Jerry Yarnetsky
@g33klibrarian.bsky.social
Academic librarian focusing on web services, user experience and accessibility. Love tech from archaic to cutting edge. Fountain pen collector and lifelong doodler. Owned by six cats. Proud negotiator for FAM/AAUP-AFT.
Column as comic includes an amazing stat — so many book challenges are being made by a handful of people whose turned book banning into their hobby.
I Made the Most Banned Book in America | The Nib
Maia Kobabe on “Gender Queer,” libraries, and how we have to fight back even louder.
thenib.com
August 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Column as comic includes an amazing stat — so many book challenges are being made by a handful of people whose turned book banning into their hobby.
As serial art, memes can certainly operate like one-off comic strips, but they lack the continuity of Calvin and Hobbes or Peanuts. Digital comics like Webtoons are the actual successor to newspaper comic strips.
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The case for memes as a new form of comics
Both comics and memes rely on the same interplay of visual and verbal elements for their humor.
arstechnica.com
July 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
As serial art, memes can certainly operate like one-off comic strips, but they lack the continuity of Calvin and Hobbes or Peanuts. Digital comics like Webtoons are the actual successor to newspaper comic strips.
arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
Gearing up for multiple presentations at ALA Annual in Philly! I’m scoping our rooms and seeing the exhibit hall is under construction. #allaac25
June 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Gearing up for multiple presentations at ALA Annual in Philly! I’m scoping our rooms and seeing the exhibit hall is under construction. #allaac25
Our university library somehow up as the intro shot to a Saturday Night Live sketch about graduation. While the sketch didn’t make it to air, SNL posted it to YouTube.
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Graduation Day - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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May 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Our university library somehow up as the intro shot to a Saturday Night Live sketch about graduation. While the sketch didn’t make it to air, SNL posted it to YouTube.
youtu.be/L57PQZl1oeA?...
youtu.be/L57PQZl1oeA?...
Want to truly feel how far we’ve slid into authoritarianism? Just skip following the news for a couple days. When you catch up, you’ll inevitably ask “WTF?” and realize it’s truly happening/happened.
May 10, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Want to truly feel how far we’ve slid into authoritarianism? Just skip following the news for a couple days. When you catch up, you’ll inevitably ask “WTF?” and realize it’s truly happening/happened.
The problem is this isn’t a mistaken understanding. It’s a purposeful twisting of the constitution to meet their twisted ends.
This is a shockingly mistaken understanding of due process by Stephen Miller. It is likely this misunderstanding that is informing the President’s misunderstanding.
May 6, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The problem is this isn’t a mistaken understanding. It’s a purposeful twisting of the constitution to meet their twisted ends.
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The taxation of trade routes is in dispute and turmoil has engulfed our Republic.
But there is a new hope. We must band together and resist the dark side.
Do or do not. There is no try. #StarWarsDay
But there is a new hope. We must band together and resist the dark side.
Do or do not. There is no try. #StarWarsDay
May 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The taxation of trade routes is in dispute and turmoil has engulfed our Republic.
But there is a new hope. We must band together and resist the dark side.
Do or do not. There is no try. #StarWarsDay
But there is a new hope. We must band together and resist the dark side.
Do or do not. There is no try. #StarWarsDay
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🚨 Today, a federal court granted a temporary restraining order to halt the administration’s dismantling of IMLS—a direct result of the lawsuit filed by ALA and @afscme.bsky.social.
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#ForOurLibraries #FundLibraries
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#ForOurLibraries #FundLibraries
May 2, 2025 at 2:28 AM
🚨 Today, a federal court granted a temporary restraining order to halt the administration’s dismantling of IMLS—a direct result of the lawsuit filed by ALA and @afscme.bsky.social.
www.ala.org/news/2025/05...
#ForOurLibraries #FundLibraries
www.ala.org/news/2025/05...
