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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5h

$1192 away from $20,000

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Mþ. Kestrel 🏳️‍⚧️♿️📚 @kestrelsward.bsky.social · 4h

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn’t a selfie

Picture of 4 anime characters standing facing each other holding sparklers with the moon overhead. All 4 have expressions of quiet joy & wonder on their faces

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 5h

read that sentence. it is a description of political persecution. anyone giving this the time of day as a serious legal case is a fool.

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Amelia Smith @nturavrgcistory.bsky.social · 9h

In addition to photos of Lily St. Clair, I got to look at the Telegram's photos of Dianna Boileau, the first patient at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry 's gender identity clinic! She has an Ontario Heritage plaque in Fort Frances honouring her!

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Mþ. Kestrel 🏳️‍⚧️♿️📚 @kestrelsward.bsky.social · 4h

Yea connecting collections is so important. I also work with institutional archives & we have a system that means you can search almost every public higher ed archive in FLsimultaneously on one page. But community archives don’t get slotted into those systems at all, you have to just KNOW about them

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Mþ. Kestrel 🏳️‍⚧️♿️📚 @kestrelsward.bsky.social · 4h

But what do you do if you don’t have that community already existing to be educated? By the time you’ve used the grant to build up the community, the grant period is over and then what?

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Mþ. Kestrel 🏳️‍⚧️♿️📚 @kestrelsward.bsky.social · 4h

Yes exactly! The feast or famine thing is so important to think about. We tried to write into our grant a way to make this grant’s value outlast our ability to employ an archivist by making sure we’re also passing along KNOWLEDGE, but we have a built in community of interested ppl already.

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Mþ. Kestrel 🏳️‍⚧️♿️📚 @kestrelsward.bsky.social · 4h

And the passing along of the knowledge is what will make this sustainable, giving more hands to the archival work in a way that the data can then be shared with other professionals (instead of the very discombobulated metadata we have now).

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Mþ. Kestrel 🏳️‍⚧️♿️📚 @kestrelsward.bsky.social · 4h

This would not work very well because the main thing the grant is paying for is for an experienced archivist’s time to teach, and paying for the volunteers’ time to learn & practice. Sure some of us are doing it for free for love of the game, but not everyone has that freedom.

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Mþ. Kestrel 🏳️‍⚧️♿️📚 @kestrelsward.bsky.social · 4h

Yes! But we also need more archivists educating and empowering communities to do their own archiving. Currently running a grant right now with a local community archive, a big factor of which is educating our existing volunteer base on how to manage the collections. But w/out grant

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 8h

We saw this sort of fervor play out over Haitian immigrants. It started from a bunch of racist rumors on FB, then spread to twitter, and driven by the right including Vance. Vance deliberately lied about that community and a few years later you get to 350,000 Haitian TPS immigrants losing status.

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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 14h

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Mþ. Kestrel 🏳️‍⚧️♿️📚 @kestrelsward.bsky.social · 5h

And it’s dumb as hell. Every single progressive leader is a fallible human being. They are going to have issues they’re not good on. They’re going to make choices we don’t agree with because they think it’s the right way to move us forward. And we have GOT to stop cannibalizing anyone not perfect.

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Mþ. Kestrel 🏳️‍⚧️♿️📚 @kestrelsward.bsky.social · 5h

It’s too too common to have someone on the left say something like “sure that person did something groundbreaking breaking but they had problematic opinions on X, so we should never listen to them, or build on the things they were right about or acknowledge them as making progress”

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Mþ. Kestrel 🏳️‍⚧️♿️📚 @kestrelsward.bsky.social · 5h

Ok but this is something that I think a LOT more people on the left need to learn and internalize: the ability to say “hey, you were ground breaking & amazing but I don’t agree with everything you ever did, so now I’m here to try to do better” without denouncing an imperfect human as Evil or Failed.

