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@almullender.bsky.social
LIS PhD Candidate (studying radical/critical/experimental classification theory, and temporality in LIS) and Interlibrary loan library worker.
Immigrant (it's not a dirty word).
Me and my cat are The Jim Morrison Biscuit Cooperative
Immigrant (it's not a dirty word).
Me and my cat are The Jim Morrison Biscuit Cooperative
Pinned
Time and The Catalogue
This paper explores the multiple ways in which concepts of time are incorporated in cataloguing and classification to see how these temporal concepts influence how material is organised in library spa...
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Very pleased to say that my article was published! Yay for Document Academy!
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ideaexchange.uakron.edu/docam/vol11/...
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"Carney is preparing to weaken proposed industrial pollution limits and loosen restrictions on subsidies for the Alberta oilpatch."
"Here's a look at seven key environmental policies the Canada-Alberta deal proposes to change."
#Alberta #BritishColumbia #Canada #FossilFuels #Climate #Lobbying
"Here's a look at seven key environmental policies the Canada-Alberta deal proposes to change."
#Alberta #BritishColumbia #Canada #FossilFuels #Climate #Lobbying
Carney's Alberta pipeline deal weakens climate policies
Prime Minister Mark Carney's 'grand bargain' isn't just about an Alberta pipeline —it also proposes rolling back a host of climate policies.
thenarwhal.ca
November 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"Carney is preparing to weaken proposed industrial pollution limits and loosen restrictions on subsidies for the Alberta oilpatch."
"Here's a look at seven key environmental policies the Canada-Alberta deal proposes to change."
#Alberta #BritishColumbia #Canada #FossilFuels #Climate #Lobbying
"Here's a look at seven key environmental policies the Canada-Alberta deal proposes to change."
#Alberta #BritishColumbia #Canada #FossilFuels #Climate #Lobbying
November 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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*Why do we all have to have six jobs and still barely make ends meet?
Why do we all have to have six jobs
November 24, 2025 at 6:06 AM
*Why do we all have to have six jobs and still barely make ends meet?
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If we can’t kill you with bans we’ll destroy you financially. The goal is to make libraries ineffective then turn them over to for-profit companies, as prisons have been, then fill them with propaganda. Or just shutter them. Once you close a library, it’s damned near impossible to open it back up.
It's Not Just Laws About Books Breaking Libraries. It's Also New Tax Reforms.
Two states have passed property tax cuts that are directly impacting public libraries. Expect to see this happen more.
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Two states have passed property tax cuts that are directly impacting public libraries. Expect to see this happen more.
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
It's Not Just Laws About Books Breaking Libraries. It's Also New Tax Reforms.
Two states have passed property tax cuts that are directly impacting public libraries. Expect to see this happen more.
buttondown.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
If we can’t kill you with bans we’ll destroy you financially. The goal is to make libraries ineffective then turn them over to for-profit companies, as prisons have been, then fill them with propaganda. Or just shutter them. Once you close a library, it’s damned near impossible to open it back up.
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And with that, this thread has been updated!
When you are tempted to ask "what can I do," the answer is probably in here.
When you are tempted to ask me what *I* am doing, the answer is in here.
This is nearly five years of work. It's all free to you.
When you are tempted to ask "what can I do," the answer is probably in here.
When you are tempted to ask me what *I* am doing, the answer is in here.
This is nearly five years of work. It's all free to you.
A massive thread of resources, history, information, and material to help you not only fight and understand book censorship but protect the incredible democratic institutions of public libraries and public education.
This is updated regularly!
This is updated regularly!
November 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
And with that, this thread has been updated!
When you are tempted to ask "what can I do," the answer is probably in here.
When you are tempted to ask me what *I* am doing, the answer is in here.
This is nearly five years of work. It's all free to you.
When you are tempted to ask "what can I do," the answer is probably in here.
When you are tempted to ask me what *I* am doing, the answer is in here.
This is nearly five years of work. It's all free to you.
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Disgusting, shameful, and outrageous. Canada is becoming like the USA. This is not the country I love.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Prominent legal scholar detained at Canadian border while on his way to a conference on Palestine | CBC News
A well-known academic and former UN special rapporteur says he was detained by customs agents in Toronto while on his way to speak at a conference on human rights violations against Palestinians.
www.cbc.ca
November 16, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Disgusting, shameful, and outrageous. Canada is becoming like the USA. This is not the country I love.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Don’t allow tech to turn you into an un-person. Refuse to let AI make things you could produce with your own brain. Develop your mental & creative faculties. Read constantly. They want you illiterate, and nothing threatens them more than a brain that is sharp and intact.
November 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Don’t allow tech to turn you into an un-person. Refuse to let AI make things you could produce with your own brain. Develop your mental & creative faculties. Read constantly. They want you illiterate, and nothing threatens them more than a brain that is sharp and intact.
