M
@mlibrarian.bsky.social
Library worker. Cataloging and collections.
“By teaching us how to read, they had taught us how to get away.” - Robert C. O'Brien
“By teaching us how to read, they had taught us how to get away.” - Robert C. O'Brien
I have attended maximum-capacity, waitlisted, public art history lecture 2/3 for the fall semester. Aiming for perfect attendance with the December class. There is nothing like learning in-person with a group. A great teacher helps a lot, of course. A+ highly recommend.
November 13, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I have attended maximum-capacity, waitlisted, public art history lecture 2/3 for the fall semester. Aiming for perfect attendance with the December class. There is nothing like learning in-person with a group. A great teacher helps a lot, of course. A+ highly recommend.
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finding joy despite the world in 2025 is like this lol
November 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
finding joy despite the world in 2025 is like this lol
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I really need to get to bed, but I just poked my head out the back door again. This is the view from my deck. All of this is looking south. When the geomagnetic storms are like this, the oval overshoots me and stretches into the US, which is why so many are seeing it tonight. #aurora
November 12, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I really need to get to bed, but I just poked my head out the back door again. This is the view from my deck. All of this is looking south. When the geomagnetic storms are like this, the oval overshoots me and stretches into the US, which is why so many are seeing it tonight. #aurora
This is such a “you can have both” situation (phonics instruction AND kids reading whole books in school), and the fact that it’s being pitched as either/or is equally mind-boggling and so depressingly predictable.
November 12, 2025 at 5:48 AM
This is such a “you can have both” situation (phonics instruction AND kids reading whole books in school), and the fact that it’s being pitched as either/or is equally mind-boggling and so depressingly predictable.
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It is actually so insane that two sides on offer are “old guy who says we read via vibes” and “moral panic fueled policies advocating for state mandated adoption of boxed curricula based on a podcast people listened to once.” The crisis is a crisis. How we respond to the crisis is also a crisis.
November 12, 2025 at 5:02 AM
It is actually so insane that two sides on offer are “old guy who says we read via vibes” and “moral panic fueled policies advocating for state mandated adoption of boxed curricula based on a podcast people listened to once.” The crisis is a crisis. How we respond to the crisis is also a crisis.
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There's a lot that Emily Hanford doesn't say in her reporting on SoR. Research on reading points to the complexity, nuance, contextuality, and diverse influences on becoming a successful reader. This is a great overview of a few of the issues with how journalists frame Science of Reading.
November 12, 2025 at 2:10 AM
There's a lot that Emily Hanford doesn't say in her reporting on SoR. Research on reading points to the complexity, nuance, contextuality, and diverse influences on becoming a successful reader. This is a great overview of a few of the issues with how journalists frame Science of Reading.
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performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
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"The third graders kept a stack of worksheets tucked underneath their chapter books at all times as they took turns reading aloud with their teacher. At any moment, they knew, their teacher might get an urgent text that district officials were on campus."
Deliberate deliteracy.
This is not a fire drill, unless you mean that in the “Fahrenheit 451” sense. In which case, you’re right, that’s precisely what it is.
This is not a fire drill, unless you mean that in the “Fahrenheit 451” sense. In which case, you’re right, that’s precisely what it is.
do the highest reaches of literary studies know about this, for instance www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
November 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
"The third graders kept a stack of worksheets tucked underneath their chapter books at all times as they took turns reading aloud with their teacher. At any moment, they knew, their teacher might get an urgent text that district officials were on campus."
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Deliberate deliteracy.
This is not a fire drill, unless you mean that in the “Fahrenheit 451” sense. In which case, you’re right, that’s precisely what it is.
This is not a fire drill, unless you mean that in the “Fahrenheit 451” sense. In which case, you’re right, that’s precisely what it is.
do the highest reaches of literary studies know about this, for instance www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Falkenberg: Mike Miles takes story books from HISD kindergarteners
First HISD took the libraries. Now teachers say the district’s curriculum leaves no room for storybooks and some are secretly reading to students anyway.
www.houstonchronicle.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Deliberate deliteracy.
