Dr. Librarian Caroline
@txttimes3.bsky.social
Librarian. Activist. Educator. PhD. Western Bulldogs member. Initiator of #LibrariansForRefugees On the unceded land of the Woi Wurrung and Wurundjeri peoples. Anti-fascist. Anti-genocide.
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#Anarchism 2026 is a public, one-day conference hosted by the #Anarchist #Communist Federation (ACF).
Date: Saturday 7th of March 2026
Location: Balam Balam Place, 15 Phoenix Street, Brunswick, Victoria
ancomfed.org/conf-2026
Date: Saturday 7th of March 2026
Location: Balam Balam Place, 15 Phoenix Street, Brunswick, Victoria
ancomfed.org/conf-2026
December 7, 2025 at 6:42 AM
#Anarchism 2026 is a public, one-day conference hosted by the #Anarchist #Communist Federation (ACF).
Date: Saturday 7th of March 2026
Location: Balam Balam Place, 15 Phoenix Street, Brunswick, Victoria
ancomfed.org/conf-2026
Date: Saturday 7th of March 2026
Location: Balam Balam Place, 15 Phoenix Street, Brunswick, Victoria
ancomfed.org/conf-2026
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Your attention please.
This is my annual shameless Christmas plug . . . and please send any complaints about shameless Christmas plugs to management.
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👉🏽 www.hachette.com.au/ronni-salt/g...
Your attention please.
This is my annual shameless Christmas plug . . . and please send any complaints about shameless Christmas plugs to management.
🎄
👉🏽 www.hachette.com.au/ronni-salt/g...
December 7, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Your attention please.
This is my annual shameless Christmas plug . . . and please send any complaints about shameless Christmas plugs to management.
🎄
👉🏽 www.hachette.com.au/ronni-salt/g...
Your attention please.
This is my annual shameless Christmas plug . . . and please send any complaints about shameless Christmas plugs to management.
🎄
👉🏽 www.hachette.com.au/ronni-salt/g...
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More than 1000 French academics from universities countrywide have signed a manifesto declaring their conscientious objection to the deployment of degenerative AI in their institutions. #ResistAI ✊🏽
December 6, 2025 at 6:47 AM
More than 1000 French academics from universities countrywide have signed a manifesto declaring their conscientious objection to the deployment of degenerative AI in their institutions. #ResistAI ✊🏽
#Libraries This. All day this.
Working class hands built SLV, and working class taxes pay for it to exist, so suck it up, you’re gonna have to sit beside a member of the working class and lump it, because it’s common space for us all
December 6, 2025 at 7:13 AM
#Libraries This. All day this.
Catching up on Monday (1 Dec) #Estimates.
@davidshoebridge.bsky.social
vs. #NACC is my favourite spectator sport. Only improvement would be to put up a net between them.
(Seriously, thank dog for the senator and his rigorous work.)
@davidshoebridge.bsky.social
vs. #NACC is my favourite spectator sport. Only improvement would be to put up a net between them.
(Seriously, thank dog for the senator and his rigorous work.)
December 3, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Catching up on Monday (1 Dec) #Estimates.
@davidshoebridge.bsky.social
vs. #NACC is my favourite spectator sport. Only improvement would be to put up a net between them.
(Seriously, thank dog for the senator and his rigorous work.)
@davidshoebridge.bsky.social
vs. #NACC is my favourite spectator sport. Only improvement would be to put up a net between them.
(Seriously, thank dog for the senator and his rigorous work.)
This cause is close to my heart - please consider signing.
Hands off our State Library!
Library workers deliver essential services to 2.8 million people in our community each year. They run information services, connect people online, hold free workshops, develop community connections an...
www.megaphone.org.au
December 3, 2025 at 3:52 AM
This cause is close to my heart - please consider signing.
I wonder if, at Christmas, she dresses up as "Claus Barbie"...
Q: You said that second strike was in accordance with the law of armed conflict, but the Navy's own manual says that firing on survivors from a wrecked vessel is an example of a war crime
LEAVITT: I would reiterate that the strike was conducted in accordance with the law of armed conflict
LEAVITT: I would reiterate that the strike was conducted in accordance with the law of armed conflict
December 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I wonder if, at Christmas, she dresses up as "Claus Barbie"...
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On this day in 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama.
December 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
On this day in 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama.
They misspelled defecation.
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 AM
They misspelled defecation.
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Quick heads up!
Cheryl, Noely, Ronni & I - are chatting about our #auspol year & looking at the year ahead - for SpinProof - *LIVE* this Friday at midday (AEDT) right here > www.podbean.com/lsw/zqEWRi85...
Hope you can join us.
Cheryl, Noely, Ronni & I - are chatting about our #auspol year & looking at the year ahead - for SpinProof - *LIVE* this Friday at midday (AEDT) right here > www.podbean.com/lsw/zqEWRi85...
Hope you can join us.
