Anxious Librarian (she/they)
@grindingmyteeth.bsky.social
Critical info lit and IDEAS in libraries and higher ed
Zines!
PNW
Sometimes, I post memes
My views, not necessarily employers
Zines!
PNW
Sometimes, I post memes
My views, not necessarily employers
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Support Your Local Public Library: A Zine.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Support Your Local Public Library: A Zine.
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The zine libraries unconference wiki has been updated with a statement from the organizers about someone who attended the event in order to spy on and record it without permission. www.zinelibraries.info/wiki/zluc2025/ This infiltrator is driving an effort to get a zine librarian fired. 📚
Zine Librarians unConference 2025 | zinelibraries.info
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November 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The zine libraries unconference wiki has been updated with a statement from the organizers about someone who attended the event in order to spy on and record it without permission. www.zinelibraries.info/wiki/zluc2025/ This infiltrator is driving an effort to get a zine librarian fired. 📚
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someone got indicted on the basis of “transporting antifa materials” for allegedly transporting a box of ZINES
THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES
THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES
Alarming criminalization of green card holder based on "Antifa Materials" - another attempt to silence dissent and target people critical of this administration
Release Des and the Prairieland Defendants!
Release Des and the Prairieland Defendants!
November 6, 2025 at 5:16 AM
someone got indicted on the basis of “transporting antifa materials” for allegedly transporting a box of ZINES
THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES
THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES
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If you're a young person, find your people are try stuff. You don't know how it will turn out AND THAT'S A GOOD THING. Failure is a natural part of living. Not something to be scared of. Try shit. Don't sit back and throw stones at others who are trying shit.
November 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
If you're a young person, find your people are try stuff. You don't know how it will turn out AND THAT'S A GOOD THING. Failure is a natural part of living. Not something to be scared of. Try shit. Don't sit back and throw stones at others who are trying shit.
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ONLINE THIS WEEKEND: 11/8 & 11/9/25! ALL INFO POSTED HERE: www.zinelibraries.info/wiki/zluc2025/
November 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
ONLINE THIS WEEKEND: 11/8 & 11/9/25! ALL INFO POSTED HERE: www.zinelibraries.info/wiki/zluc2025/
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Can't denounce racism when you yourself are Islamophobic. That's the bottom line re: both Gillibrand, Schumer and many other Democrats.
November 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Can't denounce racism when you yourself are Islamophobic. That's the bottom line re: both Gillibrand, Schumer and many other Democrats.
Really looking forward to hear all the cool stuff happening with zine and libraries! Plus, I am presenting about a zine workshop with my colleague!
#zinelibrarians #zinesinlibraries #academiclibrarian #academiclibraries
#ZLuC25 #ZineLibrariansunConference
#zinelibrarians #zinesinlibraries #academiclibrarian #academiclibraries
#ZLuC25 #ZineLibrariansunConference
It's happening!! Look for the program schedule on our website to be posted soon. #ZLuC25 #ZineLibrariansunConference
November 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Really looking forward to hear all the cool stuff happening with zine and libraries! Plus, I am presenting about a zine workshop with my colleague!
#zinelibrarians #zinesinlibraries #academiclibrarian #academiclibraries
#ZLuC25 #ZineLibrariansunConference
#zinelibrarians #zinesinlibraries #academiclibrarian #academiclibraries
#ZLuC25 #ZineLibrariansunConference
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If I could offer students one bit of…advice: be brutally traditional about what is printed on your degree.
If you are first-gen or in any way non traditional, this goes double. Let rich kids get degrees in AI. You get something called “English”.
If you are first-gen or in any way non traditional, this goes double. Let rich kids get degrees in AI. You get something called “English”.
The danger is that degrees are regarded as worthless as nobody believes students have acquired any skills any more, at least not ones they couldn't have hot from just going into an office job from school.
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
If I could offer students one bit of…advice: be brutally traditional about what is printed on your degree.
If you are first-gen or in any way non traditional, this goes double. Let rich kids get degrees in AI. You get something called “English”.
If you are first-gen or in any way non traditional, this goes double. Let rich kids get degrees in AI. You get something called “English”.
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John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry began on October 16, 1859.
October 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry began on October 16, 1859.
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"LIS students who don’t come from a solidly upper- or upper-middle-class background will either need to take out expensive private loans or will just not be able to attend grad school."
Thank you for this, @violetbfox.bsky.social
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Thank you for this, @violetbfox.bsky.social
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On Owing $93,605 in Student Loans; or, A Profession Built on Debt - ACRLog
I don't know the right metaphor to make you understand how this much debt physically feels. What it actually feels like is a pressure on my chest and shoulders, but maybe that's not evocative enough. ...
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September 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"LIS students who don’t come from a solidly upper- or upper-middle-class background will either need to take out expensive private loans or will just not be able to attend grad school."
Thank you for this, @violetbfox.bsky.social
acrlog.org/2025/07/24/o...
