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Here to talk about the intersection of libraries, academia, and disability #CripLib

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Katie (she/her) @librariankqm.bsky.social · 22d

My upcoming chapters in Navigating Disability in the Academic Library Workplace are live on my IR! "The Americans with Disabilities Act and Academic Library Workers" covers ADA protections + how to navigate discrimination & the accommodations process: digitalcommons.wcupa.edu/eddppa_facpu...

The Americans with Disabilities Act and Academic Library Workers

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) established the legal requirement for equal access to employment for disabled Americans, but the processes for inclusion established by the law are rarely dis...

digitalcommons.wcupa.edu

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Katie (she/her) @librariankqm.bsky.social · 17h

"The Trump Administration abruptly ended federal support for a highly effective intervention that helps disabled people experiencing or at risk of homelessness access benefits to help them stabilize their lives."

www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a...

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 1d

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Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 1d

As somebody with asthma who uses inhalers - SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS ARTICLE IS SHAMING PEOPLE WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION.

"Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE.

Fuck you - fuck you again.

Inhalers contribute significantly to global warming, study finds

Millions of Americans using inhalers for chronic lung diseases like asthma may be unknowingly contributing to global warming, according to new research.

local12.com

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Malinda Lo @malindalo.bsky.social · 1d

Last week, PEN America released its fourth annual report on the state of book banning and censorship in America, and I learned that Last Night at the Telegraph Club was the fourth most banned book in schools during the 2024-25 school year. How do I feel about it? www.malindalo.com/blog/2025/10...

Telegraph Club is the 4th most banned book in America — Malinda Lo

Last week, PEN America released its fourth annual report on the state of book banning and censorship in America, and I learned that Last Night at the Telegraph Club was the fourth most banned book...

www.malindalo.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

related, when the president is invading our own country, waging war on our own people, i don't wanna see dems give the GOP shit they ask for, don't wanna hear shit bout 'we hope our friends across the aisle will work with us on bipartisan solutions to the problems they cause' i don't want none of it

Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 2d

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2d

Guys. I just had a crazy idea. What if the President DIDN’T deploy troops in American cities. Just a thought. Have we tried that before?

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Katie (she/her) @librariankqm.bsky.social · 5d

I'd just like to see AI try to put hundreds of photos in acid free sleeves in acid free, labeled folders which go on the corresponding finding aid (a thing I did as an actual processing achrivist)

vexorian @vexorian.dev · Jul 30

Microsoft have dropped a list of the 40 professions most threatened by AI. Your first instinct should be to dismiss it due to their mountains of interests in convincing the world that AI is more than horribly inept at most jobs

But on a second look, it's worse than that. Historians? Mathematicians?

I am sorry, but it's an image of a table. That's how it is being published.

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 6d

BREAKING: sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles

lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

EXCLUSIVE: NARA Ousts Eisenhower Library Director Over Proposed Trump Gift to King Charles

The director, a historian and Army veteran, declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a priceless artifact from the library's permanent collection

lastcampaign.substack.com

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Katie (she/her) @librariankqm.bsky.social · 6d

@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social better have that lawsuit ready

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6d

Overnight, Trump and Republicans in Congress shut down the federal government.

They shut it down because they’re determined to strip healthcare from millions of Americans, to enrich the billionaires they serve, to continue the assault on our rights.

We must fight back.

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Jeff Veillette @jeffveillette.bsky.social · 6d

Reminder that the AI companies pay for articles like these to make it seem like GenAI is sentient, when it's largely just really fancy predictive text with sci-fi branding. It's what keeps the valuation bubbles from bursting

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8d

It’s time to prepare for AI personhood | Jacy Reese Anthis

Technological advances will bring social upheaval. How will we treat digital minds, and how will they treat us?

www.theguardian.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · 7d

BREAKING: WE WON!!!
💥 💥 💥

Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.

Full ruling here:

Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com

Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...

www.courtlistener.com

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 7d

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d

regular reminder that "he wants" ≠ "he will"

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 8d

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow

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Katie (she/her) @librariankqm.bsky.social · 10d

this is absurdly pathetic

Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 10d

The Trump administration’s threat to deploy troops in Portland is unlawful.

Here’s a thought.

Focus on protecting the healthcare of the American people.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 11d

In case you're wondering why AI is pushing so hard into education, that last bullet point is why. Get consumers hooked in young and they're likely to stay. And get embedded enough into classrooms and curriculum and the education system can't function without it - ie permanent consumers.

Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 11d

*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history

* Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system

* Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

This week, consultants at Bain & Co. estimated the wave of AI infrastructure spending will require $2 trillion in annual AI revenue by 2030. By comparison, that is more than the combined 2024 revenue of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Nvidia, and more than five times the size of the entire global subscription software market.

Morgan Stanley estimates that last year there was around $45 billion of revenue for AI products. The sector makes money from a combination of subscription fees for chatbots such as ChatGPT and money paid to use these companies’ data centers.

How the tech sector will cover the gap is “the trillion dollar question,” said Mark Moerdler, an analyst at Bernstein.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 13d

You're telling me that when the majority of books under attack are books by and about BIPOC and queer identities, and that this present wave of bans is an attempt to erase marginalized representation entirely, that ALA chose to theme Banned Books Week around George Orwell's 1984?

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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 13d

Local woman wakes up, makes Violet Affleck the new U.S. secretary of health, makes oatmeal.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 14d

When @politico.com says "the autism problem" they don't mean tearing down the ableist barriers that discriminate against and disadvantage autistic people in all facets of American life.

When @politico.com says "the autism problem" they mean the existence of autistic people is the problem.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 14d

*getting real close to the mic* lol. lmao.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14d

BREAKING — Notices for the Disney+ price increase went out at noon ET today, confirming my scoop from last night. Details: www.vulture.com/article/disn...

➼ Disney+, Hulu Bundle (with ads) is going up by $2 — from $11 a month to $13 a month.
Note: The price of the Disney+, Hulu Premium Bundle (no ads) is not changing. Currently: $20 a month.

➼ Disney+ Premium (no ads) is going up by $3 — from $16 a month to $19 a month.
Note: The price of Hulu Premium (no ads) is not changing. Currently: $19 a month.

➼ Disney+ (with ads) is going up by $2 — from $10 a month to $12 a month.

➼ Hulu + Live TV (with ads) is going up by $7 — from $83 a month to $90 a month.
Note: This plan is a bundle that also includes Disney+ and ESPN Select (all with ads).

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UB History @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social · 18d

New faculty book alert! Dr. Jenifer Barclay's new volume Cripping the Archive, co-edited with Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, is out now from @illinoispress.bsky.social! This important text considers how and why disabilities are underrepresented, erased, or distorted in the historical record. #dishist

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kate @bookhaven.bsky.social · 18d

"These findings suggest that people with variant connective tissue (manifest as joint hypermobility) disproportionately experience long COVID. Long COVID among people with variant connective tissue may potentially constitute a subtype of long COVID"

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Variant connective tissue as a risk factor for long COVID: a case-control study of data from a retrospective online survey of adults in the USA and UK

Introduction This study explored the extent to which two measures of joint hypermobility, a marker of variant connective tissue, predict the development of long COVID after COVID-19 infection, and whe...

bmjpublichealth.bmj.com

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 19d

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative.

The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

Map of Regional Public Health Coalitions

Northeast Public Health Collaborative (Blue)

West Coast Health Alliance (Yellow)

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In the Library with the Lead Pipe @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 19d

For those looking to bring an autism-affirming approach to their work, let's revisit --

Autistic Students and Academic Library Research: Recommendations for a Neurodiversity-Informed Approach by Jessica Hinton-Williams

Autistic Students and Academic Library Research: Recommendations for a Neurodiversity-Informed Approach – In the Library with the Lead Pipe

www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 20d

In order to delete your account without first agreeing to these terms you have to 1) login on desktop or desktop mode on the phone. 2) Click privacy policy (and not "agree") 3) click the profile icon and scroll down & click delete account.

I had to do this cycle twice before it let me fully delete

Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 20d

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

The new TOC from academia dot edu.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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