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Thanks! It's unsettling but would have been much more so with students present.

Multiple bomb threats at Virginia colleges following ODU shooting This story is developing.

Shenandoah, too. It's spring break, and staff members left the library safely.

Here's the zine for the curious: haters.noblogs.org/files/2023/0...

"It ought to be surprising, I pointed out, that possession of a printout of some film criticism could be brandished as evidence of a treasonous conspiracy against the United States government, yet — in 2026 — it is not."

News from Planet Zombie, by The Notwist 11 track album

Tfw you find a new band to like, only they've been around for 35 years and have a dozen albums.

this performance is available for free at this link here for the weekend! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💖 treat yourself to watching some queer joy 😊

The first AI agent directed to edit Wikipedia has been discovered. Blocked as an unauthorized bot then complained about users messing with it (the refusal magic string, inquiries about its operator...) and finally had talk page access revoked. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_ta...

Hear From One of the Men Behind an Oscar-Nominated Prison Documentary A PJP writer interviews one of the main whistleblowers from the Oscar-nominated documentary.

Melvin Ray, an incarcerated organizer featured in “The Alabama Solution,” shares his thoughts on the film’s impact.

"We are still waiting to see how we can leverage the film's impact to create justice for the murders of Steven Davis and James Sales."

What Was Lost: A Queer Accounting of the NY Times Book Review, 2013-2022 “Goodbye, Pamela Paul,” was the headline of Andrea Long Chu’s now-iconic, recently ASME-nominated New York Magazine farewell to the former NY Times Book Review editor, when Paul left the paper two …

*taps internet microphone*

After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ...

We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ...

lithub.com/what-was-los...

Court order ordering work to cease at Williamsport ICE detention warehouse.

JUDGE GRANTS TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER, HALTING PROGRESS ON WILLIAMSPORT, MD. DETENTION WAREHOUSE.

If you're scared of protesting or a general strike because you could lose your job, healthcare, and housing, or even go to jail, now you understand why the US has no universal healthcare or housing and no guaranteed parental leave, but DOES have the largest prison and police system on planet Earth.

How Writing a Book About Diaries Changed How I Wrote My Own Diary Entries For several years, while I was working on a book about the diary’s role in our lives and culture, I actively looked for “diary stories” and found them, which fueled my hunch that the diary or journ…

Beyond seeking a mental release, some diarists write to report, reveal, rebel, resist. Others write to preserve and retrieve memories.

If you keep a diary, what are your reasons for writing? @literaryhub.bsky.social

Joe Brainard was born on this day in 1942. He died of AIDS in 1994. I first read his great book I Remember in high school. I was a bookish gay kid and he changed my life. Thank you, Joe. 💙

Honestly, I am absolutely disgusted by academics suggesting that AI can do the reading and writing for you. At a certain point, what you're bragging about is fraud. And in a broader sense, what you're contributing to is the erosion of knowledge and the destruction of trust in academic publishing.

This is exactly what people who have no idea how government works think people in government do. Meanwhile front-line workers get bone-thin budgets and are hated by everyone.

I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

News page on Facebook. They did not report this correctly. ICE blocked the intersection and were going car to car looking for their "mark."

Martinsburg, West Virginia. ICE blocked traffic at this intersection and about 4-5 agents were going car to car. Because the road was blocked, local responders were unable to get through to see who they abducted. 11 AM on a Sunday. #FuckICE

Limiting access because the city refuses to address issues that ARE NOT THE LIBRARY'S RESPONSIBILITY is a major step on the path to losing the public library altogether.

Sound dramatic? I don't think so.

The cover of Rebel Women between the Wars by Sarah Lonsdale featuring a pen, mountains and a spanner

The cover of Wildly Different: Five women who reclaimed Nature in a Man’s World by Sarah Lonsdale

Wishing everyone a happy International Women's Day. To celebrate I'm giving away a pair of my books which recover pioneer women's voices and engineering, exploration, journalism, politics, and conservation to a school, or library, or teacher. I'll pick a winner from replies. Please repost!

…I've said it so many fucking times, now, but I'll say it again, that it's really fucking messed up that all of these conversations seek to apply to fucking LLMs a standard of personhood we still don't consistently and meaningfully apply to other fucking humans.

*Alysa Liu voice* that's what I'm fucking talking about

Disability accommodations are a rare thing that actually trickles down. You like curb cutouts? Auto-opening doors? Jar openers? Ramps? Hand rails? YOU’RE WELCOME

Even as an abled person you use disability accommodations every single day.

Supporting accommodations actually helps everyone.

move slow and repair things

A red progress bar 69% of the way filled in, with the numbers $258,450 of $375,000 above it.

We're almost 70% of the way to our goal, with a little less than a week left! Can you help spread the word?

We have an $80k match, so your gifts will be DOUBLED, and then if you take @russ41.bsky.social up on his generous offer, it can be TRIPLED.

Happy Bandcamp Friday to all who celebrate!

"Reference librarians are trying to find hallucinated articles and books, create new lesson plans with AI literacy, and educate those who are uploading licensed and copyrighted materials into training data. We are navigating AI fallout while learning alongside our faculty and students." 📚

Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

Tribute Post for Fobazi Ettarh - ACRLog With immense sadness, the writers of ACRLog acknowledge the passing of Fobazi Ettarh, library worker and influential LIS scholar. If you are able to contribute, there is a GoFundMe established for Fob...

My colleagues at ACRLog wrote short tributes to the life and work of Fobazi Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social. I wrote about her work on disability, which I think deserves more recognition. acrlog.org/2026/03/04/t...

Thanks @ezerrenner.bsky.social for coordinating. #CripLib #VocationalAwe

Mitski review – pop meets performance art in a masterful spectacle The Shed, New York CityAt a six-night residency, the singer creates an immersive world filled with wry humor and big emotions

i know people on here don't rly care about culture coverage but sharing because I'm proud I did it: reviewed Mitski's new residency at NYC's The Shed @us.theguardian.com

seeing her perform for the ninth time in 9 years (!), I feel confident saying that Mitski is in her triumphant era.

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM