Alana Kumbier
@alanacutandpaste.bsky.social
Zines, libraries & archives, making things with paper.
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A fitting scene for this morning's weather in NYC: Jacob Lawrence, "Rain," 1938
December 19, 2025 at 12:48 PM
A fitting scene for this morning's weather in NYC: Jacob Lawrence, "Rain," 1938
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I was diagnosed with diabetes 38 years ago today. I live a mostly normal life interrupted by the 1 zillion decisions I have to make about my health every day. I'm lucky. Today and always, everyone deserves unfettered access to the healthcare they need. mutualaiddiabetes.com/donate/
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December 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I was diagnosed with diabetes 38 years ago today. I live a mostly normal life interrupted by the 1 zillion decisions I have to make about my health every day. I'm lucky. Today and always, everyone deserves unfettered access to the healthcare they need. mutualaiddiabetes.com/donate/
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Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscopic slide. 🫧🐻🧪
December 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscopic slide. 🫧🐻🧪
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‘You gotta give ‘em hope,’” Miller says. “I think about the zines we have from all over the country and all over the world, where folks are able to say, ‘This is going on in my life, this is what’s going on in my scene — how we’re surviving, how we’re thriving and how we’re pushing back.’” 💖 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
December 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
‘You gotta give ‘em hope,’” Miller says. “I think about the zines we have from all over the country and all over the world, where folks are able to say, ‘This is going on in my life, this is what’s going on in my scene — how we’re surviving, how we’re thriving and how we’re pushing back.’” 💖 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
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Dictionary day is finally here! The first new print M-W in more than 20 years
Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher which is headquartered in Springfield, just released an updated Collegiate edition with 5,000 new entries.
Merriam-Webster goes old school with first new hardcover Collegiate dictionary in 22 years
Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher which is headquartered in Springfield, just released an updated Collegiate edition with 5,000 new entries.
www.wbur.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Dictionary day is finally here! The first new print M-W in more than 20 years
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ilu Merriam-Webster
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 2, 2025 at 5:31 AM
ilu Merriam-Webster
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In a society, survival is collectivized
There’s no society without that
There’s no society without that
September 6, 2025 at 11:34 PM
In a society, survival is collectivized
There’s no society without that
There’s no society without that
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Excited to finally announce the release of my first ever book, and the first ever book from we here press. It is a pocket-size guide to my archival theories and experiences in the form of essays- some you may have heard in part as lectures, some which are unpublished until now.
www.weherepress.org
www.weherepress.org
August 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Excited to finally announce the release of my first ever book, and the first ever book from we here press. It is a pocket-size guide to my archival theories and experiences in the form of essays- some you may have heard in part as lectures, some which are unpublished until now.
www.weherepress.org
www.weherepress.org
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I was glad to learn tonight about the @sealibrary.bsky.social project, which reminded me of these 👇 ⚓️🌊📚
August 20, 2025 at 4:47 AM
I was glad to learn tonight about the @sealibrary.bsky.social project, which reminded me of these 👇 ⚓️🌊📚
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There are people everywhere. Look around.
“A new study, published today in PLOS ONE, identifies and describes 30 dance moves in captive cockatoos and suggests dancing can be a form of mentally enriching play for caged birds.”
#scicomm
#animalcommunication
#playbahavior
www.science.org/content/arti...
🧪 🦜
#scicomm
#animalcommunication
#playbahavior
www.science.org/content/arti...
🧪 🦜
Video reveals cockatoos have 30 unique dance moves—including headbanging
Researchers now know why the caged bird dances: a form of mentally enriching play
www.science.org
August 8, 2025 at 4:48 AM
There are people everywhere. Look around.
@massivebookshop.bsky.social is matching donations to the Sameer Project up to $1300. Can you join me in contributing to their campaign?
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[W4G] $1,300 Matching Campaign for The Sameer Project
July 22: New match! The wonderful people of Massive Bookshop have offered to match the next $1,300 in contributions! (The $500 match from writer and professor Christina Sharpe has been met!) Today is...
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July 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
@massivebookshop.bsky.social is matching donations to the Sameer Project up to $1300. Can you join me in contributing to their campaign?
open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...
open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...
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Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...
July 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...
