Otters
@otterdidact.bsky.social
Systems Librarian and occasional cataloger in Maine.
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『アメリカンドッグ マスコットボールチェーン』11月発売予定。中のわんちゃんがユラユラ揺れる！
The "American Dog Mascot Ball Chain" is scheduled to be released in November. The dog inside sways back and forth!
#ガチャポン #gachapon
『アメリカンドッグ マスコットボールチェーン』11月発売予定。中のわんちゃんがユラユラ揺れる！
The "American Dog Mascot Ball Chain" is scheduled to be released in November. The dog inside sways back and forth!
#ガチャポン #gachapon
November 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
https://gacha.o0o0.jp/gp/archives/42776
『アメリカンドッグ マスコットボールチェーン』11月発売予定。中のわんちゃんがユラユラ揺れる！
The "American Dog Mascot Ball Chain" is scheduled to be released in November. The dog inside sways back and forth!
#ガチャポン #gachapon
『アメリカンドッグ マスコットボールチェーン』11月発売予定。中のわんちゃんがユラユラ揺れる！
The "American Dog Mascot Ball Chain" is scheduled to be released in November. The dog inside sways back and forth!
#ガチャポン #gachapon
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Salami Advent Calendar, Czech Republic. podnikovka.cz/uzeniny_c103...
November 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Salami Advent Calendar, Czech Republic. podnikovka.cz/uzeniny_c103...
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I want someone to make a Merlin app but it's just Mark Catesby's descriptions of birds from 1732.
"This Bird, by its ungrateful brawling Noise, seems at Variance and displeased with all others" is a great field mark
"This Bird, by its ungrateful brawling Noise, seems at Variance and displeased with all others" is a great field mark
November 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I want someone to make a Merlin app but it's just Mark Catesby's descriptions of birds from 1732.
"This Bird, by its ungrateful brawling Noise, seems at Variance and displeased with all others" is a great field mark
"This Bird, by its ungrateful brawling Noise, seems at Variance and displeased with all others" is a great field mark
sometimes, I'm so impressed by our students - how kind, thoughtful, and dedicated they are, and how much better put together than I and my classmates were, and I have to remind myself that I and my classmates were sixteen years old freshman year lol
November 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
sometimes, I'm so impressed by our students - how kind, thoughtful, and dedicated they are, and how much better put together than I and my classmates were, and I have to remind myself that I and my classmates were sixteen years old freshman year lol
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It’s never a bad time for this meme, but International Men’s Day might be the best time
November 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
It’s never a bad time for this meme, but International Men’s Day might be the best time
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Trans Day of Remembrance is today.
The link below gives details of just some of the #trans, #nonbinary and gender nonconforming people we have lost in the past year.
#SayTheirNames #TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025
tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports/tdor...
The link below gives details of just some of the #trans, #nonbinary and gender nonconforming people we have lost in the past year.
#SayTheirNames #TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025
tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports/tdor...
Remembering Our Dead - Reports - TDoR 2025
1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025
tdor.translivesmatter.info
November 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Trans Day of Remembrance is today.
The link below gives details of just some of the #trans, #nonbinary and gender nonconforming people we have lost in the past year.
#SayTheirNames #TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025
tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports/tdor...
The link below gives details of just some of the #trans, #nonbinary and gender nonconforming people we have lost in the past year.
#SayTheirNames #TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025
tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports/tdor...
et moi aussi!
Does Maine have the nation’s highest rate of French ancestry? | Fact brief
Does Maine have the nation’s highest rate of French ancestry? | Fact brief
About 6.3 million Americans, or roughly 1.9% of the nation's population, told the U.S. Census Bureau that they have French ancestry.
www.pressherald.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
et moi aussi!
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Talk about undermining labor and value of professionals.
Polar bevs is hiring an intern for $20/hr to design an archives program for 139 years of materials, including a budget 😭😬🥴
November 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Talk about undermining labor and value of professionals.
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Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
If we can learn anything from Dick Van Dyke, Mel Brooks, and the entire Mad Magazine Usual Gang of Idiots, it's that you can live for a very long time by being very, very silly
November 19, 2025 at 3:52 AM
If we can learn anything from Dick Van Dyke, Mel Brooks, and the entire Mad Magazine Usual Gang of Idiots, it's that you can live for a very long time by being very, very silly
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Things that will get you kicked out of academia forever:
- taking maternity leave at the wrong time
- spending too much time with your kids
- reporting harassment
- not moving every 2-3 years
- taking a partner's job/preferences into account
- mouthing off before tenure
- taking maternity leave at the wrong time
- spending too much time with your kids
- reporting harassment
- not moving every 2-3 years
- taking a partner's job/preferences into account
- mouthing off before tenure
A guy makes ONE tiny mistake (has a years-long friendship with the world's worst sex trafficker; brags about sexually harassing colleagues; is racist; says women are stupid) and his whole LIFE is blown up (does slightly fewer speaking engagements; keeps teaching at #1 university)??!?!?!?!?!
