Schmalyson

Schmalyson

@schmalyson.bsky.social

She/her, librarian/liberrian Lives near yinz

822 followers1K following2.1K posts

At my third academic conference of the season where the daily schedule begins before 8 a.m. and I am begging everyone out there on planning committees to stop doing that shit to your attendees.

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Meanwhile no one has booked this movie to show in Pittsburgh that I am aware of. Neon, respond to my email! Someone show this movie!

In 1972, a group of Harlem Renaissance cultural icons gathered at Duke Ellington's house. The afternoon was captured on 16mm film by William Greaves, but the footage remained unedited in a vault for 50 years until David Greaves restored his father's project, releasing the documentary it 2026.

Have a reservation for Titusz tonight and saw they charge a 2% service fee and would sincerely like someone in the industry to explain these fees to me. You know you could just raise your menu prices 2%? And no one would notice? Why do we do this like this?

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SMUGGLE YOUR MATERIALS TO THE ARCHIVIST

Frank Cifaldi@frankcifaldi.bsky.social

Part of my literal job is to fly out to physical game studios to rescue and recover historical materials that might be endangered and put them in a permanent archive. @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social is a 501(c)3 publicly funded to do that, my DMs are open, and I'm free for the next couple weeks...

FWIW Android phones are semi-decent at blocking this. I get about 3 a day through (Josh Shapiro you're my nemesis), but I get sent like 25.

Molly Knight@mollyknight.bsky.social

Do they even understand how much they’re pissing people off by doing this. Whatever research that convinces them that spamming everyone is all upside is bullshit. It is like they’d rather have all my contact info to sell to other campaigns forever than receive my donation. It sucks.

Less dry, normal dry, extra dry...what are these concepts, dryer? Dry is not a spectrum. Shit is dry or it's not.

Xavier D’Leau@xavierdleau.com

i strongly dislike how my dryer shuts off when it assumes clothes are dry. they are not.

As a person who processes hundreds of applications a year, the slop doesn't get rejected because I think it's AI. It gets rejected because it's an endless word salad of meaninglessness. But I can tell it's AI, because as recently as two years ago, we didn't get applications like that, ever.

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Building a library in Vieqeus PR!

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social

question for the audience: if you were ultra rich (let’s say $25M), what completely frivolous thing are you buying?

I knew this shit wouldn't be worth it. I knew better.

Schmalyson@schmalyson.bsky.social

My cat stopped eating his expensive ass prescription food so my vet told me to contact their online pharmacy for a credit. Now I have 3 different online agents contacting me across 2 platforms and none of them have managed to get past the first step of asking me what I need, repeatedly.

My cat stopped eating his expensive ass prescription food so my vet told me to contact their online pharmacy for a credit. Now I have 3 different online agents contacting me across 2 platforms and none of them have managed to get past the first step of asking me what I need, repeatedly.

There were so many stool tests being ordered in Pennsylvania this summer that the labs had a 2-3 *week* turnaround rate, but sure let's do even less food safety! This is what everyone wanted right? MAHA!

Bloomberg Law@bloomberglaw.com

The nation’s leading food regulator plans to relieve pressure on small food retailers and restaurants subject to regulations designed to speed up investigations of foodborne illness outbreaks.

I was at the grocery store for literally two minutes, minding my own business looking at apples, and some jagoff came up and asked for my number and my hand in marriage. 🙃 I am 44 years old, when will men stop bothering me in public. When, God. When.

I'm trying to remember how to play Destiny and it is going hilariously. Damn I am incredibly bad at video games. I'm not even good at looking around. 😭

All this money, ahead in the polls by like 30 points, and he still has to spam text me twice daily despite being constantly blocked and reported. Cool cool cool. Thanks Josh.

Charlie Wolfson@chwolfson.bsky.social

State of the race for PA governor: For every dollar Stacy Garrity spent on TV ads since June 9, Josh Shapiro spent $35. Josh Shapiro donated more money to downballot candidates ($5.6M) than Garrity has raised since launching her campaign.

I have a strong natural aversion to flim-flam men and one of the great confusions of my adulthood has been realizing many, many other people do not.

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I went to an all Black deeply under resourced elementary school and ended up at an elite PWI. Your parents can, in fact, make up for the deficit. They just have to actually DO THAT. Not just complain at the principal. They have to actually engage in educating you.

David Chen@davechen.bsky.social

Specifically: she’s spent her career writing about how challenging it is to get an education at these schools, but seemingly is oblivious to the fact that her daughter doesn’t know long division or fractions until she’s in high school? Speaks to an extremely high level of disengagement or naïveté.

Frail shit. Anyone else who wants to pile on trans people can go on ahead and follow suit and block me too.

Schmalyson@schmalyson.bsky.social

I simply wouldn't put any individual trans person on blast like this, ever, particularly one with like 300 followers, if I had 98 *thousand* followers. What the fuck are we doing here George.

I simply wouldn't put any individual trans person on blast like this, ever, particularly one with like 300 followers, if I had 98 *thousand* followers. What the fuck are we doing here George.

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My recommended premise: It's time to play the music It's time to light the lights It's time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight It's time to put on makeup It's time to dress up right It's time to raise the curtain on the Muppet Show tonight

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net

There are currently no active conversations for a full ‘MUPPET SHOW’ series revival. Disney, The Muppets Studio and Point Grey Pictures have had difficulties with deciding on a premise for the series that they can all agree on. (Source: Deadline)

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Good morning. Mason Heintschel's 453 passing yards yesterday were the third-most by a Pitt quarterback in school history - but they set the new record for passing in a regulation win.

It is very funny to stake out this "do you even understand" position about a book series that came out in 1997. Like girl we all understand, everyone on this website was born since then. You're not referencing some ancient scrolls here.

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I am always the person that gets hella bug bites no matter what and I've largely made peace with it, but I have two mosquito bites on my FACE and the disrespect is really pissing me off. Not my face you bastards.

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Just scanned this for my film project & only remembered we had a copy yesterday as the last monuments were taken down in Richmond. I've never seen this image duplicated before, it is a man standing next to the Lee monument on Monument Ave with tobacco growing on all sides. From Valentine collection.

Unfortunately someone removed the Pittsburgh potty from my current home before we bought it. But 2 of my 3 sets of grandparents had the classic model. My own parents opted to put some walls around it. 😂