Raina Bloom

Truly. He’s our sumptuous fool

Okay yes but

“Think about all of the cool stuff we could do if we weren’t constantly deprogramming people who have been lied to by techbros their entire lives,” the exhausted librarian wrote in Teams on a Friday morning

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

A fluffy tuxedo cat laying on his back on his cat tree with all four paws in the air.

One year ago this weekend, we brought him home. Clearly, everything has been awful since.

Same. They look like AI-generated images to the trained eye. You can just see it.

on the one hand I should absolutely put my phone down but on the other hand what if the forces attacking democracy operate on weeping angels logic

No filter. Just an absolute cartoon of a cat locked in an endless war with the local rabbits

I post neither often nor cheerfully, so, for balance, here’s an excellent picture of my North American Tuxedoed Floor Lion asking @drumkitdave.bsky.social why the rabbit doesn’t fear him.

It really is a shocking waste of time. Think about the alternate universe books, papers, meetings, conference sessions, trainings we would have if we didn’t have to run around after that lot in countless ways

Getting your devil worship instructions from ChatGPT:
- pathetic
- wastes water
- gives money to the worst people in the world

Getting your devil worship instructions from a local witch:
- cool
- edgy
- learn the names of all the local toads

"Libraries, andlibrarians,are among the most trusted institutions and professionsin the world. will that continue to if bethe case we focus ona technology that we know IS unreliable?" Matthew Noe- Head ofCollections and Knowledge Management at Harvard MedicalSchool

I said what I said

No to AI in libraries

#alaac25

www.probiblio.nl/matthew-noe-...

Going for a walk this afternoon #nokings

A great lightning talk on generative AI from a librarian’s perspective

I’m so glad this was recorded. Thank you and great talk!

A protest sign on white foam board. In brightly colored paper letters that the poster somehow still has in her basement, it reads “LIBRARIANS FOR SHUSHING DONALD”

In 2011, I carried a “LIBRARIANS FOR SHUSHING SCOTT” sign in Wisconsin’s Act 10 protests. I kept it and, in 2017, I peeled off some letters and changed the name for the Women’s March. I threw away the sign last spring when we cleaned the basement.

I cannot believe I had to remake the damn sign.

Librarians for shushing Donald

Could only attend virtually this year, but really enjoying how Ruha Benjamin is complicating what appears to be a lot of "let's throw AI at it" content scheduled for the next few days of the conference. #ACRL2025

My partner and I (both librarians) were just reviewing the conference program and feeling dispirited/angry about the quantity and tenor of AI content. I’m attending virtually, so this isn’t available to me, but even your abstract was a breath of fresh air. Thank you!

Helpful to remember: sometimes news can be good

The votes are still being tallied, but, using the AP’s current count of votes for Crawford and the New York Times as a source for how much money Musk spent in Wisconsin ($25M) each Crawford voter personally wasted $19.43 of his money. Speaking as a Wisconsin voter, this is *intensely* satisfying.

It'd be nice if we would spend less time on AI and more time on our actual vital missions right now. Especially given, you know, the purposeful dismantling of libraries and education. 📚

And also this. And, once it slaps its frame on the idea you have questions about, good luck getting your brain back out of that frame. So limiting and such a waste of time.

:: sighs in librarian while pointing at the good professor ::

Questions are the process, the point, the everything. You ask questions of other people (PEOPLE) who know more than you and/or who are interested in the same problem as you. That’s it. That’s how it all works.

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

I had such a good time doing this. Thanks to @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social for inviting me on!

everyone: wow being a librarian is so cool you just get to read books all day

your local librarian: today I had to break up a knife fight in the encyclopedia section

Hi. I’m the #sundaylibrarian. Here’s a picture of my ridiculous cat and his new tree