Moggie
@bibliatech.bsky.social
Reference / Research
Fiber Artisan /Historian/ Technology Librarian
She/Her, 91 Bravo, Cats, Cardigans, Crafts.
Fiber Artisan /Historian/ Technology Librarian
She/Her, 91 Bravo, Cats, Cardigans, Crafts.
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This picture says everything about the state of our nation right now, peaceful clergy being arrested and forced face-down on the pavement.
November 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This picture says everything about the state of our nation right now, peaceful clergy being arrested and forced face-down on the pavement.
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I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
November 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
I feel this bears repeating
Remember, you're under no obligation to justify yourself to anyone if you choose to spend the entire weekend reading books, drinking multiple kettles of tea, and indulging in a scandalous amount of croissants.
November 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I feel this bears repeating
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Stop asking the internet if people still go to the library. Yes, every day, 7 days a week. Still free. Still a safe space. Still no purchase required
November 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Stop asking the internet if people still go to the library. Yes, every day, 7 days a week. Still free. Still a safe space. Still no purchase required
Today I fought really hard against the brain weasels telling me that I need to get smaller, quieter, and less. Then I came home and was told that I am good where I am, but maybe I can get bigger, sparklier, and louder.
Go home to the good stuff! We need you!
Go home to the good stuff! We need you!
November 14, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Today I fought really hard against the brain weasels telling me that I need to get smaller, quieter, and less. Then I came home and was told that I am good where I am, but maybe I can get bigger, sparklier, and louder.
Go home to the good stuff! We need you!
Go home to the good stuff! We need you!
This is an interesting idea in part because I love historical maps. In Medieval Europe, Jerusalem was the center of the world and everywhere else came from there. This is part of the 'up vs down' idea of North and South
💫 Fun fact: Mandarin speakers often think of time vertically, as in the past is ‘up’ and the future is ‘down’, while English speakers think of it horizontally (the past is ‘behind’, and the future ‘ahead’).
#linguistics #funfact #language #mandarin
#linguistics #funfact #language #mandarin
November 14, 2025 at 3:57 AM
This is an interesting idea in part because I love historical maps. In Medieval Europe, Jerusalem was the center of the world and everywhere else came from there. This is part of the 'up vs down' idea of North and South
PBS has an interesting show about a possible new portrait of Shakespeare done during his lifetime. I'm still a sucker for a 400 year old writer
November 14, 2025 at 2:57 AM
PBS has an interesting show about a possible new portrait of Shakespeare done during his lifetime. I'm still a sucker for a 400 year old writer
As a librarian, I agree
Let's talk about books and the public trust.
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Something that is easy to forget, in these days of barcode-scanning / auto-adjust pricing on third-party platforms for pennies plus shipping:
Booksellers are not merely people who sell some popular books in a competitive market.
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Something that is easy to forget, in these days of barcode-scanning / auto-adjust pricing on third-party platforms for pennies plus shipping:
Booksellers are not merely people who sell some popular books in a competitive market.
November 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
As a librarian, I agree
This is an interesting way to try and create community
What is #folktech? Read the recap from the first convening on Oct 18. Check out the slide deck in the post and sign up for the next virtual event on Nov 19 here: luma.com/h0nmrgu9?tk=...
dwebyvr.org/recap-folk-t...
dwebyvr.org/recap-folk-t...
Recap: Folk Tech Play Day
How can we make and use technology that supports us in our everyday life and is also easy and fun to use?
How can great p2p, open source, open standards-based, and decentralized tech emerge from commu...
dwebyvr.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This is an interesting way to try and create community
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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Long slow day at work, but I was excited to come home, start a new knitting project, and open a box of my new fountain pen and inks.
Then, cats happened.
So I'm wearing Private Reserve Spearmint, and it's a pretty color on me.
Then, cats happened.
So I'm wearing Private Reserve Spearmint, and it's a pretty color on me.
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Long slow day at work, but I was excited to come home, start a new knitting project, and open a box of my new fountain pen and inks.
Then, cats happened.
So I'm wearing Private Reserve Spearmint, and it's a pretty color on me.
Then, cats happened.
So I'm wearing Private Reserve Spearmint, and it's a pretty color on me.
My cats are plotting with the local wildlife
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
My cats are plotting with the local wildlife
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Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
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We are also currently hiring a curatorial fellow to work with the papers of Rosalind Franklin and others in the History of Molecular Biology Collection!
This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits:
www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...
This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits:
www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...
For those with a scholarly interest in Franklin, Watson, and other pioneering researchers in molecular biology, @sciencehistory.org has just opened our new landmark collection of their papers, and applications for research fellowships are currently open:
www.sciencehistory.org/hmbc
www.sciencehistory.org/hmbc
History of Molecular Biology Collection
This unparalleled collection includes Rosalind Franklin's historic 'Photo 51,' which revealed the double-helix structure of DNA.
www.sciencehistory.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
We are also currently hiring a curatorial fellow to work with the papers of Rosalind Franklin and others in the History of Molecular Biology Collection!
This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits:
www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...
This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits:
www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...
Sensible advice
At a conference today, so my annual reminder…
If you’ve booked time to chat with agents or editors, keep your pitch quick. You want to leave a lot of that time for asking questions, getting information, gathering recommendations.
