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Lisa
@lspags.bsky.social
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“~Reunited…~” acquisitions librarian, tennis-watcher, knitter, late-blooming wine student
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Joe Jackson, "Right & Wrong" - www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkzb...
Joe Jackson - Right & Wrong
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January 29, 2026 at 1:04 AM
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UC Davis has received a $120M gift—the largest ever made to veterinary medicine—from Joan and Sanford I. Weill. Our school is now the UC Davis Weill School of Veterinary Medicine, launching a bold new era with truly limitless impact for animal and human health. www.ucdavis.edu/news/uc-davi...
UC Davis Receives $120M Gift, Largest Ever to Veterinary Medicine
UC Davis Receives $120M Gift, Largest Ever to Veterinary Medicine from philanthropists Joan and Sanford I. Weill.
www.ucdavis.edu
January 28, 2026 at 4:03 PM
lspags.bsky.social
Ridiculous stuff is ridiculousing.
January 29, 2026 at 12:10 AM
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Honorable mention - because she's so badass, and because I had already used up my Sargent slot earlier....

John Singer Sargent. Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth. 1889. Oil on canvas. Tate Britain, London.

Fin.
January 28, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you, etc. no particular orders no explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

20. Fra Angelico. Noli me tangere. ~1439-1443. Fresco and tempera on wall. Museum of San Marco, Florence.
Photo of fresco on wall, Mary Magdalene in light red dress kneeling to left in front of open tomb, Jesus to her left haloed in gold and red crown. Her hands are outstretched to him and he’s like “No touch.” They are in green garden space with trees in background. Painting is curved on top. Pulled back to show monk’s cell at San Marco convent, red tile floor, kneeling space and small wooden door with cut-out at window. Off-white stucco walls and curved ceilings. Fresco is painted in upper left corner.
January 28, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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edrabinski.bsky.social
Politicizing basic public services is an ongoing catastrophe. Libraries work best when their boards are comprised of people who care about libraries, not when they become footballs on the field of the far right.
January 28, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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Just outside Seattle on I-5 🤘
An overpass occupied by people with signs, and a large banner between them that says, "Come for one, face us all." Because Fuck ICE, that's why. This is not my photo. I don't know who it belongs to.
January 27, 2026 at 10:35 PM
lspags.bsky.social
Stumbled on my older docs for when I was advocating for us to implement CORAL ERMS. <sniff> <life energy went down several bars then> hashtag alternate paths
January 27, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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Almost done: Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you, etc. no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

19. Jean-Michel Basquiat. Horn Players. 1983. Acrylic and oilstick on 3 canvas panels mounted on wood supports. The Broad, Los Angeles.
Three vertical panels, with black/royal blue backgrounds. Left has figure of Charlie Parker with alto saxophone, right panel is Dizzy Gillespie with trumpet. Panels are text-heavy, with "EAR" musical notes, a white cube with SOAP, ORNITHOLOGY, ALCHEMY repeated in white. Center panel has written DIZZY GILLESPIE, CHARLIE PARKER in white with white brushstrokes over top, pink outlined face with teeth, ORNITHOLOGY, LARYNX in pink/parentheses and crossed out.
January 27, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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"Minitel" (in voice of Leeloo saying "Multipass")
January 26, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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France announced today it’s phasing out Teams, Zoom, etc. to be replaced with a French/European solution called Visio. The data is hosted on Outscale. Transcripts and subtitles are also handled by French providers. The target is set on 2027 for government agencies.
January 26, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you - ~1 painting a day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. (catch-up)

18. Jacques-Louis David. The Coronation of Napoleon. 1805-07. Oil on canvas. Louvre Museum.
At altar of cathedral, Napoleon is wearing coronation robes and a golden laurel crown, lifting a coronation crown to place on Josephine, who is kneeling in a white dress with red coronation cape/train. The pope is seated. Many attendants surrounding standing and seated in background loge areas. Highly ornamental painting in rich blue carpet, red robes, tapestries, curtains, etc. Columns and arches in background.
January 26, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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Lacy says <raised fist and soup can emojis> - keep the faith.
Black and white Lacy cat (white body, black top of head and back) sitting on cushion looking straight to camera. Teal cushion behind her.
January 25, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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theradr.bsky.social
When @mashagessen.bsky.social says something, you shut up and listen:
Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 6:19 PM
lspags.bsky.social
Equal parts whipped cream and cottage cheese, drizzled with chocolate syrup.
karenho.bsky.social Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 4d
what are people stress eating?
January 25, 2026 at 4:35 AM
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nbedera.bsky.social
If you’re outside of Minnesota and you’re wondering how to help, this guide is excellent.

