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@kellymce.bsky.social
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Librarian, unionist, occasional zinester

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
📣 Brand new zine published to celebrate Labor Day: "Don’t Cross the Picket Line : Strike Solidarity for Beginners." Free to print or read online at violetbfox.info/dontcross/. This 24-page zine was created for anyone who's *not* part of a union and doesn't know much about unions or strikes.
Cover of a zine
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
FUCK - dashare.zone ADMIN
BORN TO FROLIC IN THE WOODS FORAGGING EGG'S AND BERRYS, FORCED TO RELEATEDLY TURN OFF A.I IN MY EMAIL PROGRAM , A SKELTEN HOLD'S UP A PRIZE OF DA WOODS "1 EGG" WE COULD BE THERE NOW WE COULD BE OUTSIDE WE COULD BE IN THE WATER WE COULD BE HAPPY - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Want to hang out with union activists and authors of the first book about labor published by ALA in decades? Come see us in the Connect Lounge “huddles” on Saturday and Sunday. #alaac26
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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Ope me and @kellymce.bsky.social are quoted in this! www.chronicle.com/article/unio...
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Unions Push for Guardrails on AI, With Mixed Success
As colleges across the country make bold pronouncements about forging into the AI future, employees want answers to fundamental questions about how it will change their work.
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Zine Libraries @zinelibraries.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Table at the 2026 Zine Pavilion in Chicago! The Zine Pavilion is a space on the exhibit floor at the American Library Association’s annual conference to display zines, meet zine librarians, and talk about how zines and libraries are a great pair. It’s like a mini zine fair
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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
As proud as I’ve ever been to be a member of the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social!! afscme31.org/news/america...
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American Library Association employees forming union with AFSCME
Joining the wave of union organizing among cultural workers, employees of the primarily Chicago-based American Library Association (ALA) announced they are forming their union with AFSCME Council 31.T...
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Lady Froldmagen (she/her) @zinelib.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Organize Your Library! ("organize" as in labor, not classification) with Angelo Moreno, @kellymce.bsky.social, Meredith Kahn, and @edrabinski.bsky.social 📚 📜 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Research in Praxis Discussion Series Presented by QC SIS. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
The Research in Praxis Discussion Series (RiPDS) aims to highlight the work of cultural heritage, information science, and library studies researchers and practitioners through a series of talks, pane...
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United Campus Workers of Arizona, CWA Local 7065 @ucwarizona.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Calling all higher ed library workers! HELU is hosting a library workers organizing call next Wednesday, Aug. 20th at 4pm MST. You can register for it at bit.ly/HELU_LW_Aug25
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Library Workers Organizing Meeting & Strategy Session. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
On August 20, 2025 at 7 PM EST, HELU is bringing together library workers across the country to strategize against threats to higher ed library workers’ livelihoods. We will come together to meet and...
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QZAP - The Queer Zine Archive Project @qzap.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
"sorry this is late..." said every perzinester ever... so even though we missed the end of International Zine Month by a couple of days, we're still stoked to share this "What Kind of Queer Zine Are You" quiz that QZAP intern @bluespringwrites.bsky.social made: gittings.qzap.org/quiz-what-ty...
A colorful display of queer zines
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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Out now! Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers from @alaeditionsns.bsky.social Grateful for all the library unionists who spoke to us for the book, and to co-authors @kellymce.bsky.social @mkahn.bsky.social and Angelo Moreno! alastore.ala.org/oryrlib
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Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers (Critical Cultural Information Studies series)
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Thomas Padilla @thomaspadilla.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Like many others I am dismayed by the effort to end IMLS. I know IMLS matters to so many people. I put together the following site to collect and share stories of how "IMLS matters" to people. Please consider submitting a story. forms.gle/MAocZZMsoUu7... imls-matters.github.io/imlsmatters/
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IMLS Matters
Responses to this form will be published at https://imls-matters.github.io/imlsmatters/
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Drew @4484.cool · 28/03/2025
Reminder
"A computer can never be spiteful or horny
Therefore a computer must never make art"
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 24/03/2025
Make sure you’re inviting the right person to your Signal group! To help confirm someone’s identity and keep track of your contacts, @signal.org offers nicknames and information about the groups you share in common with your contacts. Learn about Signal’s identifiers:
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Understanding every one of Signal’s identifiers
We’ve heard some questions about the difference between Signal usernames, phone numbers, profile names, profiles, and nicknames. Let’s talk about it.
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UAW @uaw.org · 14/03/2025
🧵 IN SHOCKING MOVE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FIRES UNION PRESIDENT ONE DAY BEFORE CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN, IN FURTHER CRACKDOWN ON FREE SPEECH
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
No amount of complicity is going to save you from fascism, so you might as well fight.
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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Would you like free registration to the American Library Association conference #ALAAC25 in Philly this June? Volunteer for a 3-hour shift at the Zine Pavilion and we'll get you in! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
80s looking graphic with text "Call for Zine Pavilion 2025 volunteers"
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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
After five months of turning down invitations to talk about AI, I'm gonna talk about AI. Join me Weds March 19th for a free webinar through @mediaedlab.bsky.social, "Questioning Generative AI Through Zinemaking." mediaeducationlab.com/events/quest...
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Questioning Generative AI Through Zinemaking | Media Education Lab
Read here about our full webinar series on Leading from the Library.
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panoptigoth @panoptigoth.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This is part of a long term strategy to bypass libraries in Clarivate’s revenue model entirely, even if this isn’t explicitly the intent now.
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.
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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
How does a nation even conceive of recovering from having all the private taxpayer data of its citizenry stolen by Nazis? Any ideas?