Make sure it’s a conversation. You’ll get way more out of it.
If you’ve booked time to chat with agents or editors, keep your pitch quick. You want to leave a lot of that time for asking questions, getting information, gathering recommendations.
Make sure it’s a conversation. You’ll get way more out of it.
November 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Sensible advice
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One theme that’s starting to come up in mainstream Dem talking points is how multiple systems are irreparably broken and we have to stop focusing on temporary or stopgap solutions and actually rebuild from scratch, and this fills me with hope.
November 9, 2025 at 4:44 AM
One theme that’s starting to come up in mainstream Dem talking points is how multiple systems are irreparably broken and we have to stop focusing on temporary or stopgap solutions and actually rebuild from scratch, and this fills me with hope.
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Join us in raising money for the Greater Boston Food Bank throughout November. We're accepting monetary donations at the registers in store through November 23. Learn more about volunteering, donating food or money, and receiving assistance at their website: www.gbfb.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Join us in raising money for the Greater Boston Food Bank throughout November. We're accepting monetary donations at the registers in store through November 23. Learn more about volunteering, donating food or money, and receiving assistance at their website: www.gbfb.org
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If they're closing the commissaries, then a LOT more military personnel are going to need SNAP.
Just another pointless self-inflicted wound.
Just another pointless self-inflicted wound.
Military officials tell troops 168 commissaries could close next month trib.al/3F3Ks58
Military officials tell troops 168 commissaries could close next month
Officials say commissaries will be open through Thanksgiving, but many stateside stores could close soon after due to the government shutdown.
trib.al
November 8, 2025 at 2:42 AM
If they're closing the commissaries, then a LOT more military personnel are going to need SNAP.
Just another pointless self-inflicted wound.
Just another pointless self-inflicted wound.
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Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
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If you don't want gen AI in your manga, anime, game, and light novel translations, now is the time to make your voice heard. Write to your favorite publishers and developers and ask if they are incorporating LLMs into their process. And most importantly, tell them you will vote with your dollars.
As machine translation tools under the banner of AI become increasingly accessible and easy to use, the light novel landscape is at a crossroads. Do light novel publishers compromise their product for more speed, and if so, by how much?
Does the Light Novel Translation Process Need AI?
www.animenewsnetwork.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
If you don't want gen AI in your manga, anime, game, and light novel translations, now is the time to make your voice heard. Write to your favorite publishers and developers and ask if they are incorporating LLMs into their process. And most importantly, tell them you will vote with your dollars.
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I don't usually support writing on substack, but we have GOT to do better here. Long after Newsweek issued its retraction, popular, generally trustworthy accounts were still sharing the wrong ID.
A man collapsed in the Oval Office yesterday. The internet got the story wrong.
My experience struggling to correct the record — including on Bluesky! — and the warning signs as AI, aggregation, and social media increasingly drive our news consumption.
My experience struggling to correct the record — including on Bluesky! — and the warning signs as AI, aggregation, and social media increasingly drive our news consumption.
A man collapsed in the Oval Office. The internet got the story wrong.
A case study in how bad information can spread — and how hard it is to correct it.
dandiamond.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I don't usually support writing on substack, but we have GOT to do better here. Long after Newsweek issued its retraction, popular, generally trustworthy accounts were still sharing the wrong ID.
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🌍 Mongabay is hiring!
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Join a global newsroom covering oceans, data strategy & climate storytelling.
Now recruiting:
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📊 Engagement Editor - buff.ly/94vR1n9
✍️ Wire Reporter (Asia) - buff.ly/uSx1FiK
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November 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
🌍 Mongabay is hiring!
Join a global newsroom covering oceans, data strategy & climate storytelling.
Now recruiting:
🗞️ Contributing Editor (Oceans) - buff.ly/HsXXLKW
📊 Engagement Editor - buff.ly/94vR1n9
✍️ Wire Reporter (Asia) - buff.ly/uSx1FiK
Apply now!
Join a global newsroom covering oceans, data strategy & climate storytelling.
Now recruiting:
🗞️ Contributing Editor (Oceans) - buff.ly/HsXXLKW
📊 Engagement Editor - buff.ly/94vR1n9
✍️ Wire Reporter (Asia) - buff.ly/uSx1FiK
Apply now!
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Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
Here's the planned BLS data release schedule for Nov 2025.
On Tues, it couldn't release Sept job openings, hires, layoffs and firings data.
This morning, it couldn't release 2025Q3 business Productivity and Costs data.
Tomorrow, it can't release Oct 2025 #JobsReport
www.bls.gov/schedule/202...
On Tues, it couldn't release Sept job openings, hires, layoffs and firings data.
This morning, it couldn't release 2025Q3 business Productivity and Costs data.
Tomorrow, it can't release Oct 2025 #JobsReport
www.bls.gov/schedule/202...
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
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Thread.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Thread.
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Hey, friendly reminder that Scott Cawthon's donations to the GOP literally contributed to SNAP suspension and you shouldn't buy or stream Five Nights at Freddy's anything.
New poster for ‘FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDYS 2’ featuring the Withered Animatronics.
November 6, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Hey, friendly reminder that Scott Cawthon's donations to the GOP literally contributed to SNAP suspension and you shouldn't buy or stream Five Nights at Freddy's anything.