This is not a fire drill, unless you mean that in the “Fahrenheit 451” sense. In which case, you’re right, that’s precisely what it is.
This is not a fire drill, unless you mean that in the “Fahrenheit 451” sense. In which case, you’re right, that’s precisely what it is.
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we're snailposting, post your snails
Do you ever just stop and take a moment to think just how weird it is that we live on the same planet as snails?
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 AM
we're snailposting, post your snails
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Ursula reminded us.
"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings."
"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings."
November 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Ursula reminded us.
"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings."
"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings."
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"You should contribute to the collapse of the environment, support corporate plagiarism, and produce slop, rather than take the time to analyze your students' work, support their effort, and offer advice and encouragement about how they can improve." Fuck that.
November 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
"You should contribute to the collapse of the environment, support corporate plagiarism, and produce slop, rather than take the time to analyze your students' work, support their effort, and offer advice and encouragement about how they can improve." Fuck that.
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Generative AI is ruining my motivation to teach. It is not a bold new era of information that I'm excited to see my students explore. It's a cheat that prevents them from thinking. It lets them avoid even a moment of confusion and struggle, necessary to process new ideas.
November 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Generative AI is ruining my motivation to teach. It is not a bold new era of information that I'm excited to see my students explore. It's a cheat that prevents them from thinking. It lets them avoid even a moment of confusion and struggle, necessary to process new ideas.
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since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign
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congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run
OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
November 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run
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shameful, pathetic, not going to work statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
An agreement to restore Cornell’s federal research funding | University Statements | Cornell University
statements.cornell.edu
November 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
shameful, pathetic, not going to work statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
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Every single academic in the world - historian of fascism, lab virologist, poet, engineer - should be asking the same question right now: am I here to smoke joints and sit on my ass? Or am I here to give something back to the world beyond these five blocks?
November 7, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Every single academic in the world - historian of fascism, lab virologist, poet, engineer - should be asking the same question right now: am I here to smoke joints and sit on my ass? Or am I here to give something back to the world beyond these five blocks?
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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As stressed as cataloguing makes me, I find it fascinating how true it is that everyone catalogues differently. It's really more an art than a science. Take Marie Kondo’s new book Letter from Japan:
NYPL: 306.0952
LAPL: 309.52
Multnomah: 305
SFPL: 952
Denver: 390.0952
My library: Bio Kondo
NYPL: 306.0952
LAPL: 309.52
Multnomah: 305
SFPL: 952
Denver: 390.0952
My library: Bio Kondo
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
As stressed as cataloguing makes me, I find it fascinating how true it is that everyone catalogues differently. It's really more an art than a science. Take Marie Kondo’s new book Letter from Japan:
NYPL: 306.0952
LAPL: 309.52
Multnomah: 305
SFPL: 952
Denver: 390.0952
My library: Bio Kondo
NYPL: 306.0952
LAPL: 309.52
Multnomah: 305
SFPL: 952
Denver: 390.0952
My library: Bio Kondo
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In Cottage Grove, Abelio Carrillo with the Rural Organizing Project said 8 people were still detained following sweeps across four locations across the city Wednesday morning.
Reports from people in Eugene indicated officers detained people near Goodpasture Island Rd.
www.klcc.org/politics-gov...
Reports from people in Eugene indicated officers detained people near Goodpasture Island Rd.
www.klcc.org/politics-gov...
Lane County immigration advocates report surge in ICE activity Wednesday
Immigration advocates in Lane County reported a surge in Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity Wednesday.
www.klcc.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:42 AM
In Cottage Grove, Abelio Carrillo with the Rural Organizing Project said 8 people were still detained following sweeps across four locations across the city Wednesday morning.
Reports from people in Eugene indicated officers detained people near Goodpasture Island Rd.
www.klcc.org/politics-gov...
Reports from people in Eugene indicated officers detained people near Goodpasture Island Rd.
www.klcc.org/politics-gov...
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majoring yn English ys punk rocke
November 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
majoring yn English ys punk rocke