PSA to folks in academia that use Google Apps for Edu, use Google Takeout to download your drive, so if you get separated, you have access to your shit. You can schedule it bimonthly. 📚 🎓

I was just wondering if any IHE had called a vote of nonconfidence in their board of trustees. Turns out at least one did! www.whsv.com/2025/09/10/m... The fighting squirrels of Mary Baldwin University! 🎓

I hope you're planning to go to the NY Queer Fair Saturday. @miloblue.bsky.social will be tabling!

I'll be at a celebration of life, so please do all the queer ziney things in my absence. Also spare a few minutes to thank Steven Englander for all he did to promote a culture of resistance in NYC.

1. In a devastating new Pew Research Survey, only 3 in 10 transgender adults report being accepted by their parents.

And only 1 in 10 say they are accepted by their extended family.

This is the lowest number ever found in surveys asking similar questions.

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Do we know what will happen to the Baker and Taylor cats??? 📚

In case any of my fellow early voting New Yorkers need to hear this: VOTE FOR MAMDANI. And not just because I feel guilty for not canvassing.

Fellow flotilla activists are alleging Greta Thunberg was horrifically mistreated in Israeli detention.

If this is how Israel treats a high-profile detainee like Greta Thunberg, I want you to consider how they treat Palestinian detainees.

You don’t have to imagine it. It’s been widely documented:

Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”

maamoulpress.com/The-Final-Sc... Jehad Abu Dayya and Esraa el-Banna were both part of the Yara’at Writing Club in Gaza when the war broke out. Amid genocide and displacement, for months they wrote letters to one another. Fourteen letters are compiled in a new zine, along with illustrations by Esraa.

I'm starting my day by being difficult. Does one typically allow an editor to modify one's article without review or approval? Is this a case of needing to know you can ask for the other contract like we all used to do with egregious copyright demands back in the day?

Recommended: this history of Black comedians. Did you know that it was Black vaudevillian Charlie Case’s punching motion that we sat “punchline” today. Or that it’s because of Richard Pryor’s potty mouth that there’s a 7-second broadcast delay? Also sapphic news about Loretta Aiken/Moms Mabley.

The self-preservation instinct is hard to ignore, but if you believe in the soul, maybe prioritize that?

There needs to be a version of the serenity prayer for the wisdom to know when it's time to die on your feet vs. live on your knees. It's easy to bluster on here about what we'd have done in Nazi Germany, but we're here now, and what we're doing is what we're doing. It's hard and scary to be brave.

BRB making a hit list to be opened after my death.

Any NYC library workers on here potentially available to join a panel organized by @nycplan.org happening tomorrow??? We'd need you from 1:30 to 3 pm. Holler at me if this is you or someone you know.

THANK YOU. You are correct. My cats have ALL THE POWER here...

Update: just flipped the calendar page

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

I'm really mad at my cats right now. I'd show you a photo of them, but then you wouldn't have any sympathy for what they put me through this morning. I'm worried enough about CBS News and the Flotilla right now and don't need their terrorism, too. Who needs seven breakfasts between 5 and 9am?!?

The Free Black Women's Library, based in Bed-Stuy, is launching Sisters of the Yam/A Black Girl Book Club. Presumably named for the bell hooks book, the book club is for "Black girls, femmes and gender non-conforming youth ages 13-17." docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #books #AmReading #Brooklyn #NYC

Title VI training video

Really? I entered librarianship so that my boss's boss's boss and college counsel could use The Free Beacon and government intimidation to dictate my collection development policy.

I put in an application for a steering committee position and under skills forgot to put that I'm surprisingly strong and good at Pilates. These are not relevant skills, but I feel like the deciders should know?

Furthermore, Eric Adams byeee!

#procrastinationSkeets

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Also, I am complaining about the syllabus rather than prepping class on Tuesday, which is obviously v helpful