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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 26m

because i am still 15 y.o. inside i will blast this at full volume to drive away the blah

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YouTube video by PJ Harvey - Topic

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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 27m

rainy day, sopping wet bag, grumble grumble commute blah blergh

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 14h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 15h

I will be at Harvard Boooookstore dreaming DRAG with our favorite Auntie Kareem Khubchandani on *Lessons in Drag* Nov 21

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www.harvard.com/event/kareem...

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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 17h

This current administration is the greatest threat to academic freedom & sci. research since the ebb of McCarthyism. And this compact is just more evidence that it wants to dictate what we teach, what we research, what drugs we develop, & how we express ourselves."
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Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 21h

I think the myth of objectivity is what allows people to believe that GAI can output a meaningful summary.

Prior knowledge doesn't matter, context doesn't matter, relationships don't matter, so a summary written in a particular 'style' is fine.

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eun song @aestheticspolitics.bsky.social · 1d

Join me this Saturday, 10/11 2pm EST to discuss my research into museum collections, the rise of US philanthropy, and the relationship between aesthetic form and property 📚

marxedproject.org/event/the-po...

The Politics of Collecting with Eunsong Kim - Marxist Education Project

In her new book, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptu...

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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 23h

Explain your username:

Mimosa is my real name. The "is here" is a pun and plays with the idea of being _on here_ but also, not quite here because what's happening in real-time is not quite interwebs' time.

(this was back when IRL vs. "on the Internet" was a necessary distinction)

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 23h

Explain your username:

My last name is Noe. My first name is Matthew.

People have made weird jokes about "Noe" (some haha cringe, some rude and bullying) my entire life.

I thought it was an amusing way to reclaim some of that back in 2008. And despite me not loving "Matt" it is pithier 🤷‍♂️

Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 23h

Explain your username:

It's a line from Parks & Rec one of my fave shows. In that show, Leslie has an ongoing cold war with librarians. She calls them punk-ass book jockeys as she overturned a book cart and flees. I'm a librarian who is punk in spirit if not attire, so, yeah.

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 1d

NPR could easily fill a desperately needed public service for trustworthy legacy media, and likely easily meet its own small dollar fundraising goals after having its federal funding pulled, by simply describing things as they are. But instead they choose to do whatever this is.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 1d

"bucking tradition and legal precedent"

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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 1d

I guess I shouldn't be *surprised* but it is making my head spin that the feds have shot two people, with live rounds, killing one of them, in Chicagoland in recent weeks, and in both cases they were very clearly found to be lying about what happened, and essentially nothing is happening about it.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

Work really hard and one day this can be you (followed by graffiti of a headstone that says “RIP worked really hard” on it

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Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 1d

This just activated every research librarian everywhere.

Microfiche, microfilm, and microcards ... each needing a different reader. Fun times!

Also reminded of when the young librarian translating my talk into Chinese stopped me and said, "I don't know that word."

Reader, the word was CD-ROM.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

I have been trying to explain a microfiche machine to one of my dear, brilliant, talented, but clearly too young to be alive collaborators. And it is taking the last of my soul.

“Micro…fish?? I have never heard that word in my life.” I recorded the timestamp so it can be put on my tombstone.

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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 1d

And to think that my very first job in libraries was to teach patrons how to load microfiche cartridges into a viewer to see scanned collection materials!

Fiche. Fish. So many multitudes. So much squinting.

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we here®️ @wehere.bsky.social · 1d

GET YOUR CALENDAR OUT 🗓️ and write these two dates down…

10/16, 2p ET USA: Dorothy Berry’s (@dorothyjberry.bsky.social) The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities available for purchase. The first 50 copies sold will be signed 🫢 www.weherepress.org

Dorothy seated at a restaurant table signing books with plants to her right and a painting behind her.

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Bergis Jules 🇱🇨 @bergisjules.bsky.social · 2d

Applications open soon for the second Web Archiving School co-hort. Our fellowship aims to create a new generation of web archiving practitioners dedicated to documenting the Black experience. Sign up today to receive reminders and updates on the application: bit.ly/warc-2026-si...

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 2d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 3d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3d

Every day I log on and just see endless videos of ICE agents breaking state, federal, and international laws.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

I'm furious on behalf of everyone who was brutalized by ICE today in Chicago. My GOD, this is completely horrible.

I've been in meetings most of today and I just checked messages and see that comrades & friends were part of the people they brutalized today.

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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 4d

@zinelib.bsky.social @claudiaeberger.bsky.social @wehere.bsky.social any way you could amplify the above message by @prisonculture.bsky.social ?

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 4d

ICE unleashed tear gas on the street in Chicago’s Logan Square today and I tried to find meaning among the fog and my own anger about, well, everything. dansinker.com/posts/202…

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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 4d

💙 I experienced something similar before.

It makes a world of difference when you find an environment where you are supported and find like-minded colleagues willing to collaborate.

You will shine again when you are given the space and latitude to do so.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 4d

"Medical professionals are also raising questions about whether families of the dead have any idea that their loved ones might be used to train soldiers. USC says it operates the programs in accordance with regulations."

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 5d

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel

A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com

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