I nearly cried when I stumbled on this site a while back, because it's an example of what the internet used to be: people eager to share, not monetize, information about things they care about. www.everymanslibrarycollecting.com/index.html

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I hear *someone* is having a sale next week. I guess they have to try and recoup some of that $2.5 billion they’re forking over for *checks notes* being deceptive? Who would’ve thought? Feels like Oct 7 & 8 will be prime days to support independent bookstores. 😌

Felicia Lamport's poem "Deprivacy," from her book Light Metres (Everest House, 1982, illustrated by Edward Gorey). Originally published with a different final verse in Look magazine, December 15, 1970.

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶 🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈 #FollowTheRainbow

This short article better explains what librarians are experiencing than almost everything I've encountered in LIS literature, conferences, and webinars lately. It's much bigger than the slop citations. www.404media.co/librarians-a...

Reminder that Trump pushed for this a few weeks ago, after citing viral misinformation from videos of demonstrations five years old. "[Trump] was misled about small protests [in Portland] by a TV report that featured video of a 2020 protest..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Why a study claiming vaccines cause chronic illness is severely flawed – a biostatistician explains the biases and unsupported conclusions buff.ly/b7gP69K

They're mailing physical books to people, primarily rare and out-of-print works by Black authors and artists. All of them currently appear to be borrowed.

Back in print (though it was only out of print for a minute): my Public Collectors photo booklet "Provisional Costumes." A fun and sometimes legit horrifying collection of makeshift costumes in personal photos from primarily the 1970s and 80s. halfletterpress.com/provisional-...

Typo of the day: communittee (portmanteau of community and committee produced by a P&T portfolio-addled brain)

Anthology of Appalachian Writers, published annually since 2008, canceled.

Quite interesting that despite having much more expensive electricity and gasoline, the average Californian resident spends less on energy than one in West Virginia. [From EPRI's Energy Wallet: energywallet.epri.com/en/map.html]

‘Nickname’ is not ‘nick’ + ‘name.’ It was originally ‘ekename.’ ‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.” Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it. Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

a new mRNA therapy apparently can cut the rate of Huntington's disease progression by ~75%. yet more miracle shit www.bbc.com/news/article...

They want humor, mysteries, competitions, all sorts of things where romance/sex aren't the main drivers of the plot. In YA fiction, those are thin on the ground. Teen-targeted movies and TV basically don't exist anymore. Everything is aimed at adults with the expectation that teens will watch it.

They've lost the 9yos

My syllabus statement about AI is very anti-AI without being cop shit. Instead, I value... - the student-teacher relationship as key to learning. - my own and others’ bodily autonomy and intellectual property. - the planet and its myriad life forms and systems. Good for Catholic Higher Ed esp.

Today is Bi Visibility Day, so the annual reminder: Do not rob banks today. They can *see* you today. Conversely, crossing the street is less risky today, for similar reasons.

hello, i made this bot. i am a trans autistic anti-fascist. you are following a work of trans autistic anti-fascist art. that is why it is screaming

Whenever I see a lone shoe on the road I figure someone’s foot has been raptured

Why is this happening? I’ll explain. If the FCC approves Nexstar’s merger deal, the company’s reach would increase from 39% to more than 80% of US households. But the deal ALSO depends on the FCC eliminating the current 39% cap on reach. Sinclair has been lobbying for this change as well.

Rock 'n' roll is dead, but the dead don't die. For the autumnal equinox, here's playlist 3 of 4 for the year.

Happy September 21st to those that celebrate!!! 😃 💃🏾🕺🏾

The average lifespan of a web page is 100 days, and the average lifespan of a website is only 2.7 years. Online content is often at greater risk than older analogue content. #ndf25

Does anyone have a missing alt text labeler that works? I'm going to start unfollowing people who don't add it, because I know people have asked them. They're making a choice. Also adding a bunch of terms to my mute list to see it that makes my skyline less dismal.

Susanscape #bloomscrolling #flowerreport #scape #pnw #garden #photography #eastcoastkin

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The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

One Sleepy Virginia Town. Nearly 7 Million Hits On Its Surveillance Network.

Best thing I've seen all year. The weaving 💀

ICE claimed the father tried to hit them with his car or that he "dragged" one of the agents. Then bystander video was released showing this was completely false. ICE executed a man on the street in broad daylight.

A thread of all the elected Democrats who've put out statements of support for trans people this week as Republicans manufacture a genocide: 🧵

I can’t believe I caught this 🦋 Just before noon, I figured I better check again… the hangar bay was opening! Little out of focus for a few seconds, but I got the focus back- apologies- I was so excited & shooting w/ the sun on my viewer.

civility is when a white guy calls for minorities to be eliminated in a calm voice while wearing an expensive suit

I think it's fucked up that so many people on here who post valuable information in images, screenshots and infographics that could potentially save lives don't key in on what is happening in this current moment in time and think, 'perhaps the visually impaired also deserve this information.'

I'm in a very different context, but the idea of phantom pain where your colleagues should be rings so true - job cuts hitting where unmanageable workloads were already a problem.

Very bad action from UC Berkeley specifically, and UC in general, here.

Controversial opinion, but I think trans people should feel safe here on bluesky, and nazis shouldn't.

🎶 Too long I roam in the night I'm coming back to his side to put it right I'm coming home to wuthering, wuthering Wuthering Heights Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy I've come home, I'm so cold Let me in-a-your window 🎶

I overlapped with the instructor, Melissa, as grad students in Notre Dame's English department. One of her former ND colleagues has started a GoFundMe for her: gofund.me/3f5b12078

Does America care about these kids? Will tears be shed in Washington D.C. for them? Will people even know their names?

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

There it is.

GOP greatly overestimates the number of fucks GenX and younger give about Bill Clinton.