#Cataloguing

[dandelionjack]

yesterday i started a personal long term activity that i like to call The Condensation Project. because i’m bringing The Cloud back down to earth. well, not quite. but what it does entail, is, prospectively, a physical archive of everything i have in every saved folder on social media (sadly you can’t print videos out, so i mean images and text) and/or screenshots.

i have long thought about the fact that all of our saved content is in fact immensely precarious. a nazi could report your account tomorrow and, because zuck’s team are nazi sympathisers, your whole archive would be just, poof, gone. social networks are ruled by cold-hearted oligarchs, all of them, technocrats who sell your data for profit. i hate the fact that all my favourite art, all my favourite memes and musings and poems and photos and songs and and and, are located on platforms owned by these tyrants, who have the ability to revoke our access to these materials at their whim.

i refuse to continue paying rent with my soul for the ability to look at artworks people haven’t posted anywhere else. so i’ve embarked on the (slow) task of cataloguing all my saved posts on instagram — there’s several thousand of them — saving them to the Compooter, pasting them into a google document, shuffling them around so that the largest possible amount of images can fit on 1 A4 page. google itself is run by the very same type of billionaire, so this is one temporary step on the road to freedom. what i’m going to do is Print Them Out.

by my estimate, it will total about 900 pages. i don’t know how much that will end up costing, but really i’m ready to sacrifice other areas of spending so i can splurge out on this. after printing, i will be cutting out every image individually, and gluing them into scrapbook(s, plural, i’ll probably go through at least 4); writing out every artist’s name next to it, copying out the instagram post’s caption too if it was exceptionally interesting.

i’m a very lazy person and a serial procrastinator so this will probably take me 5 months. after i’m done with the images, i’ll start writing out by hand the saved text-based posts that i want to preserve.

i don’t know much, but i do know one thing: the internet as we know it is going down in the next 3 years, 5ish if we’re lucky. other people can do the work of prepping for floods or droughts or other disasters, i’m preparing for the CULTURAL drought. i can deal with hunkering down in a bunker and eating beans from a can, but i can’t live without art, poetry, history. so that’s what i’m prioritising.

“just read books” okay, yeah, nobody’s discounting that. but not all the information in the world is contained within the pages of a book — a lot of it is up there, drifting in the Cloud, and nowhere else. i’m condensing it.

[oneluckylibrarian]

Spicy opinion: no academic papers should include more than five* authors. I do not want to have to type names for 20+ minutes during original cataloguing processes**.

*Yes, I know that this is an arbitrary number and some projects require larger teams. My hands just hurt. **The whole academic publishing/funding/careers system needs an overhaul because it is directly contributing to the volume of co-authors on papers as people NEED to publish regularly*** otherwise they can't access the funding or career opportunities to actually get things done.

***Publishing is expensive, it makes sense to spread that cost across as many people as possible, especially when you're all stuck needing to publish to keep your jobs and/or funding; plus, it provides networking opportunities.

I understand all of these things, but again: there shouldn't need to be so many authors on the one academic paper.

[khymeira]

Today the black sleeves were rolled up, revealing corded, copper-brown forearms on display. The meeting was whatever, smart tagging, bulk injectors and Ad%be integration whatever the fuck.

But I've been cataloguing his palette in swathes. Ngl, lots of compelling colour sampling going on between my ears, lately.

The tops of my hands are a medium brown, and there's a softer chromatic demarcation where my palms begin; something of a beige in temperate weather I guess

His palms are the same.

He gesticulates with large, slender hands. Brown, copper, bronze hands. Nails clean in a melanated neutral for yet I've no hex colour. In the air, they carve out the runes of his thoughts—clever questions I didn’t think to ask; rubberducking devOps or wandering over to my desk to talk shop about graphic design or cable splitters or our favourite pepper sauces

He's long ago embraced his greys and silvers; there's still more pepper of his youth in there but the salt. Styled with a touch of Don Draper, if dude had a skin fade.

His brows descend in an angular point towards dark eyes, which lend a perpetually sharkish glint to his face, and an honest TO god scar bisects the right one. Better than any clipper job. I'll ask about it eventually

Jokes come easy to him, so he laughs a lot. His incisors have that sort of hang that give his smiles a bit of fang and he can never seem to get a clean shave.

