ZLibrarian
@zolam.bsky.social
Librarian, history researcher, writer, OER, gardening, arts, collaboration, communities, speculative fiction, dancing. Reader. ALA, ACRL. She/her. No DMs.
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AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."
November 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."
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it requires time and effort and money to coordinate ILL requests, to pack books and ship them, and to process and keep track of loans.
and it requires mutual trust.
ILL is such an extraordinary example of the goodness of mutuality that I remain a little astonished that it exists.
and it requires mutual trust.
ILL is such an extraordinary example of the goodness of mutuality that I remain a little astonished that it exists.
November 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
it requires time and effort and money to coordinate ILL requests, to pack books and ship them, and to process and keep track of loans.
and it requires mutual trust.
ILL is such an extraordinary example of the goodness of mutuality that I remain a little astonished that it exists.
and it requires mutual trust.
ILL is such an extraordinary example of the goodness of mutuality that I remain a little astonished that it exists.
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How I feel about the whole Olivia Nuzzi story is that there are a lot of talented, ethical, underemployed or unemployed black and brown journalists right now who are ready to work.
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
How I feel about the whole Olivia Nuzzi story is that there are a lot of talented, ethical, underemployed or unemployed black and brown journalists right now who are ready to work.
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"Keira adds that 'they made me play with a doll and criticised me for not making enough eye contact'.
She alleges that when she asked why she was being tested in this way the psychologist told her: 'To see if you are civilised enough, if you can act like a human being.'"
She alleges that when she asked why she was being tested in this way the psychologist told her: 'To see if you are civilised enough, if you can act like a human being.'"
Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned
Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned
The Danish government has banned the use of parental competency tests, known as FKUs, on Greenlandic families after decades of criticism.
www.bbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"Keira adds that 'they made me play with a doll and criticised me for not making enough eye contact'.
She alleges that when she asked why she was being tested in this way the psychologist told her: 'To see if you are civilised enough, if you can act like a human being.'"
She alleges that when she asked why she was being tested in this way the psychologist told her: 'To see if you are civilised enough, if you can act like a human being.'"
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ILL is critically important and this agency does so much more too, including policy research, special programs like the National Student Poets Program, Museums For All (free and reduced admission), grants to states and directly to libraries, museums, archives, zoos, arboretums, you name it.
November 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
ILL is critically important and this agency does so much more too, including policy research, special programs like the National Student Poets Program, Museums For All (free and reduced admission), grants to states and directly to libraries, museums, archives, zoos, arboretums, you name it.
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2. Trump is probably getting all his news from Fox and AI videos and he is genuinely shocked that Mamdani doesn’t want crime and murder.
November 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
2. Trump is probably getting all his news from Fox and AI videos and he is genuinely shocked that Mamdani doesn’t want crime and murder.
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I think two things are going on.
1. Trump has good political instincts and he knows Mamdani has juice right now and he does not.
1. Trump has good political instincts and he knows Mamdani has juice right now and he does not.
November 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I think two things are going on.
1. Trump has good political instincts and he knows Mamdani has juice right now and he does not.
1. Trump has good political instincts and he knows Mamdani has juice right now and he does not.
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ILL is simply the only way one can do scholarship in smaller fields at the vast majority of schools in the US. It was a lifeline for me at William & Mary, which has a great research library but little reason to acquire meaningful holdings in late imperial Chinese literature. This is amazing news!
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
November 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
ILL is simply the only way one can do scholarship in smaller fields at the vast majority of schools in the US. It was a lifeline for me at William & Mary, which has a great research library but little reason to acquire meaningful holdings in late imperial Chinese literature. This is amazing news!
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my son in high school history had to create on poster board an amusement park, with four sub parks each dedicated to an area of the Reformation (Lutheranism, Calvinism, Catholicism, Anglican etc) and make up rides and snacks. It was clever and there was no way to use chat gpt
November 21, 2025 at 8:07 AM
my son in high school history had to create on poster board an amusement park, with four sub parks each dedicated to an area of the Reformation (Lutheranism, Calvinism, Catholicism, Anglican etc) and make up rides and snacks. It was clever and there was no way to use chat gpt
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My private school has the "nuclear option" rule concerning using AI for assignments.
Get caught, you fail the year. And if you have any other disciplinary issues in your record, you're expelled, tuition surrendered.
Needless to say, we've never had to press that button. But it's there.
Waiting.
Get caught, you fail the year. And if you have any other disciplinary issues in your record, you're expelled, tuition surrendered.
Needless to say, we've never had to press that button. But it's there.
Waiting.
November 21, 2025 at 11:16 AM
My private school has the "nuclear option" rule concerning using AI for assignments.
Get caught, you fail the year. And if you have any other disciplinary issues in your record, you're expelled, tuition surrendered.
Needless to say, we've never had to press that button. But it's there.
Waiting.
Get caught, you fail the year. And if you have any other disciplinary issues in your record, you're expelled, tuition surrendered.
Needless to say, we've never had to press that button. But it's there.
Waiting.
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No matter how nervous I am about something, I immediately feel unstoppable in red lipstick
Red lip gonna always make shit shake!