#ForOurLibraries #FundLibraries
I’ve loved Apple since the day I played on the first Macs in 1984, but they deserved every bit of this judgement. Capitalism left to its own devices goes for a monopoly.
daringfireball.net/2025/04/gonz...
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Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers Rules, in Excoriating Decision, That Apple Violated Her 2021 Court Order Regarding App Store Anti-Steering Provisions
Are the results of this disastrous for Apple’s App Store business? I don’t think so at all. Gonzales Rogers is demanding that Apple ... do what Phil Schiller recommended they do all along. But are the...
daringfireball.net
May 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I’ve loved Apple since the day I played on the first Macs in 1984, but they deserved every bit of this judgement. Capitalism left to its own devices goes for a monopoly.
daringfireball.net/2025/04/gonz...
daringfireball.net/2025/04/gonz...
And this is one of many reasons why I’m active in my union.
The richest 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth.
The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth.
Read that back.
Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.
The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth.
Read that back.
Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.
April 29, 2025 at 2:01 AM
And this is one of many reasons why I’m active in my union.
Hearing the whole arena singing with a group of Korean grandmothers was so cheering.
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From the hockey community on Reddit: For the National Anthem, the LA Kings invited The Harmonica Class from the Korea-Town Senior & Community Center.
Explore this post and more from the hockey community
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April 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Hearing the whole arena singing with a group of Korean grandmothers was so cheering.
www.reddit.com/r/hockey/s/g...
www.reddit.com/r/hockey/s/g...
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📚Raising public awareness, mobilizing communities & fostering partnerships are key to sustaining libraries. Explore these #ALAAC25 programs for ideas and practices to strengthen your library funding and advocacy efforts. See the full lineup of programs in our Timely Topics collection. bit.ly/43OXUe0
April 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
📚Raising public awareness, mobilizing communities & fostering partnerships are key to sustaining libraries. Explore these #ALAAC25 programs for ideas and practices to strengthen your library funding and advocacy efforts. See the full lineup of programs in our Timely Topics collection. bit.ly/43OXUe0
A huge step towards controlling a population is to watch and know everything about the people. Once this data is collected it will never to broken apart without a fight. (Gift link)
Trump Wants to Merge Government Data. Here Are 314 Things It Might Know About You. (Gift Article)
Elon Musk’s team is leading an effort to link government databases, to the alarm of privacy and security experts.
www.nytimes.com
April 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
A huge step towards controlling a population is to watch and know everything about the people. Once this data is collected it will never to broken apart without a fight. (Gift link)
Bones reaches down to feel the pulse of democracy. “It’s dead Jim.”
April 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Bones reaches down to feel the pulse of democracy. “It’s dead Jim.”
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NEW: Today ALA & our co-plaintiff @afscme.bsky.social filed a preliminary injunction in federal court.
This continues our ongoing legal action to save federal library funding.
Our goal is to immediately halt the dismantling of the Institute of Museum & Library Services. 1/3
This continues our ongoing legal action to save federal library funding.
Our goal is to immediately halt the dismantling of the Institute of Museum & Library Services. 1/3
April 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
NEW: Today ALA & our co-plaintiff @afscme.bsky.social filed a preliminary injunction in federal court.
This continues our ongoing legal action to save federal library funding.
Our goal is to immediately halt the dismantling of the Institute of Museum & Library Services. 1/3
This continues our ongoing legal action to save federal library funding.
Our goal is to immediately halt the dismantling of the Institute of Museum & Library Services. 1/3
100 years ago today. Other than a slightly different cadence of an earlier American English, it could have been written today.
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
April 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
100 years ago today. Other than a slightly different cadence of an earlier American English, it could have been written today.
Libraries have an equation. For every person a book and for every book a person. Neither side can be eliminated. Eliminate the books, and you violate the First Amendment. Try eliminating the people and you violate our Pledge of Allegiance that states “with liberty and justice for all.”
It's officially #TakeActionForLibraries Day!
To celebrate and advocate for libraries and library funding, we want every library lover to make their voice heard today.
