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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 2h

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404 Media @404media.co · 2h

Help us investigate book bans across the USA.

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

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Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

www.404media.co

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 2d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 1d

I've just had a lot of people at once screw me over on event planning and like... why is it so hard for people to:
a) answer emails
b) tell me the names of people who would be good speakers for me to email and coordinate with
c) read what I wrote instead of what they think I wrote

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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · Jul 19

New from me — on Mavis Pusey, her survey show open now at ICA Philadelphia (coming next to the Hammer in LA and Studio Museum in NYC) — and the decade of curatorial sleuthing to locate her artworks and fill out her story.

GIFT LINK

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/a...

This Groundbreaking Artist Vanished. A Decade of Sleuthing Reveals Her Greatness.

www.nytimes.com

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vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 2d

I stopped calling Octavia butlers work prophetic once I realized she herself literally said that her work was influenced by deeply studying history which gave have her insight into the future. I realized I was watering down how truly brilliant she was and what she was trying to get across

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 2d

Kill your inner midwestern dad: it's ok to turn on the heat even if it's going to "warm back up in a couple days"!

I've just been freezing in my office today, and then I remembered I control the thermostat. I'm allowed to turn the heat on whenever I want!

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 3d

Reminder from your resident high school lubrarian: if you plan to do a Banned Books Week display and programming, prioritize living marginalized authors. Use this time to help those who need it the most.

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 4d

Ah yes for the map nerd or fan of pseudo archaeology with taste

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 5d

I do well with Fashion Brand Company for business casual but weird enough to be interesting. I've done well with Universal Standard in the past for basics, but I feel like their quality has gone downhill. Vixen by Micheline Pitt also has some interesting things but I've never fit into their pants.

Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 5d

One of the few things that I think outlook is better about is marking a folder/label as read. I really wish I could right click on a Gmail label and mark everything in it as read

Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 6d

Once I'm your librarian I'm your librarian for life. That is both a promise and a threat.

Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 6d

my only life lesson for everyone ever: make friends with a librarian. half way across the country and @liblarrian.bsky.social is still saving me when my brain is dead.

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 6d

Look, popular opinion, but good movies good.
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #LastFourFriday #filmsky

Letterboxd recent activity: One Battle After Another (5 stars), Eleanor the Great (2.5 Stars), Peking Opera Blues (4.5 and a heart), Snow Woman (4 stars).

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 6d

Look, popular opinion, but good movies good.
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #LastFourFriday #filmsky

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Dr. Fangirl, PhD (Chrisha) @drfangirlphd.bsky.social · 8d

This really sums up what’s happening right now in an easy to understand way. I can’t watch too much news these days, but this was helpful to bring it all together in a quick easy summation.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8d

Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown.

Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 8d

Occurred to me that I should not presume everyone knows the history of public library service in the US, especially the formerly-segregated US, and how white library leaders could have acted sooner and done more than they did. Further reading on that topic.

www.librarian.net/talks/whiten...

Screenshot from a slide deck showing the "mug shots" of nine black young people. The men are wearing shirts and ties, the women are in dresses. There is a longish quotation to them about their read-in in Jackson MS culminating in the line, bolded, that the librarians called the cops on them.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 12d

Logically i know my desire to clone myself into a linked distributed network of me's to handle the things I'm currently too burned out to do a) stems from a fear of letting go, & b) would likely result in either a burnout=n+1 situation or some kind of cataclysmic schism— but damn is it ever tempting

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 8d

I really thought I was on the other side of being mistaken for a student, but in the last few weeks it's happened a *notable* amount, and also I've been told "oh you look a lot younger" when I said I was 30 so like... idk maybe moisturizing plus some mild adult acne is working out for me?

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 10d

My friend had to do an AI data security training, and I am nothing if not funny.

Pelican Mouth meme with text reading "ai Mouth perfec t size for put sens tive data in to analysis! inside very Soft and Comfort, data rest soundly put data in AI. Put AI IN Mouth. no problems ever in AI because safe ands ecure. No steal data, Good Shape and Support for weak data seciruty, An AI yes a place for sensitive data, can trust AI with data give good love to data. Friend AI"

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 10d

new article out with these lovelies @eagatti.bsky.social @kalanicraig.bsky.social

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 10d

Got to play the kind of session today where I was literally on my knees in the game store for RP reasons and actually teared up as my character sacrificed knowledge to preserve a friendship with another PC and that's what I love about TTRPGs! I'm def falling in love with Call of Cthulhu.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 11d

Karl Marx: "Criticism has plucked the imaginary pumpkin spice lattes on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and drink the living pumpkin spice latte."

Critical Theories of the Pumpkin Spice Latte

Traditional Literary Criticism D. H. Lawrence: “Criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the pum...

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 12d

I love this so much! In case any of us needed more encouragement to post haha.

avi bagla @avibagla.com · 12d

with the help of @tristanl.ee, the bluesky dictionary has now been updated to include ALL used english words on bluesky!

we’re 82% of the way to full dictionary usage!! POST POST POST

www.avibagla.com/blueskydictionary

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 13d

Totally! The Tangerine Dream score was a delightful surprise during the opening credits. Pretty soon I'm going to have to add "crimes in Chicago with a Tangerine Dream score" to my favorite genres along with "sweaty, neon, and gay"

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 13d

The genre alignment is so insanely good! Rian Johnson evidently loves a little detective story and that comes through, but also I think the fact that high school is such a time for heightened emotions and unstable interpersonal relationships makes it work SO WELL for a noir!

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 13d

For sure! boxd.it/bb5VE5
It was a first time watch for me and I really enjoyed it.

A ★★★★ review of Risky Business (1983)

Oof, ouch, wow. Not at all what I was expecting tbh. I was probably led to believe this was a comedy from the Bob Seeger scene, but actually this is like really dark honestly. Incredible soundtrack (f...

boxd.it

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