Dispatch from Friday night karaoke: the chorus of Beck’s “Loser” is displaying on the monitor as “So… open the door” rather than “Soy un perdedor”
Keegan Osinski
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librarian ritual studies, phenomenology of religion, queer theology also: hockey, fiber arts, pugs, yoga keeganosinski.com
Do y'all think there's a market for some kind of course or other offering on like "Embodiment for Academics"? My whole life I felt like a brain in a jar, and the healing work I've done to get back to my body has been really revolutionary for me. I expect I'm not alone in this.
However you want to fondle your books in the privacy of your own home is between you and your god
Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷@book-historia.bsky.social · 4d agoWell that’s a hot pro-glove use with books take
Guys I had to say “F U 2” to the drive thru worker 😩 Ordering McDonald’s is a humiliation ritual
With conference season approaching, scholars of religion, scholars who deal with religion, now is the time to dust off and update 1) Your (non, or entirely fake) answer to the question: "What do you do (as an occupation)?" 2) Your deflections when asked about the conference paper you are editing
Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · 5d agoOkaaaay:
Glad to see my work reaching a new generation of students 😌 youtu.be/2uXbSl8yFME?...
Evidence Against Point Loma Nazarene University (Part 2) | Noah and Ashley Shaw
YouTube video by Alisa Childers
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It was so fun! Who knew this big stadium was over here
Keegan Osinski@keeganosinski.bsky.social · last wk.This is my 14th school year at Vanderbilt and tomorrow I'm going to my first football game
One of my favorite things about the Spanish influence in California is these funny linguistic constructions you get. “The El Cortez” is so great
Just saw a man wearing a Thin Blue Line tshirt that quoted Matthew 5:9 🤢
Looking through some old Div Library photos and this is what our first floor stacks used to look like???? HORRIFYING (but somehow cozy?)
This is my 14th school year at Vanderbilt and tomorrow I'm going to my first football game
I love these dogs so much 🥹 They are going to be 11 and 15 this fall can you believe it 😭
Wait why are all the millennial white ladies getting into mahjong
A periodic reminder that Theological Librarianship is always accepting critical review submissions! Here's a spreadsheet of titles we'd like to see reviewed, but we're also open to reviews of other reference works (books, databases, or online resources)! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Titles for Review
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"I keep that thang on me," I say as I explain to my students that I have Zotero downloaded on my work computer, my home computer, my iPad, my phone.....
I found out my bar friend Dan is the one who started the petition to rename the airport after Dolly lmaooo he said he’s been doing interviews all week
Ok I’m about to go grocery shopping what produce is actually safe to buy
I had a blockage in my ear that had to get irrigated and the urgent care visit cost THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN DOLL HAIRS I hate it here
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With the backlash to data centers, Flock and AI glasses, a mass opposition to big tech is underway. Silicon Valley is in denial.
The backlash against data centers is difficult to understand if your salary depends on your not understanding it.
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This is so good on so many levels I love it sm
Karen K. Ho@karenho.bsky.social · 2w agoThis gallery of ICE crop/seed art at this year's Minnesota State Fair is incredible, especially the one based on Pablo Picasso's Guernica by Jennifer Nelson, which features the last words of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Morse code: www.cropart.com/Resist.pdf
Why is FLOCK sending me marketing emails??? The library does NOT want to surveil our users!!!!! That's like the whole thing!!!!!
This is a fun little piece. I (surprisingly) just read this for the first time this year! I like the idea of it as a Southern Gothic (or, like, New England Gothic?) novel.
rogueclassicist ~ david meadows@rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 3w agoWhy you should study the classics but not kill anyone: Lessons from Donna Tartt’s fiction - America Magazine www.americamagazine.org/catholic-boo...
The Facebook marketplace algorithm knows if you’re pure of heart
Say what you want about Tennessee but we are the only state in the Union with Dolly Parton on our license plates
Incoming student with no background in religion just asked a GREAT question: What's ONE book you would recommend to students starting Div School to help get their bearings? My answer was Critical Terms for Religious Studies (ed. Mark Taylor); what's yours?
No literally someone walked by and told a bunch of us in a meeting and we all GASPED
Andrew Palmer@andrewp97.bsky.social · 3w agomy thoughts are with everyone who had to break the news mid business meeting