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📰'LGBTQ librarians are trying to keep vital books accessible to queer youth, despite bans'
www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/lg...
#Library
#Librarian
#LibraryWorker
#Research
#Employment
#Workplace
#LGBTQ
#LGBT
#Gay
#Bookban
#Book
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#Library
#Librarian
#LibraryWorker
#Research
#Employment
#Workplace
#LGBTQ
#LGBT
#Gay
#Bookban
#Book
LGBTQ librarians are trying to keep vital books accessible to queer youth, despite bans
"We build collections that allow people to find themselves on the shelves," notes one queer librarian.
www.yahoo.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
📰'LGBTQ librarians are trying to keep vital books accessible to queer youth, despite bans'
www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/lg...
#Library
#Librarian
#LibraryWorker
#Research
#Employment
#Workplace
#LGBTQ
#LGBT
#Gay
#Bookban
#Book
www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/lg...
#Library
#Librarian
#LibraryWorker
#Research
#Employment
#Workplace
#LGBTQ
#LGBT
#Gay
#Bookban
#Book
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada, and former Green MP Mike Morrice, respond to the 2025 Federal Budget: “There’s no way we can, as Greens, vote yes on this budget.”
November 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada, and former Green MP Mike Morrice, respond to the 2025 Federal Budget: “There’s no way we can, as Greens, vote yes on this budget.”
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If you are someone who has the privilege to do this, DO IT.
Incremental retreat from constitutional rights by the powerful endangers everyone else's rights in the long term.
Incremental retreat from constitutional rights by the powerful endangers everyone else's rights in the long term.
Michael Davis, “Conspicuously Exercising Academic Freedom as a Response to Incremental Threats”
www.aaup.org/JAF16/conspi...
www.aaup.org/JAF16/conspi...
November 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
If you are someone who has the privilege to do this, DO IT.
Incremental retreat from constitutional rights by the powerful endangers everyone else's rights in the long term.
Incremental retreat from constitutional rights by the powerful endangers everyone else's rights in the long term.
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Solidarity with everyone going through it right now.
You are not alone.
Official donation link for supporting Jamaica:
supportjamaica.gov.jm/donate
You are not alone.
Official donation link for supporting Jamaica:
supportjamaica.gov.jm/donate
October 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Solidarity with everyone going through it right now.
You are not alone.
Official donation link for supporting Jamaica:
supportjamaica.gov.jm/donate
You are not alone.
Official donation link for supporting Jamaica:
supportjamaica.gov.jm/donate
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A hallmark of this year's Banned Books Week? The censoring of Banned Books Week.
That, plus this week's extensive roundup of book censorship news: bookriot.com/banning-bann...
That, plus this week's extensive roundup of book censorship news: bookriot.com/banning-bann...
The Banning of Banned Books Week: Book Censorship News, October 31, 2025
Banned Books Week is being quietly banned in public libraries across the US. This is a political choice in an era where libraries continue to claim being "not political."
bookriot.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
A hallmark of this year's Banned Books Week? The censoring of Banned Books Week.
That, plus this week's extensive roundup of book censorship news: bookriot.com/banning-bann...
That, plus this week's extensive roundup of book censorship news: bookriot.com/banning-bann...
How come when I hallucinate terrifying shit they call it epilepsy and try to use it to take away my driving licence, but when AI hallucinates terrifying shit they call it a tech revolution and try to use it to take away everyone's job?
I now know how it feels to receive psychic damage. I'm not even kidding, this gave me a new kind of headache. Something not totally physical but painful nonetheless.
AI sitcom accidentally a Lynchian fever dream. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and insane lament.
October 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
How come when I hallucinate terrifying shit they call it epilepsy and try to use it to take away my driving licence, but when AI hallucinates terrifying shit they call it a tech revolution and try to use it to take away everyone's job?
I know I'm human, and if you were all these things you'd just attack me right now, so some of you are still human...
October 29, 2025 at 1:05 AM
I know I'm human, and if you were all these things you'd just attack me right now, so some of you are still human...
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AI supercharging the mass surveillance of the digital public sphere. Important reporting by @katyaschwenk.bsky.social
See also our recent piece where we talk about AI as a tool for deportations and political terror, too:
www.liberalcurrents.com/deflating-hy...
See also our recent piece where we talk about AI as a tool for deportations and political terror, too:
www.liberalcurrents.com/deflating-hy...
ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media
A Silicon Valley firm has contracted with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to build out a social media surveillance dragnet. Critics say that the AI-driven software will target immigrants for polit...
jacobin.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
AI supercharging the mass surveillance of the digital public sphere. Important reporting by @katyaschwenk.bsky.social
See also our recent piece where we talk about AI as a tool for deportations and political terror, too:
www.liberalcurrents.com/deflating-hy...
