iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 9h

Buying banned books is an individual solution to what is a systemic problem.

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A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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A Reckoning in Springfield

A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

i didn't realize anywhere in real life actually looked like this until i came to vermont for the first time

a field, pond, house, and trees, in a hollow of the green mountains in vermont

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Erin @erinisinire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There are worse ways to end a work week than researching interesting tidbits about The Awakening by Kate Chopin.

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Erin @erinisinire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today in public library service desk work: one angry caregiver whose teen skipped school and came to the library, one patron delighted by our mobile print option, and one in-depth reference question about a possible escaped enslaved person.

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Erin @erinisinire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sally is 32 when she hooks up with Harry WTF

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There are like 500 of these books and they all exist in an alternate universe where trying to win over white working class voters is a Bold Forbidden Insight rather than the guiding ideology of the entire party.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I feel you, Daniel L

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Erin @erinisinire.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Vermont Week is just so good. I truly see a library program in this show. A watch party with a moderated discussion. Local stakeholders bringing focus regionally.

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Erin @erinisinire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Getting lots of “kids these days are the worst” vibes from a lot of adults tasked with providing resources for all ages in public libraries lately and nope. Kids are full people right now. Do better.

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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My Rage Against the Machine/Les Mis mashup is complete. This is my interpretation of the quilt guild’s summer challenge “quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current ‘democracy’” all hand stitched.

Quilt hanging on a card catalog. Neutral background with navy cursive appliqué “Do you hear thr people sing?” The background is embroidered in red starting light and getting bolder the lyrics to “killing in the name” the quilting effect is a focused sunburst from the center.

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Erin @erinisinire.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think I’m just having a bad day. Gonna put my phone far away and read a book. Maybe watch some Gilmore Girls later.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

desperately want to break the hold that slim, tapered, low rise pants have on my generational cohort

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/09/2026

hell yeah bsky.app/profile/hare...

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Abdul El-Sayed gave Democrats the template for dodging bad faith questions about sports. Call them unserious. Refocus the conversation on things people are actually struggling to survive right now. There is an energy crisis unfolding, this should not be hard.

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m a contributor to this amazing book and it’s honestly one of the hardest things I’ve done and some of my best writing, thanks to my amazing editor. So honored to be a part of this. www.routledge.com/Lived-Experi...

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Lived Experiences in Librarianship: Voices from an Inhospitable Profession

This book presents the lived experiences of library workers in evocative and vulnerable accounts of the inhospitable norms within librarianship in the globalized 21st century. Rigorously researched, t...

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

i'm not impressed when a dog likes me. I appreciate it but i'm not impressed. if a bird likes me, with every last brain cell screaming at her to run away, but so overwhelmed with love that she must approach regardless, feels earned

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

The Venn diagram of Dr. Martin Luther King’s ”white moderate“ and today‘s “we gotta compromise on trans rights moderate“ is a circle

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Erin @erinisinire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I remembered to wear my Bluey shirt on storytime day and had some great connections at the circ desk with kids and caregivers. ❤️

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Erin @erinisinire.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My goal next week is to be on the desk more in the mornings with whoever is covering because one 3 hour shift a week alone is not gonna get me where I need to be.

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Erin @erinisinire.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I got my ass kicked on the circ desk today. So much mobile printing. So much helping with the copier. So many phone calls I had to ask a coworker for answers. Whew.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Great system, no notes www.propublica.org/article/scho...

Voucher programs and the private schools they increasingly fund have proliferated across the country. Yet those schools often reject children with disabilities — the very kids who were used to help sell early voucher programs to lawmakers and the public - for having needs that are too costly, complex or disruptive. That leaves those children with few options beyond the public schools. And as public schools lose enrollment as a result of more and more
voucher use, they lose resources that would benefit children who remain, including those with disabilities.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Every democratic candidate deciding to moderate on a social issue to 'take it off the table'

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026

RIP to the guy who convinced us all that Tina Turner was tall

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And now I just can't get out of my head that alternate timeline where people had been like, wow, your data are persuasive and we should incentivize communal strategies! Still settler colonialist AF but so so different from the America I know that my brain keeps record-scratching on it

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Reading Prairie Fires, the Laura Ingalls Wilder biography, and there's this point where some nerd in the agriculture department is like, look, it's too arid west of this one longitude, it's impossible to farm there unless you set up irrigation collectives, government policy should encourage that

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Erin @erinisinire.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

FIVE LOOKS in FIVE DAYS?!? JFC. Project Runway has bummed me out all season so I shouldn’t be surprised but come.on.

