Neurospicy librarian; Olympic hopeful. Lazy, but bad at it. Very busy, so tell me why you’re DMing me if you expect a response. Content: obscure primary sources, #ALA. Mocking my horse, #GarbageMare, who I found in a trash heap.
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So Harrison appeared to get better on day 8 and then died on day 9. The treatment likely killed him, just like Washington’s bloodletting and Madison’s “let’s stick our fingers into the bullet holes and dig around in there.” Dying of cankles is dignified by comparison.
So doctors began purging Harrison. They induced vomiting and kept him under a ton of morphine and laudanum. The drugs masked the symptoms that might have clued the doctors into typhoid as a cause, while the regimen of vomiting likely resulted in perforated intestines.
Instead, he likely contracted enteric fever - typhoid - because the White House drinking water was collected immediately downstream of the D.C. sewage catchment. Doctors diagnosed him with pneumonia because of the idea that being in the cold is what causes pneumonia.
There’s something about when people in lofty positions die due to genuinely stupid reasons. With Harrison, we’re taught that he died of pneumonia after making everyone stand outside for hours listening to his inaugural speech. But he was only sick for a short time, and habituated to the cold.
I read somewhere that 47 is “dying of cankles” and now that’s become a fact in my head, along with Garfield dying of getting food shoved in his butt, and Harding dying of bad cherries, and W.H. Harrison dying because he accidentally drank poop water.
Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:
Last night, IT put a huge cart of computers in my office. Big enough to take up most of my space. Promised to come get it at 9:00 am cuz I had meetings. At noon, I had the cart chucked into a random library closet. I’ve forgotten which one. I won’t be available to unlock closet doors until Tuesday.
That is EXACTLY it! They want snack - or, for these girls, they want Second Snack!
It was 2006. The article was in the hard copy of issue 5,.retracted after publication. Issue 6 simply reassigned the page numbers. Digital issue 5 does not contain the article, because the page numbers belong to issue 6. In 2006, retractions weren't transparent. The author reworked it in 2007.
📚 A doozy of a reference request today! Invalid DOI. Looked up the article in the journal. It wasn't there. Page numbers assigned to another article in the next issue. Article cited by 24, so what happened and where is it?
And now #GarbageMare has come to supervise. Madam, these are your friends.
These aren’t even my chickens and yet they make demands
They should remake Legends of the Hidden Temple but still have millennials compete. Let's see some 40-year-olds see if they've gotten any better at obstacle courses.
Pretty good as long as you ignore that it’s beans! A decent gluten-free cake. Tastes like a peanut butter-honey sandwich but, like, cake.
@mgoodland.bsky.social was not aware this was a Star Wars movie
With the honey, honestly it is delicious even at the batter stage. But the peanuts and pintos processing stage just looks so disgusting!
I’m making a cake by request for a coworker. Alt text will tell you what the ingredients are. But you will not be happy with the reality that confronts you.
Oh, people watch it. We just hate it. It's the best hate-watch on TV. Nothing would make the Invasion fandom happier than to see the show get cancelled. (Other than the graphic death of Aneesha's children.)
Patron phrasing: “Can you send an email to my house?” is adorable. And then he asked how long it would take to get to his house.
Has anyone monitored the NYT building for a black mold infestation , because that’s my only explanation at this point
📚 Who would be interested in a program about what library data reporting looks like post-IPEDS? I’ve been working on post-IPEDS data reporting for three years and I’d love to talk about it now that it’s happening. #ACRL #ALA #Libraries
due to a mismatch between my parser and my analytic, I now have to take a break to buy emotional support pens.
Me: *swearing like a sailor, calling GitHub an asshole, crying* Him: Hey, it’s okay, you don’t have to code if you don’t want to. Me: But I’m enjoying myself!
From “When The Killer Calls”: He asked for a lawyer, so naturally we wonder what he was hiding. I wish the true crime genre would stop this! If you’re guilty, you need a lawyer. If you’re innocent, you REALLY need a lawyer.
Oh yeah sure, you can move my presentation forward a full hour without telling me. I totally don’t have back to back to back meetings today! That’s a great way to endear yourself during convocation prep! Also, I am now watching true crime shows for motivation and best practices.
Good morning, I’m certain that nobody here needs to know that sometimes horses grow teeth in their ears. But now it’s in your head anyway, and you’ll go “no way” and then Google it and it’s gonna be grosser than the bunnies with fatal face horn herpes.
Tried watching the Amityville docuseries, but their uncritical reliance on “ancient Indian burial ground” is pretty darn racist.
I feel both seen and read right now
On my birthday?! Whoever you are, you’re just lucky that my truck already looked like shit.
Maybe she’s become well-versed in Bird Law. She’s a Bird Lawyer.
Apologies for the poop in the photo but I want to know how #GarbageMare has acquired a third chicken?? Two was a mystery unto itself! She’s also got two hummingbirds now, an owl, a turkey, and several quail
THERE. ARE. FOUR. LIGHTS!
