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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 17h

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 17h

congratulations!!

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Chloe (she/her) @cmisorski.bsky.social · Aug 25

ALA Core Subject Analysis Committee Working Group on $v Retention invites participation in a survey investigating potential impacts of the Library of Congress' omission of form subdivisions ($v) in subject headings. Please share!
tinyurl.com/2792hbkn
#critcat #critlib

Feedback Survey about Form Subdivision ($v) Omission from Subject Headings

The Library of Congress announced in January 2025 that as part of a linked data-friendly “Modern MARC” cataloging practice, they will no longer include form/genre subdivisions (e.g., 600 $v, 650 $v, 6...

docs.google.com

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 22h

whomst indeed 😂

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 22h

> A strong RIMS profile can help....
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> RIMS implementation will take place in phases over the coming months, beginning with librarians and archivists

oh no. or maybe.. oh yes??

definitely: oh dear 🙈

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 22h

cc @ljsmart.bsky.social

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 22h

pardon me?? launched its what??? 😳😳

screenshot of an email reading

<CENSORED> has officially launched its Research Information Management System (RIMS)—an initiative to support our collective research and academic mission.

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 1d

the postal code H0H0H0 goes to Santa, no joke

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 2d

as always, fascism is colonialism turned inward

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

Doocy: "If a young man or woman signs up today, are they more likely to deploy to the Middle East or the Midwest?"

Hegseth: "The era of sort of reckless adventurism around the globe is over...We're here to defend the hemisphere, the homeland, the border."

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 2d

big skyr fan here too, I also just heard of Balkan style (?) yoghurt and picked some up this weekend! curious to try it

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 4d

this is a Great Take

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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 4d

Words Change Because We Do: The Evolution of Language on Sexuality and Gender

medium.com/@heatherpate...

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Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 7d

(solemnly) You've had mail.

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Yorkshire Tea @yorkshiretea.bsky.social · 7d

It's International Coffee Day. A moment to put our caffeine-based differences aside and unite against our common enemy: soup.

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 7d

doing my best! it's a real flashback to the early days on Twitter in it 🤭

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 8d

Found the perfect co-PI for a project; someone w/clear complementary skills/experience & very similar interests and ethics & who writes great articles, so I search them out to send an email introduction ... oh. Quit academia & is now a sheep farmer. Not sure if the disappointment or envy is stronger

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 8d

no, but I'm also desperately behind on updating my hugo site 😭

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jeffreyford8 @jeffreyford8.bsky.social · 10d

Courtesy of the Library of Congress -- a copy of the first edition of The Wizard of Oz. The illustrations are awesome. you can go through page by page, and there are illustrations on almost every page. read.gov/books/pagetu....

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 9d

deeply disturbing to see @ualberta.bsky.social taking a stand *against* academic freedom in Canada

Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 9d

"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."

What Happened to the University’s Commitment to Free Expression? Charley Kirk, uAlberta, and Me | Centre for Free Expression

I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my social media comments in the wake of Charli...

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 9d

"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."

What Happened to the University’s Commitment to Free Expression? Charley Kirk, uAlberta, and Me | Centre for Free Expression

I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my social media comments in the wake of Charli...

cfe.torontomu.ca

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 9d

a sign of times. a smart and safe decision, but my heart breaks for @marinaomi.bsky.social and this work 💔

MariNaomi (they/them) @marinaomi.bsky.social · 12d

update about the cartoonists of color, queer cartoonists, and disabled cartoonists databases

tldr: i am shuttering the databases and i am sad.

www.patreon.com/posts/139743...

update about the cartoonists of color, queer cartoonists, and disabled cartoonists databases | MariNaomi

Get more from MariNaomi on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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The Bride (aka Rain) I ❤️ the Monster @simplyrain.bsky.social · 9d

Another in what your school librarian does...

I arrived just before 6 am to set up a full creative space in our atrium, because there is nowhere to do this in my temporary space.

I set-up all tables, supplies & loaded 5 new rolls of paper...in a dress (dumb choice Rain).

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Tables set up in the atrium for a class project.

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 9d

Look here for your son:

bsky.app/profile/drit...

Stella Dritta @dritdurfotografin.bsky.social · 9d

Details about the camera on my page! (Bsky called it spam when I tried to share link)

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Jordan! @jordanjamboree.bsky.social · 9d

Wife brought her 100 year old film camera to that pirates game from a few weeks ago and she got this shot that's just perfect

A black and white photo of a baseball game, you can see that it is mid pitch with a pirate at bat

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 9d

that's such a smart analysis.

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