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Overheard in the office: "Technical Services is where furniture goes to die, [Department Head]!"
December 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Overheard in the office: "Technical Services is where furniture goes to die, [Department Head]!"
I've been using LibroFM for audiobooks and other than a bafflingly terrible search function, it's amazing. I love that they're doing this partnership!
December 3, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I've been using LibroFM for audiobooks and other than a bafflingly terrible search function, it's amazing. I love that they're doing this partnership!
Food Not Bombs got a donation of 10 crates of bananas becaise someone in the produce department made a mistake. LOOK UPON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY
December 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Food Not Bombs got a donation of 10 crates of bananas becaise someone in the produce department made a mistake. LOOK UPON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY
Normally I have a limited amount of patience for art and design books that do unnecessarily art things with the layout or structure of their exhibition catalogs. But MOMA in 1968, you're doin' it right. This is an exhibition of machines in art, and it is bound in *steel*.
November 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Normally I have a limited amount of patience for art and design books that do unnecessarily art things with the layout or structure of their exhibition catalogs. But MOMA in 1968, you're doin' it right. This is an exhibition of machines in art, and it is bound in *steel*.
Ayep. Growing herbs is one thing that can actually save you money, since they're expensive, highly perishable, and usually sold in more of the herb than you actually want at once unless you have a large family. But that's if you have the budget to buy fresh herbs in the first place.
On Threads, the usual suspects are telling ppl about to lose SNAP benefits to just start a garden. As a gardener, I had to laugh. You need at LEAST an acre of land to feed a family of 4. Start-up costs are enormous. But yes, subsistence farming on the balcony of your rental apartment is the answer
October 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Ayep. Growing herbs is one thing that can actually save you money, since they're expensive, highly perishable, and usually sold in more of the herb than you actually want at once unless you have a large family. But that's if you have the budget to buy fresh herbs in the first place.
Ditto. I give approximately 1/12th of a fuck about the White House as a historical object, but the utter hypocrisy of blowing up one of the major Rah Patriotism symbols while being the Rah Patriotism party is just...what. He is good at propaganda when he wants to be and this is the opposite.
I can't really explain fully why this is the thing of all things that got my jaw on the floor but I guess it's such a literal symbol and also such a jaw dropping amount of money while small businesses are struggling to survive the tariffs
Such a visible "go fuck yourself"
Such a visible "go fuck yourself"
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
October 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Ditto. I give approximately 1/12th of a fuck about the White House as a historical object, but the utter hypocrisy of blowing up one of the major Rah Patriotism symbols while being the Rah Patriotism party is just...what. He is good at propaganda when he wants to be and this is the opposite.
This book was signed, yearbook-style, by several dozen people involved in the Nürnberg war crimes tribunals. I have already found records for "Alice E. Lecht, Capt WAC (MB) (small but mighty)" and "Helen Ann Richardson, (the girl and "pest" next door in room #41)
October 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This book was signed, yearbook-style, by several dozen people involved in the Nürnberg war crimes tribunals. I have already found records for "Alice E. Lecht, Capt WAC (MB) (small but mighty)" and "Helen Ann Richardson, (the girl and "pest" next door in room #41)
The author of this biography of a certain terrible person clearly learned a fact and is now gleefully taking every chance to refer to his subject as a "failed chicken farmer from Bavaria".
October 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The author of this biography of a certain terrible person clearly learned a fact and is now gleefully taking every chance to refer to his subject as a "failed chicken farmer from Bavaria".
"The name xenotime is written originally kenotime from the Greek words kenós (κενός) 'vain' and timē (τιμή) 'honor', akin to 'vainglory'. It was coined by French mineralogist François Sulpice Beudant as a rebuke of another scientist, Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius...
October 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
"The name xenotime is written originally kenotime from the Greek words kenós (κενός) 'vain' and timē (τιμή) 'honor', akin to 'vainglory'. It was coined by French mineralogist François Sulpice Beudant as a rebuke of another scientist, Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius...
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bed bat'leth and beyond
September 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
bed bat'leth and beyond
That's a remarkably good way to describe the feel of a lot of AI-generated writing. It's bologna or Wonder bread. Technically, this object is bread, but it has no personality and falls apart if you poke it too hard.
In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness.
Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.
Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.
October 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
That's a remarkably good way to describe the feel of a lot of AI-generated writing. It's bologna or Wonder bread. Technically, this object is bread, but it has no personality and falls apart if you poke it too hard.
Ok now I've finished it and it's spectacular. A large section of the middle I actually didn't find frightening at all, but readers who don't recognize Ingold as a kindred spirit will probably disagree.
