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useless username @uselessusername.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

[in the criterion closet] We can be here all day. I don't care. But I ain't leaving without a copy of The Rock.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/09/2026

If we promise not to bring an iced coffee into a job interview, will you promise to pay us a living wage?

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

i bring an iced coffee to the interview. only it’s not for me, it’s for the interviewer. and it’s laced with a sedative. when she comes to, she’s wearing my clothes and i’m in her office. her car keys don’t work. i’m with her husband. her kids don’t recognize her. coming soon from A24.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

it used to be a core political truism that there was a gas price threshold, above which people would riot. Or, at least, become very very activated. we have seen some analysis of other such truisms like inflation. I need someone to explain this one, stat.

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madison @beastlibrarian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the deprofessionalization & undervaluing of disciplinary subject knowledge that's so hot right now in academic libraries bums me out

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madison @beastlibrarian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

has there been much discussion around how anti-faculty some academic librarians are?

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David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Why the "It's okay to use it to get started" story about AI consumer products in research education bugs the hell out of me: 🧵

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David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Inaccuracy. Lost learning. Yeah, those are good reasons. But do they not also apply to the processes of getting started with a new topic, brainstorming ideas, refining your topic, identifying keywords, and summarizing readings?

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David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's frequently also noted that if you are using genAI products to automate your searches, your source evaluation, and the production of your paper, then you are missing the learning that is embedded in these processes.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just realized that boro and kantha — the Japanese and Indian techniques for repairing cloth or creating new material from scraps by connecting them through a series of running stitches — looks a bit like the peeling bark on an aging tree.

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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Weird movies 🤝 Me

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Everything can’t be reduced to a network effect. I feel like I’m losing my mind. I mean we just watched the almost complete fascist capture of data and the internet. Surely that's a reason to reconsider.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I really struggle with the idea that all we need is love and the internet to build community. I don’t know how we failed the next generation so badly on this but yall materiality matters. Very much.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

logging on to the earnest high-info neurotics website every day during the everything going wrong decade: 'you know, the vibes here could be better'

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madison @beastlibrarian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

omg I love people who love learning

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madison @beastlibrarian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

maybe this goes against what most folks do now in teaching and in conference presentations -- but the more a session involves "active learning" or lots of interaction and engagement with the audience, the less likely I am to attend. I have zero interest in doing an activity in a learning environment

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madison @beastlibrarian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I've known this for a long time, but I wish I had known it earlier: the older I get the more I realize most people have zero idea about what they're doing. ESPECIALLY people in power. I naively used to think people got into powerful positions because they were... I dunno, smart or something.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 26/08/2026

The Trump administration arrested and deported a record number of immigrants in July, according to newly released government data – apprehending an average of 1,500 people and removing 1,100 people daily. 🧵

Two bar charts showing record immigration arrests (49,750) and removals (33,990) in July 2026.

The charts show Trump admin data in red next to Biden admin data in gray, in which the Trump numbers are significantly higher.

Source: Deportation Data Project

Notes: Monthly totals rounded to nearest 10. 'Removals' includes detentions where the stated release reason is 'removed', 'voluntary departure' or 'voluntary return'

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Remember how we were all supposed to learn computer programming, or else we would become illiterate in the computer-dominated future?

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madison @beastlibrarian.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

4 year old: “mom. If you have a baby in your tummy, and you eat a lot of food, the baby will eat the food. In your tummy.” pause “It’s so funny.” “I’m so smart.”

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I feel this. I’ve organized my life around thinking, writing, learning, teaching, and I’m very worried about the future. I comfort myself that my “job” as a human is to “witness the universe” and understand its beauty and that won’t change. But that doesn’t protect me from social disruption.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I regret to inform you that these traditional college courses in AI are indistinguishable from the classrooms I sat in at for-profit colleges 15 years ago. Centralized curriculum & branding, technological control, “virtual” libraries, & bureaucratic alienation of labor.

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Kellyanne @ellarebee.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My favorite part of my job is building my collection and AI can pry it from my cold, dead hands.

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ragingsnail@bsky.social @ragingsnail.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I worked with collectionHQ about 7 years ago….it was, IMO, a great resource to let people run sloppy reports, then claim they’re making data driven retention decisions while over weeding and overlooking subtleties of collection management. Bitter? Just a little 😃 circ count isn’t f’ing everything.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I can honestly say that I've never wanted my library collection to be built by vendor automated AI, no.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 16/08/2026

UCLA administrators, on a summer Friday, announced that they are closing the childcare centers on campus upon which faculty, staff and student parents rely — albeit expensive and exclusive options, but far better than none. The admin cited budget deficit. The story is hardly just that.

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UCLA childcare program, which faced 2024 sex abuse case, to close amid budget deficit - Daily Bruin

UCLA will shut down two of its childcare centers – one of which employed a teacher arrested for child sexual abuse in 2024 – next June, university leadership announced Thursday evening.

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madison @beastlibrarian.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

we're weeding so i'm just going to keep a list of items I find in our collection (these are not necessarily titles we're actually weeding right now, but ones I've come across while looking into the collection) will likely be a little thread.

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madison @beastlibrarian.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

why does my 8 month old love finding every single cable/wire in our house. those are not chew toys, my dear

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whyaisucks.bsky.social @whyaisucks.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

God, the arrogance of thinking “we haven’t cured cancer because we haven’t asked my magic computer friend.”

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madison @beastlibrarian.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

hi welcome to my conference presentation / webinar on using generative AI in libraries: "how about NO" 👍 thanks, good talk

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 22/07/2026

“…democratizing force for those without graphic-design experience” As opposed to, you know, collaborating with/paying actual human beings who have that experience

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madison @beastlibrarian.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

honestly shocked when I meet a librarian who has a decent amount of joy or motivation left anymore!

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Does anyone's collection development policy include uh... morals oe ethics clauses? 📚

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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

the best way to heal imposter syndrome is just having any interaction with anyone in a position of power in any institution, there’s an inverse relationships between occupying positions of power and being qualified for them, it’s like hierarchy naturally creates a kind of anti-meritocracy

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madison @beastlibrarian.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I’m gonna need someone to tell me what’s going on with ARLIS/NA pls

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madison @beastlibrarian.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

a thing I actually just said "there's only ONE proper place to watch a film in 70mm in the entire seattle area?! this place is a shithole."

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Between this and the bribery case a couple of years ago, they've really decided to let Kavanugh be the point person on *allowing billionaires to buy politics* and *unvarnsihed public corruption.*

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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

As a friend and colleague once told me, such stories generally aren’t “secret” or “hidden” until someone from the Ivies “discovers” them.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I am stunned that the constitutional question was so close. I thought it would be 6–3 or 7–2. It is profoundly disturbing that four justices would allow either the president or Congress to rewrite the plain text of the 14th Amendment. This is obviously a good outcome, but the margin is alarming.

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

If the Supreme Court can reverse a 95 year-old ruling for a country that is only 250 years old, I need you to UNDERSTAND this country still has no idea what it is or what it stands for other than it’s constant push-and-pull to oppress Black people and eliminate Native people.

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maxgbowman @maxgbowman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Today is the official launch day for @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social 🙌 Two years in the making, later today we’ll give a talk at GSISC about building a trans-centered publishing infrastructure! You can find our website at: murmurations.space And our insta, here: www.instagram.com/murmurations...

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 25/06/2026

Also not the biggest concern, but the situation Josh is accurately describing is a compound nightmare because the lack of employers means young creatives aren't learning anything about the craft from veterans of their industries. It's all atomized. And knowledge loss is thus massive :(

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