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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

im sorry what

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In the Library with the Lead Pipe @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"logics of control and punishment runs deep in our profession. This looks like overt policing by installing metal detectors, hiring uniformed security guards, ... library fines; code of conduct policies that explicitly target houseless community members [and ID policies that exclude] immigrants"

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No Soft Cops, No Saviours: Abolitionist Notes Against Social Work in Libraries – In the Library with the Lead Pipe

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

After reading some of the recent pubs and discourse around US higher ed.… I should just stop right here. But here are the three major fallacies of much of what’s out there, three contexts that are missing, and the one big thing that is driving me around the bend (actually already there, but). 1/

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 12/09/2026

We have power in numbers, and we'll continue to fight for a better Starbucks. Support us by BOYCOTTING STARBUCKS until the company finalizes fair union contracts with workers! boycottstarbucks.net

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BOYCOTT STARBUCKS

Starbucks is the biggest violator of U.S. labor law in modern history. Join the movement - Boycott Starbucks!

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13/09/2026

“You need to integrate AI because while it will degrade your abilities and make your job less interesting and more shitty, at least you will retain employment” is not the sell AI proponents think it is.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 13/09/2026

Just out here thinking about how the leadership at UCLA has shut down childcare for students, staff, and faculty and offers virtually no housing for same, yet owns an entire university campus in Palos Verdes, an underutilized giant building in DTLA and an empty shopping mall in Westwood.

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Annie @femalecenobite.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I tried to log in to Hoopla esrlier so I could watch a bad movie and it couldn't find my account and I clicked some link and why did it take me here?

Screenshot of a suspicious looking DoD website

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Union organizing has been loads of fun this year, and I want to share a few quick stories from office and lab visits to show that 1) it's not that hard to talk to colleagues, 2) interesting things happen, and 3) you build solidarity in the meantime.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A library is such a casually beautiful place.

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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I agree lol. I wish students would be angrier about this.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'm a librarian because I love books and I'm good at connecting people to information (including other people). It really is that simple. 🤷‍♂️

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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Unfortunately it’s legal. Private companies can deny sales to whoever they want.

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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And they keep track of this ferociously. If the delivery address or billing address match a library, they will cancel an order that has been placed. If anything in the order gives them the impression that it’s a library, they will cancel the order.

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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

There are lots of things I want the public to know about libraries and librarians but near the top of the list is that publishing companies literally refuse to sell textbooks to libraries.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026

we tracked months of rent payments to an estimated 13,000 families. the expected cost of rehousing those families, had they entered eviction, would be north of $218 million dollars. keeping them housed cost around $38-40 million

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Another way to think about this (derived from Corey Doctorow’s work) is that AI, among other things, is a tool for breaking solidarities between exploited populations. AI Detection puts you on the side of a surveillance technology against your students.

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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It’s been several years since I watched it but I remember the series The Looming Tower being pretty good.

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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My favorite thing is when your passion and knowledge for a subject spills over into your students. I still have a fondness for Nathaniel Hawthorne because one of my favorite English professors was a Hawthorne scholar.

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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I still say 2026 insanity can’t hold a candle to 2001 insanity.

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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

And someone is holding up the plate so you can see their hands in the photo 😂

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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The best one I ever found off Google Maps was this one. You know their food is fucking fire is this was one of the business-supplied photos.

A picture of a bottle of Mountain Dew in front of a wood paneled wall. That’s it.

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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Why do restaurants use AI? Everyone knows that if the photo of the food is poorly lit, not plated, and blurry that the food is going to be incredible.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/09/2026

Polling suggests the GOP’s strategy of obscuring a repeal of abortion rights as an anti-trans measure could work: Nearly 60% of Missouri voters support abortion in the first 8 weeks of pregnancy, but 73% oppose gender transition surgery for minors.

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Missouri Republicans Are Trying to Repeal Abortion Rights by Leaning Into Anti-Trans Sentiment

Two years after falsely linking reproductive rights to gender transition care for minors, GOP lawmakers have packaged the two issues into one amendment in an effort to strip away the right to abortion...

