The Artist formerly known as AnAnarchivist
@oddflame.bsky.social
#ScholComm, #digitalhumanities, #archives, #librarian, #coffee, #swords. Possibly a wookie. Opinions & language are my own.#blm #antifa #lgbt #auadhd
I work on large scanning projects at work and make datasets from manuscripts for fun.
I work on large scanning projects at work and make datasets from manuscripts for fun.
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Reintro for bluesky: I mostly talk about academia & libraries. I will yell about copyright law at some point. I'm working on the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions digitization at my job & creating a dataset of Early Modern Costume book contents for fun. This is Lucy Lawless and Appa, my managers.
Professional conferences as learning opportunities and a weird form of group therapy....
November 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Professional conferences as learning opportunities and a weird form of group therapy....
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Honestly just want to know how bread is holding up in all this.
So there's an EU-funded campaign to get millenials to eat potatoes and - I swear to Jesus I'm not making this up - it's slogan is: "Europe's favourite since 1536."
October 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Honestly just want to know how bread is holding up in all this.
At my first professional job, I handled and read survivor accounts. It remains some of the most horrific things I've read in the archives. The medal of honor was given for bravely killing unarmed women, children, and the elderly. The opposite of honorable.
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
September 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
At my first professional job, I handled and read survivor accounts. It remains some of the most horrific things I've read in the archives. The medal of honor was given for bravely killing unarmed women, children, and the elderly. The opposite of honorable.
The city sent me a notice about my native garden and #LucyLawless immediately tried to eat it. To be clear, Lucy Lawless is a cat and is ready to fight the man, right after this nap.
September 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The city sent me a notice about my native garden and #LucyLawless immediately tried to eat it. To be clear, Lucy Lawless is a cat and is ready to fight the man, right after this nap.
For later viewing. I must start my day.
This video is too long for Bluesky but for those interested in cataloguing, library mistakes, and 14th or 5th century manuscripts:
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September 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
For later viewing. I must start my day.
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Adam Serwer put it best: For the right, free speech means they can say whatever they want, and you, too, can say whatever they want: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
September 13, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Adam Serwer put it best: For the right, free speech means they can say whatever they want, and you, too, can say whatever they want: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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When Turkey purged their universities, "The 'to be expelled' lists were prepared by the university administrations. The few universities where massive dismissals did not take place were the ones who did not submit any 'to be expelled” lists."
merip.org/2018/12/turk...
merip.org/2018/12/turk...
September 13, 2025 at 2:20 AM
When Turkey purged their universities, "The 'to be expelled' lists were prepared by the university administrations. The few universities where massive dismissals did not take place were the ones who did not submit any 'to be expelled” lists."
merip.org/2018/12/turk...
merip.org/2018/12/turk...
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Oh to be a little Tardigrade scratching its back on a bubble. 🫧🐻🧪
September 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Oh to be a little Tardigrade scratching its back on a bubble. 🫧🐻🧪
General thoughts about this week: There is no order of words or rephrasings that will get you a republicans' agreement unless you're willing to replace your beliefs with theirs.
Nothing will be good enough so stop trying to get them to nod along with you. It's not helping and they'll be mad anyway
Nothing will be good enough so stop trying to get them to nod along with you. It's not helping and they'll be mad anyway
September 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
General thoughts about this week: There is no order of words or rephrasings that will get you a republicans' agreement unless you're willing to replace your beliefs with theirs.
Nothing will be good enough so stop trying to get them to nod along with you. It's not helping and they'll be mad anyway
Nothing will be good enough so stop trying to get them to nod along with you. It's not helping and they'll be mad anyway
In these troubled times, this is what we need: collective caffeine withdrawal due to #tariffs and #inflation. A more irritable country for all. #coffee
Your morning coffee has gotten more expensive.
Why?
President Trump's chaotic tariffs and failed policies benefit billionaires and raise prices for everyone else.
Why?
President Trump's chaotic tariffs and failed policies benefit billionaires and raise prices for everyone else.
September 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
In these troubled times, this is what we need: collective caffeine withdrawal due to #tariffs and #inflation. A more irritable country for all. #coffee
Donald Trump announced that he won't be sending troops to #Chicago bc the city is "Hostile" & full of "Professional Agitators."
Wrong: The entire city is professional agitators.
They made malort for no reason.
Their pizzas are made of spite.
Da Bears play football to hurt their own fans. 1/2
Wrong: The entire city is professional agitators.
They made malort for no reason.
Their pizzas are made of spite.
Da Bears play football to hurt their own fans. 1/2
September 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Donald Trump announced that he won't be sending troops to #Chicago bc the city is "Hostile" & full of "Professional Agitators."
Wrong: The entire city is professional agitators.
They made malort for no reason.
Their pizzas are made of spite.
