MK Zvokel
@mkzvokel.bsky.social
Queer writer, clumsy maker, Jewish librarian. They/them pronouns. Anti generative AI.
“The government is still considering guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) on how to apply the ruling.” So they capitulated in advance?
This is insane to me. "We've decided to exclude you but we hope you'll interpret that as a sign that we stand with you"
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Based on what????? Why would "the trans community know you stand with them" when you explicitly, loudly, deliberately, fucking DON'T??
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Based on what????? Why would "the trans community know you stand with them" when you explicitly, loudly, deliberately, fucking DON'T??
December 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“The government is still considering guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) on how to apply the ruling.” So they capitulated in advance?
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A couple weeks ago we got a lovely note from someone on the other side of the country thanking us profusely for ILLing a book to them. Curious, we looked up the book they borrowed.
It would have cost $1,200 for them to purchase it.
ILL is one of the things I love most about libraries.
It would have cost $1,200 for them to purchase it.
ILL is one of the things I love most about libraries.
Requested a book through ILL over break. It arrived today. Libraries man.
December 3, 2025 at 12:56 AM
A couple weeks ago we got a lovely note from someone on the other side of the country thanking us profusely for ILLing a book to them. Curious, we looked up the book they borrowed.
It would have cost $1,200 for them to purchase it.
ILL is one of the things I love most about libraries.
It would have cost $1,200 for them to purchase it.
ILL is one of the things I love most about libraries.
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also: a lot of creeps still aren't wrapping their heads around the fact that COVID is a huge ongoing mass disabling event.
The administration is extorting universities for billions of dollars and attempting to destroy free speech, academic freedom, and independent thought but the Atlantic talked to a few professors at elite universities who think the problem is that some students need a little extra time on exams
December 3, 2025 at 3:33 AM
also: a lot of creeps still aren't wrapping their heads around the fact that COVID is a huge ongoing mass disabling event.
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A favorite of mine - never found a name for it though. Suggestions?
Original available at bad-king.com
Original available at bad-king.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
A favorite of mine - never found a name for it though. Suggestions?
Original available at bad-king.com
Original available at bad-king.com
Librarian here. “Isn’t everything online now?”
What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
December 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Librarian here. “Isn’t everything online now?”
It would be impressive how my in-laws made my child’s naming ceremony day about them if I didn’t know them so well.
December 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It would be impressive how my in-laws made my child’s naming ceremony day about them if I didn’t know them so well.
Zurzuvae may have saved my life. Certainly my sanity. PPD and PPP are serious.
November 27, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Zurzuvae may have saved my life. Certainly my sanity. PPD and PPP are serious.
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For at least a year, I've been returning to the question, how would you know when it's time to leave the US? For this piece, I asked trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer Americans who, with their families and partners, have recently fled the country, about how they made this decision and how they left.
When Is It Time to Flee?
Trans people and their families are facing hard questions and choices as threats to their safety and rights proliferate.
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
For at least a year, I've been returning to the question, how would you know when it's time to leave the US? For this piece, I asked trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer Americans who, with their families and partners, have recently fled the country, about how they made this decision and how they left.
Hot take maybe but: babies don’t need a lot of toys.
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Hot take maybe but: babies don’t need a lot of toys.
One day at a time. I can do this. It won’t be like this forever.
November 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
One day at a time. I can do this. It won’t be like this forever.
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I mean I will say that Mads’s whole vibe is such that he can absolutely make that kind of dialogue work
Also that line objectively rules
Also that line objectively rules
when people are like "x media is good but the dialogue is overwrought" i'm like dude my favorite show is Hannibal where in the first episode one guy asks another guy "what do you see me as" and he responds "i think you are the mongoose i want under the house when the snakes slither by"
November 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I mean I will say that Mads’s whole vibe is such that he can absolutely make that kind of dialogue work
Also that line objectively rules
Also that line objectively rules
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In self-interest but also general interest, folks: Black Friday is coming up, and small publishers/independent creators will always be a better choice than megacorps.
When the sales drop, please remember that!
When the sales drop, please remember that!
November 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
In self-interest but also general interest, folks: Black Friday is coming up, and small publishers/independent creators will always be a better choice than megacorps.
When the sales drop, please remember that!
When the sales drop, please remember that!
