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Librarian, unionist, occasional zinester
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United Campus Workers of Arizona, CWA Local 7065
6 months ago
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
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QZAP - The Queer Zine Archive Project
6 months ago
"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...
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Emily Drabinski
6 months ago
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
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Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers (Critical Cultural Information Studies series)
https://alastore.ala.org/oryrlib
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Thomas Padilla
10 months ago
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/
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IMLS Matters
Responses to this form will be published at https://imls-matters.github.io/imlsmatters/
https://forms.gle/MAocZZMsoUu7Ldu36
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Drew
10 months ago
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Freedom of the Press Foundation
10 months ago
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:
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Understanding every one of Signal’s identifiers
We’ve heard some questions about the difference between Signal usernames, phone numbers, profile names, profiles, and nicknames. Let’s talk about it.
https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/signal-identifiers/
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UAW
11 months ago
🧵 IN SHOCKING MOVE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FIRES UNION PRESIDENT ONE DAY BEFORE CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN, IN FURTHER CRACKDOWN ON FREE SPEECH
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evacide
11 months ago
No amount of complicity is going to save you from fascism, so you might as well fight.
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Violet Fox 🦊
11 months ago
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...
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Violet Fox 🦊
11 months ago
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...
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Questioning Generative AI Through Zinemaking | Media Education Lab
Read here about our full webinar series on Leading from the Library.
https://mediaeducationlab.com/events/questioning-generative-ai-through-zinemaking
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panoptigoth
11 months ago
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.
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Meredith Whittaker
11 months ago
Stand by this:
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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Crystal Fleming クリスタル
11 months ago
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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The Immigrant Legal Resource Center
about 1 year ago
🚨 RED CARD UPDATE 🚨 Due to unprecedented demand, our original Red Card portal is backlogged and these are not available for order via the non-profit and private firm portals right now. However, this 🔗 guides you to the raw Red Card page you can print for 🆓 RIGHT NOW 👇🏽
ilrc.org/red-cards
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Red Cards / Tarjetas Rojas | Immigrant Legal Resource Center | ILRC
All people in the United States, regardless of immigration status, have certain rights and protections under the U.S. Constitution. The ILRC’s Red Cards help people assert their rights and defend them...
http://ilrc.org/red-cards
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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾♀️
12 months ago
I feel like we're always 48 hours away from an "All Social Security Numbers Accidentally Deleted" headline now
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Matthew Guariglia
12 months ago
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.
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Border Surveillance Towers (Spring 2025) - Google My Maps
(Updated 11/21/2024) Click the datapoints for links to Google/Bing satellite and Google Streetview images, as well as source materials, when available. Credit: Electronic Frontier Foundation This ...
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/viewer?mid=1bxUGeOT6vVXu0jFQhDLxgktLFLVOKsI&ll=1.2722218725854067e-14%2C0&z=5
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evacide
12 months ago
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...
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How to: Use Signal
Download location: Google Play Store, Apple App Store System requirements: Android 5 or later, iOS 13 or later Version used in this guide: Android: 7.0. iPhone: 7.0 License: GPLv3 Level: Beginner Time...
https://ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-use-signal
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silas denver 🛸
about 1 year ago
redesign of the piece that has gotten me restricted/suspended at least 4 times 😇
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Christina Orlando
12 months ago
hey yeah just a quick question, what the fuck is happening
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Ruha Benjamin
12 months ago
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...
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A National Day of Action for Higher Ed
On April 17, higher ed unions, AAUP chapters, and student organizations across the U.S. are coming together to fight back against the coordinated assault on teaching and learning, and to mobilize for ...
https://www.dayofactionforhighered.org/?source=twitter&
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Em Nunn
about 1 year ago
Libraries as they try and embrace gen AI
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wint
about 1 year ago
They cant get my data if i am Fully Dissolved in a bath tub full of sodium hydroxide
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Hamilton Nolan
about 1 year ago
No snitching 2025.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Here’s a New Year's resolution for Trump’s America: no snitching | Hamilton Nolan
Choose as your New Year’s mantra that great civic-minded slogan: ‘If you saw something, no you didn’t’
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/03/new-year-resolution-no-snitching
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Internet Archive
about 1 year ago
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
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Emily Drabinski
about 1 year ago
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...
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Archival Worker Labor Task Force | Society of American Archivists
Society of American Archivists
https://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section8/groups/archival-worker-labor-task-force
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Steven T. Dennis
about 1 year ago
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.
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Milo
about 1 year ago
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
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Menstruaciones No Binarias: Your Body is Not Your Enemy, the Dominant Narrative is - QZAP - The Queer Zine Archive Project
The zine Menstruaciones No Binarias, published in collaboration by Rebeldía Menstrual and Eróticas Fluidas, is a groundbreaking text that dismantles normative narratives about menstruation. This work ...
https://gittings.qzap.org/menstruaciones-no-binarias/
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Dominique Baker
about 1 year ago
I do not donate to my employer because we are already in a labor for compensation relationship. I'm very confused by these emails.
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Name a TV show you’re positive no one remembers but you.
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amy brown
over 1 year ago
a woman on Love Island USA told a guy she likes him and then asked what he was thinking about
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Donna Lanclos
about 1 year ago
Thanks for this
@edrabinski.bsky.social
truthout.org/articles/fac...
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Facing Cuts Likely to Worsen Under Trump, Academic Librarians Urgently Organize
As the war on higher education looks to heat up, academic libraries will likely be the first on the chopping block.
https://truthout.org/articles/facing-cuts-likely-to-worsen-under-trump-academic-librarians-urgently-organize/
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MadScientist
about 1 year ago
The Onion should buy Elsevier next
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cate
about 1 year ago
i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same
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Shaun Richman
over 1 year ago
I'm going out on a short, sturdy limb to predict that the Supreme Court is going to overturn the National Labor Relations Act.
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The Right Believes It Has the Supreme Court Votes to Overturn Labor Law
Unions need to plan a response now.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/supreme-court-overturn-nlrb-labor-law
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evacide
over 1 year ago
As Cybersecurity Awareness Month kicks off, I am beginning to suspect that lack of awareness is not the problem.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin
over 1 year ago
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.
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Dan Greene
over 1 year ago
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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Meet the First Tenured Professor to Be Fired for Pro-Palestine Speech
Maura Finkelstein was terminated from Muhlenberg College following a pressure campaign that seized on an anti-Zionist Instagram repost.
https://theintercept.com/2024/09/26/tenured-professor-fired-palestine-israel-zionism/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0Me7ZN_FsgY5R0t-HqOOQ0Eldpt-b8MR8gokQV-GcR8PAwbmykaWfYy1s_aem_PXZzRbImiT-56CI2WfEh-g
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Courtney Milan
over 1 year ago
This is the order link, FYI. Get your free tests!
special.usps.com/testkits
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The Verge
over 1 year ago
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
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Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops
Even if you’ve got nothing to hide.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/24/24252235/police-unlock-phone-password-face-id-apple-wallet-id
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my views do not represent those of my employer
over 1 year ago
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...
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Zine librarian pets zine. 8 | WorldCat.org
"These are all photos of the pets of zine librarians. Please enjoy!"
https://search.worldcat.org/title/1444105084
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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!
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Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers
https://alastore.ala.org/oryrlib
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my views do not represent those of my employer
over 1 year ago
❤️
@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."
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Librarians Resist Israel’s Efforts to Destroy Palestinian Cultural Heritage
A global network of librarians and archivists is organizing in solidarity with their Palestinian colleagues.
https://truthout.org/articles/librarians-resist-israels-efforts-to-destroy-palestinian-cultural-heritage/
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Dave
over 1 year ago
Wait, university presidents do not have to be cowards? Who knew?
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Colleen T
over 1 year ago
"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...
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Opinion | What happened in Alpena was about more than books | Bridge Michigan
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.
https://www.bridgemi.com/guest-commentary/opinion-what-happened-alpena-was-about-more-books
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