Da Bears play football to hurt their own fans. 1/2
Wrong: The entire city is professional agitators.
They made malort for no reason.
Their pizzas are made of spite.
Da Bears play football to hurt their own fans. 1/2
I'm a bad person but I am drinking the tears of both bears and vikings fans because my entire NFL fan experience is defined by dunking on every team for kicks.
September 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I'm a bad person but I am drinking the tears of both bears and vikings fans because my entire NFL fan experience is defined by dunking on every team for kicks.
News continues to be bad. Lucy continues to be a model with her ability to find the light and hold a pose and while simultaneously being a terrible workout companion.
September 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
News continues to be bad. Lucy continues to be a model with her ability to find the light and hold a pose and while simultaneously being a terrible workout companion.
In defiance of everything, I refuse to have a singular THING. I am bad at focusing unless it's hyper focusing, and I refuse to stop.
September 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
In defiance of everything, I refuse to have a singular THING. I am bad at focusing unless it's hyper focusing, and I refuse to stop.
Last year we got a Department of Education Grant focused on decreasing textbook costs for dental education on all levels! We just published our first book last week (While I was on vacation, so we is doing a lot of heavy lifting here).
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🚨BIG NEWS - A year ago I announced that a group of us received a grant to develop the Open Dental Education Consortium, where we are embracing innovative #edtech to create the infrastructure and… | C...
🚨BIG NEWS - A year ago I announced that a group of us received a grant to develop the Open Dental Education Consortium, where we are embracing innovative #edtech to create the infrastructure and plat...
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July 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Last year we got a Department of Education Grant focused on decreasing textbook costs for dental education on all levels! We just published our first book last week (While I was on vacation, so we is doing a lot of heavy lifting here).
www.linkedin.com/posts/casey-...
www.linkedin.com/posts/casey-...
I swear to God, Ignatius Loyola sometimes gives me a jump scare.
July 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I swear to God, Ignatius Loyola sometimes gives me a jump scare.
A more moderate pope is good for American Catholic colleges and universities, as it provides a small bulwark against pressure from the administration. Freedom of Religion allows Unis to not change policies on a theological basis , and the pope supports that particular interpretation.
May 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
A more moderate pope is good for American Catholic colleges and universities, as it provides a small bulwark against pressure from the administration. Freedom of Religion allows Unis to not change policies on a theological basis , and the pope supports that particular interpretation.
I am here for the pope jokes and puns. That is all.
May 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I am here for the pope jokes and puns. That is all.
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I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
I trimmed my undercut back significantly, forgot I had done that and caught a glimpse on screen during a meeting.
Like "OOO WHO'S AN EDGY LIBRARIAN NOW? ... YOU ARE!"
Like "OOO WHO'S AN EDGY LIBRARIAN NOW? ... YOU ARE!"
February 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I trimmed my undercut back significantly, forgot I had done that and caught a glimpse on screen during a meeting.
Like "OOO WHO'S AN EDGY LIBRARIAN NOW? ... YOU ARE!"
Like "OOO WHO'S AN EDGY LIBRARIAN NOW? ... YOU ARE!"
Everything is on fire so I guess I'll submit a talk to this symposium about Margery Kempe (as a way to talk about teaching primary source reading skills to non-historians).
And now time to apply to law school as well. I'm not sane, it's fine, I've accepted this.
And now time to apply to law school as well. I'm not sane, it's fine, I've accepted this.
February 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Everything is on fire so I guess I'll submit a talk to this symposium about Margery Kempe (as a way to talk about teaching primary source reading skills to non-historians).
And now time to apply to law school as well. I'm not sane, it's fine, I've accepted this.
And now time to apply to law school as well. I'm not sane, it's fine, I've accepted this.
Shit I write to friends: "The Supreme Court is so far up its own butt it's now a Klein Bottle."
Sometimes I believe I am clever.
Sometimes I believe I am clever.
February 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Shit I write to friends: "The Supreme Court is so far up its own butt it's now a Klein Bottle."
Sometimes I believe I am clever.
Sometimes I believe I am clever.
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@soilent.bsky.social recently asked me to put together an introductory list of introductory socialist/communist readings, and I thought it might be helpful.
The goal of this is not to be definitive, or to say these are the only important texts, but rather to give a starting point.
Thread 🧵📚☭
The goal of this is not to be definitive, or to say these are the only important texts, but rather to give a starting point.
Thread 🧵📚☭
October 3, 2024 at 7:15 PM
@soilent.bsky.social recently asked me to put together an introductory list of introductory socialist/communist readings, and I thought it might be helpful.
The goal of this is not to be definitive, or to say these are the only important texts, but rather to give a starting point.
Thread 🧵📚☭
The goal of this is not to be definitive, or to say these are the only important texts, but rather to give a starting point.
Thread 🧵📚☭
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Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜
The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
February 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜
The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.