9 million percent increase in assaults on ICE but apparently being dragged by a car is so rare they doxxed their own guy by mentioning it

Because we all need a little bit of joy today, I will never forget the little girl who peeked through our bookdrop and exclaimed loudly “mom, why are the librarians hiding back there? Are they NAKED???”

zeon soldier, laughing: hey, char - i went to the dicksucking factory and- char aznable, immediately: and i was employee of the month every goddamn month. zeon soldier: char: you think you can suck a dick as good as me, soldier? zeon soldier: no sir. char: that's right.

By the way if you like audiobooks and buy them, or can't find it via your library, you can use Libro.fm instead of Audible and set the beneficiary bookstore to be an infoshop like Red Emma's.

Annual revenues generated by intellectual property: U.S.: $80,000,000,000 Afghanistan: $335 This is not because there is less creative activity & cultural production in Afghanistan. Copyright is an engine of global inequality that serves & protects whiteness/capitalism. It serves no other purpose.

The position that "copyright is imperfect but necessary to protect the rights of non- wealthy creators" is more similar to "policing needs to be reformed but not abolished" than you might think.

It's telling that you say "I don't think masked thugs should be murdering innocent people in broad daylight" and Republicans start jumping up and down yelling "I guess we can't have law enforcement then." Do you hear yourself

👉 ICE Abusing Protesters After Murdering Driver 1/7/26 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnfi...

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Made this for a joke in a zine so here you go

Digital asynchronous communication leads to accidental shitposts in Discord

“Hybrid” just means “onsite.” Can we be honest here.

2026 goals: write an article about Bataille for a library journal and work "fucking" into the final publication

Abolishing library late fees/any intervention to address car dependency: "One on hand, it's been objectively demonstrated to work by any useful metric but also I feel like it doesn't & it'd mean people I look down on get away with something & when you really think about it that's what's important."

For anyone trying to downplay what happened in Venezuela and say the US wouldn’t do it anywhere else, the Trump administration clearly feels it can do as it pleases — and plans to do just that. Mexico, Colombia, and Cuba are all in the crosshairs.

We're really close to $10,000 raised for Black Zine Fair. It's 50% of what we need to raise. gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f...

Behold, the guys who were on TV a few weeks ago asking 19-year-old lance corporals to defy their chain of command lmfaoo

Watching Eraserhead tonight

If you just stand outside on a street corner with a sign that says "no war but a class war" you will be morally correct 99% of the time over the Harvard educated ghouls that works at the elite liberal media institutions.

'Hands off Venezuela' -betrays the speakers own helplessness, a sad little demand dressed up like tough talk, unpleasant implication of sexual violence, innocence and victimhood 'Death to America'! -actionable, solves problems for many countries at once, actually makes people upset

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

All U.S. presidents belong in the Hague

When editing Wikipedia, sometimes it's funnier to add the tag than to fix the sentence. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police

Need something to listen to? Desk Set is kinda a new years movie! www.librarypunk.gay/e/093-desk-s...

New Year’s resolution: more soundboard drops

You don't need to take my word for it. You can simply ask yourself what you would expect to see from an opposition party that was serious about abolishing ICE right now. Are you seeing these things from the Democratic party or from its voters?

Librarians are one of the groups that have an opportunity to serve as a kind of "third person" in young people's lives. We aren't parents or teachers, and if we treat them with respect for their personhood, they get practice dealing with adults not as much in power over them.

For anyone that thought disinformation was a social media problem, it’s great to see all of the legacy media organizations giving best book of the year to a Princeton University press published book full of Covid disinformation.

It was only a matter of time before they came knocking here in #Maine "The proliferation of AI is, at its core, an anti-democratic process to create a deeply authoritarian world. The lack of public input to this process is a feature of this technology, not a bug." Article by @cascobay.bsky.social

We need a resurgence of sabotage as a strategy

Lady was at the reading room during my shift to look at some collection. She said her husband had done some reporting on the klan. I mentioned the famous radio Superman episode that was inspired by a klan exposé. She said yeah that was my husband.

we don't need IP law on our side. if anyone steals our "monet style painting of bugs bunny having a train run on him by 15 versions of bugs bunny dressed up as a woman" we'll settle it in the old ways

elsevier can scrub every sci-hub DOI from their back catalog but they can't check if an article is real?

And so checked out Google Scholar. Now on my profile it doesn't appear, but somwhow on Nelli's it does and ... and ... omg, IT'S BEEN CITED 42 TIMES almost exlusively in papers about AI in education from this year alone... scholar.google.com.vn/citations?vi...

wow

The government wants to tell half of this country's states what it is they can read and what it is they can think. They *want* public institutions of democracy and civic engagement to be mouthpieces of government beliefs. That's all. Please, for the love of god, GIVE A SHIT.

TWENTY OTHER STATES 20, yes 20, filed an Amicus Brief asking the 11th Circuit to hear the appeal of this case. drive.google.com/file/d/1-zr4...

I know too many folks have written off Florida because they don't want to bother to understand two things: 1. Florida is the BLUEPRINT for book bans nationwide and 2. Florida is comprised of so many disenfranchised and gerrymandered voters–the only tools the GOP has to keep power. Here's the thing

When I harp on about abolishing IP this is what I'm talking about. The power imbalance it makes with employees is its primary function. I'm not trying to steal the food from your favorite author's mouth.

Open Access as harassment technique. I've imagined this might be a motivator for Republican continuation of OA mandates.

It’s the entire point. There’s no plan to make this meaningful for students. No plan to use it administratively. Its design and implementation signals its only real intent. It’s best and easiest use case is for systematic harassment and to scare faculty into complying in advance.

IP: the final refuge of the scoundrel

Straive is the name of the company that provides publishers with these AI tools, so you might want to watch out for that name when you’re considering where to publish.

They're right and they should say it

What if we did a series of explainer episodes to cover things people are studying in library school? What topics would you want to hear about?

Great so the version we pay for is worse

Also (presumably the reason this has just appeared now is that ACM DL is going full open access January 1. Which is GREAT. Makes sense that a business strategy was creating a "premium" version. But now "AI-generated article summaries" is one of those premium features. dl.acm.org/premium