Monica Rettig
@monicarettig.bsky.social
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
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Has your library banned Banned Books Week events/displays this year? I want to hear about it. I had thought I'd get 2-3 responses but, y'all, we're at over 20 at this point.
All anonymous. It will be used for a story in the near future. Survey closes 10/17.
docs.google.com/forms/d/1n65...
All anonymous. It will be used for a story in the near future. Survey closes 10/17.
docs.google.com/forms/d/1n65...
October 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Has your library banned Banned Books Week events/displays this year? I want to hear about it. I had thought I'd get 2-3 responses but, y'all, we're at over 20 at this point.
All anonymous. It will be used for a story in the near future. Survey closes 10/17.
docs.google.com/forms/d/1n65...
All anonymous. It will be used for a story in the near future. Survey closes 10/17.
docs.google.com/forms/d/1n65...
THIS
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
THIS
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When the second case of a lawyer getting caught using synthetic text extruding machines hit the news, I wondered: Don't these people gossip?? I would have thought the first case would be so embarrassing as to make things very clear.
www.404media.co/18-lawyers-c...
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www.404media.co/18-lawyers-c...
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18 Lawyers Caught Using AI Explain Why They Did It
Lawyers blame IT, family emergencies, their own poor judgment, their assistants, illness, and more.
www.404media.co
September 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
When the second case of a lawyer getting caught using synthetic text extruding machines hit the news, I wondered: Don't these people gossip?? I would have thought the first case would be so embarrassing as to make things very clear.
www.404media.co/18-lawyers-c...
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www.404media.co/18-lawyers-c...
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Gift link of the Ezra Klein/Ta-Nehisi Coates thing.
Honestly, my main takeaway is just that Ezra Klein seems genuinely lost, unable to articulate what his "we" is or even what he sees as the purpose of his voice, and he should probably take a sabbatical until he figures it out.
Honestly, my main takeaway is just that Ezra Klein seems genuinely lost, unable to articulate what his "we" is or even what he sees as the purpose of his voice, and he should probably take a sabbatical until he figures it out.
September 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Gift link of the Ezra Klein/Ta-Nehisi Coates thing.
Honestly, my main takeaway is just that Ezra Klein seems genuinely lost, unable to articulate what his "we" is or even what he sees as the purpose of his voice, and he should probably take a sabbatical until he figures it out.
Honestly, my main takeaway is just that Ezra Klein seems genuinely lost, unable to articulate what his "we" is or even what he sees as the purpose of his voice, and he should probably take a sabbatical until he figures it out.
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I might play this as my alarm every morning for the next month
September 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I might play this as my alarm every morning for the next month
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I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.
September 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.
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Current demand at the Edmonton Public Library for the four graphic novels at the centre of Alberta's new (and fluctuating) school library rules:
#AbEd #Ableg #EPL #bannedbooks
#AbEd #Ableg #EPL #bannedbooks
September 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Current demand at the Edmonton Public Library for the four graphic novels at the centre of Alberta's new (and fluctuating) school library rules:
#AbEd #Ableg #EPL #bannedbooks
#AbEd #Ableg #EPL #bannedbooks
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Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
August 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
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must-listen interview with @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
"Beauty is about power. Beauty is the only power that women are allowed to legitimately use but never own. ...
There is no good moral choice in a system of power where your body is the only capital you are allowed to use without sanction."
must-listen interview with @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
"Beauty is about power. Beauty is the only power that women are allowed to legitimately use but never own. ...
There is no good moral choice in a system of power where your body is the only capital you are allowed to use without sanction."
This is hands down the best, most enjoyable, and far-ranging discussion that I have had in recent memory. Katie brought so much to this interview about vibecessions, “finance guy” memes as politics of social reproduction in casino capitalism, Bama Rush and DSA.
moneywithkatie.com/status-power...
moneywithkatie.com/status-power...
6.25.2025 | A Masterclass on Status, Power, & the Economy with Tressie McMillan Cottom — Millennial Money with Katie
moneywithkatie.com
June 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
🎯🔥
must-listen interview with @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
"Beauty is about power. Beauty is the only power that women are allowed to legitimately use but never own. ...
