John Boggs
@subsublibrarian.bsky.social
Systems librarian. Learning the violin.
Memories of my 20s. Seen in the back hallways of the library.
Look, I know you're not supposed to microwave eggs. But I had some that were not *quite* hard enough, and figured that if I partially peeled them so the shells wouldn't hold in the steam It'd be fine. Like poking the skins before baking potatoes? It was not fine.
As an Oaklander who recently vacationed in Humboldt County, I am greatly enjoying "Humboldt Cut" by @allisonmick.bsky.social ! I just happened to walk past it on the shelf a my library and it caught my eye. I love a book with a strong sense of place in it.
Every earthy wet stink can be petrichor if you’re desperate enough to write a poem
Weird end to my day. All the keycards stopped working, and the outside doors locked. I went to the key-card system panel, and someone had opened it and unplugged all the cables! Trying to figure out when it happened, so I can check key logs / cameras. Fortunately nothing torn out, just unplugged.
I am very much a Texas sheep cake guy. Oh, sure, the normies call it sheet cake, but we know that's wrong. Basically a dense chocolate cake with a denser fudgy frosting that's made up of cocoa, butter, and a whole bag of confectioner's sugar.
Marissa Lingen@marissalingen.bsky.social · 3mo agoHey so remember how I have ARCs? Now you can too! Reshare this post telling me your favorite kind of fancy cake (or unfancy if that's how you roll), and I'll enter you in a drawing to win an ARC of A DUBIOUS CLAMOR, available here: hornedlarkpress.com/product/a-du...
This is Norman, on a windy day. Photo by my neighbor Sandra.
Neon Genesis Ewangelion@ewacat.bsky.social · 3mo agoIt is ✨🎉my birthday 🎉✨ and for my birthday, as is my bluesky tradition, all I want is for people to quote this post with a photo of your pet(s) being really silly, weird little guys, to make all our days better ✨🫶
I am taking a workplace violence prevention training online, and it says that it will teach me to "diffuse" tense interactions. Because having those interactions too close to each other is the problem?
Big thanks to whoever put these tickets on the office bulletin board! My wife was so disappointed that we didn't learn about this show until it was sold out, and it was such a treat to be able to see it anyway! And a joy to see Joan Baez up on stage with him.
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.
Chuck Wendig@chuckwendig.bsky.social · 6mo agoPost a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.
What a great example of how literature can literally save lives. The arts are so important.
Pru Madeley@prum.bsky.social · 8mo agoI hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
I remember a conversation with my Dad about his new SUV over 20 years ago, when he said if he's in an accident he wants to win. I was disturbed that he didn't say survive, but win.
Car Size
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The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
Mark Lemley@marklemley.bsky.social · 9mo agoAustralia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
"The secret isn’t hidden policy genius or decades of cultural conditioning—it’s infrastructure."
When Bikes Outnumber Cars: What Scotland’s Cycling Surge Can Teach North America
Scotland’s largest city reached a milestone that would make any transportation planner in Portland, or Montreal do a double take.
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Is he going to stop with just the east wing? Or will we eventually have a brand new, shoddily-built, McMansion of a White House?
The old man equivalent of stirring your hot cocoa with a candy cane is drinking coffee with a Ricola cough drop in your mouth.
Just rage-cancelled Hulu / Disney+. We don't want to financially support media that bows down readily. You can't trust anything you're hearing from them if they kick people out as soon as the government expresses displeasure at what they're saying. They're clearly becoming just a mouthpiece.
Hey, editor and writer types, shouldn't the construction be "both ... and ..." instead of "both ... as well as ..." As in, "I am both a librarian and a husband," rather than "I am both a librarian as well as a husband"? I see the latter a lot in newspapers, and it bugs me. But should it?
Just cancelled one of my domains, and the Google business package that goes along with it (email, calendar, files, whatever). I had to say like six times in the process that yes I really want to do this. Yes, I've thought it through. No, a discount won't entice me to stay. I realize it's on my head.
"There’s a pollution blanket around the planet, but it’s the result of a pollution blanket around our souls."
‘It’s a warning, set to a dance beat’: Jon Batiste on his new song urging climate action 20 years after Katrina
The global music star, whose home town of New Orleans was devastated by the hurricane in 2005, says ‘people power’ can change the world
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I don't fully trust anyone who doesn't adore libraries, especially haunted libraries. In terms of desired afterlife real estate, few places compare to library or bookshop. I am going to try hard to haunt my favourite one when the time comes. – #CJosiffe #Libraries #Ghosts
Excited to have our Berkeley Public Library Tool Lending Library mentioned in this New York Times article! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/r...
Need a Tool for a Home Project? Get Yourself a Library Card.
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