Kristina Vela Bisbee (Williams)
@kvbisbee.bsky.social
Librarian, media nerd, tech-curious. Off the clock gamer, wordsmith, plant mom // htx, nyc, pdx plus a whole lot in between
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...Explosion in Downtown Portland? WTF was that?
February 2, 2026 at 7:14 AM
...Explosion in Downtown Portland? WTF was that?
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One of my most cherished classes is my 18th century novels course where the primary learning objective is "learn how read long novels." We did a "couch to 5k" approach to attention span and note-taking.
My hot take about the “students cannot read whole novels / watch whole films / etc.” is that they can learn to do it. None of us are born with attention spans suited for long media. It is a learned skill and can be developed with practice.
January 31, 2026 at 4:23 PM
One of my most cherished classes is my 18th century novels course where the primary learning objective is "learn how read long novels." We did a "couch to 5k" approach to attention span and note-taking.
Look man, you don't just go into another person's house and tell them how to conduct themselves. When has that ever worked? At what cost?
January 3, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Look man, you don't just go into another person's house and tell them how to conduct themselves. When has that ever worked? At what cost?
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there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
August 10, 2024 at 3:21 PM
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
I'm beginning to think my 14 mo old is handing me books bc he thinks *I* want to read them over and over and over again
November 23, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I'm beginning to think my 14 mo old is handing me books bc he thinks *I* want to read them over and over and over again
Well this seems highly unlikely
November 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Well this seems highly unlikely
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What if libraries provided 1-page info sheets for job candidates? For a cataloger position, this might look like: we've been using [x] ILS for [x] many years, we're part of [x] consortia, our departmental strengths are [x, y, z], the projects on our horizon are [a, b, c]. 📚
November 3, 2025 at 12:28 AM
What if libraries provided 1-page info sheets for job candidates? For a cataloger position, this might look like: we've been using [x] ILS for [x] many years, we're part of [x] consortia, our departmental strengths are [x, y, z], the projects on our horizon are [a, b, c]. 📚
Please keep it up, Portland. No excuses!
October 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Please keep it up, Portland. No excuses!
Seriously. Please don't take the bait. No room to mess around here. All bets are off if this happens. Full stop.
Trump is going to continue to do everything in his power to try to incite violence somewhere. If Portland and Chicago don’t work, he’ll probably go to New York.
He’s looking for a reason to invoke the Insurrection Act.
He’s looking for a reason to invoke the Insurrection Act.
October 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Seriously. Please don't take the bait. No room to mess around here. All bets are off if this happens. Full stop.
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Not only does this story get a number of basic facts wrong, it doesn’t take time to actually explore why Portlanders elected these folks. Coming in with a pre-baked PDX story to fit a NYT narrative about NYC is harmful, especially at this moment.
What Happens When Socialists Are in Charge? Portland Offers a Glimpse.
www.nytimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Not only does this story get a number of basic facts wrong, it doesn’t take time to actually explore why Portlanders elected these folks. Coming in with a pre-baked PDX story to fit a NYT narrative about NYC is harmful, especially at this moment.
Shame on the Times
A few words on journalism, risk and what I actually said.
March 14, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Shame on the Times
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Speak out. Organize. Across all the silos. They are testing to see what they can get away with.
NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment.
Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too.
His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.
Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too.
His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.
BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Says Advocates
Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.
zeteo.com
March 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Speak out. Organize. Across all the silos. They are testing to see what they can get away with.
No footnotes? No thank you
an elderly woman wearing glasses and a blue jacket says nope
Alt: an elderly woman wearing glasses and a blue jacket says nope, from the TV show Golden Girls
media.tenor.com
February 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
No footnotes? No thank you
Yep, pretty much #workingmoms
Cheese Stick Wrappers Piled On Desk Like Shed Skins Littering Cobra Pit
January 31, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Yep, pretty much #workingmoms
This is what I post from
January 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This is what I post from
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Leonard Peltier is finally going home.
Biden commutes sentence for Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted in killing of FBI agents
President Joe Biden has commuted the sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents and is serving life in prison.
apnews.com
January 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Leonard Peltier is finally going home.
Social justice, community building, making money, exploring hobbies, whatever -- is NOT dependent on SPECIFIC apps to be successful. If users cannot untangle their preferences/ideologies/goals from a specific platform, then fully expect that platform to exploit this fact
January 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Social justice, community building, making money, exploring hobbies, whatever -- is NOT dependent on SPECIFIC apps to be successful. If users cannot untangle their preferences/ideologies/goals from a specific platform, then fully expect that platform to exploit this fact
"his biggest takeaway from the experience, and one that changed his view of the technology, is that AI lacks any kind of accountability for its actions" | www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
Why filmmaker Nenad Cicin-Sain fired his AI screenwriter | Semafor
ChatGPT said it would write a screenplay for filmmaker Nenad Cicin-Sain. It never got past the opening scene.
www.semafor.com
December 19, 2024 at 2:59 PM
"his biggest takeaway from the experience, and one that changed his view of the technology, is that AI lacks any kind of accountability for its actions" | www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
"THAT'S NEW YORK"
but also WOW 💀 🐀
but also WOW 💀 🐀
December 13, 2024 at 11:28 PM
"THAT'S NEW YORK"
but also WOW 💀 🐀
but also WOW 💀 🐀
Holiday season is here, along with necessary conversations with visiting family about vaccines for being around our infant | Six Childhood Scourges We’ve Forgotten About, Thanks to Vaccines www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...
Six Childhood Scourges We’ve Forgotten About, Thanks to Vaccines (Gift Article)
Most Americans, including doctors, have no memory of the devastating diseases that routinely threatened children until the 1960s.
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Holiday season is here, along with necessary conversations with visiting family about vaccines for being around our infant | Six Childhood Scourges We’ve Forgotten About, Thanks to Vaccines www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...
When I worked for the college newspaper, we would visit the regional press once a year. It was responsible for all printing within something like a 100 mile radius. And it was just like, two dudes in safety gear on an otherwise empty factory floor
FYI in Colorado; coloradocommunitymedia.com/2024/12/09/n...
National Trust for Local News starts printing press operations in Colorado - Colorado Community Media
Colorado Community Media’s 25 weekly and monthly newspapers are now being printed at The Trust Press, a commercial printing facility in northeast Denver launched by the National Trust for Local News t...
coloradocommunitymedia.com
December 13, 2024 at 9:17 AM
When I worked for the college newspaper, we would visit the regional press once a year. It was responsible for all printing within something like a 100 mile radius. And it was just like, two dudes in safety gear on an otherwise empty factory floor
Print newspapers are experiencing a nostalgic moment
It's pretty amazing being able to read something that you're slightly interested in without being served 20 versions of it daily for the next three months
December 13, 2024 at 9:04 AM
Print newspapers are experiencing a nostalgic moment