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laborlibrarian.bsky.social
The labor librarian
@laborlibrarian.bsky.social
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Grew up in a UFW/IWW household. Now I’m a librarian (public to academic), union thug, and general roustabout.

Anonymous because I’m not tenured yet.

Pro-Palestinian, pro-trans, anti-racist, and not fit for human consumption.
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Not gonna lie, I have no idea how y’all are surviving out there if you don’t have a fuzzy kitty forehead to kiss.
A fuzzy orange cat with an even fuzzier tail passed out asleep with his feet in the air on a brown armchair.
November 12, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Leonard’s picture from the cover of Time.
The cove of Time magazine. Leonard Matlovich is photographed from the chest up in full Air Force uniform. He has dark hair and a mustache. The cover reads “‘I Am a Homosexual’ The Gay Drive for Acceptance”
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Every Veteran’s Day I think about Leonard Matlovich’s headstone.
A black marble headstone. On the top it has two triangles, with the words “never again” and “never forget” and the dates “6 July 1943” and “22 June 1988”. In the center of the headstone it says “A GAY VIETNAM VETERAN”. At the bottom it reads “when I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.”
November 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Quote, and article, from Jimmy Williams, president of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades.
“The labor movement needs our own set of policies and our own independent political movement for this country to succeed. We cannot keep riding the coattails of one party or another or hoping that this next go around, we'll get our turn. We need an army of workers who understand the history of their union and the labor movement-and who are ready to fight for a new labor movement."
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Oh yeah ALSO I went to Brazil and saw 90 new species in a week and there are very few people I know that I can brag about that to. Here’s a really shitty picture of some Red Breasted Toucans.
Two Red Breasted Toucans sitting in a tree. One has its beak open in a call.
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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From “Jingo” by Terry Pratchett
“It was because he wanted there to be conspirators. It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn't then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was Us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.”
November 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Time to dust this old cherry off that someone shared with me years ago and support @sbworkersunited.org in their potential upcoming strike!
A meme. The top picture of Howard Schultz, saying “I will never engage with a union.” Underneath is a cartoon body. The head is the logo for the Starbucks Workers United union. It’s saying “that’s the neat part, you don’t have a choice.”
November 7, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Never been tempted to tag JD Vance in a post before.
Cincinnati mayoral race results which shows JD Vance’s half brother Cory Bowman getting absolutely wrecked by incumbent Aftab Pureval 18.3% to 81.7%
November 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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RIP Assata Shakur
Love Love is contraband in Hell, cause love is an acid that eats away bars. But you, me, and tomorrow hold hands and make vows that struggle will multiply. The hacksaw has two blades. The shotgun has two barrels. We are pregnant with freedom. We are a conspiracy.
September 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Regular repost of one of my favorite memes.
A screenshot of Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction saying “I don’t remember asking you a god damn thing.” The text of the meme says “when I’m roasting a Democrat and a Republican chimes in.”
September 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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From “Feet of Clay” by Terry Pratchett

#booksky #skybrarian #terrypratchett
"You are in favor of the common people?" said Dragon mildly. "The common people?" said Vimes. "They're nothing special. They're no different from the rich and powerful except they've got no money or power. But the law should be there to balance things up a bit. So I suppose l've got to be on their side."
September 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Cover art for the romance novel “Priest” by Sierra Simone. The cover is a black and white photo of a shirtless muscular man with his head bowed to his hands like in prayer.
September 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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This account seems to be gathering posts that are critical of Kirk and/or right wing ideology, so I’m not sure if it fits your list exactly but still figured it was worth sharing.
A screenshot of the Bluesky profile for @liberialwatchers, which identifies as Liberal Watchers
September 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Librarians (and honestly, everyone). Block and/or watch out for this account, which appears to be gathering posts critical of Charlie Kirk/right wing ideology.

Note the misspelling of the handle.
A screenshot of Bluesky profile @liberialwatchers, which calls itself Liberal Watchers
September 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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How our nation was actually founded
A screenshot from Feminista Jones’ social media. It had a collage of a photo of James Madison with the quote “An alliance or coalition between Government and religion cannot be too carefully guarded against...Religion and government will exist in greater purity, without (rather) than with the aid of government."
September 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Everyone the day after the election
A screenshot from the Simpsons with Becky looking sad and wearing a wedding dress after being left at the altar. Homer is whispering to her “I’d take off that wedding dress or you’re going to look crazy” while Marge just looks worried in the background.
September 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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From “the Art of Woody Guthrie”
Sketches in red pen of three adults and one youth. They are all wearing round, dark sunglasses. Above them are the words “get these Republican goggles off our people so’s they can see what’s goin’ on!”
September 3, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Bless @chucktingle.bsky.social
A screenshot of the cover of Chuck Tingle’s book “Unionized in the Butt and now everyone is safer, happier, and better paid”. The cover depicts a buff, shirtless character with a man’s body, green skin, and dinosaur head and a human man, shirtless, unzipping his jeans to reveal white underwear.
September 2, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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If you’re looking for adult books, I have a ton of recommendations. But here’s what I’m planning on dipping into this weekend
Two books photographed on a green patterned blanket. The books are “Ben Fletcher: the life and times of a Black wobbly” by Peter Cole, and “Power and Strategy” by John Womack Jr.
August 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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I fucking love Ursula K LeGuin
A tweet from user deathbybadger that reads “it's actually your civic duty to share Ursula le Guin's casually devastating, icily astute take down of the harry potter novels whenever you see it”. Underneath is an excerpt from an interview: Q: Nicholas Lezard has written 'Rowling can type, but Le Guin can write. What do you make of this comment in the light of the phenomenal success of the Potter books? I'd like to hear your opinion of JK Rowling's writing style UKL: I have no great opinion of it. When so many adult critics were carrying on about the "incredible originality" of the first Harry Potter book, I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid's fantasy crossed with a "school novel", good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited.
August 26, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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If I Must Die
By Refaat Alareer
killed in Gaza in December 2023 by an Israeli bomb, alongside his brother, his sister, and his sister’s children.

#booksky #skybrarian
If I must die Refaat Alareer November 1, 2023 If I must die, you must live to tell my story to sell my things to buy a piece of cloth and some strings, (make it white with a long tail) so that a child, somewhere in Gaza while looking heaven in the eye awaiting his dad who left in a blaze— and bid no one farewell not even to his flesh not even to himself— sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above and thinks for a moment an angel is there bringing back love If I must die let it bring hope let it be a tale
August 15, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Nothing will beat this one
A screenshot of the show “The Five” on Fox News of the cohosts sitting around a table. The tag at the bottom of the screen says “libraries turning into drug-infested, sex dens”.
August 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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A screenshot of Lisa Simpsons saying “I know those words but that post makes no sense.”
August 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Kudos to the @memeinglibrarian.bsky.social for this one.
Two golfers (that I don’t know because I don’t follow golf) standing face to face on the green. One is wearing a very preppy outfit of black slacks and vest with a white shirt and white shoes and baseball cap. The other one is standing in a casual demeanor, leaning against his golf club and smoking a cigar. He has a white beard and hair and is wearing loud patterned pink and blue pants with a blue polo. The preppy guy is labeled “getting an MLIS”. The slightly unhinged guy is labeled “working in a library”.
August 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Any #houseplant folks out there who can tell me why my Jade plant’s branches are withering up and dropping off?

It’s not being overwatered
Had mites a few months ago that were successfully treated and haven’t come back
Leaves are soft and dull, some are wrinkly even after watering
Roots look good
A hand with watermelon nail art holding a dead, wrinkly stem of a jade plant. The same hand holding the stem at another angle.
August 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM