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Julie Setele
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Librarian, sociologist, zinester. Reproductive justice, prison abolition, books (especially romance novels), cats, and women’s soccer (Gotham, Chelsea, USWNT). Free zines at juliesetele.com

Free Palestine. Land Back. Black Lives Matter.

They/them.
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Julie Setele @juliesetele.bsky.social · Nov 13
Hi. I’m Julie. I make zines about a wide assortment of topics. I post them all for free on my website.

My most popular zine has been “AI is very bad, actually: A manifesto” #AI #InfoLiteracy #zine #CriticalThinking #ClimateCrisis #SupportArtists

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AI is very bad, actually: A manifesto
Updated 10/8 with slightly revised formatting. This should print and fold nicer now! References are linked below. AI is very bad, actually – revised formattingDownload References Chayka, K. (…
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taliajane.bsky.social
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
latenightafa.bsky.social Late Night Anti-Fascists @latenightafa.bsky.social · 9d
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!
November 6, 2025 at 5:16 AM
juliesetele.bsky.social
I carved this stamp yesterday after singing this song in my head all day! The video is kinda going viral (for me, at least) on instagram and I hope Mamdani sees it!
#linocut #diy #stampcarving #mamdani
November 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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cgsunit.bsky.social
Today's the day for my anti-AI zine volume 2: "Human Perspectives on the Latest AI Hype Cycle" 🎉

Enjoy the fruits of my focus these past few months and learn from many great people!

Scanned zine to print your own and the full text and references are available at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI
Front and back cover of the Zine sitting among Japanese maple leaves. Front cover has the title "Human Perspectives on the Latest AI Hype Cycle" with subtitle "AI Sucks and You Should Not Use It, Volume 2" along with the date of October 2025 and author Lauren Woolsey. Back cover has the text "References available on the back of this unfolded sheet and at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI" along with a QR code to that link. Then it has the text "Share with a friend, light the world! Connect w/ me: @cgsunit.bsky.social" Pages 2 and 3 of the Zine, open among tree leaves. Page 2 starts with handwritten "First...some backstory!" and then the text reads as follows: "Version Volume 1 of this zine, (June 2025), is called “Why GenAI Sucks and you should not use it.” I gave copies to my friends, did swaps at Grand Rapids Zine Fest, and shared the digital scan with hundreds of folks. It’s been great to connect with a community of humans who also think AI sucks! Since June, more great folks have added to the conversation. Let me introduce a few here..." Page 3 is titled Anthony Moser and has the following text: "“I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.” So opens this most excellent essay (posted August 2025). You absolutely need to read it. Also, it has 24 linked resources, if my Zine v1.1 list wasn’t enough to get you started being a hater." Pages 4 and 5 of the Zine, open among tree leaves. Page 4 is titled Olivia Guest and has the text: "1. Look at Guest’s incredible collection promoting Critical AI Literacy (CAIL): olivia.science/ai . 2. Discover a framework to define AI in “What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean?” (July 2025). 3. Share with educator friends Guest et al: “Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia” (September 2025). Such a helpful paper for advocacy!" Page 5 is titled Ali Alkhatib and has the following text: "“AI is an ideological project to shift authority and autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power.” -from his essay Defining AI. Ali is on my recent radar because he’s starting “AI Skeptics Reading Group” the same month that this Zine launches (October 2025)! If you're a reader, check out the book list on p. 7 here!" Pages 6 and 7 of the Zine, in partial shadow from tree leaves and surrounded by Japanese maple leaves. Page 6 is titled Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute and has the text: "Great projects DAIR supports: Data Workers Inquiry (work led by Dr. Milagros Miceli), Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 (by E. Bender and A. Hanna), Possible Futures workshop and Zine series. Timnit Gebru is founder and executive director of DAIR and co-author of the “TESCREAL Bundle” research paper. (Read it!) Page 7 is titled Further Reading and has a drawn stack of books with the following titles and publication months: Resisting AI (08/22), Blood in the Machine (09/23), The AI Mirror (06/24), Taming Silicon Valley (09/24), Why We Fear AI (03/25), More Everything Forever (04/25), The AI Con (05/25), Empire of AI (05/25). There are notes for The AI Con that the authors run the podcast mentioned on page 6 and that it is the book that the Reading Group from page 5 started on 10/13/25. The page ends with the text "Authors and full titles in reference list!" and a signature from Lauren "Double U."
October 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
juliesetele.bsky.social
I’m making a card catalog of the stamps I’ve carved!

Ultimately I plan to record all the stamps in a sketchbook, but for now this method is great.

