The first article in a 3 part series — you can read the article here: murmurations.space/2026/08/05/a... This is such a good article. If you’ve ever wondered about the extent that mis/disinformation plays in anti-trans bias, Heath’s article addresses that very issue.

A Library Worker’s Guide to Anti-Transgender Misinformation, Part One: Understanding Anti-Transgender Misinformation by Heath Umbreit

AbstractAuthorLicenseRecommended CitationDownloadable PDFIntroductionPositionality statement and content notesLocating ourselves in present realityConstruction and interpretation of informationExam…

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murmurations@murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 9h ago

🪶New in Murmurations: “A Library Worker's Guide to Anti-Transgender Misinformation, Part One: Understanding Anti-Transgender Misinformation” by Heath Umbreit heaththelibrarian.bsky.social. The first in a series on this topic!

Billy, the music loving dog is taken to the music hall filled with musicians practicing and listens for the sound that pleases him the most. It’s the cello. 🎻 He lays down basking in the waves of sounds he chose out of all the others. Music is the universal language. #DogsofBluesky #MusicSky

This is VERY bad. Congressional investigation immediately. They’re trying to use Palantir to figure out who you voted for. 0% chance this ends well. Stop it ASAP.

Exclusive: FBI gets voter's IP address in new fraud probe tactic

The move offers a glimpse into how authorities are now digging into voter rolls and registration practices.

axios.com

Somebody DO something!!!!!!!!

Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · 4d ago

Do y’all understand this means that next month is SEPTEMBER???????

they know what they’re doing

Michael Zimmer@michaelzimmer.bsky.social · 5d ago

It takes a ridiculous amount of hubris / technochauvanism to not foresee exactly this outcome. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Just a reminder that in this country, the process is punishment. 24 hours in jail to process your arrest, money for bail, money for a lawyer, missed work for your court appearances...it all adds up. We do this to poor people every single day in this country. Many never really recover.

CNN@cnn.com · 5d ago

The Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj

Okay, let it

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 7mo ago

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns

Wait, it’s August???????????? WHO APPROVED THIS, omg??????

I strongly believe that your circle of people is a direct reflection of who you are.

Mozelle Batiste Delacroix’s only son.@roamingdruid.bsky.social · 6d ago

If you REGULARLY kick it with ain’t shit people, then I’m going to assume that YOU, yourself ain’t shit too. At our big ages we are ABSOLUTELY the company that we keep. Fuck you mean your homeboy beats his partners…and he’s STILL your homeboy? Or your bestie is awful to their children,

Such a good piece - please read and share, friends!

murmurations@murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 2w ago

🪶New in Murmurations: K.R. Roberto's “Operationalizing Bias.” In this piece, the author describes "the problems in classification that I was personally experiencing" during an LIS PhD program, "namely, the ways in which my transness inexplicably led to medical issues and confused classmates."

The Homosaurus (homosaurus.org), an international LGBTQ+ linked data vocabulary, is recruiting! I'm a member of the English Term Development Committee, and we anticipate reaching out to applicants in September. Application here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Gillian Anderson has officially revealed the upcoming 1,478-piece LEGO set for THE X-FILES. The set is centered on Mulder’s office, paired with a forest clearing scene and a hovering UFO. Includes 8 minifigures, featuring Mulder, Scully, The Flukeman & more. August 4.

mass layoffs at Pixar despite Toy Story 5 about to cross $1 billion at the box office. there is simply no amount of money that will make corporations happy enough to not upend people’s lives.

Pixar Bears Brunt of Disney Studio Layoffs as Company Axes Several Hundred Staffers

Pixar Animation Studios, despite riding high on the success of summer blockbuster "Toy Story 5," was hit particularly hard in a wave of corporatewide layoffs at Disney.

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A federal judge has approved a US$1.5 billion copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay thousands of authors about US$3,000 per book after using pirated copies of their works to train its Claude chatbot.

Judge approves a US$1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train the Claude chatbot

A federal judge approved a US$1.5 billion copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay authors about US$3,000 per book.

ctvnews.ca

I’m at the lettuce parasite outbreak I’m at the air quality disaster I’m at the historic flooding I’m at the combination parasitic outbreak air quality flood

"Do you want to hold the baby?" Oh...ummm...no thank you? "She's a Golden Retriever." Yes, I will hold the baby.

I want people to understand the full impact of the devastation that First Nations in Canada are facing. It's NOT just that people and wildlife are losing their homes...it's the history that is being lost for generations to come.

i love when a press release headline sounds like it was written by an aggrieved fish

Conard Novel

kim@kimmymonte.bsky.social · 3w ago

your baseball pitcher name is your grandfather’s first name and the last thing you bought i’ll go first mine’s Dominic Sandals

As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up. nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n... 🧵

Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher

Plans to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant at Salamanca High School have sparked debate over the role of technology in schools.

nysfocus.com

I’ll tell you what, he can work us into pretty much any statement. It’s one of those: you’ll never guess how this clip ends Him: trans people

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Trump on the CHIPS Act: "If you weren't transgender, you didn't qualify. So they'd get the money, they'd look all over for transgender people to run the company."

Bleach is my People’s ancestral endowment. When I read that bleach won’t kill it? That’s when I knew that we are dealing with something supernatural. And I’m not messing around with it.

Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH@geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 3w ago

Y’all also need to shoot anyone telling you that you can simply wash off a parasite embedded into the skin and even the folds and creases of alot of this produce. A parasite that is resistant to bleach, chlorine, and vinegar by the way. Signed, An epidemiologist

what’s the Odyssey about? I’m so glad you asked

I watch Jurassic Park at least once more week. Sometimes more. Today is a sad, sad day.

mandatory reading

Hey Chicago! An ICE contractor is trying to buy our parking meters — and City Council decides whether that happens THIS WEEK. We've got time to stop this, but we need as many people as possible to fight back: tinyurl.com/icepark

*taps sign* www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4w ago

Anyway, there’s something to be written about how much of democratic infighting right now boils down to a lot of people (of all races and classes) are sick to death of having to go to South Carolina. Literally and figuratively.

"…as of July 2025, the CDC made tracking cyclospora optional, as part of scaling back its Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network. At the time, food safety experts worried that it could make it harder to identify and respond to outbreaks."

Bruno J. Navarro@brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 4w ago

The demand for tests for cyclosporiasis, a pathogen often caused by contaminated fresh produce, is so intense, with so many patients seeking help for diarrhea and crippling abdominal cramps, that many labs can’t keep up.

Hidden Barriers: The Experience of Academic Librarians and Archivists with Invisible Illnesses and/or Disabilities. A good article with a good list of resources at the end of it. crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr... Learn about this flag. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disabil... #DisabilityPride