And seriously. Take down your Ring doorbell TODAY.
How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota
Last edited January 22, 2026 I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That sa…
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January 24, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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eff.org
Physical media built secondhand markets, swaps, and libraries thanks to the First Sale principle. Without it, digital media is hollowing out those spaces and leaving us with cheap rentals.
Rent-Only Copyright Culture Makes Us All Worse Off
In the Netflix/Spotify/Amazon era, many of us access copyrighted works purely in digital form – and that means we rarely have the chance to buy them. Instead, we are stuck renting them, subject to all...
www.eff.org
January 23, 2026 at 12:40 AM
lspags.bsky.social
Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you - ~1 painting a day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. (catch-up)

17. Portia Zvavahera. Kubatwa kwemazizi (Captured owls). 2022 Oil based printing ink and oil bar on linen. W/ David Zwirner.
~7 owls standing and four human figures seated/kneeling in center of multi-layer beaded circle. Within circle background is black, human figures are in orange, one in dark blue with orange feet, one in red robe, the fourth is smaller in white - ghostly. Owels are purple toned, outlined in orange, some orange eyes. Beaded circle is wide in foreground, gets narrow in background and there is a white object that seems to be a clasp.
January 23, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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theblochian.bsky.social
And so it begins... 3 UK universities (Essex, Sussex & Kent) have just gone public about walking away from their Elsevier Read & Publish deals, despite Jisc's recently announced agreement. Expect to see more of these over the coming months. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/three-m... #OpenAccess
Three major research universities opt out of new Elsevier deal
Complaints over ‘price increases’ and open access models spur UK institutions to walk away from offer from publishing giant, despite nationally negotiated agreement
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 22, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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Serious Newspaper X, your subject line has me all "The Muppets Take Manhattan"... pretty much... wocka wocka wocka. "I've got gravitas up the wazoo...." sigh....
January 22, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you - 1 painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

16. Piero (or maybe/w Antonio) Pollaiuolo. Justice. 1470. Oil on panel. Uffizi Gallery, Florence. (I like all 7)
White woman seated on round dais, wearing draped robes/dress, golden smock on top with armor on right arm, white drapery for skirt. Right hand is holding a sword, left hand is on a globe sitting on left knee. Hair is pulled back, wearing a small jeweled black hat. Feet are sandaled. Stylized columned arch/columns in background.
January 21, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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Crisp white wine on the brain: typed Jura for Jira in these meeting notes.
January 21, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you - 1 painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

15. Claude Monet. The Turkeys. 1876. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Group of about 20 white turkeys with pinky-orange heads on grassy slope, nibbling on things, looking out, etc. One toward back left has tail fanned out, on in foreground left is neck up in frame. Broad brushstrokes with turkeys in background right just hints of white. Trees and reddish estate house in far background, cloudy dappled-lit sky.
January 20, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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whimsicalmuse.bsky.social
A person‘s attractiveness increases by a minimum of 58% when they support their local bookstore, café, theatre, bakery, and library.
January 19, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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Back to paintings soon for the Choose 20 series. Here are two lovely textile art pieces (Joining, left, and Resurrection, right) by Lee ShinJa, seen today at BAMPFA (Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive)
Vertical textile piece, black and gray fibers, cascading down the wall, fringe at bottom. Large tapestry in gray, black, off-white, burgundy. Center panel with white triangle pointing down, black fringe and circle in triangle, panel behind has off-white parabolas at top and bottom . Horizontal burgundy at bottom of piece.
January 19, 2026 at 2:49 AM