I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Swaaatches so far… 💅🎨🫟

School supplies still bring me joy! 📚✏️

I hate this talking point

The Ronettes Pickering@stoatie.bsky.social · 3w ago

People who keep pointing out that golf courses use as much water as data centres as some sort of defence of data centres drastically underestimate the amount we also hate golf.

If you ever use the @biodivlibrary.bsky.social /#BHL please take this survey to ensure at keep meeting your needs! 🧪

Biodiversity Heritage Library@biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 3w ago

Help shape the future of BHL 🌱 As we begin to modernise the BHL platform, we’re inviting BHL users to share their experiences through a 3–5 minute survey. Your responses will directly inform our priorities, identify problems, guide improvements, and shape a better BHL experience: bit.ly/4fpc75D 🧪

So about that speech:🧵

Kids today have lost the fine art of bullshitting a 10 page paper from a single Funk & Wagnalls entry or from reading only the CliffsNotes. 🤣

New for #bhlsunday is a volume of Arkiv för zoologi which includes "Über einen neuen Riesenkäfer (Goliathus meleagris) aus Süd-Kongo. Nebst einer Revision der Gattung Goliathus (♂♂)" with some elegant drawings of goliath beetles www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/65710175 @biodivlibrary.bsky.social

Absolutely delighted to see the @biodivlibrary.bsky.social listed in the credits of the series "This is a Gardening Show" hosted by Zack Galifianakis! #ILoveBHL #thisisagardeningshow 🧪

BHL is featured in @theguardian.com's Age of Extinction series. The article highlights the extraordinary value of BHL and the urgent need to ensure it remains free and open into the future. Please read and share: www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧪 🌎 📖 🔗 🐟 💚

A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone

The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt

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Hey, every political party, maybe stop choosing candidates who have terrible track records for how they treat others. It would solve a lot of your and our problems.

Context Guessed That

Alt: Brooklyn Nine-Nine GIF showing Jake suggesting you could’ve guessed that from context.

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Oh hey i wrote that

Texas Observer@texasobserver.org · 2mo ago

“The history of Juneteenth shows that Texas, more than any state in the Union, has always embodied nearly every major aspect of the United States of America.”

Do vaccines save lives? Yep! Does antivaxx BS kill? Yep. 👇 Cervical cancer deaths for vaccinated young women fall to zero in England: study www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

Cervical cancer deaths for vaccinated young women fall to zero in England: study

The HPV vaccine for cervical cancer has reduced the risk of dying from the disease before the age of 30 in England to almost zero, the first study of its kind showed Thursday.

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What a fantastic piece in the @theguardian.com highlighting BHL’s value as well as it’s fragility. 🧪

Biodiversity Heritage Library@biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 2mo ago

BHL is featured in @theguardian.com's Age of Extinction series. The article highlights the extraordinary value of BHL and the urgent need to ensure it remains free and open into the future. Please read and share: www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧪 🌎 📖 🔗 🐟 💚

“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies-‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’” ― Kurt #Vonnegut

🚚 BHL’s servers are moving! Over the next 3 weeks, BHL’s technical infrastructure will move from the Smithsonian in Washington DC to the Field Museum in Chicago. BHL will remain online, with only a temporary change to #FullTextSearch in transit. More: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/06/bhl-... 🧪

Soon it’ll be time for graphic science book club with the Pollen Power campers @illinoisfunk.bsky.social 🧪📚

Every page in BHL represents libraries, museums, archives, scientists, volunteers & communities working together to preserve biodiversity knowledge 🧪 🌱 This #BiodiversityDay, help support the people & infrastructure behind open biodiversity knowledge. Donate: ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLat20

If we'd had the #TARDIS 🔑, @treiceratops.bsky.social & I would have gone back in time to secure/invest $$$ for BHL's future. Sadly we didn't, so we're still reliant on donations/grants to keep BHL going. 🧪 Donate now: ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLat20 @biodivlibrary.bsky.social #DrWho #London

Today’s self care. Chilling on my own in a fabulous speakeasy in Indy called Mel’s, sipping a Vesper, and unsubscribing from emails taking up space in my mailbox. This is the BEST.

Not only good advice and information for this set, but for EVERY workplace: “is not their show, it’s our show.” 💜💜 And the #1 rule, be nice to one another.

Sam Reich@samreich.bsky.social · 3mo ago

so without further ado, let's begin

It is WILD watching elites actively dismantle institutions and undermine our entire creative economy in favor of an overhyped grift and actually expecting everyone to not just sit down and take it, but be excited about it. Absolutely delusional.

Kasey Gifford@kaseygifford.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is Calarts. Arguably the best animation school in the US, its alumni include industry legends. The graduating class is booing school president Ravi Ranjan, he's been gutting creative programs and pushing Ai initiatives, corporatizing the school. His secretary is treating graduates like babies.

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 3mo ago

Trump and sons to be ‘forever’ exempt from tax audits ft.trib.al/ePJ9DiF

Since 1976, the Castlemaine Field Naturalists Club has documented its local biodiversity through its monthly newsletter, Castlemaine Naturalist. 🌱 Our latest #BHLat20 post celebrates citizen science, community, and 50 years of biodiversity observation: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/05/natu... 🧪

yeah Gutenberg is pretty great, and one of the other ones on there is apparently volunteer-produced, all-human audiobooks from the Gutenberg collection. the Biodiversity Heritage Library is another favorite of mine for public domain resources specifically in biology!

I distinctly remember, now ~decade ago, a campus-level “online learning” committee meeting where we (those with most OL experience) voted that each instructor could decide what learning mgmt system to use. (1/3)

Business Meeting Applause

Alt: Business Meeting Applause

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A good read here on how to communicate about science effectively. Useful for everyone from researchers to writers. TL;DR: let people know that science empowers them; helping them better live their values. They'll be more likely to hear you out. 🧪⚕️🔬🧬🛟 #SciComm jcom.sissa.it/article/pubi...

Does science communication have its goals wrong? From persuading science skeptics to promoting scientific empowerment

There is widespread concern that the scientific enterprise is under attack, fuelled by misinformation campaigns, anti-intellectual political leaders, and growing public skepticism. In response, many s...

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Our latest #BHLat20 anniversary blog post is very juicy. 🍎🍐🍇 #MuseumsVictoria Archivist Nik McGrath explores the Industrial & Technological Museum’s extraordinary wax fruit collection, and the stunning specimen register that documented it. Read more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/05/itm-...

Now's a great time to check out my piece from a few weeks ago, considering how resistance and revolution are imagined in MachineGames' Wolfenstein reboots, over at @vaultofculture.bsky.social: www.vaultofculture.com/vault/featur...

“We’re organizing for a revolution in America”: Remaking Resistance in Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014) and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (2017) — The Vault of Culture

In this feature, Shawn Gilmore argues that MachineGames’ soft reboot entries in the Wolfenstein franchise, set in a world overrun by Nazi machines of war, increasingly humble (both physically and em...

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