Otters
@otterdidact.bsky.social
Systems Librarian and occasional cataloger in Maine.
Karen Green is the Curator for Comics and Cartoons at Columbia University, a living legend whose career is a firm attestation of the importance of comics archives and the quintessential role that any one person can make on a field through archival work. #comicsstudies 1/7
just realized Jack Johnson and Jake Johnson are two different people, how's your day going?
My MLS students would like you to know that if you don't post a salary with your job posting, they aren't likely to apply.
Recently discovered Judee Sill, a folk musician who released two lovely albums in 1971 and 1973 and sadly passed away too early. What a loss, but what she's left us! youtu.be/kTAesI73E1U?...
Jesus Was a Cross Maker
YouTube video by Judee Sill - Topic
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Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
Spider Hairdryer, 1930s. This 1930s Supreme Pedestal Hairdryer features a striking Art Deco design with spider-like metal arms, adjustable prongs that surround the head and deliver heat evenly.
🪶New in Murmurations: “A Library Worker's Guide to Anti-Transgender Misinformation, Part One: Understanding Anti-Transgender Misinformation” by Heath Umbreit heaththelibrarian.bsky.social. The first in a series on this topic!
Here a compilation of stupid things library consultants have said to me in solidarity with library pals at Lambeth Libraries where genius consultants has decided that a qualified head of library service post isn't really essential.
Librarians, Archivists, & Archives that collect/manage popular culture materials-I've started a Discord server to discuss collections, materials, repositories, etc. to share info and build community. Comics, games, movies/tv, etc #popularculture #archives #archivists #librarians discord.gg/xvhWAhhkw
Join the Popular Culture Archives & Archivists Discord Server!
Popular culture archives and archivists to share best practices, build community, and better understand the landscape of popular culture preservation. [Icon Image: Old Dutch advertisement, c.1965, Pos...
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It’s buried in one of my books but look up Cannon Towel ads post-war, along with Schlitz beer as ad campaigns doing plausible deniability to the the gay market
hey kids it's a quick look at the news www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
Headline news 2026
A cartoon by Tom Tomorrow.
dailykos.com
conducting an LIS study tracing the iPod owner to metadata librarian pipeline
Reminder that Goodfellas has a sequel: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Blue...
My Blue Heaven (1990 American film) - Wikipedia
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https://gacha.o0o0.jp/gp/archives/49702 『あしあとにゃんこローラースタンプ』発売。まるでノートの上をねこがあるいたみたいなスタンプです♪ "Footprint Kitty Roller Stamp" now on sale! These stamps look like a cat has walked across your notebook! #ガチャポン #gachapon
...if you're not familiar, negativity bias is an unconscious tendency we have where, if we view an outcome as negative (eg, a Covid pandemic, children who are trans or autistic), we compulsively seek out imagined "external agents" that must have "caused" them: juliaserano.medium.com/what-covid-l...
Help! My symbolism! It's so overt! And very explicit!
Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop
Scuttled German WW2 warships have reemerged from the Danube in drought-hit Europe.
reuters.com
menges white house room, livingston manor, new york, 1977
"The Duck quaketh... The Wolf howleth" — from what many consider to be the first picture book for children, Orbis Sensualium Pictus (1658). More in our essay here: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/in-the-image-of-god-john-comenius-and-the-first-children-s-picture-book
I did backlog cataloging from 2007-2012 at my former place of work. At some point in the project, someone in administration asked what they'd need to do so such a large backlog wouldn't build up again, and I said that the cataloging department needed to be fully staffed (1/2)
On the Criterion Channel, watch LUCKY (2017) in our Starring Harry Dean Stanton collection! ❤️ Acclaimed actor John Carroll Lynch directs this meditation on mortality, loneliness, spirituality, and human connection that doubles as a love letter to the life and career of the legendary and beloved HDS.
David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.
Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction | TechCrunch
David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.
techcrunch.com
would love to hear this kind of regret from a prison cell where he is spending the rest of his life, otherwise don't bother me about it
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago‘I got carried away’: Elon Musk expresses regret about Doge and wading into Trump’s orbit
I hate that I know when someone has loaded the Kanopy file by the authority control report the next day.
Larry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed. Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association.
