I try to be as generous with my colleagues as I can but when librarians are using AI generated meeting minutes without proofreading them and dumping coworkers’ writing into ch*tg*t without consent I’m not sure how that can be reformed. the call is coming from inside the house.

to add to the neverending evidence that professional development in academia is untenable, to present at one conference and stay for two nights in order to travel there and back again, the expense is $2k that I would have to front half of before I can even apply for funding

Then the Haitians did it The Right Way. And now after Americans lured them here and practically begged them to come to Springfield — Springfield! — now they’re having Trump’s armed secret police inflicted on them, and being told they all need to go back to an incredibly dangerous place or else

Something else - and no, I’m not making an original point here — that endlessly infuriates me about the trump administration’s siege of Springfield Ohio is that the Haitians are there primarily because they were invited there, largely by local conservative political and business leaders…

i think the solution to a lot of our social problems would be to revive municipal baseball teams in every small town

The worst thing about getting beaten by the Lynx isn't the beating they put on you on the court, it's the fact that they do the Electric slide after they beat you. #wnba It's humiliating and you can't do anything about it 😬😬😬😬

Minnesota Lynx do the Electric Slide Dance

Alt: Minnesota Lynx do the Electric Slide Dance

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Just saw an intriguing new article about digital enclosure, planned obsolescence, and extractive big tech… in a Springer journal. Please, academics, stop publishing in journals controlled by commercial publishers that embody the worst of Silicon Valley! Think abt the means of knowledge production!

sometimes you just need to take a half day at work so you can eat hot dogs and read at a baseball game by yourself

on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...

why do publishers keep doing stupid shit like taking away perpetual ebook access and offering up some "AI study experience" grift kortext.com/partnerships...

Squishiness on trans rights is a dealbreaker for me because (a) it’s a straightforward issue of personal freedom and bodily autonomy much like abortion, and (b) the right is obviously coming after us cis gays next.

ashley (ravens 1-0) 🌹@clearlyashley.bsky.social · 2mo ago

trans rights frankly is a top 5, potentially top 3 issue for me despite not being trans and not having any trans family being bigoted against trans folks not only hurts my trans friends and every trans person but is so predictive of further bigotry

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...

the thing about public libraries is that they are—or at least many of them are—the one unrestricted public space in which children are treated with something approaching full civic equality with all other people. And they sense that. Our children’s room is the liveliest space in our library. 📚

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

"This might be unpopular but I'd like to discriminate against an entire class of people" If this is you, I hope the next 500 books you try to read are a disappointment.

The Queer Liberation Library is looking for a Collections Volunteer to do reader's advisory in the QLL discord. Sound up your alley? Apply here. www.queerliberationlibrary.org/volunteer-op...

Volunteer Opportunities — Queer Liberation Library

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there’s a lot of dumb crap I wish I could eternal sunshine out of my brain but still being able to sing the wishbone theme song perfectly is not one of them

Olivia Waite@oliviawaite.com · 2mo ago

Watching the Wishbone episode about the Odyssey and at the end they actually have the dog explain it began as oral poetry and quote some of the lines in the ancient Greek, this show did not have to go this hard but they really made this wonderfully.

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

stay creative. after Baby Beluga (1980) 🐳, I didn’t worry about how I would top that.. just kept growing as a person and musically. 14 years later came Bananaphone! 🍌 and 32 years after that, Penny Penguin. 🐧

in my refusal to pay upwards of $60 to get the twins a professional haircut, I have accidentally given one of them a javier milei styling

The Luddites' actual argument was that automated looms meant expensive, skilled workers were being replaced with literal children, who were then getting maimed and killed, and maybe this is bad.

SlacktivistFred@slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Luddites were “clinging to horses and carts” because it was the early 19th century and cars hadn’t been invented yet.

i had no idea this would become so literal

furious I will not get to see big boy roll through ohio

Union Pacific@union-pacific.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Big Boy #UP4014 will roll into Altoona, PA, as part of our coast-to-coast tour celebrating #America250. 📍 Where: Hop aboard a free shuttle from Peoples Natural Gas Field | 1000 Park Ave ➡️ July 9-10 | 8 a.m.-2 p.m. 🅿️ No Parking Available on Site | Use Shuttles ✅ Free Admission

I just made a donation for $550 (!) to the Prairieland defendants! Thanks to everyone who has bought a copy of my "Zines Are Back!" zine at #alaac2026 #alaac26. I'm still taking orders at violetbfox.info/zines-are-ba... if you'd like to pick up a copy for just $5.

Violet Fox 🦊@violetbfox.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢 New zine announcement: “Zines Are Back! : The Perennial Reemergence of the Zine Scene” is a collection of news headlines featuring all the cliché “zines aren’t dead” stories that you’ve grown accustomed to (or resentful of). violetbfox.info/zines-are-ba... #zines

JOB POSTING 📜📚 The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University seeks a research (reference) librarian: yale.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/external_car...

my kids' favorite library book right now is about pride month. I also have to secretly open the fridge in the mornings because if they see shredded cheese they will lose their shit because I don't know how to explain to them that there are better breakfast options available

amy brown@amybrown.xyz · 7mo ago

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

I hope to see many of you attending #alaac2026 in Chicago at the celebration of life for Fobazi Ettarh on Saturday. Fobazi was a guide star for the LIS profession; I'm glad we'll have the chance to come together to honor her life & legacy. 📚 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebratin...

Library Cards–The New Landscape of Public Library Censorship. A deep-dive into the policies and procedures that accompany getting library cards, with a focus on the impact to young people. This is an amazing piece from Amy Mikel. bookriot.com/library-card...

Library Cards–The New Landscape of Public Library Censorship: Book Censorship News, June 19, 2026

The rules defining the issuance and use of library cards are important for protecting the freedom to read. Libraries should be taking a second look.

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For our first article, we are republishing Keahi Adolpho and Stephen Krueger's "Decistifying Trans and Gender Diverse Inclusion in Library Work: A Literature Review," originally published in In the Library with the Lead Pipe, 2024. murmurations.space/2026/06/15/d...

We are excited to announce the launch of Murmurations: A Trans and Gender Diverse Library Journal!

Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org

getting a bunch of stadium snacks and taking a good book to a baseball game that you occasionally pay attention to is an A+ outing

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 4mo ago

If you want to attend a sporting event to watch the game, there's nothing like basketball but if you want to attend a sporting event and not watch the game, baseball is basically the GOAT sport