New issue of Mythlore is up: dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol...

Tolkien language nerds, scans of the first five issues of Parma Eldalamberon, long only available as photocopies, are now available open access: dc.swosu.edu/parma/

as a person who knows that banishing evil spirits by swearing at them is a common thing in multiple Slavic traditions, i am DELIGHTED by this tip

orbette@orbette.bsky.social · last yr.

Simply add a swear word and the AI slop doesn't come up 👍

There will be more to come from the Mythopoeic Society's official social media steward, but: today, our content at dc.swosu.edu/mythsoc/ hit ONE MILLION DOWNLOADS! Woot!

I keep remembering how the first thing an abuser does is cut you off from friends and family. This feels like the global political version of that on an unimaginable scale.

LC published a tentative list to change #LCSH Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America & Mt Denali to Mt McKinley. Comments on the proposed changes can be sent to listcomments@loc.gov by Tues. February 18, 2025 (which is TODAY). If you oppose the change, please email! #critcat (classweb.org/tentative-su...

Work in healthcare? Come to a country that still values freedom, diversity, and science. IF YOU HAVE QUEER and TRANS friends in healthcare, get them to apply immediately!

Avis Favaro@avisfavaro.bsky.social · 2y ago

American health workers looking to relocate? Doorway to practice medicine in Canada 🇨🇦 We have job openings nationwide. www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...

don’t treat people like crap. unless you want to treat them like *we* treat crap, with the transformative care, respect, and service-oriented attention it deserves.

Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚 Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏

The seminar proceedings for MythSoc's "Something Mighty Queer" online conference are up. Some great reading here! Lots on Tolkien, but also papers on Our Flag Means Death, Star Wars, intersectionality, queer theology, and more! dc.swosu.edu/mythpro/vol2...

Cool old stamp that came on one of our Christmas cards! Someone was clearing out their stamp hoard.

Since I don't work as a cataloger anymore, I didn't think I'd ever need to consult the Homosaurus controlled vocabulary list -- but it's coming in really handy for creating appropriate new entries for the Mythlore Index Plus for the papers from the "Something Mighty Queer" seminar.

The distinction between emotion and analysis is an excellent one.

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2y ago

I like to say I respect despair as an emotion but not an analysis. As an analysis it assumes we know what can and can't happen, and the future is both uncertain and at least to some extent what we make of it. Plus why would I give them what they want, as premature surrender? Thanks Senator Schatz.

Flowchart of human history: 1. Suffer incredible hardship. 2. Amazing science and hard work fixes hardship. 3. Everything is much better for about 50 years. 4. Nobody remembers hardship anymore. 5. Solution to hardship now considered unnecessary. 6. GOTO 1.

From the @sarahkendzior.bsky.social book that started this website.

On the nose!

Damien Marie AtHope Ⓐ 🚩🏴🌍@damienmarieathope.bsky.social · 2y ago

I haven't been very active here on Bluesky -- I was never very active on the former place either. But one thing I DID do there was post when I put something new up on Academia. This was my talk to to the OK ACRL librarians a few days after the election: www.academia.edu/125387596/Im...

Imagination Grows a Better World: Courage, Creativity, and Fantastic Futures

Our field is requiring ever more courage from us as we face challenges to our bedrock beliefs in free access to information and the value of diverse viewpoints, of representation of different ways of ...

academia.edu

Geeze, I try to go on Facebook to crow about having my one meeting for the day cancelled, and Facebook is down.

Come work with me! If you have experience with the back end of Ex Libris, you're who we're looking for.

Last Chance Sale on 2000-2021 original print issues of Mythlore! From now through March 1, all remaining original print copies of Mythlore from #86 through #140 will be half-price. Order them here: mythsoc.org/mythlore/mythlore-history.htm

So in my dream last night, @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com touched my phone and cured the chirping caused by the most recent Facebook software update. Thanks, Neil! Alas, he couldn’t do anything about the AI-designed architecture in the background.