That shit just be interesting is all

[j-august]

He had now begun to discover, the hard way, that information not properly classified can be irretrievably lost.

Arthur C. Clarke, Imperial Earth

[carryonlikewedidbefore]

I'm currently doing some cataloguing and opened the Moys book to a random page. Good to know there's a shelf number for alien property

[catmask]

i dont consider myself a 'fashion guru' by any means but one thing i will say is guys you dont need to know the specific brand an item you like is - you need to know what the item is called. very rarely does a brand matter, but knowing that pair of pants is called 'cargo' vs 'boot cut' or the names of dress styles is going to help you find clothes you like WAAAYYYY faster than brand shopping

[heedra]

unsung benefit i think a lot of ppl are sleeping on with using the public library is that i think its a great replacement for the dopamine hit some ppl get from online shopping. it kind of fills that niche of reserving something that you then get to anticipate the arrival of and enjoy when it arrives, but without like, the waste and the money.

[surfeitoflampreys]

importing classical albums from spotify into musicbrainz is such a pain. you go to a-tisket and it grabs all the metadata from spotify perfectly fine, but spotify has such AWFUL data when it comes to credits. first for the album credit, you get several people credited - conductor, choir, orchestra, composer, etc. and even in the spotify interface you can't always tell which is which. Then for the indivdual tracks, you get a credit for the composer, the choir, the conductor, etc all over again and it's a nightmare and i give up. all i wanted was to put this one track on a listenbrainz playlist. that's all.

[internutter]

Challenge #04481-L097: Place of Special Interest

You find them in odd places, people clustered in groups, armed with note books or 'guides to'. Focusing on what seems like nothing in particular or hovering at railway station on spots near the tarmac at airports. "Spotters", "Twitchers", eager to see or spot something rare. Planes, birds, rare engines. -- She Who Knits

There was a shelter-house at the crossroads. Generally a place for travelers to find relief from the weather. They were expected to restock the firewood and any long-term supplies they were able to, since it was a lonely place on an equally lonely road. In the height of summer, it attracted a particular, peculiar group of people.

They called themselves 'Zervers' if asked, but generally kept to themselves. They brought their own tents so the travelers had full use of the shelter-house.

And, as a traveler passed by, many of them took notes. Some would cluster and compare those notes. It was just one such cluster that attracted the curiosity of Horizon as he approached. They were so interesting in the way they looked at him and made urgent whispering and scribbling in their books... but also seemed very pleased about it. The words, "Fascinating specimen," was usually said with vitriol and Horizon's cue to run. This time, they weren't.

[Check the source for the rest of the story]

[libraryben]

Library catalogs have always been battlegrounds where content is not merely described but debated. President Trump’s January 20, 2025, Executive Order 14172 directing the renaming of longstanding geographical designations “Mount Denali” and “Gulf of Mexico” to the politically loaded “Mount McKinley” and “Gulf of America” reveal the naked truth of what cataloging has always been: a battlefield where meaning is contested and conquered.

[jsaunderswrites]

Testing the limits of my very personal, vibe-based cataloguing system for my media collection:

Like, although they officially do not take place in the same universe I have The Spectacular Spider-Man and The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes placed together as though they do.

Similarly I have put Green Lantern: The Animated Series with Young Justice based on the latter having an episode that follows up on the characters from the former.

But now I'm considering how to treat the Remedy Universe. I would place Quantum Break among them if I owned a physical copy, but what about Max Payne? I'm thinking not as there's not even an unintentional hint of crossover cosmology. But maybe the remake will change that.

[blorbobingus]

“oh yes, i am very reasonable and normal about this subject!!”

*proceeds to mass reblog any related content*

[verflares]

NOW SPELL: ANGEL Z-E-L-D-A WRONG! TRY AGAIN.

also on inprnt :]

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[handweavers]

i'll never forget in 2020 when covid really broke out and the cbc discovered that most canadian hospitals and businesses were sourcing their PPE from factories run on slave labour by undocumented refugees in malaysia

also when canada was shipping all its garbage to malaysia to offload the environmental impact where it would be burned in these garbage burning factories + pollute the water and air in malaysia, and when malaysia stopped accepting the garbage and turned it back it became a diplomatic incident