librarypunk

dudes rock

i like how you can tell the AP is still pissed they were removed from the white house press pool.

lol, love when reporters get snarky

Prairieland ICE shooting trial jury gets closer look at 'antifa' materials defendants owned Anti-fascism, anarchy and the abolition of ICE were common themes in literature and paraphernalia investigators found in the defendants' homes and cars.

“FBI investigators walked the jury Tuesday through ‘zines’… Owning these items is not illegal, FBI Special Agent Kasey Bennett testified in Fort Worth federal court Tuesday. But…” (there is no credible but)

States of Incarceration: The Global Context 2024 Criminal justice policy in every region of the United States is out of step with the rest of the world.

Massachusetts has the lowest incarceration rate in the U.S. and it STILL incarcerates people at a higher rate than Iran www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2024....

"Can you put up with that? Then maybe you'll be happy doing it"

I try not to give career advice. I prefer to give career omens.

2nite 10:00-11:30 pm

Got the stream going up on an mf weekday come get ur music wheee

Now with 100% more track titles visible

imagine meme from the little mermaid the guy with the pipe

Evey day, despite a dominant culture of hyperindividualism and alienation, regular people are engaging in incredible acts of community defense, collective care, and mutual aid.

Every day, people are already planting seeds of the new world in the ashes of the old.

i am finally registered!

The (repeated) failures to engage with things like some of the many community-led approaches to OA, and to instead to continue to frame OA as a thing (as a product, method, etc.) is incredibly frustrating.

It also implies that doing things yourselves has never been explored. Which...

Data is dead labour, with the dataification and digitisation of intellectual labour it can now appear as the illusion of dead labourers.

librarypunk librarypunk is a leftist library worker podcast.

Every episode has been transcribed and searchable, idk for how long it'll be up for free but I submitted our feed to this site. podscripts.co/podcasts/lib...

The Vizzler

I'm all for automating the boring stuff but that's so I can commit even more time theft.

God the combination of "doing more with less" and "doing more with AI" is going to drive me mad.
"How to deal with our cataloging workload as staffing decreased without lowering quality". Idk maybe you should lower quality. Do less with less, you get what you pay for, etc.

explosion reported at the end of history factory

graffiti that says contra toda autoridad.. excepto mi mamá. Some of the A's are the anarchy symbol.

this is a great episode with serious, important topic but i cannot get over THAT slip, it's like

oh dang i missed this

Check out some good history talkin!

fell for it again award

I don't think stories about people eligible for retirement continuing to work are inspiring, regardless of specifics.

Where Are They Now?: The Pundits Who Got Iraq Wrong One would think that cheering the U.S. into war in Iraq would have been a career-destroying mistake. Alas...

Back in 2023, for the 20th anniversary of the war in Iraq, I did a "where are they now?" article about the pundits who cheered on the U.S. invasion www.readtpa.com/p/where-are-...

got your ass

gonna be a refresh the news feed kinda day

Don't you threaten me w a good time