"I think zines really — what keeps drawing me back to them over and over and over again — is that zines create these opportunities for us to play, to feel, imagine, and prepare our hearts and minds." truthout.org/audio/making...

Rep. Angie Craig: "We were told because this facility is being funding by the 'Big Beautiful Bill,' not the congressional appropriations act, that we would not be allowed to enter the facility. That's complete nonsense ... I informed them they were violating the law. They said they didn't care."

A study just came out of Colorado looking at prison libraries' contributions to pro-social behavior / reentry success, and I am very much looking forward to diving into it this evening to see their findings! 📚📜 www.lrs.org/the-prism-pr...

periodically, i post this utterly incandescent essay by @isanchezprado.bsky.social. it reminds me about the kind of work i’d like to pursue, the kind most worth pursuing, i think. and my gooooood, the prose. the prose, y’all.

All I want for Christmas is a livestream of @michaelhobbes.bsky.social reading The Atlantic. It would be like Mystery Science Theater for poor writing. This post is inspired by Thomas Chatterton Williams' latest Atlantic article.

GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered? GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now THOMPSON: What does that mean?

🧵 of good free #zines on ethical+safe digital preservation of protest & advocacy: * always RTing @invisiblehistories.bsky.social's "How to Archive a Protest: A Field Guide for Southern Memory Workers" drive.google.com/file/d/1QtFT... +

Nature is always listening – the wondrous science of how mushrooms respond to music www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/13/m...

Imagine being so pathetic that all you can do is wail about evil socialist librarians as part of your try-hard, pick-me f@sc!st performance.

Günseli Yalcinkaya has so perfectly encapsulated how I think of brainrot. Dadaism In 25 years scholars will be writing about brain rot as Dadaist art. plastermagazine.com/features/bra...

Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up

The zine libraries unconference wiki has been updated with a statement from the organizers about someone who attended the event in order to spy on and record it without permission. www.zinelibraries.info/wiki/zluc2025/ This infiltrator is driving an effort to get a zine librarian fired. 📚

Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.

For anyone who got a feedback request from Clarivate (Ex Libris) today - zine from Librarians & Archivists with Palestine

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

Our carceral system is the product of choices. We should, and could whenever we want to, make radically different choices. #abolish

www.coastallinespress.com/p/get-your-c... Buy zines from Gaza to get the creators' work out there and to support them financially. Please add Coastal Lines zines to your library collections! 🇵🇸 📚

"Peter Rabbit" creator Beatrix Potter's little-known scientific studies of mushrooms (which help mycologists identify species to this day) and of lichens (the mysterious reproduction of which she discovered, revolutionizing their place in the kingdoms of life) www.themarginalian.org/2015/07/28/b...

Frightening. www.nlg.org/alarming-cri...

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Let it be known that I now know how to find the correct terms to catalog zines on farts.

I'm already compiling a ton of resources from the zine conference. Here is a list of free zines, www.reddit.com/r/ZineLibrar...

Resurrecting my Bluesky account to post about the Zine Librarians Unconference! Showering, assembling coffee, and then away we go!

My father passed yesterday. He had gastric bypass 15 years ago and has had health issues since. He died from complications from that surgery. The underlying colon issue was exacerbated by Ozempic. The doctor said the inside of his colon looked like ground beef. Skinny doesn't mean healthy.

“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

He fired Carla fucking Hayden The Librarian of Congress An amazing, badass, kind human being May he never know peace

I've been asked to give a 45 minute talk at our local zine fest. I'm excited about it AND I can feel a depressive episode creeping up, but I feel like I'm doing all I can to make sure it is as manageable as possible. (1/5)

The library where I work has a wonderfully collaborative approach to collection development. Currently, I'm curating a list of recommended purchases related to mental health. I'm glad I'm able to take this on as a librarian who is disabled due to mental illness. (1/3)

I'm tapping away at emails and see this lovely red tanager in the mulberries outside my window. Why do we have to email when there are bright birds outside. Unrelated, when will I find time to devour all the Angela Carter and Iris Murdoch I want?

To the Lighthouse – one of the most beautiful and unexampled works of art of all time – was published on this day in 1927. It includes this breathtaking passage about finding beauty in the uncertainty of time, space, and being www.themarginalian.org/2020/04/03/v...

Linda McMahon's face is so full of plastic that she has become a viable danger to sea turtles.

You should fight for disabled people because it’s the right thing to do. Ableism feeds eugenics. No one is expendable. Our value should never be tied to economic contributions. Failing that, do it because one day you will become disabled. Given enough time, almost everyone joins our minority group.

I'm so proud of these zines by dual enrollment high psych students. They displayed their zines at our Student Research and Creative Showcase. This was such a fun class to work with!

Am I the only one setting up an altar while I make #zines?

If you're excited about RFK2 banning a handful of artificial dyes but silent on RFK2 killing food safety inspections and gutting research on cancer, infectious diseases and Alzheimer's, you might not actually be all that interested in public health.

Authoritarians love "Gen AI" because it - Sounds confident even when factually wrong - Broadly conforms to & reproduces their biases, off the shelf - Lets them create bespoke realities (text, audio, moving & still image) which agree w/ their biases - Degrades trust in knowledge/evidence/expertise…

"...artificial intelligence is a carceral technology, one being used to sift through data in order to profile and to discriminate; to destabilize, deceive, defraud, and manipulate; to arrest, deport, and disappear." Some of my favorite content is #AI shit-talking.

the thing I hate most about that rfk quote is that autistic lives have value and worth and beauty and dignity whether they are able to do the things other people do or not. no one is defined by ability or lack thereof and to frame divergence as lack is monster stuff, utterly godless

RFK Jr. said people with autism will never play sports and Eva on this season of Survivor said SUCK IT

Back in stock! A zine from Earth Liberation Studios about navigating the contradictions of being an anti-capitalist artist within capitalism. justseeds.org/product/maki...

🚨 NEW BOOK ALERT! this amazing volume includes chapters about abolition & health justice, written by health practitioners, incarcerated activists, & community organizers. honored to have a chapter in here with the End Police Violence Collective! order now: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/771429...

So STRFKR was amazing.

New free #zine by @claudiaeberger.bsky.social: "Footpath for the People?", a companion to reading their new data quilt—history of for which "public", whose land re:the Appalachian Trail + gender, race, & Indigenous land rights; & what data physicalization/viz via fabric arts makes possible: