Nathan F
@librarypoweruser.bsky.social
Pro libraries, PIC abolition, and cats
Midwest, U.S.
Midwest, U.S.
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Time for one of my favorite poems, even tho I am not hungover today.
Hangover 1.1.2019 – ZYZZYVA
Like a hammer swung into antique champagne flutes / Like a family heirloom traded for a Twix / Like a red dictionary dropped from a replica famous bridge / Like a robe made out of skin that, turns out...
www.zyzzyva.org
January 1, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Time for one of my favorite poems, even tho I am not hungover today.
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December 31, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Christina Sharpe: "The Shapes of Grief"
An essay by Christina Sharpe on witnessing the unbearable.
yalereview.org
December 31, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Big appreciation to @davidnaimon.bsky.social for introducing me to the poem, Heaven as Olympic Spa by Ama Codjoe.
Codjoe's line, "I was ordinary and motherless," has been coursing through my body — a comfort, a beacon, bobbing on the rushing river of adrenaline my mom's death undammed.
Codjoe's line, "I was ordinary and motherless," has been coursing through my body — a comfort, a beacon, bobbing on the rushing river of adrenaline my mom's death undammed.
Heaven as Olympic Spa
Because I was not alone,
my nakedness felt unremarkable.
I didn't miss my mother—
I didn't miss missing her.
poems.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Big appreciation to @davidnaimon.bsky.social for introducing me to the poem, Heaven as Olympic Spa by Ama Codjoe.
Codjoe's line, "I was ordinary and motherless," has been coursing through my body — a comfort, a beacon, bobbing on the rushing river of adrenaline my mom's death undammed.
Codjoe's line, "I was ordinary and motherless," has been coursing through my body — a comfort, a beacon, bobbing on the rushing river of adrenaline my mom's death undammed.
[Mojo Nixon voice] Santa is everyBODY
December 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
[Mojo Nixon voice] Santa is everyBODY
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1996 in the US saw the passage of the Telecom Act (deregulation, section 230), the Personal Responsibility & Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, & the Illegal Immigrant & Immigrant Responsibility Act. Those three things set up what we're living today.
December 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
1996 in the US saw the passage of the Telecom Act (deregulation, section 230), the Personal Responsibility & Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, & the Illegal Immigrant & Immigrant Responsibility Act. Those three things set up what we're living today.
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TODAY!
What are your music predictions for 2026?
What are your music predictions for 2026?
SUNDAY from 5-7pm Eastern tune into Inhailer.com to hear me spin some current indie hits and make some predictions about what I think will happen in the music world in 2026.
What are your music predictions for the coming year?
What are your music predictions for the coming year?
Inhailer Radio | Cincinnati | Independent Radio | Indie Music
Inhailer Radio is Cincinnati independent radio. Founded in 2017 to fill the void left by beloved radio station WNKU.
Inhailer.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
TODAY!
What are your music predictions for 2026?
What are your music predictions for 2026?
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Here's a good bit of Christmas reading.
From the wind blown dusts of drained lakes to the fall-out from atom bomb tests, @jayowens.bsky.social 's story telling explores particles in our air, how humanity causes them and their impacts.
Found it in my city library - thanks @brighton-hove.gov.uk
From the wind blown dusts of drained lakes to the fall-out from atom bomb tests, @jayowens.bsky.social 's story telling explores particles in our air, how humanity causes them and their impacts.
Found it in my city library - thanks @brighton-hove.gov.uk
December 23, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Here's a good bit of Christmas reading.
From the wind blown dusts of drained lakes to the fall-out from atom bomb tests, @jayowens.bsky.social 's story telling explores particles in our air, how humanity causes them and their impacts.
Found it in my city library - thanks @brighton-hove.gov.uk
From the wind blown dusts of drained lakes to the fall-out from atom bomb tests, @jayowens.bsky.social 's story telling explores particles in our air, how humanity causes them and their impacts.
Found it in my city library - thanks @brighton-hove.gov.uk
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it's as if there's contempt for people who experienced the past, a sense that it isn't fair—generative AI works to abolish the possibility of idiosyncratic experiences. No one has to be jealous of people who "were really there" because "really there"-ness will have been eliminated from all media
December 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
it's as if there's contempt for people who experienced the past, a sense that it isn't fair—generative AI works to abolish the possibility of idiosyncratic experiences. No one has to be jealous of people who "were really there" because "really there"-ness will have been eliminated from all media
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than gin-&-limes you are cooler, darling, o come back to me (john berryman)
December 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
than gin-&-limes you are cooler, darling, o come back to me (john berryman)
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Now!
Starting off with the new Avalon Emerson and some Stone Roses
Starting off with the new Avalon Emerson and some Stone Roses
TOMORROW from 5-7pm Eastern on Inhailer.com hear me spin some new indie and celebrate the upcoming 50th anniversary of the legendary Australian community radio station 4ZZZ with some classics from Oz/Oceania artists
Inhailer Radio | Cincinnati | Independent Radio | Indie Music
Inhailer Radio is Cincinnati independent radio. Founded in 2017 to fill the void left by beloved radio station WNKU.
Inhailer.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Now!
Starting off with the new Avalon Emerson and some Stone Roses
Starting off with the new Avalon Emerson and some Stone Roses
*raises hand*
youtube.com/watch?v=yWuz...
youtube.com/watch?v=yWuz...
November 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
*raises hand*
youtube.com/watch?v=yWuz...
youtube.com/watch?v=yWuz...
