Jessamyn

Rural tech geek. Researcher. Librarian resistance. Moss collector. Postcard enjoyer. ✉️ box 345 05060 USA ✉️ (she/her)

Loosely anti-IOT. Keeps a hammer by the printer in case it ever makes an unexpected noise.

library blog: https://librarian.net
personal blog: https://jessamyn.com/journal
reading list: http://jessamyn.info/booklist
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2026-05-17 17:00:49 CEST

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I had not, that's really interesting, This was part of the reason I made sure every state library association had a Wikipedia page.

2026-05-08 22:00:11 CEST

Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else. I carpooled with someone who had a cough (unbeknownst to me until later) and now I have the sneezes. Hoping it's just allergies. This will be a weekend of masking up, resting up, and very little typing. Schedule that message for when my sinuses have dried up and have a good weekend.
Image credit: National Library of Medicine, on Flickr Commons
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2026-04-19 22:40:06 CEST

Librarian.net: social media is real life, make it accessible
me banging on about alt text like every librarian should.
https://www.librarian.net/stax/5838/social-media-is-real-life-make-it-accessible/
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2026-04-16 19:25:57 CEST

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I also liked the comments on the post when I saw it on Insta. "They can't threaten to leave the city because they already don't live here" Also as a Vermonter, it was stupid fun to see Bernie come on state to "Back in Black" These people are ENJOYING THEIR LIVES and that's a big deal in addition to everything else.

2026-04-16 18:00:29 CEST

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Aww that was very sweet. Thank you for sharing. I remember a lot of those people.

2026-04-16 01:15:43 CEST

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Oh good. My college transcripts are mostly a stack of evaluations and I've got a local copy, but it's been really nice to see how thorough they've been being about this.

2026-04-15 22:19:22 CEST

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I bought that dress at Le Château in Montréal!

2026-04-15 22:10:05 CEST

I went to Hampshire College for undergrad and now it's closing. I have the usual not-interesting-to-me thoughts about what this may portend about the country, but here's a personal reflection on how this does or does not affect me, and how Hampshire affected me.
https://www.jessamyn.com/journal/2026/04/on-hampshire
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2026-04-15 05:22:34 CEST

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That sounds very professional to me. Their behavior was forcing you into acting unprofessional.

2026-04-15 03:33:49 CEST

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I'm one of the people who went there but isn't ready (may never be ready) to talk about it. Hampshire was formative for me in so many ways. I'm sorry other people won't be able to have that. I moved to Seattle then VT because of Hampshire, became a librarian because of Hampshire, met many friends I still have. But also my post-graduation experience was less great (non-stop aggressive appeals for money & little else) and I feel okay letting Hampshire rest. I am sorry for everyone's loss.

2026-04-14 23:30:35 CEST

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Wow, yeah I also work in a library helping older adults with technology and I very much see a lot of the behavior your student describes. People who have a hard time with password managers, people who have a hard time with pen/paper password managers, people who don't totally understand how 2FA will work if they're not specifically around. These are good suggestions at the end and some of them just need to get the eye of people who can make decisions. Thanks for sharing it.

2026-04-14 23:19:25 CEST

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Oh thanks for this, just downloaded it to read. I work for the Flickr Foundation which built a funny little tool for downloading one's own Flickr archives (or one for which you have permission) along with social context (comments faves, whatever). Our researcher wrote a report on The State of Social Media Archiving Tools and... surprisingly, it's something which is hard to do.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yiQTbyhq4NZ3xR7F1m3qpX4dn82hkL5sEkhkBuW1ZlU/edit?usp=sharing

2026-04-14 19:18:37 CEST

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Book 32: This Book Made Me Think Of You. A woman's young husband dies and he leaves her a gift of one hand-picked book per month from the local independent bookstore. This is an engaging and basic romance novel which has at its core the idea that books can change lives. It goes pretty much exactly where you think it's going to go. It's nice, it's bookish, the characters are likable and I did not at all mind being in this world for a while, even though romances are not usually my thing.
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2026-04-13 22:59:26 CEST

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Stacey Kabat co-produced the Oscar-winning film about the Framingham Eight. She was a really active and influential person in Massachusetts politics getting the word out about domestic violence, primarily about protecting the largely-female victims, but also trying to get real rehabilitative outcomes for abusers. She did this work for about 20 years, got burned out, and is now a nurse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Kabat
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2026-04-13 21:00:42 CEST

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I'm a librarian in the US so just making sure I have this right, these (and the kitchens and some of the other things) cost money to use/access?

