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alexwinter.com
Don't turn away from the suffering civilians in Gaza. They are living in hell and we’re their only voice and means of survival.

Please give to my friend Tasneem so she so she can feed her children and raise funds to rebuild. And find and give to others, if you can. ❤️

chuffed.org/project/1587...
Gaza in ruins. Tasneem's youngest daughter Alma and their cats.
November 27, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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themerl.bsky.social
New Absolute Units is live! Listen to part 2 of our conversation with @georgemonbiot.bsky.social.

We discuss the history of land access and capitalism, the ramifications of enclosure on Britain's former colonies, and the necessary work of de-enclosure today.

merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
Absolute Units podcast - The Museum of English Rural Life
Come for the big sheep. Stay for the history of rural England and its people.
merl.reading.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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cidrap.bsky.social
Reposting with key context:

Experimental mRNA flu vaccine shows superior efficacy against symptomatic illness

The vaccine was fully protective in a small human challenge model, showing superior efficacy to the conventional 4-strain flu vaccine

www.cidrap.umn.edu/i...
November 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
Coming this week(?), a 20-page zine w/Rad Measurement Fact/history mini-essays by @shane.logoff.website + Absolute Unit letterpress eye candy collected by me.
Screenshot of the cover of a zine, "Absolute Units of Letterpress: Plus Rad Measurement Facts" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti and Shane Lin. The cover is illustrated by a photo of a letterpress lead printing block of a stout dog and measurement tools, and typeset (and digitally reflected for readbaility) lead text that says "Contents are paced in a solid mass" Screenshot of a back page from a zine, "Absolute Units of Letterpress: Plus Rad Measurement Facts" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti and Shane Lin. It shows photos of various letterpress printing blocks and type arranged to read "As advertised, we put it all together jsut for you! All kinds of solid unit". A letterpress press with a huge cylinder like the biggest rolling pin is captioned "Reliance press with Absolute Unit of a cylinder". There is a letterpress block of a chef giving a "perfection" gesture. The words "solid" and "unit" are formed by digitally reflected large wood type, with the "L" in "solid" and the "i" in unit each formed by a human hand
November 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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noethematt.bsky.social
Local journalism was already nearly dead

Apparently the owners want to dig the grave themselves

www.telegram.com/story/news/n...
We partnered with AI-powered answer engine Perplexity. Here's why it matters.
The USA TODAY Network is teaming up with Perplexity to bring trusted local reporting into the AI era.
www.telegram.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
To be clear (since NPR isn't), the "joke" is premised on the fact that Trump is kidnapping people w/o due process and shipping them to offshore concentration slave camps in defiance of court orders, human rights accordances, the U.S. constitution, all tenets of common decency, and international law.
November 26, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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haymarketbooks.org
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars 2025 Holiday Campaign
BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated. In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...
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November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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librarycolleen.bsky.social
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
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Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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umasslibraries.bsky.social
Join the Libraries for a special lecture by visiting scholar Heitor Guimarães, "Dark Labor in the Amazon: a Du Boisian Analysis of Modern Slavery Under Volkswagen in Brazil (1974-1986)," Thursday, December 4, noon-1 p.m., in the Du Bois Library, Du Bois Center.
RSVP: bit.ly/guimaraes25
Black and white photo of Heitor Guimarães. Text over a magenta banner at the bottom: "Heitor Guimarães. Visiting Scholar, Dept. Afro-American Studies. Thursday, December 4. Noon-1 p.m. W. E. B. Du Bois Library, Du Bois Center. Dark Labor in the Amazon: a Du Boisian Analysis of Modern Slavery Under Volkswagen in Brazil (1974-1986). RSVP: bit.ly/guimaraes25." QR Code. UMass Amherst Libraries and Du Bois Center logos.
November 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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librarian.bsky.social
I can only hope that the reason "librarian" is not on this list is b/c they are afraid of us. As they should be.

Solidarity with everyone who does the professional work on this list. An injury to one is an injury to all and we will fight for you ✊

(repost from before where I left off the word NOT)
kathy328.bsky.social kat from the ‘ville @kathy328.bsky.social · 9d
Anyone see a problem here? Speaking as a teacher with a master’s degree, I’m insulted.
List of professions
November 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
Very Extra broadsides are my favorite letterpress genre to make. You can tell this one isn't done yet from there still being significant white space. (Uses my recent acrylic PC & wood skeleton lasercut blocks, which both came out well, as well as my wood Luddite lasercut block) #DHmakes
Photo of a letterpress print on white paper with green and black ink. It says "VAPORWARE pointing out the (tech) emperor has no clothes >:c since (well before) 1811 / Luddites didn't "fear technology", they broke the machines that allowed the rich to enshittify livelihoods/ who's your tech for? / caution: no tech's adoption is inevitable (lol blockchain) / glitch their cistems" and is decorated with a historical Luddite, dancing skeleton kicking a computer, and diverting trying to sell you things from inside his trenchcoat (the things are three $ symbols and a poison symbol)
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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elea.fyi
Passing on the message from Instagram as approved by Alice Wong’s family and posted by Sandy Ho.

