truly do not understand why so much open advocacy centers around state policy when basically the two primary lessons of the last decade have been that laws aren't real and that all we have is each other...please stay tuned for my future "scholarly output" on this topic

Kevin Sanders@kjsanders.eurosky.social · yesterday

For the record: I *strongly* disagree with trying to weaponise the power of the/a State 'for' open access. (That's actually the last thing open access scholarly publishing needs.)

100 years ago my great grandparents were teachers and garment workers which is basically the leveled up version of my job and main hobby

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 7d ago

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

disappointing!!! support nypl library workers who want to display books about LABOR MOVEMENTS and hate FASCISM!!??!? us250nypl.my.canva.site

reading a recent somewhat acclaimed academic book that defines both "colonialism" and "capitalism" by quoting, at length, their wikipedia pages

insanely good alb

Bill Orcutt@billorcutt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Pitchfork review out today for Almost Waking — "the most relaxed, generous music either has made" pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

looking at an ai-generated bowling ball image with too many holes and thinking about how in the past technology was limited to showing us simply actual pictures/illustrations of recognizable bowling balls but now we get to look at worse and purposelessly inaccurate bowling balls for no reason

can't believe i have to wait a whole month between learning a new jackass movie is coming out and going to see it, genuinely teared up watching the preview

today i went to a "plant meditation" where i contemplated a tiny succulent and listened to this japanese twee show on nts and both of these things made me cry www.nts.live/shows/the-nt...

NTS Guide to: Clover Records 18th April 2026

Playing Shoegaze, Indie Rock, Leftfield Pop. Started in 1995 as a home-recorded cassette tape label. Since then, the label has released a wide variety of artists including Twee Pop, Garage, Shoegaze, ...

nts.live

me being in grad school must be such a whirlwind for my haters because on the one hand it's always like...bad news for them, i finished a paper but then it's like good news for them, i have another one to write

I have to say that it's consistently wild to get union busting emails from a university that houses the ROBERT F WAGNER LABOR ARCHIVES but go off university administrators

solidarity with my NYU Contract Faculty Union - UAW colleagues who are on strike as of 11am today. Fair contract now!!

rt if everything you know about margaret thatcher comes from CRASS

machine gun corey@nuclearbbq.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The wonderful genre of anarchopunk alone disproves this

The wonderful genre of anarchopunk alone disproves this

Ed Burmila@edburmila.bsky.social · 5mo ago

One weird trick for guaranteeing that you make a terrible film: start by saying "This film is going to be really political". Works for songwriting and visual art too!

"My whole harvest disappeared." The Israeli military is spraying herbicides on Syrian crops. "The whole forest was razed." The Israeli government claims they do it "to kill vegetation that terrorists could hide in” www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...

How Israel is spraying herbicides on Syrian crops

Israeli planes sprayed chemicals on farmland in Quneitra, Syria in late January and early February, 2026. Farmers say that their crops yellowed and died in just a few days and that they lost dozens of...

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greetings! we are the united states of america. our key exports are rc planes that bomb hospitals and lake-drinking robots that tell people to kill themselves

every university tries to reassure everyone by being like "don't worry we have Fully Trained our rent-a-cops to demand a judicial warrant when they see DHS so don't worry your little heads about know your rights"....... simply shocked this hasn't worked in practice

The City Reporter@thecityreporter.nyc · 5mo ago

NEW: Federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security apparently lied their way into a Columbia university dormitory and arrested a student there, the university’s acting president Claire Shipman said in a statement Thursday morning. www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/26/e...

my councilmember's office (district 26) had not heard about this and the person i spoke to is urging more people to call and write in!!

abby emerson@abbyemerson.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A disappointing start to the 2027 budget negotiation process, but thankfully we’ve got @nycplan.org ready to push back. Get activated and call your city councilmember plz and thank you

woke is back babyyyy

ACLU@aclu.org · 6mo ago

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

closing in on 2.5 years of “ongoing interest in the status of the barricades” (working on “open data” in a building that is physically barricaded with large orange gates and multiple ID checkpoints)

preach

Emma Molls@emmamolls.bsky.social · 6mo ago

As an academic librarian, I'm deeply concerned that my profession is becoming one focused solely on compliance. And even more concerning, that many of my colleagues seem just fine with this. I'm not naive enough to think this is new, but I feel it EVERY day now and it's getting worse.

the new Laura Bush grants have "particular interest in exploring alternative pathways into the library services field. . . that explore innovative alternatives to traditional credentialing and librarian education" also "cutting edge tools in the content and provision of continuing education"

I’m sorry but I can’t believe that someone named breezy Johnson won a gold medal in the precise historical moment when there’s controversy abt ski suit crotches’ wind resistance

it's Mechanical Turk all the way down

Sarah May@sarahmay1.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Not satire cybernews.com/news/waymo-o...

2 - protein folding is the only example of so-called societal benefit of AI that these folks ever refer to and to me it sounds like ploughing an entire planet to grow one potato

thank you for everything you did for we here and for the library and information science profession, fobazi. you were an incredible friend, thinker, writer, supporter. you’ll be dearly missed 🤍

Fobazi M. Ettarh@fobettarh.bsky.social · 6mo ago

genuine question not to be a jerk but what is the utility of know your rights training when ice is operating with 0 regard for the law?

one of the many things this piece is about is the travesty that is scientific communication in the present-day, which enables high powered scientists at big institutions to claim authorship over 2000+ articles with varying levels of fraudulence that lead to real harms in the world

Brandy Jensen@brandyjensen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

this is incredible work

Current ownership dynamics of Big 5 publishing: S&S: private equity KKR (sold by Ellison's Skydance) PRH + Macmillan: formerly Nazi affiliated Bertlesmann + Holzbrinck HarperCollins: Murdoch's NewsCorp Hachette: conglomerate Lagardère Group Independent publishing has never been this important. 📚

I LOVE MINNEAPOLIS MINNESOTA AND WISH FOR AN END TO STATE TERROR THERE

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Murderer

YouTube video by Buju Banton - Topic

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