MARC in a Cold Climate
@marccold.bsky.social
Librarian, of sorts. I will always fight and I will never give up.
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The parenthetical is my favorite bit of the article
November 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The parenthetical is my favorite bit of the article
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If the UK is on the brink of civil war, as Musk claims, it follows that in 300 years time there will be be a new generation of civil war re-enactment societies.
"Geoff,you defend Laurence Fox. Can you guys shout outside a hostel. Brian, i need you to relentlessly slag off Nish Kumar on Facebook."
"Geoff,you defend Laurence Fox. Can you guys shout outside a hostel. Brian, i need you to relentlessly slag off Nish Kumar on Facebook."
November 15, 2025 at 9:12 AM
If the UK is on the brink of civil war, as Musk claims, it follows that in 300 years time there will be be a new generation of civil war re-enactment societies.
"Geoff,you defend Laurence Fox. Can you guys shout outside a hostel. Brian, i need you to relentlessly slag off Nish Kumar on Facebook."
"Geoff,you defend Laurence Fox. Can you guys shout outside a hostel. Brian, i need you to relentlessly slag off Nish Kumar on Facebook."
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Bienvenue dans le monde merveilleux des megabasses!
November 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Bienvenue dans le monde merveilleux des megabasses!
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a “Space Force”, if you will
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
a “Space Force”, if you will
"an otherwise normal life to lead"
November 15, 2025 at 1:46 AM
"an otherwise normal life to lead"
I was trying to explain how much I can't even today and for some reason I turned to naval metaphors.
"I am out of professionalism. My professionalism is gone. On the ship that is me, the sailors have eaten all the professionalism stores and are resorting to long pig."
"I am out of professionalism. My professionalism is gone. On the ship that is me, the sailors have eaten all the professionalism stores and are resorting to long pig."
November 15, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I was trying to explain how much I can't even today and for some reason I turned to naval metaphors.
"I am out of professionalism. My professionalism is gone. On the ship that is me, the sailors have eaten all the professionalism stores and are resorting to long pig."
"I am out of professionalism. My professionalism is gone. On the ship that is me, the sailors have eaten all the professionalism stores and are resorting to long pig."
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FYI: BEFORE YOU PLAN OR ANNOUNCE AN EVENT IN COLLABORATION WITH SPECIAL COLLECTIONS...
Contact special collections with important questions like, "Hey want to do this?"
"Is this something we can do?"
"Are you interested in collaborating?"
Contact special collections with important questions like, "Hey want to do this?"
"Is this something we can do?"
"Are you interested in collaborating?"
November 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
FYI: BEFORE YOU PLAN OR ANNOUNCE AN EVENT IN COLLABORATION WITH SPECIAL COLLECTIONS...
Contact special collections with important questions like, "Hey want to do this?"
"Is this something we can do?"
"Are you interested in collaborating?"
Contact special collections with important questions like, "Hey want to do this?"
"Is this something we can do?"
"Are you interested in collaborating?"
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Please remember not to celebrate RLS's birthday today.
You can celebrate the anniversary of his birth, but in 1891 he formally transferred "ALL AND WHOLE my rights and priviledges" in his birthday to Annie H. Ide, a young girl from Vermont who was sad that her own birthday fell on Christmas Day.
You can celebrate the anniversary of his birth, but in 1891 he formally transferred "ALL AND WHOLE my rights and priviledges" in his birthday to Annie H. Ide, a young girl from Vermont who was sad that her own birthday fell on Christmas Day.
November 13, 2024 at 7:30 AM
Please remember not to celebrate RLS's birthday today.
You can celebrate the anniversary of his birth, but in 1891 he formally transferred "ALL AND WHOLE my rights and priviledges" in his birthday to Annie H. Ide, a young girl from Vermont who was sad that her own birthday fell on Christmas Day.
You can celebrate the anniversary of his birth, but in 1891 he formally transferred "ALL AND WHOLE my rights and priviledges" in his birthday to Annie H. Ide, a young girl from Vermont who was sad that her own birthday fell on Christmas Day.
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Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
Excited to see today that @eamontewell.bsky.social will be keynoting at the NJAL conference in January!