2026-04-13 01:54:23 CEST

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Thank you.

2026-04-12 23:25:27 CEST

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Feeling like this dog right now.
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2026-04-12 23:22:36 CEST

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As a woman on the internet, I block often and usually only mute when someone is temporarily making a lot of noise about a thing they are enthusiastic about (which I can't keyword filter). I mostly block because I feel someone's either being creepy to me or being creepy to someone else and I never want to have a conversation about it b/c creepiness. People have told me they're going to block me on occasion and while I'm fine with that I'm also a little confused why they told me.

2026-04-10 23:27:51 CEST

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I'm sure you had a good reason.

2026-04-10 22:37:03 CEST

Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. We've got the Mud Season Variety Show coming up this weekend and while I am not in it, I am practicing to be a good audience member. Also planning a neighborhood block party. Community is where it's at, folks. Try to be a good member of yours.
Image credit: Costică Acsinte archive, on Flickr Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/costicaacsinte/15853664508/
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2026-04-10 05:22:51 CEST

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That Wikipedia article is a JOURNEY.
"However, hundreds of people still turned out in 100-degree heat in Desert Center, near the middle of the canceled stretch, joined by the band REO Speedwagon"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hands_Across_America

2026-04-10 03:48:27 CEST

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Most of library professional development, I believe, takes place over them.

2026-04-10 02:14:15 CEST

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What in the hell does "in old typewriter font" even mean. Are they describing a dumb terminal?

2026-04-10 01:56:35 CEST

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Thanks -- I'm not a 404 subscriber but I did see the alarming headline.

2026-04-09 23:11:05 CEST

I have had a friend 3D print a thing that is based on a goofy joke gift from 1976 that another internet friend made a reproduction of (what is this file called? a 3D model?). The future!
More info, or make one yourself. Thanks @npub1zl3…e9xk and @npub1elf…sff8
https://www.printables.com/model/1672286-the-zlotnian-calculator-reproduction
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2026-04-09 02:12:41 CEST

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Also sometimes I write for the local newspaper.
https://www.ourherald.com/articles/kids-polls-show-axolotl-robot-tie/

2026-04-09 02:12:01 CEST

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Vermont also had Front Porch Forum which is a very old-timey type of town-by-town mailing list which is surprisingly popular and seems to mostly work. I also like it.
https://frontporchforum.com/

2026-04-09 02:10:48 CEST

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Yeah when I was a kid (in Boxboro), we had a local paper and it was always a Big Deal if you got your name in it for sports or school stuff (less so for the crime report) and now that town no longer has a print paper, but I moved north and we have a regional paper that's HQed in my town and covers ten towns and you can be sure all those kids think it's a Big Deal if they get their name in the paper for sports or school or all the other civic stuff they report. I love it.

2026-04-08 22:27:42 CEST

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I KNEW IT. That was an interesting article, thank you.

2026-04-08 22:23:51 CEST

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YUSSSS. I do miss this aspect of academic libraries, the weird random shit you can find in the stacks.

2026-04-08 22:06:04 CEST

Walked downtown and paid for my annual subscription to the local newspaper (print and digital) with cash and then had a nice chat with the editor who is also my neighbor.
Here's a photo from the town's historical society (basically me and a few others) of the newspaper's offices--same building I was in today--with women seated at typesetting desks getting the paper ready, back in the day.
#Vermont
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2026-04-08 17:29:20 CEST

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Book 31: The Bear at the Bird Feeder. As someone who has had a bear at her bird feeder, I read this book with interest. The author is an outdoorsy type who talks about the various kinds of animals you might see if you live near their habitats and what, if anything, you can and should do about them. The animals she discusses range from bears to alligators to foxes to skunks to wild turkeys. It's sensible advice which acknowledges the complexity of these situations.
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2026-04-08 16:56:05 CEST

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Yeah I had the same reaction to that boss! There are definitely a few casual throwaway negative portrayals of different folks which are a problem. To me it didn't rise to the level of not wanting to finish the book but a few times I was like "Geez man, get a sensitivity reader" about some characters.

2026-04-08 03:18:48 CEST

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Congrats, happy anniversary.

2026-04-08 03:16:30 CEST

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YES?

