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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 2d

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Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs

Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’

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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 7d

An important discussion on MLIS debt by @violetbfox.bsky.social 📜 📚

On Owing $93,605 in Student Loans; or, A Profession Built on Debt - ACRLog

I don't know the right metaphor to make you understand how this much debt physically feels. What it actually feels like is a pressure on my chest and shoulders, but maybe that's not evocative enough. ...

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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 6d

Librarians of Bluesky, may I request your help please?

In middle school (2006-09), I read a book about a teenager contemplating their sexuality, I think there's a football player who is the bully but also comes out by the end, and there's a support group iirc. The cover is colorful and striped(?)

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 7d

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

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Pink Bunny @pinkbunny.bsky.social · 7d

Reading Kay Graham’s memoir, “Personal History” and her father has just bought The Washington Post in 1933 and boy howdy, do I wish these were still the principles not just for The Post, but all journalism

What he (Eugene Meyer) did have was a well-developed philosophy, which he spelled out in an early editorial, in 1934, and in several speeches over the next few years. He felt a newspaper was a public trust, meant to serve the public in a democracy. My father wanted a paper that would advance beyond what it had achieved even in its heyday and "take a leadership which could be achieved only by exceptional quality." In one address, on March 5, 1935, he spoke about the principles that he insisted on from the beginning, outlining them as follows:
I. That the first mission of a newspaper is to tell the truth as nearly as the truth may be ascertained;
2. That the newspaper shall tell ALL the truth so far as it can learn it, concerning the important affairs of America and the world;
3. That as a disseminator of news, the paper shall observe the decencies that are obligatory upon a private gentleman;
4. That what it prints shall be fit reading for the young as well as for the old;
5. That the newspaper's duty is to its readers and to the public at large, and not to the private interests of its owner;
6. That in the pursuit of truth, the newspaper shall be prepared to make sacrifice of its material fortunes, if such course be necessary for the public good;
7. That the newspaper shall not be the ally of any special interest, but shall be fair and free and wholesome in its outlook on public affairs and public men.

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Elizabeth Dill @elizabethdill.bsky.social · 15d

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🔊 Listen Now: Wary of changes under Trump, 'citizen historians' are documenting the Smithsonian

Morning Edition on NPR One | 3:46

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 10d

This whole section really.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you so much! I was tickled this one came together.

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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 7d

Excited to have my #poem "Damnation Does Not Impress Us" published in @flatink.bsky.social issue 3! (This one's for my @centrecollege.bsky.social peeps from me, '01.) www.flatinkmagazine.com/articles/pro...
#poetry 💙📚 #booksky 📖 #writing 📝 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social

Damnation Does Not Impress Us

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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 12d

Asking 'how do you know if you need stitches?' knowing damn well I'm just going to wrap it in gauze and electrical tape like a good electrician's daughter. Why does @parisnoire.bsky.social put up with me? 😂

a woman says i am a gift in yellow letters

ALT: a woman says i am a gift in yellow letters

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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 12d

Really pleased to have my #poem "Self Portrait as Bearded Vulture Chick" in the fantastic new issue of @thimblelitmag.bsky.social ! I hope you'll take a minute to read it at www.thimblelitmag.com/2025/07/25/s...
📝 #poetry 💙📚 #booksky 📖 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social #writing

Self-Portrait As Bearded Vulture Chick

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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 14d

About to start sending requests for blurbs, and oh lordy is this the part of poet-ing I hate most. I would rather eat a hippopotamus ass-first than impose on other writers whose time I know is already wildly overcommitted.
#booksky 💙📚 #poetry 📖 #writing 📝

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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 16d

Lol we made a discovery layer that lies to you, it's a learning experience

"the team has worked hard to minimize such results, but they can and will surface. Importantly, these moments are opportunities to learn more about both the technology and user expectations."

Launch of Collections Explorer (MVP)

On Monday, September 15, Harvard Library launched the MVP of Collections Explorer, the first working prototype of the Reimagining Discovery initiative. This marks a pivotal moment: for the first time,...

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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 16d

I have no good excuse, just doomscrolling after being ill. I hope you get the lab results you want to see!

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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 16d

I just ate half a large tub of Greek fat-free plain yogurt because somewhere in my head I think dairy makes you sleepy? I might be mixing that tale up with the one about warm milk.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 16d

I deleted a post about the UC lists of names because, while I obtained this info from an administrator, I just read a report with some conflicting details (attached). The conflicting info is whether campuses handed over *documents* or *lists*. In either case, lists appear to exist for every UC.

Liner Note 38. The University of California's Charlie Kirk Tribute Act

UC Berkeley on May 29, 2024 I’m opposed to the University of California’s current responses to the Trump Administration’s multiple shaked...

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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 16d

Also not sleeping

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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you! My favorite section of this collection are the persona poems in the characters of inconvenient women like Jochebed, Dido, and Lady MacBeth, among others

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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 16d

So excited - the fine press First Bite Press has announced my forthcoming #poetry collection Babylon Songs, to be illustrated with linocuts by French artist Sandie Levent!

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First Bite Press Fall Update — First Bite Press

First Bite Press ended the summer by finishing up a Kickstarter Campaign and kicked off the fall printing a new limited edition book. Anne Covell has the pages of Victoria: A Bedside Table Tale and is...

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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 16d

How much vomit can one person’s innards hold when they haven’t ingested anything in days? I seem to be breaking laws of physics.

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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 16d

Ballerina (From the world of John Wick, 2025) is the first ever movie I streamed that I refused to finish, it was awful. Spent the part of the movie I *did* watch hollering "Check your got-damn corners!" every 2 seconds.

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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 17d

To have a doctor with a 12-step skincare routine tell me - who was raised to believe my face wasnt clean unless I scrubbed it daily w/shattered walnut shells & to do my own ingrown toenail surgery without painkiller or numbing - question me when I say I'm in pain? Ma'am.
#spoonie #Chronicillness

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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 17d

I am way more sad than I should be over something so silly. So I'm going back to bed. Take THAT, day!

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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 17d

Just dropped a bottle of discontinued dark purple magnetic nail polish and it shattered all over my kitchen floor and cabinets. How's your day going?

a black and white photo of a woman laying in bed with her eyes open .

ALT: a black and white photo of a woman laying in bed with her eyes open .

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19d

Breaking: A CDC advisory panel filled with RFK Jr.'s handpicked vaccine skeptics just unanimously recommended limiting the COVID shot to people 65 and older or those with underlying health conditions, based on a decision individually or with their doctor.

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