Baharak Yousefi بهارک یوسفی 🍉
@baharaky.bsky.social
librarian, feminist, phd in geography, refugee on stolen Indigenous land, thalassophile, she/her/او, 🍞 and 🌹🌹, too.
📍Vancouver
📍Vancouver
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This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
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In this past decade of mass death, there were timid steps in the right direction - at first. But the most coherent, passionate response from the state (and its various apparatus) has been to smash DULF, hire more cops & roll back what little harm reduction we had won.
Breaking: the founders of DULF have been found guilty of three counts of drug trafficking. @michellegamage.bsky.social will have the full story later today thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...
Safe Drugs on Trial: DULF’s Trafficking Case Begins | The Tyee
The founders are charged with trafficking. Their lawyers argue they had a legal exemption from drug laws.
thetyee.ca
November 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
In this past decade of mass death, there were timid steps in the right direction - at first. But the most coherent, passionate response from the state (and its various apparatus) has been to smash DULF, hire more cops & roll back what little harm reduction we had won.
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What establishment Dems tried to do to Mamdani, the BC NDP successfully did to Anjali Appadurai.
She was poised to win the leadership race by actually getting people to join the party. The old guard didn't like that, so they crushed the next generation to maintain their grip on power.
She was poised to win the leadership race by actually getting people to join the party. The old guard didn't like that, so they crushed the next generation to maintain their grip on power.
David Eby to become next B.C. premier after NDP ousts leadership rival Anjali Appadurai | CBC News
The B.C. NDP executive has voted to disqualify Anjali Appadurai from its leadership race, effectively crowning David Eby as the next premier of British Columbia.
www.cbc.ca
November 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
What establishment Dems tried to do to Mamdani, the BC NDP successfully did to Anjali Appadurai.
She was poised to win the leadership race by actually getting people to join the party. The old guard didn't like that, so they crushed the next generation to maintain their grip on power.
She was poised to win the leadership race by actually getting people to join the party. The old guard didn't like that, so they crushed the next generation to maintain their grip on power.
Sunrise over the Salish Sea. November 4th, 2025.
November 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Sunrise over the Salish Sea. November 4th, 2025.
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worth applying to politics as well. when you're criticizing an action people take "taking the better action next time" is only one of the alternatives people will consider, and worth remembering that "not bothering at all" is another.
October 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
worth applying to politics as well. when you're criticizing an action people take "taking the better action next time" is only one of the alternatives people will consider, and worth remembering that "not bothering at all" is another.
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CBC News put together an excellent story on yesterday's memorial for Kulbir Kaila at SFU Burnaby, with words from her family.
Please take a few minutes to watch and share.
Justice for Kulbir. Never again. SFU must end the contracting out of low wage work NOW.
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
Please take a few minutes to watch and share.
Justice for Kulbir. Never again. SFU must end the contracting out of low wage work NOW.
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
Calls for improved working conditions for janitorial staff at SFU, Burnaby
At Simon Fraser University's Burnaby campus, colleagues and friends of a custodian who died while at work are calling on the university to improve working conditions for janitorial staff. As Michelle ...
www.cbc.ca
October 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
CBC News put together an excellent story on yesterday's memorial for Kulbir Kaila at SFU Burnaby, with words from her family.
Please take a few minutes to watch and share.
Justice for Kulbir. Never again. SFU must end the contracting out of low wage work NOW.
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
Please take a few minutes to watch and share.
Justice for Kulbir. Never again. SFU must end the contracting out of low wage work NOW.
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
Thank goodness for the AI search recommendations: "it looks like you're searching for a particular author who appears in our catalogue. Would you like to search for some gibberish instead?"
October 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Thank goodness for the AI search recommendations: "it looks like you're searching for a particular author who appears in our catalogue. Would you like to search for some gibberish instead?"
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losing my mind at “paper-based”. Do you mean fucking paper
This minimalist, paper-based to-do manager can help you focus on completing your important tasks while staying offline. nyti.ms/4h8ijiC
October 16, 2025 at 9:55 PM
losing my mind at “paper-based”. Do you mean fucking paper
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Out now! Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers from @alaeditionsns.bsky.social
Grateful for all the library unionists who spoke to us for the book, and to co-authors @kellymce.bsky.social @mkahn.bsky.social and Angelo Moreno!
alastore.ala.org/oryrlib
Grateful for all the library unionists who spoke to us for the book, and to co-authors @kellymce.bsky.social @mkahn.bsky.social and Angelo Moreno!
alastore.ala.org/oryrlib
Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers (Critical Cultural Information Studies series)
alastore.ala.org
August 1, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Out now! Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers from @alaeditionsns.bsky.social
Grateful for all the library unionists who spoke to us for the book, and to co-authors @kellymce.bsky.social @mkahn.bsky.social and Angelo Moreno!
alastore.ala.org/oryrlib
Grateful for all the library unionists who spoke to us for the book, and to co-authors @kellymce.bsky.social @mkahn.bsky.social and Angelo Moreno!
alastore.ala.org/oryrlib
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After the death of a janitor at Simon Fraser, her coworkers say the university, employer and union have all let them down. My latest for @thetyee.ca
The Tyee spoke to seven of Kulbir Kaila’s co-workers, who all say they believe an excessive workload, strenuous working conditions and a lack of support for existing health conditions contributed to her death.
A Janitor Died on the Job at SFU. Co-workers Want Change | The Tyee
The workers say their employer, union and Simon Fraser University let them down.
thetyee.ca
August 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
After the death of a janitor at Simon Fraser, her coworkers say the university, employer and union have all let them down. My latest for @thetyee.ca
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For the hundredth time: THERE IS NO ANCIENT ISRAEL!
This is a Zionist fantasy. Why is SFU platforming such historically bankrupt hasbara?
This is a Zionist fantasy. Why is SFU platforming such historically bankrupt hasbara?
A question I have today is:
How/why has the SFU Library chosen to host an exhibit entitled “Ancient Israel: The Land & the Jewish People” at a moment when Israel is committing genocide & starving Palestinians in Gaza?
How/why has the SFU Library chosen to host an exhibit entitled “Ancient Israel: The Land & the Jewish People” at a moment when Israel is committing genocide & starving Palestinians in Gaza?
July 30, 2025 at 1:19 AM
For the hundredth time: THERE IS NO ANCIENT ISRAEL!
This is a Zionist fantasy. Why is SFU platforming such historically bankrupt hasbara?
This is a Zionist fantasy. Why is SFU platforming such historically bankrupt hasbara?
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Today, the #scholcommlab published a Statement of Support for PACBI Principles. With it, I reject my university's (SFU's) complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and call them out for restricting my ability to direct the work of @pkp.sfu.ca in a principled way. www.scholcommlab.ca/pacbi/
Rejecting Complicity: ScholCommLab’s Statement of Support for PACBI Principles - Scholarly Communications Lab | ScholCommLab
Rejecting Complicity: ScholCommLab’s Statement of Support for PACBI Principles In the wake of the genocide and scholasticide in Gaza, the […]
www.scholcommlab.ca
June 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Today, the #scholcommlab published a Statement of Support for PACBI Principles. With it, I reject my university's (SFU's) complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and call them out for restricting my ability to direct the work of @pkp.sfu.ca in a principled way. www.scholcommlab.ca/pacbi/
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Border and Rule is available for free download!
I wrote a book spanning ICE & borders, Palestine & policing, colonialism & global fascism - in service to internationalist struggles.
I can no longer travel to US, but this book (as well @silkys13.bsky.social & @micahh.bsky.social 's) can come to you
I wrote a book spanning ICE & borders, Palestine & policing, colonialism & global fascism - in service to internationalist struggles.
I can no longer travel to US, but this book (as well @silkys13.bsky.social & @micahh.bsky.social 's) can come to you
Another world is possible if we fight for it.
FREE Ebooks: Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about border and poli...
www.haymarketbooks.org
June 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Border and Rule is available for free download!
I wrote a book spanning ICE & borders, Palestine & policing, colonialism & global fascism - in service to internationalist struggles.
I can no longer travel to US, but this book (as well @silkys13.bsky.social & @micahh.bsky.social 's) can come to you
I wrote a book spanning ICE & borders, Palestine & policing, colonialism & global fascism - in service to internationalist struggles.
I can no longer travel to US, but this book (as well @silkys13.bsky.social & @micahh.bsky.social 's) can come to you
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Free ebooks from @haymarketbooks.org, including Border and Rule by @harshawalia.bsky.social, which is one of the most important books I've ever read. Download and read, fam.
Another world is possible if we fight for it.
FREE Ebooks: Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about border and poli...
www.haymarketbooks.org
June 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Free ebooks from @haymarketbooks.org, including Border and Rule by @harshawalia.bsky.social, which is one of the most important books I've ever read. Download and read, fam.
Read @garthmullins.bsky.social's "Crackdown" over the weekend. Urgent, powerful, and filled with so much love. (If you work in a library, please check to make sure this one is on your shelves)
www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/700597...
www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/700597...
Crackdown by Garth Mullins | Penguin Random House Canada
*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*Part memoir, part manifesto, Crackdown is a story of the drug war, told from the frontlines.
www.penguinrandomhouse.ca
June 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Read @garthmullins.bsky.social's "Crackdown" over the weekend. Urgent, powerful, and filled with so much love. (If you work in a library, please check to make sure this one is on your shelves)
www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/700597...
www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/700597...
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Librarian here. Got an email from a patron about our "poor selection" of books on AI, w/ list of new books that we HAD to get so ppl could stay informed about this important subject. Title, author, synopsis.
