Nicole
@nscherer.bsky.social
Librarianing for public library workers in the actual reality. TV, film, culture, travel. Unrepentant Long Islander.
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This is from a word scramble gameshow where the host of this show gave plenty of clues and the contestant still got the answer wrong.
December 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
This is from a word scramble gameshow where the host of this show gave plenty of clues and the contestant still got the answer wrong.
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in this house we cherish the holiday classics 🎄
December 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
in this house we cherish the holiday classics 🎄
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“‘My most daring idea is to refuse,’ she said to applause.”
Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying to Use AI to Seize Control of Everything
Renowned sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom says that AI is a tool for the rich to cement control over society.
futurism.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
“‘My most daring idea is to refuse,’ she said to applause.”
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FYI, If your child falls into an enclosure we get to keep it.
December 21, 2025 at 6:56 AM
FYI, If your child falls into an enclosure we get to keep it.
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the category is RANGE
December 15, 2025 at 4:54 AM
the category is RANGE
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A (quite) young movie lover said to me recently, "Not everybody can afford a DVD player," and I said "How much do you think a DVD player costs?"
He said, "I don't know, like $500?"
Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.
He said, "I don't know, like $500?"
Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.
December 13, 2025 at 4:15 AM
A (quite) young movie lover said to me recently, "Not everybody can afford a DVD player," and I said "How much do you think a DVD player costs?"
He said, "I don't know, like $500?"
Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.
He said, "I don't know, like $500?"
Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.
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Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net
Intertapes — Main
Obscure tape finds and their stories
intertapes.net
December 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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me when an ai tool offers to "help"
December 12, 2025 at 4:56 AM
me when an ai tool offers to "help"
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My point is that the problem with good practical governance is the same problem with vaccines. When it works too well, people stop believing they need it.
DOGE dissolving a massive amount of the federal workforce is going to open up chasms in service and competence ppl would have never anticipated.
DOGE dissolving a massive amount of the federal workforce is going to open up chasms in service and competence ppl would have never anticipated.
December 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
My point is that the problem with good practical governance is the same problem with vaccines. When it works too well, people stop believing they need it.
DOGE dissolving a massive amount of the federal workforce is going to open up chasms in service and competence ppl would have never anticipated.
DOGE dissolving a massive amount of the federal workforce is going to open up chasms in service and competence ppl would have never anticipated.
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I think it’s important to remember that as into social media as we are, huge numbers of Brits & Americans don’t spend time online & get their info from newspapers, tv & what colleague say at the pub/work.
As William Gibson wisely said, “The future is already here—it's just not evenly distributed”
As William Gibson wisely said, “The future is already here—it's just not evenly distributed”
December 7, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I think it’s important to remember that as into social media as we are, huge numbers of Brits & Americans don’t spend time online & get their info from newspapers, tv & what colleague say at the pub/work.
As William Gibson wisely said, “The future is already here—it's just not evenly distributed”
As William Gibson wisely said, “The future is already here—it's just not evenly distributed”
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I don’t care much about my hair, but my bright side has gone all salt and pepper.
December 6, 2025 at 5:17 AM
I don’t care much about my hair, but my bright side has gone all salt and pepper.
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When you buy into the USPS as a business losing money, you are buying into losing these other public services:
-libraries
-public schools
-fire/EMT/911
-public transportation
-senior services
-public utilities
-roads & infrastructure
And MORE...
Public good costs very little for the benefits.
-libraries
-public schools
-fire/EMT/911
-public transportation
-senior services
-public utilities
-roads & infrastructure
And MORE...
Public good costs very little for the benefits.
December 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
When you buy into the USPS as a business losing money, you are buying into losing these other public services:
-libraries
-public schools
-fire/EMT/911
-public transportation
-senior services
-public utilities
-roads & infrastructure
And MORE...
Public good costs very little for the benefits.
-libraries
-public schools
-fire/EMT/911
-public transportation
-senior services
-public utilities
-roads & infrastructure
And MORE...
Public good costs very little for the benefits.
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“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
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Wrecking young people's reading, writing & analytical skills during their formative years is an economic imperative for AI companies. For many of us who learned these things without AI, slop can't pass for news or entertainment. Destroying standards is essential to the industry's growth & survival.
December 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Wrecking young people's reading, writing & analytical skills during their formative years is an economic imperative for AI companies. For many of us who learned these things without AI, slop can't pass for news or entertainment. Destroying standards is essential to the industry's growth & survival.
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we have to go back. to warn them.
November 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
we have to go back. to warn them.
“Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in…If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final.”
Thank you, Tom Stoppard.
Thank you, Tom Stoppard.
November 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
“Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in…If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final.”
Thank you, Tom Stoppard.
Thank you, Tom Stoppard.
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irritable scowl syndrome
November 20, 2025 at 12:18 AM
irritable scowl syndrome
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Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
November 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
Subject of a fascinating documentary a few years back called Finding Vivian Maier. She was as indelible and mysterious as her art.
Vivian Maier (1926 – 2009) US street photographer whose work was discovered after her death. She took more than 150,000 photographs during her lifetime, primarily of the people of Chicago & New York #WomensArt
November 24, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Subject of a fascinating documentary a few years back called Finding Vivian Maier. She was as indelible and mysterious as her art.
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Back in my day, songs were ABOUT something. Like which bops were unskinny.
November 21, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Back in my day, songs were ABOUT something. Like which bops were unskinny.
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Chicago Pope says We come to this place for magic.
November 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Chicago Pope says We come to this place for magic.
Crashed out on my couch with a nasty, lingering bronchitis. This is sending me down a very welcome Cuban cinema rabbit hole.
Now playing (12:10 PM PST):
"One Way or Another" (1977)
By Sara Gómez
Runtime: 77 min.
"One Way or Another" (1977)
By Sara Gómez
Runtime: 77 min.
November 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Crashed out on my couch with a nasty, lingering bronchitis. This is sending me down a very welcome Cuban cinema rabbit hole.