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I learn new words every day and they open up into entire worlds I had no idea existed and it's just so overwhelming to me en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracteate

Bracteate - Wikipedia

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 14h

I'm too scared

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · Apr 3

Could you use help explaining the value of #cataloging & good metadata to your admin, coworkers, #MLIS students, etc.? Happy to share this set of resources put together by an ALA working group chaired by @magsjoy.bsky.social. All of these & more are available at hdl.handle.net/11213/22872. 📚

A flyer for a set of documents "Demonstrating the value of cataloging". Six folders are labeled "talking points for administrators, top 5 reasons why you need a cataloger, annotated bibliography, resources list & acronym cheat sheet, side-by-side comparisons of good administrators bad metadata, and introduction to metadata zine. At the bottom text reads you can find these resources at the link in the post, and they were created by the ALA SAC Devaluation of Cataloging Working Group, 2025.

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 15h

… what is it tho

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 15h

(It’s a hand cream, apparently)

Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 15h

Damn Glossier is selling vapes now?

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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NEH Union - AFGE L3403 @nehafge3403.bsky.social · 1d

"What I do know is that we need the #humanities now, perhaps more than we have ever needed them, because we live in a time when so many of us have forgotten this crucial truth: We are a fangless, clawless, furless species, & we survive only in community." - @margaretrenkl.bsky.social #NEH #Tennessee

Opinion: With humanities funding vanishing, stories and those who protect them remain our greatest hope

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 1d

I really gotta make this into something publishable

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 1d

Hypocrisy: People don't like it, but it doesn't really matter unfortch

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 1d

Hypocrisy gotchas don't work at any level because either 1) The person has already justified/rationalized/neutralized the dissonance for themselves in some way or 2) No one cares and nothing results from such a "revelation"

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 1d

You can really tell when people don't have IRL experience with these folks

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 1d

That's why they all sell Lularoe and essential oils or whatever too

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 1d

She considers a field and buys it;
out of her earnings she plants a vineyard.
She sets about her work vigorously;
her arms are strong for her tasks.
She sees that her trading is profitable,
and her lamp does not go out at night.

They love this shit as long as it's IN the home

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 1d

No, it makes them a Proverbs 31 woman

Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 1d

What I don’t understand about the Trad Wife influencers movement is: Isn’t the fact they are making massive amounts of $ from their followers & brand deals antithetical to their “beliefs”? Like, if they are making income through their videos, they are inherently earners contributing to a household.

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Cameron Campbell @camerondotca.bsky.social · 1d

"Oh the suffragettes just picketed & wrote letters & made speeches" meanwhile one group was responsible for 300+ arson & bombing attacks. Often the deal is that the "reasonable" group gets to listened to because the alternative is scary, not because the powers that be suddenly get super into freedom

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 1d

AND they're immigrants!!!!!

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 1d

What the shit, Clarivate! Anyone using Ebook Central MARC records, be warned. They're jamming those records with AI generated metadata. Auto-enabled but you can disable it.

Dear Alex,
We are writing to share an important update coming to Ebook Central that will help improve ebook discoverability. At the end of October 2025, Ebook Central Express MARC records will include AI-generated metadata when publisher metadata fields are not available.

Why are we introducing AI-generated metadata to Ebook Central records?

Most publishers include subject information in their metadata, but there are times when this information is not included, leading to limited search availability in discovery systems. For this reason, we are providing AI-generated Library of Congress subject headings only when not available from the publisher to improve the completeness of our metadata and discoverability of Ebook Central titles.

Which AI-generated fields are included in Express MARC? 

The AI-generated fields will include Library of Congress Subject Heading (LCSH) (6XX); Library of Congress Classification (050); Dewey Decimal (082); Description (520); and Source of Description (588). To learn more, please visit our FAQ page.

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