Franny Gaede
She / Her. Eugene, OR. Librarian @ University of Oregon. Opinions my own. Humanist & technologist, open advocate, cross-stitcher, cat-person, cardigan enthusiast, eater of cheese, unapologetic punster.
also @librarifran@hcommons.social
- WHYYYYYYYY Where’s Open Access Hulk on BlueSky?? I need to rage with a friend, please.
- U.S. Institutional Repositories Respond to AI: Perspectives on Policy and Technical Measures, Labor Impact, and Engagement Metrics: Journal of Library Administration: Vol 65, No 8 tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/019…
- Our union continues to fight the layoffs announced at the libraries in September 2025. Please sign our petition on Action Network and help us gather public support to protect our colleagues and oppose these harmful position eliminations. ✊🏻 actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...
- My WFH buddy Paco is a Very Good helper. I always think of his early Internet doppelgänger whenever he gives me side-eye!
- Proud of my city 💜 (and thrilled with our new local news outlet @lookout-es.bsky.social!) lookouteugene-springfield.com/story/latest... #NoKings
- Chicago, I was so excited to escape grass season in Eugene, but, uh, I appear to have found some more pollen 🤧
- We had to come up with a team name in our #OpenRepos2025 workshop today and in honor of my laptop sticker, meet The Open Potatoes.
- Traveling to #OpenRepos2025 today, so didn’t get to join my friends at the #NoKings protest in Eugene, but a good day to don my 🦋Bluesky best🦋 #MundusSineCaesaribus
- Anyone know what’s up with @artinstitutechi.bsky.social digital collections? Most items returning error pages.
- Having a grand time at my first #crossstitch retreat in Cannon Beach.
- I miss PubPub.
- Gargoyle
- I’m gonna eat the whole thing. By myself.
- Headline writer wins at life
- Reminds me of the Utah cry closet, improved by stuffed animals 🧸
- Well, that’s the right outcome, but, uh, Alito’s dissent is, uh…… Uhhhhhh….. We are pretty sure he’s a person and not a Slitheen? Because it does read like a fart sounds. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
- @kfitz.info has all the good stuff. Can’t run government like a business because most businesses 🚫 fail 🚫. The scope and scale of this failure can be managed at varying levels (unless you’re a bank). 💰 If government fails, that’s a real-life, honest-to-goodness CRISIS. Gee, that sounds familiar…
- Today's newsletter from my friends at @rawsignal.ca deserves a great big THIS THIS THIS: "Government doesn't have a profit-based business model because government isn't a profit-based business. Government shouldn't move fast and break things because government is civic infrastructure and +
- Attending a virtual town hall with @wyden.senate.gov, who is engaging with empathy, intellect, openness, and care... he's a good egg and I'm proud of his work representing our state. I believe him when he says he will do everything he can. I'm feeling the call of the everything bagel, though.
- tech issues on a workshop day
- Umbridge made flesh.
- My sickbed in the guest room/office had a hairball on it. Anointed.
- The band is introduced by the pianist: the vibraphone, the bass, and the artillery. Said percussionist does have a (literal) bow. I’ll allow it. (They’re very good)
- I have these on my photo roll and I *don’t know where they came from*
- You ever receive an email signed by two people and are entirely sure that one of them had nothing to do with its contents and had to be bullied into signing it? But you’re still mad as hell that they signed it? Yeah, /that/. 😒
- Defective by design ☠️ Today's the last day to download AZW3 files from Amazon before you're locked in to your Kindle apps for good. Jason Snell highlighted this bulk downloader so you don't have to go one title at a time: github.com/treetrum/ama...
- The energy I bring to Bluesky
- Um. The American Library Association does some good things, but taking job-seekers' money to guide them into the federal workforce is not one of them. 😬 ($79 public / $71 members / $37 students). The room. Read it. We're librarians. We should be good at this.
- Father & sons 🐱
- Happy Caturday from Lucas-lad
- No kings no tyrants! ✊🏻
- Proud of MPOW for creating all-gender bathrooms in this hell year instead of ripping them out. Better late than never (or, jfc, Cincinnati, going back).
- Friends! Let the State Department know what you think of their plan to change passports to require “the applicant's biological sex at birth” aligned with EO 14168, which I can’t even bring myself to abbreviate for its awfulness. Open comment period through 3/20. 📣
- It’s like this
- Movies you’ve watched more than 6 times. GIFs only.