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What are we even doing if the Probect Runway finale isn’t at NY Fashion Week?!?

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It seems notable to me that all the claims and suggestions for "future proofing" the library revolve around capitulating to the whims and desires of CEOs or institutional Presidents rather than the one thing that can actually protect the library: securing stable, permanent funding.

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Erin @erinisinire.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

That time I took a job at my childhood library and moved home.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/09/2026

Honestly, "big-name studios can't agree on the premise of the Muppet Show" sounds like the premise of the Muppet Show

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Anyway I bet it really did FEEL like unity to everyone who was an enthusiastic participant in the mob screaming that anyone who questioned them was a terrorist sympathizer who hated America. Being inside the tent pissing out of it is a great way to form a memory that nobody got pissed on.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The political and cultural response to 9/11 was to briefly mouth some "Islam is not to blame" platitudes and then declare total war on Muslim people and the Muslim world and we're entering the 25th year of it with no end in sight.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

in the immediate wake of 9/11, people talked about carpet bombing muslim countries with the same casualness as talking about a nominal tax hike.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

my 2 cents on material conditions and right wing politics for @hammerandhope.bsky.social "The portrayal of economic anxiety as a standalone rather than complementary explanation to the machinations of plutocratic bigots also flies in the face of what we know..." hammerandhope.org/article/econ...

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The False Narrative of Economic Anxiety

People are insecure, but that is not the only reason they voted for Donald Trump in 2024.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Meanwhile, on Vermont side of border the state is shutting down a successful program of motel vouchers. “Homelessness in Vermont?” Yes, 2nd or 3rd highest rate per capita. Not despite being a tourist destination but in part because; 2nd homes are a plague that drive full-timers here into the cold.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Here’s something I wrote years ago when I was writing late at night at a local Dunkin and got to talking w/ employees. What I didn’t know then & later learned is most lived in their cars because that’s what working every shift they cld get let them afford. longreads.com/2014/10/01/n...

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#Nightshift: Excerpts from an Instagram Essay - Longreads

Jeff Sharlet | Longreads | September 2014 | 12 minutes (2,802 words) 1. Snapshots Dunkin Donuts, West Lebanon, New Hampshire The night shift, for me, is a luxury, the freedom to indulge my insomnia by...

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Friend writes of towns in central NH breaking up homeless camps. Ripple effect of ‘24 SCOTUS Grant’s Pass decision allowing municipalities to outlaw camping even when there’s no shelter. Quietly, everywhere, people most didn’t know were there are being fined or jailed for being alive.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 07/09/2026

the thing is, MAHA is like. one end of the spectrum. the other end of the spectrum is NOT, however, the current medical system. that's the middle of that bell curve, that. the actual other end of the spectrum is 'the medical system without medical misogyny and racism' and it currently doesn't exist.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I know this is a common belief, but it’s not true. If people went anti-vaxx/MAHA because they were excluded from the medical establishment, we would see sky-high rates among poor people, minorities and the uninsured. We don’t.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

🎯🎯🎯🎯 Every study initiated on the subject makes it clear that the most effective, cheapest (yes, CHEAPEST, most inexpensive, highest return on investment) forms of aid are direct cash payments with zero means testing, and on-request right-to-housing. These are just facts.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Am I surprised to see LoC move to change Ontario to America in LCSH? No. Am I disappointed to see it proposed and moved towards approval so quickly? Yes. Great reminder that information is not neutral and that includes how we organize and describe it. classweb.org/tentative-su...

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Tentative Monthly List 09 LCSH 2 (September 2026)

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