JHH
@shqippy.bsky.social
Theology, Prince, protest music. Opinions my own.
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@shqippy.bsky.social
· Apr 24
Can algorithm find peeps interested in Prince, Albania, Quakers, libraries, Mr. Rogers?
I once heard @michelenorris.bsky.social sharing how her family's neighborhood once ran an underground library in Birmingham, AL. Who knew she's also a first cousin of Brownmark? Her insights on #prince, Minneapolis, & the new #purplerain are at michelenorris.substack.com/p/essay-dear...
ESSAY: Dearly Beloved, We Are Gathered Here Together, in Minneapolis This Week to Honor a Hometown Hero Called PRINCE.
I got an early peak of the Prince musical "Purple Rain" and I have thoughts.... about the roots of his genius
michelenorris.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I once heard @michelenorris.bsky.social sharing how her family's neighborhood once ran an underground library in Birmingham, AL. Who knew she's also a first cousin of Brownmark? Her insights on #prince, Minneapolis, & the new #purplerain are at michelenorris.substack.com/p/essay-dear...
Thanks @religionprof.bsky.social I hadn’t heard of this one
I had the chance to see The Carpenter's Son, the story of Jesus' childhood envisaged as a horror movie, with some inspiration from (but not a whole lot of overlap with) the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. Here's my review.
www.patheos.com/blogs/religi...
www.patheos.com/blogs/religi...
The Carpenter's Son
The movie The Carpenter's Son is the childhood of Jesus reenvisioned as a horror movie. It takes some inspiration from the apocryphal text known as the
www.patheos.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Thanks @religionprof.bsky.social I hadn’t heard of this one
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Lots of my fellow Unitarian Universalists are already a part of this. Makes me proud 📚
“Faith for Libraries” Campaign Will Combat Book Censorship and Defend Religious Freedom
Interfaith Alliance, a national leader in defending civil rights and multi-faith democracy, today is launching a new campaign with the American Library Association and Unite Against Book Bans to comba...
www.ala.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Lots of my fellow Unitarian Universalists are already a part of this. Makes me proud 📚
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Now THIS is how you promote databases (from Tulane Libraries) 📚🔥 www.instagram.com/reel/DQuIikI...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Now THIS is how you promote databases (from Tulane Libraries) 📚🔥 www.instagram.com/reel/DQuIikI...
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Texas Episcopal diocese says one of its priests has been detained by ICE @sightmagazine.bsky.social #EpiscopalDioceseofTexas #EpiscopalChurch #USimmigrationraids #migrants #BishopCAndrewDoyle #ICE
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Texas Episcopal diocese says one of its priests has been detained by ICE - Sight Magazine
The Episcopal Diocese of Texas announced on Saturday that one of its priests, a Kenyan national, has been detained by immigration officials.
sightmagazine.com.au
November 4, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Texas Episcopal diocese says one of its priests has been detained by ICE @sightmagazine.bsky.social #EpiscopalDioceseofTexas #EpiscopalChurch #USimmigrationraids #migrants #BishopCAndrewDoyle #ICE
sightmagazine.com.au/news/texas-e...
sightmagazine.com.au/news/texas-e...
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Very important news to local history authors and historical societies: slate.com/technology/2...
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Your Town’s Local History Books Have a Very Secret and Powerful New Buyer
Arcadia Publishing built its empire on small-town storytellers. Now it wants to sell their words to an A.I. company no one will name.
slate.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Very important news to local history authors and historical societies: slate.com/technology/2...
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📚 I tried to contact someone, anyone, at Amazon Library Services. It did not go well.
Libraries require vendor transparency. As a best practice, I like to meet with a vendor before I sign my library up for services. And this brings me to Amazon Library Services.
1. The website… | Jenn...
Libraries require vendor transparency. As a best practice, I like to meet with a vendor before I sign my library up for services. And this brings me to Amazon Library Services.
1. The website https:/...
www.linkedin.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:29 PM
📚 I tried to contact someone, anyone, at Amazon Library Services. It did not go well.
