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maggie tarmey
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map librarian. movie lover. union strong. los angeles. he/they. transsexual 🏳️‍⚧️

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I have two questions as follow-up:

1. What academic library hasn't already cut our funding and resources for technical services down to a bare minimum already?

and

2. At what point do we just give up and stop being a library?

I'm not being facetious.

📚

katinamagazine.org/content/arti...
June 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
ever since I realized this my life has never been better or easier
June 4, 2025 at 6:50 AM
fucking heartbreaking, track and field is for everyone!
Holy shit - Gavin Newsom has clarified that this goes even further.

The transgender runner will compete "in her own category."

California is basically instituting a sports ban.

www.kcra.com/article/cali...
May 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
learning it may not have been typical to have to submit to a breathalyzer given by a random school administrator to enter any high school dance or major activity (spirit week)…the more I think about it the weirder it gets
May 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
map alert!
What was Los Angeles like pre-freeway? 🚙🚕🚗

Recently digitized, a detailed hand-drawn created by "the only woman map publisher in the country" lets us time-travel to 1927, before the widespread adoption of automobiles: gty.art/4kvZs1l
May 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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29 states who failed to join the lawsuit will not get their IMLS grants reinstated. Those state leaders should feel the pressure for losing federal money for their constituents.
May 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
map alert!
New commission: One for avocado fans! 🥑 My map of Central America (and yes, the Gulf of MEXICO) for 'Green Gold', a new book by Sarah Allaback & Monique Parsons about the fruit's cultural history and how it became a staple in the US and around the world
ℹ️ www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/772195...
May 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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I have yet to see librarians fight as loud for their trans/GNC coworkers (or potential coworkers) as they do for drag queens who visit, perform for them, then leave.
May 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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If you are mad about a newspaper's summer reading list including made-up books, maybe you don't actually like fiction and have a mind bereft of Borgesian imagination. You're mad you can't "buy" these books? Good. Some things are not for the market, actually, you capitalist bootlicker.
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
imagine my surprise to open the newsletter to see myself in the header! can’t wait to see how the rest of the photos from this turned out. this isn’t even posed they kept asking me great map questions!
May 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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I FOIAed every state's dept of education to see what they were telling teachers about ChatGPT / how they were training them on it, and the situation was bleak. My writeup, pulled from thousands of pages of presentations, emails, and other documents:

www.404media.co/american-sch...
American Schools Were Deeply Unprepared for ChatGPT, Public Records Show
Thousands of pages of documents show school districts around the country did not understand how much ChatGPT would change their classrooms, and pro-AI consultants filled in some of the gaps.
www.404media.co
May 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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MOUSE KLUB is imo one of the key queer films of the 70s — a scathing satire of Fred Halsted, clone culture, Americana, and M*cky M*use. Its last public screening was at the second-ever Frameline in 1978, where it reportedly nearly caused a riot.
May 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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1. The organization TGEU (Transgender Europe) has just released their annual transgender rights map.

“For the first time in its 13-year history, setbacks in human rights of trans people now clearly outweigh progress"

The latest from S. Baum.

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Europe’s Latest Trans Rights Map Shows Unprecedented Regression
“For the first time in its 13-year history, setbacks in human rights of trans people across Europe and Central Asia now clearly outweigh progress.”
www.erininthemorning.com
May 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
watching prue leith shamelessly flirt with dk metcalf in this knock off bake off football episode is incredible
May 14, 2025 at 4:08 AM
had the horrible no good stomach bug this morning and I thought those IV clinics were mostly a scam but after getting a round of basic fluids I think I’m sold. genuine improvement in how I feel. do recommend!
May 13, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Lawyers and doctors take a vow of ethics that govern their respective industries.
What would be included in a geospatial vow of ethics? #gischat
May 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Frankly, I see this as further evidence of the hollowing-out of the value of professional education. If an MLS is just a way to pay-to-play for higher salaries, instead of a way to engage with and prepare for professional practice, it makes sense to feel this way. But this is a different problem.
May 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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We made an analog libguide today
May 3, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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This is the prompt it gave the LLM. Researchers lied about informed consent so the LLM would do the task:
April 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
the sudden spike in popularity for the savannah bananas is a recession indicator
April 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM
watched the eiger sanction this weekend and god what a wild movie. a man died for this! there’s a dog named faggot owned by a gay guy and a black woman named jemima. that’s only scratching the surface. this is what being a clint completist has done to me.
April 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM