Mackenzie (he/his/him)
@catmetamackenzie.bsky.social
Metadata librarian & games enthusiast. Ever learning & growing, views are mine but sometimes I'm wrong.
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mcdonalds deleted their ai ad, bullying works
December 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
mcdonalds deleted their ai ad, bullying works
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We’re just innocent men
December 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM
We’re just innocent men
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I'm not even an MtG guy but MtG being Cardboard Fortnite now is such a bummer.
December 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I'm not even an MtG guy but MtG being Cardboard Fortnite now is such a bummer.
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No matter what you call it, documentation is essential for understanding and using data. Whether you're rescuing data or creating your own, be sure you have captured all of the relevant information!
(Yes, these are all different; no, not every dataset needs each of these)
(Yes, these are all different; no, not every dataset needs each of these)
December 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
No matter what you call it, documentation is essential for understanding and using data. Whether you're rescuing data or creating your own, be sure you have captured all of the relevant information!
(Yes, these are all different; no, not every dataset needs each of these)
(Yes, these are all different; no, not every dataset needs each of these)
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caves of qud
this is the obvious correct answer and I do not know why you would buy water from these goop merchants
I thought the research was interesting, even if the conclusions it came to were unsurprising. What bugs me is that it's so busy trying to wring Meaning out of the information that it never gets around to pointing out that you can just buy the concentrate yourself and add your own water
December 8, 2025 at 7:48 AM
caves of qud
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'This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.'
-Aaron Bushnell
-Aaron Bushnell
Israel hunted a 70 year old lady down with a gun drone and then hoovered above to make sure she bled out next to her dying son. They both join almost 1,000 Palestinians Israel has massacred or maimed in its genocide during the "ceasefire".
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
Israeli drone chases and kills elderly woman in Gaza as attacks continue
At least seven Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks as military pushes deeper beyond truce demarcation line.
www.aljazeera.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
'This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.'
-Aaron Bushnell
-Aaron Bushnell
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Once again asking for Zotero help. Trying to do Chicago footnotes. I have 18th ed notes & bib selected, but it will only do shortened notes. Same problem both from google docs zotero connector and zotero desktop app. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Once again asking for Zotero help. Trying to do Chicago footnotes. I have 18th ed notes & bib selected, but it will only do shortened notes. Same problem both from google docs zotero connector and zotero desktop app. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.
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A society banning scholarship and creating government-mandated youth organizations
New: Gov. Greg Abbott and Turning Point USA are launching a partnership to create chapters of the right-wing organization on every Texas high school campus.
Abbott says Turning Point USA will expand in Texas schools
Republican officials in Oklahoma and Florida have also launched plans to expand the presence of the conservative youth organization founded by Charlie Kirk.
www.texastribune.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
A society banning scholarship and creating government-mandated youth organizations
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sometimes i think human history is just a constant cycle of insecure men thinking wealth and power would address the void in their souls, then getting increasingly rageful/reactionary/nihilistic as each passing year shows this is not true and as the threat of death becomes increasingly less abstract
December 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
sometimes i think human history is just a constant cycle of insecure men thinking wealth and power would address the void in their souls, then getting increasingly rageful/reactionary/nihilistic as each passing year shows this is not true and as the threat of death becomes increasingly less abstract
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anything that they are "using against migrants" is
1) being used upon anyone they feel like including citizens
2) is enough to warrant action right now
1) being used upon anyone they feel like including citizens
2) is enough to warrant action right now
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
anything that they are "using against migrants" is
1) being used upon anyone they feel like including citizens
2) is enough to warrant action right now
1) being used upon anyone they feel like including citizens
2) is enough to warrant action right now
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If you have a disability, be proud of how far you get in spite of it. Take it easy on yourself and remember that you are always doing your best. It may not always feel like you are, but you are doing the best you can in that moment.
December 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
If you have a disability, be proud of how far you get in spite of it. Take it easy on yourself and remember that you are always doing your best. It may not always feel like you are, but you are doing the best you can in that moment.
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Bluesky’s head of trust & safety responding with a sarcastic image macro to a woman upset her husband was kidnapped by ICE is embarrassingly unprofessional & cruel behavior.
that account was then banned by Bluesky Trust & Safety. horrendously poor community management. what purpose does this serve?
that account was then banned by Bluesky Trust & Safety. horrendously poor community management. what purpose does this serve?
December 8, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Bluesky’s head of trust & safety responding with a sarcastic image macro to a woman upset her husband was kidnapped by ICE is embarrassingly unprofessional & cruel behavior.
that account was then banned by Bluesky Trust & Safety. horrendously poor community management. what purpose does this serve?
that account was then banned by Bluesky Trust & Safety. horrendously poor community management. what purpose does this serve?
