Amy
@gymfanamy.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 | adhd/bipolar | lover of gymnastics, birds, libraries, and spreadsheets
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Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
August 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
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The inimitable Chef Gary.
July 29, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The inimitable Chef Gary.
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“A driver named Zack told Source on Wednesday that he and fellow American-born Spark drivers have repeatedly called an Immigration and Customs Enforcement hotline to tip off the agency about where the ‘deliveristas’ gather and how to find them.”
"gig workers call ICE on their immigrant coworkers who they view as competition" is a pretty concise summary of the 21st century, cybourgeoisie class warfare as a way to discipline labor.
sourcenm.com/2025/07/11/r...
sourcenm.com/2025/07/11/r...
Resentment against Albuquerque ‘deliveristas’ may have sparked viral Walmart ICE arrest • Source New Mexico
Source New Mexico spoke with the family and friends of the man captured on video being violently arrested by ICE. They fear he has an untreated head injury.
sourcenm.com
July 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
“A driver named Zack told Source on Wednesday that he and fellow American-born Spark drivers have repeatedly called an Immigration and Customs Enforcement hotline to tip off the agency about where the ‘deliveristas’ gather and how to find them.”
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There is no ethical AI. The tech is based on stolen intellectual property, anti-solidarity between workers, labor exploitation, environmental injustice, climate destabilization, structural racism, and gender inequalities.
This will be an innovative new training space where educators will learn not just about how A.I. works, but how to use it wisely, safely and ethically. It will be a place where tech developers and educators can talk with each other, not past each other. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/t...
OpenAI and Microsoft Bankroll New A.I. Training for Teachers
www.nytimes.com
July 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
There is no ethical AI. The tech is based on stolen intellectual property, anti-solidarity between workers, labor exploitation, environmental injustice, climate destabilization, structural racism, and gender inequalities.
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You put this in my library I'm gonna beat this robot scab to death
July 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
You put this in my library I'm gonna beat this robot scab to death
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the more you learn about ai and the business behind it and truly how horribly ai mega datacenters are for the environment and are destroying the communities they’re in it makes you want to return to living in a cave
July 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
the more you learn about ai and the business behind it and truly how horribly ai mega datacenters are for the environment and are destroying the communities they’re in it makes you want to return to living in a cave
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What is common in your field but shocks outsiders.
Librarians weed constantly, and many of those books go in the trash (depending on local recycling rules). I donate a lot of what I weed, but I've still tossed thousands of books over the last few years.
Librarians weed constantly, and many of those books go in the trash (depending on local recycling rules). I donate a lot of what I weed, but I've still tossed thousands of books over the last few years.
What is common in your field but shocks outsiders?
Translation is about 80% skill in your native language, 20% skill in your second language.
It's not about knowing what is being said. Anyone can do that. It's about saying the same thing in a different language with the same emotional impact.
Translation is about 80% skill in your native language, 20% skill in your second language.
It's not about knowing what is being said. Anyone can do that. It's about saying the same thing in a different language with the same emotional impact.
What is common in your field but shocks outsiders?
Montessori and Waldorf are like, opposite ends of the spectrum in fancy educational philosophies in early childhood.
Montessori and Waldorf are like, opposite ends of the spectrum in fancy educational philosophies in early childhood.
June 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
What is common in your field but shocks outsiders.
Librarians weed constantly, and many of those books go in the trash (depending on local recycling rules). I donate a lot of what I weed, but I've still tossed thousands of books over the last few years.
Librarians weed constantly, and many of those books go in the trash (depending on local recycling rules). I donate a lot of what I weed, but I've still tossed thousands of books over the last few years.
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here is a more inclusive diagram that includes more medications that cause heat sensitivity than just SSRI/SNRIs!!
June 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
here is a more inclusive diagram that includes more medications that cause heat sensitivity than just SSRI/SNRIs!!
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They're all interrelated. Libraries have become social support nets, while the net supporting libraries is being torn down and apart by the same folks who cut everything that made libraries become this.
I work in a public library in a relatively populous city and every single day I deal with WAY more issues stemming from housing/addiction/mental health/dv/poverty than I do book bans.
Honestly, a lot of the issues public libraries deal with can't be solved until we refund, rebuild, and reimagine a whole lot of other public services.
You can't shut everything else down, funnel every single person with every single need known to humankind into the library and expect good results.
You can't shut everything else down, funnel every single person with every single need known to humankind into the library and expect good results.
June 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
They're all interrelated. Libraries have become social support nets, while the net supporting libraries is being torn down and apart by the same folks who cut everything that made libraries become this.
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Honestly, a lot of the issues public libraries deal with can't be solved until we refund, rebuild, and reimagine a whole lot of other public services.
You can't shut everything else down, funnel every single person with every single need known to humankind into the library and expect good results.
You can't shut everything else down, funnel every single person with every single need known to humankind into the library and expect good results.
Your local library workers really need you to show up and fight for them.
And it isn't just about book bans.
Frankly, there are thornier, larger things going on than book bans for most libraries. Trouble is, they are things that require actions outside of the library to solve.
Help.
And it isn't just about book bans.
Frankly, there are thornier, larger things going on than book bans for most libraries. Trouble is, they are things that require actions outside of the library to solve.
Help.
June 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Honestly, a lot of the issues public libraries deal with can't be solved until we refund, rebuild, and reimagine a whole lot of other public services.
You can't shut everything else down, funnel every single person with every single need known to humankind into the library and expect good results.
You can't shut everything else down, funnel every single person with every single need known to humankind into the library and expect good results.
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This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.
June 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.
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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Libraries are so committed to patron privacy that our ILS software is designed to keep a patron’s borrowing history out of reach of everyone but the patron. And that includes children, who are patrons like anyone else. 📚
Libraries are so committed to patron privacy that our ILS software is designed to keep a patron’s borrowing history out of reach of everyone but the patron. And that includes children, who are patrons like anyone else. 📚
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
In general, it takes about 1000 years to form 1cm of new soil.
In general, it takes about 1000 years to form 1cm of new soil.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
We’re not clear on what *information* is, at all
We’re not clear on what *information* is, at all
June 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Libraries are so committed to patron privacy that our ILS software is designed to keep a patron’s borrowing history out of reach of everyone but the patron. And that includes children, who are patrons like anyone else. 📚
Libraries are so committed to patron privacy that our ILS software is designed to keep a patron’s borrowing history out of reach of everyone but the patron. And that includes children, who are patrons like anyone else. 📚
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“if they can do this to a senator they can do this to anybody”
they already are doing it to everybody wtf do you think weve been saying
they already are doing it to everybody wtf do you think weve been saying
June 13, 2025 at 11:20 AM
“if they can do this to a senator they can do this to anybody”
they already are doing it to everybody wtf do you think weve been saying
they already are doing it to everybody wtf do you think weve been saying
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If you see the Newark escapees, no you didn't.
BREAKING: Four detainees at Newark immigration facility have escaped, DHS says
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
June 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
If you see the Newark escapees, no you didn't.
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No bad protestor. No good cop
June 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
No bad protestor. No good cop
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friendly reminder, you can stand up for immigrants without tying our worth/intrinsic value to our labor
June 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
friendly reminder, you can stand up for immigrants without tying our worth/intrinsic value to our labor
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anyway remember when louisville public schools paid an AI company a million dollars to design efficient bus routes and it was such a disaster that kids were stuck on the bus until 9:00pm and they had to close the schools for days?? what a time saver
May 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
anyway remember when louisville public schools paid an AI company a million dollars to design efficient bus routes and it was such a disaster that kids were stuck on the bus until 9:00pm and they had to close the schools for days?? what a time saver
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Okay, y’all… I have finally decided that retreat is the better part of valor. Bringing some rainbow energy over to these blue skies.
#bydhttmwdi
#bydhttmwdi
a pixel art of a man standing under a rainbow on a blue background
Alt: a pixel art of Levar standing under a rainbow on a blue background
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November 18, 2024 at 7:43 PM
Okay, y’all… I have finally decided that retreat is the better part of valor. Bringing some rainbow energy over to these blue skies.
#bydhttmwdi
#bydhttmwdi
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Sam Kerr and Kristie Mewis announced on IG they’re having a baby!!!!!
Sportsmanship and kindness to you and yours!!!
Sportsmanship and kindness to you and yours!!!
November 18, 2024 at 1:48 PM
Sam Kerr and Kristie Mewis announced on IG they’re having a baby!!!!!
Sportsmanship and kindness to you and yours!!!
Sportsmanship and kindness to you and yours!!!
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Ex-librarian here—I'd say encouraging your followers to put in requests for books with marginalized authors/MCs and check out those books both in person and online would be best. To get books and keep them on shelves in times of scrutiny like this, there has to be a quantifiable demand for them.
I'm not uniquely qualified for anything but as book bans will become stricter on stories of the marginalized in the coming years I want to ask librarians if there is anything I can personally do with my small platform to help out
November 6, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Ex-librarian here—I'd say encouraging your followers to put in requests for books with marginalized authors/MCs and check out those books both in person and online would be best. To get books and keep them on shelves in times of scrutiny like this, there has to be a quantifiable demand for them.
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November 15, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.
November 15, 2024 at 5:22 PM
A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.
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Hey #gymternet/ gym fans! New to bluesky and trying to find everyone? Here’s a starter pack to get u on ur way! ☺️🤸🏽♀️
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November 15, 2024 at 12:03 AM
Hey #gymternet/ gym fans! New to bluesky and trying to find everyone? Here’s a starter pack to get u on ur way! ☺️🤸🏽♀️
Reply to be added if you’re coming in later ✨
go.bsky.app/R9hoEW9
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people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙
November 13, 2024 at 5:24 PM
people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