Caitlin Pollock
@pollock.bsky.social
digital scholarship, libraries, pedagogy, shoes, and legend of zelda
using shared resources, colleagues and I got together to put together zine and whistle kits. the letterpress studio 3d printed us the whistles.
November 19, 2025 at 12:37 AM
using shared resources, colleagues and I got together to put together zine and whistle kits. the letterpress studio 3d printed us the whistles.
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Zohran Mamdani campaigned a lot and appears not to hate the voters whose support he's seeking. Here's what other Democrats can learn from his unorthodox strategy.
November 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Zohran Mamdani campaigned a lot and appears not to hate the voters whose support he's seeking. Here's what other Democrats can learn from his unorthodox strategy.
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it's crazy that if you're a cat, your only two life outcomes are eating out of a trash can or getting treated like a little baby
October 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
it's crazy that if you're a cat, your only two life outcomes are eating out of a trash can or getting treated like a little baby
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They got Claudine Gay out of the Harvard presidency over a footnote.
Ngl, seeing “you’re holding the nazi tatted racist white man to impossible standards” as a Black woman, aka the demographic ACTUALLY held to impossible standards, pisses me off deeply. The bar is so low for them and they still can’t clear it, but we’re “ideological purists” for pointing that out.
October 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
They got Claudine Gay out of the Harvard presidency over a footnote.
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I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse
July 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse
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The Human Centipede is a tremendous allegory for LLMs and image generators
October 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The Human Centipede is a tremendous allegory for LLMs and image generators
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Are yall ever just sitting around and out of the blue you remember — again — that all of this is because of ONE Black President?!!
Just the one!!
Just the one!!
October 4, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Are yall ever just sitting around and out of the blue you remember — again — that all of this is because of ONE Black President?!!
Just the one!!
Just the one!!
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Every day I draw closer to actually planning what was initially a joke of an idea — a private conference where people who feel absolutely insane in our regular life for not believing robots will save us from our ogliarchs can just get together and latent to be normal for 36 hours. Over drinks.
August 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Every day I draw closer to actually planning what was initially a joke of an idea — a private conference where people who feel absolutely insane in our regular life for not believing robots will save us from our ogliarchs can just get together and latent to be normal for 36 hours. Over drinks.
after so many frustrating and painful months, I finally received Public Service Loan Forgiveness for all my loans. I’m freeeee!
August 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
after so many frustrating and painful months, I finally received Public Service Loan Forgiveness for all my loans. I’m freeeee!
definition of FAFO. karma is real.
BREAKING: The Florida higher education system Board of Governors rejects the hiring of Santa Ono as University of Florida president. Vote was 6 yes, 10 no.
June 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
definition of FAFO. karma is real.
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“I asked ChatGPT” well I asked the three Fates and the one with the scissors got very agitated when I told her you were using your one precious life thread talking to that cursed thing
May 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
“I asked ChatGPT” well I asked the three Fates and the one with the scissors got very agitated when I told her you were using your one precious life thread talking to that cursed thing
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you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you
May 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you
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"They won't pay taxes" is eugenics speak
But it is also hypocrisy of the highest order coming from the party and class of people who regularly refuse to pay their share
But it is also hypocrisy of the highest order coming from the party and class of people who regularly refuse to pay their share
April 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"They won't pay taxes" is eugenics speak
But it is also hypocrisy of the highest order coming from the party and class of people who regularly refuse to pay their share
But it is also hypocrisy of the highest order coming from the party and class of people who regularly refuse to pay their share
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virginia tech's ETD repository has been crashing so often from being scraped by so many bots that they've had to close off external, non-university access. In case you needed more evidence of how LLM training hurts open access.
April 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
virginia tech's ETD repository has been crashing so often from being scraped by so many bots that they've had to close off external, non-university access. In case you needed more evidence of how LLM training hurts open access.
as she was cleaning out her office when she retired @amaniras.bsky.social found the diversity plan she wrote for U-M LSA in the 1970s. 🙃🙃
March 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
as she was cleaning out her office when she retired @amaniras.bsky.social found the diversity plan she wrote for U-M LSA in the 1970s. 🙃🙃
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As distressed as I am by what 47's actions mean in real time and the immediate future, the idea of what rebuilding institutions is going to look like *whenever* the US gets to the other side of this, with so much institutional knowledge being wiped out, is even more distressing.
March 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
As distressed as I am by what 47's actions mean in real time and the immediate future, the idea of what rebuilding institutions is going to look like *whenever* the US gets to the other side of this, with so much institutional knowledge being wiped out, is even more distressing.
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NEW — Keith Sonderling, Trump’s Deputy Secretary of Labor, has been named the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an agency source tells me. He’ll arrive tomorrow at their office with DOGE and their security detail.
March 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
NEW — Keith Sonderling, Trump’s Deputy Secretary of Labor, has been named the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an agency source tells me. He’ll arrive tomorrow at their office with DOGE and their security detail.
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🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
March 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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ACH is holding two Town Halls next week (3/19 and 3/21 from 12pm-1pm EST) to hear your experiences regarding how the recent government actions are affecting your ability to pursue digital humanities & the steps that ACH can take to support you and your communities. Sign up here:
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March 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
ACH is holding two Town Halls next week (3/19 and 3/21 from 12pm-1pm EST) to hear your experiences regarding how the recent government actions are affecting your ability to pursue digital humanities & the steps that ACH can take to support you and your communities. Sign up here:
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ACH has confirmed reports that DOGE is at the NEH. Chair Shelly C. Lowe has been replaced by Acting Chair Michael McDonald. ACH remains committed to a diverse, inclusive, and supportive DH. To engage in advocacy efforts: secretary@ach.org. Read our statement of support for NEH: buff.ly/bQeRaGw
March 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
ACH has confirmed reports that DOGE is at the NEH. Chair Shelly C. Lowe has been replaced by Acting Chair Michael McDonald. ACH remains committed to a diverse, inclusive, and supportive DH. To engage in advocacy efforts: secretary@ach.org. Read our statement of support for NEH: buff.ly/bQeRaGw
I was just talking about this @amaniras.bsky.social last week. By calling her a prophet implies that her work just appears by the powers that be, instead of her writing & research being a craft and skill that she shaped and molded with her intellect and creativity. It devalues her important writing.
Reminded that Butler was not a prophet, rather she was someone who paid attention. She constantly read newspapers & academic research articles on cults, climate change, racism & sexism. She saw the patterns & signs & tried to warn us.
Clip of Octavia E. Butler on @democracynow.org discussing Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents from "The Landline", ed. Tiffany Rose & @ashleysimpo.bsky.social
"In hindsight, her warnings about climate change, authoritarianism, and survival feel less like fiction and more like prophecy."
"In hindsight, her warnings about climate change, authoritarianism, and survival feel less like fiction and more like prophecy."
March 6, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I was just talking about this @amaniras.bsky.social last week. By calling her a prophet implies that her work just appears by the powers that be, instead of her writing & research being a craft and skill that she shaped and molded with her intellect and creativity. It devalues her important writing.