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@zolam.bsky.social
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Librarian, history researcher, writer, OER, gardening, arts, collaboration, communities, speculative fiction, dancing. Reader. ALA, ACRL. She/her. No DMs.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I didn’t know I wanted this news but I very much did!
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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
227 years ago, on the 12th of October 1799, Jeanne Geneviève Garnerin (née Labrosse) was the first woman to parachute. She was an apprentice (and later wife) of pioneer balloonist Jacques Garnerin. She first ascended to an altidude of 900 metres in a gondala attached to a balloon. #otd #history🗃️
Monsieur and Madame Garnerin (Christoph Haller von Hallerstein [de], c. 1803)
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Mariah Scary 👻 🎃 • #ProtectJho @dopegirlfresh.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026
Kokomo Money, Mo’ Problems
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ZLibrarian @zolam.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Awesome
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
As you get older, you realize the importance of having a large amount of shallow bowls in which to put small amounts of discrete objects
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Rebecca @jeybecques.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Let me highly recommend the Biodiversity Heritage Library as another resource, particularly for weird natural history images - here’s a wild person-mantis from around 1715, for example: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34387920
Copperplate illustration of a mantis with a person’s head about to eat a smaller bug
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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
That time someone dumped a toy house on the cemetery wall and, when I crouched a bit, some ✨ Hollywood Magic ✨ occurred.
A plastic dolls house sitting on a wall, taken from an angle which makes it look as if it might be one of the houses on the street.
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Used Robot Salesman @urs-annex.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
a stray thought before I wander off I love small talk. And there are people who say they hate platitudes like, "have a nice day." But I was going thru it, an she handed me a coffee an said "Have a nice day." It was kinda the nicest thing anyone had said to me in months. I remember that. So ya.
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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Red and navy blue always a winner in my estimation and this Worth gown uses the brightest of reds to punctuate the details of their mid #1890s design. Nicely nautical for seaside promenading #NGVMelbourne #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
Front view of a mid 1890s Worth gown of navy blue silk with red detailing centre front, as well as trimming the bodice, cuffs and skirt hem
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Here's what they don't tell you about woodpecker tongues: Some of them are barbed (pileated & downy 'peckers) to allow them to spear insects. The barbs are keratinized, so *hard*. Meaning woodpecker *threat displays* can involve poking an interloper with a barbed tongue. (📷: u/ElvisIsNotDjed)
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller October 10,1954
P1- A BURGLAR STEPS THROUGH THE SLUGGO’S BEDROOM WINDOW 
P2- THE BURGLAR SEES SLUGGO ASLEEP IN HIS BED, AND HE SEES THE CONDITIONS SLUGGO IS LIVING IN
P3- THE BURGLAR FEELING SORRY FOR SLUGGO, PLACES SOME COINS INTO SLUGGO’S PIGGYBANK AS HE STEPS OUT THE WINDOW AND LEAVES
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Mémoire2cité @memoire2cite.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
FASHION LIFE La robe Mondrian d’Yves Saint Laurent (1965) est l’une des créations les plus emblématiques de l’histoire de la mode. Inspirée des compositions abstraites du peintre néerlandais Piet Mondrian, elle reprend ses célèbres aplats de couleurs primaires (rouge, bleu, jaune)
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I wonder whether the Gen Alpha version of “millennial beige” will be a new Arts & Crafts movement. I don’t mean the current iteration of sticking a vinyl William Morris reproduction to a backsplash. I mean stenciling their walls with paint made from foraged berries.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/10/2026
Tesco is first supermarket to offer paid ‘safe leave’ for victims of domestic abuse
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Tesco is first supermarket to offer paid ‘safe leave’ for victims of domestic abuse
Exclusive: Britain’s largest private-sector employer has also trained managers to spot signs of domestic abuse Tesco has become the first supermarket to introduce paid “safe leave” for victims of domestic abuse, giving staff dedicated time to access support, secure their safety and take steps to move on with their lives. The UK’s largest private-sector employer is offering up to three days of paid leave which can be taken flexibly for activities such as attending court hearings, arranging emergency accommodation, changing locks, securing childcare or separating finances. Continue reading...
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Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Big congrats to the amazing @alondra.bsky.social for winning an AI2050 Senior Fellowship from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social. ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/alond...
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Alondra Nelson - AI2050
Alondra Nelson studies how people build, marshal, and live through new scientific and technological developments, and traces what that work makes possible or forecloses for life chances and democratic...
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L'Histoire de Manon @manonatelier.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
Children being murderous is both cute and terrifying. Tbh they're like this year round but adding masks makes it extra cute and terrifying.
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Sbooks @bemorelikeharper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hype yourself up. Don’t wait for others. Don’t dull your shine when they throw shade.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone is so tired. Exhausted. And I'm talking to so many friends and colleagues who are hoping for a functional institutional power to come along and take care of them, take the annoying work and worry away. An employer, a publisher, a big funder, an elected leader, etc. I think it's just us.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 02/10/2026
To process the chaos, I'm spending a few minutes each night stitching a news diary—embroidering tiny icons representing an important story of the day. September offered a break from the blistering heat, but not from the deluge of (often) distressing news.
Embroidered icons representing news stories for each day in September
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Columbia Journalism School will pause admissions for its Master of Arts program to conduct a “critical evaluation” of the curriculum, dean Jelani Cobb announced www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/colu...
A Note on Our M.A. Program Evolution

Columbia Journalism School regularly reviews its degree offerings to ensure our teaching keeps pace with the evolving demands of global reporting. To focus fully on this strategic evaluation, we are temporarily pausing admissions for the M.A. program. 

