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metageeky.bsky.social
Kate "Platypus Warlock" Deibel, PhD
@metageeky.bsky.social
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Trans autistic disabled librarian now in Philly who dabbles in comics, accessibility, education, cooking, caffeine and talks too much about her cat. #a11y #comics #medlibs #libtech #code4lib

Ready to be the first against the wall... proudly.
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My little act of defiance at work. That's the door to my office at work. Just putting up a bit of trans pride in my library.
Photo of an office door with a window. Two trans pride flag stickers are in the window.
May 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Hey library friends, I'm doing a for fun reference task. We're looking for the original source of the image below. It was used in a reader's digest collection from 1975 but some sleuthing suggests that it is originally from the 1950s and published by the National Park Service.
Image of a dusty man in a hat chiseling around a large dinosaur backbone. The caption reads: "STARK RELIEF: A dinosaur skeleton emerges as a paleontologist, working with great care, chiels sandstone away from a fossil at a site in Utah. The creature, a Camarasaurus, was 25 feet long.
April 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Look at what is joining the shelves of all three campuses of PCOM Libraries: "It's All for the Breast" by @alexisdraws.bsky.social #GraphicMedicine #GNCRT #LinComix
Photo of It's All for the Breast hanging out on its shelf so the Philadelphia PCOM Library Inside the front cover of It's All for the Breast showing the PCOM library sticker
March 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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These days, I miss when politics involved scenes like this.
In Congress, John McCain gestures at a large poster showing a blue catfish's head. A dejected looking man is sitting her it. The scene is just absurd. What is happening? What the did fish or the man do?
February 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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I am declaring a #cuteness emergency! Everyone should skeet some cute animals. Flood the timeline with something else to counter the doom scrolling.
#MentalHealth #CuteAnimals

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Black and white tuxedo cat sitting on a lamp. She is loafing. Her yellow eyes and pink nose are surrounded by so many white whiskers. A black and white tuxedo cat is fast asleep on top of a blue couch. Her little head is between her paws, and her eyes on shut tight. Even her eyebrow whiskers are drooping as if napping too.
February 3, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Fiona is reaching critical cuteness!
Close up of a black and white tuxedo cat with a pink nose and yellow eyes. She has big white whiskers. She is uber cute.
January 29, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Full on beans!
A white cat's rear paw is sticking out from behind a laptop. Her pink beans are on full display.
January 14, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Less invasive that my furball monster.
Tuxedo cat with yellow eyes and a pink nose in my lap. She is reaching up on my chest to say I'm not going anywhere.
January 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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#NekoAtsume2 If you play Neko Atsume 2, feel free to cost my yard: hp.sakuraweb.com/games/neko2/...
Screenshot of my snow filled yard in Neko Atsume 2.
January 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Forced myself to do some baking to raise my mood. Here's some avocado bread.
A loaf of quick bread with caramelized brown crust and bits of green insides popping through cracks.
January 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Best photo I could get. Remember me fondly.
Tuxedo cat wearing a Santa hat and white beard
December 19, 2024 at 10:43 PM
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Baked a few dozen biscuits for the office potluck tomorrow. The bigger one on the left is a traditional buttermilk one while the right one also has cheddar and herbs in it.
Two golden homemade buttermilk biscuits
December 11, 2024 at 1:36 AM
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Fiona asks "How you doin'?"
Black and white tuxedo cat with yellow-green eyes and a pink nose. She's lying on her back all casual with a suave look as if about to try a pickup line on you.
December 6, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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I think Dave has an identical twin sister in Fiona.
Black and white tuxedo cat with a pink nose, yellow eyes, and many, many whiskers
December 5, 2024 at 10:03 PM
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#GraphicMedicine find! We have a cart outside our library that has weeded books as well as the occasional donations from faculty. I found this 198t copy of "An Illustrated Guide to OMT of the Neck and Trunk" by Dennis Dowling, MA.
Cover of "An Illustrated Guide to OMT of the Neck and Trunk" showing a befuddled osteopath with conjoined patients who share a lower torso and legs.
December 2, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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Feeling like we need a Fiona photo right now... Fiona is LOOOOOOONGGG CAT!
Black and white tuxedo kitty stretched out on the floor, all sets of legs expanded. She is being petted. A catnip banana is by her tail
November 27, 2024 at 5:17 PM
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Random Fiona picture because I'm at the office and miss my kitty girl She did not like the orca hat but I thought it was very cute.
Closeup of a black and white tuxedo cat with a pink nose, yellow-green eyes, and many white whiskers. She is wearing an orca hat with teeth rimming the brim. She looks despondent, perhaps wondering where the ocean is now that she is a whale.
November 25, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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This #trans gal can't help but just laugh at headlines like this. Clearly using humor as a defense mechanism.
Headline reading "Trump Refuses to Disclose Who Is Funding His Transition"
November 24, 2024 at 6:40 PM
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Fiona responds:
Closeup of the head of a black and white tuxedo cat with yellow crossed eyes and a pink nose. She is sticking her tongue out. The whole photo is quite goofy!
November 21, 2024 at 11:58 PM
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Although, I was rooting for Saturn.
Goya's "Saturn Devouring His Son" portrays Saturn as a naked wild man with scary eyes holding the bloody, headless corpse of an infant, about to take a bite off a limb
November 19, 2024 at 3:39 PM