thanks for this thread, both on the content-scraping side and for teaching critical info lit for research. our digital collections have been getting hit recently with a big increase in bot traffic; really helpful to have concrete examples to share.

silas (on the left) and hoyt

a medium-sized dog (black with a white wishbone) is curled up tight next to a pit-mix pup (fawn with white splashes). they’re both looking beseechingly at the camera.

mostly stealth read/learn/share on the socials these days, but after fifteen months here with a blank posting slate, figure i can drop these dudes as a placeholder + for warm fuzzies.

caleb & reeb doing dean johnson’s ‘faraway skies’; bella white’s ‘concrete and barbed wire’; ‘i have met my love today’ by wonder women of country.

i’ve always appreciated your writing and clear thinking. thx for resurfacing and for these recent blog posts.