Prospective applicants interested in the M.A. program are encouraged to contact the Admissions Office at apply.journalism@columbia.edu to discuss how our other degree programs may align with your academic and career goals or whether you prefer to wait for the relaunch of the M.A.
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Billy Penn at WHYY @billy-penn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A Texas teacher is finding a way to get his students writing without laptops or AI. His solution? Driving to Philly to purchase 28 typewriters.  billypenn.com/2026/09/25/p...
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Texas teacher buys 28 typewriters from Philly shop
A Fort Worth teacher drove to a West Mount Airy typewriter shop to equip his classroom. His students have started writing on the machines.
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 30/09/2026
If they just would have sent the money to the actual authors only who you know HOLD THE ACTUAL COPYRIGHT... But here we are again, getting every crumb further crumbled by massive corporations and bad actors
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
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Iron Ring - Wikipedia
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Ndgree, the Grand Remonstrator @ndgree.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Doctors in hospitals should have their insurance plans plastered on their lab coats like race car drivers so you don’t accidentally go out of plan while lying on a bed of pain.
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#tdih 1919 #RedSummer Black sharecroppers met in Elaine, Arkansas to organize for fair pay for cotton. More than 100 of them were massacred by a white mob. Twelve Black men were sentenced to death for “riots.” #Terrorism #TeachOutsideTextbook 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/el...
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Sept. 30, 1919: Elaine Massacre
Black farmers were massacred in Elaine, Arkansas for their efforts to fight for better pay and higher cotton prices. A white mob shot at them, and the farmers returned fire in self-defense. Estimates…
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bruce Springsteen & Clarence Clemens
Black and white photograph of Bruce Springsteen and Clarence Clemons kissing on stage. I would date this as the late 1970s by how skinny Springsteen is t. hey're both wearing tank tops and Clarence is wearing leather pants
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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
WARNING: Moose will try to diagnose what is wrong with your broken vehicle.
Road sign of smashed car and moose
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i remember talking to my dad my towards the end of my senior year about all the time i had spent at the sun over the years and he said "well, that was really your fraternity for your time there." never been prouder to be a small part of this brother/sister/siblinghood 🫡🫡🫡
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I research teachers' work. There is a known gap between public perception and the actual day-to-day experience of teaching that sociologist Dan Lortie poetically described as coming from "the apprenticeship of observation." This imagination/reality gap creates lots of problems in ed policy.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.
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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 27/09/2026
A look at Emergency Mode for News, a website with advice and checklists from journalists who have been through extreme weather and climate disasters (Neel Dhanesha/Nieman Lab) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 28/09/2026
NBCUniversal plans to expand the sponsorship model it used for SNL's 50th anniversary in 2025 for the three-hour NBC 100th anniversary special on December 10 (Brian Steinberg/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
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Nova Scotia Museum @novascotiamuseum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we invite you to learn about the discovery of ceramics made by students at the Shubenacadie Residential School. Read the story: museum.novascotia.ca/stories/resi... The ceramics are on display at the Museum of Natural History.
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Residential School Ceramics
Each year, September 30 marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. The day honours the children who never returned home and Survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and co...
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nor is the history of fanatics half so striking in respect to the measureless self-deception of the fanatic himself
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Men, stop telling women you denounce sexual assault and start telling your male friends.
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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
‘WOMAN’S UPPER-CUT PUTS THIEF TO FLIGHT’, Illustrated Police News, 23 October 1930.
Line drawing, woman in street punches man in chin.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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Jack - Oi, Shiny! @oishinythings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
1. I am baffled by the idea I would want "personalised music". 2. Personalised music is the easiest thing in the world to get. Anyone who ever accidentally slept with a musician has had it foisted upon them.
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Patrick @watchinthesky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One of the roadrunner kidlets made a quick visit at 4:15. Showing off a fine spiky do! Snacks were had on the patio. Probably BT , if so, rapidly going from BrokenTailfeathers to BeautifulTailfeathers! #birds
A roadrunner is standing tall on a backyard fence. A blurry hillside is beyond, a patch of green trees can be seen.
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hiroshi Yoshida (Japanese, 1876–1950) "Sailing Boats in the Morning, Inland Sea", 1926. Color Woodcut, 54.5 × 40 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"The creators did not feed..images of Garbo into the AI because the material was protected by copyright. Instead, they used text prompts to create her likeness..A human actor then played her role with her AI-generated appearance overlaid. Her voice was recreated from a recording from an early film."
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Ajuan Mance @ajuanmance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m drawing portraits of 76 Black people who escaped slavery in 1776.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
- À la carte living conditions where everything is hyper personalized and you get what YOU want delivered to YOU when YOU want it. And therefore, you don't have to think beyond yourself, so you assume everything is either for you *specifically* or it's wrong.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
These are not fully formed ideas but what I am sensing is a toxic combination of: - So few people reading quality fiction where you have to put yourself in someone else's shoes & actually pay attention, rather than reading passively. This results in lacking basic reading skills.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Y'all know Bean Soup Theory? How someone can post a recipe for bean soup and the replies will be "BUT WHAT IF I DON'T LIKE BEANS?!" That is sometimes annoying trolling but it's predominantly people failing to understand how to read for context, understand intended audience, etc.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Are You A Librarian: The Untold Story of Black Librarians follows the librarians who kept the doors open when the law said they shouldn't-from segregated reading rooms to freedom libraries to the branches serving our communities now" Rentable/streamable 📚 www.historysplayground.com/are-you-a-li...
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Watch Are You a Librarian | History's Playground
Rent the Are You a Librarian documentary for $3.99 and stream it for 72 hours on History's Playground.
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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 26/09/2026
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ZLibrarian @zolam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yes! Always do this with family and close friends. Even when our vocal tone is bright & upbeat, the feeling's the same.
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