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bloodravenlib

@bloodravenlib@mas.to

Just an #academic #librarian. Avid #reader, #book #blogger, #reviewer. Student of #Tarot, oracle cards, and #cartomancy.

"Knowledge is Power. Guard it well."

Feel free to check out my blogs:

My book blog: https://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/

My cartomancy and commonplace blog: https://itinerantlibrarian.wordpress.com/

My professional/librarianship/LIS blog:

https://simplelibrarian.blogspot.com/

My BookWyrm (still in progress):
https://bookwyrm.social/user/bloodravenlib

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GrimmReality, (edited ) to random
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GRADS, CONGRATS, and if you are the Indiana University student who put this on your mortar board for your ceremony, please DM me so that we may figure out a way for me to buy you every last beer or cocktail you would like to consume to properly celebrate your graduation.

bloodravenlib,
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@GrimmReality As someone commented elsewhere, I can't wait for those development officers to start calling those new alumni for fundraising. . . .

bloodravenlib, to ai
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(No further comment from me needed)

bloodravenlib, to books
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Nothing worse than a teacher working as a fucking mole for .

>Moms for Liberty and Florida Teacher Schemed to Manipulate Student Book Controversy https://www.advocate.com/news/teacher-moms-for-liberty-scheme

bloodravenlib, to tech
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By @pluralistic : "The specific process by which Google enshittified its search" (24 Apr 2024) https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/naming-names/

This is worth a read.

bloodravenlib, to ai
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This FTA sums it up: "The only areas where AI is flourishing are shamming, spamming & scamming"

>Ugly Numbers from Microsoft and ChatGPT Reveal that AI Demand is Already Shrinking
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/ugly-numbers-from-microsoft-and-chatgpt

bloodravenlib, to random
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>Boeing's CEO is commuting to the office by private jet, and some employees who have returned to the office are mocking him, report says
https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-ceo-commutes-by-private-jet-while-staff-return-to-office-2023-9

Best part: they are trying to encourage people to stop working from home, and one of the "incentives" are "visits from alpacas." I shit you not. Not even The Onion can get that creative.

@Radical_EgoCom Get a load of this.

bloodravenlib, to books
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In news (and I am not saying anything else. Article says what needs saying).

>Gaza’s main public library has been destroyed. https://lithub.com/gazas-main-public-library-has-been-destroyed/

bloodravenlib, to tarot
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underneath/shadow card of evening: King of Wands.

He is here to provide inspiration and confidence to carry out your plans. Rely on your experience here, be ready to think and act in unconventional ways.

Deck used: Trick Or Treat Tarot.

bloodravenlib, to random
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In GOP Republican nightmares. . . (Yes, this is damn satire, but you know. . . ).

>Knife-Wielding Doctors Roam Country Searching For Teens To Force To Be Trans https://www.theonion.com/knife-wielding-doctors-roam-country-searching-for-teens-1850780841

bloodravenlib, to random
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Weather warnings in the US about now.

bloodravenlib, to history
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A part of that rarely got attention, until now.

>Black Women Were Also Lynched https://daily.jstor.org/black-women-were-also-lynched/ via J-Stor.

bloodravenlib, to tarot
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card of evening: The Emperor-IV.

For some folks, you may need to seek help from someone strong, organized, and with vision. Seek an advocate that can work with you and who watches over you and your peers.

Deck used: Trick Or Treat Tarot.

bloodravenlib, to random
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TBH, I am just sad the orca did not kill this asshole showing a "shocking and stupid attitude".

>Man fined after attempt to "body slam" orca in New Zealand https://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-body-slam-orca-new-zealand/

bloodravenlib, to climate
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Because unlike a lot of gringo fuckbagels, insurance companies do believe in and understand the idea of .

>Insurers Are Deserting Homeowners After Natural Disasters https://jacobin.com/2024/04/insurance-natural-disasters-louisiana-regulation/

bloodravenlib, to books
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New on my YouTube channel: "6 Books received at Hutchins for my TBR April 2024."

https://youtu.be/utRJlW8RHFE?si=gaDQCGI4p2mf9V2e

This is a short video highlighting 6 books we recently received here at Hutchins Library that I am considering for my TBR (to be read) list.

bloodravenlib, to books
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Of possible interest. Via @haymarketbooks

>Free Books for a Free Palestine

FTA: "If you’re setting up a liberation library at your Gaza solidarity encampment and you’d like some radical books, please write to us at orders[at]haymarketbooks.org and we’ll send some free books to get you started."

In addition, they are offering four e-books free to pretty much anyone interested.

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/508-free-books-for-a-free-palestine?utm_source=Haymarket+Newsletter&utm_campaign=f4cdb2d97b-EMAIL_Newsletter_2017_11_20_HOLIDAY1_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a36ffbc74a-f4cdb2d97b-333715369&mc_cid=f4cdb2d97b

bloodravenlib, to art
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"Divine Alchemy" by Greg Spalenka.

#art #alchemy #pagan #heathen #witch #painting

bloodravenlib, to Blog
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New on my : "Ten Tarot Decks I Would Give A Beginner."

https://itinerantlibrarian.wordpress.com/2024/05/15/10-tarot-decks-i-would-give-a-beginner/

bloodravenlib, to random
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It has been brought to our attention there was a brief break in the politics/social issues/activist stuff moratorium. Management apologizes for such disruption and thus offers once more cute .

bloodravenlib, to restaurants
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>Pluralistic: Red Lobster was killed by private equity, not Endless Shrimp (23 May 2024) https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/23/spineless/#invertebrates

A good overview by @pluralistic on Red Lobster's 💋 💀 once private equity vultures swooped in.

On a side note, another example of "bust out" can also be seen in the film "Goodfellas."

bloodravenlib, to art
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Daniel Merriam, "La vie en rose."

bloodravenlib, to random
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On a side note, YouTube is full of Tarotistas and other witchy influencers who do the pledge, then anywhere from couple of weeks to months do another video to admit they broke the pledge and "check out the card decks I got at the sale..." .

Overall, the idea of being mindful with spending is good, just don't totally deprive yourself. Balance.

>Intrigued by the "no-buy pledge"? Here's how to start. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/savings-spending-consumer-concerns-no-buy-pledge-tiktok/

bloodravenlib, to academia
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>Columbia University Gives Students Option To Finish Classes From Prison
https://www.theonion.com/columbia-university-gives-students-option-to-finish-cla-1851443862



bloodravenlib, to random
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You know all those asshole wealthy people telling the rest of us to "cut back on the lattes and avocado toast?" Well, turns out "some consumers have given up their iced lattes to save cash."

>Many Americans have had enough of high food prices. Restaurants and food manufacturers report slow sales. https://irjci.blogspot.com/2024/05/many-americans-have-had-enough-of-high.html

bloodravenlib,
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Oh, the horror continues: ""Coffee drinkers are leaving Starbucks's loyalty program. Chips Ahoy cookies are lingering longer on grocery-store shelves. . . "

Not the Chip Ahoys. TBH, the Better Half can bake a mean choc chip cookie, so why buy the bagged one? And we make our own coffee.

bloodravenlib, to books
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Personally, when it comes to spammers, and other scammers and con artists, fuck 'em. However, @pluralistic tells an interesting history here worth a read.

>Pluralistic: Sympathy for the spammer (15 Jan 2024) https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/15/passive-income-brainworms/

bloodravenlib,
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A good FTA quote from the @pluralistic article:

"That's the true cost of all the automation-driven unemployment criti-hype: while we're nowhere near a place where bots can steal your job, we're certainly at the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job."

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