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Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss
@eruditeaphrodite.bsky.social
Librarian, SCAdian, addicted to making things, opinionated.
Holy crap. @jamieloftus.bsky.social's Ack Cast is fucking fantastic. It is well researched, engaging, and full of empathy. Seriously. Go listen now and then reflect on how you can be racialized to step off the self hatred train.
October 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
@lpontheleft.bsky.social "If you're still listening, you are damaged". We know Ed. You don't need to remind us.
October 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I feel this so hard since running out of my brain meds. Breathe next to me. I dare you.
October 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
My birthday will be upon us soon and I have asked that my only present be not having to make any decisions about how we celebrate it. This feels like a step in the direction of joining the sisterhood of middle age women.
October 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
If you can go see Castle Rat, do it.
October 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Claw back your attention span and read a damn book. Don't know what to read? Go ask a librarian.
I finished a book. The first of this year. In 2025 I took my pea sized, phone-rotted, attention spanless brain and finished a bloody book. I'm unstoppable.
June 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
So happy with how Lady Kluck turned out. What a great event. #tir-y-don #SCA
May 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
One room to go only restaurants that look like this are a siren call to us.
April 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
That feeling when you grab the correct size socket on the first try.
April 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Y'all, Texas is afraid of a tiddy. Terrified of a boob. Frightened by a breast. Next thing you know they are going to be banning any fried chicken that isn't a wing
April 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Dear designers, the pay gap is bad enough. Can I at least get the last 1/4 of a sleeve you give to men? #fashion
March 31, 2025 at 7:29 PM
If you did the whole 23andme thing it's time to delete your data and have them destroy your sample. Get it done before who knows who buys your genetic information.
March 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Still waiting for the people who were screaming about her emails to make a peep about their slack group chat.
March 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
@iwriteok.bsky.social lol, probably zero chance that you will see this but my librarian brain had to chase down the factor 8 documentary. There are three libraries in the US that have it available for inter-library loan, one in California, if your local public library does that. (Most do)
March 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Some people have the game. I have the Roman empire and that shit haunts me daily.
March 20, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Neighbor caught who has been hooting outside our window.
March 17, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Didn't just say you stand with Ukraine. Send them money. Unless you are living in deepest poverty, you can afford to send something. Take the money you would give to one of the mega corporations and donate it. Be slightly uncomfortable. Miss a luxury. Thoughts and prayers do jack shit.
March 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
After nearly 20 years of tracking my reading on Goodreads I deleted my account to switch to StoryGraph, a black owned platform. Stuck it Amazon.
The StoryGraph
We'll help you track your reading and choose your next book.
www.thestorygraph.com
March 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Reposted by Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss
"The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they're selling: their ideas, their notion of inevitability.

We may be many & they be few but they need us more than we need them.

Another world is not only possible, she's on her way. I can hear her breathing.” - Arundhati Roy
February 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
God I love working at a college. Today my 18 year old student worker looked at me and asked "have you ever heard of #ska?" Oh buddy, I was in high school in the 90s. I now have him listening to the Aquabats. You are welcome kiddo.
February 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Cancelled our Amazon prime subscription to help us focus on shopping small and local instead of making billionaires richer. We agreed that the world will not end if packages take time to get to us. Embrace being slightly inconvenienced when you can to make the world you want to see.
February 26, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I'm so proud of how this turned out. $15 entrainment center from the Habitat Restore, about $100 in materials, and I have custom storage for my craft supplies that I love. #upcycling #crafting
February 23, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Reposted by Courtney M./Yrsa Olfuss
1. The medicine
2. The disease it needs to cure

If we can't control our own fears, we won't think rationally or critically in this crisis.

The weakest men in the country can - sadly - control us through our fear, our apathy, our voluntary submission, and our anxiety response.
February 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Thank you @edzitron.com for making me feel empowered to fight back against the enshitification of the internet with Better Offline. I may be ranting like an aluminum foil lunatic at work, but there are people who listen.
February 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM