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SheRah

@sheralibrian.bsky.social
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Actual Librarian. Occasional artist. Third generation AFT-CFT.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h
Thing is the whole thing is premised on the idea a child should need a six figure loan to keep going to school rather than educating people being a public benefit.
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mcc @dryad.technology · 1h
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 4h
Put differently: how can a conservative movement that has worked diligently for decades to defund public higher ed, commercialize research, undermine the labor movement, and attack the study of culture as "woke" possibly have anything useful to say about the future of the American university?
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6h
NO, NYC PUBLIC LIBRARIES ARE NOT "FULLY FUNDED" despite what the influencers on social media are regurgitating. Our libraries remain UNDER-FUNDED. Library workers need to be paid MORE MONEY, we need more funds for collections, we need more funds for programming & for capital expenses.
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SheRah @sheralibrian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Specifically, Toni Collette
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Toni Collette Frowning
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s genuinely infuriating to see them pick apart everything the Cornell victim said and did following the assault to make it seem like she’s lying, which is how people have disbelieved victims forever, while also proclaiming themselves to be bold thinkers pushing against the status quo
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LadyBusiness @ladybusiness.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On my way to a job interview, smartly leaving the iced coffee at home
Tom Ford spring 2027 runway look
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“cowboys” here really reminds me of a brilliant post I saw on Twitter that I’ve never stopped thinking about, which is how the manosphere brand of toxic patriarchy isn’t about MEN, it’s about BOYS. everything is a 12-year-old’s fantasy. Pete is playing G.I. Joe on a trillion-dollar budget
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New reports reveal Meta has been classifying gigantic data centers as "pilot models" in order to secure a tax credit from the 1980s. The loophole has allowed Meta to avoid paying nearly $4,000,000,000 in taxes last year alone.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A problem is that many people know that the vast majority of the people who voted for the fascist in chief in 2024 would vote for him again today. So folks know that many people are politically untrustworthy. It adds to the malaise.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is a list of all the people who are going to be getting bailed out with your tax money. I guarantee it. Not tough to call this shot.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
being a “team player” 😒
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It is shockingly common for child welfare agencies to remove children from parents because they can't afford housing. Billing them for the foster care really is just beyond the pale. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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“Nobody Blames the Landlord. They Just Take Away the Kids.”
All too often, when parents can’t afford safe housing, the solution child welfare services offer is putting their children in foster care.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"In the states examined in this analysis, a drop of approximately 20% in inflation-adjusted rents—as happened in Austin, Texas, and Minneapolis after those cities made reforms—could reduce poverty by 18% to 26% and child poverty by 21% to 38%." www.pew.org/en/research-...
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The Housing Shortage Is a Major Driver of Poverty
Housing costs are usually the largest item in a household’s budget and can determine a family’s financial stability.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The people's occupation of Puerta del Sol in Madrid continues to grow in size and ferocity. They know the real invaders are not working class immigrants or people of color, but vulture funds, landlord parasites and transnational capitalists who drive workers from homes and suppress wages.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Maybe the reason the economic vibes are so off isn't that things are *worse* than the great recession but because back then we all thought the pain was temporary, whereas the things that are wrong with the economy today have all been getting worse for a long time and show no signs of improving
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nearly 40% of survivors who report to their schools are pushed out in one way or another—usually, at the urging of school staff who want them to leave. (In comparison, less than 1% of perpetrators are suspended or expelled.)
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 28/09/2026
The data also strongly suggests that campus rape is perpetrated by a small number of actors. Put differently, most men on campus don't rape, but the ones who do rape a lot of women. Getting rid of those guys would make campus way safer . psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-...
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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026
There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.
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Bart van Zwieten @bvzw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This striking pre-Columbian greenstone masterwork depicts an Olmec shaman in mid-transformation, adopting the powerful facial features of a sacred were-jaguar. Originating from archaeological sites in the Gulf Coast region of Veracruz state, it was crafted between 900 BCE and 600 BCE.
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 28/09/2026
Jersey City reveals plans for the redevelopment of the Holland Gardens public housing, taking a moderate density, monofuctional, 192-unit complex and replacing it with a high-density, 753-unit project with commercial space, a community center, & a public library! newyorkyimby.com/2026/09/plan...
The current Holland Gardens siteThe new project, showing ground floor commercialMassing for the new projectSite plan of the new project
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 28/09/2026
Gavin Newsom: I have to do some transphobia to win over Republicans The Democratic governor of a “red” state:
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SheRah @sheralibrian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm sorry, but can we not skip past this part... Women. These are not girls. They are women. And while the concern is obviously genuine, this infantilization of junior female colleagues is part of what entrenches their vulnerability in the workplace.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.
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A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There are too many people in congress who would be happier doing this, and that's part of why our politics is so stupid bsky.app/profile/avit...
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There’s an argument that in many ways the human-built environment is only just barely holding the non-human world back. All our works are more tenuous than they look. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/c...
