@2c46aa33 Yep it was a very brief illness as these things go. Sick for about four days and then did not get a Paxlovid rebound. Very lucky. Thanks for your well wishes.
The woman who gave me Covid (at the library, a few weeks back) stopped in. She's masked up, and had a fairly rough time of it. My time was not as rough, though no picnic. She did the right thing, called the library when she found out she tested positive which allowed me to stay home and not infect other people while I waited to see if I tested positive. She has asthma and is always coughing this time of year so didn't know she was symptomatic. I think it made her feel better to know I was ok.
@c5668136 What I've heard through the rumor mill is that the redesign is really for their enterprise customers and people who maybe are in a lot of hobby slacks or a few small chatty slacks are not their target demographic. Which, of course, totally shows. I'm in maybe six slacks on a daily basis and half have changed to the new design and it's breaking my brain. Give them feedback about how bad it is for you!
Printed out some Borges short stories from the New Yorker from 1967 for a patron. It's always SO COOL to see someone experiencing Borges for the first time. Does our library have a single thing by Borges? It does not.
The woman who gave me Covid (at the library, a few weeks back) stopped in. She's masked up, and had a fairly rough time of it. My time was not as rough, though no picnic. She did the right thing, called the library when she found out she tested positive which allowed me to stay home and not infect other people while I waited to see if I tested positive. She has asthma and is always coughing this time of year so didn't know she was symptomatic. I think it made her feel better to know I was ok.
Just checked out a State Parks pass to longtime town residents who haven't used their library card in so long it's not in our current system. I cajoled them into signing up for a new one feeling all smart because it's Library Card Sign Up Month. Checked out the pass to them, said "Have a good time" They said they are going to a funeral there. 😬
Printed out some Borges short stories from the New Yorker from 1967 for a patron. It's always SO COOL to see someone experiencing Borges for the first time. Does our library have a single thing by Borges? It does not.
Just checked out a State Parks pass to longtime town residents who haven't used their library card in so long it's not in our current system. I cajoled them into signing up for a new one feeling all smart because it's Library Card Sign Up Month. Checked out the pass to them, said "Have a good time" They said they are going to a funeral there. 😬
@4cff0fbb@3608210a Oh neat. This is for "practical technology" column I write so "here's a Github repo" may be outside of people's abilities but I'll definitely include it as a useful tool.
Writing an article about tools which can help people format shift content into the format they prefer. So like... Videoticle will change a YouTube video into an article. https://www.videoticle.com/
I'm looking for free web-based tools (or apps if they are cross-platform) that are good at turning a podcast into text, or an article into audio What do you know that's good?.
@b57823a9 is it possible some of that is being on a large instance? I've definitely had posts that were popular and I have never had anybody tell me to use hashtags and I rarely use them myself. Or maybe it's just that you work for the government and people think your posts are government related as a result? I'd be curious to know more.
The Prison Library Support Network is in need of volunteers for their Referency by Mail program. Consider attending a training and helping out.
"an organizing experiment fumbling towards an understanding of how to organize mutual aid projects focused on sharing information resources in solidarity with people inside the abolitionist movement."
#justice #reference #volunteering
About the project: https://plsn-reference.tumblr.com/about
How to volunteer information: https://plsn-reference.tumblr.com/be-a-volunteer
@ae43a286@3ba5878d Oh hey, it varies a lot. The general rule of thumb (and I'm not even sure if this is true for Hoopla) is that Hoopla charges "per use" whereas Overdrive usually has a book available at a single cost for a set amount of time, though some charge by checkouts. In general, if you want to read the book, check out the book. If you're just curious about it, consider other ways of getting more info first. Use your library. Enjoy your library.
Listening to @6c22a432 talking about the history of bagels (based in Polish anti-semitism, I did not know) on my favorite trivia podcast while all the other UK-based hosts are politely like "Lox is what...?" and just being reminded again at how much some of the "traditional" foods for me are unusual/unknown even among... people who know things for a living.
Cite: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300158205/the-bagel/
Unrelated but cool: Bagel Bakers Union Local 338 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagel_Bakers_Local_338
@3f2ead51 Maaaaan. Even though the Wikipedia article has a (free for reuse) engraving of her, looks like someone found a viral image from a facebook post and used it without doing even a brief reality check. Bah.
@7f73a7d1@24a394fa@0c1a9324@f3ad697a@639ed14f@c39d2605 It's a tricky situation and I think it's also worth considering the nature of the problem--if you're asking people to accept discomfort versus asking people to tolerate harassment. It's worth trying to find ways to be inclusive but also important that a space not just be a free-for-all in terms of what behaviors are tolerated otherwise you wind up with only people who are either privileged or harassers and other people are scared off.
@a7595654 Haha. Oooooh. The Joseph Smith Birthplace is not that far from here and so there are often flocks of Mormon kids around. Always jealous of my Mormon neighbors because any time they moved, there was this flock of hard-working kids available to move all their stuff. For me a simple "I'm Jewish" ended any and all conversations for reasons I still don't totally understand.
@103985b5@49146402 Agree. I'm sure I'd get used to the change eventually but bouncing back and forth between old/new within the same interface is just weird.
@49146402 I dislike the new UI but I understand it. Sort of. What I don't understand is that I'm in like maybe six regular "I check these all the time" slack and like... half have changed. THAT'S a bad UX I tellyouwhat
@ee2de3a0 Sounds like you're set but as someone who has some funeral director pals and has overseen a few familial cremations in MA do let me know if I can help.
@9126fdce@0c1a9324 Yep yep yep. Gmail redesigns and a bunch of people who don't necessarily have the best resilience for learning tech become less and less able to use it. Apple's desktop accessibility options are less plentiful than they should be for people who need minor (i.e.make the menu bigger) options and even the ones that work often break other stuff (i.e. gmail). Wish it were simpler.
@b92b6163@77ba84fb Oh gosh I feel both of these things so much. At MetaFilter we have a specific Community Guideline about "ironic" forms of communication, particularly ironic racism or sexism (as well as others but these are the biggies) because people may be making jokes that *might* be okay in a familiar context but are not just not okay in an unfamiliar context but actively raise the level of racism/sexism in the room which is not something we expect folks to put up with.
@2dfdbd8d@eeef0018@8b089599 Such a great business to profile and such a refreshing change from startup tech bro vertical farming wild claims. Start with the community!
@b345c2da They cheat off of one another! I have seen some very very terrible power points that were just basically "the dirty parts" photocopied out of hundred page books
@ff999a2b Exactly. We have an odd situation in Vermont where we have a Republican Governor (mostly doing conservative judicial things but not a homophobe or transphobe afaict) and a very liberal Ly Gov so it's good to see him really hustling on this.
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