Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵]

Threadcovered. Pieces prayers. Builds libraries from pixels. Hopes in rotting logs & knotted vines. Hella left, hella Mennonite, hella disabled. Bury me in a bog. She/her. 🕊

Ham callsign: KC3AF

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AKA ruthbrarian on the olde site.

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Last Notes

2024-10-06 01:37:33

Eleanor’s internal monologue in the Haunting of Hill House is … danger and fire.
“The only man I have ever sat by and talked to alone and I am impatient. He’s simply not very interesting.”

2024-10-02 18:12:56

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@npub13vv…0sze love it!

2024-09-25 00:08:28

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@npub13vv…0sze I ended up taking out everything identifying the element after the first declaration to get it to work in my particular Firefox. Works a treat!

2024-09-20 20:05:41

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@npub13vv…0sze that beautiful lad could never be stinky 😂😂😂

2024-09-20 19:18:41

Sterling did not fart much and I was really unprepared for pitbull farts

2024-09-13 11:33:48

Friday the 13th baby reporting for birthday 🥳

2024-09-12 01:00:47

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@npub1a4g…yuyx random wild thing: in the last 1.5 months steaming has decided to show me ads for HIV treatments. But not Prep. I learned about that from — gay friends I guess?

2024-09-10 18:54:21

Reading Wirecutter's deep dive into whether/why Ralph Nader's felt-tip pens may be drying out sooner than they did 60 years ago was an actual delight.
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/ralph-nader-pens-drying-out/

2024-09-08 20:41:32

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@npub13vv…0sze yeah, like they really do hit the "too little blood sugar to think" spot

2024-09-08 20:38:08

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@npub13vv…0sze oh wow, that flashed me back to ballet, I used to keep those in my bag. Might not be a bad idea.

2024-09-08 17:31:22

Ran a bunch of errands, got home late for lunch, now need to actually make myself some lunch but am stuck because I have no blood sugar

2024-09-05 01:32:38

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@npub150l…r96e but family means together!

2024-09-04 13:07:03

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@npub150l…r96e like I'm so sorry but also I can only control a dog so much 😭 I can at least try to avoid a poop

2024-09-03 16:49:36

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@npub13vv…0sze saving because relevant to my research

2024-08-29 19:39:29

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@npub13vv…0sze presumably, the newsletter editor knows

2024-08-29 00:19:47

I don’t know everything about Teslas but…I do know they have quality control issues.
https://cdn.masto.host/glammrus/media_attachments/files/113/042/440/561/360/677/original/a5eadd6873f3890e.jpg

2024-08-27 18:38:16

“If you are sick or have an injury or accident, that is an automatic extension. Santa Claus descends from heaven and I grant it retroactively. Please don’t worry about it. If it feels like a crisis or an emergency, it’s an emergency and I will give you an extension.”
But please don’t lie to me when you just forgot.”

2024-08-27 16:44:31

meanwhile, you ever see just the post slug of a Captain Awkward and be like :ohno:
https://captainawkward.com/2024/08/27/1439-ive-observed-some-problems-in-my-neighbors-marriage-should-i-sit-them-down-over-a-cup-of-tea-and-share-my-insights/

2024-08-25 18:55:11

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@npub1a4g…yuyx time to find Bigfoot and fuck him

2024-08-17 20:04:19

Former coworker is raising money to help with her mom’s rent/transport/meds as she undergoes several lifesaving surgeries. https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-renee-with-rent-and-medical-costs

2024-08-16 16:41:59

“Cybersecurity flaws could derail high-profile cycling cases” /world’s longest sigh
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-08-cybersecurity-flaws-derail-high-profile.html

2024-08-15 14:59:57

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@npub1a4g…yuyx god that’s early for a big ask.

