Calling all higher ed library workers! HELU is hosting a library workers organizing call next Wednesday, Aug. 20th at 4pm MST. You can register for it at bit.ly/HELU_LW_Aug25

"sorry this is late..." said every perzinester ever... so even though we missed the end of International Zine Month by a couple of days, we're still stoked to share this "What Kind of Queer Zine Are You" quiz that QZAP intern @bluespringwrites.bsky.social made: gittings.qzap.org/quiz-what-ty...

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

Like many others I am dismayed by the effort to end IMLS. I know IMLS matters to so many people. I put together the following site to collect and share stories of how "IMLS matters" to people. Please consider submitting a story. forms.gle/MAocZZMsoUu7... imls-matters.github.io/imlsmatters/

Reminder

Make sure you’re inviting the right person to your Signal group! To help confirm someone’s identity and keep track of your contacts, @signal.org offers nicknames and information about the groups you share in common with your contacts. Learn about Signal’s identifiers:

🧵 IN SHOCKING MOVE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FIRES UNION PRESIDENT ONE DAY BEFORE CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN, IN FURTHER CRACKDOWN ON FREE SPEECH

No amount of complicity is going to save you from fascism, so you might as well fight.

Would you like free registration to the American Library Association conference #ALAAC25 in Philly this June? Volunteer for a 3-hour shift at the Zine Pavilion and we'll get you in! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

After five months of turning down invitations to talk about AI, I'm gonna talk about AI. Join me Weds March 19th for a free webinar through @mediaedlab.bsky.social, "Questioning Generative AI Through Zinemaking." mediaeducationlab.com/events/quest...

This is part of a long term strategy to bypass libraries in Clarivate’s revenue model entirely, even if this isn’t explicitly the intent now.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

How does a nation even conceive of recovering from having all the private taxpayer data of its citizenry stolen by Nazis? Any ideas?

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I feel like we're always 48 hours away from an "All Social Security Numbers Accidentally Deleted" headline now

There's interest in this again, so I'm sharing @eff.org's complete publicly available and open source map of border surveillance infrastructure so people can see the constant surveillance border communities are under as well as the money and resources put to the great nationalist boondoggle.

Some useful Surveillance Self Defense links for people who want to lock their shit down right now: Attending a protest: ssd.eff.org/module/atten... How to Use Signal: ssd.eff.org/module/how-t... Security starter pack: ssd.eff.org/playlist/wan...

redesign of the piece that has gotten me restricted/suspended at least 4 times 😇

hey yeah just a quick question, what the fuck is happening

On April 17, 2025 @aaup.bsky.social will bring together major higher ed unions, trade unions, student groups, and allied organizations in the fight to “Free Higher Education.” LEARN MORE: www.dayofactionforhighered.org?source=twitt...

Libraries as they try and embrace gen AI

They cant get my data if i am Fully Dissolved in a bath tub full of sodium hydroxide

No snitching 2025. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025⁠

The Society of American Archivists is seeking volunteers for an Archival Labor Task Force. Interested in shaping a worker-centered future of the field? Info here: www2.archivists.org/governance/h...

In one of their final acts in office, Sinema and Manchin nuke a Biden pick for the National Labor Relations Board in a big loss for organized labor.

I'm so excited about today's Zine of the Gay post over at QZAP. Valaria is writing about Menstruaciones No Binarias, which I picked up in 2023 in CDMX when I was hanging out with @kellymce.bsky.social during her year there. gittings.qzap.org/menstruacion... #menstrualhealth #zines #menstruaciones

I do not donate to my employer because we are already in a labor for compensation relationship. I'm very confused by these emails.

Name a TV show you’re positive no one remembers but you.

a woman on Love Island USA told a guy she likes him and then asked what he was thinking about

Thanks for this @edrabinski.bsky.social truthout.org/articles/fac...

The Onion should buy Elsevier next

i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same

I'm going out on a short, sturdy limb to predict that the Supreme Court is going to overturn the National Labor Relations Act.

As Cybersecurity Awareness Month kicks off, I am beginning to suspect that lack of awareness is not the problem.

While I understand this POV — the tenure system has been significantly weakened and the fraction of tenure-track faculty continues to decrease — I think tenure still serves as an important source of friction preventing administration from reshaping the faculty to their whims on short timescales.

Muehlenberg College fired Maura Finkelstein--a tenured, Jewish, professor of anthropology--ostensibly because her personal Instagram briefly shared a post from a Palestinian poet suggesting Zionists be shunned. She had been the target of a months-long harassment campaign.

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Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops - https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/24/24252235/police-unlock-phone-password-face-id-apple-wallet-id

I love when I get to copy a zine catalog record, especially from someone I don't know. Looking at you, Oklahoma University Tulsa person who cataloged the glorious Zine Librarian Pets #8 zine by the glorious @kellymce.bsky.social first! search.worldcat.org/title/144410... 📚

Our book is available for preorder! alastore.ala.org/oryrlib It is a guide to labor organizing for library workers, including the insights of many library unionists. Release will be in early 2025! Tell your comrades!

❤️ @edrabinski.bsky.social writing about Librarians and Archivists with Palestine. truthout.org/articles/lib... 📚 🇵🇸 "As stewards of public memory who are committed to ensuring that all sides of every story can be told, librarians have a particular stake in this struggle."

Wait, university presidents do not have to be cowards? Who knew?

"We must meet the organized efforts of book banners with organized efforts of our own, and we must remember that these are fights we can win." 📚 www.bridgemi.com/guest-commen...