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Lauren K @lauren.soy · 27/09/2026

repurposed this old notebook into a barbell training journal with a collage featuring the sticker @robinawolf.bsky.social gave me 💗

spiral bound notebook with a translucent plastic cover. behind the cover is a colorful collage with a medieval serf swinging a hoe beside the words “LOVE 2 TOIL”, some black and white heart illustrations, various Animal Crossing villager stickers, and an anthropomorphic wolf lifting a barbell with the words “train like an animal …cuz u r one!!”

the same notebook with the cover opened to more clearly show the collage

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Lauren K @lauren.soy · 16/09/2026

wanna start typing my new 20k word #spirk fic on my typewriter to make a zine but the AC in the library has been busted for weeks. my basement office has been cool enough but muggy as hell and I'm scared to see what it's done to the ribbon no I can't work on it at home, this is scholarship

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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ anything 🕯️ good 🕯️ at all 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️

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anj @forecastoctopus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

STAR TREK 💫 60 years of these guys….. #startrek #startrek60 #startrekday

painting of kirk, spock, mccoy, and the enterprise on a space background with star trek written at the top

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Here's the first of two little things I've made to celebrate 60 years of a television show that became more television shows (plus some movies) and sometimes dropped some nuggets of actual wisdom. Happy #StarTrekDay to all who celebrate. 🖖

A recreation of a classic poster that reads:

All I need to know about life I learned from Star Trek

Below that is an illustration of the original series Enterprise. And below that is a justified list of quotes and aphorisms divided by delta bullet points. The list reads:

• Seek out new life and new civilizations
• Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end
• There’s no such thing as a Vulcan death grip
• Even in fear, you can still step forward
• It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life
• Never trust a planet that looks exactly like Earth
• It’s a long road
• There are four lights!
• The first duty is to the truth
• Go fast!
• When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains must be the truth
• We are all explorers
• It’s difficult to work in groups when you're omnipotent
• Sometimes, hope is a choice
• Fortune favors the bold
• It’s easy to be a saint in paradise
• Don't believe in no-win scenarios
• We all deserve to belong somewhere
• Keep your shirt tucked in, go down with the ship, and never abandon a member of your crew
• Boldly go where no one has gone before!

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gibbet cage @gibbet-cage.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Hey man they’re putting our carcasses in a big industrial drum and doing a sort of vibrating boil wash to get the last usable bits of meat off us tonight if you wanna come thru

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Lauren K @lauren.soy · 25/08/2026

sent “hey just found out my grandma died, I’m going home” to the library slack right before the news broke so now everyone thinks i’m kin to Dolly RIP Betty Jean, I hope you & Dolly are dancing in heaven 🕊️

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Tybis @tybistybis.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I've been watching Star Trek. #furryart

cartoon of my fursona drawn over a Star Trek (Original Series) screencap of a corridor. He's saying "Oh boy my first day aboard the Starship Enterprise(tm)." as he happily strolls.

The same fursona, still smiling, on a planet's surface, getting laser beamed to death by Benjamin Franklin. Spock is raising an eyebrow.

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Random Trek @randomtrek.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Star Trek (1966) Season 1, Episode 29: Operation - Annihilate! 00:18:43.729

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anj @forecastoctopus.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

not a fan of how he turned out…. but practice is practice

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Lauren K @lauren.soy · 01/08/2026

look at all these wild turkeys in my yard!! i love them so much!!! ignore the apocalyptic rain of ashes from my neighbors burning shit

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Lauren K @lauren.soy · 31/07/2026

brain attack effed malware queer studies world wide web

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I love, love, love Portland-based zine distro Antiquated Future, and they're asking for help during a tough year. Buy some amazing #zines and help support the zine community! antiquatedfuture.com (Original instagram post: www.instagram.com/p/DbYi0mGlN6z/)

flyer from Antiquated Future that says "The distro could really use your support right now. There are lots of ways to support the distro. Buy rad stuff and music, spread the word, intern for school, volunteer.".

A flyer with ways to help. Text reads:

Support Antiquated Future
* Buy from website, Etsy, Bandcamp
* Buy AF goods at Grovers Curiosity
Shop in Portland, Oregon
* Submit to our in-house zines
Share our posts
* Show off your AF merch in a story
* Tag your fave bands from the label
* Volunteer for events in Portland
* Intern for the zine distro or
for the record label

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divine beastmode @gunstreet.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

just try being normal about this scene. like what are we supposed to do with this!

tv showing Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Spock in a sickbay bed with his eyes closed. Kirk is shaking him by the shoulders.