This month! The 30th! Alex Easton returns in WHAT STALKS THE DEEP! I know I just had another book out! It’s a lot for me, too!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
What Stalks the Deep
The next installment in the New York Times bestselling Sworn Soldier series, featuring Alex Easton investigating the dark, mysterious depths of a coal mine i...
us.macmillan.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Ok now I've finished it and it's spectacular. A large section of the middle I actually didn't find frightening at all, but readers who don't recognize Ingold as a kindred spirit will probably disagree.
This is *amazing* so far. Do not read at night. Ursula Veron and @kjcharleswriter.com are pretty much tied at this point for writing books where I realize I *was* reading the book and now I'm five citations deep in a rabbit hole about the Angel of Mons or horrifying mine gases.
This month! The 30th! Alex Easton returns in WHAT STALKS THE DEEP! I know I just had another book out! It’s a lot for me, too!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
What Stalks the Deep
The next installment in the New York Times bestselling Sworn Soldier series, featuring Alex Easton investigating the dark, mysterious depths of a coal mine i...
us.macmillan.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
This is *amazing* so far. Do not read at night. Ursula Veron and @kjcharleswriter.com are pretty much tied at this point for writing books where I realize I *was* reading the book and now I'm five citations deep in a rabbit hole about the Angel of Mons or horrifying mine gases.
@dikleyt.bsky.social I made this at Yidish-Vokh inspired by some of your designs :-D
(Trans.: "This language kills fascists" [Yiddish])
(Trans.: "This language kills fascists" [Yiddish])
August 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
@dikleyt.bsky.social I made this at Yidish-Vokh inspired by some of your designs :-D
(Trans.: "This language kills fascists" [Yiddish])
(Trans.: "This language kills fascists" [Yiddish])
How the newspaper article presents my work on this project:
July 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
How the newspaper article presents my work on this project:
Stopped clock, etc. I'm curious if anyone has reasons I haven't heard of that we *shouldn't* do this, but it seems both relatively low-impact and long overdue.
In a cost-cutting move, the Treasury Department will soon stop minting new pennies. The one-cent coins will still be legal tender. There are more than 100 billion pennies in circulation but many are gathering dust in change jars and forgotten pockets.
No more pennies: In big change, Treasury will stop minting them
In a cost-cutting move, the Treasury Department will soon stop minting new pennies. The one-cent coins will still be legal tender. There are more than 100 billion pennies in circulation but many are ...
www.npr.org
May 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Stopped clock, etc. I'm curious if anyone has reasons I haven't heard of that we *shouldn't* do this, but it seems both relatively low-impact and long overdue.
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I've got an amazing story about this one. Let me tell you all about how "If you've done nothing wrong you've got nothing to worry about" almost got me charged with unlawful possession of a minigun. 1/?
May 14, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I've got an amazing story about this one. Let me tell you all about how "If you've done nothing wrong you've got nothing to worry about" almost got me charged with unlawful possession of a minigun. 1/?
WOW! Not the kind I would be getting when I need mine replaced, since these are temporary, but the advancements in pacemaker tech are seriously awesome. I'm hoping that ones using piezoelectric charge to power themselves off your own heartbeat will be available when I need a new one.
The tiniest ever, bioresorbable pacemaker, activated wirelessly by light, and its potential as a platform for electrotherapy
nature.com/articles/s41...
from work supported by NIH
nature.com/articles/s41...
from work supported by NIH
April 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
WOW! Not the kind I would be getting when I need mine replaced, since these are temporary, but the advancements in pacemaker tech are seriously awesome. I'm hoping that ones using piezoelectric charge to power themselves off your own heartbeat will be available when I need a new one.
@becausechaucer.bsky.social is a good friend who goes "Hey, I just scanned an article on gay subtext in Yiddish theater and I thought you should be alerted to its existence" :-D
April 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
@becausechaucer.bsky.social is a good friend who goes "Hey, I just scanned an article on gay subtext in Yiddish theater and I thought you should be alerted to its existence" :-D
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My new book, The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad, is out today. It tells the story of the botanists who worked at the world's first seed bank during the 900-day siege––and how they were faced with a terrible decision: eat the fruits of their research to survive, or protect the collection for science.
November 14, 2024 at 10:22 AM
My new book, The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad, is out today. It tells the story of the botanists who worked at the world's first seed bank during the 900-day siege––and how they were faced with a terrible decision: eat the fruits of their research to survive, or protect the collection for science.
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watching cabinet appointments get announced like
November 13, 2024 at 11:40 PM
watching cabinet appointments get announced like
Place hold...place hold...borrow...place hold...
We're delighted to announce — with help from Electric Literature — the shortlist for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. Congratulations to the authors!
The recipient of this year's prize will be announced on Ursula's birthday, October 21st.
electricliterature.com/announcing-t...
The recipient of this year's prize will be announced on Ursula's birthday, October 21st.
electricliterature.com/announcing-t...
July 17, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Place hold...place hold...borrow...place hold...