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A leftist library worker podcast. www.librarypunk.gay @sadiegeez.bsky.social @wildeatheart.bsky.social @smazzie.bsky.social

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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 3h
I like the long history of the Justin school of editing an image. Slap those letters on, fuck kerning and design.
poster of army people running with the caption: they could die for liberty they don't even have. Caption in handwriting below says original flyer. poster of army people running with the caption: they could kill for liberty they don't even have. Caption in handwriting below says james jazmyn's doctored version.
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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 28/09/2026
The push to make it so that "websites as a destination for humans is over" is an intentional move to violate the freedom to read of individuals and move access to information into a "pay to get an opaquely intermediated version from a nontransparent source" model.
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
looks neat!
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you liked our latest episode with artist extraordinaire Katie Freeway, check out her album it's really good
anti-spectacular.bandcamp.com
I Am This Flesh, by Anti-Spectacular
4 track album
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Really basic grunge riffs are hitting with me this month
music.youtube.com
Knew
YouTube video by Superheaven - Topic
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pounded in the butt by my wet shoe oh god my shoe isn't waterproof oh fuck this sucks
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 27/09/2026
One of the worst things about the current moment is the complete lack of imagination associated with "can AI do it?" Why not make peer review a social process that's less arbitrary and gatekeeping but generative and conversational?
chronicle.com
Opinion | Could AI Be Better at Peer Review Than Humans?
A journal editor weighs the pros and cons.
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is a noreaster? I’m supposed to be impressed as a Florida man?
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Jesus why is a micro sd card so expensive?
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Our institutions have lost the plot
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Listen to this podcast I did with my lovely friends Justin and Jay! We write some live Peyton Tolle fan fiction. Infinite love to any PaulWalterHauser-moded man.
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
171 - Haus of Decline We have @hausofdecline.bsky.social on to talk about self-publishing comics and music, algorithms, baseball, the importance of creativity, handshakemogging, SEO, Resident Evil, if cats are kinda gay, transsexualism, and more!
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171 - Haus of Decline | librarypunk
We have Katie Freeway on to talk about self-publishing comics and music, algorithms, baseball, the importance of creativity, handshakemogging, SEO, Resident Evil, if cats are kinda gay, transsexualism...
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⛤mads⛤ @bigmads.blog · 24/09/2026
I'm having to deal with AI at work now and it's exhausting. I *like* doing research. I enjoy searching for information -- that's why I work in libraries! Why would I want to give that up? Why would I offload the cognitive work I enjoy onto an algorithm??
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aj-boston.neocities.org @aj-boston.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Screenshot: Searching for "A Cruel Angel's Thesis" on ProQuest.
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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Had a blast on @librarypunk.bsky.social talking about Gramsci, Carnegie, and public libraries. Where has philanthropy gone in the politics of our elites? What's changed since the homestead strike? Listen! open.spotify.com/episode/4rzD...
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170 - Carnegie, Gramsci, and Libraries feat. Dan Greene
librarypunk · Episode
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fake peruvian alien
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
On the latest episode of Liberating Lit, Dr. Emily Knox talks about why protecting the right to read is social justice work and shares some powerful advice for literary advocates just getting started or starting to feel the weight of burnout: www.liberatinglit.com/episodes/epi...
liberatinglit.com
Episode Two: Dr. Emily Knox — Liberating Lit
For the second episode of Liberating Lit, get to know the work of Dr. Emily Knox. Knox’s expansive knowledge and experience with book censorship across American history informs so much of the work bei...
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I attended a meeting today organized by my union on AI in higher education and I was encouraged both by all the work being done to protect members against AI in our day-to-day work *and* a desire to collectively fight AI surveillance on SUNY campuses in the form of Flock cameras.
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
15% of bi men are the perfect audience for this button idea I made
button that says " bi sexual bi phobic bi polar, yes we exist"
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy Hispanic heritage month from my local grocery store

Hispanic Heritage
Pure Life Purified Water No Flavor In Bottles - 28-16.9 Oz
Guerrero White Corn Tortillas - 30
Count
25 oz 
GUERRERO
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MAIZ BLANCO

