Xaila
@xaila.bsky.social
Professional windmill tilter. Public Librarian in New York. She/Her
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Fascism dehumanizes segments of the population by singling them out for public abuse and persecution.
By target these groups, it limits the capacity for empathy among other citizens, leading to the justification of inhumane treatment, from repression of freedom, imprisonment, and much more.
By target these groups, it limits the capacity for empathy among other citizens, leading to the justification of inhumane treatment, from repression of freedom, imprisonment, and much more.
August 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Fascism dehumanizes segments of the population by singling them out for public abuse and persecution.
By target these groups, it limits the capacity for empathy among other citizens, leading to the justification of inhumane treatment, from repression of freedom, imprisonment, and much more.
By target these groups, it limits the capacity for empathy among other citizens, leading to the justification of inhumane treatment, from repression of freedom, imprisonment, and much more.
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The unspoken assumption is that you are a woman who is doing it for the love of the game and that your husband makes the real money so it's okay to post positions requiring an MLIS and think you'll be just fine with only making $15-$19 an hour.
Librarianship has never paid well enough for the education required.
In this moment - where the rent is impossible to cover solo - it is even worse.
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In this moment - where the rent is impossible to cover solo - it is even worse.
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July 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The unspoken assumption is that you are a woman who is doing it for the love of the game and that your husband makes the real money so it's okay to post positions requiring an MLIS and think you'll be just fine with only making $15-$19 an hour.
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E-rate and the Universal Service Fund are essential to rural communities, making access to broadband internet possible in schools and libraries. But will they remain legal under the current administration? Read more from @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social:
ilovelibraries.org/article/libr...
ilovelibraries.org/article/libr...
Library Advocates Show Up for E-Rate
Library advocates rallied on Capitol Hill in support of E-Rate, a federal program that funds broadband for libraries and schools, as the Supreme Court weighs its constitutionality.
ilovelibraries.org
June 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
E-rate and the Universal Service Fund are essential to rural communities, making access to broadband internet possible in schools and libraries. But will they remain legal under the current administration? Read more from @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social:
ilovelibraries.org/article/libr...
ilovelibraries.org/article/libr...
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As a scholar, as a teacher, and now as a museum educator, Chronicling America has been invaluable.
Beyond that, though, it's OURS. We paid for it. It's a public good.
Beyond that, though, it's OURS. We paid for it. It's a public good.
Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
About this Collection | Chronicling America | Digital Collections | Library of Congress
Search America's Historic Newspaper Pages through 1963 Please Note: The Library of Congress has transitioned the longstanding Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website to this new digi...
www.loc.gov
May 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
As a scholar, as a teacher, and now as a museum educator, Chronicling America has been invaluable.
Beyond that, though, it's OURS. We paid for it. It's a public good.
Beyond that, though, it's OURS. We paid for it. It's a public good.
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Fired a black person who was qualified, hired a white person with no qualifications whatsoever. The Trump administration in a nutshell bsky.app/profile/axio...
Trump naming Todd Blanche — the former defense attorney from his hush money trial — as acting Librarian of Congress
Trump naming his former defense attorney as acting Librarian of Congress
Todd Blanche already holds the number two position at the Justice Department.
www.axios.com
May 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Fired a black person who was qualified, hired a white person with no qualifications whatsoever. The Trump administration in a nutshell bsky.app/profile/axio...
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Make art. Make bad art. Make queer art. Make stupid art. Make sublime art. Make art of a chicken quesadilla meal. Your art has value no shareholder can touch.
So what? The literary world is always in the first detonation blast zone. Run towards the searing light. You don't want to live in the world without the arts. Become a writer.
May 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Make art. Make bad art. Make queer art. Make stupid art. Make sublime art. Make art of a chicken quesadilla meal. Your art has value no shareholder can touch.
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NEW: ALA salutes Dr Carla Hayden for her exceptional service to the nation as the Librarian of Congress. We are deeply disappointed in Dr Hayden's abrupt & unjust dismissal last night, an insult to the scope & breadth of her work.
