Hey so if you're in the USA, the FCC is floating the idea of making shows put a warning up if they include or discuss trans people and trans lives. A short paragraph saying this is messed up would help a lot! You gpt less than a week. Submit your comment by May 22: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

If you are driving a car and become angered by a bus this should be a You Must Change Your Life moment. The gentleness of this great beast, and its great indifference, should reveal you to yourself.

June 5th, join us for the debut of "Pullman Porters & Maids: Invisible Labor, Visible Legacies", a new solo art show by Shane-Jahi Jackson exploring the lives and labor of Black workers at the height of American rail travel through figurative painting rooted in archival records and family stories:

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

Ever wondered why so many indie bookstores have masking policies to prevent #covid? We asked them! Read our new article “Indie Bookstores Promoting Masking and Covid Consciousness in 2026” 📚💙https://www.whoevenreads.com/indie-bookstores-promoting-masking-and-covid-consciousness-in-2026/

Enjoyed this sign while touring the Michigan State University Library backrooms. 🪄📚

a zine can be anything

Would love to be in the meeting where this was concocted. Pretty good.

I'm raising money for a father who was detained for months and forced to "self deport" to his home country. The family sold all their belongings to come to the US so he has nothing there. If you can spare a few dollars to help him get a bed, a microwave, some necessities Venmo me at Megan-Kocher-7.

Thinking about Wikipedia articles I've written through the years. I think it's neat that I got to write the article for my favorite artist, Gregory Blackstock. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory... Image source: gregkucera.com/represented-... (What I wouldn't give to own this drawing!! 😍🐦)

"I want to avenge Minnesota! You don't get to just leave; you have to repair this. The love, the solidarity here has been great, but you don't just get to do this to us. God willing, when we get power back, everything they've done has to be undone. Everybody has to be prosecuted." 🌟🥰💯❤️‍🔥🙌

If you haven't taken one of the Amtrak lines between Minneapolis and Chicago, you're missing out on front-row views of the Mississippi. Today I saw a heron and dozens of bald eagles. 🚆🦅

I'd love to see LaVonnia Moore reach her goal, the fundraiser has raised $33,563 and there's less than $1,500 to go. 📚 I've donated $20 this time around, which is a lot for me since I've been unemployed for ten months. Would anyone be willing to match me?

Now's a great time to support LaVonnia Moore, a rural Georgia librarian who was fired because she approved a library display (set up by community members) that included a book featuring a transgender character. Her legal case enters the mediation process this week. 📚 www.gofundme.com/f/help-lavon...

does anyone have experience with TMS for depression? i found a place my insurance might cover, but don't know if it's worth the intensive time commitment.

"I think zines really — what keeps drawing me back to them over and over and over again — is that zines create these opportunities for us to play, to feel, imagine, and prepare our hearts and minds." truthout.org/audio/making...

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

If you would like to read my AWARD NOMINATED PIECE, I think it is the piece of writing I'm most proud of and I would be delighted for your thoughts and reactions. racketmn.com/whats-the-de...

Now's a great time to support LaVonnia Moore, a rural Georgia librarian who was fired because she approved a library display (set up by community members) that included a book featuring a transgender character. Her legal case enters the mediation process this week. 📚 www.gofundme.com/f/help-lavon...

Abolish ICE in its entirety and deny everyone working for them any future government employment.

“We, the creators of the Torment Nexus, are now suing the writers of the classic science fiction novel ‘Don’t Create the Torment Nexus.’”

fyi, anyone using Chrome. In addition to the steps David mentions in the article, you should also type chrome://flags in the address bar, search for 'Gemini', and set literally everything in there to 'Disabled'. And then ofc remember to do that again anytime Chrome updates.

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

The Chicago Pedway is a question that the city asked and left unanswered about how truly public urban space might be shaped below the streets. From writer and historian Andrew Holter: the past, present, and future of this subterranean network that has only ever been a work in progress.