November 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Excited to see today that @eamontewell.bsky.social will be keynoting at the NJAL conference in January!
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so opening a new tab and then forgetting what you wanted to do with it is the same as walking into a room and forgetting why you're there?
November 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
so opening a new tab and then forgetting what you wanted to do with it is the same as walking into a room and forgetting why you're there?
@jbfink.bsky.social I had forgotten this, but Tracy is married to Lazenby-Bond and then mourned by Moore-Bond
There was one headstone scene in the Roger Moore era but, yeah, it pretty much never haunted him any more or less than his other fridged lovers
November 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
@jbfink.bsky.social I had forgotten this, but Tracy is married to Lazenby-Bond and then mourned by Moore-Bond
I'm going to be skeeting about nothing but James Bond today because why not
November 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I'm going to be skeeting about nothing but James Bond today because why not
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If anybody would like to, or knows anybody who might like to, do a small amount of paid research work for me at the National Records of Scotland in Edinburgh, I would be very glad to hear from them.
November 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
If anybody would like to, or knows anybody who might like to, do a small amount of paid research work for me at the National Records of Scotland in Edinburgh, I would be very glad to hear from them.
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On the plus side, the tornado and the hazardous materials spill might impede the active shooter
I’m just glad this happened last week and not say, the week before or next week.
Auburn University Accidentally Sent Every Emergency Alert Imaginable All at Once
Auburn University’s alert system went bonkers. Students and faculty were hit with three separate emergency messages in rapid succession.
www.vice.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
On the plus side, the tornado and the hazardous materials spill might impede the active shooter
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when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale
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lest we believe that there was a golden age of Bond, we should remember that the opening credit sequence of one film at the peak of the franchise's popularity featured Bond dropping Blofeld down a factory chimney from a helicopter after Blofeld - inexplicably - offers to buy Bond a delicatessen
November 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
lest we believe that there was a golden age of Bond, we should remember that the opening credit sequence of one film at the peak of the franchise's popularity featured Bond dropping Blofeld down a factory chimney from a helicopter after Blofeld - inexplicably - offers to buy Bond a delicatessen
just finished teaching a fifty-minute one-shot instruction session during which I somehow both
1) talked at length about the Moscow subway (TRAINS!)
2) showed the class a clip from the movie Vertigo in which two characters discuss a bra
1) talked at length about the Moscow subway (TRAINS!)
2) showed the class a clip from the movie Vertigo in which two characters discuss a bra
November 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
just finished teaching a fifty-minute one-shot instruction session during which I somehow both
1) talked at length about the Moscow subway (TRAINS!)
2) showed the class a clip from the movie Vertigo in which two characters discuss a bra
1) talked at length about the Moscow subway (TRAINS!)
2) showed the class a clip from the movie Vertigo in which two characters discuss a bra
ah, but could someone whose mother didn't swallow a bunch of acetaminophen during pregnancy do THIS
*spends break reading about defunct public transit system in a city I do not live in*
*spends break reading about defunct public transit system in a city I do not live in*
okay I said I was done talking about public transportation but I am not done talking about public transportation
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
ah, but could someone whose mother didn't swallow a bunch of acetaminophen during pregnancy do THIS
*spends break reading about defunct public transit system in a city I do not live in*
*spends break reading about defunct public transit system in a city I do not live in*
okay I said I was done talking about public transportation but I am not done talking about public transportation
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
okay I said I was done talking about public transportation but I am not done talking about public transportation
God I hate it when politicians say "well, everyone is mad at me, so I must be doing something right!" dude, everyone was mad at John Wayne Gacy, too
November 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
God I hate it when politicians say "well, everyone is mad at me, so I must be doing something right!" dude, everyone was mad at John Wayne Gacy, too
this weekend I watched the BBC Ghost Story for Christmas adaptation of The Signalman and then the Albert Finney Murder on the Orient Express, and it was very interesting moving from a narrative of "train as unpredictable predator" to "train as victim of human plots and external forces"
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
this weekend I watched the BBC Ghost Story for Christmas adaptation of The Signalman and then the Albert Finney Murder on the Orient Express, and it was very interesting moving from a narrative of "train as unpredictable predator" to "train as victim of human plots and external forces"