Brilliant interview with @colincutlermusic.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/interviews/m...
A musician meets Flannery O’Connor at the crossroads
“She made room for me to wrestle,” says North Carolina songwriter Colin Cutler, “room for doubt, for the idea that grace might move even when belief gets...
www.christiancentury.org
October 31, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Brilliant interview with @colincutlermusic.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/interviews/m...
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The U.S. is experiencing its highest wave of layoffs since 2020, with close to a million workers losing their jobs this year.
October 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The U.S. is experiencing its highest wave of layoffs since 2020, with close to a million workers losing their jobs this year.
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He orders extrajudicial killings. He sent troops into our cities. He terrorizes citizens with ICE raids. He raised taxes without congressional approval. He has ruined American farmers and ranchers. He plans to starve the vulnerable. He demolished our house.
Remove him from office.
Remove him from office.
October 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
He orders extrajudicial killings. He sent troops into our cities. He terrorizes citizens with ICE raids. He raised taxes without congressional approval. He has ruined American farmers and ranchers. He plans to starve the vulnerable. He demolished our house.
Remove him from office.
Remove him from office.
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The monthly Digital Library Federation Committee on #equity and #inclusion mtg is a welcoming space to discuss supporting #libraries, #DEIA work, and each other in this challenging time. DM me for details about the next mtg on Oct 27. #DLF @clirnews.bsky.social wiki.diglib.org/Committee_fo...
Committee for Equity and Inclusion
wiki.diglib.org
October 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The monthly Digital Library Federation Committee on #equity and #inclusion mtg is a welcoming space to discuss supporting #libraries, #DEIA work, and each other in this challenging time. DM me for details about the next mtg on Oct 27. #DLF @clirnews.bsky.social wiki.diglib.org/Committee_fo...
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New K-5 curriculum on disinfo is now live online for free! To learn all the best tricks about how to use it, join us Oct 27, 10:00-11:30 ET. Spread the word to the K-5 librarians & teachers you know! Everybody welcome.
See ALT text for more detail. To Register: tinyurl.com/MLWevent.
🍎 #SSChat 📚
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🍎 #SSChat 📚
October 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
New K-5 curriculum on disinfo is now live online for free! To learn all the best tricks about how to use it, join us Oct 27, 10:00-11:30 ET. Spread the word to the K-5 librarians & teachers you know! Everybody welcome.
See ALT text for more detail. To Register: tinyurl.com/MLWevent.
🍎 #SSChat 📚
See ALT text for more detail. To Register: tinyurl.com/MLWevent.
🍎 #SSChat 📚
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In 2025, we are losing our measles-free status, just 25 years after we eliminated measles from the US because of vaccines.
It’s not because our sanitation systems have been eliminated.
It’s because people aren’t getting vaccinated.
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It’s not because our sanitation systems have been eliminated.
It’s because people aren’t getting vaccinated.
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October 18, 2025 at 12:57 AM
In 2025, we are losing our measles-free status, just 25 years after we eliminated measles from the US because of vaccines.
It’s not because our sanitation systems have been eliminated.
It’s because people aren’t getting vaccinated.
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It’s not because our sanitation systems have been eliminated.
It’s because people aren’t getting vaccinated.
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Coherent launches major archive of rare African magazines largely unknown among scholars 📚
librarytechnology.org/pr/31765
librarytechnology.org/pr/31765
Coherent launches major archive of rare African magazines largely unknown among scholars
Press Release: Coherent launches major archive of rare African magazines largely unknown among scholars. Coherent Digital launched Pan-African Magazines, making some of Africa's rarest and most impor...
librarytechnology.org
October 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Coherent launches major archive of rare African magazines largely unknown among scholars 📚
librarytechnology.org/pr/31765
librarytechnology.org/pr/31765
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Many of us grew up in the church being taught to root for Moses, Daniel, and John the Baptist in the Bible, only to grow up and have our churches question our faith for not cheering on the Pharaohs, Nebuchadnezzars, and Herods in our world today.