2024-08-15 14:22:49

Just came across this while cleaning up photos on my computer. Did Stanford ever hire that Linked Data Community Outreach Librarian role?
What I cannot recall is who made this.
https://cdn.masto.host/glammrus/media_attachments/files/112/966/479/408/507/751/original/93708b12c896666d.jpeg

2024-08-10 18:16:07

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@npub1a4g…yuyx oh good, I’m so glad! I was about to say I think there should be a way to figure it out. I also don’t know if you can get your info added to his account so they can look him up and confirm with your ID.

2024-08-09 17:23:41

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@npub13vv…0sze it’s funny I did a whole arsenic book project but it was all data analysis so I have only seen them in videos!

2024-08-09 16:45:52

From Instagram, a Rare Book Gloves video with bonus arsenic! https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-XymLDJ4a0/?igsh=bnc5cGFqbm9jazV5

2024-08-06 13:53:53

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@npub1a4g…yuyx I think this makes sense. Especially since she's got another place where she can live.

2024-08-05 15:41:45

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@npub1a4g…yuyx lol. Fwiw, tend to bite hard with the upper and lower canine teeth but just on one side of the mouth

2024-07-30 15:47:59

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@npub1a4g…yuyx I. Was not prepared

2024-07-30 14:11:51

*tells Excel to make a column YYYY*
*types 2020 in to column*
Excel: 1905!

2024-07-30 13:24:20

Filename: Copy_of_original_data_DO_NOT_OPEN_IN_EXCEL.csv

2024-07-26 15:34:01

Typo of the day: stabbatical
:blobcatknife:

2024-07-26 14:36:55

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@npub150l…r96e right oh my god?
and reinforces how deeply fucked up this family and such families are

2024-07-25 20:48:47

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@npub1a4g…yuyx we’re like the homophobic seal meme but affirming!

2024-07-23 13:48:13

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@npub1a4g…yuyx oh wow, Sid. I really love that you did this.

2024-07-23 12:52:50

Meanwhile, finished my shortened Zadie last night! Gonna be wearing this a lot for the rest of the summer.
https://cdn.masto.host/glammrus/media_attachments/files/112/835/892/906/430/598/original/e81d436c45ad7327.jpg

2024-07-22 15:13:59

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@npub1a4g…yuyx I'm glad that you've got a boss who's up for doing that.

2024-07-22 13:39:07

Only entirely because I'm curious, is there any kind of pirate site for ISO standards?
It feels like there'd be a niche audience for this. $145 is... a lot to pay for a standard.

2024-07-22 12:00:50

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Now please enjoy a photo I spent some time digging up last night… This is nine years ago when my husband was sad and so I took him to meet a bunch of my friend’s baby goats.
https://cdn.masto.host/glammrus/media_attachments/files/112/830/028/144/945/534/original/734ce74034630cd8.jpeg

2024-07-22 11:55:35

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(obviously nothing is fully true for everyone every time… like you might also limit who follows you to 10 people and post everything locked and be in the kind of relationship with those people where they all know what you were going to post and have chosen it and it’s cool because you actually know them in real life or whatever and this is just an extension of your friendship)

2024-07-22 11:52:09

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So if you’ve just been thinking “well why doesn’t everybody go into their configuration and set up 10,000 filters for all the things that they never want to see” the answer is because they may actually want to see it from you. Give yourself some fucking credit. And give them some fucking care.

2024-07-22 11:52:08

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For example, some people I follow on here are people I find vaguely interesting and others are friends of many years standing. And whether I am going to click that CW will vary widely. But if I just filter everyone then I miss what my friends are saying too.

2024-07-22 11:52:08

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You are under no obligation to make following you a desirable* experience. That’s why unfollowing and blocking exist, but you can opt in and make it easier for some folks using these tools we have.
* speaking broadly. What different people desire will vary… And it’s also ok for people not to be interested if you are posting through sleep deprivation like I have been.

