librarypunk
@librarypunk.bsky.social
A leftist library worker podcast.
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158 - Flickr Commons feat. Jessamyn West | librarypunk
It’s a fun one! We’re talking with Jessamyn about the public domain, new and old technology, blogging at the DNC, and lots of inside baseball.
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158 - Flickr Commons feat. Jessamyn West
It’s a fun one! We’re talking with @librarian.bsky.social about the public domain, new and old technology, blogging at the DNC, and lots of inside baseball.
It’s a fun one! We’re talking with @librarian.bsky.social about the public domain, new and old technology, blogging at the DNC, and lots of inside baseball.
158 - Flickr Commons feat. Jessamyn West
It’s a fun one! We’re talking with @librarian.bsky.social about the public domain, new and old technology, blogging at the DNC, and lots of inside baseball.
It’s a fun one! We’re talking with @librarian.bsky.social about the public domain, new and old technology, blogging at the DNC, and lots of inside baseball.
158 - Flickr Commons feat. Jessamyn West | librarypunk
It’s a fun one! We’re talking with Jessamyn about the public domain, new and old technology, blogging at the DNC, and lots of inside baseball.
Media mentioned
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessamyn_We...
www.librarypunk.gay
February 18, 2026 at 12:25 AM
158 - Flickr Commons feat. Jessamyn West
It’s a fun one! We’re talking with @librarian.bsky.social about the public domain, new and old technology, blogging at the DNC, and lots of inside baseball.
It’s a fun one! We’re talking with @librarian.bsky.social about the public domain, new and old technology, blogging at the DNC, and lots of inside baseball.
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Let us know if you'd like any of us to guest on your podcast. We're available if you need a library worker POV about copyright, publishing, government censorship, academia, IT, etc. Or if you want to talk about any of our pet interests like opera, horror, video games, gay shit, and bad books.
February 8, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Let us know if you'd like any of us to guest on your podcast. We're available if you need a library worker POV about copyright, publishing, government censorship, academia, IT, etc. Or if you want to talk about any of our pet interests like opera, horror, video games, gay shit, and bad books.
"It's tech companies that build these things, not libraries"
The companies: Librarians, come build our tech for us for free.
The companies: Librarians, come build our tech for us for free.
February 17, 2026 at 4:10 PM
"It's tech companies that build these things, not libraries"
The companies: Librarians, come build our tech for us for free.
The companies: Librarians, come build our tech for us for free.
"The Librarian as Sin-Eater: Community Book Disposal via Donation"
@aud.bsky.social pointed out that librarians are just sin eaters for throwing books away when we accept donations
February 17, 2026 at 4:04 PM
"The Librarian as Sin-Eater: Community Book Disposal via Donation"
@aud.bsky.social pointed out that librarians are just sin eaters for throwing books away when we accept donations
February 17, 2026 at 3:04 PM
@aud.bsky.social pointed out that librarians are just sin eaters for throwing books away when we accept donations
Uses a very simple MarcEdit tool correctly: Surely I am god's gift to librarianship
February 17, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Uses a very simple MarcEdit tool correctly: Surely I am god's gift to librarianship
It’s actually very simple. Trans people are cool. You can literally hold that position and defend it as a library. It’s so, so simple.
People trying to erase my neighbors are, actually, a problem and I refuse to act otherwise.
February 17, 2026 at 3:04 AM
It’s actually very simple. Trans people are cool. You can literally hold that position and defend it as a library. It’s so, so simple.
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People trying to erase my neighbors are, actually, a problem and I refuse to act otherwise.
February 17, 2026 at 2:03 AM
People trying to erase my neighbors are, actually, a problem and I refuse to act otherwise.
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Nothing that can help regular people is possible. Everything that can hurt regular people is easy to do. This is basically how most politicians act right now.
February 17, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Nothing that can help regular people is possible. Everything that can hurt regular people is easy to do. This is basically how most politicians act right now.
Has any podcast released a museum exhibit audio tour?
February 14, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Has any podcast released a museum exhibit audio tour?
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Florida's opening argument in their appeal of the ruling that they cannot ban books from schools is that the government doesn't owe students public school library books at all.
February 13, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Florida's opening argument in their appeal of the ruling that they cannot ban books from schools is that the government doesn't owe students public school library books at all.
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💡 We are SO honored to be hosting this free, virtual talk with the Ace Archive project, which archives the history of asexual and aromantic communities!
Join us to learn about amateur archiving, copyright law, the zine that changed everything, and much more! 👉 https://loom.ly/RgqhFpg
Join us to learn about amateur archiving, copyright law, the zine that changed everything, and much more! 👉 https://loom.ly/RgqhFpg
February 13, 2026 at 2:05 PM
💡 We are SO honored to be hosting this free, virtual talk with the Ace Archive project, which archives the history of asexual and aromantic communities!
Join us to learn about amateur archiving, copyright law, the zine that changed everything, and much more! 👉 https://loom.ly/RgqhFpg
Join us to learn about amateur archiving, copyright law, the zine that changed everything, and much more! 👉 https://loom.ly/RgqhFpg
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.
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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?
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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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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.
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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
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Zine Culture
Created in hiding during WWII, a Jewish artist's underground ’zines are finally rising to the surface
From 1943 to 1945, Bloch produced 96 editions of 'The Underwater Cabaret' while he and other Jews hid from the Nazis in an attic crawlspace.
forward.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Zine Culture