How lovely! It says “many greetings”.
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How lovely! It says “many greetings”.
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Le Petit Cafe in Branford, CT. #rip
There you go. An overt technofascist Trump ally will now own CBS, CNN, HBO, Paramount, Warner Brothers, Discovery, and a big chunk of TikTok
Please remember to support independent journalism so there'll be real media out there not owned by the Ellison empire or by Bezos. It's no panacea, but it's vital. We've built @boltsmag.org as a place to cover the bricks of local power without that corporate oversight.
This man escaped a genocide backed by China, *fled successfully to the other end of the earth,* and then was killed in a campaign of government repression in America
A life that speaks to the human rights issues by the world’s two top powers
If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.
It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
rice is life, and I got a thread to share about rice: Park Chung-hee's obsession to make South Korea rice self-sufficient in the 1970s changed everything about the country, including your favorite Korean foods and the urban environment 🧵
"large language models such as ChatGPT were consistently advising women to ask for lower salaries than men in recruitment processes,... AI tools already in use by more than half of England’s councils were downplaying women’s medical conditions, potentially resulting in unequal care"
Screenshot from a video featuring Jason Reynolds, a Black man with dreads wearing a backwards ball cap and holding a microphone.. Caption reads: "but in libraries, I actually think it still maintains a certain level of integrity."
"Is it still important to have Black librarians in libraries?"asks Rodney Freeman Jr. a librarian at UNC. Jason Reynolds replies. Freeman is making a documentary: Are You a Librarian?The Untold Story of Black Librarians. #BlackHistoryMonth
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFIE...
blavity.com/black-librar...
Today’s history lesson. Then watch the excellent movie Matewan by John Sayles.
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After President Trump signed a tax cuts package last year, Oregon estimated it would lose $888 million in state tax revenue. A novel workforce development program for incarcerated Oregonians is now set to lose its funding.
The study points to using libraries and visiting museums as bringing these enormous brain health benefits ... who would have thought? Well, librarians and museum folk for a start ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
@biblioracle.bsky.social wrote about receiving a similar message, only his was from “Reese W.” 🙃
We are so thankful to @PBS Independent Lens for supporting our film and proud to say it is airing on PBS starting Monday at 12 ET streaming or airing on your local PBS on Independent Lens. We are so proud of this film and the advocates in it. 💕📚Please tune in!
THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH A HISTORY MAJOR
"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"
Monday at 9pm EST (check your local listings). If you haven't seen this yet and you support libraries, this is appointment television.
By entering the competition and in consideration for Hearst publishing your entry, you assign to Hearst the entire worldwide copyright in your entry for all uses in all print and non-print media formats, including but not limited to all rights to use your entry in any and all electronic and digital formats, and in any future medium hereafter developed for the full period of copyright therein, and all renewals and extensions thereof, any rental and lending rights and retransmission rights and all rights of a like nature wherever subsisting.
Venerable magazine Harper's Bazaar is running its short story contest again, with the winner receiving "the chance" of publication in the magazine. Just one catch: per the wording of the guidelines, _just by entering_ you transfer copyright ownership of your story to Harper's parent, Hearst. 1/3
Darkness as a natural resource. Hmm. Also, #nutmegsky
With sorrow, we announce the passing of FOBAZI M. ETTARH 1989 - 2026. Fobazi changed so many lives with her friendship, love, and brilliance. She was so loved, and leaves behind a powerful legacy. We thank Fobazi's community for their support over the last several months of her illness. A private burial will be held for family. We will be in touch with further information about a future Celebration of Life event, as well as ways to support Fobazi's family and legacy.
Oh no! What a loss. My sincerest condolences to her loved ones. 💔
Great horned owl hooting loudly nearby. Maybe nesting season is on its way? #birds
ICE at the polls! Bannon is basically yelling “fire” in a crowded theater here. His objective is to cause chaos (and suppress votes on the left). And it’s already working.
This threat works on multiple levels and doesn’t have to be “real” to serve its purpose.
Let me explain & offer some advice.
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"[L]ocal and state governments... have apologized for doing little or nothing while black people were beaten, jailed, and sometimes killed for... civil rights. [C]onfrontations over integrating libraries in the South... have largely gone unrecognized"
americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2017/06/01/d...
On March 27, 1961, nine [Tougalou] students visited Jackson's library for black residents... and requested books they knew were not there.They then entered the main Jackson Public Library for white residents, and staged a "read in." #BlackHistoryMonth
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tougalo...
Hey, library friends! As if supporting a diverse Brownie troop in Minneapolis weren’t motivation enough, turns out buying (and — worse — donating) their cookies really pisses off that vile clown who’s been attacking librarians for 20+ years. So go ahead, order a few boxes. Spread the word!
New teaching resource. The ABWH Booklist supplement: a chronological reading list.
PDF download useful for classes and teach ins.
abwh.org/booklist