Matt
@mattlibrarian.bsky.social
South African abroad 🇿🇦
No one is free until we are all free!
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No one is free until we are all free!
www.TeenLibrarian.co.uk
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This list showcases just some of the shows that were made available at least in part thanks to funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting over the years.
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January 5, 2026 at 8:29 PM
This list showcases just some of the shows that were made available at least in part thanks to funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting over the years.
jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/disp...
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What is the most sexually adventurous bug in nature?
The Roly-Polyamorous
The Roly-Polyamorous
January 5, 2026 at 7:58 PM
What is the most sexually adventurous bug in nature?
The Roly-Polyamorous
The Roly-Polyamorous
A book of vignettes created by LLMs to showcase the danger and crapness of machine storytelling.
It is called AI-slop's Fables
It is called AI-slop's Fables
January 5, 2026 at 6:43 PM
A book of vignettes created by LLMs to showcase the danger and crapness of machine storytelling.
It is called AI-slop's Fables
It is called AI-slop's Fables
A patron is mad at me because Google now has a '+' in the search bar
January 5, 2026 at 6:37 PM
A patron is mad at me because Google now has a '+' in the search bar
If you claim to love libraries but also get a thrill from the idea of punishing people financially for the late return of books and other materials then your love of libraries is exclusionary and I will have no truck with it!
In fact you can truck right off!
In fact you can truck right off!
January 5, 2026 at 6:03 PM
If you claim to love libraries but also get a thrill from the idea of punishing people financially for the late return of books and other materials then your love of libraries is exclusionary and I will have no truck with it!
In fact you can truck right off!
In fact you can truck right off!
Hi library friends & colleagues in the UK! Check out @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social on BBC 4 Storyville: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Four - Storyville, The Librarians
Documentary about the US librarians who are risking their safety to defend free speech.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 5, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Hi library friends & colleagues in the UK! Check out @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social on BBC 4 Storyville: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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We can only do what we can do. This year I am going to love my family, support my friends, defend libraries & the right to access materials, stand in solidarity with under-threat peoples, protest illegal wars & occupations and finish drafting my picture book & memoir!
January 4, 2026 at 6:34 PM
We can only do what we can do. This year I am going to love my family, support my friends, defend libraries & the right to access materials, stand in solidarity with under-threat peoples, protest illegal wars & occupations and finish drafting my picture book & memoir!
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Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories.
I hope it helps your transition off US tech!
I hope it helps your transition off US tech!
Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
www.disconnect.blog
January 4, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories.
I hope it helps your transition off US tech!
I hope it helps your transition off US tech!
Expecting libraries and other services for the public god to “turn a profit” “or spend less to save money” is a sign that something has gone seriously wrong with the understanding of why these services exist!
January 4, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Expecting libraries and other services for the public god to “turn a profit” “or spend less to save money” is a sign that something has gone seriously wrong with the understanding of why these services exist!
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To think that in the year 2026 we are still seeing the “I love libraries but people who damage or return books late need to be punished” discourse is really something!
January 3, 2026 at 3:00 AM
To think that in the year 2026 we are still seeing the “I love libraries but people who damage or return books late need to be punished” discourse is really something!
The people that believe that the USA is a guiding light of democracy and freedom in the world must be feeling as if they are in the Upside Down. The rest of us are waiting for them to realize that it was ever thus
January 4, 2026 at 2:05 AM
The people that believe that the USA is a guiding light of democracy and freedom in the world must be feeling as if they are in the Upside Down. The rest of us are waiting for them to realize that it was ever thus
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Imagine the reaction if Trump was kidnapped by soldiers and taken for trial at the ICJ
January 3, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Imagine the reaction if Trump was kidnapped by soldiers and taken for trial at the ICJ
To think that in the year 2026 we are still seeing the “I love libraries but people who damage or return books late need to be punished” discourse is really something!
January 3, 2026 at 3:00 AM
To think that in the year 2026 we are still seeing the “I love libraries but people who damage or return books late need to be punished” discourse is really something!
He was gonna gave sex with his one true love but his hand had a cramp!
Nick Shirley, who just got day care funding canceled for families across 🇺🇸 with a misleading viral video in Minnesota, says “they” won’t be able to get him because he doesn’t drink or do drugs and he’s a virgin
January 1, 2026 at 3:45 AM
He was gonna gave sex with his one true love but his hand had a cramp!
Ringing the bells, just to peal something
Playing the glocken, just to spiel something
Talking to @greenleejw.bsky.social just to eel something.
December 31, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Ringing the bells, just to peal something
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My old pal @eniiler.bsky.social with a killer story. What we save defines us as a culture—the archive is our memory and our future. And we’re throwing it away? Madness.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Hugh Laurie stars in House of the Dragon
December 31, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Hugh Laurie stars in House of the Dragon
December 31, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Not only a perfect denouement, it was the end of an era. Thirty years ago today, this strip was published.
December 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Not only a perfect denouement, it was the end of an era. Thirty years ago today, this strip was published.
Colleagues discussing using GenAI to create cute pics of their animals then I walk past. They go: "Ooooh Matt is against AI!"
December 31, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Colleagues discussing using GenAI to create cute pics of their animals then I walk past. They go: "Ooooh Matt is against AI!"
January 1st is #PublicDomain day in the US, this is just a small sample of works entering the Public Domain tomorrow
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December 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
January 1st is #PublicDomain day in the US, this is just a small sample of works entering the Public Domain tomorrow
jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/disp...
jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/disp...
I remember back in the 90s my brother and I would babysit and housesit for our neighbours who were rather well-off and had Digital Satellite TV including MTV, we crammed so many music videos into our brains
December 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I remember back in the 90s my brother and I would babysit and housesit for our neighbours who were rather well-off and had Digital Satellite TV including MTV, we crammed so many music videos into our brains
Will the final MTV music video be Reality Killed the Video Star
December 31, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Will the final MTV music video be Reality Killed the Video Star
Going towards 2026 like
December 30, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Going towards 2026 like