Thank you for this, @violetbfox.bsky.social
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Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
September 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
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the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet
September 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet
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All of these words are true so I think it's very important for all of us to ask WHY people in and with power are agreeing to all of this... What's the most logical answer to that question?
This mf’er is a hugely unpopular lame duck and people and institutions with actual power are out here acting, for eight months straight, like he’s some goddam immortal emperor. Fuck that noise.
September 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
All of these words are true so I think it's very important for all of us to ask WHY people in and with power are agreeing to all of this... What's the most logical answer to that question?
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“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”
It's wild to me how ostensibly smart people cannot/could not/will not see what is so obvious.
@mmasnick.bsky.social nails it. And my hunch is we'd be a better society if the Very Serious People with the Very Serious Ideas opened their fucking eyes.
www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...
@mmasnick.bsky.social nails it. And my hunch is we'd be a better society if the Very Serious People with the Very Serious Ideas opened their fucking eyes.
www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...
September 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”
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The level of white ridiculousness is made clear by the fact that they actually created and then violently enforced white only water fountains. Please reflect on how truly bonkers this is.
September 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The level of white ridiculousness is made clear by the fact that they actually created and then violently enforced white only water fountains. Please reflect on how truly bonkers this is.
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Your friend into media literacy and getting it right (me) is yet again tapping the sign
![On the Media's Breaking News Consumer's Handbook:
1. In the immediate aftermath, news outlets will get it wrong.
2. Don't trust anonymous sources.
3. Don't trust stories that cite another news outlet as the source of the information.
4. There's almost never a second shooter.
5. Pay attention to the language the media uses.
• “We are getting reports”… could mean anything.
• “We are seeking confirmation”… means they don’t have it.
• “[News outlet] has learned”… means it has a scoop or is going out on limb.
6. Look for news outlets close to the incident.
7. Compare multiple sources.
8. Big news brings out the fakers. And photoshoppers.
9. Beware reflexive retweeting. Some of this is on you.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oqfnnw35oz62t3nizay5etwq/bafkreib6tsapqqkblstfedj7iqjl3aphbgvwos4v65ng2i7jdgmu3gyaim@jpeg)
September 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Your friend into media literacy and getting it right (me) is yet again tapping the sign
My colleague and I chatted about our experiences with precarity and contingent labor in academic libraries.
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#academiclibraries #librarysky #laborinhighed
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#academiclibraries #librarysky #laborinhighed
Contingent Librarianship and Precarity: Two Lived Perspectives | Pirog | College & Research Libraries News
Contingent Librarianship and Precarity: Two Lived Perspectives
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September 12, 2025 at 2:43 AM
My colleague and I chatted about our experiences with precarity and contingent labor in academic libraries.
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#academiclibraries #librarysky #laborinhighed
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#academiclibraries #librarysky #laborinhighed
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is crime actually up or are you just seeing more of the kind of people you think don't belong in your spaces and you just assume it means crime is up
September 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
is crime actually up or are you just seeing more of the kind of people you think don't belong in your spaces and you just assume it means crime is up
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I hate when politicians and pundits and academics with zero experience growing up working class or living a working class life talk authoritatively about the working class; leave us alone, this shit is hard enough without being tokenized or weaponized or studied like exotic zoo animals
August 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I hate when politicians and pundits and academics with zero experience growing up working class or living a working class life talk authoritatively about the working class; leave us alone, this shit is hard enough without being tokenized or weaponized or studied like exotic zoo animals
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Social media is being banned in one of the states with the highest percentage of the population being black. Trump has taken over the DC police, one of the cities with the highest black population. Yall noticing a pattern?
August 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Social media is being banned in one of the states with the highest percentage of the population being black. Trump has taken over the DC police, one of the cities with the highest black population. Yall noticing a pattern?
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The University of Washington Health Sciences Library is announcing the court-ordered reinstatement of the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) Region 5 grant, effective through April 30, 2026.
#medlibs 📚
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#medlibs 📚
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Region 5 Reinstatement Announcement – Region 5 Blog
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August 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The University of Washington Health Sciences Library is announcing the court-ordered reinstatement of the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) Region 5 grant, effective through April 30, 2026.
#medlibs 📚
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#medlibs 📚
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I just keep seeing evidence everywhere that so-called liberals and progressives have rapidly given up feeling responsible for remembering that people of color experience a different version of the world *because race is a thing* and have life worlds that white people are not privy to
August 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I just keep seeing evidence everywhere that so-called liberals and progressives have rapidly given up feeling responsible for remembering that people of color experience a different version of the world *because race is a thing* and have life worlds that white people are not privy to
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An entire universe of near-magical knowledge and endeavor is getting obliterated, quickly, and most university leaders are standing silently because it helps them destroy faculty and staff labor power and keep left-wing students in line
August 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
An entire universe of near-magical knowledge and endeavor is getting obliterated, quickly, and most university leaders are standing silently because it helps them destroy faculty and staff labor power and keep left-wing students in line
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The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe
August 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe