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Randi Mason

@randimason.bsky.social

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Public #librarian in #NYC. Formerly librarian / project mgr in marketing companies and nonprofits. Fan of #comics, #animation, #illustration & #mst3k. She / Her / Herself. Opinions my own. ELSEWHERE: linktr.ee/randimason

With love from Brooklyn

Randi Mason's avatar Randi Mason @randimason.bsky.social
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Clarifying because I've been asked - it was the SCOTUS decisions and election that has broken me, not anything family-wise. Thanks for your concern!

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Going to try better phrasing so it doesn’t trigger others. Heck with the Inside Out team, Despair is currently driving my brain. Am on Bluesky break until the static and catastrophic thoughts clear. Be well, and take care.

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The Disney Bear had a lot of failed launches before Duffy & Shelley Mae happened
www.laughingplace.com/w/articles/2...

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Randi Mason's avatar Randi Mason @randimason.bsky.social
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Grand Central Station had little apartments, but I don’t know if NYPL’s main branch did?
The store materials primarily off site now, but the NYPL books were under Bryant Park.
youtu.be/Sb9aJpdnC4k?...

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I probably shouldn’t mention this, but apparently Brooklyn’s Central Library has more than the four “decks” of storage space underneath it. It was always rumored to have a partially built subway platform underneath. Unfortunately, the racoons from Mt Prospect like the decks too.

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Steve Kopian's avatar Steve Kopian @unseenfilms.bsky.social
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And I am done with the questionable films I now only have two films I really want to see......

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Dana Simpson 🦄's avatar Dana Simpson 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social
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What are four comics you don’t only like, you draw inspiration from? #Artsky

(Calvin and Hobbes and peanuts are also givens, but like, who doesn’t say those?)

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Mike Dawson's avatar Mike Dawson @mikedawson.bsky.social
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It’s important to put things into your brain that aren’t just cable news + doomscrolling (1/3)

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Memento Rori's avatar Memento Rori @roricomics.bsky.social
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Rereading a comic is a beautiful act of love and also you notice a bunch more stuff. Like, let's get into rereading comics like we rewatch shows :D

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Robot Monkey Pants's avatar Robot Monkey Pants @robotmonkypants.bsky.social
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Some good MTV news, for a change? Internet Archive now hosts MTV News content

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Randi Mason's avatar Randi Mason @randimason.bsky.social
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Any guesses on which shorts the Mads are doing based on Carmen Cerra’s poster? #MST3K

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ONeillJones's avatar ONeillJones @oneilljones.com
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A job I was looking forward to just fell through because I requested a very basic “please don’t feed my work into the AI garbage chute pls” clause in the contract That was apparently against company policy and non-negotiable If anyone needs a book cover I have an opening in my schedule

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jesse's avatar jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social
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FYI: this book was in constant rotation for my daughter for nearly a year - it's absolutely wonderful

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Randi Mason's avatar Randi Mason @randimason.bsky.social
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Any suggestions? I blocked a lot of those accounts because they were scraping content without permission.

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Randi Mason's avatar Randi Mason @randimason.bsky.social
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That makes sense - and I do have that feed. Thank you!

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Mariah McCourt's avatar Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social
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2am is quite the brain hour, right? It's like I can only have great ideas or a huge existential crisis.

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My dopamine substitute is opening up Lego blind boxes, which is cheaper but what the heck do you do with them afterwards?

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Thanks. Timer is a good idea. I have Bluesky turned off from 12pm to 7am but there’s an override and 2am thoughts are powerful buggers.

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How are you all managing the emotional response to mainlining news on Bluesky? I should probably stop as soon as I feel overwhelmingly sad and helpless, but the desire to also be informed is huge.

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Laura Smithers's avatar Laura Smithers @laurida.bsky.social
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Trenchant @jbouie.bsky.social, no paywall: “If the president is a king, then we are subjects, whose lives and livelihoods are only safe insofar as we don’t incur the wrath of the executive.” Clarifying commentary within a world turned upside down. Happy almost 4th and welcome to our civil monarchy.

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Damn, the Rubin Museum of Art is closing their building in Chelsea.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall's avatar Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social
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This is in Donnelly Idaho as a result of hb 710, which makes libraries financially liable for any complaint of "inappropriateness" Identical legislation is on the floor in Idaho. Book bans used to be quaint, a result of moral panics that ebbed and flowed. Now they're organized. This is the result

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“Google adjusted its policies to target AI spam earlier this year, but plagiarizing content still comes up higher in search results months later—and SEO experts aren’t sure why.”
www.wired.com/story/google...

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Ethan “Fink-Nottle” Kocak's avatar Ethan “Fink-Nottle” Kocak @blackmudpuppy.bsky.social
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Procrastinating today by drawing our cats

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Travels With Brindle, head bimbo at Danceteria's avatar Travels With Brindle, head bimbo at Danceteria @travelswithbrindle.bsky.social
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I have worked extensively with Chance. In addition to being a good artist, he’s a good person. Throw him some clams.

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling's avatar Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social
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🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic - A Calvinesque and Hobbesian look at presidential immunity - Brought to you by the Inner Hive, including long-time member Sue H. and new member Hawkeye Mike. - READ IT RIGHT HERE👇

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Cassandra Miller's avatar Cassandra Miller @tiptransformed.bsky.social
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Allison Blair ftw! I’m hoping he new series will be fun.

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Randi Mason's avatar Randi Mason @randimason.bsky.social
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I was just wondering how you’d locate Starter Packs.

Would have loved a #librarian one given ALA was this weekend, but that community seems to have split or quit, rather than all landing on the same platform.

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Ken Lowery's avatar Ken Lowery @kenlowery.bsky.social
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Kindly: this is a far better approach to this topic than a lot of the other stuff I've seen on the timeline today. Follow this example. It is not good for those predisposed to a bleak state of mind to see that called a "sin," a privilege, or - I shit you not - an assumption of "godhood."

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Mariah McCourt's avatar Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social
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Yeah, I have to say, this is where I'm at. I think it's essential to feel your feelings including the really shitty ones. Have a good cry. Scream into the void. But this is, in a lot of ways, the ongoing fight of humanity against both apathy and authoritarianism. They frequently go together.

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The Comics Journal's avatar The Comics Journal @comicsjournal.bsky.social
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Someone's barking up the right tree! Sara Varon of the newly adapted for the big screen, Robot Dreams, talks with Gina Gagliano about not sitting still, book recommendations, and dogs, dogs, DOGS! www.tcj.com/really-i-jus...

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Bully, Little Stuffed Bull 🐮's avatar Bully, Little Stuffed Bull 🐮 @bullythelsb.bsky.social
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AND WE ALL GOT LIGHTSABERS!!!

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Birthday presents! I got a barista cart and a marketplace with groceries that will fit in my little house, tiny little Pez dispenser toys, and a metal gong so I can play kung fu movie or making films for the Rank Organisation! Or just call everyone in for a delicious La Choy chop suey dinner.

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