nimisha bhat
@mishiebhat.bsky.social
librarian. a south dakotan in ohio. she/her (views are my own)
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
organizingmythoughts.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
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“Animikii is happy to announce the release of the #DataBack eBook, written for Indigenous-focused organizations and governments to transform data governance through advanced tools, principles, and practices.”
#DataBack | Recognize and Reclaim Indigenous Data Sovereignty
— Animikii Indigenous Technology
Data are essential for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Peoples to inform policies, make better decisions, and ensure a better future for the next generations. So what does this look like in practice?
animikii.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
“Animikii is happy to announce the release of the #DataBack eBook, written for Indigenous-focused organizations and governments to transform data governance through advanced tools, principles, and practices.”
sharing this opportunity from animikii to be involved in an amazing service that helps create data structures using indigenous governance & protocols niiwin.app/just-launche...
#DataBack Fellowship
Unlock the future of content, data design, management, and governance with Niiwin. Crafted with Indigenous cultural safety, Niiwin is here to redefine control over your stories and data.
niiwin.app
December 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
sharing this opportunity from animikii to be involved in an amazing service that helps create data structures using indigenous governance & protocols niiwin.app/just-launche...
higher ed leadership is full of power hungry cowards who don’t give a shit about students. all of these shameful acts to bend the knee could’ve been avoided if every university banded together and told the government to kick rocks but they’d rather make money and lick boots than stand for anything
Via Andrea Tinker: The University of Alabama suspended publication of two student-run magazines on Monday, claiming that the publications were not in compliance with federal guidance on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs.
University of Alabama suspends student magazines for Black students, female students | Alabama Reflector
The University of Alabama suspended publication for Nineteen Fifty-Six Magazine and Alice Magazine citing a memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi.
alabamareflector.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:47 AM
higher ed leadership is full of power hungry cowards who don’t give a shit about students. all of these shameful acts to bend the knee could’ve been avoided if every university banded together and told the government to kick rocks but they’d rather make money and lick boots than stand for anything
hell is real billboard (ohio) and I feel like he’d write the most beautiful saddest song about the wall drug parking lot (south dakota)
Question: if Sufjan Stevens did an album about your state, what would there be songs about? (sorry, Michigan and Illinois, you have to sit this one out.
I'll go first for Maryland:
1. Baltimore
2. Harriet Tubman
3. The Snallygaster
4. The pursuit of John Wilkes Booth
5. The Chesapeake
6. Crabs
I'll go first for Maryland:
1. Baltimore
2. Harriet Tubman
3. The Snallygaster
4. The pursuit of John Wilkes Booth
5. The Chesapeake
6. Crabs
December 2, 2025 at 1:42 AM
hell is real billboard (ohio) and I feel like he’d write the most beautiful saddest song about the wall drug parking lot (south dakota)
one reason I see as a librarian is that students aren't always encouraged to explore what they're interested in. I just helped an undergrad find & read nonpopulation census data from 1850 on microfilm - they care, but school admins & gov't have failed them, and they just need a degree to survive
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
December 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
one reason I see as a librarian is that students aren't always encouraged to explore what they're interested in. I just helped an undergrad find & read nonpopulation census data from 1850 on microfilm - they care, but school admins & gov't have failed them, and they just need a degree to survive
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"Republicans are driving up your electricity bills so they can generate AI memes about their war crimes" should be a political layup
December 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"Republicans are driving up your electricity bills so they can generate AI memes about their war crimes" should be a political layup
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AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re-
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
January 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re-
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
(at a social function this holiday season)
“hey nimisha how’s it going”
“THEY FOUND HUNDREDS OF DECAPITATED NEOLITHIC BODIES AND HAVE NO IDEA WHERE THEY CAME FROM OR WHO DID IT OR WHY”
“hey nimisha how’s it going”
“THEY FOUND HUNDREDS OF DECAPITATED NEOLITHIC BODIES AND HAVE NO IDEA WHERE THEY CAME FROM OR WHO DID IT OR WHY”
Pointed out by my friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social . There's something weird and unsettling about a fairly homogeneous culture spread out across Europe that then collapses into an orgy of genocide.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
(at a social function this holiday season)
“hey nimisha how’s it going”
“THEY FOUND HUNDREDS OF DECAPITATED NEOLITHIC BODIES AND HAVE NO IDEA WHERE THEY CAME FROM OR WHO DID IT OR WHY”
“hey nimisha how’s it going”
“THEY FOUND HUNDREDS OF DECAPITATED NEOLITHIC BODIES AND HAVE NO IDEA WHERE THEY CAME FROM OR WHO DID IT OR WHY”
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A thing about AI in higher ed right now is that half of us are scrambling to deal with the implosion of our information environment that broke reading/writing/source verification, while the other half is trying to achieve a massive institutional buy-in of the very thing that's causing the implosion
November 7, 2025 at 1:30 AM
