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157 - The Politics of Weeding and Little v. Llano County | librarypunk
We’re back! We’re talking about weeding and library collections as government speech.
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157 - The Politics of Weeding and Little v. Llano County
We’re back! We’re talking about weeding and library collections as government speech.
We’re back! We’re talking about weeding and library collections as government speech.
I love him
February 13, 2026 at 1:29 AM
I love him
Editing the podcast, learning I cough now when I have indigestion
February 12, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Editing the podcast, learning I cough now when I have indigestion
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When you see slates of absurd bills, purposefully intended to harm, shame, and damage young people and educators in the public school world, it's about vouchers. It's about stealing money from public institutions and giving it to rich people for private, unregulated schools.
February 12, 2026 at 4:30 PM
When you see slates of absurd bills, purposefully intended to harm, shame, and damage young people and educators in the public school world, it's about vouchers. It's about stealing money from public institutions and giving it to rich people for private, unregulated schools.
Protestant work ethic is a disease
February 12, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Protestant work ethic is a disease
no one has a spine, it's ridiculous. Just say you'll do it and don't.
February 12, 2026 at 2:58 PM
no one has a spine, it's ridiculous. Just say you'll do it and don't.
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For all the evil that gets done legislatively and judicially, there’s something to be said about the complicity of regular people who are all too willing to be “overly cautious.”
February 12, 2026 at 2:54 PM
For all the evil that gets done legislatively and judicially, there’s something to be said about the complicity of regular people who are all too willing to be “overly cautious.”
Had a great and energizing recording session with @librarian.bsky.social and why do people talk to AIs for fun when people like this exist?
February 12, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Had a great and energizing recording session with @librarian.bsky.social and why do people talk to AIs for fun when people like this exist?
my favorite MCR album
February 11, 2026 at 7:54 PM
my favorite MCR album
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The Parker administration is failing so many of our most vulnerable neighbors while hanging our overworked, underpaid library workers out to dry www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
Library warming centers strained workers and left people without help for complex issues, staff say
Library workers and volunteers say people in mental-health crises, struggling with substance-abuse issues, and requiring wound care are coming to the warming centers and they have no backup.
www.inquirer.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:06 PM
The Parker administration is failing so many of our most vulnerable neighbors while hanging our overworked, underpaid library workers out to dry www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
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for a fired professor, “the university recorded four of his classes using the existing Panopto camera in the classroom.” having read Foucault is such a burden in this new world
“The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently rolled out a new policy that permits university officials to record classes without notifying the instructor. It’s a practice administrators have used in the past to investigate professors but have now formalized in writing.”
UNC Admin Can Now, Officially, Secretly Record Faculty
The new policy prohibits students from recording class without permission but explicitly allows administrators to surveil professors for any “lawful purpose.”
www.insidehighered.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:26 PM
for a fired professor, “the university recorded four of his classes using the existing Panopto camera in the classroom.” having read Foucault is such a burden in this new world
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#OtD 11 Feb 1987 Mark Ashton, leading member of Lesbians & Gays Support the Miners, died aged just 26. @LGSMpride raised huge amounts of money for Welsh miners during the strike of 1984-5 and brought together the LGBT & workers movts. More in our pod: workingclasshistory.com/2019/06/10/e...
February 11, 2026 at 10:25 AM
#OtD 11 Feb 1987 Mark Ashton, leading member of Lesbians & Gays Support the Miners, died aged just 26. @LGSMpride raised huge amounts of money for Welsh miners during the strike of 1984-5 and brought together the LGBT & workers movts. More in our pod: workingclasshistory.com/2019/06/10/e...
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What is the academic equivalent of #NoTechForICE? A colleague has proposed #NoPapersForICE... A lot of the journals we publish in and subscribe to are behind some of the grossest targeting of humans in the US. See also: bsky.app/profile/jamb...
Turns out that the publisher of the property law textbook I use, Thomson Reuters, "holds a contract worth up to $22 million (U.S.) that began in May 2021 to provide ICE with access to a law enforcement investigative database subscription". Welp, new book time...
www.thestar.com/business/mor...
www.thestar.com/business/mor...
More than a dozen Canadian companies – including Thomson Reuters – have done business with ICE, Star analysis reveals
Such contracts have become controversial as concerns mount that products or services sold to ICE could be used by the agency in activities that may violate human rights.
www.thestar.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:37 PM
What is the academic equivalent of #NoTechForICE? A colleague has proposed #NoPapersForICE... A lot of the journals we publish in and subscribe to are behind some of the grossest targeting of humans in the US. See also: bsky.app/profile/jamb...
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So apparently you can still use non age restricted discords if you refuse. But that’s still a huge pain for adult performers who use discord as part of their services
February 9, 2026 at 4:53 PM
So apparently you can still use non age restricted discords if you refuse. But that’s still a huge pain for adult performers who use discord as part of their services
I think our GAs put some manga in the blind date with a book pile. That'll be funny to get volume 4 of Full Metal Alchemist.
February 9, 2026 at 4:38 PM
I think our GAs put some manga in the blind date with a book pile. That'll be funny to get volume 4 of Full Metal Alchemist.
Oh my god the card i remember this
February 8, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Oh my god the card i remember this
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oaklandlibrary.org/blogs/post/2... - '28 days of librarians' for Black History Month
28 Days of Black Librarians
In 2026 ASALH, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History honors Black History Month with A Century of Black…
oaklandlibrary.org
February 8, 2026 at 6:32 PM
oaklandlibrary.org/blogs/post/2... - '28 days of librarians' for Black History Month
