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Claudia (they/she)

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Digital Humanities Librarian, crafter, and nonbinary hobbit. Doing research in digital environmental humanities and data physicalization. Let's chat about scifi novellas, Gotham FC, and weird data visualizations.

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Claudia (they/she) @claudiaeberger.bsky.social · May 14

Earlier this year I read @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social's craftivism book and wanted to find ways to use my art for causes I care about. Well I designed some stickers based on things that inspire me and all profits will be donated!
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Visit Claudia's Shop!

I've opened a shop. Come take a look!

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 1d

. @prisonculture.bsky.social's zine is very popular in our library free zine distro (76 copies have been taken, # only limited by that's what I've had time to fold/staple/put on the rack yet). It's a friendly+free workbook for connecting your values, strengths, needs to advocacy you can do now:

my views do not represent those of my employer @zinelib.bsky.social · 1d

Today in #ZineCataloging

One Million Experiments volume 8: Making a Plan
It's an activism workbook zine by @prisonculture.bsky.social. The whole series: millionexperiments.com/zines

Read the Zine: One Million Experiments

Read the Zine from One Million Experiments, where we explore community-based projects that expand our ideas about what keeps us safe.

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Lesley Ryder @lesleyryder.bsky.social · 1d

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 1d

Yes:

Poets & Writers was getting $300k from the NEA by 1980. Well before the decline era, no literary org will ever receive anything near this.

& literature has always been an outlier in the NEA. Funding levels went up in the growth era but are dwarfed by funding levels in disciplines like music

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ajrajoun.bsky.social @ajrajoun.bsky.social · 1d

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Claudia (they/she) @claudiaeberger.bsky.social · 2d

Once we are no longer a single-income household (my partner was laid off over the summer) I will be joining!

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Claudia (they/she) @claudiaeberger.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone deserves a friend like @literaturegeek.bsky.social who will send them a big ol' box of zines! What a thrilling package to receive after a long day of work and then teaching a night class.

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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 2d

Younger me did not foresee a world in which I am ideologically far more aligned with the current Pope than with most major US institutions, but here we are.

He puts his finger on much of what's at the heart of the moral rot we see all over.

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 3d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 2d

Adjusted for inflation, NEA funding was highest--$1.8 billion--over the four years of the first Reagan administration & has remained stagnate--about $750 million per presidential term--for the last 25 years.

Line graph visualizing the NEA budget by presidential administration from 1966 to 2024 adjusted for inflation

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 3d

1. In a devastating new Pew Research Survey, only 3 in 10 transgender adults report being accepted by their parents.

And only 1 in 10 say they are accepted by their extended family.

This is the lowest number ever found in surveys asking similar questions.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Pew Survey: Only 31% Of Trans People Report Being Accepted By Their Parents

The survey comes as transgender people experience a legal assault from the far-right in the United States.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 4d

Any trans person who begins their transition today is exhibiting more courage than most people will in their entire lives.

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 3d

What sets us apart from Audible? Let us count the ways:

📚 Every purchase supports your indie bookshop
💗 Employee-owned, Certified B Corp, & Social Purpose Corporation
📖 DRM-free (you own your audiobooks)
🤖 Bookseller driven, not algo driven (& our customer support team = real people, not robots)

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Henny Gesserit @nmjmredux.blacksky.app · 4d

This is only 12 miles from where my family lives. When you use AI in any form, people are affected directly

Rob Milton @therobmilton.com · 5d

- put down the damn AI.

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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 4d

yes, us! here you go:

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 5d

In this fragile world, Sukkot reminds us that safety comes best from solidarity, from making peace with neighbors, from being good hosts & guests, from sharing food, from remembering that we are small & precarious, from worshipping what is holy. Not from building walls and making war.

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tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social · 5d

The 11th(!) Gender Reveal grant cycle is now open for applications. We're particularly interested in TPOC-led collectives engaged in ongoing community work.

Apply 💫 genderpodcast.com/grant 💫

If you'd like to help fund one of our no-strings-attached grants, visit genderpodcast.com/donate, tysm!

graphic that says: are you a trans person of color doing rad organizing, art, or community work? we want to give you $1000! applications for the gender reveal podcast's 2025 grant program are open now thru October 31. apply and learn more at genderpodcast.com/grant.

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Claudia (they/she) @claudiaeberger.bsky.social · 5d

Hi all! Yes, this is my current role and yes, I will be leaving Sarah Lawrence in 2 weeks! Some exciting things on the horizon I will be announcing soon, but in the meantime I am happy to answer questions about this role and campus.

dh+lib @dhandlib.bsky.social · 5d

JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian (Sarah Lawrence College) ← dh+lib

Digital Humanities Librarian

The Digital Humanities Librarian works collaboratively with faculty, students, and staff to advance the integration of digital tools and methods in teaching, research, and scholarship. This role bridg...

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Claudia (they/she) @claudiaeberger.bsky.social · 6d

There was face paint and a Kpop demon hunters sing-along, so she was in heaven

Claudia (they/she) @claudiaeberger.bsky.social · 6d

I brought my perfect nibling to the Gotham game today and we had so much fun. My parents and grandfather came too, so we had 4 generations represented with a 93 year age span!

An adorable small child showing off her face paint: a blue base with black and white swirls around her eye

A person smiling at the camera with a small child on their lap looking at a soccer field

5 people sitting in a row of stadium seats ranging from 2.5 years old to 95.

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Claudia (they/she) @claudiaeberger.bsky.social · 6d

I only did the double and I've been knocked out all weekend. Oh and I got a full body rash!

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 6d

A great book relevant to this:

A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 7d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 7d

Columbia canceled my class on race and media, but I'm teaching the people anyway.

Oct. 5 is the *last day* to register for my online live + recorded classes on Race, Media & International Affairs!

We have more than 500 students enrolled. Let's gooo!

www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

Fall Registration for Race, Media & International Affairs with Karen Attiah — Resistance Study Series

A virtual, seven week beginner and intermediate course on the history of race, mass media, and the modern world order.

www.resistancesummerschool.com

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Claudia (they/she) @claudiaeberger.bsky.social · 8d

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Sadly I can't attend, but happy to share!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8d

Any NYC library workers on here potentially available to join a panel organized by @nycplan.org happening tomorrow??? We'd need you from 1:30 to 3 pm. Holler at me if this is you or someone you know.

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Elizabeth Everett | Educator & Kidlit Author 📚 @elizabetheverett.bsky.social · 9d

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 9d

"The online negative reviews have been non-stop," Shoof Burger owner David said.

"We were down to like a 1.6 star rating on Google before we even opened! To hate my restaurant, which you obviously haven't been to, because I don't want Palestinians to die, seems foolish."

Fort Greene's Newest Burger Counter Has a Pro-Palestine Mission

Every combo meal you order at Shoof Burger sends $1 to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund.

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