A thing about AI in higher ed right now is that half of us are scrambling to deal with the implosion of our information environment that broke reading/writing/source verification, while the other half is trying to achieve a massive institutional buy-in of the very thing that's causing the implosion
it’s always fun when financial officers present at library all staff meetings and make weird analogies to their own heart attacks and bin laden in relation to the university’s budget model
November 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
it’s always fun when financial officers present at library all staff meetings and make weird analogies to their own heart attacks and bin laden in relation to the university’s budget model
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Things that will get you kicked out of academia forever:
- taking maternity leave at the wrong time
- spending too much time with your kids
- reporting harassment
- not moving every 2-3 years
- taking a partner's job/preferences into account
- mouthing off before tenure
- taking maternity leave at the wrong time
- spending too much time with your kids
- reporting harassment
- not moving every 2-3 years
- taking a partner's job/preferences into account
- mouthing off before tenure
A guy makes ONE tiny mistake (has a years-long friendship with the world's worst sex trafficker; brags about sexually harassing colleagues; is racist; says women are stupid) and his whole LIFE is blown up (does slightly fewer speaking engagements; keeps teaching at #1 university)??!?!?!?!?!
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
November 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Things that will get you kicked out of academia forever:
- taking maternity leave at the wrong time
- spending too much time with your kids
- reporting harassment
- not moving every 2-3 years
- taking a partner's job/preferences into account
- mouthing off before tenure
- taking maternity leave at the wrong time
- spending too much time with your kids
- reporting harassment
- not moving every 2-3 years
- taking a partner's job/preferences into account
- mouthing off before tenure
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Woke 2 must bring a cleansing bloodshed
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
oklahomawatch.org
November 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Woke 2 must bring a cleansing bloodshed
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I attended a meeting yesterday and it reminded me that every single organizer needs to get training on how to facilitate meetings. Truly. You lose more people through terrible meeting facilitation than I can express.
November 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I attended a meeting yesterday and it reminded me that every single organizer needs to get training on how to facilitate meetings. Truly. You lose more people through terrible meeting facilitation than I can express.
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Mayor Mamdani is coming to liberate the people of Ohio
NYC bus on the Ohio Turnpike outside Toledo. The front says NOT IN SERVICE
November 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Mayor Mamdani is coming to liberate the people of Ohio
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
I am weeping
Remember that little boy who cried uncontrollably because he wanted A’ja Wilson to come to his house??? He got to MEET her and I cannot deal… 🥹😭❤️ #WNBA
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I am weeping
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since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign
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The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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This is a nice story about how libraries change lives.
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This is a nice story about how libraries change lives.
you should be allowed to attempt a layup at the hoop if your polling place is in a gym
November 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
you should be allowed to attempt a layup at the hoop if your polling place is in a gym
all of these losers have zero information or media literacy skills and now they get to decide the fate of so many people
Yes, Lord of the Rings is about how you must trust the “hard men.” Just as Narnia is about an evil lion. And the New Testament tells a tale of a wimp who wouldn’t fight back. Next week on “fascists read classics,” we’ll meet tech visionary George Orwell…
October 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
all of these losers have zero information or media literacy skills and now they get to decide the fate of so many people
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Here's a way to search all food banks:
www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
After you put in your zip code, if there aren't many results then click on "see nearby pantries" and it'll give you a map with everything on it.
www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
After you put in your zip code, if there aren't many results then click on "see nearby pantries" and it'll give you a map with everything on it.
important reminder: food banks usually prefer money to direct food donations because they can buy at discounted rates
check with your local food bank to be sure but now is the time to help out
check with your local food bank to be sure but now is the time to help out
Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’
October 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Here's a way to search all food banks:
www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
After you put in your zip code, if there aren't many results then click on "see nearby pantries" and it'll give you a map with everything on it.
www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
After you put in your zip code, if there aren't many results then click on "see nearby pantries" and it'll give you a map with everything on it.
today I learned that there’s an ohio apple variety called ludacrisp
About | Ludacrisp®
Crazy Good!
www.ludacrispapples.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
today I learned that there’s an ohio apple variety called ludacrisp
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Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n