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Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social · 9h

In addition to the broader literacy crisis, we're also in a power literacy crisis. Many folks deeply misunderstand how political power works, who has it, and how to build it. And all of that is happening while more folks are using the language of organizing without grasping its most basic tenets.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

it really seems as though they’re about to disappear a congresswoman.

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jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 12/10/2026

this is community 🪴

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h

Under Trump: -Gas prices are up 43.7% -Grocery prices are up 3.7% -Household electricity prices are up 12.7% -Healthcare costs are up 14.6% -Childcare costs are up 7.6% -Rent is up 5.1% and mortgage rates are at 7.6% Tired of "winning" yet?

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 7h

Does anyone in any branch of government plan to, idk, stop this blatantly bigoted attack on a member of congress

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Brian Keith Jackson @bkjwordplay.bsky.social · 8h

Even before A.I, Black students were often accused of not writing essays and reports. How could THIS kid possibly write that well. Imagine what it's going to be like now.

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Mþ. Kestrel 🏳️‍⚧️♿️📚 @kestrelsward.bsky.social · 5h

And THEN! We got to the next town where the speed limit decreases dramatically and they *didn’t even slow down*. It was like they thought their car only had one speed. I need them to widen that road so bad & it’s probably never gonna happen despite it being a major commute route into town.

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Mþ. Kestrel 🏳️‍⚧️♿️📚 @kestrelsward.bsky.social · 5h

Driving frustration this morning: the jackass who decided to go 40-50mph on a 2-lane country road with a speed limit of 60mph for 15 MILES UNTIL THE NEXT TOWN, at a time when oncoming traffic is always constant. I thought we were gonna miss the bus despite leaving early.

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Rorza8472 @rorza8472.bsky.social · 6h

If you’re first reaction to someone attacking disability benefits is to say “but some of them work” then you’re basically saying “if they can’t work then yes it’s fine to attack them” and I’m tired of pretending that’s not the direct implication of people who do this.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 11h

Because despite what everyone pretends , actual denouncing of white supremacists is shockingly rare no matter what your political alignment

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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 6h

About six-in-ten Americans say there is too much economic inequality in the U.S. #EconomicInequality

Chart of all adults showing Democrats are nearly twice as likely as Republicans to say there is too much economic inequality

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 10h

Friends, colleagues, confidants, all.... Please, please, please do not use your work emails if you work in a public institution to ask for help or support with censorship in that institution. Use a personal email. Keep yourself safe.

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Lyse @lyse.myatproto.social · 12h

I love Kevin

Image of a cafes window. There is a sign printed on a sheet of paper taped to the window next to a chonky orange cat.

Sign:

A QUICK NOTE
ABOUT THE ORANGE CAT
His name is Kevin.
Kevin does not belong to this café.
Kevin has a home.
Kevin is fed at home.
Kevin has convinced at least 14 customers that he has not eaten in several days.
This is a lie.
Kevin has already had breakfast.
Twice.
Please stop buying him sausage.
Kevin weighs 8.4 kg.
Kevin is currently on a diet.
Kevin strongly disagrees with this decision.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 14/10/2026

Disabled people face higher costs, barriers to basic banking and expensive borrowing. For people on SSI, saving can put benefits and healthcare at risk. Artichoke, a national disability credit union, expects to open in spring 2027. I wrote about what’s planned and why we need it.

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Artichoke CU: A Trailblazing Disability Credit Union | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland

BLUF: A first of its kind disability credit union called Artichoke, expects to start taking members early in the second quarter of 2027, an

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Katie Spoon @kspoon.bsky.social · 6h

Although formal DEI practices and programs in the US have largely been dismantled, your interactions with your colleagues still matter, and our paper suggests they may matter a lot more than you may think.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 7h

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 6h

All three of my books, and dozens of papers. Decades of my work with incarcerated kids and kids on the margins of classrooms and society has been fed to that machine without my or the kids’ consent

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Mþ. Kestrel 🏳️‍⚧️♿️📚 @kestrelsward.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Fun fact, I recently had to pay a traffic ticket for my registration being expired for a year. Because I was so sure I had renewed it already.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Two cool ladies and a small pal. Photo from my collection, ca. 1930s.