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listen. the airport is a sacred place where you can wear sweatpants and a hoodie and drink a margarita at 8am and put on deodorant in front of other people. i refuse to cede this holy ground
November 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
listen. the airport is a sacred place where you can wear sweatpants and a hoodie and drink a margarita at 8am and put on deodorant in front of other people. i refuse to cede this holy ground
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Community cat people: Straw is for strays. Cloth materials can get wet and freeze.
Please repost
Please repost
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Community cat people: Straw is for strays. Cloth materials can get wet and freeze.
Please repost
Please repost
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Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
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...since today's TDoR, I'm not gonna do my usual thread of excerpts just yet. but this passage from the intro provides a taste. pls share to raise awareness of all the studies debunking "social contagion/ROGD" as well as how inane Colin Wright's WSJ op-ed was:
juliaserano.medium.com/lies-damned-...
juliaserano.medium.com/lies-damned-...
November 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
...since today's TDoR, I'm not gonna do my usual thread of excerpts just yet. but this passage from the intro provides a taste. pls share to raise awareness of all the studies debunking "social contagion/ROGD" as well as how inane Colin Wright's WSJ op-ed was:
juliaserano.medium.com/lies-damned-...
juliaserano.medium.com/lies-damned-...
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my library's policy.
Librarians like to say that book bans interfere with parents' direction of their children's reading. But also, by letting minors be patrons, librarians do not collude with parents' control over their children's reading.
The freedom to read is radically democratic. 📚
Librarians like to say that book bans interfere with parents' direction of their children's reading. But also, by letting minors be patrons, librarians do not collude with parents' control over their children's reading.
The freedom to read is radically democratic. 📚
November 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
my library's policy.
Librarians like to say that book bans interfere with parents' direction of their children's reading. But also, by letting minors be patrons, librarians do not collude with parents' control over their children's reading.
The freedom to read is radically democratic. 📚
Librarians like to say that book bans interfere with parents' direction of their children's reading. But also, by letting minors be patrons, librarians do not collude with parents' control over their children's reading.
The freedom to read is radically democratic. 📚
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November 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.
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A new trans group (emerging out of Nexus Moving Company's trans relocation project) is hosting a virtual vigil for TDOR.
November 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
A new trans group (emerging out of Nexus Moving Company's trans relocation project) is hosting a virtual vigil for TDOR.
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Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books
Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.
peopleofcolorintech.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
@stylishmordred.bsky.social : We should ask the caterer to take the strawberries off the salad. They’ll kill my father.
Me, casually, immediately, without thinking about it: I don’t care.
M: Also I can’t eat them.
Me: (sigh) Fine.
Me, casually, immediately, without thinking about it: I don’t care.
M: Also I can’t eat them.
Me: (sigh) Fine.
November 19, 2025 at 1:33 AM
@stylishmordred.bsky.social : We should ask the caterer to take the strawberries off the salad. They’ll kill my father.
Me, casually, immediately, without thinking about it: I don’t care.
M: Also I can’t eat them.
Me: (sigh) Fine.
Me, casually, immediately, without thinking about it: I don’t care.
M: Also I can’t eat them.
Me: (sigh) Fine.
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Congratulations to workers organizing a union at @columbuslibrary.bsky.social! Learn more and support their campaign!
NEWS: @columbuslibrary.bsky.social workers are forming their union with OFT & @aft.org!
Members of the organizing committee told the @ohiocapitaljournal.com why they're organizing:
Members of the organizing committee told the @ohiocapitaljournal.com why they're organizing:
Workers at one of Ohio's largest library systems set to unionize • Ohio Capital Journal
Workers with the Columbus Metropolitan Library are establishing a labor union focused on improvements they say need to happen in areas such as wages and paid time off.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Congratulations to workers organizing a union at @columbuslibrary.bsky.social! Learn more and support their campaign!
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💥KINGDOM COME is out now on Audible‼️ It was an absolute treat to work on this; it’s one of my favorite graphic novels. You’ll hear me as Selina Kyle (Catwoman!!) among others 😺 This cast is mighty, @dirkmaggs.bsky.social worked his SuperButt off as usual, & basically I’m psyched about it!
November 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
💥KINGDOM COME is out now on Audible‼️ It was an absolute treat to work on this; it’s one of my favorite graphic novels. You’ll hear me as Selina Kyle (Catwoman!!) among others 😺 This cast is mighty, @dirkmaggs.bsky.social worked his SuperButt off as usual, & basically I’m psyched about it!