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Richard Higgins
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Software developer for libraries and academic research. Devoted to open source.
PhD-haver. Former contingent faculty in English and InfoSci. Fan of good metadata, long novels, and due process.
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No cheating, repost w your most recent picture of your pet.
Orange and white cat sitting upright somewhat uncomfortably in a small, shallow box for a jigsaw puzzle. The puzzle underneath is partially completed.
January 2, 2026 at 11:55 PM
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This is Bowie
In the foreground a "bow tie" black and white cat sits on the back of a black, worn leather easy chair. An out of focus Christmas tree is in the background.
December 31, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice in Chains.
December 28, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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I do most of my personal reading via the iOS audiobooks app. I'm kind of shocked by the total hours. Definitely surpasses other, non-world-on-fire years.
Text on green background: You read a total of 76,489 minutes on Apple Books in 2025. In other words—53 days, 2 hr, 49 min.
December 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Book cover of Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow. The underlying image is a washed-out, abstract yellow sun surrounded with orange. At the bottom is a row of urban buildings in relief with orange-red shining through and on it.
December 11, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Without downloading any new pics, describe your vibe for today using an image from your gallery
Old-timey animatronics display, with an old man form with arms stretched out in bed reacting to a devil form poking into the room through a door.
December 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Carnegie Mellon deciding at the last minute that they can't host the annual Code4Lib conference is some lame fuckery.
Text: Recently, the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) ordered Carnegie Mellon University to review all third-party partnerships for compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. As part of this review, the university determined that aspects of Code4Lib's diversity scholarship program raised compliance concerns under Title VI and Title IX.
December 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Outlook using (2020?) AI in grammar checks now. Real screen capture from work
Grammar check by MS Outlook, suggesting the user change an inline date from 2026 to 2020. It says, "Double-check that you're using the best noun"
December 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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There's one thing I wanna know
What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding? Oh-oh
What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?
Meme pope holding a microphone with both hands.
November 23, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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When your deconfliction plan fails
Two cats trying to occupy the same space in a donut-like toy made for one cat. Two cats trying to occupy the same space in a donut-like toy made for one cat
October 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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What's it like inside your head?
October 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Post you from a different era.

Like "another" era fr
Photo of myself a couple of decades ago, with curly mid-length hair, large prescription glasses, and wearing a thrift-store sport coat. Probably high and ready to go out.
October 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Love this groove

GOAT (Sweden)
Live in London 2018
September 19, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Garlic World
Tell me where you are from using only 2 words
September 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Love this pull quote. Impact of state tax cuts on Indiana libraries.
www.ipm.org/news/2025-09...
Quoted by Indiana Public Media: "Sure, the library is an old-fashioned concept. So is democracy, so is equal opportunity, so is knowledge." Carri Randall, Johnson County library patron
September 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Found kid's craft table like this, with a line of Lego superheroes.
Well-used craft mat with line of Lego mini figures in the foreground, left to right: Batman, Superman, Green Goblin, Wonder Woman, Flash. Some Star Wars and Warhammer figures in the background.
August 31, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Happy to be in Minneapolis for a few days
Night-time view from a second-story roof deck. Jumble of partially lit one-and two-story buildings, murals, utility wires and poles, and a green-painted water tower-like object above one building.
August 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Bowie in a basket
Green-eyed, black cat named "Bowie" looking up from a basket that is perfectly sized for him.
July 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Chicago, I see you
Chicago skyline seen across the water of Lake Michigan from "Promontory Point" in the south side Chicago neighborhood of Hyde Park
June 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Role model
June 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Courthouse Square, Bloomington, Indiana #nokings
In front of the crowd at a No Kings protest, two people in foreground holding signs that say, "Fuck I.C.E." and "No Tyrants, No Fascists. No Kings." Tight shot of No Kings crowd. Visible signs say, "No Dicktators in America," "Fox News is news like cowpies are pies," No kings in America, 8647." Short line of demonstrators along the street, holding Mexican flags, with T-shirts that say, "Fuck I.C.E" and "Por Vida." A gold sign in red letters says, "Donald Trump sucks." Crowd of protestors on a street corner, with a large banner in the foreground that says, "Honk to impeach Trump." Several other people are holding up large peace signs, some intertwined with hearts.
June 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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The energy I bring to bluesky
Meme "I'm not a robot." Harrison Ford staring at a screen. Superimposed is a reCaptcha challenge box, with which a user clicks to prove "I'm not a robot."
June 6, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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What we did over the weekend
Tarot-like card called The Update, with a vertical image of a stylized server rack.
June 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Melvins, Mercury Ballroom, Louisville, KY, May 16, 2025
May 17, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Guillotine hot sauce. Fuck yeah!
Store display for Guillotine hot sauce, with EAT THE RICH in large letters and a cartoon drawing of a guillotine chasing sweating rich guys with vegetable-like heads.
May 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM