz along with a very apt answer.

[Social media posts from br. stahl - "What is it about Tim Walz that has so triggered the right?" - and gbrockell - "He exposes how easy it would be for a straight white man to be decent."]
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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jackscarab.bsky.social
50% off Iron Circus comics is a damn steal, and I've used it. You still have time!
ironcircuscomics.bsky.social Iron Circus Comics @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social · 8d
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November 29, 2025 at 1:02 AM
robtomshany.bsky.social
I've been pondering a couple of Bluesky posts today, one from @scalzi.com and one from @wickdchiq.bsky.social, that weirdly complement one another. (Thanks also to @robertscotthorton.bsky.social and @jblainefoster.bsky.social for their quoted posts.) A (hopefully short) thread: 1/
Screenshot of a Bluesky post from John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) quoting another post from Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social). Horton: Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust. Scalzi's comment: I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy. Screenshot of a Bluesky post from Erica Ifill (@wickdchiq.bsky.social) quoting another from blaine (@jblainefoster.bsky.social). blaine: And people will really go “we didn’t have woke messages in children’s shows when ~I was a kid” Ifill's comment: Sesame Street would’ve never gotten made in today’s political and social climate
November 29, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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tmwillia.bsky.social
Repost with alt-text!
Your skyline is different from mine, please repost and flood the zone!!
Thanks @mbbrownsf.bsky.social for the tip!
Poster with white and red text that says: WE'RE NOT ASKING. WE'RE SHUTTING IT DOWN. MASS BLACKOUT NOVEMBER 25TH - DECEMBER 2ND The largest economic blackout protest in U.S. history begins November 25th! - No Work - No Projects - No Spending - No Events - No Restaurants SHOP LOCAL NON-MAGA NO BACKING OUT!!! Prepare for the IMPACT! To prevent "spike spending" before and after the BLACKOUT. we ask that all participants purchase goods needed from community-owned stores and markets leading up to and after the dates. This helps with sustained impact and keeps our mo- ney out of the mega businesses' pockets. COORDINATED NATIONAL PUSHBACK. MAXIMUM LOCAL IMPACT
November 3, 2025 at 12:08 AM
robtomshany.bsky.social
The Smithsonian LP (later CD) box set American Musical Theater: Shows, Songs and Stars contains many vintage recordings of Broadway musical songs, and for years all I knew of "Pins and Needles" was the song "Chain Store Daisy" from this set. This thread taught me a lot more - check it out! 1/
erikloomis.bsky.social Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 10d
This Day in Labor History: November 27, 1937. The International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) debuted its play “Pins and Needles,” which would become the longest running musical of the 1930s. Let's talk about this moment of labor feminism meeting popular culture!
November 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
robtomshany.bsky.social
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:

George Clinton & the P-Funk All-Stars (1983)
The Royal Crescent Mob (1989)
Burning Spear (1990)
Sun Ra (1990)
Bob Dylan (1991)
batogato.bsky.social Batogato @batogato.bsky.social · 10d
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen:

They Might Be Giants (~5x)
Old 97s (~10x)
Trombone Shorty (2014)
Wilco (2018)
New Pornographers (2019)
pnh.nielsenhayden.com Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 10d
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen:

Doc Watson (1966)
Harry Partch (1970 or 1971)
Television (1977)
Cafe Tacuba (2009)
Rhiannon Giddens (2025)
November 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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tkingfisher.com
Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
robtomshany.bsky.social
I think the person who codified the Pond Rules has a kindred spirit in the town of Madrid:
Sign: "NOTICE - The town of Madrid will no longer be responsible for: UFO Abductions, Werewolf Maulings, Creepy Yeti Hugs, Vampire Romances, Unsolicited Bigfoot Pics, Unicorn Stabbings, Pixie Glitter, Chupacabra Bites, Average Sized Centaurs, Sticky Vortexes or Broke Leprechauns"
November 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
robtomshany.bsky.social
If you see this, post an anime you love.
November 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM