maria lee 🌻
@librarylee.bsky.social
public librarian in columbus, oh.
talk unions to me.
talk unions to me.
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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.
January 23, 2026 at 10:20 PM
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.
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They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.
January 23, 2026 at 8:56 PM
They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.
cbus city council told my boss, don’t waste our precious funding on union busting 🤘
Thank you to the entire Columbus City Council for sending a letter to @columbuslibrary.bsky.social in support of CML workers and urging the library to remain neutral while workers wait for their union election!
January 23, 2026 at 12:59 AM
cbus city council told my boss, don’t waste our precious funding on union busting 🤘
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Reupping this from last night.
If you're a library advocate or worker, you should be pissed. You should also be pissed if you're a taxpayer. MILLIONS of dollars have been stolen from you and from public libraries and museums to develop these propaganda trucks.
The administration brags on social.
If you're a library advocate or worker, you should be pissed. You should also be pissed if you're a taxpayer. MILLIONS of dollars have been stolen from you and from public libraries and museums to develop these propaganda trucks.
The administration brags on social.
YOOOOO.
Library folks.
Go look at the Institute of Museum and Library Services Facebook page.
Here's your Freedom Truck propaganda, loud and clear.
bookriot.com/imls-freedom...
Library folks.
Go look at the Institute of Museum and Library Services Facebook page.
Here's your Freedom Truck propaganda, loud and clear.
bookriot.com/imls-freedom...
January 22, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Reupping this from last night.
If you're a library advocate or worker, you should be pissed. You should also be pissed if you're a taxpayer. MILLIONS of dollars have been stolen from you and from public libraries and museums to develop these propaganda trucks.
The administration brags on social.
If you're a library advocate or worker, you should be pissed. You should also be pissed if you're a taxpayer. MILLIONS of dollars have been stolen from you and from public libraries and museums to develop these propaganda trucks.
The administration brags on social.
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semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
January 12, 2026 at 8:04 PM
semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
Geeking out over the local history research my team produced for the @columbuslibrary.bsky.social Barnett Branch’s grand opening!
December 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Geeking out over the local history research my team produced for the @columbuslibrary.bsky.social Barnett Branch’s grand opening!
We filed for our union election today!!!!!!!! Libraries need workers and workers need unions 💪
It's official — @columbuslibrary.bsky.social workers filed for their union election this morning!
Supermajority of Columbus Metropolitan Library Workers File For Union Election
COLUMBUS — Today, a supermajority of Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML) workers submitted signed union cards to Ohio’s State Employment Relations Board (SERB), initiating the union election process. ...
www.oft-aft.org
December 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
We filed for our union election today!!!!!!!! Libraries need workers and workers need unions 💪
all workers deserve a union 💕
NEWS: @columbuslibrary.bsky.social workers are forming their union with OFT & @aft.org!
Members of the organizing committee told the @ohiocapitaljournal.com why they're organizing:
Members of the organizing committee told the @ohiocapitaljournal.com why they're organizing:
Workers at one of Ohio's largest library systems set to unionize • Ohio Capital Journal
Workers with the Columbus Metropolitan Library are establishing a labor union focused on improvements they say need to happen in areas such as wages and paid time off.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
all workers deserve a union 💕
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I feel like if your AI company has to apologize to the estate of Martin Luther King Jr you should just flood your servers and walk into the ocean
October 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I feel like if your AI company has to apologize to the estate of Martin Luther King Jr you should just flood your servers and walk into the ocean
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“Maybe the intelligence we most need is the capacity to see beyond the hierarchies that determine which knowledge counts. Without that foundation, regardless of the hundreds of billions we pour into developing superintelligence, we’ll keep erasing knowledge systems that took generations to develop.”
Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge | Aeon Essays
Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too
aeon.co
October 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
“Maybe the intelligence we most need is the capacity to see beyond the hierarchies that determine which knowledge counts. Without that foundation, regardless of the hundreds of billions we pour into developing superintelligence, we’ll keep erasing knowledge systems that took generations to develop.”
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Really infuriating stuff. There's no place for AI in the classroom. AFT needs to follow the lead of @aaup.org and understand that these technologies are part of the increasing move to corporatize the classroom.