November 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
No matter how nervous I am about something, I immediately feel unstoppable in red lipstick
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Meet the mother and daughter duo playing on the same team in the FA Cup: ‘It’s surreal’
Meet the mother and daughter duo playing on the same team in the FA Cup: ‘It’s surreal’
Football is truly a family affair for Hednesford Town’s Hazzana Parnell and fellow forward Remaya Osbourne
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Meet the mother and daughter duo playing on the same team in the FA Cup: ‘It’s surreal’
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can you die of too much news
April 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
can you die of too much news
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
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who is following you dorks that you feel the need to repeatedly post that mtg is not on the side of the angels. it feels like spending a lot of time telling people not to eat hams they find on the ground
November 22, 2025 at 2:16 AM
who is following you dorks that you feel the need to repeatedly post that mtg is not on the side of the angels. it feels like spending a lot of time telling people not to eat hams they find on the ground
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Via @annabjournalist.bsky.social: Alabama's new state Senate map was designed by an 18-year-old University of Alabama freshman who submitted his proposals, unsolicited, to a federal court hearing a lawsuit over the districts.
University of Alabama freshman draws state's court-ordered Senate map | Alabama Reflector
TUSCALOOSA — Daniel DiDonato says he’s been passionate about elections since he was a young child. He submitted six maps to a federal court.
alabamareflector.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Via @annabjournalist.bsky.social: Alabama's new state Senate map was designed by an 18-year-old University of Alabama freshman who submitted his proposals, unsolicited, to a federal court hearing a lawsuit over the districts.
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Okay, this kid is an absolute legend.
Via @annabjournalist.bsky.social: Alabama's new state Senate map was designed by an 18-year-old University of Alabama freshman who submitted his proposals, unsolicited, to a federal court hearing a lawsuit over the districts.
University of Alabama freshman draws state's court-ordered Senate map | Alabama Reflector
TUSCALOOSA — Daniel DiDonato says he’s been passionate about elections since he was a young child. He submitted six maps to a federal court.
alabamareflector.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Okay, this kid is an absolute legend.
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I am so obsessed with what every other country packages as "American," which seems to be classified by a sense of ostentatiousness more than anything
November 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I am so obsessed with what every other country packages as "American," which seems to be classified by a sense of ostentatiousness more than anything
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Finally, I know of at least one case where the letter writer, deep into an episode of AI-induced psychosis, asked the LLM why scientists were not responding. The machine suggested that perhaps the scientists were trying to steal his discovery.
This will get someone killed sooner or later.
This will get someone killed sooner or later.
November 21, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Finally, I know of at least one case where the letter writer, deep into an episode of AI-induced psychosis, asked the LLM why scientists were not responding. The machine suggested that perhaps the scientists were trying to steal his discovery.
This will get someone killed sooner or later.
This will get someone killed sooner or later.
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NEW: Amid the pop and wail of fireworks, the family of Jamar Clark unveiled a marble stone bench at the place he took his last breath. The bench unveiling came after an event commemorating ten years to the day that the 24-year-old was fatally shot by Minneapolis Police on Nov. 15, 2015.
November 21, 2025 at 12:09 AM
NEW: Amid the pop and wail of fireworks, the family of Jamar Clark unveiled a marble stone bench at the place he took his last breath. The bench unveiling came after an event commemorating ten years to the day that the 24-year-old was fatally shot by Minneapolis Police on Nov. 15, 2015.
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"AI" = English
"IA" = Romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese)
"KI" = German
All mean "artificial intelligence" — just different word order.
"IA" = Romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese)
"KI" = German
All mean "artificial intelligence" — just different word order.
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
"AI" = English
"IA" = Romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese)
"KI" = German
All mean "artificial intelligence" — just different word order.
"IA" = Romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese)
"KI" = German
All mean "artificial intelligence" — just different word order.
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It's believed we've lost the true name for bear in Germanic languages - "bear" roughly means "brown one," a euphemism used instead of the true name because it was believed that saying their true name would summon the bear.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 5:29 AM
It's believed we've lost the true name for bear in Germanic languages - "bear" roughly means "brown one," a euphemism used instead of the true name because it was believed that saying their true name would summon the bear.
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Please do this! Libraries and librarians really really need your support. Because the dismantling of the Department of Education will impact us ALL
Libraries do so much for our communities and families and we'd like to give back!
Please take time this coming week to send an email or postcard of appreciation for your library to your superintendent, school board/city council, county commissioners court- or to librarians themselves!
Please take time this coming week to send an email or postcard of appreciation for your library to your superintendent, school board/city council, county commissioners court- or to librarians themselves!
November 21, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Please do this! Libraries and librarians really really need your support. Because the dismantling of the Department of Education will impact us ALL
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Just met with Admiral Lunday about this and the policy will be changing. He committed to publishing an updated version later tonight. Displays of hate have no place in our armed services.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Just met with Admiral Lunday about this and the policy will be changing. He committed to publishing an updated version later tonight. Displays of hate have no place in our armed services.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...