Rachael Bussert
@librarianofcats.bsky.social
Archivist in Southwest Ohio, special collections librarian, public library worker.
Reposted by Rachael Bussert
Support your public library. Defend your public library. Slay the enemies of your public library.
August 19, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Support your public library. Defend your public library. Slay the enemies of your public library.
Reposted by Rachael Bussert
All library workers, regardless of job title or status, deserve a good wage, academic freedom, and support for any research and publishing they would like to pursue. Library classism is damaging to individual people and to the field collectively.
July 22, 2025 at 10:06 PM
All library workers, regardless of job title or status, deserve a good wage, academic freedom, and support for any research and publishing they would like to pursue. Library classism is damaging to individual people and to the field collectively.
Reposted by Rachael Bussert
Been awhile since I did this talk, but I saw some particularly egregious examples today, so it’s time for…
*drumroll please*
DON’T TRUST THE PLANT TAG 2025
*drumroll please*
DON’T TRUST THE PLANT TAG 2025
May 31, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Been awhile since I did this talk, but I saw some particularly egregious examples today, so it’s time for…
*drumroll please*
DON’T TRUST THE PLANT TAG 2025
*drumroll please*
DON’T TRUST THE PLANT TAG 2025
Reposted by Rachael Bussert
Said some more stuff about AI, particularly that whole "hey we let it make up a bunch of fake books and then we published that list of fake books in the real world as part of a newspaper" thing. At the blog. Enjoy! Or don't! I'm not your boss.
Repeat After Me: AI Doesn’t Know Anything
Yesterday, the Chicago Sun-Times (and then also the Philly Inquirer) published an issue of their newspaper that included an insert about fun summer things, and in that was a list of fifteen great s…
terribleminds.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Said some more stuff about AI, particularly that whole "hey we let it make up a bunch of fake books and then we published that list of fake books in the real world as part of a newspaper" thing. At the blog. Enjoy! Or don't! I'm not your boss.
Reposted by Rachael Bussert
trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app
April 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app
Reposted by Rachael Bussert
Dude.
This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.
April 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Dude.
Reposted by Rachael Bussert
Trump signed an executive order to dismantle seven federal agencies: the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Institute of Museum and Library Services,
March 15, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Trump signed an executive order to dismantle seven federal agencies: the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Institute of Museum and Library Services,
Reposted by Rachael Bussert
Reposted by Rachael Bussert
Uncertainty looms around impacts to WPAFB amid defense department cuts. Wright Patt employs over 30,000 military, civilian and contractors. It’s the largest single site employer in the state.
Uncertainty looms around impacts to WPAFB amid defense department cuts
Thousands of workers at Wright Patterson Air Force Base face an uncertain future after news of large defense department cuts.
www.whio.com
February 20, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Uncertainty looms around impacts to WPAFB amid defense department cuts. Wright Patt employs over 30,000 military, civilian and contractors. It’s the largest single site employer in the state.
Reposted by Rachael Bussert
Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.
February 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.
Reposted by Rachael Bussert
This week, approximately 200,000 federal workers have been let go.
February 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This week, approximately 200,000 federal workers have been let go.
Reposted by Rachael Bussert
I refuse to be silent.
variety.com/2024/film/gl...
variety.com/2024/film/gl...
Sarah Jessica Parker on Producing Sundance Doc About Librarians Fighting Book Bans: ‘They Have Put Their Lives at Risk’
The documentary, directed by multi-award-winning filmmaker Kim A. Snyder, will screen in Sundance's Premieres lineup.
variety.com
December 12, 2024 at 5:34 PM
I refuse to be silent.
variety.com/2024/film/gl...
variety.com/2024/film/gl...