About Alice’s Celebration of Life:
About Alice's Celebration of Life In accordance with Alice's wishes, a community celebration of her phenomenal life is being planned by her close friends and family. The hybrid gathering will be in the spring. Details to follow. Meanwhile, we honor all forms of grieving and ritual, while holding that Alice had specific plans for her memorial. We're working on some delightful Alice inspired offerings to share here. Take care of yourself and each other.
November 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
Today is the annual Trans Day of Remembrance, keeping alive the memory of folks hate killed. @thetransfemininereview.com's guide to preserve our work+history has ways all can fight literal erasure (esp. this section on practical steps you can take, eg request yr library buy books by trans authors)
The Trans Literature Preservation Project: A Practical Guide to Resisting Censorship
Project 2025 wants to criminalize trans literature. Here’s a game plan for keeping our stories alive.
thetransfemininereview.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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blklibrarygirl.bsky.social
A radio interview with WAMU about my introduction to the new reissue of Toni Morrison’s BELOVED. (I was very nervous.)

www.wamc.org/podcast/the-...
Toni Morrison's book "Beloved" releases with new introduction by Honoree Jeffers
Toni Morrison is one of the few Americans to win the Nobel Prize in Literature and remains the only black woman to do so. She remains central to nearly every American conversation, which is why her bo...
www.wamc.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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erinbartram.bsky.social
Every year I get submissions for the @contingent-mag.bsky.social book and journal article lists that don’t really fit. But now, you can send your amazing 2025 public scholarship here!
gvaughnjoy.bsky.social Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 9d
🚨 ATTENTION PUBLIC SCHOLARS 🚨

As an end of year special #ScholarSunday thread, @americanstudier.bsky.social and I would like to share your favorite pieces from the year, especially if they're yours!

Did an essay or podcast episode blow you away with pride or brilliance? Please email us!
Announcements
If you have a talk coming up, a book on its way, a podcast trailer to drop, or an accomplishment to celebrate, we want to help you share it!
blackwhiteandread.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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majnouna.com
For those who missed it, I'm crowdfunding for the revised edition of this handbook of mine. We've reached the funding goal but there are still rewards and add-ons to be had... #bookarts
November 20, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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vaginamuseum.bsky.social
Today is #TransDayOfRemembrance. Trans people and their human rights are under attack around the globe. The Vagina Museum stands defiant against these attacks. We are a proudly trans inclusive space, even as discourse grows ever more toxic.
November 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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gauthamrao.bsky.social
The publication date for my book on the history of policing American slavery has been moved up a month! Now available May 12, 2026! Thanks so much to those who have preordered! The Press is offering 30% off with the code, 01UNCP30

uncpress.org/978146969484...
White Power
Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders’ violent police regime continued...
uncpress.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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neolithicsheep.bsky.social
Everyone working on this is morally bankrupt
November 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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elienyc.bsky.social
Thank you, student journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
Lawrence Summers to Stop Teaching at Harvard While It Investigates His Epstein Ties
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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wheatleycensus.bsky.social
If you have a copy near you, please send us information about it! We want to proliferate copy-specific data and you can tell us more about provenance, marginalia, bindings, and other copy-level data! Please share that and photos here: blog.wheatleycensus.org/2025/11/08/h...
Help expand the Wheatley Census – Wheatley Census Blog
blog.wheatleycensus.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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novicsara.bsky.social
I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not thebaffler.com/outbursts/si...
Signed Away | Sara Nović
The hearing world continues to pillage and caricature the deaf community—most recently with the proprietary, sign-based system Makaton.
thebaffler.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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dorothyjberry.bsky.social
Well, it's official. Second printing of "The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities" is sold out. Next printing in Jan! Will post will sales or live, or sign up here:

www.wehere.space/we-here-pres...
Drawing of a 19th century printing press with a selfie of my face transposed on top of the printer's head
November 19, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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kslater.bsky.social
do AI adopters in libraries understand that refusing/protesting a system is diff. than blaming individuals affected by a system?

when they claim refusal of AI is “not helpful,” what i hear is that they aren’t making a connection between their labor as information workers to data workers in Kenya
November 19, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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kathleenromig.bsky.social
The Trump Administration is abandoning plans for the biggest-ever cut to Social Security Disability Insurance, which would have hit older workers hardest.

The rule would have devastated up to 1.5 million workers' financial stability, retirement security & access to health care.

wapo.st/4o48J24
Social Security scraps plan to limit disability benefits after uproar
The policy would have fundamentally altered who qualifies for the two federal disability programs by eliminating or limiting a person’s age as a factor to consider.
wapo.st
November 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM