Alex Vancina
Systems Librarian. Beekeeper. Open source enthusiast. 2024 Library Journal Mover & Shaker.
- Sploot
- Honey bee doing bee stuff
- Brown-belted bumble bee
- Honey bee
- Two-spotted bumble bee above purple prairie clover
- Brown-belted bumble bee
- Since Microsoft is now cluttering up Notepad with AI and other superfluous features no one asked for, it's nice that they're still offering one text editor that just, you know, edits text files.
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- Reposted by Alex VancinaILA has released a statement on the termination of Dr. Carla Hayden as Librarian of Congress. bit.ly/4mejoYj
- Reposted by Alex VancinaThis #NationalLibraryWeek, when you donate $15 or more to the ALA Show Up for Our Libraries fund or your public library, you’ll receive an audiobook credit from Libro.fm! Details at: blog.libro.fm/libraryweek/ Thank you, @libro.fm!
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- Any other #iug2025 conference folks here on Bluesky?
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- Reposted by Alex VancinaWe just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.
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- Reposted by Alex VancinaWe’ve seen this before. We know what it means. There will be an emphasis on the “Judeo-Christian” influences on our founding. There will be a whitewashing of our history. Anything social justice related will end in the 1960s.
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- Voting is open for the new Illinois State flag. You can vote daily through February 14. Some of the candidates are... not great. But the Illinois Centennial flag is! Please consider voting for it. apps.ilsos.gov/stateflag/
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- Made it to New Jersey. I was expecting more drones. Very disappointing.
- Looks like my Echo Dot is getting retired.
- It's here! 🎉 We're very excited to share with you the future of open voice, the Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition! This has been 2 years in the making - we look forward to taking you on this journey with us. 😌 Find more details here: www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/ Catch up on the news here:
- Looks like Christmas is coming early for open source home automation
- Pst. You, yeah you. Have you hit that 🔔 on our YouTube channel to get notifications? We're pretty sure there's something happening on Thursday... 🧐 youtube.com/live/ZgoaoTp...
- Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #4,099,348!
- I am unreasonably excited about this. insider.microsoft365.com/en-us/blog/n...
- MDW->DTW for the #IUG2024 conference. Looking forward to presenting on Aspen Discovery!
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