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Last semester a staff member from a historic preservation lab audited my methods class and decided to create a series of zines highlighting the archival resources that inform preservation projects. She submitted a prototype in Dec — and today I received in the mail a hard copy of the first issue!
June 19, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Last semester a staff member from a historic preservation lab audited my methods class and decided to create a series of zines highlighting the archival resources that inform preservation projects. She submitted a prototype in Dec — and today I received in the mail a hard copy of the first issue!
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Remembering that time we catalogued a Collins Nature Guide to the seashore and found all the new insults we could ever need.
June 10, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Remembering that time we catalogued a Collins Nature Guide to the seashore and found all the new insults we could ever need.
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For more than a year, I’ve been writing essays about Punk Planet, the miracle of a magazine I worked on for 13 years. All that time I’ve been dreading writing this ending, because the reality is this: Sometimes things end and you never get over it. dansinker.com/posts/202…
May 30, 2025 at 10:02 PM
For more than a year, I’ve been writing essays about Punk Planet, the miracle of a magazine I worked on for 13 years. All that time I’ve been dreading writing this ending, because the reality is this: Sometimes things end and you never get over it. dansinker.com/posts/202…
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I only just came across this essay, but it’s exquisite! Katherine Rundell (one of my fav children’s authors) nails the importance of children’s books, imagination, & the info lit skills necessary to absorb them. It’s why all the stats about the growing illiteracy of children/teens are so scary to me
‘Those who write for children have the chance to point them towards beauty that they do not yet know exists: towards versions of joy that they have not yet imagined possible.’
Katherine Rundell on the challenges and opportunities of children’s literature: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Katherine Rundell on the challenges and opportunities of children’s literature: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Katherine Rundell · Why children’s books?
Children’s books, to a great extent because they are written for those who cannot participate in the market, can offer...
www.lrb.co.uk
May 24, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I only just came across this essay, but it’s exquisite! Katherine Rundell (one of my fav children’s authors) nails the importance of children’s books, imagination, & the info lit skills necessary to absorb them. It’s why all the stats about the growing illiteracy of children/teens are so scary to me
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This is one of the most profound essays I’ve read in years. You don’t need me to tell you that Hanif Abdurraqib is one of the finest writers of our time, but this essay in particular is a hard-won offering. Please read it and share with people you love.
In Defense of Despair
The feeling is most commonly framed as an end point, a level of despondency that cannot be overcome. But it doesn’t have to be so.
www.newyorker.com
May 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is one of the most profound essays I’ve read in years. You don’t need me to tell you that Hanif Abdurraqib is one of the finest writers of our time, but this essay in particular is a hard-won offering. Please read it and share with people you love.
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Hey-o! @chrisqzap.bsky.social and I sound almost intelligible in this interview with @caboosezine.bsky.social for the new issue of @razorcake.bsky.social. Pick up a copy and read our blather about zines, history, queer community building, and the world we'd like to live in.
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We're so exited to announce that we were interviewed by the amazing @caboosezine.bsky.social for the current issue of Razorcake! It's issue no. 146, and it's sliding scale $3–$6+ USD from their website.
razorcake.org/razorcake-14...
razorcake.org/razorcake-14...
May 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Hey-o! @chrisqzap.bsky.social and I sound almost intelligible in this interview with @caboosezine.bsky.social for the new issue of @razorcake.bsky.social. Pick up a copy and read our blather about zines, history, queer community building, and the world we'd like to live in.
🖤🩷🖤
🖤🩷🖤
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I love the care with which Jacob Lawrence rendered all those shelves & shelves of books in his 1966 painting "Students and Books," now on view at Sotheby's. From the time he began researching his Migration series in the early 1940s, Lawrence loved libraries and painted them on many occasions
May 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I love the care with which Jacob Lawrence rendered all those shelves & shelves of books in his 1966 painting "Students and Books," now on view at Sotheby's. From the time he began researching his Migration series in the early 1940s, Lawrence loved libraries and painted them on many occasions
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I need you guys to forbid me to buy more googly eyes for my lab equipment.
(📷: astrobionics, reddit)
(📷: astrobionics, reddit)
June 6, 2024 at 1:23 AM
I need you guys to forbid me to buy more googly eyes for my lab equipment.
(📷: astrobionics, reddit)
(📷: astrobionics, reddit)