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How neoliberal-brained do you have to be think that people will want to categorise the people they know and work with as either Premium or Standard?
December 8, 2025 at 10:48 AM
How neoliberal-brained do you have to be think that people will want to categorise the people they know and work with as either Premium or Standard?
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Senior management may not realise this but my contacts within the social and affective community of open research will not remain my contacts if I unilaterally give away their contact details to an institution that wants to send them self-serving surveys.
December 8, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Senior management may not realise this but my contacts within the social and affective community of open research will not remain my contacts if I unilaterally give away their contact details to an institution that wants to send them self-serving surveys.
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I refuse to reduce my relationships within my community to currency for further metricisation of the university.
December 8, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I refuse to reduce my relationships within my community to currency for further metricisation of the university.
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Once again, my university is asking us to enter our "professional contacts" into their centralised database so they that they can be contacted as part of improving university survey results. Absolutely not.
December 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Once again, my university is asking us to enter our "professional contacts" into their centralised database so they that they can be contacted as part of improving university survey results. Absolutely not.
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Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
December 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
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British Library staff are on strike from the 8th to the 12th December 2025. Full solidarity with them, please don't cross the physical or digital picket lines. I wrote a little in my latest piece on the Library about how poor senior management has driven the staff to this position.
💥New: Don’t rely on government to save the British Library
✍️ @simonxix.com
#BritishLibrary #HigherEducation #ResearchInfrastructure
✍️ @simonxix.com
#BritishLibrary #HigherEducation #ResearchInfrastructure
Don’t rely on government to save the British Library - Impact of Social Sciences
Following a catastrophic hack British Library remains in crisis. Can it recover by refocusing on the people, skills and systems that enable it to function?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
December 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM
British Library staff are on strike from the 8th to the 12th December 2025. Full solidarity with them, please don't cross the physical or digital picket lines. I wrote a little in my latest piece on the Library about how poor senior management has driven the staff to this position.
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How about to be published? My book is out in early 2026 and follows the political legacy of the John Birch Society from the 40s to it culmination in Project 2025. Conspiracy theories, Christian nationalism, politics, and wealthy powerful men.
December 7, 2025 at 11:45 PM
How about to be published? My book is out in early 2026 and follows the political legacy of the John Birch Society from the 40s to it culmination in Project 2025. Conspiracy theories, Christian nationalism, politics, and wealthy powerful men.
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The 19th century is so back, baby!
"Srinivasan himself has started a 'Network School' on an artificial island near Singapore, where techno-optimists can work their day jobs remotely while living in a hotel together and learning how to 'bootstrap'... a new society [ — ] 'society-as-a-service'"
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?
www.ft.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The 19th century is so back, baby!
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Welp, there went all our potential international attendees of in-person US library & information science conferences: 📚
Trump administration moves to deny visas to factcheckers and content moderators
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump administration moves to deny visas to factcheckers and content moderators
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump administration moves to deny visas to factcheckers and content moderators
Action detailed in a state department memo directs officials to deny visas to any applicant engaging in ‘censorship’
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Welp, there went all our potential international attendees of in-person US library & information science conferences: 📚
Trump administration moves to deny visas to factcheckers and content moderators
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump administration moves to deny visas to factcheckers and content moderators
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Studios lament the loss of "company men" without looking at the differences in the ways Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were treated.
You get "company men" by being good to the men who work for the company.
You get "company men" by being good to the men who work for the company.
From Jack Kirby to Steve Gerber to Alan Moore to pretty everybody else who ever worked for DC or Marvel, "Work for Hire" is one of the biggest con jobs ever pulled.
December 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Studios lament the loss of "company men" without looking at the differences in the ways Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were treated.
You get "company men" by being good to the men who work for the company.
You get "company men" by being good to the men who work for the company.
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here are Ranganathan’s 5 Laws of Library Science.
1. Books are for use.
2. Every reader their book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the reader.
5. A library is a growing organism.
they can be read as a directive for technical efficiency. i read them as an ethical commitment. 📚
1. Books are for use.
2. Every reader their book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the reader.
5. A library is a growing organism.
they can be read as a directive for technical efficiency. i read them as an ethical commitment. 📚
December 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
here are Ranganathan’s 5 Laws of Library Science.
1. Books are for use.
2. Every reader their book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the reader.
5. A library is a growing organism.
they can be read as a directive for technical efficiency. i read them as an ethical commitment. 📚
1. Books are for use.
2. Every reader their book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the reader.
5. A library is a growing organism.
they can be read as a directive for technical efficiency. i read them as an ethical commitment. 📚