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TOMORROW from 5-7pm Eastern on Inhailer.com hear me spin some new indie and celebrate the upcoming 50th anniversary of the legendary Australian community radio station 4ZZZ with some classics from Oz/Oceania artists
Inhailer Radio | Cincinnati | Independent Radio | Indie Music
Inhailer Radio is Cincinnati independent radio. Founded in 2017 to fill the void left by beloved radio station WNKU.
Inhailer.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
TOMORROW from 5-7pm Eastern on Inhailer.com hear me spin some new indie and celebrate the upcoming 50th anniversary of the legendary Australian community radio station 4ZZZ with some classics from Oz/Oceania artists
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At a personal level two things are true at the same time
Criminalization has intended effect of deterrence - the process is the punishment - and going through legal system is always painful & draining.
And its also true that solidarity is stronger than fear, and in this time its all we have.
Criminalization has intended effect of deterrence - the process is the punishment - and going through legal system is always painful & draining.
And its also true that solidarity is stronger than fear, and in this time its all we have.
November 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
At a personal level two things are true at the same time
Criminalization has intended effect of deterrence - the process is the punishment - and going through legal system is always painful & draining.
And its also true that solidarity is stronger than fear, and in this time its all we have.
Criminalization has intended effect of deterrence - the process is the punishment - and going through legal system is always painful & draining.
And its also true that solidarity is stronger than fear, and in this time its all we have.
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Many transhumanists and longevity guys are imo intent on overcoming their bodies' limitations/needs bc these needs (for clean water, air, food) represent a natural limit on forms of capital and technological development that erode our environment & are inimical to human life.
November 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Many transhumanists and longevity guys are imo intent on overcoming their bodies' limitations/needs bc these needs (for clean water, air, food) represent a natural limit on forms of capital and technological development that erode our environment & are inimical to human life.
Joined!
I was able to donate 50. It was doubled. Who can join me? Please.
This is not a useless task so long as there’s a chance just one person can see this and help.
So here’s hoping.
Six families, etc.:
So here’s hoping.
Six families, etc.:
November 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Joined!
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Promoting my most recently published book, and the one that's most accessible to general readers. @dandipiero.bsky.social called it "a secret lesson in the philosophy of freedom" and that's basically what it is, disguised in the story of a modern rock radio station
uncpress.org/978146967345...
uncpress.org/978146967345...
November 26, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Promoting my most recently published book, and the one that's most accessible to general readers. @dandipiero.bsky.social called it "a secret lesson in the philosophy of freedom" and that's basically what it is, disguised in the story of a modern rock radio station
uncpress.org/978146967345...
uncpress.org/978146967345...
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the poetry collection you mortal beings-in-time need for the darkest month is right here
moonpalacebooks.com/item/0vBk0cP...
(in the UK and Ireland order from @carcanet.bsky.social or @kennysbookshop.bsky.social respectively)
moonpalacebooks.com/item/0vBk0cP...
(in the UK and Ireland order from @carcanet.bsky.social or @kennysbookshop.bsky.social respectively)
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
the poetry collection you mortal beings-in-time need for the darkest month is right here
moonpalacebooks.com/item/0vBk0cP...
(in the UK and Ireland order from @carcanet.bsky.social or @kennysbookshop.bsky.social respectively)
moonpalacebooks.com/item/0vBk0cP...
(in the UK and Ireland order from @carcanet.bsky.social or @kennysbookshop.bsky.social respectively)
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(remembering archive lets you play older games in the browder window)(gasping like i just emerged from a deep ocean)
November 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM
(remembering archive lets you play older games in the browder window)(gasping like i just emerged from a deep ocean)
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Increasingly convinced the only solution is not making data.
In October, statewide news reported that a sheriff's deputy in Texas searched thousands of Flock cameras in Washington for 'Had an abortion, search for female.’ New documents obtained by RANGE show Spokane County Sheriff's Office cameras were accessed in that search:
Texas deputy searched Spokane County Flock cameras for a woman who had an abortion– RANGE Media
Amidst nationwide and state scrutiny of the cameras, Spokane County’s Flock network was used by an out-of-state cop looking for a woman who had an abortion.
rangemedia.co
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Increasingly convinced the only solution is not making data.
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Information is "behind a paywall" for lots of reasons. Profit for sure, but also salaries and benefits and lights and heat and roof repair and on and on. Stuff costs money for now, revolution pending. Rather than yoink from a pirate site, why not boost usage stats at your local library instead?
November 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Information is "behind a paywall" for lots of reasons. Profit for sure, but also salaries and benefits and lights and heat and roof repair and on and on. Stuff costs money for now, revolution pending. Rather than yoink from a pirate site, why not boost usage stats at your local library instead?
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Beauvoir starts off The Ethics of Ambiguity showing how the entire history of Western philosophy is an attempt to offload the hard work of making decisions in ambiguous & arbitrary circumstances onto supposedly 'rational' systems - having chatbots think for you is effectively the same thing
November 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Beauvoir starts off The Ethics of Ambiguity showing how the entire history of Western philosophy is an attempt to offload the hard work of making decisions in ambiguous & arbitrary circumstances onto supposedly 'rational' systems - having chatbots think for you is effectively the same thing
Used to find the who follows who social media connections novel and edifying (“I knew they must travel in the same circles,“ even though following never corresponded with attention), but now, learning two posters who seem complementary do not follow each other is a relief. The web isn’t so small
November 19, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Used to find the who follows who social media connections novel and edifying (“I knew they must travel in the same circles,“ even though following never corresponded with attention), but now, learning two posters who seem complementary do not follow each other is a relief. The web isn’t so small
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Starting off w Laura Jane Grace covering Op Ivy’s “Soundsystem”
November 16, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Starting off w Laura Jane Grace covering Op Ivy’s “Soundsystem”