SMH: news that the American Federation of Teachers is partnering with Open AI and Microsoft on an AI initiative is especially disappointing because teachers’ unions can and should fight back against Big Tech’s attempts to deprofessionalize and disempower educators.
July 5, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Really infuriating stuff. There's no place for AI in the classroom. AFT needs to follow the lead of @aaup.org and understand that these technologies are part of the increasing move to corporatize the classroom.
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One thing you can do Right Now is be extremely vocal when you have librarians stocking inclusive collections. Call and tell them how happy you are, show up to board meetings. Bc the other side is *always* complaining and doing it in an organized way.
also you can donate to Lavonnia Moore here:
also you can donate to Lavonnia Moore here:
July 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
One thing you can do Right Now is be extremely vocal when you have librarians stocking inclusive collections. Call and tell them how happy you are, show up to board meetings. Bc the other side is *always* complaining and doing it in an organized way.
also you can donate to Lavonnia Moore here:
also you can donate to Lavonnia Moore here:
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the modern information environment
May 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
the modern information environment
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Similes like this are so helpful; it seems really obvious when you say it out loud but there is a genuine perspective shift when you're emphatic that the point of your teaching is not to create 15 essays, but 15 students who can write an essay.
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
April 15, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Similes like this are so helpful; it seems really obvious when you say it out loud but there is a genuine perspective shift when you're emphatic that the point of your teaching is not to create 15 essays, but 15 students who can write an essay.
Grateful to see some public dissent at the Ohio Statehouse on my way home from the library today.
February 17, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Grateful to see some public dissent at the Ohio Statehouse on my way home from the library today.
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EPA, CDC, USAID and other data sites of federal government are all down or being scrubbed of long-term data that WE THE TAXPAYERS paid for. I teach with these tools! Why are our universities saying nothing about loss of access to information and research implications? I cannot believe the silence 🧪
February 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
EPA, CDC, USAID and other data sites of federal government are all down or being scrubbed of long-term data that WE THE TAXPAYERS paid for. I teach with these tools! Why are our universities saying nothing about loss of access to information and research implications? I cannot believe the silence 🧪
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Archivists are working to identify and save thousands of datasets disappearing from Data.gov
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January 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Archivists are working to identify and save thousands of datasets disappearing from Data.gov
🔗 www.404media.co/archivists-w...
🔗 www.404media.co/archivists-w...
1916 OSU sociologists say beware the moral hazard of “loafing”.
January 19, 2025 at 12:58 AM
1916 OSU sociologists say beware the moral hazard of “loafing”.
I’ve lived next to a “land grant” university my entire life and until recently grossly misunderstood that the physical land that the university is on is not the “land” that was “granted”. Shout out to @highcountrynews.bsky.social for this excellent journalism!
Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.
www.landgrabu.org
January 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I’ve lived next to a “land grant” university my entire life and until recently grossly misunderstood that the physical land that the university is on is not the “land” that was “granted”. Shout out to @highcountrynews.bsky.social for this excellent journalism!
Bad news for folks.
Yesterday, a terrible public records/policing provision was snuck into HB 315, the final bill passed by Ohio legislators before this legislative session ended. Because it was snuck in, that means there were zero hearings, testimony, etc. against it or about this. 1/7
December 21, 2024 at 3:28 AM
Bad news for folks.
The Midwest Archives Conference is now accepting applications for the Archie Motley Memorial Scholarship! Two current BIPOC grad students will receive a $1500 award. Due March 1, 2025. #mlis #LibrarySchool
Archie Motley Scholarship
www.midwestarchives.org
December 2, 2024 at 7:32 PM
The Midwest Archives Conference is now accepting applications for the Archie Motley Memorial Scholarship! Two current BIPOC grad students will receive a $1500 award. Due March 1, 2025. #mlis #LibrarySchool
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A Texas federal judge has struck down a DOL rule that would have expanded overtime eligibility to four million new workers, kneecapping one of the Biden administration’s most substantial labor policies.
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Texas Judge Tosses Biden Overtime Expansion for Millions (2)
A Texas federal judge has struck down a US Department of Labor rule that would have expanded overtime eligibility to four million new workers, kneecapping one of the Biden administration’s most substa...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 25, 2024 at 3:54 AM
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