See also our recent piece where we talk about AI as a tool for deportations and political terror, too:
www.liberalcurrents.com/deflating-hy...
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‘Suffering’ British Library staff take to picket lines.
Library “operating reduced service” as PCS members demand better pay, two years on from cyberattack.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
Library “operating reduced service” as PCS members demand better pay, two years on from cyberattack.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
‘Suffering’ British Library staff take to picket lines - Research Professional News
Library “operating reduced service” as PCS members demand better pay, two years on from cyberattack
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM
‘Suffering’ British Library staff take to picket lines.
Library “operating reduced service” as PCS members demand better pay, two years on from cyberattack.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
Library “operating reduced service” as PCS members demand better pay, two years on from cyberattack.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
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Funnily enough, after the 2008 banker-caused financial crash, the austerity obsessed uk government would use points 3 and 4 to justify closing a large number of britain's libraries. The more things change, eh?
1850. The Public Libraries Act means councils in England & Wales can now spend local taxes on libraries. Some London regions are VERY slow to adopt the act. St Pancras rate-payers object to “wasting” money on “showy luxuries”. Fifty years pass before a free library opens in the district #PubLibs 💙📚
October 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Funnily enough, after the 2008 banker-caused financial crash, the austerity obsessed uk government would use points 3 and 4 to justify closing a large number of britain's libraries. The more things change, eh?
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Tell Doug Ford No.
Tell him we will not subsidize his landlord buddies and their obscene, parasitic lifestyle while we’re at risk of being evicted even when we pay rent, even when we follow every law to the letter.
TELL HIM NO. 🚨🚨🚨
#OnPoli
Tell him we will not subsidize his landlord buddies and their obscene, parasitic lifestyle while we’re at risk of being evicted even when we pay rent, even when we follow every law to the letter.
TELL HIM NO. 🚨🚨🚨
#OnPoli
Call Doug Ford. Call your MPP, tell them they will never be allowed to rest for a solitary second if they don’t decisively vote down this bill.
This is not a drill. We will never get these protections back if we lose them.
Call Doug Ford.
This is not a drill. We will never get these protections back if we lose them.
Call Doug Ford.
October 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Tell Doug Ford No.
Tell him we will not subsidize his landlord buddies and their obscene, parasitic lifestyle while we’re at risk of being evicted even when we pay rent, even when we follow every law to the letter.
TELL HIM NO. 🚨🚨🚨
#OnPoli
Tell him we will not subsidize his landlord buddies and their obscene, parasitic lifestyle while we’re at risk of being evicted even when we pay rent, even when we follow every law to the letter.
TELL HIM NO. 🚨🚨🚨
#OnPoli
What's it like inside your head?
October 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
What's it like inside your head?
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Middle East Eye: The Government Media Office in Gaza has stated that 54 bodies of Palestinian bodies, previously held by Israeli forces, will be laid to rest after being returned bearing clear signs of torture.
Live: Israel must allow UN to deliver humanitarian aid in Gaza, ICJ says
Meanwhile, Israel refuses to reopen Rafah crossing
www.middleeasteye.net
October 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Middle East Eye: The Government Media Office in Gaza has stated that 54 bodies of Palestinian bodies, previously held by Israeli forces, will be laid to rest after being returned bearing clear signs of torture.
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Need help applying for a passport or finding a new job? Head to the library!
7 Adulting Resources at the Library
Need help applying for a passport or finding a new job? Head to the library!
buff.ly
October 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Need help applying for a passport or finding a new job? Head to the library!
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If you're going on to a protest today, leave your phone at home.
I know it's hard but,
Palantir.
And any smart devices
I know it's hard but,
Palantir.
And any smart devices
October 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
If you're going on to a protest today, leave your phone at home.
I know it's hard but,
Palantir.
And any smart devices
I know it's hard but,
Palantir.
And any smart devices
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This is the kind of shit I've been worried about for years. And it wasn't just la Migra doing the gaslighting.
(My married last name is a common enough Ashkenazi Jewish-American last name. )
(My married last name is a common enough Ashkenazi Jewish-American last name. )
A U.S. citizen and Chicago resident was reportedly detained by federal immigration agents despite carrying documentation proving her citizenship.
She reported that the agents questioned the validity of her passport and told her she “doesn’t look like” her family name, Greeley.
She reported that the agents questioned the validity of her passport and told her she “doesn’t look like” her family name, Greeley.
October 16, 2025 at 9:36 AM
This is the kind of shit I've been worried about for years. And it wasn't just la Migra doing the gaslighting.
(My married last name is a common enough Ashkenazi Jewish-American last name. )
(My married last name is a common enough Ashkenazi Jewish-American last name. )