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Janet Brennan Croft @banzailibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 3

Tolkien language nerds, scans of the first five issues of Parma Eldalamberon, long only available as photocopies, are now available open access: dc.swosu.edu/parma/

Parma Eldalamberon | Mythopoeic Society | Southwestern Oklahoma State University

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Janet Brennan Croft @banzailibrarian.bsky.social · May 2

Or waken a Balrog.

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.doc @erebusodora.bsky.social · Apr 26

as a person who knows that banishing evil spirits by swearing at them is a common thing in multiple Slavic traditions, i am DELIGHTED by this tip

oooOOOooorbette @orbette.bsky.social · Apr 26

Simply add a swear word and the AI slop doesn't come up 👍

A Google search for 'now tv programme won't load' showing AI Overview slop before the search results

A Google search for 'now tv programme won't load cunt' showing search results, AI slop doesn't appear because swear words seem to confuse it.

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Janet Brennan Croft @banzailibrarian.bsky.social · Apr 25

About 915,000 of those downloads were from Mythlore.

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Janet Brennan Croft @banzailibrarian.bsky.social · Apr 24

There will be more to come from the Mythopoeic Society's official social media steward, but: today, our content at dc.swosu.edu/mythsoc/ hit ONE MILLION DOWNLOADS! Woot!

Mythopoeic Society | Southwestern Oklahoma State University Research | SWOSU Digital Commons

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · Apr 4

I keep remembering how the first thing an abuser does is cut you off from friends and family. This feels like the global political version of that on an unimaginable scale.

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Allison @readaway.bsky.social · Feb 18

LC published a tentative list to change #LCSH Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America & Mt Denali to Mt McKinley. Comments on the proposed changes can be sent to [email protected] by Tues. February 18, 2025 (which is TODAY). If you oppose the change, please email! #critcat (classweb.org/tentative-su...

Tentative Monthly List 12 LCSH 2 (February 13, 2025)

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Janet Brennan Croft @banzailibrarian.bsky.social · Feb 14

Love it: "This Court should restore constitutional order and ... declare that his actions to date are ultra vires and of no legal effect."

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Janet Brennan Croft @banzailibrarian.bsky.social · Feb 2

Go to your room, young man, and think about what you've done. :)

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Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · Feb 2

Work in healthcare?

Come to a country that still values freedom, diversity, and science.

IF YOU HAVE QUEER and TRANS friends in healthcare, get them to apply immediately!

Avis Favaro @avisfavaro.bsky.social · Feb 2

American health workers looking to relocate? Doorway to practice medicine in Canada 🇨🇦
We have job openings nationwide. www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...

Canada announces new immigration stream specific to health workers

Communities across Canada need health workers. The health field is one of several key sectors of Canada’s labour force which is facing unprecedented shortages. To help respond to this challenge, last ...

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · Jan 29

don’t treat people like crap.

unless you want to treat them like *we* treat crap, with the transformative care, respect, and service-oriented attention it deserves.

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Janet Brennan Croft @banzailibrarian.bsky.social · Jan 29

The Contrarian.

Janet Brennan Croft @banzailibrarian.bsky.social · Jan 19

Those are great!

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Veronica Bane @veronicabane.bsky.social · Jan 16

Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚

Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏

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Janet Brennan Croft @banzailibrarian.bsky.social · Jan 16

The seminar proceedings for MythSoc's "Something Mighty Queer" online conference are up. Some great reading here! Lots on Tolkien, but also papers on Our Flag Means Death, Star Wars, intersectionality, queer theology, and more! dc.swosu.edu/mythpro/vol2...

Mythopoeic Society Conference and Seminar Proceedings | Mythopoeic Society | Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Only a few Mythcon proceedings volumes have been published; after Mythcon III, presenters were encouraged to submit their papers to Mythlore instead. The Mythopoeic Society Seminar Proceedings Series ...

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Janet Brennan Croft @banzailibrarian.bsky.social · Dec 31

Alt text: Photo of a rectangular postage stamp, blue on white. An arrow pierces an atom, superimposed on a silhouette of the state of Oklahoma. Text reads: 1907 * Arrows to Atoms * 1957. 50th Anniversary of Oklahoma Statehood. 3 cents United States Postage.

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Janet Brennan Croft @banzailibrarian.bsky.social · Dec 31

No -- from the Hunnewells -- but I think thy knew I HAD lived there.

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Janet Brennan Croft @banzailibrarian.bsky.social · Dec 31

Cool old stamp that came on one of our Christmas cards! Someone was clearing out their stamp hoard.

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Janet Brennan Croft @banzailibrarian.bsky.social · Dec 23

Since I don't work as a cataloger anymore, I didn't think I'd ever need to consult the Homosaurus controlled vocabulary list -- but it's coming in really handy for creating appropriate new entries for the Mythlore Index Plus for the papers from the "Something Mighty Queer" seminar.

Homosaurus Vocabulary Site

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Janet Brennan Croft @banzailibrarian.bsky.social · Dec 22

It's one of those that pays revisiting. I was imagining what a really brilliant illustrator could do with it. And wondering if I could persuade a Charles Williams scholar to write a piece digging out the Arthuriad influences.

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Janet Brennan Croft @banzailibrarian.bsky.social · Dec 22

The distinction between emotion and analysis is an excellent one.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Dec 21

I like to say I respect despair as an emotion but not an analysis. As an analysis it assumes we know what can and can't happen, and the future is both uncertain and at least to some extent what we make of it. Plus why would I give them what they want, as premature surrender? Thanks Senator Schatz.

Brian Schatz @schatz.bsky.social · Dec 21

Be furious be angry but despondency is what they want from us. And be very suspicious of people on the left who say “we are cooked” or whatever. Imagine the civil rights movement, or suffrage, or any movement for change, hitting a roadblock and just “saying well we are well and truly fucked now.”

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · Dec 13

Flowchart of human history:

1. Suffer incredible hardship.
2. Amazing science and hard work fixes hardship.
3. Everything is much better for about 50 years.
4. Nobody remembers hardship anymore.
5. Solution to hardship now considered unnecessary.
6. GOTO 1.

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Janet Brennan Croft @banzailibrarian.bsky.social · Dec 7

Sounds wonderful!!

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Janet Brennan Croft @banzailibrarian.bsky.social · Dec 5

I've often said that letting your money do your thinking for you is deeply stupid. Money just wants to be more money as quickly as possible, without any thought for sustainability, let alone morality.

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TrumpFile.org @trumpfile.org · Nov 20

From the @sarahkendzior.bsky.social book that started this website.

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