Wow. The way the judge asked about his credentials was very clear. There's no "interpretation" defense to be had.
Today's Italian lesson: C'erano quattro luci! 😂
Dził Łigai Si'án N'dee for anyone wondering the specific Nation.
Small gifts may belong to us, but big gifts, important gifts, can never become ours. We merely be one their caretakers, and the gift is incomplete until it’s passed on. ❤️
Today at work. An Apache healing/medicine ceremony, which I needed after this week’s stress. Recorded with permission.
Today at work someone handed me a bunch of organic beets! Just because!
I’m grateful that I have such heavy backup by my admin and by my community. I couldn’t imagine getting to do this in certain states.
My college has doubled down on DEI. Part of my job is to write information literacy curriculum, and I have a whole asynchronous class on how teachers can address sensitive topics in the classroom. How to start a debate club. How to turn the kid who wants to argue into an asset.
Seems legit and totally not a scam.
Doing this the other way around is also funny. “Donald Trump shares intimate kiss with Travis Kelce.” “Donald Trump wears custom spangled bodysuit.” “Donald Trump sues Justin Baldoni for sexual harassment.”
The preparation he put into every aspect of the game was inspiring to me as an athlete. He’d do grounder practice like it was just as important as slugging - because it was.
Stephen Fry is an interesting case as an evangelical atheist who is also friends with many religious figures, from vicars to a guy who is literally the head of a major religion.
we would do well to heed the hotstepper, the lyrical gangster.
My brain’s been autocorrecting for, I think, the preservation of my sanity. Every time I see a headline about Trump, my brain sees “Taylor Swift.” Taylor Swift fails to sign tariff deal with the UK. Taylor Swift wrote obscene birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein. Taylor Swift caught cheating at golf.
When I was a little girl, I had two dreams that were dashed pretty quick: I wanted to play for the Cubs, and I wanted to marry Ryne Sandberg. Neither worked out for obvious reasons. But it does feel like a part of the part of me that’s still that little girl has fallen away.
*opens Internet* “Here’s a tortoise having sex with a lawnmower!” *closes Internet*
not only is this a stupid content moderation for a research assistant, but I’ve already programmed content moderation evasion in my curriculum builder. I refuse to program unethical tech.
I know the kind of numbers our community’s One Book program does, but I’m still surprised at how every writers’ workshop and symposium is always a packed house. People don’t often think “Farmington” when it comes to New Mexico literature - but people here are avid writers as well as readers.
Today’s groundwork exercise is literally inspired by loss.jpeg
#GarbageMare has lately had the chickens wander over from clear across the ranch to spend time with her.
The Gadsden Flag there says “That’s my purse! I don’t know you!”
The final score: 1-1. A tie. Like soccer.
Work dress code tonight
I have so many turnips now! I’ve never eaten them before, but apparently my husband loves them. Going to do parmesan-encrusted roast turnips this weekend.
I am begging society to leave people alone when they are in deep concentration, instead of getting so intensely curious that they feel compelled to interrupt. “You look like you’re in deep concentration!” “NOT ANYMORE.”
Today at work we’re getting our first veggie boxes of the year! For $10 we get locally-grown veggies enough for a full week. Tomorrow we are having our employee Nerf shootout, and Saturday we’re having a family festival at our geology museum. The library Nerf team’s motto is “Read. Aim. Fire.”
“Robust, like I like my women” is perhaps not the most clear commit change reason I could have used, but it’s the one I went with.
Oooh yeah. I want to become a citizen of Malta for tax purposes so that nothing goes to the US ICE paramilitary, and then give the same amount I’d normally pay into causes our tax dollars USED to fund. Like buying medical debt collections and forgiving them, which John Oliver did a few years ago.
If you suddenly had $20M dollars and no worries in your life, what unusual experience do you want to have? I want to donate $5000 to an animal shelter in exchange for being in a wading pool filled with pointy-tailed kittens for like 30 minutes.
🎶AND I PRAY OH MY GOD DO I PRAY I PRAY EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR A REVOLUTION🎶
Same energy as “you’re ugly anyways” after you tell a creepy sex pest that you’re not interested.
I’ve seen every kind of brainrot genre in my time, but political brainrot is somehow the dumbest.
And I'm dying to talk about it! Once negotiations have finished, I probably can.
Very little else I can say given current negotiations but when it gets out, whoa.
Platform-agnostic, fully modular, customizable data analytics tasks with cultural competencies and human autonomy baked in. And it’s LLM-free.
I know, every mother thinks their children are beautiful. But the data analytics operating system I wrote is *beautiful.*
Oh, I’m familiar - but SQL had already destroyed my soul by the time I started screaming “who the fuck routed this to /bin/bash?” You never forget your first.