2024-07-22 11:46:29

A meta-observation: why CWs are preferable to expecting everyone to individually set up filters for your posts… Beyond the implication I how I phrased it:
these have always been designed as an opt-in mechanism. they allow the reader to know that a post exists without reading it.
Your followers may actually want to see your opinions on current events!! But they may not want to see the opinions of people everyone their followers boost. Or not see them today. 🧵

2024-07-20 16:38:39

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@npub13vv…0sze no I need it 😭

2024-07-20 16:37:01

Hi is there tuna fish?
https://cdn.masto.host/glammrus/media_attachments/files/112/819/789/664/626/279/original/e5b08fa6c865b065.jpg

2024-07-20 14:22:38

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@npub150l…r96e I have a lot of them lol. For weathers and contexts.

2024-07-20 13:26:51

Ok, time to cut out a cropped summer jumpsuit! I still have linen from a 2020 incident.

2024-07-19 15:03:58

Don't push to prod on a Friday
To be safe, don't push to prod on a Thursday night.
Really, someone might be off so don't push on Thursday.
Consider not pushing to prod on Weds, as that's when everyone is running their security scans.
Don't push to prod on Tuesday for reasons I can't yet think of.
Don't push to prod on Monday, you're still getting over the weekend.
Consider just not pushing to prod.

2024-07-18 15:16:46

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@npub1a4g…yuyx ... it's not a finger you're poking with. 👀
(I'm just shitposting but like, seriously)

2024-07-17 20:57:14

Good morning, Eastern Australia! Just posted my #VALA2024 talk "The Interdependent Library System: Revisiting Human Aspects of Library Automation"
https://ruthtillman.com/talk/interdependent-library-system/
on my personal website. Getting my slide deck fixed up to send to the conference tomorrow.

2024-07-17 16:29:06

honestly, as someone who wrote a blog post called "The Hillbilly Elegy Problem" -- which was about issues in library catalog indexing algorithms, I'm actually quite glad that Google seems to be a disaster of a search engine these days.
(I do close with a readers' advisory re: books to read instead https://www.ruthtillman.com/post/weighing-catalog-indexing/)

2024-07-13 23:34:09

Mods would like to remind you not to post anything that means we have to deal with Secret Service or other federal agencies, whether on main or any degree of locked.

2024-07-13 05:31:44

Learned via tabloid stuff that the Marquess and Marchioness of Cholmondeley chose their heir (C-section boys, so there’s no real “first”) by weight. Amazing. Ridiculous. One is an earl and one’s not? Just based on weight at birth. I need a romance novel where this is somehow part of the hero’s backstory.

2024-06-29 20:11:42

Oh wow, clouds broke and rain is coming in WAVES. It’s hard to capture how bad it is in a photo but you can kinda see ripples on the cul-de-sac
https://cdn.masto.host/glammrus/media_attachments/files/112/701/714/249/944/897/original/cc9c4c8b6d2a73a1.jpeg

2024-06-29 17:17:58

https://cdn.masto.host/glammrus/media_attachments/files/112/701/041/693/293/420/original/232ecbe55a5cbdaf.jpeg

2024-06-25 12:59:22

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@npub1a4g…yuyx this is reminding me of a friend who recently flew with a riding crop
"is this a weapon"
"no, it's for my girlfriend"
"sir is this a weapon for your girlfriend"
👀 "no, it's consensual"

2024-06-24 18:57:23

TIL there’s something called a bee hawk-moth? It looks like a bee but it’s a moth? And in my yard?
https://cdn.masto.host/glammrus/media_attachments/files/112/673/117/639/943/759/original/16272d0f8e21e263.jpg

2024-06-23 18:00:13

Looking at a recipe that's like "prep time 10 minutes, cook time 20 minutes" and I swear to god one of these days I'm going to time all of these and make a "real time cooking" blog there where I time how long they actually take...
Honestly, it would probably kill on TikTok if nobody else is doing it already, but I am a tired elderly Millennial and I have no interest in doing a video.

2024-06-22 18:19:44

This heat wave has me thinking about how there are some areas near me that are technically walkable but have no shade. And so for example when I took the bus to a doctors appointment once I had to walk about half a mile, which was fine, but it was completely unshaded and absolutely absolutely miserable. And then waiting waiting at the bus stop there was no shade.
In the last decade I have encountered walkable cities people pointing this stuff out.

