fun new development at work: students aggressively arguing with me when i try to explain to them that the library is not the bookstore (and therefore i cannot help them with their textbook order)
valerie
@vfo.northsky.social
Academic librarian @CUNY ~ Web Services + Media Literacy | AuDHD | In my Molly Grue era | GLAMS feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rea3amxwqfkfzhilivubtrib/feed/aaabfz334lr66
"Dogs can't play basketball well. But consider, too, that some humans also can't. Isn't it about time we let dogs in the NBA? There's nothing in the rule book that says otherwise"
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · yesterdayHow can you argue with logic like this.
@savasavasava.myatproto.social hey I’ve been asking around and it just now occurred to me you are probably a good person to ask directly: do you have a/any media literacy textbook/s you could recommend? I’m teaching info lit again at the library, and I want to integrate more media literacy.
I’m learning that the brain is *actually* still developing until age 32. And given what we know about perimenopause and what it does to your brain, I just want all the ladies in their 30s to just REALLY enjoy that decade.
The fact that normies think democratic socialism is the far left makes conversations hard.
I want to live in a place where Nazis are more nervous being out in public than trans people
So the NYPD saved a man from jumping off a bridge by shooting him. To death. Grape job, Barnes.
Um, LA Gear is making these again?! In adult sizes?!!! AND THEY’RE ON SALE❓‼️❗️🤯
Re: 2026 Halloween costumes, OLD: Weird Barbie BOLD: Weird Particle
WAKE UP, THE INQUISITION JUST DROPPED A NEW SIN www.americamagazine.org/news/2026/09...
Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation and the Creator’ in new document
The more than 29,000 word text calls for ecological conversion due to “sin against creation and the Creator.”
americamagazine.org
I went to the gym today so I can have a glass of wine and some great British pottery throwdown you can’t stop me
y'all when peter cullen died i forgot to tell you about how optimus prime was my first crush
Gizmodo@gizmodo.com · last wk.Peter Cullen's Final Performance as Optimus Prime Is a Love Letter to 'Transformers' Fans
Shoutout to the poll workers holding it down today. During a time when the right to vote feels under attack like never before and public trust in our elections is under fire, these public servants are showing up with integrity to make sure their neighbors get to make their voices heard.
Mamdani has announced that NYC restaurants can have outdoor dining all year round. This is actually a big public health win because fall and winter is when respiratory virus cases surge. Dining outdoors helps reduce the risk of disease spread.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · last wk.Rain or shine, sun or snow, you can now break bread outdoors year-round. Thanks to @cmrestler.bsky.social’s work, our favorite restaurants will no longer have to tear down and rebuild their setups each year. It’s official: Outdoor dining is here to stay.
oh no! here i am to tell you that you can hate true crime as a genre BUT it has greatly expanded to include all kinds of stories of oppression and mistreatment and injustice! OH NO!!!! EVERYTHING, IT TURNS OUT, IS COMPLICATED AND REQUIRES A NUANCED UNDERSTANDING!!!!! OH NOESSSS
📣 My lab at NYU currently has two open post-doc positions. We are interested in understanding perception, thinking, and hallucinations. We employ a range of cutting-edge techniques in human neuroscience (e.g., 7T fMRI, MEG, iEEG/DES) and computational approaches (e.g., DNN modeling).
ok now that i'm done with TMS i gotta get on HRT because my level of crankiness with the entire world is just not sustainable. i just want to break things. often over peoples' heads.
lololol someone just called to sell me on a product & they were excited touting its AI features and I cut him off and said, "yeah we're not looking to introduce genAI products into our workflow at all right now, so i'm afraid that's an immediate disqualifier for me." the disappointment in his voice!
Re-upping now that the fall semester has started up again!
valerie@vfo.northsky.social · last mo.I need to purchase a super up-to-date and ON POINT media literacy textbook, but they are all very, very expensive, so I can only get one. I don’t suppose any of you have one in particular you’d recommend?
I need to purchase a super up-to-date and ON POINT media literacy textbook, but they are all very, very expensive, so I can only get one. I don’t suppose any of you have one in particular you’d recommend?
the library is freezing and everyone is annoyed because nothing is working and we are not, in fact, the bookstore
it's only the second day of the semester and i have not been able to help any students with any of their problems and it's making me SAD.
Sad Walk Of Shame
ALT: Sad Walk Of Shame
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“Lost media” no longer! I finally got permission to upload “AL’S BRAIN,” an 11-minute educational 3-D film attraction which ran at the Orange County and Western Washington fairs, and hasn’t been seen publicly since 2009. You can watch the whole thing here: youtu.be/2xujU87ZHt4
The concept of race is stupid and mean and ruining everything, part 1 million: revealnews.org/podcast/race...
A “race equation” baked into a standard medical test is hurting Black patients, but most hospitals are still using it
A standard medical test with racist origins is cutting off Black patients from needed treatments. Why do hospitals still use this harmful test today?
revealnews.org