Professionally Nosy
@professionallynosy.bsky.social
Librarian/Archivist, knitter, possibly 2 kids in a trench coat. She/her. New York
Flashes @ profeshnosy.bsky.social
Flashes @ profeshnosy.bsky.social
This is the set up for a great album by The Decemberists
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
More than 400 leather hobnailed boots, thought to date back to the 19th Century, have been found.
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December 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This is the set up for a great album by The Decemberists
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
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i had to drop what i was doing to make this
December 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
i had to drop what i was doing to make this
Student loan servicer: Hey, you missed 3 payments
Me: but I have auto pay and you took the full amounts
Student Loans: correct
Me: and I actually made *extra* payments these last few months
Student Loans: you sure did! yay!
Me: so...how is that possible?
Student Loans: PAYMENT PAST DUE!
Me: but I have auto pay and you took the full amounts
Student Loans: correct
Me: and I actually made *extra* payments these last few months
Student Loans: you sure did! yay!
Me: so...how is that possible?
Student Loans: PAYMENT PAST DUE!
December 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Student loan servicer: Hey, you missed 3 payments
Me: but I have auto pay and you took the full amounts
Student Loans: correct
Me: and I actually made *extra* payments these last few months
Student Loans: you sure did! yay!
Me: so...how is that possible?
Student Loans: PAYMENT PAST DUE!
Me: but I have auto pay and you took the full amounts
Student Loans: correct
Me: and I actually made *extra* payments these last few months
Student Loans: you sure did! yay!
Me: so...how is that possible?
Student Loans: PAYMENT PAST DUE!
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The Weissand effect
December 22, 2025 at 10:42 PM
The Weissand effect
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And that digitising requires highly-skilled staff (often wildly underpaid) to do a lot of work in arranging, describing and preserving both the OG documents and digital surrogates. Nothing works without good metadata & long-term thinking.
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
December 22, 2025 at 6:43 AM
And that digitising requires highly-skilled staff (often wildly underpaid) to do a lot of work in arranging, describing and preserving both the OG documents and digital surrogates. Nothing works without good metadata & long-term thinking.
Email: let’s meet before end of year to discuss an exciting new project!
Me: are we in a holiday movie? Because it is December 22 and this has big villain of a holiday film vibes.
Me: are we in a holiday movie? Because it is December 22 and this has big villain of a holiday film vibes.
December 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Email: let’s meet before end of year to discuss an exciting new project!
Me: are we in a holiday movie? Because it is December 22 and this has big villain of a holiday film vibes.
Me: are we in a holiday movie? Because it is December 22 and this has big villain of a holiday film vibes.
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You Attract What You Put Out* Caveat Frog
December 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
You Attract What You Put Out* Caveat Frog
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“It's an invisible need... an invisible center... helping invisible people. Meanwhile, I'm haunted by the invisible impact of the insatiable greed”
@ricksteves.bsky.social I love you
@ricksteves.bsky.social I love you
December 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
“It's an invisible need... an invisible center... helping invisible people. Meanwhile, I'm haunted by the invisible impact of the insatiable greed”
@ricksteves.bsky.social I love you
@ricksteves.bsky.social I love you
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The most brutal way of telling someone they’re a few sandwiches short of a picnic that I’ve heard in French is t’es pas la truite la plus oxygénée de la rivière. It means “you’re not the most oxygenated trout in the river.”
* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
December 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The most brutal way of telling someone they’re a few sandwiches short of a picnic that I’ve heard in French is t’es pas la truite la plus oxygénée de la rivière. It means “you’re not the most oxygenated trout in the river.”
* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
If I get a sudden influx of requests from a publication work doesn't have, like a good librarian, I will look at cost of subscribing.
If you require an email address to get the most basic subscription price info, opt me in to all 40 of your email newsletters *before* giving me that price, well
If you require an email address to get the most basic subscription price info, opt me in to all 40 of your email newsletters *before* giving me that price, well
Floral Bonnet - Firefly GIF
Alt: Floral Bonnet - Firefly GIF
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December 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
If I get a sudden influx of requests from a publication work doesn't have, like a good librarian, I will look at cost of subscribing.