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The Immigrant Legal Resource Center @the-ilrc.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
🚨 RED CARD UPDATE 🚨 Due to unprecedented demand, our original Red Card portal is backlogged and these are not available for order via the non-profit and private firm portals right now. However, this 🔗 guides you to the raw Red Card page you can print for 🆓 RIGHT NOW 👇🏽 ilrc.org/red-cards
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Red Cards / Tarjetas Rojas | Immigrant Legal Resource Center | ILRC
All people in the United States, regardless of immigration status, have certain rights and protections under the U.S. Constitution. The ILRC’s Red Cards help people assert their rights and defend them...
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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 14/02/2025
I feel like we're always 48 hours away from an "All Social Security Numbers Accidentally Deleted" headline now
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
There's interest in this again, so I'm sharing @eff.org's complete publicly available and open source map of border surveillance infrastructure so people can see the constant surveillance border communities are under as well as the money and resources put to the great nationalist boondoggle.
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Border Surveillance Towers (Spring 2025) - Google My Maps
(Updated 11/21/2024) Click the datapoints for links to Google/Bing satellite and Google Streetview images, as well as source materials, when available. Credit: Electronic Frontier Foundation This ...
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Some useful Surveillance Self Defense links for people who want to lock their shit down right now: Attending a protest: ssd.eff.org/module/atten... How to Use Signal: ssd.eff.org/module/how-t... Security starter pack: ssd.eff.org/playlist/wan...
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How to: Use Signal
Download location: Google Play Store, Apple App Store System requirements: Android 5 or later, iOS 13 or later Version used in this guide: Android: 7.0. iPhone: 7.0 License: GPLv3 Level: Beginner Time...
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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
redesign of the piece that has gotten me restricted/suspended at least 4 times 😇
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Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
hey yeah just a quick question, what the fuck is happening
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
On April 17, 2025 @aaup.bsky.social will bring together major higher ed unions, trade unions, student groups, and allied organizations in the fight to “Free Higher Education.” LEARN MORE: www.dayofactionforhighered.org?source=twitt...
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A National Day of Action for Higher Ed
On April 17, higher ed unions, AAUP chapters, and student organizations across the U.S. are coming together to fight back against the coordinated assault on teaching and learning, and to mobilize for ...
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Em Nunn @ebnunn.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Libraries as they try and embrace gen AI
Sign saying "I'm not a regular librarian I'm a cool librarian" but badly misspelled advertised on Temu
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wint @dril.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
They cant get my data if i am Fully Dissolved in a bath tub full of sodium hydroxide
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
No snitching 2025. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Here’s a New Year's resolution for Trump’s America: no snitching | Hamilton Nolan
Choose as your New Year’s mantra that great civic-minded slogan: ‘If you saw something, no you didn’t’
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/01/2025
Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome…
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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The Society of American Archivists is seeking volunteers for an Archival Labor Task Force. Interested in shaping a worker-centered future of the field? Info here: www2.archivists.org/governance/h...
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Archival Worker Labor Task Force | Society of American Archivists
Society of American Archivists
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
In one of their final acts in office, Sinema and Manchin nuke a Biden pick for the National Labor Relations Board in a big loss for organized labor.
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Milo @miloblue.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I'm so excited about today's Zine of the Gay post over at QZAP. Valaria is writing about Menstruaciones No Binarias, which I picked up in 2023 in CDMX when I was hanging out with @kellymce.bsky.social during her year there. gittings.qzap.org/menstruacion... #menstrualhealth #zines #menstruaciones
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Menstruaciones No Binarias: Your Body is Not Your Enemy, the Dominant Narrative is - QZAP - The Queer Zine Archive Project
The zine Menstruaciones No Binarias, published in collaboration by Rebeldía Menstrual and Eróticas Fluidas, is a groundbreaking text that dismantles normative narratives about menstruation. This work ...
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I do not donate to my employer because we are already in a labor for compensation relationship. I'm very confused by these emails.
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Kelly @kellymce.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Name a TV show you’re positive no one remembers but you.
Title screen for animated series James Bond Jr.
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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 26/06/2024
a woman on Love Island USA told a guy she likes him and then asked what he was thinking about
Rob from Love Islans USA asks “Do you ever think about where eels come from?”
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Donna Lanclos @donnalanclos.com · 17/11/2024
Thanks for this @edrabinski.bsky.social truthout.org/articles/fac...
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Facing Cuts Likely to Worsen Under Trump, Academic Librarians Urgently Organize
As the war on higher education looks to heat up, academic libraries will likely be the first on the chopping block.
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MadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The Onion should buy Elsevier next
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cate @buny.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same
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Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 22/10/2024
I'm going out on a short, sturdy limb to predict that the Supreme Court is going to overturn the National Labor Relations Act.
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The Right Believes It Has the Supreme Court Votes to Overturn Labor Law
Unions need to plan a response now.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
As Cybersecurity Awareness Month kicks off, I am beginning to suspect that lack of awareness is not the problem.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
While I understand this POV — the tenure system has been significantly weakened and the fraction of tenure-track faculty continues to decrease — I think tenure still serves as an important source of friction preventing administration from reshaping the faculty to their whims on short timescales.
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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
Muehlenberg College fired Maura Finkelstein--a tenured, Jewish, professor of anthropology--ostensibly because her personal Instagram briefly shared a post from a Palestinian poet suggesting Zionists be shunned. She had been the target of a months-long harassment campaign.
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Meet the First Tenured Professor to Be Fired for Pro-Palestine Speech
Maura Finkelstein was terminated from Muhlenberg College following a pressure campaign that seized on an anti-Zionist Instagram repost.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 26/09/2024
This is the order link, FYI. Get your free tests! special.usps.com/testkits
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COVID Home Tests | USPS
COVID Home Tests | USPS
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