Same scene, Spock has his eyes open looking at Kirk. Their hands are clasped together. Caption reads, ‘This simple feeling…’

Same scene, Spock and Kirk still holding hands and gazing into each other’s eyes, as captain and first officer are wont to do. Caption continues: ‘…is beyond V’Ger’s comprehension.’

Same scene, different view, showing Spock from the side and Kirk and McCoy head-on. Spock and Kirk are still staring into each other’s eyes, with Spock’s hand now clasped between both of Kirk’s. Kirk looks absolutely sick with affection. McCoy is kinda just hanging back awkwardly watching them.

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Kate Jones @tryn2bkind.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Oldest cat name we know about is Nedjem, a name that translates to “Sweet One” or simply “Sweetie.”

The earliest known record of a cat with a name dates back more than 3,450 years to ancient Egypt. The cat was called Nedjem, a name that translates to “Sweet One” or simply “Sweetie.”

Nedjem belonged to Puimre, a high-ranking official who served as the Second Priest of Amun and oversaw temple estates and religious ceremonies at Karnak Temple.

The cat’s name appears in Puimre’s decorated tomb at the Theban Necropolis, where Nedjem is shown beneath a chair, a common artistic way of depicting beloved household pets.

The name Nedjem (ndm) means “Sweet One,” “Pleasant One,” or “Delightful One.” It was also used as a personal name in ancient Egypt, suggesting it was an affectionate and familiar term rather than one reserved for animals.

Nedjem offers rare evidence of the close bond ancient Egyptians could share with their pets. Although cats were valued for protecting grain stores from rodents and snakes and were linked to the goddess Bastet, they were also cherished companions

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Lauren K @lauren.soy · 01/07/2026

happy international zine month 2026 y'all! this year is the 10 year anniversary of Greensboro Zine Fest 💖 come on out if you're local! as with all Tristin's events, masks will be encouraged and provided at the door. 🩷🧡 @gsozinefest on ig for more info!

Flyer advertising the 2026 Greensboro Zine Fest, a two-day zines & printer matter event from 12pm-4pm on both Saturday July 25th and Sunday July 26th, located at One Rep Weightlifting, 207 S. Westgate Dr. STE A in Greensboro, North Carolina

A flyer advertising "Your Passion & Our Community," a free, collaborative, community zine workshop celebrating 10 years of Greensboro Zine Fest, which is being held on Sunday, July 19th, 2026 from 4pm-6pm at One Rep Weightlifting, located at 207 S Westgate Drive STE A, Greensboro, North Carolina.

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Matthew Murray 🦇 @midnitelibrary.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

International Zine Month! #IZM2026 Image included twice to allow full alt-text description. Link to larger version stolensharpierevolution.org/wp-content/u... prompts and layout by Alex Wrekk 📚

International Zine Month July 2026

There's a photograph of a typewriter in the upper right hand corner.

31 activities for you to celebrate
Events on specific days
11 Zine Meme Day - post or make a zine themed meme from an online template
14 ValenZINE Day - Write a love letter to zines
18 Zine Distro Appreciation Day - Order from your favourite or a new zine distro
21 Zine Library Day - Find a physical zine library or digital archive to visit or donate
25 Free Zine Day - leave copies of your zine in public or post a free PDF online.
31 HallowZINE Day - Remember zines or zinesters who are no longer with us.

The following items have checkboxes.

