That fuckin dude you’re all talking about is from HOBOKEN?!

Sorry to the 125 people on the zoom for this union meeting that had to watch me aggressively scratch my armpit because the camera was SUPPOSED to be off, but apparently my blanket brushed the touchpad and I am a truly ridiculous person

wait is this NOT how men have sex with each other?!🤯🤯🤯

if occupational therapy spaces had been available to me as a child, i'm positive my entire life would have played out far differently, most likely in a good way, and i'm not even autistic (thoughhhhhhhhhh)

“non-pathologising” Now there’s a change. In general, everything about autism is pathologised, starting with the diagnosis itself.

this is very sad news! is there something we can do to save it? "First Monday will cease publication, after 30 years, with the May 2026 issue, volume 31, number 6, scheduled for release around the first Monday of May, 4 May 2026." firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

158 - Flickr Commons feat. Jessamyn West It’s a fun one! We’re talking with @librarian.bsky.social about the public domain, new and old technology, blogging at the DNC, and lots of inside baseball.

Cutemaxxing

omg when did wordpress get so damn hard to edit the code without going into the actual files? i hate that weird visual editor!

meanwhile, in nj, there's a growing sinkhole swallowing dump trucks and all the birds are dying. it's fine.

my final word on the matter: "I will step away from this conversation, because it is clearly touching a sore spot for me, given some of the awful experiences I've had in higher education as a person with neurodivergences. We should've been making our content as accessible as possible from the get-go

left scolding: uhh could you please put the cans in the recycling? its not that hard right scolding: the trapezoidal tilt of your occipital bone is viscerally disgusting

wow i'm really on my soapbox today aren't i? i'm going through a bit of a weird mental health phase what with the going off prozac and starting some new treatments. my brain and my mood are both a bit unpredictable rn.

the discussion about ADA compliance on the union listserv is disturbing to me. there are professors on there who are CURRENTLY TEACHING who claim to have never even heard of the term "neurodivergence" and like WTFFFFFF

'the economy' is just the three worst dudes on earth stacked inside a trenchcoat stealing everyone else's money

Um, also, if it’s 40% of students that need a special plan, then it’s the system that is the problem, not the students.

A technology I’m really excited about is lab grown meat, and the right is actually using its state power to prevent this technology from coming to fruition, but there has been far less hand-wringing about that than the organic consumer rejection of AI

If "AI" was being built, used, and planned for in responsible ways--the way a civilization designed to enhance human thriving would do--then a lot more people would be enthusiastic about its potential. But the people in charge of defining what AI will be are the fucking worst short-term scumbags.

We’re back to the budget dance and there will be many points where the public can and must weigh in. NYC PLAN will keep you in the loop. For now, we need you to be in conversation with your City Council members about this budget. nycplan.org/scorecards/l...

The bottom line is that NYC Public Libraries need increased and most importantly STABLE funding annually. Mayor Mamdani promised both and this preliminary budget is a BROKEN PROMISE. There’s time for him to rectify this. NYC library patrons expect that he will.

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MINE NAO

btw, this project and projects like it are funded by t-shirts like this one (and you should buy one at SquidFacts.net, they're super cute)

i only spent $3996 of my $4000 book budget for the year and obviously i am disappointed in myself for losing that 4 dollars

[SPOTTED] The new Type West 2025 student website. Type West is a postgraduate certificate program in type design, taught in person at Letterform Archive ( @letterformarchive.org ) in San Francisco. ● More: typewest.letterformarchive.org/2025/ ● Via: typo.social/@annie/11606...

Sadie Peterson Delaney worked at NYPL then moved to Tuskegee AL to be a librarian at the VA. She was an early advocate of bibliotherapy, pairing people needing care w/ reading material which engaged them and helped them heal. She also taught Braille. poklib.org/sadie-peters... #BlackHistoryMonth

Major Owens was a librarian who helped found the NY Social Responsibilities Round Table. He went on to become a NY State Senator and then a US Rep, following Shirley Chisolm. He shepherded the Americans with Disabilities Act through the House. #BlackHistoryMonth www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/05...

Lorene Byron Brown published Subject Headings for African American Materials, an accompaniment to LCSH with 5,000 additional headings relevant to Black people. She was Dean of the Atlanta U. School of Library and Information Science in the 1980s. #BlackHistoryMonth en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorene_...

Samuel Starks was the first Black person to be a US state librarian, appointed in 1901 in West Virginia because of his position in the state Republican party. He was very active in the Knights of Pythias, founded a newspaper, and died too young. #BlackHistoryMonth en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_...

Mayme A. Clayton was a librarian and founder of the Western States Black Research & Education Center, then the Mayme A. Clayton Library & Museum, now held by CSU. Thousands of items, collected to show "black people have done great things" #BlackHistoryMonth lacmaonfire.blogspot.com/2020/07/maym...

I don't know if anyone uses old school feeds anymore but if you do here is your periodic reminder that we can always use more contributors to the GLAMS feed, from both individual and institutional accounts. Hit me up if you want to be able to post to the feed! bsky.app/profile/did:...

being chronically ill in the united states is INFURIATING

My new nightly chocolate milk routine is one of the best life decisions I’ve ever made

“I asked ChatGPT” yeah well I asked my autistic friend whose pattern recognition gives her borderline prophetic accuracy even though no one ever listens to her because she’s awkward and has bad timing and says the wrong thing and has no control over her body or volume or brain or

HOW HAS NO ONE SHARED THIS WITH ME YET Y’ALL SENT ME THAT LIBRARY CAKE LIKE 10000X

It’s cool that most of the 21st century has been a bunch of people trying to convince another bunch of people that pedophelia and Nazi-ism (and genocide in general) *are* REALLY bad, actually. I feel like our disagreements should have gotten more nuanced and interesting by now but here we are!

What an absolute unit

Can historians benefit from creative works for historical research? In this @hsnatsci.bsky.social short piece, I share how I worked w/ different types of making to research and write my recent book on 17th-c. florilegia. Thank you @dominikhhh.bsky.social & @mbaldwin.bsky.social for the invitation!

Timeline cleanse Good morning from Rea and Noa in Kagoshima

I am so sorry I missed Extraordinary Tagine, it was right there.

THE EPITAPH I ASPIRE TO DESERVE

The world feels particularly heavy right now. I need you all at your absolute weirdest. The weird that you keep hidden deep down inside you lest the normies flee in abject terror? It is time to open the vault, my friends.

TEETH. TEETH. TEETH.

Holy FUCK this Piper Rochelle story is truly disturbing. And people talk about Epstein Island like that shit is in the past and we’re super evolved or something now. I really wish Trump would get around to dismantling that pedo cabal he promised he would. I wonder why he hasn’t🤔🤔🤔

Fiona Apple as a chef: Better Version of Meat

In one month, two different New Jersey schools have circumvented the state's Freedom to Read Bill. One school has turned librarians into de facto censors. Another has yanked a classroom read away from students and lied about its availability in the library. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

Pierro has something v important to relate:

having to work on staten island, even for only 3 days a week, is making me genuinely consider giving up a tenured faculty position that took me 8 years to earn (not counting all the free academic labor I did as a staff librarian at a college in NJ).

first of all: HOW DARE. that aside, thank you for your service