Corey Murata
@cimurata.bsky.social
Cultivating productive laziness. Also, librarian, Buddhist, drinking too much coffee.
I'm not allowed to accept swag from a vendor worth over $50, but I guess a half billion dollar airplane is OK.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/u...
Trump Is to Accept a Luxury 747 From Qatar for Use as Air Force One
www.nytimes.com
May 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I'm not allowed to accept swag from a vendor worth over $50, but I guess a half billion dollar airplane is OK.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/u...
I'm guessing the orange kool-aid man is going to appoint Marco Rubio as the next Librarian of Congress.
May 9, 2025 at 4:40 AM
I'm guessing the orange kool-aid man is going to appoint Marco Rubio as the next Librarian of Congress.
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“Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a Japanese American National Museum leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’” 🔥
Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH
The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...
www.latimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 4:18 AM
“Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a Japanese American National Museum leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’” 🔥
Reposted by Corey Murata
I started watching TV with closed captions on all the time and discovered what I really need is closed captions for when I'm talking to my teenagers.
December 18, 2024 at 10:32 PM
I started watching TV with closed captions on all the time and discovered what I really need is closed captions for when I'm talking to my teenagers.
Random thought this morning - was "hands" originally used to measure height, and "feet" for length?
December 18, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Random thought this morning - was "hands" originally used to measure height, and "feet" for length?
Has Trump named his nominee to lead the Ministry of Silly Walks yet?
December 10, 2024 at 1:17 AM
Has Trump named his nominee to lead the Ministry of Silly Walks yet?
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December 9, 2024 at 5:32 PM
TIL that you can't just throw around a Monty Python reference like, "nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition," without someone taking it seriously.
December 6, 2024 at 12:33 AM
TIL that you can't just throw around a Monty Python reference like, "nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition," without someone taking it seriously.
Art and copyright librarians: If I tape a banana to my wall, is that a forgery, a reproduction, or a derivative work?
November 21, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Art and copyright librarians: If I tape a banana to my wall, is that a forgery, a reproduction, or a derivative work?
The Department of Government Efficiency could be one of the ministries out of 1984.
November 13, 2024 at 3:03 AM
The Department of Government Efficiency could be one of the ministries out of 1984.
Today I've been pondering the possibility of an increase in fraudulent journals to support systemic mis/disinformation. Can scholarship survive a head-on attack at the veracity of the scholarly article?
November 8, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Today I've been pondering the possibility of an increase in fraudulent journals to support systemic mis/disinformation. Can scholarship survive a head-on attack at the veracity of the scholarly article?