Reposted by Scott Witmerg0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone 138149333433
Reposted by Scott WitmerBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.gizmodo.com71% of Americans Say They're Completely ExhaustedA CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States. 1401267106698
Scott Witmer @fogcount.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I dreamt there was a new song at the end of Muppet Christmas Carol where Michael Caine as Scrooge sings to Tiny Tim a song called “Muppet, I Get a Broken Leg Out of You.” 010
Reposted by Scott WitmerTuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places: 1511464010106
Reposted by Scott WitmerDr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The flood in Nepal shows us why the claim we can just "adapt" to #ClimateChange is so dishonest (or foolhardy): climate change will break and remake our places so we cannot live in them safely, often with sudden and overwhelming violence. There is no such thing as bouncing back. 2264118
Reposted by Scott WitmerPatrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 14/08/2026seems to me as I get older that (1) almost all institutions are totally broken, but also that (2) most never "worked" to begin with, and (3) we're living through the throes of a concerted multigenerational effort to make any kind of public life either impossible or simply insane 214935
Reposted by Scott WitmerAnn Arbor District Library @aadl.org · 12/08/2026We're excited to share that the 2026 A2CAF: Small + Indie Press will take place on Saturday, October 3 from 11 AM–5 PM at the Downtown Library! Venture into the world of small press comics publishing with AADL this fall and watch aadl.org/a2cafsip as we get closer for additional info! 3126
Reposted by Scott WitmerMolly White @molly.wiki · 09/08/2026well that sucks. apparently the ALA/Freedom To Read Foundation have trademarks on the phrase "free people read freely", which i use in a lino print i made into stickers a few years ago. 2338650
Reposted by Scott WitmerAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/08/2026El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250 220157343485
Reposted by Scott WitmerBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 18/07/2026This is the point in Sim City where you’re like well I’m fucked 9870151150
Reposted by Scott WitmerMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Meta’s AI data-center in Cheyenne, Wyoming, has been caught infecting the town’s water supply with deadly bacteria. Officials say wastewater from Meta’s AI data-center flooded the town’s pipes with the bacterium Cupriavidus gilardii, and they found the company violated industrial waste regulations.tomshardware.comMeta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium — system offline for months for cleaning, closed-loop cooling system purge spread rar...The city has revoked the Meta contractor's discharge privileges. 27897537
Scott Witmer @fogcount.bsky.social · 11/07/2026#Cyclospora We’re out here grocery shopping in SE Michigan like m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Re6...m.youtube.comAll The Food is Poison | Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! | Adult SwimYouTube video by Adult Swim 000
Reposted by Scott Witmerweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Being on day three of scouring computer forums and finding somebody who had your same problem but eventually gave up is like seeing a dead body on Everest 332008287
Reposted by Scott WitmerTim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 08/07/2026"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...bangordailynews.comThese Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big TechDespite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful. 6666422477
Reposted by Scott WitmerBUG-EYED CAT @californiahorst.bsky.social · 07/07/2026when i was young they had these people called “investigative journalists” who could find out stuff like if a senator was dead or not 330158143714
Reposted by Scott WitmerAudrey Farnsworth @audipenny.bsky.social · 03/07/2026America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital 85204135086
Reposted by Scott WitmerRyan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 24/06/2026A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were. 7262023815
Reposted by Scott WitmerSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 26/06/2026hey man just letting you know you're on camera 255518897
Reposted by Scott WitmerSean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 25/06/2026Does this news outrage you? Does it make you want to make zines? Do you want to know how, even without a computer? Here's an easy step-by-step guide by @thorazos.bsky.social. Print out the pages below or purchase copies cheap at the link. www.etsy.com/listing/6936... 3934549
Scott Witmer @fogcount.bsky.social · 17/06/2026The Eno documentary is now on Criterion Channel! I saw it in the theater last year but I can’t wait to watch it again because it will be a different movie, with new versions appearing every month. Great use of generative (non-AI) technology to explore an artist’s body of work 030
Reposted by Scott WitmerTim R @elibtronic.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Before you get warm feelings about this story, keep in mind it was **labour and contract protections** that got these people back. Not some grand realization that Librarianship is necessary. Get unionized people. 1 / 2chronicle.comA Regional College Laid Off All Its Librarians in 2024. Now It Has to Hire Them Back.Western Illinois University claimed the library was not an academic program when it essentially was, an arbitrator has ruled, and therefore failed to follow the correct process for eliminating the job... 3623251
Reposted by Scott WitmerDean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Saul Steinberg & a friend by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1947 1194
Reposted by Scott WitmerWilliam Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 14/06/2026For two decades I've been too lazy to code and deploy this tool, but here: this takes a sequential pdf and returns an imposed zine version: humaniterations.net/imposedonline/humaniterations.netZine Imposer 18600222
