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Joe (he/him)

@archcon.bsky.social

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Librarian, historian.
Married, cat dad.

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@applecider.bsky.social

First byline in a year is over at @pastegames.bsky.social ! I talk about how the competition between #MarvelRivals and #Overwatch should really be about what things they do well and could take inspo from:
www.pastemagazine.com/games/marvel...

What Marvel Rivals and Overwatch Can Learn From Each Other

Marvel Rivals is the first hero shooter to really challenge Overwatch, and the two games could learn from their similarities and differences.

www.pastemagazine.com

January 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM

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Jay Hulme

@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social

"I'm living now and midnight is slipping into tomorrow.
And tomorrow? Good God. Tomorrow opens like a gasp."

Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social · Jan 18

god I can't believe I wrote this FOUR YEARS ago and it still feels the same.

Arranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic

I worry for us, freelance, unemployed, rag-tag. Asked
to choose how we want to go out and responding

like George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence:
not at all, or drowning in the Malmsey wine.
On the phone, fizzing with my own incalculable
whimsy, I announce I’m not playing the game!

They can suck it! Here I am, my own engine
of incredible catastrophe. But there’s tax

and student loans and not getting the job. Again.
There’s every disaster competing for every ounce

of care. There’s my ever so carefully made
savings. Eighty pounds. And hope,
like a noose. My mam’s voice on the phone. And yes:
that flowering and bizzare engine of mad catastrophe

I am. But what next in this bullshit life? Everyone
waking up into the new, expected despair. Today
and yesterday is sheer wilful absurdity. The Duke
and I sinking in a pink tubby custard. I dream

that the writer of Revelations is brunch drunk over
mimosas and saying you kids really did screw it, but
I’m living now and midnight is slipping into tomorrow.
And tomorrow? Good God. Tomorrow opens like a gasp.

January 20, 2025 at 10:51 AM

Joe (he/him)

@archcon.bsky.social

2024 reading wrap-up from @thestorygraph.com. Work was absolutely *wild* in September and it shows.

For 2025, I'm dropping my goal to 50 and plan to be more intentional and reflective in my reading.

January 3, 2025 at 12:07 AM

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kelly jensen

@heykellyjensen.bsky.social

Anyone working at a public library in the US get quoted a ridiculous Hoopla rate? Dropped the service because of its increase in price?

Feel free to reach out to me -- [email protected]. I won't quote/note without permission.

Think this is worth a story since a LOT of folks are responding.

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · Jan 2

Greenfield Public Library has had to cancel Hoopla access after being quoted a **452%** increase now that the Milwaukee County Library system isn't handling the subscription.

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