Of 11 titles on the list, 10 Did Not Exist. At all.
"Yeah, I got it from Ch*tGPT, why?"
Of 11 titles on the list, 10 Did Not Exist. At all.
"Yeah, I got it from Ch*tGPT, why?"
May 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Librarian here. Got an email from a patron about our "poor selection" of books on AI, w/ list of new books that we HAD to get so ppl could stay informed about this important subject. Title, author, synopsis.
Of 11 titles on the list, 10 Did Not Exist. At all.
"Yeah, I got it from Ch*tGPT, why?"
Of 11 titles on the list, 10 Did Not Exist. At all.
"Yeah, I got it from Ch*tGPT, why?"
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I went into my library's database of Chicago area newspapers to confirm this isn't fake, and it's not.
@chicago.suntimes.com Why the hell are you using ChatGPT to make up book titles? You used to have a books staff. Absolutely no fact checking?
@chicago.suntimes.com Why the hell are you using ChatGPT to make up book titles? You used to have a books staff. Absolutely no fact checking?
May 20, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I went into my library's database of Chicago area newspapers to confirm this isn't fake, and it's not.
@chicago.suntimes.com Why the hell are you using ChatGPT to make up book titles? You used to have a books staff. Absolutely no fact checking?
@chicago.suntimes.com Why the hell are you using ChatGPT to make up book titles? You used to have a books staff. Absolutely no fact checking?
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It brings me no joy to share this, but here's an open letter to the leadership of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) on what is to me a very serious issue with it's autonomy and political scope. (Note: I've worked for and with PKP for decades).
ahemnason.notion.site/open-letter-...
ahemnason.notion.site/open-letter-...
An Open Letter to the Leadership of the Public Knowledge Project | Notion
Hey. My name is Mike Nason, Open Scholarship & Publishing Librarian at the University of New Brunswick and the Open Scholarly Infrastructure Advisor with the Public Knowledge Project (PKP). I owe a si...
ahemnason.notion.site
May 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
It brings me no joy to share this, but here's an open letter to the leadership of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) on what is to me a very serious issue with it's autonomy and political scope. (Note: I've worked for and with PKP for decades).
ahemnason.notion.site/open-letter-...
ahemnason.notion.site/open-letter-...
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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people in canada - pay attention to what's unfolding here, and not just w/Trump. Poilievre is promising to criminalize protest, deportations for pro-Palestine activism, withhold $ from universities, deny existence of trans people, implement three strikes laws & huge privatization. fight fascism here
April 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
people in canada - pay attention to what's unfolding here, and not just w/Trump. Poilievre is promising to criminalize protest, deportations for pro-Palestine activism, withhold $ from universities, deny existence of trans people, implement three strikes laws & huge privatization. fight fascism here
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Join me and @belantara.bsky.social as we launch our new book Ways of Knowing: The Worlds Words Create. We'll be joined by series editor @violetbfox.bsky.social. May 8th at 7pm ET!
litwinbooks.com/book-launch-...
litwinbooks.com/book-launch-...
Book Launch - Ways of Knowing: Oral Histories on the Worlds Words Create - Litwin Books & Library Juice Press
Free Event Join us May 8, 2025 at 7pm Eastern for virtual book launch for the new title Ways of Knowing: Oral Histories on the Worlds Words Create edited by … Read more Book Launch – Ways of Knowing: ...
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April 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Join me and @belantara.bsky.social as we launch our new book Ways of Knowing: The Worlds Words Create. We'll be joined by series editor @violetbfox.bsky.social. May 8th at 7pm ET!
litwinbooks.com/book-launch-...
litwinbooks.com/book-launch-...
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Vancouver is leading the progressive pushback against the rising right!
What an honour to be fighting alongside leaders like municipal by-election winner @seanorr.bsky.social.
#cdnpoli #vanpoli #vancouver #vancouvercentre
What an honour to be fighting alongside leaders like municipal by-election winner @seanorr.bsky.social.
#cdnpoli #vanpoli #vancouver #vancouvercentre
April 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Vancouver is leading the progressive pushback against the rising right!
What an honour to be fighting alongside leaders like municipal by-election winner @seanorr.bsky.social.
#cdnpoli #vanpoli #vancouver #vancouvercentre
What an honour to be fighting alongside leaders like municipal by-election winner @seanorr.bsky.social.
#cdnpoli #vanpoli #vancouver #vancouvercentre
Every time a fellow academic uses the word "unprecedented" to describe not being able to travel to the US for a conference, I cry in Muslim Ban/brown-people-travelling-to-the-US. Not minimizing the current situation AT ALL, but am old enough to remember 2017/always.
April 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Every time a fellow academic uses the word "unprecedented" to describe not being able to travel to the US for a conference, I cry in Muslim Ban/brown-people-travelling-to-the-US. Not minimizing the current situation AT ALL, but am old enough to remember 2017/always.