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Bombing for peace is like burning books to promote literacy.
June 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Bombing for peace is like burning books to promote literacy.
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Image of library book display labeled:
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
May 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Image of library book display labeled:
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
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I think in part the higher education funding crisis and the LLM-teaching crisis actually strike at the same problem, which is that education doesn't work without a broad, society-wide sense that the *actual content* of education - not the credential - is valuable.
May 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I think in part the higher education funding crisis and the LLM-teaching crisis actually strike at the same problem, which is that education doesn't work without a broad, society-wide sense that the *actual content* of education - not the credential - is valuable.
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Look at that, being held accountable for one’s actions.
This should not feel like a novelty or an outlier.
This should not feel like a novelty or an outlier.
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen is convicted of embezzlement and barred from running to be France's next president in a verdict that reshapes the nation’s political landscape
Marine Le Pen Barred From 2027 French Presidency Run
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen was convicted of embezzlement and barred from running to be France’s next president in a verdict that reshapes the nation’s political landscape.
bloom.bg
March 31, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Look at that, being held accountable for one’s actions.
This should not feel like a novelty or an outlier.
This should not feel like a novelty or an outlier.
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France raises a fascinating hypothetical point: what if the law still exists even if people might get mad at you
March 31, 2025 at 12:55 PM
France raises a fascinating hypothetical point: what if the law still exists even if people might get mad at you
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Today is #TransDayofVisibility, a great day to add some books that celebrate trans identities to your reading list. ❤️
As always, @lgbtqreads.bsky.social has you covered with plenty of great #mglit recommendations. buff.ly/vQphH3Z
As always, @lgbtqreads.bsky.social has you covered with plenty of great #mglit recommendations. buff.ly/vQphH3Z
March 31, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Today is #TransDayofVisibility, a great day to add some books that celebrate trans identities to your reading list. ❤️
As always, @lgbtqreads.bsky.social has you covered with plenty of great #mglit recommendations. buff.ly/vQphH3Z
As always, @lgbtqreads.bsky.social has you covered with plenty of great #mglit recommendations. buff.ly/vQphH3Z
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This will have devastating impacts on the social infrastructure of American cities and towns, especially in rural communities where the library is often the only game in town.
SCOOP: DOGE notified the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) today that the entire staff is being put on administrative leave effective immediately, I’ve learned from an agency source.
They’ll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).
They’ll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).
March 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This will have devastating impacts on the social infrastructure of American cities and towns, especially in rural communities where the library is often the only game in town.
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Turns out Le Pen is not mightier than the fraud.
March 31, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Turns out Le Pen is not mightier than the fraud.
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Libra: Today is a good day to roll up into a ball and rock back and forth whimpering for hours on end inside a pillow fort and wrapped in a snuggly blanket.
March 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Libra: Today is a good day to roll up into a ball and rock back and forth whimpering for hours on end inside a pillow fort and wrapped in a snuggly blanket.
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old Soviet joke for our times:
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
March 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
old Soviet joke for our times:
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
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February 8, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Bastards crying, innit.
February 3, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Bastards crying, innit.
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If only we’d tried tarriffs before and could look back and see what kind of effect they had on the economy…
February 3, 2025 at 5:22 AM
If only we’d tried tarriffs before and could look back and see what kind of effect they had on the economy…
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Is it true that you're a paranoid agoraphobe? Because that's what everyone out here's saying
February 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Is it true that you're a paranoid agoraphobe? Because that's what everyone out here's saying
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Something I wrote elsewhere but is relevant here, as we start this first full week of February 2025:
February 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Something I wrote elsewhere but is relevant here, as we start this first full week of February 2025:
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I think about the nuns in The Sound of Music all the time.
Noncompliance can happen in a myriad of ways.
If you are able to throw sand in the gears of tyranny, you must do so.
If you are able to throw sand in the gears of tyranny, you must do so.
Yes. It is almost thrilling how many ways things can lost, or misplaced, or used incorrectly, and how often people forget, or stall, or send to the wrong place.
And don't let me get started on filing and copying.
And don't let me get started on filing and copying.
February 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I think about the nuns in The Sound of Music all the time.
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Extraordinary and awful news. Very sorry for my many friends who work for and with USAID. And terrible news for the USA both internally and externally.
www.huffpost.com/entry/usaid-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/usaid-...
USAID Staffers Told To Stay Out Of Washington HQ After Musk Said Trump Agreed To Close It
Staffers said they also tracked more than 600 employees who reported being locked out of the agency’s computer systems overnight.
www.huffpost.com
February 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Extraordinary and awful news. Very sorry for my many friends who work for and with USAID. And terrible news for the USA both internally and externally.
www.huffpost.com/entry/usaid-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/usaid-...
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Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜
The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
February 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜
The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
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I don’t care if you’re a relative, a fantasy novelist, or an elected official, transphobia is manufactured outrage and transphobe are trash.
None of America’s problems are cause by trans people. None.
But a LOT are caused by bigots.
None of America’s problems are cause by trans people. None.
But a LOT are caused by bigots.
January 27, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I don’t care if you’re a relative, a fantasy novelist, or an elected official, transphobia is manufactured outrage and transphobe are trash.
None of America’s problems are cause by trans people. None.
But a LOT are caused by bigots.
None of America’s problems are cause by trans people. None.
But a LOT are caused by bigots.
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January 26, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Read.
Read books.
Reading books is resistance.
Buy.
Buy books.
Buying books is resistance.
Share.
Share books.
Sharing books is resistance.
Celebrate
Celebrate books.
Celebrating books is resistance.
Read books.
Reading books is resistance.
Buy.
Buy books.
Buying books is resistance.
Share.
Share books.
Sharing books is resistance.
Celebrate
Celebrate books.
Celebrating books is resistance.
January 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Read.
Read books.
Reading books is resistance.
Buy.
Buy books.
Buying books is resistance.
Share.
Share books.
Sharing books is resistance.
Celebrate
Celebrate books.
Celebrating books is resistance.
Read books.
Reading books is resistance.
Buy.
Buy books.
Buying books is resistance.
Share.
Share books.
Sharing books is resistance.
Celebrate
Celebrate books.
Celebrating books is resistance.
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Since it’s five years since Jo Martin made her debut.
Here’s the time where she posted about Colin being her Doctor.
Hope we get a multi doctor story with Sixie and Fugitive.
#JoMartin
:) two legends.
Here’s the time where she posted about Colin being her Doctor.
Hope we get a multi doctor story with Sixie and Fugitive.
#JoMartin
:) two legends.
January 26, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Since it’s five years since Jo Martin made her debut.
Here’s the time where she posted about Colin being her Doctor.
Hope we get a multi doctor story with Sixie and Fugitive.
#JoMartin
:) two legends.
Here’s the time where she posted about Colin being her Doctor.
Hope we get a multi doctor story with Sixie and Fugitive.
#JoMartin
:) two legends.