Love the real utopias concept in this. Libraries are a real utopia that we have now. Reminds me of Martin Sostre's take on prefigurative politics, a "microcosm of the society that we're trying to build. Something concrete to show the people instead of just rhetoric." www.akpress.org/a-continuous...
I see the made-up job Trump says he's giving Noem as being on par with his claim that "Elon's not going anywhere" during Musk's farewell presser at the WH. Trump doesn't want parallels drawn to his frequent firings of underlings during his first administration, so he acts like everything's chill.
Great explainer on the problem of ebook pricing for libraries.
www.njspotlightnews.org/2026/02/qa-p...
@nycplan.org is hosting a celebration of public libraries through a Library Art & Propaganda fair happening on June 13. We have a call for art submissions here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
6. @nycplan.org's next membership meeting is on March 15 in Brooklyn. If interested, contact info@nycplan.org to connect with us.
5. Join NYC PLAN at our Queens People's Assembly on March 21st - nycplan.org/peoples-asse... - Bring your friends!
4. Set up a meeting with your council member. Information about how to do this is here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
3. Testify at the city council's preliminary budget hearing on March 12. That's next Thursday. All details for how to do so are here: bit.ly/4b1ze3H
2. Call your city council member. There's a call script here: nycplan.org/actions/call...
There are many ways that NYC residents can fight to fund our public libraries:
1. Send a letter to your city council member (30 seconds): actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
A graphic with a brown background that reads: "NYC Council: Fund NYC public libraries at 0.5% of the city budget!" with a button below that says "Visit nycplan.org for more information.
Please send a letter to your city council member and follow up with a call too! actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
We’re excited to invite proposals for ThriveLib 2026!
Reimagining Library Culture Together August 11–13, 2026
Our 2026 theme is grounded in the belief that joy and sustainability require safety, dignity, community, and care.
Deadline April 10
www.thrivelib.com/2026-cfp
So ChatGPT tells people to kill themselves, and OpenAI's response is to shift responsibility to unpaid, untrained, non-professional friends and family members.
So if you get designated as the "trusted contact," you're doing terrifying unpaid work for this evil company.
Shut it all down.
Glad people are settling on the term "pervert glasses". Bonus points if you also say it while posting a picture of Mark Zuckerberg or call them Mark Zuckerberg's pervert glasses.
On March 10, we're going to Albany to tell Gov. Hochul: DEFEND NY, FUND OUR FUTURE!
In a time of crisis, we need bold action to protect immigrants, make polluters pay, and tax the rich!
RSVP here: bit.ly/defend-ny-3-10
On Jan. 30, @governor.ny.gov proposed banning 287(g) agreements between local law enforcement & ICE.
But that alone won’t shield NYers from a mass deportation agenda.
The New York for All Act (#NY4All) would stop local + state resources from fueling family separation.
👉 win.newmode.net/ny4all
WANT TO SUPPORT NYC LIBRARIES?
Testify over zoom, in person, or simply submit written testimony for next week's preliminary budget city council meeting. Here's how you can do that!
@nycplan.org
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It's very easy for me to relate to that last repost, as I likewise hate the regime I live under, and would like to see it fall, but also don't want to be bombed. Seems straightforward as hell to me.
Iranian here. The loudest voices in the room do not represent all of our voices. You can be against the regime AND not want a war.
This isn’t an isolated thing either. It’s coming from the U.S. State Dept and impacts public libraries whose legal basis is as a nonprofit. That’s the third most common legal basis for library systems in the U.S. More common than county-based systems. www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...
I don't care if Congress authorizes War on Iran. NO WAR ON IRAN. I want people to fucking reclaim their morality.
Truly dystopic.
"we are witnessing the fullest expression of the most inhumane weapons of the century: Autonomous bombs and missiles. Their “autonomy” refers to fact that humans need not be in the loop in any meaningful way when deciding where to target or whether to launch such weapons."
It's genuinely insane that many of the newspaper columnists who cheered us into the war in Iraq are still employed at big legacy outlets cheering us into a new war with Iran.
As proud as I’ve ever been to be a member of the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social!!
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SAVE THE DATE for next Thur, Mar 12 - the NYC city council libraries subcommittee is meeting to talk about the prelim budget.
Register to testify and say "booo, where is the promised 0.5%?" at: council.nyc.gov/testify/
One of my favourite sides of politics/media.
I saw this and at first thought "no, there's no way 'we definitely had alternative leadership in mind for Iran but I blew them up alongside the schoolgirls using AI' is what the White House is actually saying, that's too clueless and evil to be real"
The government played Anthropic’s game better than Anthropic could; destroyed the plausible deniability Anthropic (and all these companies) depend on to maintain their “respectable” image while they create products that are designed for destruction.