Read ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl's statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/05...
Read ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl's statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/05...
![The American Library Association praises servic of Dr. Carla Hayden, decries 'unjust dismissal' of Librarian of Congress. [Image of Dr. Carla Hayden standing in the stacks in a library]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q5qyswhppr7tiskw43xhcv7f/bafkreicwqv4vszkknu4dvsdfhmrzzmtscjx5eg64gykfmrgynrnhup6sai@jpeg)
May 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
NEW: ALA salutes Dr Carla Hayden for her exceptional service to the nation as the Librarian of Congress. We are deeply disappointed in Dr Hayden's abrupt & unjust dismissal last night, an insult to the scope & breadth of her work.
Read ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl's statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/05...
Read ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl's statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/05...
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Happy #TerryPratchettDay
This photo was taken back to 2009 at the @cilip.bsky.social Youth Libraries Group Conference
This photo was taken back to 2009 at the @cilip.bsky.social Youth Libraries Group Conference
April 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Happy #TerryPratchettDay
This photo was taken back to 2009 at the @cilip.bsky.social Youth Libraries Group Conference
This photo was taken back to 2009 at the @cilip.bsky.social Youth Libraries Group Conference
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This is Cuomo through and through, from the total lack of understanding of libraries and public goods to blaming a nameless volunteer for his failings. Just disgusting.
The Cuomo campaign reportedly asked public library union leaders in a recent meeting if they'd considered *charging a fee* for library services, alarming some library workers.
Asked about the incident, a Cuomo spokesperson blamed a campaign volunteer.
hellgatenyc.com/cuomo-librar...
Asked about the incident, a Cuomo spokesperson blamed a campaign volunteer.
hellgatenyc.com/cuomo-librar...
NYC Library Workers Say Cuomo’s Campaign Asked If They’ve Considered Charging for Services
Cuomo’s team blamed a ‘volunteer.’
hellgatenyc.com
April 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This is Cuomo through and through, from the total lack of understanding of libraries and public goods to blaming a nameless volunteer for his failings. Just disgusting.
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This is so real lmaoooo
"She booked a solo trip to Iceland while you were composing your <<good morning>> text" 😂😂
"She booked a solo trip to Iceland while you were composing your <<good morning>> text" 😂😂
April 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This is so real lmaoooo
"She booked a solo trip to Iceland while you were composing your <<good morning>> text" 😂😂
"She booked a solo trip to Iceland while you were composing your <<good morning>> text" 😂😂
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last year @nobordersbooks.bsky.social sent 600+ books to Rikers; this year our book drive is for teens who are incarcerated in Brooklyn. please purchase a book if you can—most of these are requested titles, and a $7 Goosebumps book would mean A LOT to a kid in detention bookshop.org/wishlists/70...
April 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
last year @nobordersbooks.bsky.social sent 600+ books to Rikers; this year our book drive is for teens who are incarcerated in Brooklyn. please purchase a book if you can—most of these are requested titles, and a $7 Goosebumps book would mean A LOT to a kid in detention bookshop.org/wishlists/70...
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Mississippi libraries immediately sounding the alarm about what IMLS cuts are going to do.
Lots of public libraries (& museums) are doing this. Keep it up! Expand it!
www.wlox.com/app/2025/04/...
Lots of public libraries (& museums) are doing this. Keep it up! Expand it!
www.wlox.com/app/2025/04/...
Coast libraries call for help amid federal funding cuts, service suspensions
Mississippi Coast libraries wasted no time in alerting the public and requesting a call to action in the aftermath of cuts to federal funding.
www.wlox.com
April 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Mississippi libraries immediately sounding the alarm about what IMLS cuts are going to do.
Lots of public libraries (& museums) are doing this. Keep it up! Expand it!
www.wlox.com/app/2025/04/...
Lots of public libraries (& museums) are doing this. Keep it up! Expand it!
www.wlox.com/app/2025/04/...
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FYI, I collected links to what the IMLS funds in most of each of the US states and they're in here so you can know on a state and sometimes even local level what is going to be severely impacted very very soon.