If you require an email address to get the most basic subscription price info, opt me in to all 40 of your email newsletters *before* giving me that price, well
If you require an email address to get the most basic subscription price info, opt me in to all 40 of your email newsletters *before* giving me that price, well
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
Proud Luddite. Now lemme give enoch’s hammer a swing.
"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.
December 19, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Proud Luddite. Now lemme give enoch’s hammer a swing.
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Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly. We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."
December 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly. We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."
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Strippers are now the No. 1 donor of toys to children's hospital in Portland.
This year, they broke their own record raising over $183,000 for Doernbecher Children’s Hospital having a successful Tata for Toys once again.
This year, they broke their own record raising over $183,000 for Doernbecher Children’s Hospital having a successful Tata for Toys once again.
December 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Strippers are now the No. 1 donor of toys to children's hospital in Portland.
This year, they broke their own record raising over $183,000 for Doernbecher Children’s Hospital having a successful Tata for Toys once again.
This year, they broke their own record raising over $183,000 for Doernbecher Children’s Hospital having a successful Tata for Toys once again.
I have rolled my eyes so many times today I have a headache
December 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I have rolled my eyes so many times today I have a headache
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This *wild* story of an AI vending machine is worth reading, but this part—where the journalists convince Claudius it’s a communist vending machine, cannot help but recall Fredric Brown’s 1942 story "Etaoin Shrdlu"—in which a sentient linotype machine sets Marx in type & becomes a communist
December 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This *wild* story of an AI vending machine is worth reading, but this part—where the journalists convince Claudius it’s a communist vending machine, cannot help but recall Fredric Brown’s 1942 story "Etaoin Shrdlu"—in which a sentient linotype machine sets Marx in type & becomes a communist
Another 15,000 hours have elapsed.
It is Thursday.
It is Thursday.
At this point I am making an advent calendar counting down this week. Which is somehow 30,000 hours long already and it is only Wednesday.
December 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Another 15,000 hours have elapsed.
It is Thursday.
It is Thursday.
Every group chat in the last few days has been
Person: I kinda wanna try doing this thing but omg I have so many hobbies and projects in progress. Also the cost
Rest of the chat: Do! it! Do! It! *sends something to make it even more tempting*
Repeat
Person: I kinda wanna try doing this thing but omg I have so many hobbies and projects in progress. Also the cost
Rest of the chat: Do! it! Do! It! *sends something to make it even more tempting*
Repeat
a cartoon character in a red devil costume is holding a trident and says rocks .
ALT: a cartoon character in a red devil costume is holding a trident and says rocks .
media.tenor.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Every group chat in the last few days has been
Person: I kinda wanna try doing this thing but omg I have so many hobbies and projects in progress. Also the cost
Rest of the chat: Do! it! Do! It! *sends something to make it even more tempting*
Repeat
Person: I kinda wanna try doing this thing but omg I have so many hobbies and projects in progress. Also the cost
Rest of the chat: Do! it! Do! It! *sends something to make it even more tempting*
Repeat
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A Dutch person always appears to say “that’s not true, we only ate their livers” and I love that they think that makes it okay, more of that mentality please.
Look all I’m saying is the Dutch have eaten one of their politicians AND his brother before. We need to catch up.
December 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A Dutch person always appears to say “that’s not true, we only ate their livers” and I love that they think that makes it okay, more of that mentality please.
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by the standards of real nerds I'm only "aw he's trying" at computers but by the standards of my coworkers in healthcare I am a god among men
my secret trick is to read the instructions on the screen and do what they say
my secret trick is to read the instructions on the screen and do what they say
December 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
by the standards of real nerds I'm only "aw he's trying" at computers but by the standards of my coworkers in healthcare I am a god among men
my secret trick is to read the instructions on the screen and do what they say
my secret trick is to read the instructions on the screen and do what they say
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The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Sources say there are multiple fights happening with the holiday “party” “planning” “committee” at work.
December 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Sources say there are multiple fights happening with the holiday “party” “planning” “committee” at work.
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I showed these to my husband last night and he made me laugh with this one: "He looks like he's in a lover's spat with the lamp and the lamp is winning."
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Marco Rubio just straight up looks like a sad divorced man at a Motel 6.
December 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I showed these to my husband last night and he made me laugh with this one: "He looks like he's in a lover's spat with the lamp and the lamp is winning."
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