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Sophie 🏳️‍⚧️💜🎹

@sophiously.com

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Just another Southern queer / trans librarian, living the good life. Parent to humans and dogs. Writer of things, educator at big university and small community settings. Zines, podcasts, general shenanigans

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Sophie 🏳️‍⚧️💜🎹 @sophiously.com · 1d

I don’t think I know too many people here who are local to me, but I’m really excited about this so I’m putting it here

We now officially have a Baton Rouge #Zine Club!!!!

A place/time to hang out and make #zines, share zines, and meet other folks doing the same 💜💜

batonrougezineclub.com

Baton Rouge Zine Club – let's make zines!

batonrougezineclub.com

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Sophie 🏳️‍⚧️💜🎹 @sophiously.com · 5d

Enjoying this fine #bandcampFriday

Building out my #anarchistPunk / #cabaretPunk with:

🎶 World/Inferno Friendship Society
🎶Bus Station Loonies
🎶 Wags to Wytches
🎶 Harlequin Jones

And miscellaneous albums from browsing the category bandcamp.com/discover/cab...

#bandCamp #music #punk

Music and merch tagged cabaret punk on Bandcamp

Shop for vinyl, cassettes, CDs, t-shirts, and other merch tagged cabaret punk on Bandcamp.

bandcamp.com

Sophie 🏳️‍⚧️💜🎹 @sophiously.com · 7d

“Despite being touted as the definitive technological breakthrough of this century, the conditions under which #AI models and tools are produced by data workers, in a highly opaque and fissured global supply chain, are still underexplored.”

cwa-union.org/ghost-worker...

Ghost Workers in the AI Machine:

U.S. Data Workers Speak Out About Big Tech’s Exploitation

cwa-union.org

Sophie 🏳️‍⚧️💜🎹 @sophiously.com · 8d

Let it be known: starting immediately I will only respond to an email if it contains no less than thee [3] exclamation marks

Life is too short for period-only communication!!!

Sophie 🏳️‍⚧️💜🎹 @sophiously.com · 8d

Just saw that this is a thing!!

“Zine Your Research” podcast from Tulane University Libraries

open.spotify.com/episode/6zuc...

#zine #zines #podcast #libraries

Ep. 1, What is a Zine?

open.spotify.com

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Sophie 🏳️‍⚧️💜🎹 @sophiously.com · 8d

A selection of questions the 8 year old asked during a 20 minute car ride

- What does “budget” mean?
- Is a van the same as a truck?
- What’s robotic surgery?
- Is smoking illegal?
- Why do dogs sometimes put their tails down?

#parenting

Yoda’s death scene. Text: “once I became a parent I finally understood the scene where Yoda gets so tired of answering Luke’s questions he just dies”

Sophie 🏳️‍⚧️💜🎹 @sophiously.com · 9d

Oh no. I’m sorry to hear this. Please be safe 💜💜

Sophie 🏳️‍⚧️💜🎹 @sophiously.com · 9d

Big weekend of dog park shenanigans. She says the rest of us can do what we want, but she’s sleeping in
🐶💤

#dogs #skyDogs

Pancake the Dog, white dog with brown spots, looking worn out, laying on white pillow. She has no interest in a Monday, thank you very much

Sophie 🏳️‍⚧️💜🎹 @sophiously.com · 10d

Having a sit and think
🐶💭

#dogs #skydogs #dogsOfBlueSky

Pancake the Dog, white dog with brown spots, sitting on green chair, having a sit and think

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Sophie 🏳️‍⚧️💜🎹 @sophiously.com · 11d

Me: hey, I’m gonna put on some music

8yo: it’s not going to be that punk rock music is it? It’s so intense

😂😂

#punk #punkrock #parenting #sheWillEventuallyComeAround

Sophie 🏳️‍⚧️💜🎹 @sophiously.com · 16d

Holding hands meme. On hand is labeled “Golden retrievers” other hand is “Me”.

Connecting text “Not dumb just having a nice day and not willing to let you ruin it”

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SB @stephestellar.bsky.social · 19d

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 19d

Our report is published! Free and available to the public!

Black History at the Vassall Estate

Longfellow House—Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site

This is the story of a Black family in Massachusetts who exemplified the spirit of liberty.

read:
irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Do...

cover of the report: Black History at the Vassall Estate, Special History Study, with the National Park Service header. The image on a tan background is the signatures of members of the Black Vassall family.

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Sophie 🏳️‍⚧️💜🎹 @sophiously.com · 19d

“Collection development librarians are requesting digital book vendors like OverDrive, Hoopla and CloudLibrary to remove AI slop titles as they’re found.”

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www.404media.co/librarians-a...

Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books

It’s a trippy time to have a library card.

www.404media.co

Sophie 🏳️‍⚧️💜🎹 @sophiously.com · 22d

Haven’t had a chance to see it myself, but I’ve heard good things about Gareth Hinds’ versions

garethhinds.com/iliad/

The Iliad – Gareth Hinds Illustration

garethhinds.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · 23d

Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

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Zine Club Chicago @zineclubchicago.bsky.social · 23d

We hope you know that this will go down on your permanent record … this month, we’re teaming up with our friends at Life on Marz Community Club to explore the times when we’ve broken the rules, from skipping class to the good trouble of civil disobedience.

#zines #DIY #ZineClubChicago

A full-color flyer featuring a background photo of a surly orange kitten’s mugshot and this text: “Zine Club Chicago on Marz Zinemaking Hangout: Permanent Record; 7-9 p.m. Wednesday, September 17; Life on Marz Community Club, 1950 N. Western Ave.; Featuring a set by DJ MAXIMUM LIZNROLL!; Free!; Info at zineclubchicago.com”

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Sophie 🏳️‍⚧️💜🎹 @sophiously.com · 23d

I remember this song!

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 23d

Matt Pryor of the Get Up Kids beautiful new solo record about getting sober is the world biggest bat signal for me specifially youtu.be/KC9avhq4tsw?...

Matt Pryor & The Salton Sea

YouTube video by Matt Pryor

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Sophie 🏳️‍⚧️💜🎹 @sophiously.com · 24d

May all your enemies get tangled in wet sports bras

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 27d

FWIW i’ve switched to @bookshop.org for ebooks and Libro for audio books and with very few exceptions had the exact same experience as Amazon without the greasy aftertaste. Highly recommended.

Libro.fm @libro.fm · 27d

When you find out about Libro.fm, an alternative to Amazon-owned Audible that’s 100% employee owned, a Certified B Corporation, and shares profits with 4,000+ independent bookshops 😍

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Sophie 🏳️‍⚧️💜🎹 @sophiously.com · 27d

Hey friends, are any of y’all #prison #librarians? If so, are you up for talking to students interested in that area?

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Sophie 🏳️‍⚧️💜🎹 @sophiously.com · 27d

Have you tried refreshing the page?

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 28d

Teaching a research methods class today, so I had to wear my new tshirt…

Photo of me wearing a Raygun tshirt reading “FOIA and find out”

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Capt Chris @capt-chris.bsky.social · 28d

Turns out that checks and balances only works in a democracy if the representatives aren’t constantly looking at their checks and balances.

#corruption

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