Check out ZineMap.com to explore and connect with other zine makers.
Zine Origin Day! How did you get into zines? What keeps you going?
Look up local or regional zine events or dream of how to start your own!
Zine Rewind! Dig out your favourite zines and remind yourself and others! Explore zines from a country different than yours (bonus points for translating)
Zines of the Past - Explore your local and regional zine history.
Zines of the Future! Write about what you would like to see in the future of zines.
Ask someone to trade zines with you.
Make a 1 page zine.
Level up! Master double-sided printing & collation. Make a double sided booklet zine.
24 Hour Zine Challenge. Make a zine of at least 24 pages and to your personal skill level.
Write a review of a book, movie, concert, podcast or album to include in your zine.
Zine Pride! Support zines created by LGBTQ+ creators by buying directly from them, looking up queer zine events, or checking out the Queer Zine Archive Project at QZAP.org
Write a physical letter to a zinester you admire.
Teach yourself a new zine skill like hand stitched binding or how to collate pages.
Read Zines outside of your regular genres. Check out perzines, comix, art, or fiction
The Next Wave! Explore zines by youth or introduce the youth in your life to zines.
Make a wishlist of things you would like to see in zines, get suggestions for existing zines.
Take a "Shelife" with your collection of zines.
Celebrate the work of BIPOC and marginalized zinesters globally.
Zine Cuisine! Cook from a recipe found in a zine OR make a recipe to put in your zine. Zine Collab!
Ask a zine friend to collaborate on a zine or zine project with you. Lost and Found!
Review old notebooks and old writing to revive an unfinished project.
Make a playlist that represents the mood of your zine, or what you listen to while working on zines.
Post a picture of you with your zine or a zine friend.
prompts and layout by Alex Wrekk

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Seven of Sixty Nine @internetperson69.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Fuck SCOTUS, all my homies hate SCOTUS

A crudely edited Swear Trek meme. Spock from Star Trek TAS looks at his tricorder and says "This whole bullshit is bullshit"

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Milo @miloblue.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Tomorrow begins International Zine Month 2026! @alexwrekk.bsky.social, creator of IZM, has posted her annual promo poster, along with an accessible text list over at stolensharpierevolution.org/internationa... July 21 is Int'l Zine Library Day! Bring your favorite zine librarians donuts 📓🍩

black and white poster graphic that has a half-tone picture of a 1960s typewriter and says International Zine Month 2026 along with a list of 31 activities. full list linked in post.

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

📢 New zine announcement: “Zines Are Back! : The Perennial Reemergence of the Zine Scene” is a collection of news headlines featuring all the cliché “zines aren’t dead” stories that you’ve grown accustomed to (or resentful of). violetbfox.info/zines-are-ba... #zines

Cover of a zine titled "Zines Are Back"! The cover is in a mock newspaper format with an image of a zine fest.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

How long have I wandered? Oh Ereshkigal, my arms grow valiant with standing!

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Claire S. @clairebrarian.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

🌈Cross Stitch as Queer Resistance🌈 I wasn't finding many cross stitch patterns for Pride that I liked so I decided to make my own. I'm going to compile them into a zine, but that will take time. So for now I'll post them here:🧵

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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Last month two library workers reached out to Public Collectors to ask about making a booklet version of Fobazi Ettarh's essay "Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves" for a Celebration of Life event. We did, and it is now available for all: halfletterpress.com/vocational-a...

This booklet is a standalone print publication of Fobazi Ettarh’s essay, in which she defined vocational awe as the ideas, values, and assumptions librarians have about themselves and the profession that result in notions that libraries are inherently good and sacred, and therefore beyond critique. Fobazi first presented on vocational awe at the Identity, Agency, and Culture in Academic Libraries Conference in 2017. Later on, she fleshed out the idea into this essay, which first appeared in the journal In the Library with the Lead Pipe on January 10, 2018. It sparked immediate rippling conversations about dynamics of systemic underresourcing, undercompensation, job creep, and exploitation across the library profession. It was cited more than 500 times in her lifetime, and she presented dozens of invited presentations and keynotes on it. In 2020, she was named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker; true to her own values, she voluntarily revoked the award to protest Library Journal’s awarding of a Library of the Year that had been widely protested for hosting an event with a virulently anti-trans organization earlier in the year. In this time, public scholars and intellectuals in fields such as social work, teaching, nursing, and technology began to engage with vocational awe, including Cory Doctorow in Enshittification, Anne Helen Petersen in Culture Study, Simone Stolzoff in The Good Enough Job, and more. At the time of her passing in January 2026, Fobazi was a PhD student at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, furthering her research on vocational awe across domains, with a specific focus on tech work. May her memory politicize us all.

— Anastasia Chiu

The proposal to publish this text as a booklet came from library workers Mimosa Shah and Jorge López-McKnight. With the cooperation of Fobazi’s widow Elena Maris, Public Collectors has designed, printed and published this essay for that celebration, as well as more widespread readership.

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quarry street little library & zine distro @quarry-zine-distro.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Zine Folk Raleigh is coming! Saturday September 26vat 201 E Davie Street in Raleigh. 11am-5pm. www.zinefolknc.com

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Meredith Farkas @librarianmer.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Love this poem which gets at what we lose when we constantly choose the quickest, most efficient path, whether that path means choosing AI or not.

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Random Trek @randomtrek.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Star Trek (1966) Season 2, Episode 18: The Immunity Syndrome 00:08:40.932

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Lauren K @lauren.soy · 06/06/2026

got added to a “gullible people” blocklist which probably has to do with “politics” or w/e but like… yea I’m gullible as hell… my coworker literally gets me with “gullible isn’t in the dictionary” ~1x/year

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T’Kay Vulcartist @tkay.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

OH MY GOD. I DID IT. I ACTUALLY DID IT. The sky, gong, and most of the mountains are colors from Terrafibres on etsy!! Specifically Vulcan’s Forge, Shran, Tulaberry, and Imzadi. 😁 I took a great many artistic liberties lol but I’m SO happy!! I actually did it!!

A completed large cross stitch piece showing Kirk and Spock facing off with lirpas across the arena from Amok time.

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Thad @tyranicus.net · 01/06/2026

Bisexual Kirk says happy Pride.

Image from Star Trek TOS of Kirk standing in front of a background that looks a lot like a bisexual pride flag with the caption "Are there men on this planet?"

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Seven of Sixty Nine @internetperson69.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

Happy Pride! Star Trek is gay! 🌈🖖

The USS Enterprise from Star Trek TAS The Animated Series, on a background of soft pastel rainbow waves emanating out from the Enterprise. It's like the ship is glowing with gay energy. Added to the image are sparkly rainbows, and lots of rainbow pride hearts everywhere, some of which have the progress pride flag. Big text in rainbow colors overlaid on top of all says "STAR TREK IS GAY." Sparkle glitter filter over all makes it look sparkling, like someone through glitter confetti on top

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Lauren K @lauren.soy · 26/05/2026

fondly remembering when everyone at my library referred to my attendance at #zluc2024 as the muppets taking manhattan

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 26/05/2026

A Snake Sculpture 6th-11th Century AD, from U Thong Thailand.

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Lauren K @lauren.soy · 25/05/2026

why yes I am desperately searching online for any indication of a springshare outage at 9am on a holiday

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Lauren K @lauren.soy · 22/05/2026

Kyle Busch's death has got me and my redneck girlies all torn up. RIP Kyle, I hope you're resting easy with kittens, bunnies, and little baby seals.

NASCAR driver Kyle Busch wearing a 2010 hot pink firesuit with a kitten on the chest, stars on the left arm, a puppy, daisies, and the word "Kimmy" on the legs

Kyle Busch's #18 Toyota Z-Line stock car at the 2010 NASCAR Nationwide series Virginia 529 College Savings 250. The car is pastel pink with a brown horse in front of a cartoonish sunrise and rainbow scene, with a kitten and hearts on the rear and purple "18" on the top and side of the car.

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Milo @miloblue.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

A couple of weeks ago I had the privilege of talking with Maira on the Long Arm Stapler podcast. www.buzzsprout.com/2532068/epis...

illustrated image of a puppy arching it's back on top of a long-arm stapler with the text Long Arm Stapler Podcast and @lngrmstplr

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Lauren K @lauren.soy · 12/05/2026

saw a duck shower this morning!!

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Giraffe 🖖🏾 @spottedgiraffe.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

It really didn’t have to be a quote from this guy, you guys…🫠 #startrek #strangenewworlds

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Lor✨ COMMS OPEN! @justveeing.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Jim study. Watercolor on paper.

Watercolor portrait of James Kirk as portrayed by William Shatner. He is in the green fatshirt.

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Lauren K @lauren.soy · 27/04/2026

work health insurance stopped covering my !! generic !! antidepressant and I've been doing a lot of "assistant director of the library" shit lately including speaking engagements so my anxiety has been 1.) through the roof & 2.) incompatible with any level of Being Online

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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

i cannot imagine a future without trans people because without trans people there isn't a future

a black and white typography edit that reads "every future i dream of includes trans people". the text is inside a black circle. inside the circle is stars from the cygnus constellation. around the circle is an ornate border with floral flourishes and birds.

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high point university

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