Monster Energy Original - 16 Fl. Oz.
16 fl oz|

Doritos
DINAMITA
$5.49 ea ($8.17 / pound)
Doritos Dinamita Rolled Tortilla Chips
Chile Limon
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Medieval STEM faculty: No I NEED a wheel with 15 slots, my research field is very fast paced! The old 12 slot ones aren't good enough!
Bookwheel, from Agostino Ramelli's Le diverse et artificiose machine, 1588. Shows a guy sitting at a big contraption that holds several books in a wheel that you can keep open and spin. Kinda like a spinning wheel.
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
@dmgreene.bsky.social this muskism book is a bummer man
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There's only one reason to make librarians faculty and its so instructional and research faculty will treat them like humans
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
170 - Carnegie, Gramsci, and Libraries feat. Dan Greene We’re joined by @dmgreene.bsky.social again to talk about Carnegie libraries, which expanded into a larger discussion of consensus, hegemony, and the future of philanthropy/public funding. We also introduce Maoist Dusty Rhodes.
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170 - Carnegie, Gramsci, and Libraries feat. Dan Greene | librarypunk
We’re joined by Dan again to talk about Carnegie libraries, which expanded into a larger discussion of consensus, hegemony, and the future of philanthropy/public funding. We also introduce Maoist Dust...
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Working on a character I'm calling Maoist Dusty Rhodes and need good quotes for him to say
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Uncle Mojtaba's Cavern Complex @wellburrowed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Flying an aircraft into the George W Bush Presidential Library
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Umamusume but the horses are all library vendors
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Really getting Y2K vibes from the whole "AI will copy itself and blow up the water supply" thing. Congrats gen alpha this is what it felt like and yeah it felt that weird and stupid then too.
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Can't believe all these vendors are sending me emails in french
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The temptation to answer some of these podcast guest emails and just yell at the person once we have them on the mic is high.
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I have to stop adding to the Carnegie libraries notes doc. It's become such a wormhole. Finally recording it and getting it done this week.
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Need to write some revisionist histories of the Great Depression to get preppers viewing public goods as a form of prepping.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Some of you know that I co-founded Liberation Library in 2015 with great comrades in Chicago. The org is volunteer led and has continued it's amazing work. They are trying to raise $15,000 to send books to incarcerated children as a back to school fundraiser - mailchi.mp/cc51694705fc...
mailchi.mp
Stack the Books for Back 2 School
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A dejected man puts his hand on his head and says "jeez, my 9/11 novelty shirts just aren't selling like they used to." Next to him is a shirt that says "6-7, 9-11" with the twin towers being held by hands doing the 6-7 weighing gesture." He observes another man successfully selling t-shirts and says "The Charlie Kirk guy is raking it in." The shirt he is selling depicts Charlie Kirk as Aang from Avatar The Last Airbender. The caption is "Counting or not counting Aang Violence."
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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 10/09/2026
damn we really cooked with this one
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Guillaume Pasquier @gap-id.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
AI is doing so much harm to the open web and open science... I now have researchers specifically asking for things to be closed off because they don't want their work to be harvested into Frankenstein's POS. F this S
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
now we're researching
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY AS AN EROTIC OASIS
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you're a college student getting into vinyl collecting might I recommend just getting a random box of 45s off ebay. You'll mostly get junk but you'll probably find one or two things you really like.
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Episode zero–the intro–is available today wherever you listen to your podcasts, as well as on the LiberatingLit.com website. It may take a while for it to show up on the bigger pod catchers. www.liberatinglit.com/episodes/epi...
liberatinglit.com
Episode Zero: Introducing Liberating Lit — Liberating Lit
Kelly Jensen introduces the new limited run podcast Liberating Lit, a show about book censorship and literary advocacy.
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Reading old gay newspapers
Nearly 50 Charged After Increase in Arrests at Boston Library
BOSTON - An extraordinary increase in the number of arrests at the first floor men's room of the Boston Public Library in Copley Square was reported last week. Police records indicate that nearly fifty men were arrested on various charges (such as open and gross lewdness, indecent exposure, unnatural acts,
and even prostitution)
during a five-day period.
Most of the arrests were made by Officer Angelo Toricci, an "attractive, young" plainclothes officer who,
according to some of the men who
were arrested, stood nearby the urinals
"masturbating
himself to encourage
sexual advances." One man, who was in the men's room on legitimate business declined the officer's advances, and reported that the officeraskedhim,
"Are you gay?" he responded,
"Yes,
but I'm not interested," and the officer then proceeded to arrest him.
Observed in Boston Municipal Court
during the arraignments,
Torrici's
statement of facts was the same for each defendant. He observed the defendant masturbating in the men's room. While some of the men agreed to the submission of facts during their arraignments (and had their cases continued without a finding for one year), others intend to press for a trial to accuse the officer of concocting nonexistent charges.
Boston Police Capt. James McDon-ald, of District Four, told GCN that the plainciothes officers were assigned to the library at the request of the library management and on the complaints of numerous citizens who said they were solicited in the men's room.
"I sent them there because we got so many calls from private citizens we had to do something. I believe in gay rights, but they don't extend to public rest-rooms," McDonald said.
All men visiting the library should be avare that many of the men who have been
arrested
did
nothing illegal.
Therefore, extreme caution should be exercised in all parts of the library at all times.
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
So glad someone did this
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Having a great time in Chicago at the @socialismconference.org ! Thought I'd take this opportunity to let you all know that I've been working on a read-along podcast for Marx's Capital Volume 1! It even comes with cute illustrations in the show notes!
understandingcapital.github.io
Episode 1 A - Intro & Chapter 1 (first two pages only!) [p. 5-14]
Player
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Am I surprised to see LoC move to change Ontario to America in LCSH? No. Am I disappointed to see it proposed and moved towards approval so quickly? Yes. Great reminder that information is not neutral and that includes how we organize and describe it. classweb.org/tentative-su...
classweb.org
Tentative Monthly List 09 LCSH 2 (September 2026)
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It's Bandcamp Friday! Purchase the EP that I made with my band @antispectacular.bsky.social. Each song is radically different. The first is hardcore Punk, the second, a Funk song, the third, a Bluegrass song and the fourth is Apocalyptic Grunge. anti-spectacular.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-t...
Anti-Spectacular, I am this Flesh. A series of ribs crosses over a spine and intestines.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I post a lot of stories about cops using Flock to stalk former or current partners, but don't forget that cops also use Flock to intimidate and harass people who try to hold them accountable.
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Sorry can’t go to work I’ve got Havana syndrome
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Kass G. @anarkass.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Free Library of Philadelphia made everyone take a DISC based test and continues to employ the weirdo consultants who decided to translate it into "types of bird." Admin sometimes references their bird type in emails. Admin considers the fact they are all eagles relevant. It's a nightmare.
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Going to meet the new vendor rep wearing my "I love violating NDAs" tshirt.
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Reading Necropolitics. Good book, real bummer.
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Sorry stats gathering we've found a side quest
American Communist History
 Open Select: choose to publish open access
American Communist History publishes on the Communist Party in the United States and its social, political, economic and cultural impact on the world.
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