Rachel Helps

What's in store for next week?

toxic Moroni fandom

Prosaic: "If we don't know what we have, we can't manage it and nobody will use it"

Poetical: "Cataloguing unlocks collections' potential."

Absurdist: "Cataloguing is springtime for hibernating collections."

Oh noooo

back in my day we had the gramophone, not the 'gram on your phone

Ugh that's what I was thinking too

atlantic article screenshot headline: no one knows how big pumpkins can get sub head: a decade ago, the worlds heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. now the 3,000 pound mark is within sight by yasmin tayag

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

I was wondering how that cardigan came about! Mad props

There are some of my grandma's recipes that I don't make because I know it won't be the same and it will make me sad

Exciting!

the investigative journalism I crave

This image includes a grey unlatched padlock symbol captioned "Preprints: Work in progress, Submitted version" and a purple symbol including the Prince (musician) logo, that is captioned: "Post-Prince: Author-accepted manuscript (AAM)." This work "preprints post-Prince" is a derivative of "Preprint postprint published" by Thomas Shafee used under CC BY 4.0. This work includes the Prince logo "Love Symbol #2" © 1991, used under fair use. "preprints post-Prince" is licensed under CC BY 4.0 by Arthur Boston.

Many apologies for resurfacing this

The only plant I will go out of my way to kill

It didn't get deleted! The miracle of Wikipedia.

Groundwork for Future Study According to Oxford University Press, Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader is “the first comprehensive critical examination of Mormon art.” This grand claim stakes out the territory that the book p...

Check out my review of the LDS Critical Art Reader on Dialogue. this volume does foundational work for lds art criticism from a pro-Mormon perspective
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/dial/art...

and now we're debating if it should be deleted en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

well I made a page out of it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MindMaz...

The Timpanogos Nation: Uinta Valley Reservation - Utah The Timpanogos Nation are Snake-Shoshone. We are descendents of legendary Chiefs Walkara, Kanosh, Tabby, Arropeen, Black Hawk, Tintic, Sowiette, and Sanpitch.

Coming to you today from the traditional homelands of the Timpanogos Nation.

#IndigenousPeoplesDay

timpanogostribe.com

I wished for an external womb machine so many times

it's alive!

IMO this has always been a choice gamedevs have had to make - fidelity vs scale. it's just that the common wisdom tilts heavily towards fidelity these days.

chrono cross on ps1 made a choice when it decided to have 50+ playable party members and what it sacrificed was unique per-char dialogue

I have argued about library shushing and I think in designated quiet areas it is appropriate

So You Want to Write Iambic Pentameter In which I share the dirty secrets of the world's least useful skill

Six years ago, I wrote most of the Tragedian dialogue for Pathologic 2 in iambic pentameter. I'm back now doing the same for Pathologic 3. I figured it was helpful to write a guide on *how* I did it – in case I get hit by a bus and the team has to carry on without me.

azhdarchid.com/so-you-want-...

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

A flyer for a set of documents "Demonstrating the value of cataloging". Six folders are labeled "talking points for administrators, top 5 reasons why you need a cataloger, annotated bibliography, resources list & acronym cheat sheet, side-by-side comparisons of good administrators bad metadata, and introduction to metadata zine. At the bottom text reads you can find these resources at the link in the post, and they were created by the ALA SAC Devaluation of Cataloging Working Group, 2025.

Could you use help explaining the value of #cataloging & good metadata to your admin, coworkers, #MLIS students, etc.? Happy to share this set of resources put together by an ALA working group chaired by @magsjoy.bsky.social. All of these & more are available at hdl.handle.net/11213/22872. 📚

here is a little draft, let me know if you know of some sources I can add to it (URL is temporary and may go to different things in the future) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rw...

InfoWorld InfoWorld is targeted to Senior IT professionals. Content is segmented into Channels and Topic Centers. InfoWorld also celebrates people, companies, and projects.

well here's one review in infoworld books.google.com/books?id=Hjw...

screenshot from Mindmaze (taken from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLmudzYWY94). A card with an illuminated green "Q" and decorative elements in bold primary colors shows a trivia question about who introduced baseball to Europe and Eastern Asia. In the background is a large room with a black-and-white checkered floor and a medieval fantasy stone doorway with a wooden door. The UI at the bottom shows lighted torches on the left, a grid map with a goal in red and your location, and potential answers to the trivia question.

I'm saddened to find that there is currently no Wikipedia page for Encarta Mind Maze (it currently redirects to Encarta). Is Mind Maze something that would have been reviewed in videogame magazines?

this one is part of my Halloween decor

Now we just need some secondary sources about the rest of the cover in order to change the Wikipedia page