Nancy
@nanceoir.bsky.social
I never know what to say in these.
(But Keane and Cerian fans, say hi!)
(But Keane and Cerian fans, say hi!)
In light of today's publishing news, I'd like to remind everyone, "do not feed me aioli, no matter what I say."
Are you addicted to aioli as a result of a difficult-to-explain TTRPG actualplay bit that's gone too far?
We have the solution... ⬇️
We have the solution... ⬇️
October 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
In light of today's publishing news, I'd like to remind everyone, "do not feed me aioli, no matter what I say."
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Timeline cleanser 🐈
September 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Timeline cleanser 🐈
Even if closed captioning doesn’t always get it right, sometimes it gives you a perfectly cromulent description.
Impressive indeed, @dropout.tv
Impressive indeed, @dropout.tv
September 22, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Even if closed captioning doesn’t always get it right, sometimes it gives you a perfectly cromulent description.
Impressive indeed, @dropout.tv
Impressive indeed, @dropout.tv
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I heard someone say this, and I like the metaphor:
Using AI to write a school paper is like bringing a forklift to the gym. The point is not that the weights need to be moved around.
Using AI to write a school paper is like bringing a forklift to the gym. The point is not that the weights need to be moved around.
September 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I heard someone say this, and I like the metaphor:
Using AI to write a school paper is like bringing a forklift to the gym. The point is not that the weights need to be moved around.
Using AI to write a school paper is like bringing a forklift to the gym. The point is not that the weights need to be moved around.
This @keaneofficial.bsky.social thread is important, so I'm also reposting it with alt text.
September 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This @keaneofficial.bsky.social thread is important, so I'm also reposting it with alt text.
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Help @warchilduk.bsky.social continue to show up for children in Gaza at www.warchild.org.uk
September 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Help @warchilduk.bsky.social continue to show up for children in Gaza at www.warchild.org.uk
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Help @warchilduk.bsky.social continue to show up for children in Gaza at www.warchild.org.uk
September 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Help @warchilduk.bsky.social continue to show up for children in Gaza at www.warchild.org.uk
In what normal, sensible sense of how words work is a single phone call, without leaving a message, considered "several attempts" to make contact?
September 13, 2025 at 8:43 PM
In what normal, sensible sense of how words work is a single phone call, without leaving a message, considered "several attempts" to make contact?
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This meeting could have been an email.
This email could have been a passing fancy.
This job could have been a lifetime of wonder.
This email could have been a passing fancy.
This job could have been a lifetime of wonder.
September 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This meeting could have been an email.
This email could have been a passing fancy.
This job could have been a lifetime of wonder.
This email could have been a passing fancy.
This job could have been a lifetime of wonder.
Okay, this is a delightfully charming little tale.
September 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Okay, this is a delightfully charming little tale.
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When people talk about joy and positive art as something shallow, I always think back to this quote from Ursula Le Guin:
September 2, 2025 at 10:37 PM
When people talk about joy and positive art as something shallow, I always think back to this quote from Ursula Le Guin:
Nothing of consequence, but I made this gif years ago, and it's the first time I've seen it used by someone who isn't me.
It's weirdly thrilling when that happens.
It's weirdly thrilling when that happens.
"I used to do drugs. I still do drugs, but I used to, too."
a man speaking into a microphone with the words i love you guys on the bottom
ALT: a man speaking into a microphone with the words i love you guys on the bottom
media.tenor.com
August 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Nothing of consequence, but I made this gif years ago, and it's the first time I've seen it used by someone who isn't me.
It's weirdly thrilling when that happens.
It's weirdly thrilling when that happens.
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While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:
At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
August 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:
At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
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Slightly diminish a band: Eight Inch Nails
Slightly diminish a band: Kvetch Against the Machine
August 13, 2025 at 1:20 AM
*whispers* Don't cry at the front desk, don't cry at the front desk, don't cry at the front desk...
A SPECIAL BUCKAROO MESSAGE. lucky day is out AUGUST 12TH @torbooks.bsky.social us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
August 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
*whispers* Don't cry at the front desk, don't cry at the front desk, don't cry at the front desk...
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And this is a real thing! Of all the things reading can be, first it has to be pleasurable, and entertaining, and engaging, otherwise people will do something else with their time. And pleasure reading begets more reading, or at least, more than the reading that feels like dutiful homework.
