Yersinia pestis
@yersiniapestis.bsky.social
Rare-books cataloger. Dotty middle-aged cat lady. YIMBY. COVID scold. Swears a lot. Jeopardy! silver medalist. She/her.
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The union is asking that you not patronize any Starbucks, even ones that aren't unionized, for the duration! Time to find your new favoriteocal coffee shop. To donate to their strike fund: sbworkersunited.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The union is asking that you not patronize any Starbucks, even ones that aren't unionized, for the duration! Time to find your new favoriteocal coffee shop. To donate to their strike fund: sbworkersunited.org
Back with a funky 1495 title page!
November 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Back with a funky 1495 title page!
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Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private server or Donald Trump murdering Jeffrey Epstein to cover up his sex crimes, both candidates went to great lengths to hide their most dangerous secrets.
November 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private server or Donald Trump murdering Jeffrey Epstein to cover up his sex crimes, both candidates went to great lengths to hide their most dangerous secrets.
Back at work. Slowly figuring out where I left off. Annoyed that the first incun I picked up is unsigned. Come on, dude, it’s 1484! I deliberately skipped a 1472 book to avoid this shit!
November 13, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Back at work. Slowly figuring out where I left off. Annoyed that the first incun I picked up is unsigned. Come on, dude, it’s 1484! I deliberately skipped a 1472 book to avoid this shit!
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Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library
(edited transcript of a speech given on the picket line outside the British Library on Friday 7th November)
Zadie Smith’s script should be archived @britishlibrary.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
(edited transcript of a speech given on the picket line outside the British Library on Friday 7th November)
Zadie Smith’s script should be archived @britishlibrary.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library
(edited transcript of a speech given on the picket line outside the British Library on Friday 7th November)
Zadie Smith’s script should be archived @britishlibrary.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
(edited transcript of a speech given on the picket line outside the British Library on Friday 7th November)
Zadie Smith’s script should be archived @britishlibrary.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I need to say how much I hated today’s NYT crossword. Hated it. Haaaaaaated it.
November 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I need to say how much I hated today’s NYT crossword. Hated it. Haaaaaaated it.
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"If discovery tools return hallucinated results, the credibility of the library itself could be undermined. Students may come to see the library’s systems as just another unreliable search engine."
BINGO
BINGO
November 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
"If discovery tools return hallucinated results, the credibility of the library itself could be undermined. Students may come to see the library’s systems as just another unreliable search engine."
BINGO
BINGO
Been a while, I know. Rage; despair; furloughed under US government shutdown.
November 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Been a while, I know. Rage; despair; furloughed under US government shutdown.
DC CORE-FART meeting!
November 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM
DC CORE-FART meeting!
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Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
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That is what this entire account is dedicated to making happen! www.panaccindex.info
Pandemic Accountability Index | JJ Kogburne | Substack
A public registry of pandemic disinformation artists, the latest medical research on COVID-19, and biting commentary. Click to read Pandemic Accountability Index, by JJ Kogburne, a Substack publicatio...
www.panaccindex.info
September 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
That is what this entire account is dedicated to making happen! www.panaccindex.info
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In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Feds in military gear flood downtown Chicago; top border official says arrests based on 'how they look'
The immigration agents were spotted making arrests in downtown Chicago and River North neighborhood early Sunday.
chicago.suntimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Sara Jane Moore, who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, has died at 95.
Sara Jane Moore, Would-Be Assassin of President Ford, Dies at 95
A mother of four on the fringes of radical leftist movements, she fired at the president outside a San Francisco hotel in 1975. She had hoped to spark a revolution, she said.
nyti.ms
September 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Sara Jane Moore, who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, has died at 95.
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Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets.
• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin
• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin
September 25, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets.
• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin
• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin
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The many many women & BIPOC who‘ve been endlessly repeating ourselves (& being erased) since the dawn of computing were not & are not prescient or ahead of their/our time…
Eugenics isn’t a bug—it’s a feature! We were & are excluded by design & intention…these predicted outcomes aren’t accidents!
Eugenics isn’t a bug—it’s a feature! We were & are excluded by design & intention…these predicted outcomes aren’t accidents!
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
September 25, 2025 at 4:02 AM
The many many women & BIPOC who‘ve been endlessly repeating ourselves (& being erased) since the dawn of computing were not & are not prescient or ahead of their/our time…
Eugenics isn’t a bug—it’s a feature! We were & are excluded by design & intention…these predicted outcomes aren’t accidents!
Eugenics isn’t a bug—it’s a feature! We were & are excluded by design & intention…these predicted outcomes aren’t accidents!
Officer Dicksmack McPowerTrip is working the scanner at the Independence entrance today.
September 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Officer Dicksmack McPowerTrip is working the scanner at the Independence entrance today.
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Smithsonian Folklife Festival is hiring for all sorts of different seasonal festival positions, applications due Oct 14 festival.si.edu/jobs
Jobs & Internships
Job openings are listed here when available.
festival.si.edu
September 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Smithsonian Folklife Festival is hiring for all sorts of different seasonal festival positions, applications due Oct 14 festival.si.edu/jobs
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You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia
#romancelandia
September 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia
#romancelandia
It’s sometimes difficult to not explain my high level of caffeine intake to my colleagues for what it is: I caffeinate until I stop singing little songs to myself about how *waves hands around* makes me want to jump off a tall building.
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
It’s sometimes difficult to not explain my high level of caffeine intake to my colleagues for what it is: I caffeinate until I stop singing little songs to myself about how *waves hands around* makes me want to jump off a tall building.
This is really not a good time for me to encounter books with NSDAP property stamps.
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
This is really not a good time for me to encounter books with NSDAP property stamps.
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Although ABC is bringing Jimmy Kimmel back tomorrow night, Sinclair Broadcasting is indicating that it will not air his program on their stations/affiliates.
Please go to the link below.
If one of their stations is in your area, CALL THEM AND TELL THEM WHAT YOU THINK.
sbgi.net/tv-stations/
Please go to the link below.
If one of their stations is in your area, CALL THEM AND TELL THEM WHAT YOU THINK.
sbgi.net/tv-stations/
September 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Although ABC is bringing Jimmy Kimmel back tomorrow night, Sinclair Broadcasting is indicating that it will not air his program on their stations/affiliates.
Please go to the link below.
If one of their stations is in your area, CALL THEM AND TELL THEM WHAT YOU THINK.
sbgi.net/tv-stations/
Please go to the link below.
If one of their stations is in your area, CALL THEM AND TELL THEM WHAT YOU THINK.
sbgi.net/tv-stations/
If any of y’all get raptured, can I have your stuff?
September 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
If any of y’all get raptured, can I have your stuff?
Sorry, Mets fans!
September 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Sorry, Mets fans!
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We're coming up on the 10th anniversary of this Tweet. I feel like I should buy it a birthday cake.
September 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
We're coming up on the 10th anniversary of this Tweet. I feel like I should buy it a birthday cake.