There is no good moral choice in a system of power where your body is the only capital you are allowed to use without sanction."
must-listen interview with @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
"Beauty is about power. Beauty is the only power that women are allowed to legitimately use but never own. ...
There is no good moral choice in a system of power where your body is the only capital you are allowed to use without sanction."
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and here I am sorting my recycling like it's 1990 and we still have a chance at saving the planet.
June 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
and here I am sorting my recycling like it's 1990 and we still have a chance at saving the planet.
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“You’re scared? You’re scared of this? You’re scared of the beating heart of New York City’s magical essence? Because you’re some sort of stuffy anxiety freak? Okay. Fine. Drive your ass on home.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...
The Subway Is Not Scary
Fear of the subway is a mark of low moral character.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
“You’re scared? You’re scared of this? You’re scared of the beating heart of New York City’s magical essence? Because you’re some sort of stuffy anxiety freak? Okay. Fine. Drive your ass on home.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...
'The Who Cares Era'
re: AI ~ "Using extraordinary amounts of resources, it has the ability to create something good enough, a squint-and-it-looks-right simulacrum of normality. If you don't care, it's miraculous. If you do, the illusion falls apart pretty quickly."
dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
re: AI ~ "Using extraordinary amounts of resources, it has the ability to create something good enough, a squint-and-it-looks-right simulacrum of normality. If you don't care, it's miraculous. If you do, the illusion falls apart pretty quickly."
dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
The Who Cares Era | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
June 18, 2025 at 2:39 PM
'The Who Cares Era'
re: AI ~ "Using extraordinary amounts of resources, it has the ability to create something good enough, a squint-and-it-looks-right simulacrum of normality. If you don't care, it's miraculous. If you do, the illusion falls apart pretty quickly."
dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
re: AI ~ "Using extraordinary amounts of resources, it has the ability to create something good enough, a squint-and-it-looks-right simulacrum of normality. If you don't care, it's miraculous. If you do, the illusion falls apart pretty quickly."
dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
"Only direct, sustained protest will protect us. Everyday people standing between authoritarianism and our freedom scare the administration. They reveal the greatest informal mechanism for democratic enforcement: not kings, not former presidents, but the power of the people."
“Begging Obama to save us is undignified,” our columnist Tressie McMillan Cottom writes. “It reeks of weakness, and it begets more weakness.”
Opinion | Obama Isn’t Going to Save You
We no longer have the country that made Obama possible.
www.nytimes.com
June 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
"Only direct, sustained protest will protect us. Everyday people standing between authoritarianism and our freedom scare the administration. They reveal the greatest informal mechanism for democratic enforcement: not kings, not former presidents, but the power of the people."
Here's our presentation materials from the OCULA Spring conference & subsequent reflections about combatting cynicism, collaboration, and next steps with these topics.
Also some lovely botanical drawings courtesy of the Met.
falconcreek.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/s...
Also some lovely botanical drawings courtesy of the Met.
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Seeking Solidarity: Challenging the Binary of the Librarian/ Staff Divide
My colleague Alicia Floyd and I presented at the Ontario College and University Library Association (OCULA) Spring Conference in May. The conference theme was “Under Whose Authority: Power &a…
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June 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Here's our presentation materials from the OCULA Spring conference & subsequent reflections about combatting cynicism, collaboration, and next steps with these topics.
Also some lovely botanical drawings courtesy of the Met.
falconcreek.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/s...
Also some lovely botanical drawings courtesy of the Met.
falconcreek.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/s...
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Oh everybody is Black now.
A DHS spokesperson defended the detainment, accusing Sen. Padilla of failing to properly identify himself during Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference.
But multiple videos show Padilla clearly identifying himself as a senator.
But multiple videos show Padilla clearly identifying himself as a senator.
Sen. Padilla pushed to ground, handcuffed for demanding DHS not lie
Forcibly removing a sitting US senator, as they opposed the president's immigration policy, is a part of a broader slide.
www.motherjones.com
June 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Oh everybody is Black now.
~~ "all flourishing is mutual" ~~
- Robin Wall Kimmerer, 'The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World' 🌱
hard recommend this brief, beautiful book.