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
November 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Things that will get you kicked out of academia forever:
- taking maternity leave at the wrong time
- spending too much time with your kids
- reporting harassment
- not moving every 2-3 years
- taking a partner's job/preferences into account
- mouthing off before tenure
- taking maternity leave at the wrong time
- spending too much time with your kids
- reporting harassment
- not moving every 2-3 years
- taking a partner's job/preferences into account
- mouthing off before tenure
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Basically, the United States ran up until 2024 based on nothing more than the presumption that the administration would not do relentless crimes, and would stop if asked.
November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Basically, the United States ran up until 2024 based on nothing more than the presumption that the administration would not do relentless crimes, and would stop if asked.
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I can’t believe how stupid everything is
November 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I can’t believe how stupid everything is
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Good god, they’ve *always* been like this 😡
The New York Times, January 19, 1859
www.nytimes.com/1859/01/19/a...
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The New York Times, January 19, 1859
www.nytimes.com/1859/01/19/a...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Good god, they’ve *always* been like this 😡
The New York Times, January 19, 1859
www.nytimes.com/1859/01/19/a...
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The New York Times, January 19, 1859
www.nytimes.com/1859/01/19/a...
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Harvard: Close the Women's Center, let the predator keep teaching
Breaking News: Larry Summers said he was “deeply ashamed” about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, and would step back from public commitments, but continue teaching.
Larry Summers to Step Back From Public Commitments Over Epstein Emails
New emails showed that Dr. Summers, a former Harvard president, had stayed in touch with Jeffrey Epstein for years after Mr. Epstein faced sex trafficking charges.
nyti.ms
November 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Harvard: Close the Women's Center, let the predator keep teaching
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『1/12ディストピア飯』5月発売予定。
"1/12 Dystopia Meal" is scheduled to be released in May.
#ガチャポン #gachapon
『1/12ディストピア飯』5月発売予定。
"1/12 Dystopia Meal" is scheduled to be released in May.
#ガチャポン #gachapon
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
https://gacha.o0o0.jp/gp/archives/36719
『1/12ディストピア飯』5月発売予定。
"1/12 Dystopia Meal" is scheduled to be released in May.
#ガチャポン #gachapon
『1/12ディストピア飯』5月発売予定。
"1/12 Dystopia Meal" is scheduled to be released in May.
#ガチャポン #gachapon
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I wrote about my new birds+data project, Of A Feather:
Of A Feather
This is a story about dead birds in drawers, xkcd, natural language processing and feathers. It's about color, quixotic pursuits and art made from data.
It starts in a parking lot.
It's December, 20...
www.jerthorp.me
November 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I wrote about my new birds+data project, Of A Feather:
wait how is Christoph Waltz in both Frankenstein and Dracula this year
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 AM
wait how is Christoph Waltz in both Frankenstein and Dracula this year
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Still looking for help with this!
Are there any catalogers/libraries with documentation for cataloging tarot decks using MARC? I’m writing documentation for our collection and want to make sure that I’m following best practices.
I know about Yale’s documentation, but it’s focused on historical playing cards.
I know about Yale’s documentation, but it’s focused on historical playing cards.
November 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Still looking for help with this!
me: I don't need a Suzuki Omnichord, I don't even play music
the little demon in my head: yeah, but you *could* www.sweetwater.com/store/detail...
the little demon in my head: yeah, but you *could* www.sweetwater.com/store/detail...
www.sweetwater.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
me: I don't need a Suzuki Omnichord, I don't even play music
the little demon in my head: yeah, but you *could* www.sweetwater.com/store/detail...
the little demon in my head: yeah, but you *could* www.sweetwater.com/store/detail...
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Red and Blue Composition, by Ad Reinhardt, 1941 (flipped), 📸 by Andrew Mordzynski
November 17, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Red and Blue Composition, by Ad Reinhardt, 1941 (flipped), 📸 by Andrew Mordzynski
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increasingly hard to avoid concluding that in general the ruling class think treating their subordinates as they do is totally unremarkable
I have loathed Larry Summers for 25 years and yet this is still more awful and grotesque than I expected.
Great reporting and write-up by the student reporters of @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
Great reporting and write-up by the student reporters of @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 3:54 AM
increasingly hard to avoid concluding that in general the ruling class think treating their subordinates as they do is totally unremarkable
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I feel like the pope being an American cinephile is God finally rewarding Scorsese for a lifetime of devotion
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I feel like the pope being an American cinephile is God finally rewarding Scorsese for a lifetime of devotion
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i don’t want AI-performed anything. i want a work-life balance where i don’t mind having to load and unload the dishwasher.
I don't want AI generated art, I want AI emptied dishwasher
November 17, 2025 at 5:33 AM
i don’t want AI-performed anything. i want a work-life balance where i don’t mind having to load and unload the dishwasher.