I'm so happy to be back at ILiADS at @vassar.bsky.social this year. 11 years of digital scholarship summer camp!

Not me turning to chatty g to write a script because the documentation for the new version is so non-existent and all the function names have changed. So are we not writing documentation anymore because we don't need it? We're not even asking the machines to do it?

Trying to find the location of a former plantation in Mississippi and instead found this fallen over plaque indicating the presence of an Indian mound and an African-American burial site on top. Could be a good image for a 250th publication!

every gardener i follow is going absolutely hogwild flexing that they eat lettuce from behind their house. i've never seen gardeners act like this in my life. this is our super bowl. this is our olympics. gold medal in shitting normally

My fatal flaw is that I want to be the kind of person who sends nice things in the mail but I just can't make it happen!

Someone just sent me this photo from Chicago, unbelieveable

Thanks to a colleague sharing this site: reciprocard.com I finally have access to a bigger Libby catalog GOOD GOD how I have been suffering.

ReciproCard - Reciprocal Library Cards for Libby

Discover which reciprocal library systems you can access based on where you live. More cards means more books on Libby.

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sure,

I'm not super woo woo by nature but whatever this handpan music is doing is totally working. *~*~healing frequencies *~*~*

Why does GitHub no longer show that handy list of commands after you create a new repo?

Perhaps a bit less textual, but still a material way to enjoy tonight’s RBS talk. Reference image from a Charlottesville parking garage.

for the afternoon crowd: If you ever wanted to hear my thoughts on digital project hosting, I am simply delighted to share a whole article of those thoughts with you www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Against cultural heritage wastelands

The twin scholarly booms of the 2010s, digital humanities and public humanities, introduced a relatively accessbile suite of platforms for managing digital and digitised content. Sudden interest in...

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Experiencing my first loss of a former student. We weren't particularly close and I don't really need sympathy, just remarking on the strange feeling.

Y’all both my pieces sold the first day. 🥹🥹🥹 so like follow your dreams

Mackenzie@mackymoo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Trying to practice what I preach (make bad art) and submitted two things to a local art show! Scary!

Did some important work this week advising a student on creating her ren faire costume with thrift store finds and the campus makerspace sewing machines.

Thank you to whoever recommended the 99% Invisible episode about the state quarters it was perfect for 3am when I couldn’t sleep.

I’ve been getting a lot of early 2000s nostalgia on insta, mostly it’s candlelight and DVDs but what they’re forgetting is this:

Forever impressed by the work of the great and good Jessica Farrell!

Library Futures@libraryfutures.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Academic publishing got you down? DIY it and be your own publisher! Jessica Farrell show you how in How to Publish Your Academic Paper without Publishers, Bosses, Gods, or Masters, the latest from our Research Network! www.libraryfutures.net/post/introdu...

My dad’s new thing is that he plays a recording of the frogs peeping to the frogs so they start peeping.

I am so tired of having to start with "yes I'm aware that there are meaningful uses for machine learning and algorithms" when the people in speaking to make no room for the meaningful rejection of AI Slop hedgehoglibrarian.com/2025/10/27/2...

20 Ways “AI” Has Created More Work for Me

To listen to the generative AI enthusiasts and vendors with exclamation riddled decks, you would think that every boring and mundane task was now easily handled, freeing me up to lead that mythical…

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Oh no this is a legit thing what nonsense. Why would you put them in article order at the end???

Mackenzie@mackymoo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Does no one alphabetize their bibliography anymore???

Does no one alphabetize their bibliography anymore???

Ohhhhh it's finally dawning on me that it will be my job to translate the impending accessibility guidelines to my master gardener group that still doesn't really want to use gdrive.

I've been having a hard time accepting the passage of time, but I've also been working on an article about work that I did ten years ago and yeah no that was a long time ago I remember nothing.

Looking forward to running a pre-conf workshop at Envisioning DH at your Teaching-Focused Institution! There's more seats if you want to join us for some reflective conversation about where we're at and where we want to go.

pam lach@plach.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Looking for a low-cost, virtual #DigitalHumanities workshop? @ach.bsky.social's got ya covered. We're offering 3 wkshps ahead of #ACH2026: 1) DH Pedagogy Studio: Creative + Critical Assignment Design 2) Get Started Preserving your Web Content & Data 3) Envisioning DH at your Teaching-Focused Instn

Trying to practice what I preach (make bad art) and submitted two things to a local art show! Scary!

It's always CORS!!!!

Is this supposed to be a joke? (Ignore me trying to prove my spouse wrong in the kitchen)

What a program! 🤩 And there's still time to sign up for a low-cost, virtual, pre-conference #ACH2026 workshop: 1) DH Pedagogy Studio: Creative & Critical Assignment Design 2) Get Started Preserving your Web Content & Data 3) Envisioning DH at your Teaching-Focused Inst ach2026.ach.org/en/workshops/

ACH@ach.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The #ACH2026 program is now available! buff.ly/Wtmsofy Join us virtually June 24–26 for 70+ presentations on DH, transnationalism, and solidarity (especially in the Americas). Registration is open through June 17 buff.ly/3QFYlOS

The reddit thread that’s basically just “yeah my smoke detector made a weird series of beeps at 3am too why is that?” might win least helpful thread.