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Salmon Are Thriving After Klamath Dam Removals, Study Finds (Gift Article)
The first fall runs of chinook salmon since the project in California and Oregon was completed have surpassed researchers’ expectations.
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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
as a bookstore owner, we cannot do the work or offer the benefits which public libraries do—fund libraries and everyone, including bookstores, will thrive
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
lol but not THEIR kids though. Tech bros want their kids to be tech-free.
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Silicon Valley Executives Are Tech Fans. Just Not for Their Own Kids.
At home, moderation and restraint are the rule for tech parents. Boredom is exalted. Maybe they’re onto something.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 25/09/2026
tucker carlson is a foppish frozen TV dinner empire heir, a virulent bigot, and a grotesque opportunist/propagandist. it's embarrassing that NPR editors think he needs more attention for his phony-ass pivot away from a nightmare he helped build
NPR headline for tucker carlson interview: "Tucker Carlson has reconsidered Trump. And quite a bit else."
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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There are white people who think the temporary pain will be worth it if it makes their anxiety about "replacement" feel better. It won't. It will just make them more isolated, poorer and less relevant in small towns with dying universities they voted to poison.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It hasn't gotten as much attention as it should, but Trump has been engaged in a relentless war against public sector unions, using his familiar bogus claim of national security to justify reducing union representation from workers from 56% to 34%. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/unions-aga...
Graph showing the percentage of federal workers represented by a union decreased from 56% at the beginning of Trump’s second term to 34%
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
wow. weird. you mean making republicans vote on things, even when the good side loses, generates news coverage and frames the story in the way that democrats want? wow. weird. obviously better to say "the votes aren't there" and never try, right? yep. yep. yep. yep.
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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily
Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"When Bret Stephens uses his very large platform to blast the National Book Awards as “DEI”, he is de facto attempting to alert an authoritarian government of internal enemies," writes @nberlat.bsky.social. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/bret-steph...
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Bret Stephens Throws Red Meat To The Fascists
His attack on the National Book Awards is a bat signal for the worst people.
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SheRah @sheralibrian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is what introduced me to the concept of the "non-profit industrial complex." We don't need more pilot projects...we need lower student-to-educator ratios.
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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The problem with education is that it's a solved problem. Students need small classes, individual attention, lots of writing, lots of feedback, access to a well-stocked library, time to think, and time to talk with their peers. We just don't like the answer, so we keep trying to do other stuff.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 24/09/2026
Yes. I think the consensus among US elite pundits and senior politicians that the way to protect liberal democracy is *not* to punish elite figures who violate its rules is wrong. A norm starting at least with the Watergate pardon. The opposite is true. You need to enforce the law and Constitution.
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yes, because it helps you avoid being a mark and to place accountability in people making these tools. Hope that helps.
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Wren @satanicwren.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Drexel University in Philadelphia is trying to shut down the oldest Natural History Museum in the western hemisphere, privatizing its vast collection. If you care about natural history PLEASE watch this video that tells you how you can help. youtu.be/nxyfBfCrbDw?...
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The Plan To Destroy Americas Oldest Natural History Museum
YouTube video by Miniminuteman
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm not the kind to say it all points back to a single historical episode, but so much of what Trump is doing with ballroom & Kennedy Center—the wanton destruction, the callous indifference to the past—was evident when he destroyed Bonwit Teller's irreplaceable sculptures nearly a half-century ago
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My state library association is writing a letter to the Governor to suggest using some of our Meta settlement $$ to set up a Youth and Teen Library Spaces Grant Program, administered through the Department of Libraries. Here's the letter, if you want to copy it. vermontlibraries.org/vla-proposes...
screenshot of the first paragraph of the letter showing the VLA logo and the words "Dear Governor Scott, The Vermont Library Association respectfully asks that as you and your team work to develop recommendations for the use of Vermont’s Meta settlement funds, you consider directing a portion of these funds to the Vermont Department of Libraries for grants to improve youth and teen spaces in public libraries across the state"
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 23/09/2026
need to make tshirts that say “I will try to live as I was and I hope to survive”
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Beyond Fossil Fuels @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There is little evidence to suggest AI can lead to emissions reductions. A new report by @ketanjoshi.co and a consortium of climate groups has found Nvidia’s indirect emissions have risen by a dramatic 725% since 2020. www.euronews.com/next/2026/09...
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 22/09/2026
These arise from two factors: carbon cycle feedbacks – how the biosphere and ocean's ability to absorb carbon changes as we emit more and the world warms, and climate sensitivity – how the interplay of feedbacks like water vapor, clouds, snow and ice, etc. respond to warming.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.
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Laid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)
At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"For undergraduates and novice researchers, these tools can lower the barrier to entry." I constantly see claims like this and I am baffled. You know who is least likely to understand when an AI product has failed them? Novices to a field. Novices to research. katinamagazine.org/content/arti...
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Do The New AI Features in These Familiar Databases Actually Help Researchers?
EBSCO, ProQuest, and JSTOR have recently added to the generative AI features available on their platforms. Here’s what libraries need to know.
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