DOGE has just completely gutted the IMLS, firing all staff, closing down their email addresses, and leaving any funding for 2025 in question.
bookriot.com/imls-gutted/
bookriot.com/imls-gutted/
March 31, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now
March 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now
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If Columbia gives in to Trump's demands, they are going to see faculty flee faster than they can stay alive.
No one is going to feel safe working at a university that gives away any semblance of intellectual freedom like this.
No one is going to feel safe working at a university that gives away any semblance of intellectual freedom like this.
‘No Way to Please Everyone’ Says Only University Where Students Are Regularly Kidnapped
‘No Way’ to Please Everyone: Columbia’s President Confronts Trump’s Ultimatum
With Trump intent on making an example of Columbia, Armstrong is at the center of a fight over the future of higher education.
www.wsj.com
March 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
If Columbia gives in to Trump's demands, they are going to see faculty flee faster than they can stay alive.
No one is going to feel safe working at a university that gives away any semblance of intellectual freedom like this.
No one is going to feel safe working at a university that gives away any semblance of intellectual freedom like this.
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There is a LOT of reporting on IMLS right now, but it's being done by people who know what it is. The DOE being dismantled is overshadowing this and that's being done INTENTIONALLY.
But anyway, DOGE is in the IMLS offices right now destroying it.
Say goodbye to interlibrary loans + more.
But anyway, DOGE is in the IMLS offices right now destroying it.
Say goodbye to interlibrary loans + more.
March 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
There is a LOT of reporting on IMLS right now, but it's being done by people who know what it is. The DOE being dismantled is overshadowing this and that's being done INTENTIONALLY.
But anyway, DOGE is in the IMLS offices right now destroying it.
Say goodbye to interlibrary loans + more.
But anyway, DOGE is in the IMLS offices right now destroying it.
Say goodbye to interlibrary loans + more.
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I reposted this earlier asking who's in DC and can form a human chain tomorrow, 3/20, and I was NOT KIDDING. IMLS funding is critical to the everyday functioning of public libraries across the US. 955 L'Enfant Plaza SW, Ste 4000. 📚
NEW — Keith Sonderling, Trump’s Deputy Secretary of Labor, has been named the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an agency source tells me. He’ll arrive tomorrow at their office with DOGE and their security detail.
March 19, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I reposted this earlier asking who's in DC and can form a human chain tomorrow, 3/20, and I was NOT KIDDING. IMLS funding is critical to the everyday functioning of public libraries across the US. 955 L'Enfant Plaza SW, Ste 4000. 📚
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It's not doomscrolling, it's just artisanal nightmare farming
February 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
It's not doomscrolling, it's just artisanal nightmare farming
Any #skybrarians 💙📚 out there who have considered adding wording to their collection policies about AI generated materials? I'm very curious.
February 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Any #skybrarians 💙📚 out there who have considered adding wording to their collection policies about AI generated materials? I'm very curious.
We can usually dodge buying it in Libby but patrons can and do mistakenly put Notify Me tags on deceptively titled slop available in Overdrive Marketplace. It's a big problem with Hoopla.
AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library
Librarians say that taxpayers are already paying for low quality AI-generated ebooks in public libraries.
www.404media.co
February 4, 2025 at 9:54 PM
We can usually dodge buying it in Libby but patrons can and do mistakenly put Notify Me tags on deceptively titled slop available in Overdrive Marketplace. It's a big problem with Hoopla.
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Worried about our nation’s descent into fascism? This one pot cacio e pepe will make you feel like you’re in 1920s Italy.
February 1, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Worried about our nation’s descent into fascism? This one pot cacio e pepe will make you feel like you’re in 1920s Italy.
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I liked TikTok because I got to be who I really am in my heart: a creepy little lurker who watches everything and says little.
January 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I liked TikTok because I got to be who I really am in my heart: a creepy little lurker who watches everything and says little.
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He looks like a Metrosexual Caveman
January 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
He looks like a Metrosexual Caveman