Staring at my inbox waiting for my final paperwork to arrive from RI Housing. If I don't get it today, I can't close on Friday. They asked me for more paperwork this morning that they could have asked for any time in the past 2ms. The appraisal report for the loan took over a week. I am nauseous.

As we know, "AI" doesn't do facts. It makes up patterns from random bits of data that were digitized & stolen for it, to be wrongity wrong most of the time, even on the same prompt. terribleminds.com/ramble/2025/...

Vital Cat Update

It’s time to talk about my cat. To which you might be saying, “Chuck, I didn’t know you had a cat!” and I’d respond with, “I didn’t know I had a cat either…

terribleminds.com

esoteric scholars will of course recognize the salt-girl as one of the child-elemental incarnations of Mary Poppins, who pasted the very stars to the sky when this universe was made.

Derek Faraci@whwoolhat.bsky.social · 2d ago

Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.

The kids are out here getting looks mogged when they could be getting books mogged, is what I’m saying

Being able to smell a skunk while in my room at midnight is UNSETTLING

Occasionally hit with the incomprehensibility of the amount of money I've spent on other people's weddings and baby showers

Why does every museum's description of their board reveal that none of the people on said board have the knowledge or qualifications or willingness to learn that would actually be useful for guiding that organization

As per Philip K. Dick: The human desire to enslave other forms of consciousness is one of the fundamental drivers of AI appeal.

The guy leading this panel on southern punk archives is basically opening with a tight five and I respect it lmao

The WAVE OF NAUSEA i just felt seeing pictures of massive shelves of untamed media collections in this presentation

This presentation is demonstrating how an organization used an open source coll mgmt system to display complex GIS data and we can't even convince our department to use a database that isn't from like 2004

Having a hard day but finding some comfort in this SAA presidential address

I toured the Viking replica ship that's in The Od*sse* years ago (it's so cool omg) and it is funny to me that none of the people freaking about race and gender in the film have said anything about a Viking longship playing a bireme

Pied-a-terre J'accuse is my new drag name

Guys I'm watching a presentation on "Ethical AI" lol, lmao. If anybody is in the room, what's the vibe/is anybody going to start fighting?

Losing it at this remote presenter critiquing the slides made by someone else on the panel

I'm kind of tired of spending money to attend conferences where the most common advice is "you should take more breaks!"

So a fun thing about operating at this ambient level of stress ("I feel like I am being hunted for sport but the situation is apparently not serious enough for me to stop doing life normally") is that I cannot remember ANYTHING

christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

I still dont know if I am moving in a week and so I still need to schedule movers but I cant

People without archives training who end up managing archives LOVE wildly byzantine box numbering systems and inappropriate box sizes

Ok girls. We need to have a serious talk. Men are NOT pulling their weight by being named Hieronymus any more. There are not enough Hieronymuses. Hieronymi? Point being. We might need to start picking up their slack. We need to make Hieronymus a girl name

it’s legitimately fucking offensive to me as a taxpayer that this entire administration is run by people whose only goal in life is to be on television

Brandy Zadrozny@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 6d ago

Someone posted this in slack and I actually thought it was The Onion. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Very accurately pinpointed me here

S. Kramer@libraryephemera.bsky.social · 6d ago

Were you a child who read The World Book Encyclopedia for fun?

Distracted by how much I like this presenter's home office

Anyone who's ever worked in a library and tried to weed a single outdated beat-up book only to be confronted with the screams of the public feels the bitter irony. We all thought Nicholson Baker was out there for Double Fold but it only took 25 years for tech corps to make his fears come true

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

One of these SAA presidents of yore looks so much like my dad's family that I am sending pictures to my relatives

Is this naval battle music playing in the room in New Orleans too or just in the Zoom?

The SAA ambient music being a country version of "Beat It" is sending me

I want to see The Od*sse* because I was a bebe classics nerd (&my friend @stung.art worked on the film!) but the discourse-on-discourse about it is absolutely wild. It's one vision of this ancient story. My 1st encounter with the story featured Odysseus as a Jack Russell Terrier. Everybody chill.