Oh hey, looks like Libby has a built in spot to let them know what we all think of their recent announcement about allowing AI books in their systems.

if any library folks are thinking about looking for a new social media home, discord has #CripLib (and LibraryFreedomProject and LibraryPunk and many others, I just have an invite code for CL) and also mastodon has glammr.us

UBI, universal healthcare, a right to housing, access to public transit, universal pre-K, and investment in public schools all could do the trick but the framing here is “feminists haven’t tackled this,” www.npr.org/2026/01/12/n...

Work. Think about all the things that need to be done. The Supreme Court. Work. While the Supreme Court decides whether you should exist. Work. Meetings. Litigate humanity. Oh, I need to send a spreadsheet to someone. THIS IS FINE.

Please email your local library and politely complain about Libby's AI "Inspire Me" feature. Your local library worker will love this. Seriously. We had so many tools for collecting feedback.

What to do if ICE stops you: An attorney answers some questions www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

SEIZE JOY FROM THE JAWS OF PAIN. HAVE YOU EATEN TODAY?

Cinnamon Scrote Crunch

And yet, we have J6. This isn’t about law and order and they know it.

They think it excites people, which is all they care about.

Reminder that “Say her name” was developed specifically to call attention to murders of Black women

i am very normal and can be trusted around your penguins

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

I just read something so despicable about the shooting that occurred yesterday and my immediate thought was— Remember those bumper stickers that made the rounds in 2020: Giant Meteor 2020, Just End it Already How do you come back from this kind of hate? What are we even doing?

I appreciate a lot of us will think "they've always been like this" but the utter moral decay on the right in the last few years has been notable. A shift from love the sinner, hate the sin fig leaf to "yeah, kill she/her, haha, pronouns in bio."

Sometimes it’s the little things ✨

important message to all bluesky users

A reminder to any canadian (or any) #watercolor artists. Beam Paints is an Indigenous owned company with beautiful plastic-free hues. Their sparkly metallics are to die for www.beampaints.com

Also, the point of this isn't to help people get through games - it's to provide a distributed training mechanism to teach AI how to develop games without paying actual humans!

BEEP BOOP THIS IS NORA'S AUTOMATED MED CHECK. today is Tuesday. everyone take your meds 🤖💊

A really sad follow-up to this story — Alexis Erlinmeyer, one of the trans federal intelligence workers who was fired, has died of a pulmonary embolism. She was 31. Her family is burying her under her deadname, so friends are fundraising for an accurate memorial: www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-...

Me, logging on to work after the long weekend

It is my birthday and I got to go to a bookstore and pick out a few things as my gift. I need y’all to know about this book that had me laugh-crying.

It is my birthday and I need everyone to know about this book that had be laugh-crying in the bookstore —

The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:

This is 47 🫡

Snow kitty ❄️

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Oh Maine, you have such good light.

Always read the fine print.

Statement Re: OU Discrimination Investigation Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.

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Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Snow day buds ⛄️

trans people if you did nothing else this year you made it through 12 months of the federal government having your extermination not low on its list of priorities and you can feel really good about that it’s a big deal

Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here

PARSON BROWN WAS A SHAM. YOU WERE MARRIED BY A SNOWMAN. YOUR MARRIAGE ISN'T LEGAL. YOUR CHILDREN ARE BASTARDS.

Merry Christmas! If you'd like to spend 45 minutes celebrating video game history with me, we're about to debut The Untold Story of the Nintendo Entertainment System. I worked on his ALL YEAR, and I genuinely think it will reshape how we all think about the system. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJvp...

I was searching for something and came across this photograph of Christmas, probably from around 1987. It’s always struck me that Christmas gifts for me never adhered to any kind of gender norms— all trucks, GI Joe, He-Man, etc. I was expected to adhere to norms outside of the house (I didn’t ),

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

Please remember, every time you see a newspaper or magazine article denigrating people - people like myself - who choose to avoid infection with SARS-CoV-2, there will always be a tiny, quiet voice in the mind of the author whispering, 'what if they're right'? We are right.

In case any of us librarians need to add a last minute gift to our wishlists 📚

“Just when you thought you heard it all, AI systems designed to spot cancer have startled researchers with a baked-in penchant for racism.”

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.

Amazing how many of these papers are about “ethical use of AI in education.” It’s harsh, I know, but I do think if you incorporate a hallucinated reference it should be incredibly damning for you. There should be professional penalties.

It's your birthday, Duane.

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things. There’s no third option.

I also think we need a better, more precise word to describe the labor category of “human checking/editing/fixing AI output” because we need to better reflect how it’s often more laborious and requires us to engage with it very differently than with something created by another human.