I was a high school English teacher for years. After studying and teaching classics, every time I picked up another "important" novel it felt like work. I stopped reading for pleasure.
Then one day I picked up a Star Wars novel, and I'm back to having a stack of books on the floor next to my bed.
Then one day I picked up a Star Wars novel, and I'm back to having a stack of books on the floor next to my bed.
August 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
And this is a real thing! Of all the things reading can be, first it has to be pleasurable, and entertaining, and engaging, otherwise people will do something else with their time. And pleasure reading begets more reading, or at least, more than the reading that feels like dutiful homework.
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Things are pretty bad right now and we need to take joy wherever we can, so here is a picture of Jack McBrayer and Alexander Skarsgard holding hands and being best friends.
July 31, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Things are pretty bad right now and we need to take joy wherever we can, so here is a picture of Jack McBrayer and Alexander Skarsgard holding hands and being best friends.
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We have always made delightful little guys.
July 26, 2025 at 11:35 PM
We have always made delightful little guys.
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Many people that say things along the lines of "Libraries should do this thing" have never investigated to see if Libraries are in fact already doing that thing or if it is in fact possible for Libraries to do it!
Libraries already do a lot of things in between doing the other things that they do!
Libraries already do a lot of things in between doing the other things that they do!
July 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Many people that say things along the lines of "Libraries should do this thing" have never investigated to see if Libraries are in fact already doing that thing or if it is in fact possible for Libraries to do it!
Libraries already do a lot of things in between doing the other things that they do!
Libraries already do a lot of things in between doing the other things that they do!
I’d also note that Amazon links are very junky. We use Amazon for supplies at work and people will share links that are four or five lines long in an email.
Just know that you can get rid of everything after the B0 number (ASIN) section of an Amazon product link you copy from your address bar.
Just know that you can get rid of everything after the B0 number (ASIN) section of an Amazon product link you copy from your address bar.
I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven
July 12, 2025 at 6:01 AM
I’d also note that Amazon links are very junky. We use Amazon for supplies at work and people will share links that are four or five lines long in an email.
Just know that you can get rid of everything after the B0 number (ASIN) section of an Amazon product link you copy from your address bar.
Just know that you can get rid of everything after the B0 number (ASIN) section of an Amazon product link you copy from your address bar.
Good (sorta old, sorta new) news of the day: my vocal cord paralysis is definitely (officially verified by the doctor) gone!
I think it was definitely gone at least by the day after Father’s Day, but I know it’s not just, like, super-compensating or something but is instead moving like it should.
I think it was definitely gone at least by the day after Father’s Day, but I know it’s not just, like, super-compensating or something but is instead moving like it should.
July 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Good (sorta old, sorta new) news of the day: my vocal cord paralysis is definitely (officially verified by the doctor) gone!
I think it was definitely gone at least by the day after Father’s Day, but I know it’s not just, like, super-compensating or something but is instead moving like it should.
I think it was definitely gone at least by the day after Father’s Day, but I know it’s not just, like, super-compensating or something but is instead moving like it should.
You guys, in trying to write a silly response to someone, I may have inadvertently written a halfway decent short bio?
![A screenschot from Discord where anancymouse (that's me) writes, "Bryan, I am but a humble librarian, an information professional. [The community's Nerd Bunny emote appears here, which is a small cartoon beige bunny wearing a white dress shirt, black vest, red bow tie, and thick, round, black glasses. The bunny is smiling with its two front, buck teeth. By using this emote, I am calling myself a nerd before anyone else does.]
It’s hard to resist the clarion call of someone searching for just the right resource."
Rereading that, boy, was I right to call my nerd self out.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5wkcoxeecvgrrym2oeafjlsb/bafkreic74tpqnaud7icqt7poi6expp4auuspqmyjc35etfznwpbmz2x7oe@jpeg)
June 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
You guys, in trying to write a silly response to someone, I may have inadvertently written a halfway decent short bio?
You know, “Biblically accurate [thing]” is just a solid joke.
June 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
You know, “Biblically accurate [thing]” is just a solid joke.
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biblically accurate chicago
google maps broke and created some kind of unholy chicago singularity
June 29, 2025 at 3:13 AM
biblically accurate chicago