JP Mongeau
@jpmongeau.bsky.social
Metadata Librarian/Rare Books person/Masked girlie/Guncle to 9 cats. Follows #critcat/#critlib. He/They.
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Give me articles or give me death
The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
September 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Give me articles or give me death
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BREAKING: Kimmel is Uncancelled (for now).
But note! Disney isn’t bringing him back because of the law, morals, ethics, or any of those noble reasons.
They’re bringing him back because they lost billions of dollars. Boycotts work. Keep piling on. Fascist actions should have lasting consequences.
But note! Disney isn’t bringing him back because of the law, morals, ethics, or any of those noble reasons.
They’re bringing him back because they lost billions of dollars. Boycotts work. Keep piling on. Fascist actions should have lasting consequences.
September 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
BREAKING: Kimmel is Uncancelled (for now).
But note! Disney isn’t bringing him back because of the law, morals, ethics, or any of those noble reasons.
They’re bringing him back because they lost billions of dollars. Boycotts work. Keep piling on. Fascist actions should have lasting consequences.
But note! Disney isn’t bringing him back because of the law, morals, ethics, or any of those noble reasons.
They’re bringing him back because they lost billions of dollars. Boycotts work. Keep piling on. Fascist actions should have lasting consequences.
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We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
August 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
35 mm photos of the ferry.
August 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
35 mm photos of the ferry.
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the scenario we all feared
August 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
the scenario we all feared
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AI hype is going to drive people who actually know how to do the work, and do it while upholding professional ethics and values, from libraries, from education, from medicine, and on and on and on. It's already happening.
August 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM
AI hype is going to drive people who actually know how to do the work, and do it while upholding professional ethics and values, from libraries, from education, from medicine, and on and on and on. It's already happening.
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The Black Panthers weren’t just infiltrated because they were Black, they were infiltrated because their communist ideology had began to influence not just Black people, but other groups within this country
Communism was working and the FBI and CIA went through great lengths to stop the spread
Communism was working and the FBI and CIA went through great lengths to stop the spread
August 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The Black Panthers weren’t just infiltrated because they were Black, they were infiltrated because their communist ideology had began to influence not just Black people, but other groups within this country
Communism was working and the FBI and CIA went through great lengths to stop the spread
Communism was working and the FBI and CIA went through great lengths to stop the spread
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Oh, I dunno, Times. Perhaps do ask.
![What Will It Cost to Renovate the 'Free' Air Force One? Don't Ask.
[via The New York Times]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gthl7kdyryv5lylos55da747/bafkreihbdzyfrmef7rrchzmrfskgpn3vwxxvmj4to6nge2grejqgk7q7aa@jpeg)
July 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Oh, I dunno, Times. Perhaps do ask.
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Libraries have been handing AI the shovels needed to dig their cataloging departments' graves for a long time now, but this still sucks.
July 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Libraries have been handing AI the shovels needed to dig their cataloging departments' graves for a long time now, but this still sucks.
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Kill the Hays Code in your head.
July 24, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Kill the Hays Code in your head.
TFW the dealer description says the book on my cart is "10 separately issued works in one volume."
a man in a black shirt is sitting in front of a wall with butterflies
ALT: a man in a black shirt is sitting in front of a wall with butterflies
media.tenor.com
July 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
TFW the dealer description says the book on my cart is "10 separately issued works in one volume."
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It is so deeply concerning to me as a museum scholar that Monticello chose to condone the Trump administration's goal of defunding museums by hosting one of the worst war criminals in world history at his request. They should be ashamed of themselves for failing their community so profoundly.
If you contact the Monticello Foundation to shame them for hosting a war criminal with an active warrant for his arrest you'll get this form response. But maybe you want to clog up their inbox anyway.
July 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
It is so deeply concerning to me as a museum scholar that Monticello chose to condone the Trump administration's goal of defunding museums by hosting one of the worst war criminals in world history at his request. They should be ashamed of themselves for failing their community so profoundly.
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Hwæt! They don’t love you like I love you
July 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Hwæt! They don’t love you like I love you
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Our statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling in Mahmoud v Taylor. Image thread with alt text. 1/4
June 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Our statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling in Mahmoud v Taylor. Image thread with alt text. 1/4
High school will teach you the Pythagorean theory but not how to be a fashion girl who has to prepare conference looks for 3 different kinds of weather while also traveling light....
June 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
High school will teach you the Pythagorean theory but not how to be a fashion girl who has to prepare conference looks for 3 different kinds of weather while also traveling light....
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BREAKING: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka sues New Jersey's top federal prosecutor after being arrested at an immigration detention facility.
Newark mayor sues New Jersey's top federal prosecutor after arrest at immigration detention site
Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Ras Baraka has sued New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor over his arrest outside a federal immigration detention facility on a trespassing charge, which was later dropped.
