JHH
@shqippy.bsky.social
Theology, Prince, protest music. Opinions my own.
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JHH
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Can algorithm find peeps interested in Prince, Albania, Quakers, libraries, Mr. Rogers?
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Re-sharing my final byline of the year, my interview with Rian Johnson about 'Wake Up Dead Man.' We talked about growing up "young, dumb and full of Christ," the "Pottery Barn" aesthetics of evangelicalism, and Michael W. Smith. Scooby Dooby Doo!
Knives Out’s Rian Johnson Says He Will Always Be a Youth Group Kid
‘Wake Up Dead Man’ wears faith on its sleeve, but Johnson said all of his movies are subtly about his Christian upbringing.
sojo.net
December 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Re-sharing my final byline of the year, my interview with Rian Johnson about 'Wake Up Dead Man.' We talked about growing up "young, dumb and full of Christ," the "Pottery Barn" aesthetics of evangelicalism, and Michael W. Smith. Scooby Dooby Doo!
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New: ALA welcomes a pathbreaking study by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office, which finds that thousands of public library facilities are in acute need of investment for repairs and upgrades.
Read more about the report, which ALA called to be developed: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
Read more about the report, which ALA called to be developed: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
New: ALA welcomes a pathbreaking study by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office, which finds that thousands of public library facilities are in acute need of investment for repairs and upgrades.
Read more about the report, which ALA called to be developed: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
Read more about the report, which ALA called to be developed: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
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"...the eventual plan is to close the library" #depaul #Chicao (Illinois) 📚📜
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DePaul lays off over 100 staff members amid budget cuts
Joining universities nationwide, DePaul makes sweeping budget cuts amid enrollment decline and federal uncertainty.
depauliaonline.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
"...the eventual plan is to close the library" #depaul #Chicao (Illinois) 📚📜
depauliaonline.com/80758/news/d...
depauliaonline.com/80758/news/d...
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Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
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I had fun reading to some Burke Elementary students at the Chicago Public Library today. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next year, we’ll have a new branch of the library for the community to enjoy.
December 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I had fun reading to some Burke Elementary students at the Chicago Public Library today. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next year, we’ll have a new branch of the library for the community to enjoy.
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This Library Trends CFP looks really interesting 📚
" Rethinking the Role of Libraries as Democracies Falter"
ischool.illinois.edu/news/publica...
" Rethinking the Role of Libraries as Democracies Falter"
ischool.illinois.edu/news/publica...
Library Trends Call for Proposals
Library Trends only accepts manuscripts in response to calls for papers.
ischool.illinois.edu
December 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
This Library Trends CFP looks really interesting 📚
" Rethinking the Role of Libraries as Democracies Falter"
ischool.illinois.edu/news/publica...
" Rethinking the Role of Libraries as Democracies Falter"
ischool.illinois.edu/news/publica...
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The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) announced that it will no longer publish content on Elon Musk’s platform, X. The organization said it can “no longer ethically participate in a social network that its owner has transformed into a machine of disinformation and propaganda.”
European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) announced that it will no longer publish content on Elon Musk’s platform, X. The organization said it can “no longer ethically participate in a social network that its owner has transformed into a machine of disinformation and propaganda.”
How have I never seen this quote before? #skybrarians “I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
December 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
How have I never seen this quote before? #skybrarians “I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The application deadline for the 2026 Spring Journalism Cohort has been extended to December 15th. Learn more and apply here:
sojo.net/about/journa...
sojo.net/about/journa...
The Sojourners Journalism Cohort
The Sojourners Journalism Cohort is a part-time, five-month, remote training program designed to give early-career, non-white writers hands-on, paid training as freelance journalists.
sojo.net
December 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The application deadline for the 2026 Spring Journalism Cohort has been extended to December 15th. Learn more and apply here:
sojo.net/about/journa...
sojo.net/about/journa...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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I’m mindful today of those for whom this is their first Thanksgiving without a loved one. I’m praying for a measure of peace and the comfort of beautiful memories.
November 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I’m mindful today of those for whom this is their first Thanksgiving without a loved one. I’m praying for a measure of peace and the comfort of beautiful memories.
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One of Brazil’s most beautiful bird! The Araripe Manakin🇧🇷
Endemic to a small area in Ceará, this species is found only near freshwater springs along the Chapada do Araripe. They are Critically Endangered due to habitat loss and water depletion.
#photography #birds #birding #animal #wildlife
Endemic to a small area in Ceará, this species is found only near freshwater springs along the Chapada do Araripe. They are Critically Endangered due to habitat loss and water depletion.
#photography #birds #birding #animal #wildlife
October 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
One of Brazil’s most beautiful bird! The Araripe Manakin🇧🇷
Endemic to a small area in Ceará, this species is found only near freshwater springs along the Chapada do Araripe. They are Critically Endangered due to habitat loss and water depletion.
#photography #birds #birding #animal #wildlife
Endemic to a small area in Ceará, this species is found only near freshwater springs along the Chapada do Araripe. They are Critically Endangered due to habitat loss and water depletion.
#photography #birds #birding #animal #wildlife
This seems significant #skybrarians
"At what point does a literary collection or newspaper subscription become prosecutorial evidence under the Trump administration’s logic? Essentially, whenever it’s convenient."
The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine
Daniel Sanchez is facing federal charges for what free speech advocates say is a clear attack on the First Amendment.
theintercept.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
This seems significant #skybrarians
Just learned about this nationwide library service for ministers: www.library.vanderbilt.edu/divinity/ser...
New to Kesler
What is the Kesler Circulating Library? The Kesler Circulating Library provides theological materials to individuals for whom those materials are not readily accessible. We will mail you books from th...
www.library.vanderbilt.edu
November 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Just learned about this nationwide library service for ministers: www.library.vanderbilt.edu/divinity/ser...
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Sojourners magazine (@sojo.net) began in the early 1970s as a small Christian community focused on justice, peace, and anti-poverty activism. From the start, it used journalism -- then through the "Post American" -- to challenge churches to take social issues seriously.
#socialjusticemedia
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#socialjusticemedia
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November 22, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Sojourners magazine (@sojo.net) began in the early 1970s as a small Christian community focused on justice, peace, and anti-poverty activism. From the start, it used journalism -- then through the "Post American" -- to challenge churches to take social issues seriously.
#socialjusticemedia
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#socialjusticemedia
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This is what happens when you keep fighting back. This is great news for America's libraries, but there's still so much more work to do. 📚
I'm going to get something up Monday but in the mean time, y'all, IMLS got a *massive* win today.
The judge in the case between 21 states and the administration blocked further dismantling of the IMLS by Trump. It'll be appealed, but we've gotta take the Ws.
www.wordsandmoney.com/in-a-major-v...
The judge in the case between 21 states and the administration blocked further dismantling of the IMLS by Trump. It'll be appealed, but we've gotta take the Ws.
www.wordsandmoney.com/in-a-major-v...
In a Major Victory, Rhode Island Judge Permanently Blocks Trump's Bid to Shutter the IMLS
In a November 21 summary judgment ruling, judge John J. McConnell held that the Trump Administration’s efforts to dismantle the IMLS and several other federal agencies via executive order was both ill...
www.wordsandmoney.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:10 PM
This is what happens when you keep fighting back. This is great news for America's libraries, but there's still so much more work to do. 📚
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NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court!
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
November 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court!
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
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Still think we’re not there yet?
November 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Still think we’re not there yet?
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.