A black and white photo of two “tomboyish” looking women with their arms slung around each other, one of them holding a kitten. They're outside and wearing work clothes.

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Mþ. Kestrel 🏳️‍⚧️♿️📚 @kestrelsward.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

TIL today that should have been obvious: a tiramisu latte is just coffee flavored coffee. 😆😅 The Dunkin Terror-misu latte is ok because the marshmallow cold foam cuts the bitterness of the coffee a bit, but I wish I’d gone with my original intent of pumpkin for my little restorative treat. Oh well.

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Mþ. Kestrel 🏳️‍⚧️♿️📚 @kestrelsward.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Mainly, were you able to use your own chair in the airport, including on layovers? Or did you have to give it up at baggage claim check-in & use wheelchair service? Do you notify the airline you’ll be flying with one ahead of time? How do you navigate wheelchair & carry on if alone? ♿️

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Mþ. Kestrel 🏳️‍⚧️♿️📚 @kestrelsward.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Probably going to be going to Washington next year which is too far to drive sadly so I’m gonna have to fly. I’ll be taking electric wheelchair with me. I’d be interested to hear from any electric wheelchair users who have done this. I have some questions. ♿️

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Are you an MLIS student or new-ish librarian worried about navigating convos around AI? Join @juliesetele.bsky.social & me for a free webinar hosted by Rutgers LIS students. Let's talk strategies for finding your (AI skeptical) people & finding ways to push back. 📚 scarla.rutgers.edu/event/talkin...

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Talking AI: A Guided Conversation on AI Critique and Refusal in Academic Librarianship - SCARLA

Are you a current or future librarian against AI? Do you want to learn how to advocate for AI refusal in professional environments and job interviews when faced with opposition? […]

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult. A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates. Dems need to be on the side of the many, not Big Money.

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Amelia Smith @nturavrgcistory.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Here's an interesting trans history in Toronto find! A Toronto Telegram article from August 1970 with trans sex worker Lily St. Clair! Previously a female impersonator, she is described as having bottom surgery 8 months prior to the article. She performed at the Westover Hotel at 212 Dundas St E.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Le Chomp. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Photo of a handsome young man wearing a striped t-shirt and light trousers, standing in front of an old car - maybe 1940s but I really don't know cars. The man is looking down at a shorthaired tabby kitten that he holds gently in his hands, that seems to be licking his finger.

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Mþ. Kestrel 🏳️‍⚧️♿️📚 @kestrelsward.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is entirely correct. Book bans come out of a pathological need for control over other’s thoughts, with no thought to literacy or joy. In fact, I’m pretty sure these people think both literacy and joy are sins against God.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In a surprise to no librarian, @penamerica.bsky.social is reporting about manga being a particular target of book banners right now. It's almost like they don't want teenagers to read. pen.org/banned-manga/

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Manga, the Hugely Popular Graphic Novels That Originated in Japan, Targeted In Growing Number of Book Bans in the U.S.

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Digital Transgender Archive @transgenderarchive.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Three members of Educational Transvestite Channel (ETVC) pose at San Francisco Gay Freedom Day 1992. For more information about this item, please visit the DTA via the link in our bio. Image courtesy of the GLBT Historical Society. #TransHistory #TransIsBeautiful #DTA

Three people in colorful costumes pose on a city sidewalk beside a portrait displayed on an easel.

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Zine Libraries @zinelibraries.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Register now for the Zine Librarian unConference! Enjoy sessions like “Cross Stitch as Queer Resistance: Craft-A-Long” at noon PT on Nov. 7! More info, including registration, at the links in our bio. www.zinelibraries.info/zluc2026/

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Bat vase by Richard Freiwald

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