RIP David Hockney 💛💜 (photos are of Joan at her Hockney exhibition back in 2020)

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It's okay to use citation software. It's okay not to. Using citation software isn't even a little bit like using Gen AI to write, read, or summarize (citation software is deterministic: same inputs, same outputs). These are actually easy things to know and understand and avoid Discourse about.

I am honoured, humbled, & so very grateful. Much love & gratitude to @ejmccann.bsky.social, @murmz.bsky.social, & Drs. McAllister & Pratt for their generosity & ongoing mentorship, & to the library workers who agreed to be part of this project. May we continue to learn from your brilliant work! ❤️

RIP Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026)

The University Health Network and the Toronto Public Library have joined forces to install mobile health clinics outside libraries, where they will provide primary care.

Worth a listen (from 2025): podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/k...

DATA CENTERS - dashare.zone ADMIN

I wrote the foreword to Resisting Erasure: Libraries in Palestine/Palestine in Libraries, out now from @libraryjuicepress.bsky.social. academicworks.cuny.edu/qc_pubs/693/

SFU community members: please sign and share this petition demanding the university terminate its relationship with @hootsuite.com. The company's refusal to cut ties with ICE is abhorrent, and SFU needs to hear from us on this. docs.google.com/forms/d/1LpQ...

Generative AI is antithetical to the core values of librarianship and not grappling with that is a big issue, not just for librarians, but for anyone in the education field.

The third annual West End Duck Congress is underway. #WEDC2026

I’ll be giving this online talk at SFU next week 👇

Goose Rorschachs on foggy Lost Lagoon. January 18, 2026.

"Mamdani walks in an older Jewish tradition. Not that of ritzy Upper East Side synagogues, but of so many of our great-grandparents: the socialist sweatshop workers who fought for a better and more beautiful world." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fog bank over the Salish Sea. December 31, 2025.

Not proud to admit this, but we spent a bunch of time looking for "The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger" on various streaming sites (no luck) before checking the public library, and violà! Don't be like me. Check your public library catalogue first. 🫣

Last book of 2025: Ocean Vuong's "Emperor of Gladness." Stunning, devastating, hopeful, unsentimental, wise. I loved everything about it.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

Salish Sea on Solstice Eve, 2025.

I loved this so much. neal.fun/size-of-life/

Simon Fraser University wants only non-union faculty at its new medical school. SFU contends that it's so new and different that the existing collective agreement with university faculty doesn't apply. pressprogress.ca/sfu-medical-...

TIL that the ONLY way to ship something to the US is to download a 3rd party app, create an account & give them all your info. Don't have a smart phone/are not a semi-advanced user? "You can ask a neighbour to help." The post office should be for everyone & give a sh*t about your data. Infuriating.

Sorry, servers of AI. We are a human-powered organization. #CdnMedia #GenerativeAI

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

In this past decade of mass death, there were timid steps in the right direction - at first. But the most coherent, passionate response from the state (and its various apparatus) has been to smash DULF, hire more cops & roll back what little harm reduction we had won.

What establishment Dems tried to do to Mamdani, the BC NDP successfully did to Anjali Appadurai. She was poised to win the leadership race by actually getting people to join the party. The old guard didn't like that, so they crushed the next generation to maintain their grip on power.

Sunrise over the Salish Sea. November 4th, 2025.

worth applying to politics as well. when you're criticizing an action people take "taking the better action next time" is only one of the alternatives people will consider, and worth remembering that "not bothering at all" is another.

CBC News put together an excellent story on yesterday's memorial for Kulbir Kaila at SFU Burnaby, with words from her family. Please take a few minutes to watch and share. Justice for Kulbir. Never again. SFU must end the contracting out of low wage work NOW. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Thank goodness for the AI search recommendations: "it looks like you're searching for a particular author who appears in our catalogue. Would you like to search for some gibberish instead?"

losing my mind at “paper-based”. Do you mean fucking paper

Out now! Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers from @alaeditionsns.bsky.social Grateful for all the library unionists who spoke to us for the book, and to co-authors @kellymce.bsky.social @mkahn.bsky.social and Angelo Moreno! alastore.ala.org/oryrlib

After the death of a janitor at Simon Fraser, her coworkers say the university, employer and union have all let them down. My latest for @thetyee.ca

For the hundredth time: THERE IS NO ANCIENT ISRAEL! This is a Zionist fantasy. Why is SFU platforming such historically bankrupt hasbara?

Today, the #scholcommlab published a Statement of Support for PACBI Principles. With it, I reject my university's (SFU's) complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and call them out for restricting my ability to direct the work of @pkp.sfu.ca in a principled way. www.scholcommlab.ca/pacbi/

Border and Rule is available for free download! I wrote a book spanning ICE & borders, Palestine & policing, colonialism & global fascism - in service to internationalist struggles. I can no longer travel to US, but this book (as well @silkys13.bsky.social & @micahh.bsky.social 's) can come to you

Free ebooks from @haymarketbooks.org, including Border and Rule by @harshawalia.bsky.social, which is one of the most important books I've ever read. Download and read, fam.

Read @garthmullins.bsky.social's "Crackdown" over the weekend. Urgent, powerful, and filled with so much love. (If you work in a library, please check to make sure this one is on your shelves) www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/700597...

Librarian here. Got an email from a patron about our "poor selection" of books on AI, w/ list of new books that we HAD to get so ppl could stay informed about this important subject. Title, author, synopsis. Of 11 titles on the list, 10 Did Not Exist. At all. "Yeah, I got it from Ch*tGPT, why?"

I went into my library's database of Chicago area newspapers to confirm this isn't fake, and it's not. @chicago.suntimes.com Why the hell are you using ChatGPT to make up book titles? You used to have a books staff. Absolutely no fact checking?

It brings me no joy to share this, but here's an open letter to the leadership of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) on what is to me a very serious issue with it's autonomy and political scope. (Note: I've worked for and with PKP for decades). ahemnason.notion.site/open-letter-...

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

people in canada - pay attention to what's unfolding here, and not just w/Trump. Poilievre is promising to criminalize protest, deportations for pro-Palestine activism, withhold $ from universities, deny existence of trans people, implement three strikes laws & huge privatization. fight fascism here

Join me and @belantara.bsky.social as we launch our new book Ways of Knowing: The Worlds Words Create. We'll be joined by series editor @violetbfox.bsky.social. May 8th at 7pm ET! litwinbooks.com/book-launch-...

Vancouver is leading the progressive pushback against the rising right! What an honour to be fighting alongside leaders like municipal by-election winner @seanorr.bsky.social. #cdnpoli #vanpoli #vancouver #vancouvercentre