Heading to #AASL? Be sure to catch the screening of @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social. Thanks to Rosen Publishing for sponsoring.

An event that may be of interest for queer people in/around Tokyo this weekend:

Comics and manga are for everyone! This month, for older teens and adult readers, we’re spotlighting The Library Mule of Cordoba and Traveling to Mars both published by #AblazePublishing. #ReadAllTheComics #LibComix #ComicSky

Chiitan loves all transgender people. I've received a lot of criticism for expressing my support, but what's more important is that all transgender people live happy lives. Blue Sky cannot display long posts, so please read this post if you'd like. love you all 🤍 ↓ www.instagram.com/reel/C9qppva...

From last week's Kyunghyang Sinmun Top caption: “After the bus has left…” Text on the bus: “Detention & Plunder” Trump: “You’ll just stay, right? You’ll be right back?? Ally…”

Hankyoreh now has an official English translation of this editorial: english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

I’m trying to get our manga and graphics organized after a year of the students having free run with no librarian and it’s a lot. I’m considering bins- if you have them, I’d love to know exactly you have! Bonus for comic bins as well.

If you’re an erotic artist or kaigai idol, two seemingly unrelated things— Know that I love you & what you do. Haters will talk shit abt the artists that do it, call it “cringey” or over-indulgent or whatever. But both those things radiate genuine enthusiasm and love, against all odds💖✨

Matt was dedicated to bringing unique manga that would never be picked by traditional publishers. He was passionate about getting books to readers, something that resonated with me when I talked with him a few years ago. This is a devastating loss.

If you wish to help Matt's family, please consider making a donation to his GFM www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...

I have a project where the donations are currently being *doubled* on Donors Choose and it’s for a 3D printer. Please help me teach the youths how to actually use tech to make things!

I love this book am required by law* to mention "Teaching to Transgress" by bell hooks. She was very much influenced by Freire and "Teaching to Transgress" reiterates the ideas in Black American context, addresses gaps, and goes beyond. Excellent if read together. *law written by me

Weird, it's almost like staffing the government with a bunch of ex-Fox News talking heads isn't a good strategy!

As expected of the 40th anniversary, an official book for the Dirty Pair anime will be released. According to the editor, when they went through Sunrise's warehouses, they found a lot of surprising materials. prtimes.jp/main/html/rd...

My husband asked me what I was doing for today with classes and I answered honestly with “library orientation” and that’s when he realized it had happened. I’d forgotten 9/11.

I took a few moments to compose an iPhone wallpaper for when I am working in tribute to an image that truly brought me delight.

It really is astounding how The Daily Tism gets autism in women with a knife-like precision that the medical field cannot ever come close to.

As a former Early Modernist, Luddites were absolutely not lazy and quite honestly, that doesn’t make sense. A luddite is fighting to be in control of their labor and not hand it off to automation.

It's seeming likelier and likelier that AI really could eliminate a lot of jobs very soon. Just not in the way boosters have suggested. www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

So many online leftist wouldn’t survive a day living and working in red states with their souls intact. People have no clue what it takes to do the work in spite of the state government. No clue.

Super awesome time for autistic folks out here. Really appreciate feeling like we’re all about to get microchipped and rated according to usefulness to the state.

Christine Smout, 40, can barely process a single word you’re saying in the noisy, overcrowded pub you suggested meeting in.

Save the date... Tara Zimmerman and I will be talking folks through the ACT's design and teaching strategies in a Media Education Lab webinar on Nov 3. Register here: mediaeducationlab.com/events/aware... #MediaLiteracy #InformationLiteracy 🍎📚 #SchoolLibrarians #TLSky #EdTech #DigitalLiteracy

"The News Literacy Project’s study shows that an overwhelming majority of teens (94%) want media literacy instruction, but most aren’t getting it." #TLSky

FYI, try to use a pharmacy other than Walgreens if you’re not immunocompromised for the COVID jab. They’re claiming they are only obligated to follow federal guidelines and are refusing to comply with the executive order from Hochul.

Currently having an issue with designing middle school library curriculum where I’m cognitively frozen by all of the possibilities. I’m interested to know how other middle school librarians who teach structure their class time.

Lmao

I've been trying to figure RFK out, and now i get it. He's a sadistic boy pulling the wings off of flies, and we're the flies

Aaaaand the main business case for consumer LLMs is revealed. It's for gathering data on users, creating profiles, and targeting us with ads and propaganda. Hooray -- it's Web 2.0 with chatbots!

I already disliked lofi music for other reasons but one reason is how much art is stolen for them, I am now a member of the club too. It is funny to be reminded how much my style has changed but fuck youuuu Getting stuff on youtube knocked down is new to me, any tips?

Oh, it's not just smartphones. It's EVERYTHING. Smartwatches, gaming consoles, AirPods, all devices. Blessed not to be the person enforcing this at the door.

I finally got a library card and I've been reading so much manga now so here's what I've been reading 🧵

I'm just a little school librarian and I find this incredibly lame. What a sad, rote, and empty life.

It's a new school year and I'm at a new school library- a brand new, fabulous school library! And there are a few things we need to start the school year off right. If you'd like to share or buy a supply for some awesome middle schoolers, that would be super great! #clearthelist #tlsky

YOUR LIBRARIAN WOULD SPEND IT ON YOU IF I WERE YOUR LIBRARIAN.

We're so close now, but still have a ways to go. If you haven't checked out our campaign yet, I'd like to kindly suggest you do so! 5 amazing new titles and a bunch of recent releases + titles from our backlist, Glacier Bay Tees.. it's good stuff! I still dream of reaching 777 backers as well...

… I am befuddled by this behavior. Out of context, who decides to just consume grave drinks? Japan isn’t the only culture that does this. Who is just walking up to graves and consuming what’s there?

News: Tatsuki Fujimoto's 17-21 and 22-26 anthology manga gets anime; premieres worldwide on Amazon Prime Video on November 8 #藤本タツキ17_26 listani.me/17-26

I did a podcast on Mornings Without Mii with Amy Chavez on Books on Asia - have a listen! #literarytranslation #translation #booksky

Ok so Nelvana isn't totally dead but they are definitely on life support so I don't know why people are celebrating this as a win. Like I'm glad they're not totally shut down but they're also still in a bad position y'all.

There isn’t enough credit and recognition for the folks behind localizing manga, especially freelancers and we from companies to the community as a whole should all be working on that.

Matt has setup a GoFundMe to help with rent and debt while he heals so please consider making a donation to help him out: www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-... If you cannot donate, please share & letting folks know!

Share this video with your graphic novel fans. It’s an interesting step-by-step explanation of the book-writing process.

Here's my official prediction for the 2 PM announcement:

Well, kids in and near Flint, Michigan, will no longer be able to take part in the Dolly Parton Imagination Library program because of funding cuts. Cutting programs like this is simply cruel. $26/kid per year, ffs. www.abc12.com/news/educati...

"Parents are fighting back against education funding cuts. You can too." —Laura Saldarriaga, parent I chose public school for my kids. I won't sit by and watch it be dismantled. | Opinion (USA Today) www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Dragon con remains undefeated.

Kusahara Umi's Mothers is one of the newcomer masterpiece collections we published in the last several years. Their global debut, it was a top-5 Jury Nominated title for Best New Manga at the 2024 American Manga Awards and has been glowingly received by readers and critics alike since.