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Rebecca Strang @bexagons.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Carl DiNardo (@redfish-brewfish.bsky.social) & I are excited to announce a call for proposals for a Gaming in Libraries issue of Library Trends! Details here: forms.gle/ZWfQp3EbPTRv... Proposals due Sept 21, 2026. Don't ask us topic questions here, please! See the call for info on how to do that!

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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Battledeck players are ready for the competition!

Four librarians take warrior stances in front of Battledecks screen at a conference.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 28/06/2026

I don’t want “AI” as an umbrella term (Trojan Horse) to steal the valor of human-crafted, careful models & tools that allow for experts to do their jobs better (not replace them)

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Let us dance together above the terrible abyss.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 31/12/2025

Over 275 authors, editors, critics and diehard readers came together over the last month to vote on their favorite transfeminine books of the year. It's my honor to present the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards! Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to everyone who voted 🩷

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The 2025 TFR Reader’s Choice Awards

Over 275 authors, critics, editors, and readers came together to vote on their favorite transfeminine literature of 2025.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 07/12/2025

It's my pleasure to announce the Longlist for Best Transfeminine Fiction in the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards! This year, TFR recognizes 14 titles from every genre and section of the industry 🩷 Thank you to everyone who voted early to craft this list! Voting ends December 26th at 11:59 PM EST.

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The 2025 Longlist for Best Transfeminine Fiction (TFR Awards)

Thirteen early contenders for the best transfeminine novel of 2025. Voting is open until December 26th at 11:59 PM EST.

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Queer Games Bundle @queergamesbundle.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

✨ It's finally time. The fifth Queer Games Bundle is live now. For $60 (or $10+), get over 600 games, TTRPGs, zines, and more. Support over 300 queer artists for their survival and future art. itch.io/b/3062/

illustration shows the outline of a soaring bird, filled in with the colors of the queer and trans pride flags. text over the top reads "QUEER GAMES BUNDLE."

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FANZINES @fanzines.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

MAKE ZINES! poster by zine maker / artist Cort Hartle. Download the free high res version (PDF) to print at home: freight.cargo.site/m/W234787385... Printing and distribution encouraged by the artist, so please RT, print it, fly post it, flyer it & spread the word! #zine #zines #fanzine #fanzines

Black and white A4-shaped poster with the word MAKE in big bold letters at the top and ZINES! in big bold letters at the bottom.

In between, in capital letters is the following text...

NO ONE CAN TAKE SELF PUBLISHING AWAY FROM YOU.

NO ALGORITHMS OR OLIGARCHS CAN CENSOR YOU.

NO GATEKEEPERS CAN TELL YOU WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY IS NOT IMPORTANT OR VALUABLE.

NO GRANT FUNDING CAN BE WITHDRAWN FROM YOUR WORDS.

NO INSTITUTION CAN BAR YOU FROM ENTERING.

NO KNOWLEDGE IS UNAUTHORIZED.

THAT IS WHY YOU MUST MAKE ZINES!

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Steven Lumpkin @silent0siris.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

All I can say is I have a rock solid conviction that the way to win in an era of AI arms races is to simply get even more human. Embrace the weird, quirky, opinionated, sharp, friction. In a sea of AI generated paste, all seeking to hit the average audience, that’s what’s gonna stand out.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Write letters in support of your library, to the board and to your local paper. Commit to attending a couple board meetings. Contact your political reps about doing something about the gutting of IMLS. Go to protests. Anything. Just get involved and advocate.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 29/03/2025

This is about curbing campus activism. But it's also an effort to cut off another leg of the funding on which universities stand. At many schools, >10% of the students are international. And they're much more likely than domestic students to pay full price. These actions will drive many away.

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jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

my article on the Palette Grid (which explores my dissatisfaction with lines and veils, and which opens up new approaches to discussing safety during play) is now available for the general public: possumcreek.medium.com/the-palette-...

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The Palette Grid (a safety tool)

While I’ve been working on a new game lately (Seven-Part Pact, as if I’m ever working on anything else) I ran into an issue with a lot of…

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 01/03/2025

I keep thinking about how when you are part of the first wave of a new field, the best frame of mind you can have is to hope you will be surpassed — because it means people have built on what you started. And if you’re very good, you helped folks get to the place where they can do that work & shine.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 26/02/2025

2. ECONOMIC BLACKOUT. We support the economic boycott occurring this Friday, Feb. 28, of any entity that has dismantled their DEI programs and pandered to this administration. The buck will stop with us!

Poster saying "Economic boycott - don't buy stuff on Friday, Feb 28. We have power. No: Amazon, Walmart, Target, Fast Food, Gas. Ok: Small business. Use cash"

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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

"what our overlords want to do is...destroy every vestige of the past and replace it, largely through digital technology. They want to control meaning itself; they want to regulate our ability to find meaning in our life..." @sarahkendzior.bsky.social sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/your-quest...

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Your Questions Answered: We're Already in the Aftermath

On Trump and Russia, defeating the mafia state, and more.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Here is a script you can use for any issue. Find your reps' # at reps.fyi or 5calls.org. Every time you see a news story that horrifies you: call, or something else about it. It matters to say what you believe. You are setting a norm.

Hi, my name is [NAME], I'm a constituent in [ZIP CODE]. I'm calling because I saw that [TERRIBLE THING] is happening. I think this is appalling. [PERSONAL STORY, if you have one.] I want you to do everything you can to stop this. I will remember your actions when I cast my next vote. Thank you.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18/02/2025

The answer was not the point. The answer was never the point. The process of searching is the process of learning.

