I am writing an article about indexing and have been ILLing articles from the 1990s from @bpl.boston.gov. You fill out a little form and they get a scan of the article and give it to you, for free. Since becoming a librarian 20 years ago I have never, ever get tired of how cool libraries are. 💕

Barack Obama is much cooler than I am.

Barack Obama@barackobama.bsky.social · 6d ago

Here are some of the songs I've been listening to this summer. It starts with a song Michelle and I love by Glen Hansard, a great musician who passed tragically this week. Our hearts go out to his family.

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Bend It Like Beckham: Parminder Nagra & Keira Knightley

Alt: Bend It Like Beckham: Parminder Nagra & Keira Knightley

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Christine Corcos@lpcprof.bsky.social · 7d ago

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli. Here’s one. No gifs that I could find for Judgment at Nuremberg or Witness for the Prosecution (1957).

I detest Gianni Infantino with the heat of 1,000 suns. I never thought anyone involved in world football could possibly be worse than Sepp Blatter. But he makes old Sepp look like a choir boy. #fifa

I would like to shred AI and feed it to rare books, rather than the other way around.

We do agree. With this administration, invoking your Fifth Amendment rights is often the smartest course of action. They have shown a willingness to aggressively pursue and target people, so protecting your constitutional rights is more important than ever.

I am so exhausted by the all the corruption. Unfairness makes my blood boil and it has not been able to simmer down for such a long time how. This is all so exhausting.

SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK WHO CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE INCESSANT DRONE OF FOX NEWS.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Mark Kelly: "He's stuck. He doesn't know what to do. This is a guy who in his last term said he knows more than the admirals and generals. His high school military education certainly did not prepare him to be the commander in chief."

Post a perfect album from the 1990s.

Campbell F. Scribner@scribnerumcp.bsky.social · last wk.

Post a perfect album from the 1990s.

I didn't like The Odyssey when I had to read it in college and I can't imagine I would enjoy watching a movie adaptation of it. Yet another cultural phenomenon will pass me by, alas. At least I have been a fan of Erling Haaland for three years already and didn't just jump on that bandwagon.

I'm as anti-AI as anyone. But I'm editing a problematic Word document that has had a lot of different authors. There are very weird formatting things that must be fixed. MS CoPilot is in its element, creating the needed macros. Is it wrong to believe that this kind of #AI use is, well, good?

My tire had a nail in it. I took it to Town Fair Tire, and they fixed it in an hour for $13. While waiting, I sat in McDonalds, drank a Diet Coke, and read the latest edition of Harpers magazine while a man nearby listened to the Red Sox game on his phone, no headphones. What a weird afternoon.

20-year-old me would be so jealous of my life right now. I'm off tomorrow on a quick trip to Prague to visit a Czech friend who lives in the US but goes back every summer. Because I work for myself I did not have to ask for vacation time. I'm feeling spoiled but working on feeling grateful.

Went to the #worldcup game in Boston yesterday. The Moroccans' best player was injured, and they clearly had no plan B except to keep France at 0-0 for as long as possible. We met some nice Moroccan fans who had spent A LOT to come to the game. I feel so, so badly for them.

What in the name of communism is going on around here?

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 4w ago

The White House launched 25 Freedom Fuel gas stations, all selling fuel at $3.47 a gallon.

Say it louder for the people in the back. White men have had their day and need to take a collective seat now.

Lisa Koch@jaspie13.bsky.social · 4w ago

White men are very bad judges of character. They don’t have to be wary of anyone, so they don’t develop any instincts.

I believe the phrase we are all looking for this morning is ball don't lie. #USMNT

I know the movie American Beauty is problematic. But my "relaxation" internet radio station plays its theme music occasionally, and it stops me in my tracks and takes my breath away, every time. Thomas Newman is a musical genius. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucdz...

American Beauty

YouTube video by Thomas Newman - Topic

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Expert-level achievement unlocked with this one. Nice work.

Liam Hogan@liamhogan.id.au · last mo.

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

I am teaching Remedies in U.S. Law in Würzburg next week (over Zoom). After introducing the BMW v. Gore punitive damages reasonableness test, we'll study its application in Carroll v. Trump. I know this is cringey and embarrassing, but it must be done. We can't just pretend everything is normal.

What a game. DR Congo gave England everything they could handle. I am not the biggest fan of England, but Harry Kane is the man and I love it that they sing Wonderwall to the fans at the end. Football/soccer really is the most beautiful of games.

Yes but go even further: 12-year term limits with mandatory retirement at age 68, just like the terms for the justices of the Federal High Court of Germany. Enough already. www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/EN/TheFedera...

BrooklynDad_Defiant!@mmpadellan.bsky.social · last mo.

18 year term limits. Expand the court. Save America.

If you aren't rooting for Erling Braut Haaland and the Norwegian soccer team in the World Cup, you really should be. This dude is everything that is good. www.time.kommune.no/aktuelt/engl...

ENGLISH VERSION: Erling Braut Haaland gives the royal sagas and reading to his hometown

… or, if you like, “The Viking gives the story of the Vikings to his hometown”:

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I get this, all of it. At some point, there must be a reckoning at the highest level of American legal academia. American lawyers are way too likely to perpetuate fundamentaly unethical and false arguments, especially if it makes them money or gains them political power. Enough already.

Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · last mo.

I’m mad about today. I’m mad that justices can’t do the bare minimum to uphold the Constitution. I’m mad that the law and our history, which I have dedicated so much of my life to, is an inconvenience than an inheritance to many. I’m mad that the academy, which I love, rewards and enables it.

I can dig it. britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...

My husband was just driving down the freeway near our house in #Boston and saw the team bus for #Norway going in the other direction and that is as close as either of us will ever be to Erling #Haaland, I think. #worldcup

This needs to be said a lot more often and a lot louder for the people in the back.

Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · last mo.

Law is a moral enterprise. Those who disregard or mock the suffering of others while saying "that's just the law" are, in fact, morally bankrupt.

Los Angeles is the way.

Civic Sundays Los Angeles@civicsundays.bsky.social · last mo.

Today, over I-5 in L.A.

LOL. My instagram feed is full of English football fans in Boston slagging off the Scots, who captured the hearts of everyone in New England (West Scotland) last week. Now those fans are sitting there in Foxboro and the best their team could manage against Ghana was a tie. Karma = a bitch. #worldcup

Boston just keeps on winning and I love this for us. www.universalhub.com/2026/how-bos... #reflectingpool #algae #science #howitsdone

How Boston's reflecting pool stacks up

You don't have to go all the way down to DC to see a reflecting pool - we've got one of our own in the heart of the Christian Science Center. But how does it compare to the federal one? We ran some nu...

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