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grysbok

@ grysbok @lemmy.sdf.org

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I'm a systems librarian in an academic library. I moved over the Lemmy after Rexxit 2023. I've had an account on sdf.org since 2009 (under a different username), and so I chose this instance out of a sense of nostalgia. I do all sorts of fiber arts (knitting, cross stitch, sewing) and love dogs.

  • TikTok Appoints Ex-IDF Solider as its 'Hate Speech Manager'

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  • Older millennial, and ditto. It's mostly older, with a smattering of 30-somethings with their kids

  • I wonder how many people throughout history have confused Eye Floaters with ghosts, UFOs, or other paranormal phenomena

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  • I swapped my desktop computer to night mode so my floater is less annoying.

    My optician said I'd stop noticing it in 6 weeks. That was 6 months ago.

  • Number of people who work for the US Federal Government

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  • I want to see an overlay of 2025 levels

  • Number of people who work for the US Federal Government

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  • Yep. And the TVA is the go-to example when folks in the region talk about eminent domain. Whole towns disappeared under dam waters.

  • Trump Says He’ll Fire Labor Statistics Head After Weak Jobs Data

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  • I charge twice whatever this guy charges, but I won't diagnose you with cancer. You can trust me because I don't sell cancer cures.

  • Considering an open relationship? Don’t read this Reddit forum

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  • Agreed with one nitpicky caveat:

    I talk about my relationship all the time on the internet. In closed forums.

    Like, my trans librarian discord server knows I have a good relationship with my partner and I'm happy with my partner's partner. So does my private 'friends' discord server--that server includes my partner and metamore.

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  • You'd think that, but I've had the command "get a tan for God's sake you're transparent" used as an insult against me. You can be too white for white supremacists.

  • 99% effective HIV prevention treatment (2 shots annually) approved by FDA.

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  • ... even less if you also use a condom.

  • “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for”, President Trump says

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  • My library, you have to check out books on reserve from the circulation desk. They're for in-library use only, 3 or 6 hours at a time, and if you take it into a study room and scan the whole thing with your phone we saw nothing.

    We don't like the constant churn of textbooks, either. They eat into our budget. We really appreciate when a professor lends us their personal copies of a textbook for us to keep on reserve. We also try and steer instructions to Open Educational Resources (OER), which are available for free.

    Wealth disparity sucks and shouldn't result in different access to education.

  • So proud!

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  • So, what's the latest topic you want to info-dump about? I'm curious and invite an info-dump.

  • So proud!

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  • Fair enough. I'm a tad prickly about it because folks assume sometimes and it gets tiring.

  • So proud!

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  • There was no "she" in my story.

    Edit: and we just had a test of the system. I got home bubbling about updating Anubis and the new config options, then asked "would you like to hear more?" and he was like "sounds like you had a good day, no thank you" then flopped face-first onto the couch.

  • So proud!

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  • Yep! I even use that tone of voice with him.

  • So proud!

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  • My partner has taught/trained me to ask "would you like to hear more?" before I info-dump on him.

    Example: Me: "at work today I've been playing around with configuration settings for Primo VE, specifically the search scopes... Um... would you like to hear more?"

    Response: "I'm glad you have an interesting problem at work and no, no thank you."

  • fix(blog/v1.21.1): we avoid breaking changes · TecharoHQ/anubis@1cb1352

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  • Advice!

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  • I've thought for a while that happiness is the removal of major stressors.

  • Would you rather unionize or buy some videogames?

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  • No, you can look up what property someone owns, generally in the town or county records. It's just if you own a property there's a good chance it's also your home.

    I didn't get these mailings back when I rented. Confounding factor: I was in a different union. Same employer, though.

    So, you can look up the private address of most homeowners in the states I've lived. Usually these records are online, sometimes not. If you want to obfuscate your ownership of a property there's some weird stuff you can do with having your home owned by a corporation and then you own the corporation or something. I don't think that's commonly done.

  • Would you rather unionize or buy some videogames?

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  • I'm a public employee, so my name is a public record. I own a home, so my address is a public record.

    I'm not sure how they know which union I'm a member of, though. There's at least 3 on campus.

  • Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication

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  • I work at a state school and from what I see we're mostly worried about maintaining enrollment, student retention, and what to do if ICE visits (official campus guidance is call campus police, say nothing, and you don't know anyone's immigration status and even if you did that's private student information.)

    Maybe fancier schools are different.