The Book Shepherd
@thebookshepherd.bsky.social
Canadian Librarian, basket of feelings, east coast ennui. 🏳️🌈🇨🇦🫐
I’m going to go to so many craft fairs this month.
November 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I’m going to go to so many craft fairs this month.
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What a terrible, irresponsible headline. The answer is infection is *far* more of risk than vaccination.
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
Study compares heart risks of COVID-19 infection and vaccination, and the results may surprise you
The risk of children developing rare but serious heart complications is higher after a COVID-19 infection than after vaccination, according to a new study.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
What a terrible, irresponsible headline. The answer is infection is *far* more of risk than vaccination.
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
In my small Newfoundland town growing up, Bonfire Night was always something I looked forward to. Brought over by settlers from England, hundreds of years later and hundreds of miles away, we still celebrate here with fires and effigies (unless it’s too windy).
November 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
In my small Newfoundland town growing up, Bonfire Night was always something I looked forward to. Brought over by settlers from England, hundreds of years later and hundreds of miles away, we still celebrate here with fires and effigies (unless it’s too windy).
I hate to break it to some of you but the way you talk about some women who are right wing is still misogynistic even if their politics are deplorable.
November 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I hate to break it to some of you but the way you talk about some women who are right wing is still misogynistic even if their politics are deplorable.
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Imagine being wealthy and not building libraries.
Embarrassing.
Embarrassing.
November 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Imagine being wealthy and not building libraries.
Embarrassing.
Embarrassing.
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“Minds fed diverse knowledge become resilient and can recognize harmful ideas when they see them, because they’ve analyzed the varied ways they are presented. Book bans, if they are successful, will ultimately backfire, fostering a brittle and uninformed foundation for society.”
How Book Bans Control Information and Why They Backfire
The latest moral panic centers on whether your child learns about racism and sexuality in the classroom. Who really benefits?
www.psychologytoday.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
“Minds fed diverse knowledge become resilient and can recognize harmful ideas when they see them, because they’ve analyzed the varied ways they are presented. Book bans, if they are successful, will ultimately backfire, fostering a brittle and uninformed foundation for society.”
You wake up. It was all a bad dream. The year is 2003. Tonight you’ll do sourpuss shooters with your friends and wear a baby pink and brown going out top to a bar where they will play “Dirty” by Christina Aguilera. Your phone only makes phone calls and social media doesn’t exist yet.
October 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
You wake up. It was all a bad dream. The year is 2003. Tonight you’ll do sourpuss shooters with your friends and wear a baby pink and brown going out top to a bar where they will play “Dirty” by Christina Aguilera. Your phone only makes phone calls and social media doesn’t exist yet.
Super don’t recommend reading the comments on local Facebook group posts about the reinstatement of masking in NL Health facilities if you want retain your hope in humanity.
October 30, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Super don’t recommend reading the comments on local Facebook group posts about the reinstatement of masking in NL Health facilities if you want retain your hope in humanity.
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"It’s not on us to figure out how to use this technology ethically. It’s on the companies that make it to make sure it’s ethical."
h/t @tracynovick.bsky.social
www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c...
h/t @tracynovick.bsky.social
www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c...
Perry: How can AI be used ethically when it’s been linked to suicide?
"It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"It’s not on us to figure out how to use this technology ethically. It’s on the companies that make it to make sure it’s ethical."
h/t @tracynovick.bsky.social
www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c...
h/t @tracynovick.bsky.social
www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c...
I’m just a Canadian, looking at her fellow Canadians, begging them to connect the dots between rising anti immigrant sentiment and what is happening in the states.
October 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I’m just a Canadian, looking at her fellow Canadians, begging them to connect the dots between rising anti immigrant sentiment and what is happening in the states.
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I don't think we understand just how bad the decline of the Internet is to knowledge.
3 years ago, I could perform a very basic search in any engine and get an absurd number of relevant links, research articles, etc.
Today, I can perform the same search and find absolutely nothing.
3 years ago, I could perform a very basic search in any engine and get an absurd number of relevant links, research articles, etc.
Today, I can perform the same search and find absolutely nothing.
October 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I don't think we understand just how bad the decline of the Internet is to knowledge.
3 years ago, I could perform a very basic search in any engine and get an absurd number of relevant links, research articles, etc.
Today, I can perform the same search and find absolutely nothing.
3 years ago, I could perform a very basic search in any engine and get an absurd number of relevant links, research articles, etc.
Today, I can perform the same search and find absolutely nothing.
Visited Corner Brook for work and did the classic visiting somewhere different thing of asking myself “should I….. move here?”
October 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Visited Corner Brook for work and did the classic visiting somewhere different thing of asking myself “should I….. move here?”
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“When I came here, I used to spend $400, $500 per month [on] groceries. But nowadays, for the same amount of food, I have to spend $700… it's pretty tough to manage within my salary.”