In the second photo, the stamps I’ve already cataloged are on the left. The ones still to do are on the right.

#linocut
An array of index cards with hard-carved stamps printed on them. The large stack is complete and includes the date I carved it, what it is, and what inspired it/who drew it A bunch of hand-carved stamps made mostly out of Pink Pearl erasers, but also some pentel erasers, some speedy-carve, and some random erasers. They are in two stacks. There’s probably 40 stamps on the left, and possibly just as many on the right.
November 4, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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kirkmurphy.bsky.social
May the ghosts of the one million Iraqis he slaughtered mock and curse him before casting him into eternal torment in hell.
May his wife and Liz hear it all.
May his agony haunt their dreams.

#CheneyDead
November 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM
juliesetele.bsky.social
In May, Laura Chenault taught me how to carve stamps using linocut tools. In October, I completed a daily challenge set by Serena Rios McRae. I’ve continued to carve stamps daily.

These four were traced from images I found online, mostly on Canva. Image credits in alt text.

#diy #linocut
A fat mermaid babe hand-carved stamp and print; original image found online A hand-carved stamp and print (in both red and black) of an anatomical heart with flowers growing out of it. Original drawing is by “historical vintage vector” on Canva. A hand-carved stamp and print (in black and in green) of an anatomical lungs where flowers make up the bulk of the lungs. Original drawing was by Niscalasign on Canva. A hand-carved stamp and print (in black) of a cat bathing itself while making direct eye contact with the viewer. Original drawing is by PanaceaArt on Canva.
November 4, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Are you neurodivergent and queer and have a relationship with food? We want your art/writing for a new free zine!

We are hosting 4 optional, virtual work-in-progress sessions - including one this Saturday morning!

Get details and sign up at tinyurl.com/WeirdGayEats
On a background of produce at a grocery store or farmers market is this text: Weird Gay Eats Are you neurodivergent, queer, and conscious about those things? Do you have a relationship with food? We want your art/writing for our new free, collaborative zine WEIRD GAY EATS! On a background of snack food in a vending machine is this text: Weird Gay Eats Join us for a virtual Work-In-Progress session: • Saturday, Nov. 1 from 9AM to 10:30AM EST / 7:30PM to 9PM IST • Wednesday, Nov. 5 from 11AM to 12:30PM EST / 9:30PM to 11PM IST • Saturday, Nov. 8 from 9AM to 10:30AM EST / 7:30PM to 9PM IST • Wednesday, Nov. 12 from 7PM to 8:30PM EST / Thursday, Nov. 13 from 5:30AM to 7AM IST https://tinyurl.com/WeirdGayEats
October 29, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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We are so very excited to announce the call for submissions for WEIRD GAY EATS!

This new, free internet zine about neuroqueer people’s relationship to food is edited by Jyotsna Ramesh and Julie Setele.

Full details at tinyurl.com/WeirdGayEats
On a background of snack food in a vending machine is this text: Weird Gay Eats Contribute your art &/ or writing to a new zine about neuroqueer people's relationship to food! Details: https://tinyurl.com/WeirdGayEats Deadline: Sat. Nov. 15 @ 11:59pm EST / Sun. Nov. 16 @ 10:29am IST Edited by @jojorambles & @jujubeees.zines On a background of snack food in a vending machine is this text: Weird Gay Eats We are hosting some optional, virtual Work-In-Progress sessions for anyone who wants to chat, co-work, or even collaborate with other contributors. Details and sign-up at: https://tinyurl.com/WeirdGayEats On a background of produce in a grocery store or farmer’s market is this text: Weird Gay Eats Contribute your art &/ or writing to a new zine about neuroqueer people's relationship to food! Details: https://tinyurl.com/WeirdGayEats Deadline: Sat. Nov. 15 @ 11:59pm EST / Sun. Nov. 16 @ 10:29am IST Edited by @jojorambles & @jujubeees.zines On a background of produce in a grocery store or farmer’s market is this text: Weird Gay Eats We are hosting some optional, virtual Work-In-Progress sessions for anyone who wants to chat, co-work, or even collaborate with other contributors. Details and sign-up at: https://tinyurl.com/WeirdGayEats
October 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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jayapal.house.gov
This report is absolutely shocking.