2026-04-08 03:16:15 CEST

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It's so unfair that literally every time I see that phrase all I can hear is this 20 year old earworm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vwNcNOTVzY

2026-04-08 03:08:46 CEST

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We were legit talking about you yesterday (something to do with you telling Jim about gman's memorial service I think). Hi!

2026-04-08 03:08:02 CEST

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That is what I felt. I tend to not share schmoopy stuff about my life but I was happy about this and I felt like I could share some joy.

2026-04-08 01:16:59 CEST

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Good!

2026-04-08 01:16:32 CEST

I don't talk about my home life too much here but me and [@not_on_display](https://musicians.today/@not_on_display ) celebrated our 18th anniversary of when we met this past weekend. Here's us at anniversary #1 (at Walden Pond) and a pic from a few weeks ago. 💑
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2026-04-07 17:46:18 CEST

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Oh that was good, but I am not do audiobooks for whatever reason. My commute is two minutes and dish-doing time is taken up by podcasts, but I'll keep that suggestion for other folks who are more audiobook inclined.

2026-04-07 17:06:39 CEST

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I'm not sure which toot of mine you're replying to. Whose parents?

2026-04-07 17:06:15 CEST

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Book 30: Dungeon Crawler Carl. I put off reading this because the cover is so dumb. I'm glad I persevered. It's a "What if an RPG was in novel form and was funny?" book with Carl who survives a weird apocalypse only to wind up in a dungeon RPG along with his ex-girlfriend's cat who gets some buffs so that she can talk. There's a complex ruleset and a lot of funny bits while there's also a lot of boss battles complete with weird monsters and a lot of gore. Part of a longer series, will read more.
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2026-04-07 02:29:49 CEST

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Selling me a watch is always really difficult because the one I want is the one that is available, low friction, and on deep discount for some weird reason.

2026-04-06 23:10:39 CEST

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Praying for you... but not much.

2026-04-06 22:53:55 CEST

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I answered "No, but..." and I understand why people like them and I'm sure people answering yes have different goals from me. I'm a sophisticated end user not a coder. When I hit a wall with the Wordpress GUI, the support team often tries to get me to use the CLI to resolve it, but they also want me to sort of *learn the CLI* first. I want to solve my Wordpress problem so I can do my task, not learn a new thing in an environment that I am almost never in unless it's the only option.

2026-04-06 22:41:10 CEST

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I don't even have one, I have two.
https://www.jessamyn.com/journal/

2026-04-06 21:12:19 CEST

Librarian.net: Finally got an Apple Watch, it’s okay
Someone finally got an Apple Watch. How’s it been?
https://www.librarian.net/stax/5825/finally-got-an-apple-watch-its-okay/
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2026-04-06 21:05:51 CEST

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Also for those who like fiction, slightly nut not entirely fantastical, about this topic, I can highly recommend The Naturalist Society by Carrie Vaughan

2026-04-06 20:58:06 CEST

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Well that was thoroughly enraging.

2026-04-06 19:21:53 CEST

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This one.
https://www.cell2jack.com/

2026-04-06 05:31:30 CEST

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The Framingham Eight were women serving time for killing their abusive spouses/partners in Massachusetts. They sought commutation of their sentences in the 1990s saying they were acting in self defense because of battered person syndrome. Seven of the eight received commuted sentences; many had difficult lives afterwards either in or out of the spotlight. A short documentary about them won an Oscar. They had no Wikipedia page. Most news articles about them are by women.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framingham_Eight
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2026-04-05 22:24:37 CEST

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Emily Sweeney does news clips on Insta for The Boston Globe where she's been a staff writer since 2003. She's from Dorchester, has a thick Boston accent. I found that she also writes a lot about Massachusetts crime and authored a book about John "Dropkick" Murphy, an amateur wrestler turned rehab host (yes, where the band got their name). Oh and she was the first woman to play hockey at Boston Latin (on the boys' team) and played four years at Northeastern.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Sweeney_(journalist)
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2026-04-05 22:17:16 CEST

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Yeah if you want to DM (or email) me your phone and email I'll send them along.

2026-04-05 17:55:14 CEST

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I will, thank you. Would you mind if I gave her your email address, just as someone to contact if she wants to talk to someone who has been there? I promise she is not a barnacle type, just would love to talk with someone who has been there?

2026-04-04 20:00:06 CEST

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My friend says hello and thank you. She's a few weeks out and the nerve pain has really been getting her down but seems to be improving.

