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Oct 1

I have played a lot of dating games in my life, and they are all based on the fantasy that having a crush is fun and will be reciprocated. What if neither were true? That's an idea I explore in this anti-romance text-based game, _Admiration Point_. ifcomp.org/ballot/#entry-

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⛏ Strike the earth on December 6th! ⛏

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I wrote up a postmortem for Admiration Point! I still don't know what I'm doing showing variables in my sidebar ludibin.com/2022/11/admira

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after talking to another library employee, I learned that the ofrendas on BYU campus in general were started by an employee in the Chinese Flagship center with Mexican heritage.

The ofrendas in the library were started by one of our Latina employees! 🌼💀🌼

Reynolds had many fans and there were many chapters of her fan club. Here is some poetry celebrating her.

Happily surprised to see an ofrenda to Alice Louise Reynolds in the JFSB today for day of the dead!

in turn, Gates refers to Emmeline B. Wells as "aunt Em" 🥺

Read about the study that got "Wikipedia is not a lab" added to the What Wikipedia is Not page

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Wikipedia’s Citations Are Influencing Scholars and Publishers - @Rachel_Helps in @scholarlykitchn @Wikipedia scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2022/11/01/gue

sometimes I feel like my reviewers understand my own inner life better than I do, thank you rabbit! intfiction.org/t/rabbits-ifco

The intersection between feminism and religion surfaces in many interesting and unexpected ways. I noticed and appreciated a moment where God is pointedly referred to as “They” rather than the traditional “He”, for instance. The personal politics of motherhood are especially underlined, as one of the stresses underpinning Maria’s family life is that her husband wants to try for another child even though her first pregnancy took a huge toll on her; Maria, in turn, expresses a desire to resist the cultural expectations of motherhood when she designs exhibitions which feature mothers as key historical figures. To an extent, the game isn’t really about Sean; it feels like Admiration Point wants to explore how feminism is negotiated against a traditional conservative American background (i.e. the Christian nuclear family), and Sean’s presence is just the spark that lights the gunpowder.

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blushing but also feeling incredibly proud of my writing in Admiration Point, thank you to JJ McC for this review intfiction.org/t/jjmccs-ifcom

This is a deeply adult work, and I don’t mean in the sense of “tee hee nudity and devil worship.” I mean actual experiences and challenges relevant to actual adults. You are a digital artist working in a near-future digital art gallery. Its kind of an office drama, and it is crackerjack. The lived in setting of the office, the casual jargon-filled interactions, the constant tension between satisfying your creative urges and getting the job done, the highly specific triumphs and failures that are impenetrable to outsiders. All of this is painted so crisply, so matter-of-factly it is instantly immersive.

The characters in the workplace similarly feel organic. Over time you get enough background to establish with certainty why they are in the business they’re in, and where they are satisfied or dissatisfied with the work. It is insanely lived in. No notes! It also makes the crucial decision to effortlessly establish that it is these common intellectual and artistic passions that provide

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nothing has changed in the last 90 years, we are still saying it's time for Mormon literature to get serious! On the other hand, Elliott predicted the Lost Generation of molit? quoted in the January 1931 Improvement Era: archive.org/details/improv

The following editorial, written by Mr. Elliott in the Telegram of October 19, 1930, has aroused nation-wide comment: Utah has reached that point in cultural progress when its writers should begin creating a great literature.

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surprisingly progressive, I've misjudged the 1920s Improvement Era archive.org/details/improv

Critical analysis of "Mormon" doctrines does not injure their validity, and the faith of youth is increased by understanding that scienficitc knowledge only makes "Mormonism" more complete.

The youth of the Church has faith in the gospel, because the doctrines of "Mormonism" are comprehensive and intelligible. We believe that inspiration, for example, was experience by men who founded our government. God inspired men of every color and creed to do things to advance making, by heightening their sensibilities and their comprehension concerning such things.

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propaganda! from an article titled "Marriage is now my career" I don't think any Mormon pioneer woman saw themselves that way, the 1950s were wild archive.org/details/improv

Learning to understand my husband, listening to my children, reading together, working together, talking and laughing--What more can any woman want? It is a satisfying and stimulating life. Now I have time for just plain wifely devotion and love.

