We *do* have some nice Ides coming up this week.

Linty and slightly sticky in the bottom of a backpack.

The pictures are right, but I think that website may not be the real Buck Mason site (compare to buckmason.com).
I was about to score a pack of those on-sale black tees but noticed there's no size guide, then some other things that felt "off."

I think it's an aardwolf. Though hyenas are good too!

Or the chapter in "All Creatures Great and Small" where the farmer loses his whole herd to brucellosis and has to move to the city to work. Herriot writes about how not that many years later, he would have been able to just give the cattle antibiotics, but at the time there wasn't much to be done.

I keep getting hung up on the patchworked *that way* too!
They could have placed the flag/color bits in a way that complemented the cut (those star underarms &stripe bicep band???) or skipped the suiting areas & gone all flag/colors. Neither would make it look *good*, but it would make visual sense.

it Was An Era.

The hats have the possibility of this even before they're done! Lots of knitters knit in public.
Plus, saturating the landscape with these small protest objects creates a constant reminder to ICE that they're not welcome. Grinding down their morale isn't trivial.

I'm not sure whether I'm more distressed by the black leather fedora or the decision to go with brown shoes.

Adding: Don't expect to get better in a steady progression. Just do the thing.
Repeat. Maybe every week?
At some point, you'll notice that a step that had been hard or frustrating or onerous now feels normal to do.
You won't now the bestest at the thing, but you'll have improved. And it feels good.

The hardest part is you won't be good at that right away either.
I can't say I'm totally over it, but a thing that helped me was having a *small* challenging thing w/ observable results that I committed to practicing, then being amazed that I got better at it. For me it was weightlifting and bread.

Fiber arts certainly aren't the highest-drama community online, but they're no slackers, either.

One of Powell's picks of the month for January!

For Tertiary Healthcare/Health Care, old version retrieves 2,083 and new retrieves 1 with no overlap. For Scoping Review/s, old version retrieves 666 and new retrieves 2,414 with no overlap.
This is weird, right? Not just me misunderstanding something about MeSH changes?

I checked these to see if the old version got directed to results for the new one even though they're in quotes and I'm seeing something weird.
"Pain, Postoperative"[Mesh] retrieves 54,691 results; Postoperative Pain"[Mesh] retrieves 2,474, with #1 NOT #2 retrieving 54,537.

With some SCA person in the back who's been waiting for a chance to put their carnyx to its intended use.

Forget the two wolves; inside me there is a human and a cat that needs to be pilled.

"Land war in Asia" wasn't an option, so they had to make do.

Me, when a evidence synthesis search requires translation to IEEE.

#medlibs

I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.

A drawing of a cephalopod in a Santa hat hovering over a town, dropping candy.

On the first night of winter, St. Nautilus flies through the air, pelting good children with candy and dousing the naughty ones in ink.

Pushy academic librarian here: do you have a citation manager? Zotero is free and will insert them into a Word document for you in whatever format your publisher wants, and keeps track of the numbering. Doesn't prevent gore in your socks, but it isn't formatting gore.

Did the reduction in 1:1s come from the mitigation measures or were the mitigation measures added after?
We're also stretched thin and at risk of thinner, so I'm interested in your strategies.

Maggie Stiefvater wrote it and it is entirely Gaston-free.

I might never stop being surprised that practice works.

Maybe some is due to copy cataloging? (the practice of copying and editing extant records for use in a library's own catalog.) One poorly-chosen categorization could proliferate that way.

Poor guy only got bottom-shelf stuff.

It's astonishing how foul it is! It doesn't *seem* like it should be that bad, and yet.

Which, of all places, kinda used it right.

In a sideways way. If lots of people want to read the book at once, the library may buy a larger number of copies and need to replace them sooner. This applies to ebooks and audiobooks, too: each "copy" can be read by one patron at a time, and often is good for a finite number of check-outs.