2026-04-04 18:40:12 CEST

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Most I'm not sure what "Dialled from one exchange to another" means specifically, maybe a UK thing?
I did buy this bad boy new in box from my local thrift store last week. I have a Bluetooth dongle in my house so that I can make calls with it. Fake dialtone and everything!
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2026-04-04 18:35:35 CEST

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Indeed, got it confused with this.
https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2024/06/14/image-of-the-week-the-song-of-sastrugi/

2026-04-04 17:38:17 CEST

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I remember when you got the surgery it just didn't really occur to me until my neighbor was talking about what happened to her that it was the same thing. She's had a little residual nerve pain that's been bumming her out so I was hoping I could give her somenews from somebody else who had been through it.

2026-04-04 17:34:11 CEST

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I like the sastrugi cover but based on your review I'm definitely gonna give this one a pass.

2026-04-04 17:30:24 CEST

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I just have a page on my website where I can copy it and a couple other character characters that I like to use but always forget the key combinations for. https://jessamyn.com/degree.html

2026-04-04 03:30:59 CEST

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I'm pretty sure my across the street neighbor friend got the same procedure that you got. Did you heal up okay?

2026-04-04 03:27:56 CEST

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I both have a subscription to my local newspaper and admire your use of the interrobang.

2026-04-04 01:53:47 CEST

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I do like those combo units and if I ever got a fancy high-tech job I would definitely go for one of them.

2026-04-04 01:47:52 CEST

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I just went with the ones that my friend the landlord was getting rid of because he upgraded to high efficiency models so they're old Whirlpools that will probably last another 50 years.

2026-04-03 22:12:03 CEST

Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. Big holiday weekend around here and I just got my laundry machines installed. I'm not sure doing laundry in my grubby basement is an improvement over doing it at the clean laundromat, but we can all learn new things, like how to not send last minute email to people just trying to get to their weekend.
Image credit: Mennonite Church USA Archives, on Flickr Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/52529054@N06/6472049199/
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2026-04-03 17:17:22 CEST

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"72% of attempts to censor books now come from pressure groups and government entities. Parents accounted for 16% of demands to censor books and 5% of challenges were brought by individual library users." I knew the trend was in that direction, but wow.

2026-04-03 05:27:17 CEST

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She's got a GoFundMe
https://www.gofundme.com/f/fsg98-help-luanne-james-in-her-time-of-need

2026-04-03 05:24:00 CEST

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But if you had to compare this one to the "running your own laundromat" game?

2026-04-02 02:16:14 CEST

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I had not. Thank you.

2026-04-02 02:15:19 CEST

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I read the whole thing, and boosted it, and it occurred to me I did not leave a comment that told you I thought it was very very good. It was!

2026-04-02 02:14:01 CEST

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Thanks David.

2026-04-02 02:11:35 CEST

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How cool for them and all of you!

2026-04-01 18:54:51 CEST

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I found a few of them. I don't know who is who though.
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2026-04-01 03:28:42 CEST

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Barely relevant reply, but always worth another watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATMR5ettHz8

2026-04-01 01:43:45 CEST

It's #TransDayofVisibility Shoutout to The Massachusetts Trans Librarian Group, your work is important and helps us all.
https://mblc.state.ma.us/mblc_blog/2026/03/30/green-matlg/
And also to Commander Emily Schilling (pic from 2024, on Flickr Commons) who is suing the current administration over their transgender military ban. She went on to work for SPARTA Pride for transgender military advocacy. SPARTA Pride had their awards ceremony last weekend.
https://lambdalegal.org/case/shilling-v-trump/
https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/albert-cashier-transgender-military-awards
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2026-03-31 02:18:51 CEST

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Today I gave Andrea the money you all chipped in, here and on Bluesky. Twenty-six different people. Andrea chose from an assortment of slogans and we're going with "Burn Rubber, Not Books" which I am good with. I'll share a picture of the hood image (same as last year) when it's done.
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2026-03-30 18:04:21 CEST

Book 29: The Body, a Guide for Occupants. A fun book about what we know about the human body based on science. It talks about the body section by section. The book is filled with trivia including a lot of mentions of people who are not well-known by folks (including some scientists whose research was co-opted by others who took all the glory). I knew some things, I learned some things, and I thought "Oh I think that's changed" about a few things (book is from 2017). Readable and fun.
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2026-03-30 05:58:28 CEST

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Exactly. I live in an area where in order to get to the next town I drive over the top of a molehill-sized mountain but it's still what we call a mountain around here. But if I was answering this question from a hiking perspective it would probably be over a year or two.

2026-03-30 03:46:51 CEST

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Ah, now reading from laptop and not phone, he says it's not them.
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2026-03-28 18:42:26 CET

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he replied with a couple command line things which I honestly don't know how to interpret it so you might want to reach out to him directly.

2026-03-28 04:03:01 CET

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I dropped their support guy a DM to drop you a note. I wasn't sure what the situation was. He's cmpalmer at ibiblio.org if you need to get ahold of someone.

2026-03-27 23:47:04 CET

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I'm on a Slack with the ibiblio folks (they host librarian.net) if I can help by talking to a person for you.

2026-03-27 22:48:59 CET

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Amusingly I wound up in Vermont :D

2026-03-27 22:36:12 CET

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Not at all a sore thing, just a weird history thing.

2026-03-27 21:13:03 CET

Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. I have been hearing news about the coming of Spring and this weekend I intend to fully investigate. Don't be my boss emailing me at 5:05 on a Friday with something with a deadline. I'll be elsewhere. have a good weekend.
Image credit: Miami University Libraries, on Flickr Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/muohio_digital_collections/3193617949/
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2026-03-27 20:42:14 CET

Made a short post on my blog about Tracy Kidder and the nostalgia hole I've been in over the past few days.
https://www.jessamyn.com/journal/2026/03/tracy-kidder-rip
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2026-03-27 17:57:22 CET

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We have now reached our stretch goal on this. Thank you to everyone who contributed. You can follow Andrea on FB (if you use it) or I'll try to post updates as I can.
https://www.facebook.com/ChambersStAmourRacing

2026-03-27 17:05:10 CET

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Book 28: Seascraper. A very moody seaside novella about a young man making his living in the hardscrabble world of shanking, scraping shrimp from the low waters with his horse and cart, coming home to where he lives with his mom, getting up and doing it all over again. One day a man appears who wants to put him in a movie, waving money and just the whole concept of "something else." Just the idea of something else changes him. This book was slow and evocative and a nice place to be in.
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2026-03-27 04:29:49 CET

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He was such a low-key legend. I was part of the community of the first book (Tom West's daughter) and I read a lot of Tracy's later books and each time I felt transported. So good.

2026-03-27 04:26:29 CET

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I helped an 80+ year old woman install a wireless printer today and the step I *thought* we were going to get hung up on was her having her apple ID password to at least pretend to install software (fuck you HP) but she whipped the little piece of paper it was on out from under her desk blotter SO quickly.

2026-03-26 20:41:04 CET

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It's newish but not totally new. I use it all the time because I'm a night owl and have some people I text with who have their ringers on for work reasons, so it's useful for me to be able to text them asynch.

2026-03-26 17:25:31 CET

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In my world it's Mastodon for nerds and geeky things and old web folks, Bluesky for bigger reach, librarian stuff and more shitposting type of jokes. Mastodon is more people I know in person (though not all, certainly) and Bluesky is more "people from the internet"

2026-03-26 04:26:13 CET

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That was a hell of a book. I definitely felt that way about Little Big for a long time.
Today my therapist mentioned $BOOK_NAME that had been that book for me when I was younger and it was a weird little jolt of electricity again.

2026-03-26 02:23:46 CET

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They were totally warnings.

2026-03-25 23:38:10 CET

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Thanks. We weren't really in touch in his later years but I was always fond of him.

2026-03-25 23:37:42 CET

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She's really cool. Her dad runs my town's water system and they work on her cars together and it's just great to see it. I buy space on her car every year and they always come by, to my house, in person, to say thank you and give me a little set of photos of the car in action. It's really so so nice. Thank you for your donation.

2026-03-25 23:36:36 CET

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I feel a little bad for his family that the clout-chasers at the NYT decided that his Pulitzer-winning book was the one they should mention in the headline. He did so much with his writing career. The Boston Globe has a better balance. (have I mentioned I'm Tom West's daughter to you? I must have.)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/25/metro/tracy-kidder-obituary-nonfiction-writer/

2026-03-25 20:19:03 CET

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The guy the hair was named after!

2026-03-25 20:16:59 CET

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Stock! If you've got Facebook you can see some of her stuff here.
https://www.facebook.com/ChambersStAmourRacing