Fobazi M. Ettarh
@fobettarh.bsky.social
Academic. Librarian. Creator of the concept “vocational awe.” PhD student at UIUC’s iSchool. Game designer of Killing Me Softly.
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Donate to Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant, organized by Ysabel Gerrard
Hello all, my name is Ysabel and I’m fundraising for my friends … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant
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Fobazi is currently in the ICU and could use your support. Apologies to those I haven’t been able to reach out to yet. You can message me for more info and I will be posting updates to GoFundMe. Please share, send healing thoughts, prayers, etc. ❤️ -Elena
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gofund.me/c8485b58
Hello everyone, we’ve posted an update on Fobazi here: gofund.me/ed95ca5c0
❤️❤️❤️ -Elena
❤️❤️❤️ -Elena
Donate to Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant, organized by Ysabel Gerrard
Hello all, my name is Ysabel and I’m fundraising for my friends … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant
gofund.me
October 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Hello everyone, we’ve posted an update on Fobazi here: gofund.me/ed95ca5c0
❤️❤️❤️ -Elena
❤️❤️❤️ -Elena
Hi everyone, we’ve posted an update on Fobazi here: gofund.me/ed95ca5c0
❤️❤️❤️ -Elena
❤️❤️❤️ -Elena
Donate to Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant, organized by Ysabel Gerrard
Hello all, my name is Ysabel and I’m fundraising for my friends … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant
gofund.me
October 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Hi everyone, we’ve posted an update on Fobazi here: gofund.me/ed95ca5c0
❤️❤️❤️ -Elena
❤️❤️❤️ -Elena
I’ve posted an update on Fobazi. Thank you all so much for all of the love and support! ❤️❤️❤️ -Elena
Update here:
gofund.me/506f89f9
Update here:
gofund.me/506f89f9
Donate to Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant, organized by Ysabel Gerrard
Hello all, my name is Ysabel and I’m fundraising for my friends … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant
gofund.me
August 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I’ve posted an update on Fobazi. Thank you all so much for all of the love and support! ❤️❤️❤️ -Elena
Update here:
gofund.me/506f89f9
Update here:
gofund.me/506f89f9
Fobazi is currently in the ICU and could use your support. Apologies to those I haven’t been able to reach out to yet. You can message me for more info and I will be posting updates to GoFundMe. Please share, send healing thoughts, prayers, etc. ❤️ -Elena
gofund.me/c8485b58
gofund.me/c8485b58
Donate to Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant, organized by Ysabel Gerrard
Hello all, my name is Ysabel and I’m fundraising for my friends … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant
gofund.me
August 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Fobazi is currently in the ICU and could use your support. Apologies to those I haven’t been able to reach out to yet. You can message me for more info and I will be posting updates to GoFundMe. Please share, send healing thoughts, prayers, etc. ❤️ -Elena
gofund.me/c8485b58
gofund.me/c8485b58
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Only appropriate flag for this country
July 4, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Only appropriate flag for this country
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Reading through some of the top comments on the NYTs latest story about Zohran Mamdani
July 4, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Reading through some of the top comments on the NYTs latest story about Zohran Mamdani
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People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
July 4, 2025 at 5:01 AM
People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
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2025 feels like being awake during surgery
July 4, 2025 at 1:21 AM
2025 feels like being awake during surgery
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Firefox extension for those who are interested.
June 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Firefox extension for those who are interested.
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How did I only learn today—as the episode played on a restaurant TV—that the classic Adam West Batman included an arc with a villain called The Bookworm, whose henchmen include Pressman, Printer’s Devil, & Typesetter??!!
Look at them in their printer’s caps!!! batman.fandom.com/wiki/The_Boo...
Look at them in their printer’s caps!!! batman.fandom.com/wiki/The_Boo...
July 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
How did I only learn today—as the episode played on a restaurant TV—that the classic Adam West Batman included an arc with a villain called The Bookworm, whose henchmen include Pressman, Printer’s Devil, & Typesetter??!!
Look at them in their printer’s caps!!! batman.fandom.com/wiki/The_Boo...
Look at them in their printer’s caps!!! batman.fandom.com/wiki/The_Boo...
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This is exactly how librarians have been blamed for cuts to library budgets for decades. "You didn't do enough to communicate your value." What that really means is "you don't make any profit, and profit is the only legitimate value an organization can produce."
You hear this a lot on the left but it isn't true. USAID did not "fail to tell its story to Americans," the right targeted the agency with lies and misinformation.
Ultimately this narrative turns conservative attacks into even more calls for the left to reform.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...
Ultimately this narrative turns conservative attacks into even more calls for the left to reform.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...
June 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This is exactly how librarians have been blamed for cuts to library budgets for decades. "You didn't do enough to communicate your value." What that really means is "you don't make any profit, and profit is the only legitimate value an organization can produce."
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Happy yuri day to all those who celebrate
June 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Happy yuri day to all those who celebrate
I have to say that growing up in the pop rock/alt/fueled by ramen fandom as well as 90/aughts comics/fantasy/sci I am used to being surrounded by misogyny/misogynoir. And yet, as I catch up on the John Wick series to prepare for Ballerina I must say I miss the variety of women kicking ass.
June 26, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I have to say that growing up in the pop rock/alt/fueled by ramen fandom as well as 90/aughts comics/fantasy/sci I am used to being surrounded by misogyny/misogynoir. And yet, as I catch up on the John Wick series to prepare for Ballerina I must say I miss the variety of women kicking ass.
Hello friends! It’s been a minute, but I am doing a keynote! It’s for ThriveLib: Reclaiming Joy, Balance, and Boundaries in Libraries from Aug 12-14. There will be some a bunch of other amazing speakers too. Save the date! :) www.thrivelib.com/news/save-th...