Cheryl, Noely and Ronni wrap the year for SpinProof | Podbean Livestream
Join us for a special SpinProof live podcast where Cheryl, Noely, Ronni and Denise share their highlights and lowlights of yet another #auspol year and look ahead to 2026. Always a worthwhile and ente...
www.podbean.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Quick heads up!
Cheryl, Noely, Ronni & I - are chatting about our #auspol year & looking at the year ahead - for SpinProof - *LIVE* this Friday at midday (AEDT) right here > www.podbean.com/lsw/zqEWRi85...
Hope you can join us.
Cheryl, Noely, Ronni & I - are chatting about our #auspol year & looking at the year ahead - for SpinProof - *LIVE* this Friday at midday (AEDT) right here > www.podbean.com/lsw/zqEWRi85...
Hope you can join us.
Honestly, if you need a top up of optimism (who doesn’t?), find a way to watch some circus training.
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Honestly, if you need a top up of optimism (who doesn’t?), find a way to watch some circus training.
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'Some staff are shocked?' ALL recently forced out staff, & the few experts left, everyone who isn't in the questionable senior management tier knows that the State Library in Melbourne is teetering on the brink of irreparable disaster & the end of this iconic Library as we know it. Inquiry now.
The State Library of Victoria’s ‘major’ proposed cuts include slashing the number of reference librarians and free computers for public access. Some staff are shocked.
Proposed cuts at State Library of Victoria go against its mission – and will hurt the disadvantaged
theconversation.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 AM
'Some staff are shocked?' ALL recently forced out staff, & the few experts left, everyone who isn't in the questionable senior management tier knows that the State Library in Melbourne is teetering on the brink of irreparable disaster & the end of this iconic Library as we know it. Inquiry now.
#Libraries are not mere tourist destinations, or "nice" clubs where the business elite can feel cossetted. They should be run by librarians, who understand their true purpose.
November 22, 2025 at 5:57 AM
#Libraries are not mere tourist destinations, or "nice" clubs where the business elite can feel cossetted. They should be run by librarians, who understand their true purpose.
Everything about this makes me sick with anger.
Solidarity to those brave staff speaking up.
#Libraries
Solidarity to those brave staff speaking up.
#Libraries
archive.md
November 21, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Everything about this makes me sick with anger.
Solidarity to those brave staff speaking up.
#Libraries
Solidarity to those brave staff speaking up.
#Libraries
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All those people who warned us that the Voice To Parliament would result in non-elected people making decisions must be really concerned about this...
November 21, 2025 at 3:18 AM
All those people who warned us that the Voice To Parliament would result in non-elected people making decisions must be really concerned about this...
Call me old-fashioned, but being a lobbyist for weapons companies does not sit well with conducting the affairs of a national library.
November 20, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Call me old-fashioned, but being a lobbyist for weapons companies does not sit well with conducting the affairs of a national library.
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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That shirt, tho.
He got sued for sharing public YouTube videos; nightmare ended in settlement
Librarian vows to stop invasive ed tech after ending lawsuit with Proctorio.
arstechnica.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
That shirt, tho.
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Kid in parking lot asks "What should I ask you?" (license plate: ASKME)
"Anything, I work at the library"
* Kid laughs *
"Let me ask YOU something. Do you have a library card?"
"Nope."
"Live in town?"
"Yep."
"Well, they're free. You should get one"
"Okay!"
I have become THAT lady & am OK with it 💅
"Anything, I work at the library"
* Kid laughs *
"Let me ask YOU something. Do you have a library card?"
"Nope."
"Live in town?"
"Yep."
"Well, they're free. You should get one"
"Okay!"
I have become THAT lady & am OK with it 💅
November 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Kid in parking lot asks "What should I ask you?" (license plate: ASKME)
"Anything, I work at the library"
* Kid laughs *
"Let me ask YOU something. Do you have a library card?"
"Nope."
"Live in town?"
"Yep."
"Well, they're free. You should get one"
"Okay!"
I have become THAT lady & am OK with it 💅
"Anything, I work at the library"
* Kid laughs *
"Let me ask YOU something. Do you have a library card?"
"Nope."
"Live in town?"
"Yep."
"Well, they're free. You should get one"
"Okay!"
I have become THAT lady & am OK with it 💅
Mum was an outrageous flirt, especially with her favourite footy players. She lived life her way.
8 years today and I miss her very much.
8 years today and I miss her very much.
November 17, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Mum was an outrageous flirt, especially with her favourite footy players. She lived life her way.
8 years today and I miss her very much.
8 years today and I miss her very much.
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Thomson Reuters, has a Foundation, focuses on press freedom, funds research, runs a ‘Trust’ conference …and also uses a data brokerage business that helps ICE boost its surveillance capabilities
The Reuters company is also one of the nation’s largest data brokers and they’re yet another corporation exploiting America’s lack of data privacy laws to power ICE surveillance.
This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country
Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.
www.404media.co
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Thomson Reuters, has a Foundation, focuses on press freedom, funds research, runs a ‘Trust’ conference …and also uses a data brokerage business that helps ICE boost its surveillance capabilities