Hugh Cayless
DH Dev at Duke University Libraries.
Likes: Ancient / multilingual DH, Digital Preservation, TEI, Libraries, my brilliant colleagues, MUFC, UNC basketball, running.
Dislikes: talking to computers (does swear at them a *lot* though), mean people.
- Personally, I’d prefer a Truth and Consequences Commission.
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- Reposted by Hugh CaylessPlease boost! The NOEL PRIZE, in memory of the great and good and much-missed Will Noel. Celebrate your (or any) open access library project. No project too small, or too big. Full details here, deadline 8/1, extremely low-effort Google Form: pacscl.org/what-we-do/f...
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- Uncle Cas delivers!
- Reposted by Hugh CaylessSo many people have grown up to be the villains of our stories.
- Reposted by Hugh CaylessOathbreakers is on sale at @libro.fm for $4.99 and personally I think it would be great if 50,000 of you went and bought it there today. libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
- Had brunch with my graduating college senior and the conversation turned to AI. She is mostly against it, would never use it for writing, and is ambivalent about using it for code. She is mostly annoyed that correct use of the em dash is apparently a “flag” of AI use.
- Reposted by Hugh CaylessPart of me just wants Hannah Waddingham following this man around for the rest of his days with a cowbell announcing his presence with "LOOOOOOOOOOO-SER! LOSER LOSER HIS LORDSHIP SOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE LOSER OF LOSERTANIA DOTH APPROACH"
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- Reposted by Hugh Cayless🚨BREAKING: In a victory for voters, a federal court has halted Republican Judge Jefferson Griffin’s efforts to overturn an election and disenfranchise thousands of voters. A federal judge has ordered the state to certify Democratic Justice Allison Riggs’ victory.
- If there is one thing the American people most emphatically do not understand, nor countenance, it is shared sacrifice. It’s fine for other people to be hurt, but not for me to be inconvenienced.
- Not to mention that the US is doing its best to scare away international students right now, so a sensible country would be trying to ramp up its intake.
- It’s interesting that we’ve gone from worrying that a Catholic American president might be under the thumb of the Pope to worrying a conservative Pope might be under the thumb of the American President.
- Reposted by Hugh CaylessIt’s still mind blowing to me that the signature economic policy of the current US government was to place a 145% import tax on American businesses that source goods from the largest supplier in the world. It’s like a doctor whose primary treatment is stabbing patients with a rusty nail.
- Reposted by Hugh CaylessHell yeah! Put this on loop—this wise man speaks for me. 🔥
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- Started off the day with a 5 mile run, MUFC won convincingly last night, had a 3.5 hour (very constructive) meeting, and waiting to find out whether I or my colleagues will get asked to quit our jobs next week. Just full-spectrum feels over here.
- Not how I was expecting this game to go, honestly. #mufc ❤️
- Every meeting these days is like “Well if we’re still here in 2 months, maybe this meeting will be relevant.”
- Duke is trying to reduce its exposure to a now-unreliable federal government. Expect more of this in the coming months www.wral.com/news/educati...
- Duke is trying to reduce its exposure to a now-unreliable federal government. Expect more of this in the coming months www.wral.com/news/educati...
- Calendar has for some reason stopped keeping up with Exchange, which has already caused me to miss or be late for meetings. Y'all are determined to make me have to use Teams, huh. Bastards.
- Reposted by Hugh CaylessThe US government doesn't subsidize university research. Rather, universities subsidize government research. I've seen recent threads deceiving the first half of this, but nothing recent describing the extent to which universities are doing the subsidizing.
- We haven’t begun to experience the effects of the Trump/Musk attack on our economy and institutions yet. Frankly, I’ll be pleasantly surprised if I’m still employed in 6 months.
- Trump obviously has spoken to Xi *in the past* so he’s technically not lying, but I would bet a lot of money that he has zero idea *when* he last spoke to Xi.
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- Boston is great. I once watched a seriously drunk guy kick a newspaper vending machine across the street one night there. Not sure who started it.
- Went to a screening of Audrey’s Children (www.rottentomatoes.com/m/audreys_ch...) for Ronald McDonald House volunteers last night (it’s good!) and was struck by the ways American capitalism seems so much harder edged nowadays.
- I am crying 🤣
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- Imagine having a personality so toxic that spending just 10 minutes with you could kill someone.
- Found out my cousin who was planning to move his family to the US has changed plans. Can’t blame him in the slightest given *gestures*, but feeling terribly sad about it.
- Reposted by Hugh CaylessAngel of the Lord: He is not here, He is risen, just as He said. Come and see the place where He lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead. Alito: Okay, first of all, this violates ALL sorts of rules Thomas: This was a LAWFUL execution, who is God to interfere
- Reposted by Hugh CaylessI’m actually from a tiny (<2000) town in semi-rural PA where the biggest employer when I was growing up was the state prison. So I can speak to this one with a lot more authority than this author. It’s got almost *zero* to do with abstractions like their “ way of life”. I can tell you what they say…
- This from @jdcivicscience.bsky.social nails why small town, red America is not turning on Trump.
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- Reposted by Hugh CaylessThere are so many ways one could provide context for this data. For example, in the last five years universities have received 52-55% of their research funding from the federal government. That's the lowest percentage since the 1950s. 1/x ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/high...
- Reposted by Hugh Cayless"Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers. Theirs is the construction site of hell." [Pope Francis, 18 April 2025]
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- Jesus wept. When’s the first botulism outbreak then?
- BREAKING: The FDA is planning to end most of its routine food safety inspections, according to CBS News. www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...
- Reposted by Hugh CaylessBREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.
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- The demise of the NEH—a thing I am so furious about I can’t even really feel it yet—continues to reverberate. It’s even more important that we support efforts like Knowledge Commons in the aftermath.
- We’ve seen colleagues of ours across the country posting about the direct impacts they’re experiencing of the current attacks on the National Endowment for the Humanities. We hurt for everyone, not least because we’re in the same space with you. Read more: about.hcommons.org/2025/04/17/o...
- Oh thank fuck for that at least.