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 15/02/2025

If you are trying to alleviate some suffering and find some strength in community, and to carry on together as best we can against against utter authoritarian bullshit Then pretty much anything can work. You are also allowed to try, fail, learn, adjust and try again

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

And by swimming with it, you can find the little gaps that separate "almost powerless" and "almost nothing" from "powerless" and "nothing." You can focus on those hard, and you can make the absolute most of them.

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

One things I kept repeating during my zine workshop was "we are building lifeboats here." You hope you don't end up having to use them, but you're fucked if you do need them and don't have them.

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Broadly Epi @broadlyepi.com · 22/01/2025

We're likely to see prescription drug savings programs vanish soon due to the trump admin, so we're resharing our guide to getting cheap care resources in the U.S. If we missed anything, please let us know. And if you're comfortable, a share would be appreciated. www.broadlyepi.com/health-care-...

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Health Care Affordability Resources - Broadly Epi

List of Healthcare Affordability Resources Welcome to the Broadly Epi list of Care Affordability Resources. It's no secret that the United States has some a…

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Preacher from the Black Lagoon @revpoppop.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

God needs the gentle people, who carefully tend their flocks and speak softly yet strongly to powerful men. God needs the loudmouths who demand justice. Whose voices boom. Whose words resonate. Whose flocks rely on them for comfort and protection.

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Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Because maybe you need this poem as much as I do.

The Thing Is
BY ELLEN BASS

to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you’ve held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you down like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again.

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AKCrucial @akcrucial.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I’m going to say this with all the hope I can right now: A Walkthrough You can take it. They’re going to call you names. They’re going to tell you that you’re subhuman. You can take it. They’re going to try to alienate you, hurt your tender heart, and break your spirit. You can take it.

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Mishell Baker @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

There is no calamity so huge that there is not beauty and humor and joy to be had in the moments between actively working on solving or evading it. Learning to take those moments, embrace the hell out of them, is what will make it all worth it, at whatever point you reach the end.

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

It was your eyes that saw the colour, your brain that interpreted it, your heart that felt its beauty. You didn't love it because they're the Blue Artist, but because you were always a person who could love the sky. 4/

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

"Kindness, kindness, kindness," wrote Susan Sontag in the first page of her journal in 1972. "I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage." Kindness and courage. I pray for them too. May both be abundant in all of our lives as 2025 unfolds.

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🜄 greybriar 🜁 @greybriar.art · 23/12/2024

A gentle gesture of hope, luck and beauty for the holidays and coming new year. (Mus musculis and Comvallaria majalis. )

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Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Year 5! Analog Game Studies and @GameInLab are proud to announce #GenerationAnalog2025, online, July 16 - 17. **PUNK** is this year’s conference theme, exploring games and punk attitude, rock, style, spaces, art, and more. For more information: analoggamestudies.org/generation-a... #CFP #StayAnalog

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Generation Analog 2025 “PUNK” CFP | Analog Game Studies

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Johanna T 👻 📚 @johannamation.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Been seeing in media a sharp pendulum swing away from cynicism, irony & angst and toward sincerity, wonder & earnestness over the past while, and honestly I love that for us. I wanna start 2025 full of so much dogged optimism and unironic whimsy that it’ll make your whole childhood cringe 😌

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ALA Games & Gaming Round Table @alagamert.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Take some time during the winter temporal freeze to think about our favorite topic - games! Proposals for lightning talks at our Mini-con in March are open until February 3rd. The theme is ✨🎮 VIDEO GAMES 🕹️✨ Find more information here: bit.ly/MMC2025

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Pam, Godkillingway v.2026, Patch "Even Eepier" @thedovetailor.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Do not be so arrogant as to presume your passion/enthusiasm makes you an expert. You cannot be an effective reviewer, much less critic, if you have no idea how the cultural object in question is produced. Your money also does not entitle you to the rights to cause harm and abuse to creators either.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/12/2024

Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends: 1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration; 2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you; 3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.

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Marikit 🇵🇭💜 @mataraykween.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Logos. Poem by Mary Oliver. Rather miraculous. Poetry might save me.

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Marikit 🇵🇭💜 @mataraykween.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Stuff Americans don’t know about their colonial past: the genocide in the Philippine American war; modern slavery of Filipinos in the USA; race riots against Filipinos in Watsonville. Apostol writes that Americans haven’t learned from the past because they don’t know it. The whitewashing of history.

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Crow 🌿 @crowlines.net · 06/12/2024

Oh yeah I forgot to mention you can preview all the stuff restocking and releasing in today's update: crowlines.net/collections/... There's 9 button ups!! Hope to see you at noon PST 🥺

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 03/12/2024

The AIDS quilt is such a striking example of quilting and other traditionally feminized crafts as radical queer politics and I hope this encourages people to learn more about the rich history of protest textiles in the US.

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Toto @totoroki.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Thread to get started on bsky starting from this post ♡ Includes: •Alt text - what it is & how to use it •Hashtags - tag navigation Nsfw Moderation •Skyline/Timeline Prefernces •Language Preferences •Feeds - Skyfeed guide to make your own feed •Feeds - where to find and how to pin them

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Umar Ditta @umarditta.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

"I hope you enjoyed my video on the history of werewolves. Please lycan subscribe."

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Jose Vilson, PhD @thejosevilson.com · 27/11/2024

Tip: You don't have to curate a feed that's strictly serious, professional, or intellectual 24/7. Do yourself a favor and follow folks because they're hilarious, eccentric, hopeful, or rebellious in other ways. We get to hold multitudes including joy. Don't let them steal that from you, too.

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