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Hello mastodon people! I'm Doc, 30-something librarian in SoCal. Same username on Dreamwidth/Twitter, if you'd like to visit or follow me there.

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Baby-sitting as a favor for a coworker and their little dog is desperate for me to pet it for the next 4 hours 😭

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wtf AND there's a new Tamara Allen book, the next Hexworld book is coming out next month, a whole BUNCH of new books that I didn't know about. Downside to not using Goodreads any more is that I don't get told about new books I guess D: D: D:

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KJ Charles has another new book coming January 30th???? Why do I keep missing these?! Preordering for sure wtf

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A mom came into the library today wanting to know ALL ABOUT Pokémon. Her 1st grader had just gotten into the card game & she wanted to be able to talk with him about it. 😊

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Punk AnarchoFuuma  

So, I recently decided to go through every #BBS on the Telnet BBS Guide site list.

My plan is to see which ones are still up and which ones aren't. Also document the BBSes themselves - as in, what games they run, if there's a community, what software you can download and if you can speak to the admin and lots of other things!

I would like to interview every admin I can, whether over IRC, email or whatever.

If you know where I can find more BBSes, or you run one, just reply to this msg!

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Avid Life Haver  

Serious recommendation: if you like solarpunk, look into AfroFuturism. It's been around -way- longer, and tbh, solarpunk was probably inspired by it. The aesthetics and ideals often overlap, and there's way more lore and fiction to read! Also, you'll be giving a platform to people that have great ideas and need the attention.

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So on the one hand, I have to learn how to drive & get a drivers license as a requirement of my librarian job. On the other, I am VERY SCared o f driving 💀

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KelsonV  

An interesting look back at the early days of social media & how conventions of blogs, likes, comments, followers etc. evolved. It's a round table discussion with people who built and ran LiveJournal, Diaryland and Open Diary in the late 1990s.

glitch.com/culture/function-ep

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Uh-oh, astolat made a bookmarklet for signal boosting posts, and people are calling it reblogging in the comments. We just had a whole kerfluffle about that last week! D:

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New collection of links (both fandom and non-fandom) up at my journal: doctorsidrat.dreamwidth.org/12

I also highlighted an old school fan site which started in 1996!

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Of interest to peeps on Local: owlmoose.dreamwidth.org/826073

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Okay it’s been like 8 years since I last really used LiveJournal and I STILL have to stop myself from typing LJ-cut in the DW cut tag 😩

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Very good day at work so far!
1. Baby storytime went really well
2. Annoying coworker got fired.
3. Free cookies in break room. 🎉

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Do you think a vampire should smell like
a) old blood
b) dead body
c) halitosis
d) junior mints
e) bodywash

Honestly I would prefer the junior mints option

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With a paid Dreamwidth account I can SEARCH FOR MYSELF and peep on who's linking to my posts! Ha! I mean, this is sure to backfire in some way in the future (if someone does not LIKE my posts??? and says mean things????) but for now it's fun

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Am reading a paranormal romance where the love interest is constantly described as smelling/tasting of mint and chocolate and I just realized.

Junior mints.

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Finally found the actual article link but it’s behind a paywall of course jfc: thetimes.co.uk/article/from-hy

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This wellness article read like an American Psycho pastiche. Wtf are these people doing to themselves???

twitter.com/sbl1976/status/108

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Any speakers willing to a tweet for one of my DW friends? It's (probably)
about the new Fruits Basket !

umadoshi.dreamwidth.org/120886

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I definitely feel the pull of a nostalgic version of the internet (& the 1990s) BUT I am also trying to hardcore resist the commercialization of that nostalgia. I’d much rather MAKE a thing that eased that desire— or revive something that’s been stagnant for a while. That’s partly why I made my website & why I’m so interested in reviving/recreating communities on DW

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