Head to ala.org/showup to take action by calling or emailing Congress, writing a letter to your local newspaper, and more!
To celebrate and advocate for libraries and library funding, we want every library lover to make their voice heard today.
Head to ala.org/showup to take action by calling or emailing Congress, writing a letter to your local newspaper, and more!
April 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Libraries have an equation. For every person a book and for every book a person. Neither side can be eliminated. Eliminate the books, and you violate the First Amendment. Try eliminating the people and you violate our Pledge of Allegiance that states “with liberty and justice for all.”
Follow the money!
The most corrupt administration in American history wants you to look the other way from this.
We can't. We need answers.
We can't. We need answers.
April 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Follow the money!
There is no “pause” on tariffs. It’s a temporary reduction in tariffs. We’ll still pay a 10% tax on everything. My better half makes accessories from cork fabric (grown-manufactured in Portugal-Spain). Her raw materials will jump at least 10% instantly. Other fabric (often from China) may double.
Full list of Trump’s tariffs: a country-by-country look after the 90-day pause
Trump announced a pause for most countries – except China whose tariffs he raised to 125%
www.theguardian.com
April 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
There is no “pause” on tariffs. It’s a temporary reduction in tariffs. We’ll still pay a 10% tax on everything. My better half makes accessories from cork fabric (grown-manufactured in Portugal-Spain). Her raw materials will jump at least 10% instantly. Other fabric (often from China) may double.
Rescue the good stuff so we don’t find ourselves in the dark ages.
#ICYMI folks w/deep experience re:crisis web archiving (@sucho-org.bsky.social)+building tools for it (@webrecorder.net) made a free zine teaching how anyone can archive the things you love on the web before they go away: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... & why you shouldn't expect others will do so
April 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Rescue the good stuff so we don’t find ourselves in the dark ages.
IMLS is federal law. Dismantling it is illegal. “See you in court.”
The damage to local communities who count on their public libraries will be immense if this stands.
The damage to local communities who count on their public libraries will be immense if this stands.
American Library Association, AFSCME Challenge Trump Administration Gutting of Institute of Museum and Library Services
American Library Association, AFSCME Challenge Trump Administration Gutting of Institute of Museum and Library Services
www.ala.org
April 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
IMLS is federal law. Dismantling it is illegal. “See you in court.”
The damage to local communities who count on their public libraries will be immense if this stands.
The damage to local communities who count on their public libraries will be immense if this stands.
We need to organize in our communities to form our own pressure groups — pressure officials to do the right thing and preserve the right to read. Community action is answer.
Book challenges remained high in 2024, with nearly 72% initiated not by parents but by pressure groups and decision makers who have been swayed by them. bit.ly/soal-25
#NationalLibraryWeek
#NationalLibraryWeek
April 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
We need to organize in our communities to form our own pressure groups — pressure officials to do the right thing and preserve the right to read. Community action is answer.
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Automated captions and transcripts can save time so that you don't have to manually transcribe on your own. But automated captions and transcripts aren't 100% accurate, so they need manual editing before you publish them.
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Captions/Subtitles
Helps you understand and create captions (also called “subtitles”) for audio and video media accessibility.
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April 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Automated captions and transcripts can save time so that you don't have to manually transcribe on your own. But automated captions and transcripts aren't 100% accurate, so they need manual editing before you publish them.
www.w3.org/WAI/media/av...
www.w3.org/WAI/media/av...
Next week they’ll go after the Bills Mafia.
Breaking news: The Supreme Court removed a temporary block on the Trump administration’s use of a controversial wartime authority to deport alleged members of a Venezuelan gang, ruling the five immigants who challenged the policy did so in the wrong court.
Supreme Court allows use of wartime law to deport alleged gang members
A divided court said migrants filed their challenge to the Alien Enemies Act in the wrong jurisdiction, but also said potential deportees must get due process.
wapo.st
April 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Next week they’ll go after the Bills Mafia.