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Yayoi Kusama, Pumpkin (Blue), 1990 #WomensArt

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Dressed as my supervisor's feedback on my PhD thesis for Halloween because nothing is scarier than reality 😱😱😱 #phdlife #phdchat #phdmemes

Photo of a woman wearing a white t-shirt with comments such as "makes no sense?" written all over it in red marker pen. Her makeup is done to look like she has been crying.

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Same image but now showing the back of the t-shirt with more red markings.

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Keepapitchinin

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Let me not judge, for it is written so, But leave all judgments, always, unto Thee; And haply, doing this, may surely know My own faults are forgiven graciously. (Zara Sabin, Improvement Era, 1940) 2/2

Keepapitchinin

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A Prayer Dear God, let me be tolerant today Of others’ failings as I would my own, Remembering the while, they may Be bearing burdens I have never known. 1/2

Hey! My husband (

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David K.

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What's the scariest variable? A BOO-lean 👻 Get it? It's because they hold very little information, are overused, can introduce impossible states when enums are more appropriate, lead to complicated conditional expressions, and make logic harder to understand. Scary stuff.

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Shhh Relief Society is still using the word "theology" in their 1940 conference

Provo Sunday Herald | 1939-04-02 | Page 5

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used to have an Alice Louise Reynolds section of the library

An important even of the afternoon was the presentations of cash with which to purchase books for the Alice Louise Reynolds' section of the university library.

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Miri's Maxim

@MaximumMiri

Oct 29

Mormonism has a divine evolution theory; in a sermon, Joseph Smith said that God/gods used to be mortal & advanced "from grace to grace, from exaltation to exaltation ... until (they) arrive at the station of a God". We know that everything evolves into crabs, therefore...

Going insane right now

A web of relationships with Alice Louise Reynolds at the center

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It was planned and designed by Jason Yancy and created by Dale Pratt (any relation to Orson Pratt? The odometer!). The first tabbed browsing experience??

The book wheel is still in the JFSB!!

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I'm curious what the church had against the word "theology" 👀from the Oct. 10, 1928 RS meeting minutes

Courses of Study for Ensuing Year, Report on; Miss Alice L. Reynolds made a report on the courses of study for the ensuing year. The change of policy in the Church makes it necessary to substitute some other word for Theology. It was suggested that "Practical Religion and Testimony" be adopted.

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reading through transcriptions of Alice Louise Reynolds's diaries and correspondence. She remembers that her dad joked with J. Golden Kimball that they would make him a secretary in heaven 😆 see them all at files.lib.byu.edu/transcriptions

56 Jonathan Golden Kimball
killed in Nevada on his
way to Salt Lake City. Auto-
crash. 85 years of age. He
and Father belonged to
the same Quorum in
the Council of Seven Presidents
of Seventies. Was one of the
most natural humorists
I have ever known and
perhaps the most natural
humorist in the Church.
He went to Independence
Rock, Wyoming, with the
Oregon Trails Association and
created a real sensation.
They called him the
Bell Nye of Mormonism.

When he talked to them he said:
"My Father had more wives
than Brigham Young but
Brigham Young got all
the glory."
Once he told the family
that he was walking up
the front steps of the
Salt Lake Temple with
father, when father said
to him: "Golden do you know
that I expect when I am
going up the stairs to heaven,
some one will call out
"here comes Brother Reynolds
lets make him secretary."
He was a dear man loved
by our family. It is now
29 years 7 since Father
died: he has lived eighteen
years longer than Father lived.

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Thank you everyone! Sounds like Susa Young Gates was being familiar 🥰

Mormon studies friends, what would it have meant for an older woman to sign her letter "your loving aunt" to a younger woman in 1917? I don't think these people are related. Could aunt be a general title for an older woman?

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Roxanne Shirazi

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Oct 26

If you work at a library with faculty status for librarians, are there local guidelines for what is considered faculty work and what is non-faculty (to be performed by staff or clerical)? Or is that designation just made by individual role, from line-to-line?

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Oct 25

Based upon google searches, it appears that "long covid" only exists in the anglosphere nations: Ireland, Australia, UK, Canada, New Zealand, and the USA. Does covid somehow know if you speak English? Why no interest in long covid in Japan or Sweden or Italy or Brazil?

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