Listening to the podcasts that autodownloaded to my phone while I was in Alberta, and wow, a depressing volume of gambling app dynamic ads!

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

This thread (which Robin pursues down a couple different, useful forks) is a great overview of the mess that is eBook licenses for libraries, especially 24-month expiring licenses for books in series! (Context: cost per circ = cost per each time it's checked out.)

Robin Bradford@tuphlos.bsky.social · 2d ago

Book 1 is $59.99 went out 4 times. Cost per circ $14.99 Book 2 is $59.99 went out 4 times. Cost per circ $14.99 I'm not buying book 3. If the cost per circ was $5 or $3, I wouldn't mind. But that is WAY too high, especially for a thing that expires after 2 yrs.

Looking for recommendations for celebratory zines to teach in my Intro to Creative Nonfiction class--can also be instructional but should have a "this thing/process is great!" quality. I'll purchase my students 20 copies of the ones I choose. @prisonculture.bsky.social? @marc-fischer.bsky.social?

Said hi to the mountains, officiated a wedding, had elite tier cousin time, danced to Chappell, drank a lot of white wine.

An evergreen piece of advice!

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2d ago

got a reply from someone more or less explicitly saying they don't want to read the article, they just want to get mad at it, and:

Hanging out by the bar at the rehearsal dinner

It's #WorldEmbroideryDay! Here are some things I'm proud of making this past year

My machine that manufactures non-accountability is worth a quadrillion dollars

People get hella mad when you suggest adult drivers should be more responsible than children walking/biking

I'm listening to a podcast explain What's the Deal with Abundance(TM) and I think I'm going to have a nervous breakdown

I gotta decide if I think this is hideous and cannibalize the hoop for another project or finish it. The colours aren't coming together how I hoped, but I went to unhoop it last night and couldn't quite put it aside.

Marika@marikapea.bsky.social · last mo.

I have really come to love working with the line as the fundamental unit of embroidery, and it occurred to me this week that this is not unlike my feeling about poems

As *tech*, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good. Take away the accompanying, galactic-scale stock-swindle, and we'd call AI's apps "plug-ins" and we'd use them and abuse them in the same way that we've used every other technology: www.normaltech.ai 1/

Public libraries in this country need BUDGET JUSTICE and library supporters need to be consistently engaged in local budget fights to bring this into being. You need to know how much funding your local systems get compared to other public goods.

library workers everywhere are begging the public to talk to our superiors. tell them what you want re: services, spaces, collections, programs. be loud. nothing happens otherwise.

Going to say something…please stop saying the kids don’t read. You aren’t either. People are not reading past headlines and repeating misinformation about recalls, outbreaks, etc.

Please read my whole email. It's two sentences and both of them contain information.

www.winnipegfreepress.com/this-just-in...

Librarian to run in North Kildonan ward

Labour leader Orvie Dingwall is throwing her hat in the ring to unseat Coun. Jeff Browaty in North Kildonan. Dingwall, a librarian, was previously the president of the University of Manitoba Faculty.....

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Historically I've been in favour of deplatforming extremist writing as a sort of quarantining dampener, the way Germany aggressively deplatforms holocaust denial, but learning some of the more recent research on the "toothpaste tube effect" of deplatforming has me rethinking this.

Margaret Killjoy@margaret.bsky.social · 2w ago

People ask me about once a week why I use Substack. Here is my answer. I do not expect it to satisfy everyone, but it is the truth.

Attempted to sponge gradient my nails for the first time tonight, but I used the wrong kind of metallic so the tips just looked kinda... grey, like I've been reading a newspaper. Oh well.

So much of scarcity's apparent credibility depends on decades-long efforts by elites to naturalize their rules about money: • Who gets to create + lend it • Who gets to borrow it • What rules govern public funds Ending scarcity entails understanding monetary design as a site of political struggle.

David Kaib@davidkaib.bsky.social · 2w ago

The productive capacities of society are truly unbelievable. Scarcity is entirely about power.

Figure out what you want to build. We cannot wait on the hearts of the currently-unwilling to plant new seeds 💚

Please support Metonymy Press!

Metonymy Press@metonymypress.bsky.social · 3w ago

Sometimes great writers are also photogenic. We're still fundraising to keep these books in print and to put out more! Thanks for all your support so far www.gofundme.com/f/help-susta...

I found this episode very moving. And infuriating.

This American Life@thisamericanlife.org · 3w ago

The government set out to prove that Antifa is real, in the first federal case charging people with material support to terrorists for their involvement. link.podtrac.com/a2cz4psl

i have reached peak “adjuncts don’t get paid in the summer” situation, please keep me in mind for any editorial, research, or fact-checking work you hear about or need! more details on my website or upon request!

Many people with cars want to repress acknowledging the logic that car-ownership is not just convenient and pleasant but actually essential for any kind of good life is pretty dehumanizing to people who medically cannot drive, and results in us receiving significant condescension and disregard

The War on Cars@thewaroncars.bsky.social · 3w ago

Nobody disputes that having access to a car in a car-dominated society is good. It gives one access to jobs, healthcare, food, education, social opportunities and more. All we're asking is for people to go one step deeper and ask why access to such basic rights requires buying and operating a car.

Tax on cis people sharing screenshots of rowling's latest cruelty - one screenshot, one donation to a trans youth group? I know we need to know what she's doing for activist work reasons - but I wish the work we were doing FOR trans youth got as much online traffic as attacks on them.

got so excited that I missed that the question was specifically for classics. if we're limiting to that jana h-s's Muppet's The Collected Works Of Sappho, starring kristen stewart

DEVIL'S CUP reloaded with short stories & a free zine is live on Itch: greenstreetpress.itch.io/devils-cup ...and now, also on Kobo! tinyurl.com/w2c9d9na FFO: PJ Harvey, Courtney Summers, complicated BFFships, disaster bis, the beach 📚🩸

Devil's Cup by Green Street Press

Devil’s Cup: the beach curved like a hand beckoning. Tempting.

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Thread for you if household/relational choices feel too small & (inter)national policy feels too big* *I say "feels" bc there *are* ways to operate very effectively in both of those areas but in my experience most people feel like *they* can't be enough in either

Erin 🌱@wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 3w ago

What can we ask our elected leaders to do to reduce the destruction & pollution from wildfires? - state policy: stop burning fossil fuels by electrifying everything and ending gas system expansion - local policy: zone for density and support mass transit in cities and inner suburbs