2024-06-22 16:23:35

I've been replaying the video game Prey and have re-upped my theory about hacking difficulties. You have Hacking skill 1-4.
The most difficult is actually 2.
So here's why... you move a little cursor thing through a semi-random maze, with different patterns and some red bumpers that slow you down extra. You go from point A to B and press the letter you see when you arrive. Repeat once per difficulty level.
This video demonstrates the actual process:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP8tBoGehqo

2024-06-21 13:40:55

oh wow, it's the 15th anniversary of the red line crash. I was 3 stops away on the other side of the red line, so I was trapped in a tunnel for an hour, no cell signal, no idea what'd happened.
It was so upending and so scary.
then weeks of commuter hell followed.

2024-06-19 02:23:23

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@npub1a4g…yuyx on the job training!? 👀 I'm in!
*turns out to be about carrying too many drinks*

2024-06-17 02:04:00

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@npub1a4g…yuyx I really hated the place that did my parents, but also dad had prepaid so I didn’t want to move him. I’m sorry. It’s such a bad time to be experiencing all that.

2024-06-09 21:55:07

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@npub17zw…27uq I've seen squirrel fights. Bird fights. Rabbit fights. Yet for all I live in Central Fing Pennsylvania, I have yet to see a Groundhog Fight.

2024-06-03 14:07:45

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@npub1a4g…yuyx congrats and fucking WORD (17 next month)

2024-05-21 00:44:18

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@npub1a4g…yuyx that works! You can also quick pickle the onion if you want to go that route (since you're tired/I've been picking red onion this week I thought I'd share)

2024-05-19 23:24:04

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@npub1a4g…yuyx extremely gay! :better_pride:

2024-05-19 17:45:10

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@npub1a4g…yuyx alas I give sticks to Blue these days

2024-05-18 00:24:28

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@npub1a4g…yuyx PepysPosting

2024-05-14 22:19:06

Your friendly local metal show going gal has logged on! (Don’t worry, I have a mask and a backup mask for when I get there!)
Selfie, ec
https://cdn.masto.host/glammrus/media_attachments/files/112/441/759/388/380/559/original/073a01f9f7a49c69.jpg

2024-05-13 18:10:03

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@npub1a4g…yuyx I mean I don't want to think about my OWN mom this way but I want this for my friends who are moms!

2024-05-13 14:04:29

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@npub150l…r96e that's great!! May I DM a question about the paperwork based on my own experience?

2024-05-10 13:52:30

old people and young people
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/two-just-stop-oil-pensioners-smash-glass-on-magna-carta/

2024-05-08 14:09:30

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@npub150l…r96e huge mood.

2024-02-17 15:01:39

Blue: "That sign can't stop me because I can't read"
Narrator: "Tragically, Blue was thwarted by his lack of opposable thumbs"
https://cdn.masto.host/glammrus/media_attachments/files/111/947/418/770/617/579/original/d869f4a2a0c721c1.png

2023-11-25 02:47:42

TIL “raccoon” in French is “raton laveur” or a “washing rat” and it made my night because they DO wash!!!!

2023-08-24 15:55:54

I’ve hung up one of my favorite recent quilt projects. I wrote about it on my blog: https://ruthtillman.com/post/all-clothing-is-handmade/ #quilting #quilts
https://cdn.masto.host/glammrus/media_attachments/files/110/945/396/050/623/458/original/a0dde76c842fb08e.jpeg

2022-10-08 16:25:57

Trying to figure out if my 8-year-old vacuum won't turn on for reasons I can fix or if I need to take it to the repair shop.
Please enjoy this WILD page from the manual, about how a biblically accurate angel might troubleshoot this.
https://cdn.masto.host/glammrus/media_attachments/files/109/133/584/396/622/109/original/7145491eee918dd8.png