Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
This local library puts forgotten water bottles into a museum display case
fwiw, i don’t personally think that either doomerism OR toxic positivity is what this moment calls for; i think what we actually need to be collectively looking towards is a secret third thing (hopepunk)
it’s cool and important to give a shit, and to look for ways to help each other.
Colorful graphic that has a rainbow in the top left corner. At the center, it reads "Pride Month Attacks in Libraries 2025" with a circle of words saying "share your experiences." Beneath that pink text box, there is more pink text saying "Share your stories at https://tinyurl.com/pride-in-libraries-25."
***LAST CALL***
Library workers–have you already experienced pushback, censorship, or attacks on your plans for Pride 2025?
I'm again collecting those stories for an article in mid-July.
Details in the form, w/ previous stories.
tinyurl.com/pride-in-libraries-25
Stopped in my tracks by this sign pointing out the IMLS absence from #ALAAC25
Small fish grouping together to go after big fish with text ORGANIZE!
@librarypunk.bsky.social reminds us that you can always organize, even informally. So we’ll remind you of that, too.
We are doing our first ever live show! If you are in town for ALA or just lucky enough to live in Philly! Tickets are limited and very reasonably priced so grab them now! www.eventbrite.com/e/librarypun...
Guess who bought me another pretty rock
Also my director is somewhere here lol hope I don't run into him
Eeeeeeeeee
I'm not *actually* attending ALA so if anyone has suggestions on how to burn a few hours in the area, I'd appreciate them! (While dragging around carryon until I can check in...)
Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.
Hello Philly :)
EXTREMELY grateful and blown away by the support we've gotten. 89% funded already?!?! Y'all are amazing.
We're doing a fundraising drive for one more year of librarypunk. Hosting and recording costs money, and we'd really appreciate your support to keep the show going. Everything we make will continue to be free for all, but we wanted to offer ways for people to show their support.
Data is never ‘collected’, it is only *generated*.
This isn’t merely a pedantic semantic gripe; by misrepresenting ‘data’ as something that exists in nature & has only to be scooped up, evasion of accountability for data harms has already begun
Data doesn’t exist until someone constructs it
I got a new phone and forgot my bsky login and forgot to reset it for MONTHS. Hello friends I did not vanish btw
It was fantastic to get to meet and chat with you!
had suck a nice podcast interview with @librarypunk.bsky.social a real treat. thank you for having me buckaroos. you can listen here www.librarypunk.gay/e/122-dr-chu...
The amount of tomato, mozzarella, and garlic ice eaten in the past two days is an indulgence fundie Repubs would try to make illegal if they knew. Fuckin BRUSCHETTA
The attack on libraries will not end with any consensus standard for what counts as prurient or pornographic, because the attack isn’t about that. It’s about eliminating the library as a public space where a child can find the smallest measure of freedom from parental domination. 📚
Saw someone refer to "websites from the 1900s" and I took 1d4 psychic damage
When I first started playing FFXIV I was terrified of Alliance raids but now I fuckin love them. The sheer chaos of trying to get through Dun Scaith without dying (unaccomplished)
Getting Taco Baco and I'm sorry GRILLED CHEESE DIPPING TACO???
One time I spent five minutes at lunch drawing a reverse centaur and it became one of my most retweeted pieces of art. I resented that so I deleted it but now it can be free again because not enough people follow me on here for it to go big
They are absolutely correct and give me a pretty rock AT LEAST once year
Wife just obliterated me by calling me "a penguin ass who will fall in love with the first fat person to give you a rock"