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@zinelib.bsky.social
antifa, zine librarian, librarian zinester, cats, books, abolition, free Palestine, reproductive justice, boycott Amazon, blood donor, Earth fan, civilly disobedient
Pinned
Does every nonprofit and academic mission statement have a fiduciary responsibility override in invisible ink at the top?
Anyone else’s end of year ritual figuring out which prescriptions you can refill before your health insurance deductible resets? Or do most people focus on which white collar criminals to pardon?
December 30, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Anyone else’s end of year ritual figuring out which prescriptions you can refill before your health insurance deductible resets? Or do most people focus on which white collar criminals to pardon?
Everything is an archive the way all art is art
December 30, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Everything is an archive the way all art is art
Has the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social Spectrum scholarship ever gone up? I remember it being $5K when I was in library school...in 1998. The program has supported hundreds? thousands? of BIPOC librarians, but maybe it's time to give LIS students of color a raise? 📚 www.ala.org/advocacy/spe...
Spectrum Scholarship Program
Affirming our commitment to diversity and inclusion by seeking the broadest participation of new generations of racially and ethnically diverse librarians.
www.ala.org
December 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Has the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social Spectrum scholarship ever gone up? I remember it being $5K when I was in library school...in 1998. The program has supported hundreds? thousands? of BIPOC librarians, but maybe it's time to give LIS students of color a raise? 📚 www.ala.org/advocacy/spe...
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"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
December 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
“you ever want someone to come on the show and explain why people still read James Baldwin and Joan Didion but not Norman Mailer, hit me up.)” someone please hit Laura up
Joan Didion, conservative, or Joan Didion, cop-hater? I wrote a thing.
newrambler.net/2025/12/27/j...
newrambler.net/2025/12/27/j...
Joan Didion: A Love Song
[I heard] him tell the girl in a picture… that he would build her a house, “at the bend in the river where the cottonwoods grow.” As it happens I did not grow up to be the kind of…
newrambler.net
December 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
“you ever want someone to come on the show and explain why people still read James Baldwin and Joan Didion but not Norman Mailer, hit me up.)” someone please hit Laura up
“For one thing, protesting can improve emotional wellbeing.”
Not being frozen in despair is essential for change-making
Not being frozen in despair is essential for change-making
In case you need a positive reminder:
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
“For one thing, protesting can improve emotional wellbeing.”
Not being frozen in despair is essential for change-making
Not being frozen in despair is essential for change-making
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I feel once again compelled to emphasis the digitizing in the literal scanning sense is fairly unimportant if it is not accompanied with metadata providing context for discovery. Both humans and AI will make things up when they don't know what they are looking at.
December 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I feel once again compelled to emphasis the digitizing in the literal scanning sense is fairly unimportant if it is not accompanied with metadata providing context for discovery. Both humans and AI will make things up when they don't know what they are looking at.
I love a most borrowed list! www.nypl.org/spotlight/to... NYC library users are a quirky bunch--and maybe not much in common with the NYT bestsellers list. Solidarity with my fellow thrifties who don't need to own books. 📚
www.nypl.org
December 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I love a most borrowed list! www.nypl.org/spotlight/to... NYC library users are a quirky bunch--and maybe not much in common with the NYT bestsellers list. Solidarity with my fellow thrifties who don't need to own books. 📚
cosigned!
Generative AI is also causing me more work as a college professor, in teaching, research, and admin work.
So far AI is causing me more work.
One of my main responsibilities is to use a database to find certain things. This database used to have humans look at the webpage of a thing and then write a description.
Bad AI descriptions have led to an increase in false positives I need to sift through.
One of my main responsibilities is to use a database to find certain things. This database used to have humans look at the webpage of a thing and then write a description.
Bad AI descriptions have led to an increase in false positives I need to sift through.
December 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
cosigned!
Just say no to AI ✊
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Just say no to AI ✊
“One reason we keep coming back to zines is because zines, by their very nature, are kind of uncensorable,” [citizen archivist Milo] Miller says. ... No robot is going to go through and scan the material and say, ‘You can’t publish this.’" @qzap.bsky.social @inthesetimes.com
Fighting Anti-Queer Backlash with Citizen Archivists
Queer archivist groups like Invisible Histories and the Queer Zine Archive Project are preserving queer history and making it accessible in the face of the federal government's erasure. You can do the...
inthesetimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
“One reason we keep coming back to zines is because zines, by their very nature, are kind of uncensorable,” [citizen archivist Milo] Miller says. ... No robot is going to go through and scan the material and say, ‘You can’t publish this.’" @qzap.bsky.social @inthesetimes.com
action.mijente.net/petitions/zi... Sign onto this letter demanding the release of green card holder Daniel "Des" Sanchez Estrada. Free Des, free speech, and free zines!
Zines Are Not A Crime! Free Des!
Since July 6, 2025, the federal government has unjustly detained beloved community member, artist, and green card holder Daniel “Des” Sanchez Estrada. He is in custody in North Texas on charges relate...
action.mijente.net
December 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
action.mijente.net/petitions/zi... Sign onto this letter demanding the release of green card holder Daniel "Des" Sanchez Estrada. Free Des, free speech, and free zines!
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As anti-queer backlash and state erasure intensify, citizen archivists are fighting back by saving LGBTQ+ history before it disappears.
Groups like @invisiblehistories.bsky.social and the @qzap.bsky.social show how preservation becomes resistance.
inthesetimes.com/article/figh...
Groups like @invisiblehistories.bsky.social and the @qzap.bsky.social show how preservation becomes resistance.
inthesetimes.com/article/figh...
December 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
As anti-queer backlash and state erasure intensify, citizen archivists are fighting back by saving LGBTQ+ history before it disappears.
Groups like @invisiblehistories.bsky.social and the @qzap.bsky.social show how preservation becomes resistance.
inthesetimes.com/article/figh...
Groups like @invisiblehistories.bsky.social and the @qzap.bsky.social show how preservation becomes resistance.
inthesetimes.com/article/figh...
All I want for solstice is for AI to buy NFTs in Second Life
December 16, 2025 at 4:03 AM
All I want for solstice is for AI to buy NFTs in Second Life
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A Muslim stopped a massacre of Jews on Hanukkah
7News Australia reports that the hero who jumped and disarmed one of the terrorist shooters
His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed
A 43 year old married father of two
He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland
No experience with guns
He was walking past
He has two bullets in his arm
His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed
A 43 year old married father of two
He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland
No experience with guns
He was walking past
He has two bullets in his arm
December 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
A Muslim stopped a massacre of Jews on Hanukkah
As a non-Christian, I need to ask, is this the Christmas spirit I've heard so much about?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha
Fox tells Americans to buy artificial trees so Christmas tree farms can be used for data centers:
"Everybody needs to get on board."
"Everybody needs to get on board."
December 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
As a non-Christian, I need to ask, is this the Christmas spirit I've heard so much about?
Oh, just walking around Home Depot on a Saturday with some friends.
#ICEOutOfHomeDepot #StopTheRaids
#ICEOutOfHomeDepot #StopTheRaids
December 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Oh, just walking around Home Depot on a Saturday with some friends.
#ICEOutOfHomeDepot #StopTheRaids
#ICEOutOfHomeDepot #StopTheRaids
Read for data and analysis of how abortion was depicted on TV this year in conversation with previous years. (Spoiler: fewer abortions--and why are they mostly surgical, when medical abortions are the 63% majority IRL?) via WMST-L.
The Pitt, Ginny & Georgia, All’s Fair – how did this year’s biggest TV shows tackle abortion? We tracked this year’s hits and misses in our Abortion Onscreen report. www.ansirh.org/research/res...
www.ansirh.org
December 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Read for data and analysis of how abortion was depicted on TV this year in conversation with previous years. (Spoiler: fewer abortions--and why are they mostly surgical, when medical abortions are the 63% majority IRL?) via WMST-L.
Library board dismissed for refusing to remove a book about a trans kid. Kudos to the board, though, for not caving to censorship. They lost this round, but retain their values.
www.randolphhub.com/article/news... Serve on your local library board! Find it here data.librariesforthepeople.org 📚
www.randolphhub.com/article/news... Serve on your local library board! Find it here data.librariesforthepeople.org 📚
Commissioners vote 3-2 to dismiss Library Board of Trustees
<p>How the Library Board voted to handle a controversial children's book led to a majority decision by commissioners to dismiss the whole board.</p>
www.randolphhub.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Library board dismissed for refusing to remove a book about a trans kid. Kudos to the board, though, for not caving to censorship. They lost this round, but retain their values.
www.randolphhub.com/article/news... Serve on your local library board! Find it here data.librariesforthepeople.org 📚
www.randolphhub.com/article/news... Serve on your local library board! Find it here data.librariesforthepeople.org 📚
How many people have sent you the Guardian "zines are back!" article? I'm up to four, and my 85-year-old dad was the first! #ZinesAreBack #ZinesWereNeverGone #ButStillGladPeopleCare
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
How many people have sent you the Guardian "zines are back!" article? I'm up to four, and my 85-year-old dad was the first! #ZinesAreBack #ZinesWereNeverGone #ButStillGladPeopleCare
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I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
Important notice: AI-generated archival references
www.icrc.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
If you've been wondering where to find 20th century Italian fanzines, Mart-Museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto staff have digitized >100 zines and uploaded them to @archive.org
archive.org/details/mart...
archive.org/details/mart...
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
archive.org
December 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
If you've been wondering where to find 20th century Italian fanzines, Mart-Museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto staff have digitized >100 zines and uploaded them to @archive.org
archive.org/details/mart...
archive.org/details/mart...
Self-care plan: I’m going to assume every time someone suggests I ask AI, they really mean the poet Ai
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_(poet)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_(poet)
Ai (poet) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Self-care plan: I’m going to assume every time someone suggests I ask AI, they really mean the poet Ai
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_(poet)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_(poet)
Today in zine cataloging: do you hover, cover, or sit?
From Neurotic Behavior by Mary Burt, 2001.
From Neurotic Behavior by Mary Burt, 2001.
December 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Today in zine cataloging: do you hover, cover, or sit?
From Neurotic Behavior by Mary Burt, 2001.
From Neurotic Behavior by Mary Burt, 2001.
My 2025 wrapped just dropped. It says
Fuck: Trump, Israel, Cuomo, Barnumbia, billionaires including Tay Tay
Yay: my cats, zine libraries, Mamdani, my spouse
Free: Palestine, Luigi
Fuck: Trump, Israel, Cuomo, Barnumbia, billionaires including Tay Tay
Yay: my cats, zine libraries, Mamdani, my spouse
Free: Palestine, Luigi
a box that says wrap it up in red letters
ALT: a box that says wrap it up in red letters
media.tenor.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
My 2025 wrapped just dropped. It says
Fuck: Trump, Israel, Cuomo, Barnumbia, billionaires including Tay Tay
Yay: my cats, zine libraries, Mamdani, my spouse
Free: Palestine, Luigi
Fuck: Trump, Israel, Cuomo, Barnumbia, billionaires including Tay Tay
Yay: my cats, zine libraries, Mamdani, my spouse
Free: Palestine, Luigi