Reposted by Scott WitmerSpanish for The Niño @supermills.bsky.social · 12/06/2026In a very real sense the richer he gets the more worthless American dollars become. 11149
Reposted by Scott WitmerHart Cunningham @hart28.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Michigan Governor caught on hot mic with Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk, discussing citizen opposition to AI data centers, bragging how she ignores their concerns: “We’re used to people saying 'f*ck no,' & doing it anyway.”🇺🇸 40758262617
Reposted by Scott Witmerdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 09/06/2026i have absolutely fucking had it with 100% of all of this shit. gambling websites, lies, cryptocurrency, rampant corruption, lies, deep fakes, lies, plagiarism, devaluation of expertise, lies, bile, abuse, violence, bombs, genocides, lies, plutocrats, oligarchs, and lies. fucking enough. rules time 434275806
Reposted by Scott WitmerJon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 27/05/2026It won't ever happen, but it would be really interesting if someone like Weingarten would admit that she got caught up in FOMO and made a mistake by so quickly partnering with Big AI. 4195
Reposted by Scott WitmerGeorge Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 27/05/2026In the end we were just his latest casino and whatnot. 721130103588
Reposted by Scott WitmerMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 25/05/2026“It is a performance of joy so excessive, so desperate, that it reveals the void it attempts to cover. It is the logic of the assembly line applied to human connection.“ 1013833
Reposted by Scott WitmerErin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 05/05/2026Heads up to Chrome users who prefer not to not allocate 4GB of their drives to Gemini Nano weights. 10342205
Reposted by Scott WitmerDB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Prof. Derek Peterson, U of Michigan historian & MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, thanked “pro-Palestinian student activists” during a grad speech today, for “opening our hearts to the injustices and inhumanity of Israel’s war in Gaza.” His words, and the cheers that followed made my heart sing. 111375261
Reposted by Scott WitmerHL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026This should be a bigger story. I didn't know Isaiah but almost everyone in my lab, my TA, and a few close colleagues knew him well. They all say he was a sweet guy who was just really into herps. This is a tragedy. 11975533
Reposted by Scott WitmerHal Weaver @weaverwerx.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Picked this UP (get it!) on my last visit to @goshcomics.bsky.social in London because there’s a Bigfoot on the cover! Fun stuff and fine drawings and spooky tales by @fogcount.bsky.social Number 34/50. 251
Reposted by Scott Witmer聖☆Alex Degen @adactivity.bsky.social · 23/04/2026An absolute layup, running on it would be a historic landslide victory and a victory for everyone who has had to live under these ghouls, and yet, 367270
Reposted by Scott WitmerAlex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 23/04/2026I got time today, so let's dig into why this article is a crock of shit. There is no ethical use of genAI and any librarian arguing otherwise is lying to you, so ignorant they should be ignored, or drifting. 1/ www.choice360.org/libtech-insi...choice360.orgAI and the Librarian: Reconciling Personal Ethics with AI as a Professional Necessity - Choice 360Despite their concerns with it, librarians can't refuse to engage with AI, so what does AI ethics look like for today's academic librarian? 9406144
Reposted by Scott WitmerThe labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Still thinking about this note I found in the children’s section of the public library when I worked there back in 2018. This kid tried to warn us… 2749751154
Reposted by Scott WitmerThe Onion @theonion.com · 13/04/2026Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-… 252301237144
Reposted by Scott WitmerLansing Independent Comics & Zine Fest @liczfest.com · 11/04/2026📚 @fogcount.bsky.social 📚 Nib Rot is a comics collective and anthology by librarian cartoonists Rimki (Champaign, IL), Ryan Edge (Seattle, WA), and Scott Witmer (Ann Arbor, MI). 141
Scott Witmer @fogcount.bsky.social · 07/04/2026A sighting of the Serie Noire in a Neo-Noir: 1960’s Les Distractions. Do they appear in any other Films Noir? 000
Reposted by Scott WitmerJosh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Adam means that she is the daughter of immigrants, but it is worth emphasizing that *every* U.S. citizen who has not been naturalized is a birthright citizen, either by the 14th Amendment or by statute. 764779849
Scott Witmer @fogcount.bsky.social · 31/03/2026hot take: When logged in on a work computer, you should stay logged in, and not be randomly logged out requiring 2FA, or have whatever you’re doing constantly interrupted by update reminder popups. Every time it happens I want to leave the room. 010
Reposted by Scott WitmerBabe&Oak @babeandoak.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Don’t forget to block bsky.app/profile/atti... everyonebsky.app 26859595
Reposted by Scott Witmerevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 23/03/2026If you have an iPhone, today is a good day to make sure you are running the latest software. techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/s...techcrunch.comSomeone has publicly leaked an exploit kit that can hack millions of iPhones | TechCrunchLeaked "DarkSword" exploits published to GitHub allow hackers and cybercriminals to target iPhone users running old versions of iOS with spyware, according to cybersecurity researchers. 5189133
Reposted by Scott Witmerdaryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 19/03/2026reshare for alt text, republicans and rich people who want to privatize mail have been lying about the USPS and trying to push this narrative longer than I've been alive, and imposing massive financial burdens on it to make it "insolvent" 3346663096
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