Save the Dates for ThriveLib: A New Conference on Creating Workplaces that Foster Well-Being, August 12, 13, 14 — ThriveLib
Mark your calendars for ThriveLib: Reclaiming Joy, Balance, and Boundaries in Libraries , a virtual conference dedicated to supporting the emotional, psychological, and organizational well-being of l...
www.thrivelib.com
June 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Hello friends! It’s been a minute, but I am doing a keynote! It’s for ThriveLib: Reclaiming Joy, Balance, and Boundaries in Libraries from Aug 12-14. There will be some a bunch of other amazing speakers too. Save the date! :) www.thrivelib.com/news/save-th...
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Post a picture of when your pet was little. As a new dog mom you bet I’ll take any chance to post my dog baby!
June 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Post a picture of when your pet was little. As a new dog mom you bet I’ll take any chance to post my dog baby!
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I’m glad I finally found the love of my life before the world ends in nuclear warfare or some other stupid shit, but also, come on, wtf
June 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I’m glad I finally found the love of my life before the world ends in nuclear warfare or some other stupid shit, but also, come on, wtf
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Way too many people don't get that christian dominionism is apocalyptic accelerationism VERY LITERALLY SEEKING to hasten their vision of the Biblical end of the world.
That is not hyperbole or misinterpretation or a joke.
And they have VERY CAREFULLY worked their way into the halls of U.S. power.
That is not hyperbole or misinterpretation or a joke.
And they have VERY CAREFULLY worked their way into the halls of U.S. power.
Do not lose sight of the role that American evangelical are playing in cheerleading for war in the Middle East, relishing it in fact:
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | The dispiriting truth about why many evangelical Christians support Israel
For Christian Zionists, what happens to the Jews and Palestinians is, to put it very mildly, collateral damage.
www.msnbc.com
October 22, 2023 at 7:33 PM
Way too many people don't get that christian dominionism is apocalyptic accelerationism VERY LITERALLY SEEKING to hasten their vision of the Biblical end of the world.
That is not hyperbole or misinterpretation or a joke.
And they have VERY CAREFULLY worked their way into the halls of U.S. power.
That is not hyperbole or misinterpretation or a joke.
And they have VERY CAREFULLY worked their way into the halls of U.S. power.
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My only working explanatory hypothesis right now is that billionaires and authoritarians *Literally* thrive on human misery; that if people aren't suffering then all their money and power don't actually sustain them, and that cruelty & sheer horror are the only things that flow through their veins.
June 22, 2025 at 12:39 AM
My only working explanatory hypothesis right now is that billionaires and authoritarians *Literally* thrive on human misery; that if people aren't suffering then all their money and power don't actually sustain them, and that cruelty & sheer horror are the only things that flow through their veins.
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One of the reasons AI is so insidious: 90% of good writing is sitting around and trying to figure out what the hell you're going to write next.
I spent more time staring into the void at my laptop than I do writing the actual text.
I spent more time staring into the void at my laptop than I do writing the actual text.
June 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
One of the reasons AI is so insidious: 90% of good writing is sitting around and trying to figure out what the hell you're going to write next.
I spent more time staring into the void at my laptop than I do writing the actual text.
I spent more time staring into the void at my laptop than I do writing the actual text.
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This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.
June 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.
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*Ebeneezer Baptist Church of God in Christ on the Mount Gospel Chorus*
WE USED TO HAVE MORE PUBLIC POOLS BUT WHITE PEOPLE CLOSED THEM DOWN RATHER THAN SWIM WITH A NEGRO.
*tambourine*
WE USED TO HAVE MORE PUBLIC POOLS BUT WHITE PEOPLE CLOSED THEM DOWN RATHER THAN SWIM WITH A NEGRO.
*tambourine*
The idea that pools can be a “third place” for people to meet and chill has existed for decades, @olgakhazan.bsky.social writes. Clean, swimmable water shouldn’t be something only the rich can access.
Why America Needs More Public Pools
Clean, swimmable water shouldn’t be something only the rich can access.
bit.ly
June 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
*Ebeneezer Baptist Church of God in Christ on the Mount Gospel Chorus*
WE USED TO HAVE MORE PUBLIC POOLS BUT WHITE PEOPLE CLOSED THEM DOWN RATHER THAN SWIM WITH A NEGRO.
*tambourine*
WE USED TO HAVE MORE PUBLIC POOLS BUT WHITE PEOPLE CLOSED THEM DOWN RATHER THAN SWIM WITH A NEGRO.
*tambourine*
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you want me to give up *research*? a priceless skill that also leads to all kinds of rabbit holes and the fizzing excitement of satisfying my curiosity? are you bananas
June 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
you want me to give up *research*? a priceless skill that also leads to all kinds of rabbit holes and the fizzing excitement of satisfying my curiosity? are you bananas
Post a picture of when your pet was little. As a new dog mom you bet I’ll take any chance to post my dog baby!
June 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Post a picture of when your pet was little. As a new dog mom you bet I’ll take any chance to post my dog baby!
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We're bringing a new piece queer history to your podcast feed in the fall. Please support us in getting there. Thanks!! givebutter.com/heavenpodcast
June 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
We're bringing a new piece queer history to your podcast feed in the fall. Please support us in getting there. Thanks!! givebutter.com/heavenpodcast
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Wellness is the degraded Calvinism that says you are one of the elect who will be spared the coming inferno if you demonstrate adequate virtue (low enough bmi).
June 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Wellness is the degraded Calvinism that says you are one of the elect who will be spared the coming inferno if you demonstrate adequate virtue (low enough bmi).