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information and library science query: is there an open-access equivalent to <worldcat.org>? i am looking for a way to get machine-readable citations for books and articles

@KeithDevlin yes. another "write on the blackboard 1000 times ...." power move. terrible behavior, to say the least

@gwynnion 💥

@clive so even the robots are going with "love you more" retorts.

There is a kind of insubstantiality to clouds, and a softness, a yielding…. In a way, everything is a cloud.
- Rick Hanson -
(note: no citation deets for this quote ... yet)

Wait, is a "hot minute" a long time or a short time?

@CobaltVelvet thanks for the response -- appreciated.

@CobaltVelvet I want to experiment with the Bluesky bridge. I cannot find the bridge account @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy. Is this something you can enable? (of course I might be misreading the Bluesky bridge instructions)

@CobaltVelvet i cannot stop this from playing.What.Is.Happening?(TM)

from a neighboring social:
Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social

Yes, that’ll be nice—to sit out of doors & drink, in some French town, away from all this.

—Virginia Woolf, diary, April 27, 1937

@b0rk i like what you put on the git cheat sheet -- no adds yet but will be using it ... (i took a screen snap and added your name and a date)

@simsa03 a few key excerpts from The Great Derangement: https://bandstands.praxis101.net/readingnotes/amitav_ghosh_the_great_derangement

@simsa03 two excerpts from Lewis Hyde: https://bandstands.praxis101.net/readingnotes/lewis_hyde_-_remembered_forgotten

@simsa03 no need; i will just keep feeding you the gems ...🙂

@simsa03 nice point, and a theme in Lewis Hyde's "A Primer for Forgetting"

deleting a post from yesterday as a way of practicing thinking twice before posting -- but perhaps i am just overthinking ....

yesterday's cloudspotting -

@mcc mm..hmm ....

@evan your irony and rhetoric sets have a non-null overlap, no?

@tinydoctor nice one for my Zeitgeist mood