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"You do my dad's legacy & the legacy of all these victims no honor by using this tragedy to spread hate. I've had to grow up & spend the past 25 yrs seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers & sisters, to hate on people who don't look like them....That does no honor to the victims here."

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“I teach a subject that is now considered ‘controversial,’” a professor in North Carolina wrote. “As a result, I have had a non-student with a gun enter my classroom to intimidate me. I have received an email death threat from a student.” lailluminator.com/2026/09/10/u...

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University faculty in the South report culture of fear, doxxing and threats • Louisiana Illuminator

A survey of higher education faculty in the South found professors are concerned about the political environment around higher education

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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Like, one of the most popular songs of the decade was Toby Keith’s “Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue”, which this line: you'll be sorry that you messed with The U.S. of A 'Cause we'll put a boot in your ass It's the American way

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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Every story about the weather lately is just a scientist saying “WE FUCKING TOLD YOU ASSHOLES.”

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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

When I was in high school the cafeteria tried to save money by limiting how many ketchup packets we could have for chicken nuggets. So my friend saved up a bunch of packets and wrote “I AM WASTING THE SCHOOL’S MONEY” in ketchup on a lunch tray and returned it to them.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

oh I see he went for extremely poorly lit outdoor video with low enough contrast that his head blends into the cloudy sky

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Poorly Drawn Lines @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Specifically.

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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I used to do access services and I know how thankless it can be! My department head (tech services) frequently says that access services is also a highly skilled department, it’s just that their skills are different.

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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Visited an antiquarian bookstore searching for an out of print book, emailed a solitary newsstand in New York City who claimed to stock a rare magazine, and sent an Instagram DM to a film director asking to stream their documentary. All for researchers, professors, and students.

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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I recently moved from another area of librarianship into acquisitions and even though I’ve done this work in the past, I’m regularly in awe at the lengths we go through to find a single article or item for a patron. In the last two months my department has:

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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

At the forefront of literally every move a librarian makes are the thoughts: how can I increase access? How can I make it easier to find? How can I make information more accessible for my patrons?

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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A perimenopausal woman telling you that she likes spending time with you is pretty much the highest compliment a human being can be paid.

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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It always seems to happen when I post something pretty innocuous, too. Good thing they didn’t see any of my juicier posts I guess.

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SEIU Local 925 @seiu925.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Sounds like someone has lots of experience bargaining against management #UnionsForAll #unionmemes

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Today’s Baseball Name is Rusty Kuntz

Rusty Kuntz
Position: Outfielder
Bats: Right • Throws: Right
6-3, 190lb (190cm, 86kg)
Born: February_4, 1955 (Age: 71-216d) in Orange,
More bio, uniform, draft, salary info y
1984 World Series

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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What a metaphor. If you tried to put this in a book, your editor would call it too heavy-handed.

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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My favorite thing about reading anything Werner Herzog says is that I always read it in his voice.

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Dublin, Ireland — Leonard McCombe, ca. 1957

Color photograph looking over the rooftops and chimneys of a city. At the center of the image is a white cat standing near the corner of a roof

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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE In 1903, Mother Jones marched an army of exploited children to Teddy Roosevelt's summer home. They had missing fingers, crushed hands, hollow chests. He refused to see them. But intense public sympathy, and organizing were stirred. www.thebulwark.com/p/labor-day-...

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Labor Day: ‘The March of the Mill Children’

Remembering what it took, across decades, to end the exploitation of children in factories.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

When #LaborDay was established as a holiday in 1894, ~30 yrs from slavery’s abolishment, it represented a key U.S. paradox: Black workers were excluded from labor unions and benefits due to Jim Crow laws, systemic racism, sharecropping systems, and other exclusionary labor practices. #BlackSky

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Beyond The Long Weekend: Labor Acknowledgments Repair What’s Been Broken

The Labor Day holiday marks the long struggle to move closer to fair and equitable wages for all of America’s workers

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