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June 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
BREAKING: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka sues New Jersey's top federal prosecutor after being arrested at an immigration detention facility.
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It's pride month. Even though I don't celebrate or partake, let me resurrect an old list: Some Gay Books You Might Not Have Known Were Gay
lithub.com/rabih-alamed...
lithub.com/rabih-alamed...
Rabih Alameddine Recommends Some Gay Books You Might Not Have Known Were Gay
It’s that time of the year. Happy pride, everyone… yadda, yadda, yadda. Now, let’s bring out the books. Allow me to recommend ten novels that aren’t the first thing that pop up when people th…
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June 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
It's pride month. Even though I don't celebrate or partake, let me resurrect an old list: Some Gay Books You Might Not Have Known Were Gay
lithub.com/rabih-alamed...
lithub.com/rabih-alamed...
Thirty, flirty, and thriving*
*hurting my thumb while opening a bag of frozen fruit
*hurting my thumb while opening a bag of frozen fruit
May 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Thirty, flirty, and thriving*
*hurting my thumb while opening a bag of frozen fruit
*hurting my thumb while opening a bag of frozen fruit
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If, as some collections folks have been discussing, "machines become the primary users of online collections," I'm gonna need a new career.
I have no interest in doing work to facilitate machines.
My job is about people.
I have no interest in doing work to facilitate machines.
My job is about people.
May 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If, as some collections folks have been discussing, "machines become the primary users of online collections," I'm gonna need a new career.
I have no interest in doing work to facilitate machines.
My job is about people.
I have no interest in doing work to facilitate machines.
My job is about people.
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I know many people my age still have a lot of nostalgia around Harry Potter and might be tempted to watch the new HBO TV series.
Please, I'm begging you, do not tune in.
J.K. Rowling is singularly motivated. The new Harry Potter series is a cash cow intended to fund anti-trans bigotry.
Please, I'm begging you, do not tune in.
J.K. Rowling is singularly motivated. The new Harry Potter series is a cash cow intended to fund anti-trans bigotry.
J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the "Harry Potter" series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people's rights "in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.”
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May 29, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I know many people my age still have a lot of nostalgia around Harry Potter and might be tempted to watch the new HBO TV series.
Please, I'm begging you, do not tune in.
J.K. Rowling is singularly motivated. The new Harry Potter series is a cash cow intended to fund anti-trans bigotry.
Please, I'm begging you, do not tune in.
J.K. Rowling is singularly motivated. The new Harry Potter series is a cash cow intended to fund anti-trans bigotry.
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The only stories I want to read about Elon Musk are investigative pieces about why the hell he hasn't yet been arrested for illegally demolishing the federal government in order to line his pockets and steal data.
May 29, 2025 at 11:03 AM
The only stories I want to read about Elon Musk are investigative pieces about why the hell he hasn't yet been arrested for illegally demolishing the federal government in order to line his pockets and steal data.
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So happy for Tamara Lanier. After years fighting Harvard she has won. We were blessed to have her in our last keynote dialogue for Who Owns Black Data talking precisely about that protracted fight. See? Archival reparations are possible.
May 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
So happy for Tamara Lanier. After years fighting Harvard she has won. We were blessed to have her in our last keynote dialogue for Who Owns Black Data talking precisely about that protracted fight. See? Archival reparations are possible.
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reputable medical journals keep saying that RFK and his pro-disease friends are full of shit and so naturally they must be shunned www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals
The health secretary said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet are in bed with pharma.
www.politico.com
May 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
reputable medical journals keep saying that RFK and his pro-disease friends are full of shit and so naturally they must be shunned www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
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Periodic reminder: wear a well fitting n95 or better mask.
The fascists are going to do nothing to protect people from the spread of this new variant or its damage.
If you have stopped wearing mask it’s time to buy some new ones or find your stock so you can protect yourselves and your community
The fascists are going to do nothing to protect people from the spread of this new variant or its damage.
If you have stopped wearing mask it’s time to buy some new ones or find your stock so you can protect yourselves and your community
“Experts have been closely watching the variant, which is now dominant in China and is on the rise in parts of Asia. Hong Kong authorities say that rates of COVID-19 in the city have climbed to the worst levels they have seen in at least a year…”
U.S. reports cases of new COVID variant NB.1.8.1 behind surge in China
Authorities in Hong Kong say COVID-19 levels are the worst in at least a year.
www.cbsnews.com
May 23, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Periodic reminder: wear a well fitting n95 or better mask.
The fascists are going to do nothing to protect people from the spread of this new variant or its damage.
If you have stopped wearing mask it’s time to buy some new ones or find your stock so you can protect yourselves and your community
The fascists are going to do nothing to protect people from the spread of this new variant or its damage.
If you have stopped wearing mask it’s time to buy some new ones or find your stock so you can protect yourselves and your community