An all-time legend!!! 😍 #zines

Tastee Treet Drive Inn, Yankton, South Dakota 🍦 #neon

gasoline hitting $7 a gallon is going to do more to hamstring this regime than the regime's brutal abductions and murders of children we're really a kind of shit country

I moved my shitty particle board furniture 950 miles by myself and all it cost me was $1,900 and whatever sanity I had left.

uh is it good when you've been driving a moving van for 4 hours and you walk into the gas station store and the cashier looks at you and immediately points out the energy drinks?? It's probably fine. Only 4 more hours to go. 🫩

If you know people in NYC, can you please help us to spread the word that Black Zine Fair is on Saturday and that they should register to come? pools.events/event/WFzHwJ... - It's free but donations are always appreciated. We have 4 days to let folks know about it.

I drove 475 miles across America's heartland today and now I'm an expert in embryonic development. 🫩

blueswallow motel sign, tucumcari, new mexico, 1982

A dozen conference rejections in a row: 🙎‍♀️🔫💀💀💀⚰️ One (1) conference acceptance: I'M BACK BABY!!!!!!!! 🌟

I have a fun article for the nation--The 20 Best Films for May Day! Enjoy some solidarity movies!! www.thenation.com/article/cult...

We just sent out our notifications for all #CZF2026 applicants—please check your spam folder & get in touch at [email protected] if you didn't hear from us. We were only able to accept 13% of applicants this year! 😭 Thank you to all our applicants. Here's stats of those we accepted. #zines

Took younger daughter (who wants to be a paleontologist) to a lake near Peterborough last night. We found these Jurassic microfossils-teeny ammonites & crinoid ‘ossicles’-these little rock stars were part of the stems of crinoids/sea lilies-animals with 5 axes of symmetry related to sea urchins 🐚

I'm currently writing a guide to tabling a zine fair (it will be a zine, of course). Do you have any questions you'd like answering? Or top tips you think should be included? #diyzines

📚 Upcoming Webinar | "It isn't part of our language": Self-naming and Indigenous Peoples in Library Data Join Laura Daniels & Steven Folsom from Cornell on May 6 (2–3PM EDT) as they share how they worked directly with Haudenosaunee leaders to bring self-naming into LCSH. Free for NASIG members!

I want to collaborate with others on a project to write a tarot cataloging guide.

the recording from 'the future of libraries: humanity, technology, and the stories we preserve — a panel discussion' is now available 🔥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=4awI... BIG THANKS to the panelists / especially gabby womack for organizing! @bookish-afrolatina.bsky.social @veronicaghenry.bsky.social

i wrote about how much i love brick. if you love brick too you should read will quam’s book all about brick. but first read my review of his book.

I have been irrevocably broken by these layoffs. I don't know how I will ever not be bitter.

In honor of the 10th anniversary of Prince's death, we're rereading @drshabazzz.bsky.social's luminous geography of the Minneapolis Sound. It opens with the concert where Prince debuted "Purple Rain," collaborating “not only with his bandmates, but with the histories that created the city itself."

Pop quiz: What's the number one cause of death among pregnant women in the US? No googling.

Looking for something joyful, fulfilling, and very human that lets you assure the Powers That Be that you're making students "AI ready"? Tell them you're doing what they do at Stanford! The #DataSittersClub is delighted to share little tl;dr #3 on bringing textile dataviz to the classroom. #DHmakes

Looking for practical guidance / advice on how to connect offline? Good news! HOW TO TOUCH GRASS, the comics anthology about the joys (and stakes!) of going outside, just cracked $19K on Kickstarter! ✨🌿💪 Let's get to $20.5K to make it real: buff.ly/JlpJ4IZ

Short squirrel or tall wildflowers. Only the photographer knows. #SquirrelHaiku Fox Squirrels in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan on April 27th, 2026 #flickr #Squirrels #SquirrelOfTheDay #SquirrelWisdom #Michigan #SquirrelDude #sqrlpix #squirrelsofbluesky #GoBlue flic.kr/p/2s9Wosy

Sunrise with lilacs in Uptown. #Chicago