Rachel Helps

Rachel Helps

@rachelhelps.bsky.social

Graduate student. Former Wikipedian-in-residence at the BYU Library. Interactive fiction writer and Mormon literary scholar wannabe. https://rwelean.itch.io/

328 Followers 369 Following 426 Posts Joined Aug 2023
4 hours ago

Our favorite party game on the Switch is still 12 Orbits. It's easy to get 8 players going, and since it's 2D, it's n00b friendly.

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why are bees doing brutalism

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ICE buys Salt Lake City warehouse The sale came nearly two months after rumors surfaced that the agency tried to acquire a different property in the area.

A large warehouse facility on Salt Lake City’s west side has been sold to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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5 days ago

New tongue twister for vocal warmups just dropped, move over red lorry, yellow lorry!

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5 days ago

My thesis defense is scheduled for April 3rd at 10am! The title of my thesis is "Subversive Speculative Theology in Women’s Stories from the Mormon Home Literature Movement." DM me if you would like to attend and I'll send you the room number.

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5 days ago

aww that sucks. I wouldn't want to try to learn a new rideable while pregnant either. If you have the energy you could try to cluster your out-of-house errands with your appointments.

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5 days ago

How far away is the hospital? Honestly your labor will probably be long since it's your first birth. You have time to call an uber lol.

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5 days ago

I just finished it a few days ago! Interested to hear more of your thoughts on it

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5 days ago
Post image What is it that a father finds in one 
            to favor over others? 
Did Isaac know what grace was his 
            in primogeniture 
                        while Ishmael wandered? 

Did Esau find 
            his father’s way not right 
And think the issue 
            of the pottage just 
                        a specious way 
                                    to further 
                                                predestination, To choose my father— 

He passed along that 
            odd selection too, 
So Joseph was his pet— 

I heard him say that Rachel 
            was his love, 
                        and saw her eyes 
                                    in Joseph’s face. 

I know such ancient tales 
            of brothers— 
                        one chosen, 
                                    the other not, 
                                                inexplicably— 

And like Abel’s brother 
            wish I knew 
                        why God must choose.

Also why does Rebekah have to lie to get Jacob the blessing? Seems kinda shady.

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1 week ago

Cataloguers, do you have any recs about where I can get a sense of the landscape of the field? What % of original records come from what orgs, what the balance of copy v original cataloguing is done at different kinds of institutions, etc.?

NOT looking for info about MARC, RDA, or other standards

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6 days ago

Picked up 10S on Steam, your pixel animation is 👌 excellent

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1 week ago

Yes, that's working, thank you! I blame Safari

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1 week ago

If only it had been covered on Wikipedia, IAbot might have archived them

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1 week ago

Dang the site isn't loading for me from that url. Do I need to add https or anything?

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1 week ago

Lovecraftian where's waldo for your Playdate

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1 week ago

People often interpret the notability criteria to mean that at minimum, 2-3 sources should be primarily about the subject and be independent of the subject. If it's all blog posts and podcast interviews, it's not independent. News articles are best.

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The Supreme Court doesn't care if you want to copyright your AI-generated art The highest court in the US declined to review a case about copyrighting artwork created with the help of AI.

It’s so rare to get a decision like this. I hate to be grateful for the bare minimum but I’m grateful to the work of everyone involved in obtaining this victory. www.engadget.com/ai/the-supre...

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Hmm new pages patrol will flag pages that don't meet notability criteria for deletion. But they might not know how to evaluate foreign-language sources.

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1 week ago

Guys I started playing Station to Station and it is so good. Imagine a game that attends to a young woman's inner life and ambitions! And is also pretty insightful and funny about college life!

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1 week ago
A 3x3 grid titled "Is it a library? Alignment chart".
Horizontal axis categories:
Contents purist: Must contain books
Contents neutral: Must contain information
Contents rebel: Can contain anything
Vertical axis categories:
Curation purist: Must be managed by a professional librarian
Curation neutral: Must be curated by someone
Curation rebel: Can be managed by nobody

Examples represented on the grid:
Curation purist, contents purist: New York Public Library is a library
Curation purist, contents neutral: A newspaper archive is a library
Curation purist, contents rebel: A school information commons is a library
Curation neutral, contents purist: A home bookshelf is a library
Curation neutral, contents neutral: A Spotify playlist is a library
Curation neutral, contents rebel: A zoo is a library
Curation rebel, contents purist: A street library is a library
Curation rebel, contents neutral: A PC downloads folder is a library
Curation rebel, contents rebel: A junk drawer is a library

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1 week ago

why did the classicist grade with a fountain pen?

so she could give her students a wine-dark C.

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1 week ago

I had not been following this at all and I'm blown away by the drama

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2 weeks ago

archivists, catalogers, researchers, and outreach

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2 weeks ago

It's not overconsumption if they're library books

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‘Angel of FamilySearch’ — Relentless and revered LDS historian who gave voice to the voiceless dies Beloved independent historian Ardis E. Parshall, known for digging out little-known tidbits from Latter-day Saint history, has died.

Beloved independent historian Ardis E. Parshall, known for digging out little-known tidbits from Latter-day Saint history, has died.

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a man in a black jacket and white pants is walking through a dirt field . ALT: a man in a black jacket and white pants is walking through a dirt field .

Since I had a baby last fall, I could not image moving my family anywhere and I only applied to one PhD program at the University of Utah. And I wasn't admitted.

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2 weeks ago

this looks so slick

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2 weeks ago

whaaa

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...and a playful poem about Babel by Darlene Young.

what do you think of the Tower of Babel? It reads like a "just-so" story to explain why we have different languages. But it implies that God could punish humanity by confusing them.

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Continuing to post poetry about the Old Testament by LDS authors. Today is a poem by Heather Harris-Bergevin about Hagar...

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