ICE does not have the authority to detain US citizens during immigration enforcement — full stop. The Trump administration is out of control, violating the rights of American citizens. They must be held accountable.
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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October 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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sunyufspresident.bsky.social
Everybody who knows somebody in higher education, or anybody who benefited from it, should sign this petition.

actionnetwork.org/petitions/un...
University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts
The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...
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October 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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rittaer.bsky.social
Quote by Toni Morrison: "“Fascism talks ideology, but it is really just marketing—marketing for power. It is recognizable by its need to purge, by the strategies it uses to purge, and by its terror of truly democratic agendas. It is recognizable by its determination to convert all public services to private entrepreneurship, all nonprofit organizations to profit-making ones—so that the narrow but protective chasm between governance and business disappears. It changes citizens into taxpayers—so individuals become angry at even the notion of the public good. It changes neighbors into consumers—so the measure of our value as humans is not our humanity or our compassion or our generosity but what we own. It changes parenting into panicking—so that we vote against the interests of our own children; against their health care, their education, their safety from weapons. And in effecting these changes it produces the perfect capitalist, one who is willing to kill a human being for a product (a pair of sneakers, a jacket, a car) or kill generations for control of products (oil, drugs, fruit, gold).”
October 10, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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I converted a couple Toni Morrison essays into minizines, available as free downloads here: juliesetele.com/2025/09/24/t...

Fight fascism. Fight racism. Resist!
Two minizines rest against a bunch of old books. The minizines are essays by Toni Morrison: “Peril” (2009) and “Racism and Fascism” (1995).
October 9, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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keithwdickinson.bsky.social
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
Again, Kavanaugh justified racial profiling by claiming that this doesn't happen--a justification that becomes more preposterous with each passing day as Trump's goons terrorize more people based on the color of their skin

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October 5, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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katelynburns.com
Every day I log on and just see endless videos of ICE agents breaking state, federal, and international laws.
October 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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rebekahwriter.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
We are here because policing in the U.S. has been this way for generations. This is why ICE acts with impunity. They know they can act this way.
October 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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tennillenallen.blacksky.app
There are multiple assignments I’ve retired now that I can’t recommend a number of federal websites or most major newspapers in good faith.
October 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
These fascists have taken my friend, Palestinian scholar and feminist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social into custody.
October 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
Please don't ask me if I am surprised when I am angry about shit. It's not helpful, and it's really annoying.
October 3, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
I talked with @mayaschenwar.bsky.social and @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social about immigration raids and the violent repression of protesters in Chicago, the administration’s war on free speech and the organized left, and lessons from our upcoming book, Read This When Things Fall Apart.
Holding the Line Through Tear Gas and Censorship
“There is no neutral ground in this moment. You’re either resisting or you’re complicit,” says Eman Abdelhadi.
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October 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
juliesetele.bsky.social
Know Your Rights with ICE

New free minizine adapted from a 16-page document put out by the NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs. Please share widely.

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Know Your Rights with ICE
Free “Know Your Rights with ICE” minizine! The NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs puts out these 16-page PDF documents with “Know Your Rights” info, available in …
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September 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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alessandrostardust.bsky.social
Autism is a natural divergence from neurotypicality. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be.

Transness is a natural divergence from cisnormativity. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be.

Just deal with people being different than you.
September 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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This Sunday, Sept. 21, I will be presenting twice at Queer Zest Zine Fest, a free online zine fest.

At noon (Eastern), I’ll do a one-hour livestream chatting about and reading from my zines.

Then, at 4pm, I’ll moderate a panel of zine librarians.

Join us live! Link in next post
Screenshot of my presentation, with the featured slide showcasing my name and a collage of various stuff, including a heart, a raised fist, a black cat, a Celtic symbol, a megaphone, a sun, a flower, a camera, a pomegranate, a crow or raven, and a soccer ball. Sunday, Sept. 21 12-1pm eastern time: Julie Setele 2pm: how to make stickers at home with Hikarii 4-5pm: zine librarians panel with Julie Setele A rainbow-themed “meet the artist” page for Julie Setele. ABOUT ME Hi, my name is Julie (they/them). I'm a librarian, sociologist, and zinester. I make zines about soccer, queerness, and being human. My zines are available as free digital downloads on my website. Free Palestine! CONTACT web: juliesetele.com IG: jujubeees.zines email: juliesetele@gmail.com FUN FACTS • I have two cats, Eris and Frassy • I love arts and crafts • I read a lot, especially romance and sci-fi • I am trained in Irish dance • I support reproductive justice, prison abolition, and Black Lives Matter A cat is caught mid-yawn and looks fierce while lying next to three “Bi+ Icons” minizines. The minizine has a rainbow with a heart on it. The bottom one is colored in the pansexual flag colors. The middle one is uncolored. The top one is bisexual flag colors.
September 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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daniellaurison.bsky.social
Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."
taniel.bsky.social Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · Sep 19
So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
Texas A&M President to Step Down After Controversy Over ‘Gender Ideology’
www.nytimes.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM