valerie
@vfo.bsky.social
Academic librarian @CUNY | entering my crone season | ND AF | GLAMS: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rea3amxwqfkfzhilivubtrib/feed/aaabfz334lr66
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valerie
@vfo.bsky.social
· Oct 17
Data? I never even meta!
I have the day off today so I am about to get out of bed to get a cookie, and then immediately get back in bed.
December 31, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I have the day off today so I am about to get out of bed to get a cookie, and then immediately get back in bed.
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New York Public Library
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December 31, 2025 at 12:11 PM
New York Public Library
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IRS: You owe us taxes.
Americans: How much?
IRS: Figure it out yourself.
Americans: So I can pay how much I want?
IRS: No. We know exactly how much you owe us but you have to figure it out yourself.
Americans: What if I guess wrong?
IRS: Jail.
Americans: How much?
IRS: Figure it out yourself.
Americans: So I can pay how much I want?
IRS: No. We know exactly how much you owe us but you have to figure it out yourself.
Americans: What if I guess wrong?
IRS: Jail.
December 31, 2025 at 2:50 AM
IRS: You owe us taxes.
Americans: How much?
IRS: Figure it out yourself.
Americans: So I can pay how much I want?
IRS: No. We know exactly how much you owe us but you have to figure it out yourself.
Americans: What if I guess wrong?
IRS: Jail.
Americans: How much?
IRS: Figure it out yourself.
Americans: So I can pay how much I want?
IRS: No. We know exactly how much you owe us but you have to figure it out yourself.
Americans: What if I guess wrong?
IRS: Jail.
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We are still accepting applications for a #tenured #associateprofessor in #QueerStudies @blsbaruch.bsky.social with an appointment @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social! Besides the base salary, there’s summer salary and research support. Application deadline is now Jan 5.
cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
Jobs | City University of New York
cuny.jobs
December 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
We are still accepting applications for a #tenured #associateprofessor in #QueerStudies @blsbaruch.bsky.social with an appointment @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social! Besides the base salary, there’s summer salary and research support. Application deadline is now Jan 5.
cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
Friends…. I got the NYPL book checkout card necklace for Christmas!!!!!!
December 27, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Friends…. I got the NYPL book checkout card necklace for Christmas!!!!!!
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For anyone that thought disinformation was a social media problem, it’s great to see all of the legacy media organizations giving best book of the year to a Princeton University press published book full of Covid disinformation.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
For anyone that thought disinformation was a social media problem, it’s great to see all of the legacy media organizations giving best book of the year to a Princeton University press published book full of Covid disinformation.
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It's a Christmas miracle: Mark Cuban and Marco Rubio have mastered the fusion dance and formed a being known as Marco Cubio
December 25, 2025 at 4:55 AM
It's a Christmas miracle: Mark Cuban and Marco Rubio have mastered the fusion dance and formed a being known as Marco Cubio
If someone re-clips this clip to remove the blackface at the end that destroyed all my joy, am I allowed to love it again?
Merry Christmas! Please enjoy the opening to this Japanese Christmas concert special that I watch every year.
As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet
As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet
December 25, 2025 at 5:35 AM
If someone re-clips this clip to remove the blackface at the end that destroyed all my joy, am I allowed to love it again?
If there is a hell and I go there it will just be me having to sight read the alto part of any version of any Gloria hymn
December 25, 2025 at 4:36 AM
If there is a hell and I go there it will just be me having to sight read the alto part of any version of any Gloria hymn
The Tabernacle Choir is fucking 🔥🔥🔥
December 25, 2025 at 3:23 AM
The Tabernacle Choir is fucking 🔥🔥🔥
Ok time to log off and do some stitching and wrapping
a black and white cat wrapped in christmas wrapping paper with a bow on its head .
Alt: a black and white cat wrapped in christmas wrapping paper with a bow on its head .
media.tenor.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Ok time to log off and do some stitching and wrapping
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Gather 'round for the annual posting of...
"A Mixed MARC/BIBFRAME Environment; or, A Visit from Ms. Henriette."
"A Mixed MARC/BIBFRAME Environment; or, A Visit from Ms. Henriette."
December 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Gather 'round for the annual posting of...
"A Mixed MARC/BIBFRAME Environment; or, A Visit from Ms. Henriette."
"A Mixed MARC/BIBFRAME Environment; or, A Visit from Ms. Henriette."
I don’t think I could love this more❤️😁
Gather 'round for the annual posting of...
"A Mixed MARC/BIBFRAME Environment; or, A Visit from Ms. Henriette."
"A Mixed MARC/BIBFRAME Environment; or, A Visit from Ms. Henriette."
December 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I don’t think I could love this more❤️😁
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Happy Christmas from the English Oak Project 🎄
From right to left: Philippa, Oliver, Elliott & Chris (me)
From right to left: Philippa, Oliver, Elliott & Chris (me)
December 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Happy Christmas from the English Oak Project 🎄
From right to left: Philippa, Oliver, Elliott & Chris (me)
From right to left: Philippa, Oliver, Elliott & Chris (me)
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If you listen to anyone a whole lot, you'll get brain rot.
I'm not fucking kidding, or teasing. Even GOOD sources/people if you listen to them EVERY DAY you will get brain rot.
It's how we're wired, let me explain
I'm not fucking kidding, or teasing. Even GOOD sources/people if you listen to them EVERY DAY you will get brain rot.
It's how we're wired, let me explain
“People take him too literally” is - literally - the attitude that is destroying the world
December 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
If you listen to anyone a whole lot, you'll get brain rot.
I'm not fucking kidding, or teasing. Even GOOD sources/people if you listen to them EVERY DAY you will get brain rot.
It's how we're wired, let me explain
I'm not fucking kidding, or teasing. Even GOOD sources/people if you listen to them EVERY DAY you will get brain rot.
It's how we're wired, let me explain
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If anyone saves us it will be the librarians. And I mean that from the bottom of my heart and soul. Knowledge is everything, but only if you can find it. And librarians do so much more. Thank you to all librarians.
December 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
If anyone saves us it will be the librarians. And I mean that from the bottom of my heart and soul. Knowledge is everything, but only if you can find it. And librarians do so much more. Thank you to all librarians.
I spent my whole career being told librarians are obsolete because of technology (and arguing vehemently that we are not!) so when people finally realize that maybe they should have listened? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
December 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I spent my whole career being told librarians are obsolete because of technology (and arguing vehemently that we are not!) so when people finally realize that maybe they should have listened? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Listening to them talk about the dismantling of the sports illustrated archives on Front Burner, and of course no mention of the archivists who worked so hard to organize and make those archives accessible. It was just a resource that existed and no no longer exists. Just a thing. 😭📜
December 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Listening to them talk about the dismantling of the sports illustrated archives on Front Burner, and of course no mention of the archivists who worked so hard to organize and make those archives accessible. It was just a resource that existed and no no longer exists. Just a thing. 😭📜
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If you're an academic who is protective or defensive about your own area of expertise (understandable, in this day and age), but are offended when it's suggested that professional archivists & librarians have unique expertise outside your own experience, that's worth some self-examination
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
If you're an academic who is protective or defensive about your own area of expertise (understandable, in this day and age), but are offended when it's suggested that professional archivists & librarians have unique expertise outside your own experience, that's worth some self-examination
Catching up on Love is Blind and watching influencers play chicken with each other as to who can stay committed to the bit longer kind of just makes me uncomfortable?¯\_(ツ)_/¯
December 23, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Catching up on Love is Blind and watching influencers play chicken with each other as to who can stay committed to the bit longer kind of just makes me uncomfortable?¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Any person over the age of 40 who is willing to go on a reality show is automatically fascinating to me.
December 22, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Any person over the age of 40 who is willing to go on a reality show is automatically fascinating to me.
I had this same thought, unfortunately.
Prediction for 2026:
Love is Blind style reality dating show except some of the contestants are secretly ai
Love is Blind style reality dating show except some of the contestants are secretly ai
December 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I had this same thought, unfortunately.
Ask your friendly academic librarian about all the times we tried to tell you that what we do is important and you should fund it. You get the services you pay for, friends.
Lolololol at every academic who has paid zero attention to their library or constantly-decreasing library funding suddenly being like LIBRARIES SHOULD HAVE BEEN DOING EVERYTHING THEMSELVES AND OUTSOURCING NOTHING like we all have teams of programmers and software engineers.
December 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Ask your friendly academic librarian about all the times we tried to tell you that what we do is important and you should fund it. You get the services you pay for, friends.
Lolololol at every academic who has paid zero attention to their library or constantly-decreasing library funding suddenly being like LIBRARIES SHOULD HAVE BEEN DOING EVERYTHING THEMSELVES AND OUTSOURCING NOTHING like we all have teams of programmers and software engineers.
December 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Lolololol at every academic who has paid zero attention to their library or constantly-decreasing library funding suddenly being like LIBRARIES SHOULD HAVE BEEN DOING EVERYTHING THEMSELVES AND OUTSOURCING NOTHING like we all have teams of programmers and software engineers.
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8:30: leave for work
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December 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
8:30: leave for work
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