October 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Many of us grew up in the church being taught to root for Moses, Daniel, and John the Baptist in the Bible, only to grow up and have our churches question our faith for not cheering on the Pharaohs, Nebuchadnezzars, and Herods in our world today.
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RIFed:
Office of Science - CDC Library
They have helped SO many of us with their expertise & guidance so we can do efficient & quick research.
You don’t need us toiling in Pubmed for days at a time during an outbreak. The library helps us get what we need quickly so we can continue our work.
Office of Science - CDC Library
They have helped SO many of us with their expertise & guidance so we can do efficient & quick research.
You don’t need us toiling in Pubmed for days at a time during an outbreak. The library helps us get what we need quickly so we can continue our work.
About Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
The CDC library provides resources and services to support research, communication, and learning.<br></br>
www.cdc.gov
October 11, 2025 at 2:01 AM
RIFed:
Office of Science - CDC Library
They have helped SO many of us with their expertise & guidance so we can do efficient & quick research.
You don’t need us toiling in Pubmed for days at a time during an outbreak. The library helps us get what we need quickly so we can continue our work.
Office of Science - CDC Library
They have helped SO many of us with their expertise & guidance so we can do efficient & quick research.
You don’t need us toiling in Pubmed for days at a time during an outbreak. The library helps us get what we need quickly so we can continue our work.
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A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...
t.co
October 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV
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Help us investigate book bans across the USA.
404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.
🔗 www.404media.co/help-us-inve...
404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.
🔗 www.404media.co/help-us-inve...
Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America
404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.
www.404media.co
October 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Help us investigate book bans across the USA.
404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.
🔗 www.404media.co/help-us-inve...
404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.
🔗 www.404media.co/help-us-inve...
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Well this is supremely messed up 📜 📚
A Rash of Bomb Threats Hit College and University Libraries
At least 15 US colleges and universities received bomb threats targeting the library since Sunday as part of a nationwide swatting event.
bookriot.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Well this is supremely messed up 📜 📚
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So let me be very clear: there was a massive rash of bomb threats at universities nationwide this week.
ELEVEN of them specifically called out the university or college libraries.
ELEVEN of them specifically called out the university or college libraries.
October 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
So let me be very clear: there was a massive rash of bomb threats at universities nationwide this week.
ELEVEN of them specifically called out the university or college libraries.
ELEVEN of them specifically called out the university or college libraries.
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According to historian @theotherrbg.bsky.social, FDR’s labor secretary saved tens of thousands of refugees from the Nazis—and narrowly avoided impeachment.
Charles Hoffacker reviews Dear Miss Perkins:
www.christiancentury.org/books/when-f...
Charles Hoffacker reviews Dear Miss Perkins:
www.christiancentury.org/books/when-f...
When Frances Perkins took on the bigots
According to historian Rebecca Graham, FDR’s labor secretary saved tens of thousands of refugees from the Nazis—and narrowly avoided...
www.christiancentury.org
September 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
According to historian @theotherrbg.bsky.social, FDR’s labor secretary saved tens of thousands of refugees from the Nazis—and narrowly avoided impeachment.
Charles Hoffacker reviews Dear Miss Perkins:
www.christiancentury.org/books/when-f...
Charles Hoffacker reviews Dear Miss Perkins:
www.christiancentury.org/books/when-f...
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Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive:
2015: 332
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 611
2021: 689
2022: 644
2023: 659
2024: 503
So far in 2025...324 mass shootings in just 272 days.
We do not have to keep living like this.
2015: 332
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 611
2021: 689
2022: 644
2023: 659
2024: 503
So far in 2025...324 mass shootings in just 272 days.
We do not have to keep living like this.
September 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive:
2015: 332
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 611
2021: 689
2022: 644
2023: 659
2024: 503
So far in 2025...324 mass shootings in just 272 days.
We do not have to keep living like this.
2015: 332
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 611
2021: 689
2022: 644
2023: 659
2024: 503
So far in 2025...324 mass shootings in just 272 days.
We do not have to keep living like this.