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Fi Johnston

@fijohnston.bsky.social

Library Person, Maker, creator of Tiny Zine Swap Shop resources @ www.TinyZineSwapShop.com. Primarily books + bikes (+ sewing but that ruins the alliteration) 📚 🚲 🪡 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉

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Fi Johnston@fijohnston.bsky.social · last yr.

Thinking about what games are small to store, easy to learn, and quick to play beyond the usual suspects for school libraries - offering a different way of escaping into a narrative for a little time. Great list to investigate!

Drayer Ink 🧡💛💚💙🩵💜🤎🖤🩶🤍@drayerink.bsky.social · last yr.

Small, portable card games: what are some good ones? Looking for: easy to teach, good for travel, interesting implementations, clever use of basic components, things to learn from as a designer ✂️🎲🎲✂️

Fi Johnston@fijohnston.bsky.social · last yr.

Every single time I do a Tiny Zine workshop with young people (or adults) I get multiple versions of ‘I’m not creative’ ‘I can’t draw’ ‘I don’t have any good ideas’. And showing them that their personal creative expression has worth is my favourite thing in the world.

Kevin Morgan@mrgan.com · last yr.

It's a fundamentally conservative idea that art is good when it's detailed, realistic, and predictable. This impulse also promotes neoclassical architecture, three-point-thesis writing, and pristine audio production. It's a boring blight on creativity and expression.

Stupid-ass AI app for turning your kid's wonderful drawings into who-gives-a-shit 3D-render-likes.
Simon James Green@simonjamesgreen.bsky.social · last yr.

The world feels so bleak I almost didn’t post this… but fear and misery is what they want, so screw them! Out today! A YEAR OF PRIDE & JOY - 52 inspirational LGBTQ+ folk, from all walks of life, talking about JOY! Art by Ruth Burrows, curated by me. www.waterstones.com/book/a-year-...

A Year of Pride and Joy by Simon James Green, Ruth Burrows | Waterstones

Buy A Year of Pride and Joy by Simon James Green, Ruth Burrows from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

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Fi Johnston@fijohnston.bsky.social · 2y ago

A year and a half ago I visited @stninianslib.bsky.social to chat Tiny Zines - today I visited and saw the HUGE AND AMAZING Tiny Zine Library they are creating and constantly expanding. I may have almost cried at how good they were.

St.Ninian's School Library@stninianslib.bsky.social · 2y ago

Well done to the Ms H's S1 class today making their #Zines - lots of focus and lots of great ideas. By the end of this project we will have over 300 new stories in the library that other pupils can borrow and learn from. #zinepower

Robert G. Reeve@robertgreeve.bsky.social · 2y ago

if you’re an artist who ever thought “what’s the point? The world is Hell and I should do something that matters instead” even in an ICE detention center people will treat art as sacred, seek it out, and find joy and comfort in it. You aren’t making art, you’re making hope.

On her first day in the facility, Becky asked for a scrap of paper and a pen, and began to draw the inmates on the table next to her. She was immediately inundated with portrait requests. A Mexican woman called Lopez, who had a photo of her children stored on one of the iPads, told Becky she would buy her some paper and colouring pencils from the commissary if Becky drew her kids. She soon became the dorm’s unofficial artist-in-residence, with women huddling around the dirty mirrors to make themselves look presentable before they sat for her. They would decorate their cells with Becky’s drawings, or send them to their families. Lopez declared herself Becky’s manager. “She kept saying, ‘Becky, you need to ask for stuff in exchange. Ask for popcorn.’ And I’d be like, ‘Lopez, I don’t need anything.’ I thought, I’m here briefly, you’re stuck here a long time. I’m not going to take your food away from you.”A three by three grid illustrating in blue pen cartoon portraits of women in an ICE detention center. “Mrs Kailey,” Bana, Lewelyn, Ikram, Asil, ‘Auntie,’ ‘F.Z,’ Kseniia, and “P.A.” Two have light hair, three have glasses, one wears a hijab, one poses, and one holds a drink.
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2y ago

Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like. And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Matthew Noe@noethematt.bsky.social · 2y ago

Librarians aren't going to save us. Librarians aren't superheroes. They're just people trying to keep largely underfunded and overwhelmed public services going. Praise is nice; realistic expectations are better; material support is best.

Fi Johnston@fijohnston.bsky.social · 2y ago

These look amazing, what a great tool for sparking conversations and connections for students with books AND their librarian.

Scottish Book Trust@scottishbooktrust.bsky.social · 2y ago

Every secondary school in Scotland can now get an edition of Story Deck, our new card game tool for starting conversations about books. We travelled to Forfar Academy to find out how Story Deck has helped to spark a love of reading in pupils there. www.readingschools.scot/story-deck

Fi Johnston@fijohnston.bsky.social · 2y ago

Keep it quick, keep it practical and find the (many many) gaps in the day-to-day knowledge of so-called Digital Natives. We all need help with the stuff we don’t know! It ain’t rocket science.

Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social · 2y ago

10-Minute Tech classes are off to a strong start! As of today, every S at my MS has emptied their Gmail inboxes! For the many who had 1,000+ (one had 8,800!), this is the first step in using email efficiently. Next up: proper email structure & etiquette! #SchoolLibrary #TLSky #SchoolLibrary

Kate Lomax@katelomax.bsky.social · 2y ago

"The data shows that makerspaces support the core missions of libraries in innovative and expanded ways, reflecting the core values of social equity, access, and public good." chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...

Library makerspaces help enrich our communities

A University of Illinois professor explains her research on the benefits of Chicago-area public library makerspaces, where patrons can use tools and machines to create, repair or just tinker around.

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