They won’t let me put it in my bio because it’s “unprofessional” so I’m putting it in here: Her favorite programming language is SQL because it’s a wee fragile ickle pissbaby with the durability of a puffball mushroom, so it feels really good when it works for an entire day.
Probably. Great way to bribe someone without it looking like a bribe: They sue you, you pay them a settlement.
Is there possibly a “Galactus v. Thanos” situation where they both fall into a black hole and are never heard from again?
Thank you!
Love it!
Quail roosters can crow - it sounds like a ray-gun from an old sci-fi movie. But they forget that they can crow, so they let loose, then get surprised, then look around to see who the hell is making that noise. Then he crows again. These are adorable birds, but not very bright.
Quail poop backwards. They can get constipated so they walk backwards while pooping to clear stuff out.
Quail have a sleeping posture that looks for all the world like they're dead. The best survival tactic they have is to not be noticed, so when they sleep, they are completely immobile and look like a rock. (Second best survival tactic is running while laying eggs.)
Quail are incredibly paranoid. They will get so frightened that they'll just run full-tilt into something and break their necks. I once saw a quail flock lay a huge line of eggs running from a thunderclap. It was super effective, the thunderclap didn't eat any of them.
Quail aren't great parents. They will lay eggs in whatever other nests they find on the ground, like, here you go. Sometimes people find quail chicks being raised by chickens just because quail mama forgot she had kids.
Quail lay a lot of eggs. Many of these eggs are laid as a distraction tactic so that a predator will go for the eggs and not the bird. Which is pretty smart, but if they get startled or upset, they might run around *poppoppoppop* laying eggs as they run and it's hilarious. Like reverse Pac-Man.
🧵 #GarbageMare has a lot of pets, and my least favorite is her hummingbird. But one of my favorites is her flock of quail. There's a male who fancies her, and he hangs around getting in the way while the rest of the flock chitter about. I'm not an expert, but I do have fun facts about quail!
Oh thanks! I was unclear on the pronouns and thought they were referring to “it” as a state of being. But looking back, yeah, it makes a point of existing outside gender.
"Uncooked turkey body" 😆
😭 A devastating ending in all the right ways. He made the right decision for him, and it's the first time he's really, truly viewed himself independently from humans.
Yep! The Amazon link is below, but it’s also on Apple Books, Overdrive, Ingram, etc. The marketing describes it as “Gilded Age meets Outlander meets Yellowstone, with a dash of sex and six-guns.” R.J. Striegel is Native American and some folks take issue with that, I guess!
The author I published got his very first piece of racist hatemail about Land Shadows! He’s arrived! (It’s at FirehawkDesigns on Insta, the post about the dark side of Manifest Destiny.) He says “Nice to hear from Ann Coulter’s last friend.” 🤣
Did everything except the Lovenox (I also have a platelet disorder that screws up heparin). My next steps should I ever fly again are to bring my leg compression sleeves, and a power bank that has an actual 15-amp outlet.
The arena is used today as a temporary quarantine/rest stop for a herd on their way from Idaho to Oklahoma. Their fuel pump gave out and we’re one of the only places known to give shelter and care to entire herds for a reasonable price.
This morning: Me: Does #GarbageMare always (NEIGH!!!!) yell at you like that? Barn Owner: Yup. Even (NEEIIIIGH!) if she already has food. She’s just (NEIIIIIGGGGHHH!) yelling and yelling…
When we lose charging cables, it’s because Zuckerberg stole them and is weaving them all into a massive cocoon. It’s the only way he can reach his final form.
Accurate
Doing squat rack this morning to prep for training in clean-and-jerk. I wasn’t expecting the squat rack to be so relaxing! I could just zone out and do squats for hours.
When it sent me the email that I'd removed it from Zoom, it also had a link to delete my account. I never created a Read.AI account, so first I had to sign up for one, and then delete it. Hopefully this will nuke it from my Outlook.
Correction: This isn't a part of Copilot officially, but Microsoft has been pushing it very heavily via 365 and Teams. That's how I got this crap on my system: It was pushed via Outlook.
Found something deep in the documentation: To remove from Zoom, go to marketplace.zoom.us/user/installed when logged into Zoom, and remove Read.AI.
Takeaway: It's fun for me to dunk on comically bad AI like Google Gemini. But Read.AI is a downright sinister piece of work. It's badly programmed with no user experience (UX) in mind. It's invasive. It violates privacy laws. And it's almost impossible to remove. Institutions need to block it. Now.
6. Removal/Opt-Out: I have found instructions from Microsoft about how to remove Read.AI permissions, and all of them are inaccurate. The menus don't exist, or Read.AI doesn't show up on Microsoft 365 like it should, or I need admin access (which many school/healthcare employees don't have).
5. Privacy laws: Read.AI's invasive approach pings my FERPA/COPPA/HIPAA compliance radar something awful. Imagine you're a Title IX advocate (as I am) and you get an emailed summary of a complaint from a student. Read.AI digests that email. It won't anonymize it. This is a privacy disaster.