- Robin Wall Kimmerer, 'The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World' 🌱
hard recommend this brief, beautiful book.
June 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
~~ "all flourishing is mutual" ~~
- Robin Wall Kimmerer, 'The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World' 🌱
hard recommend this brief, beautiful book.
- Robin Wall Kimmerer, 'The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World' 🌱
hard recommend this brief, beautiful book.
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Doechii speaks out against use of the military against protesters in LA during her acceptance speech at the #BETAwards
June 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Doechii speaks out against use of the military against protesters in LA during her acceptance speech at the #BETAwards
Some casual thoughts about sports and philosophy on this rainy Monday.
"Time!" | falconcreek.wordpress.com/2025/06/09/t...
"Time!" | falconcreek.wordpress.com/2025/06/09/t...
“Time!”
It’s June. That means I play soccer every Sunday evening in a local women’s 35yrs+ league. To be clear: I am not a great soccer player. I didn’t play varsity or rep like many of t…
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June 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Some casual thoughts about sports and philosophy on this rainy Monday.
"Time!" | falconcreek.wordpress.com/2025/06/09/t...
"Time!" | falconcreek.wordpress.com/2025/06/09/t...
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Weeding discourse - yet another topic that never seems to die. 🤦♀️ Why can people not accept that librarians know how to do our jobs and don’t just chuck stuff away for shits and giggles?
Opinion: “A total library would be a bibliographic nightmare, like Borges’s Library of Babel. But neither is a library a fast-fashion store. You don’t discard last season’s items because nobody wanted them.”
✍️ Andrew Hui
#highered #EduSky
✍️ Andrew Hui
#highered #EduSky
Yale-NUS’ book dumping was a tiny crime against culture
A library is not a fast-fashion store. You don’t discard last season’s items because nobody wanted them, says Andrew Hui
www.timeshighereducation.com
June 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Weeding discourse - yet another topic that never seems to die. 🤦♀️ Why can people not accept that librarians know how to do our jobs and don’t just chuck stuff away for shits and giggles?
I've been thinking about power, how it operates, how it shows up in our library workplaces.
I've shared the text of my recent lightning talk at the #CAPAL25 conference @capal-acbes.bsky.social
falconcreek.wordpress.com/2025/06/04/e...
I've shared the text of my recent lightning talk at the #CAPAL25 conference @capal-acbes.bsky.social
falconcreek.wordpress.com/2025/06/04/e...
‘Examining concepts of power in academic libraries and imagining feminist possibilities’
This week I attended the CAPAL conference in Toronto, as part of Congress 2025. I delivered a lightning talk and have shared the text below, PDF version available as well. Power. In the words of so…
falconcreek.wordpress.com
June 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I've been thinking about power, how it operates, how it shows up in our library workplaces.
I've shared the text of my recent lightning talk at the #CAPAL25 conference @capal-acbes.bsky.social
falconcreek.wordpress.com/2025/06/04/e...
I've shared the text of my recent lightning talk at the #CAPAL25 conference @capal-acbes.bsky.social
falconcreek.wordpress.com/2025/06/04/e...
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Good work by NDP - effective opposition tactics - but it requires Ontarians to care about corruption, which they don't seem to. Example after example of not caring about corruption, even when the New York Times comes to town.
Ontario: open for (all kinds of) business.
Ontario: open for (all kinds of) business.
Greenbelt, mandate letter emails unearthed on Ford government staffers’ personal accounts | Globalnews.ca
The emails, turned over to the Ontario NDP as part of a freedom of information appeal, show staff discussing the Greenbelt and mandate letters on their personal accounts.
globalnews.ca
May 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Good work by NDP - effective opposition tactics - but it requires Ontarians to care about corruption, which they don't seem to. Example after example of not caring about corruption, even when the New York Times comes to town.
Ontario: open for (all kinds of) business.
Ontario: open for (all kinds of) business.
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Reading the new MIT Tech Review package on AI and energy. I started with the “positives” brief so no one can say that I didn’t try.
May 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Reading the new MIT Tech Review package on AI and energy. I started with the “positives” brief so no one can say that I didn’t try.