Food prices have spun utterly out of control. Overdue for the government to step in, ensure supply/affordability.
Food prices have spun utterly out of control. Overdue for the government to step in, ensure supply/affordability.
Some N.L. residents finding it 'hard to survive' as grocery prices continue to rise | CBC News
It’s a conversation that bears repeating for Newfoundlanders and Labradorians: the price of food is going up — again. Statistics Canada reported Tuesday that the average grocery bill increased by four...
www.cbc.ca
October 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
“When I came here, I used to spend $400, $500 per month [on] groceries. But nowadays, for the same amount of food, I have to spend $700… it's pretty tough to manage within my salary.”
Food prices have spun utterly out of control. Overdue for the government to step in, ensure supply/affordability.
Food prices have spun utterly out of control. Overdue for the government to step in, ensure supply/affordability.
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I wonder how many submarines are in the Great Lakes at any given time? It's probably zero, right?
October 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I wonder how many submarines are in the Great Lakes at any given time? It's probably zero, right?
I’ve been doing library outreach for 15 years and it’s only in the last 2 that tweens have started to ask me how the public library makes money. I do think it’s interesting that when I meet kids now, they have trouble imagining a free public space, especially if they haven’t been there before.
October 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I’ve been doing library outreach for 15 years and it’s only in the last 2 that tweens have started to ask me how the public library makes money. I do think it’s interesting that when I meet kids now, they have trouble imagining a free public space, especially if they haven’t been there before.
Highlight of this week’s classroom presentations to grade 5s about the library was when one boy stood up and told me everything I was saying was “too good to be true” and that “That can’t all possibly be free”. Thanks for the great advertising, kid!
October 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Highlight of this week’s classroom presentations to grade 5s about the library was when one boy stood up and told me everything I was saying was “too good to be true” and that “That can’t all possibly be free”. Thanks for the great advertising, kid!
Canadian Thanksgiving (or just Thanksgiving, as we call it), happens at a better time than American Thanksgiving, sorry to say.
October 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Canadian Thanksgiving (or just Thanksgiving, as we call it), happens at a better time than American Thanksgiving, sorry to say.
Woke up to the sound of someone close by cutting wood with a chain saw- a sound you don’t hear often in the city but because of my rural upbringing always makes me feel nostalgic for my childhood autumns.
October 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Woke up to the sound of someone close by cutting wood with a chain saw- a sound you don’t hear often in the city but because of my rural upbringing always makes me feel nostalgic for my childhood autumns.
Diane Keaton, nooooo!
three women in white suits are dancing in a room
ALT: three women in white suits are dancing in a room
media.tenor.com
October 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Diane Keaton, nooooo!
I feel like a lot of people went through Covid and instead of coming out of it with an increased understanding of illness and wanting to not spread it, just go everywhere sick now and don’t really care about who they also make sick and it really sucks.
October 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I feel like a lot of people went through Covid and instead of coming out of it with an increased understanding of illness and wanting to not spread it, just go everywhere sick now and don’t really care about who they also make sick and it really sucks.
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Can you imagine how many threads and tiktoks there'd be about Empire Records if it came out today?
October 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Can you imagine how many threads and tiktoks there'd be about Empire Records if it came out today?
Something specific that I am nostalgic about is the scent of Herbal Essences shampoo in the 90s. It doesn’t smell like that anymore and I use different products now but every so often I remember uncapping the bottle and taking a big whiff.
October 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Something specific that I am nostalgic about is the scent of Herbal Essences shampoo in the 90s. It doesn’t smell like that anymore and I use different products now but every so often I remember uncapping the bottle and taking a big whiff.
Being a part of so many listservs advertising AI webinars that don’t even mention any of the ethical issues with AI is a real trip.
October 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Being a part of so many listservs advertising AI webinars that don’t even mention any of the ethical issues with AI is a real trip.
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
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"The chatbot struggled to correctly answer questions about books . . ."
This would be hilarious if it weren't for the fact that the authors, and many library administrators, weren't still insistent that chatbots are something libraries should implement. 📚
preprint.press.jhu.edu/portal/sites...
This would be hilarious if it weren't for the fact that the authors, and many library administrators, weren't still insistent that chatbots are something libraries should implement. 📚
preprint.press.jhu.edu/portal/sites...
preprint.press.jhu.edu
October 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"The chatbot struggled to correctly answer questions about books . . ."
This would be hilarious if it weren't for the fact that the authors, and many library administrators, weren't still insistent that chatbots are something libraries should implement. 📚
preprint.press.jhu.edu/portal/sites...
This would be hilarious if it weren't for the fact that the authors, and many library administrators, weren't still insistent that chatbots are something libraries should implement. 📚
preprint.press.jhu.edu/portal/sites...