Flyer showing an off white background and blue hand drawn illustration of the Milwaukee Public Library and text reading: Milwaukee Zine Fest, Saturday April 18th, 10:30 am–4:30 pm. Milwaukee Public Library, 814 W Wisconsin Ave, 2026. A smaller footnote states "MZF is produced by the Milwaukee Zine consortium in partnership with the Milwaukee Public Library".

Milwaukee Zine Fest takes place on Saturday 18th April @ the MKE Central Library (from 10:30am to 4.30pm).

Their 17th year of bringing zines to Milwaukee!

More info: milwaukeezinefest.com

📍 Location:

Milwaukee Central Library
814 W. Wisconsin Avenue
Milwaukee
Wisconsin 53233
United States

Flywheel Zine Fest this Saturday! At the Holyoke Senior Center! Free admission! Come say hi!

Will I finish my zine in time? Probably not!

Congratulations Nicole!!! What a huge accomplishment! I hope the defense had some joyful moments
for you!

For The People Newsletter Vol. XXXVIII For everyone working to strengthen and expand public libraries

In this April edition of @librariesftp.bsky.social's newsletter, we feature my friend and comrade Shana's collaborative book with @edrabinski.bsky.social titled "Here's What Happened at the Library This Week" and raffle 5 copies.

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DOG AT THE OLYMPICS
FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS

Queers, Families and the Squat Community front cover. People standing in an open area looking at buildings

W00t! It's a new Zine of the Gay! This week Rowan takes a look at Queers, Families, and the Squat Community from 2011 Amsterdam.

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28 Days of Black Librarians In 2026 ASALH, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History honors Black History Month with A Century of Black…

oaklandlibrary.org/blogs/post/2... - '28 days of librarians' for Black History Month

Donate to Honoring the life of Fobazi Ettarh: Funeral & other costs, organized by Ysabel Gerrard NEW UPDATE Dear readers, This isn’t the update I was … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Honoring the life of Fobazi Ettarh: Funeral & other costs

It would be difficult to overstate the influence of Fobazi Ettarh's work on a generation of library workers. Sending love to all in her orbit.

Join me in supporting her family in this difficult time.

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

good morning it is almost the end of the month if you can help some minnesotans pay rent it is a great day to do so

Crips for eSims for Gaza Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.

PS WE ARE IN THE RED AGAIN AND WE KNOW EVERYTHING IS EVERYTHING BUT WE ARE STILL HERE AND KNOW SOME PEOPLE MAY NOT KNOW THIS, SO IF YOU WANNA DONATE, HIT THE CHUFFED chuffed.org/project/crip... we gotta reimb people particularly in the UK and Canada but any currency works.

Crips for eSims for Gaza w/ Jane Shi & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (01/22/26) To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Jane Shi and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha about their work

@pipagaopoetry.bsky.social and me were on @reallandsend.bsky.social's Death Panel podcast to talk about Crips for eSims for Gaza, "how disabled people built and sustained an internationalist solidarity mutual aid project under siege, grief + death." on.soundcloud.com/utzFoAVtN4OK...

This is very important journalism. Big kitty soft.

An angel pigeon says ABOLISH and a devil pigeon says REFORM painted in acrylic over a blue background

I came up with things for my angel and devil pigeons to say, please feel free to use this as a reaction image for dem politicians.

Then there you lie like the one warm spark in the heart of an arctic crystal.

Yes, please!

R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World YouTube video by REMVEVO

"It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" was released as the second single from Document on this day in 1988. Here's the video for the single directed by James Herbert.

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I implore you to hit up CVS and get your flu shot. Please don’t game it with whatever else you heard. It’s real serious and we don’t gave any public health allies in the government now.

My favorite way to find information on a topic remains googling my keywords and adding "libguide" to the search. I needed to find a good introduction to APIs and a basic tutorial and this improved my results SO MUCH.

New York Public Library press release: Schomburg Qur'an Selected for Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani's Swearing-In In a historic first, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will use a Qur'an from NYPL's Schomburg Center at a midnight swearing-in ceremony. December 31, 2025-The New York Public Library announced on Wednesday that Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will use a Qur'an from the collections of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture to take the oath of office at a midnight swearing-in ceremony on New Year's Eve. This comes as the Schomburg Center is celebrating its centennial. Following the midnight swearing-in ceremony, the Qur'an will be put on public display beginning January 6 in the McGraw Rotunda at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on 42nd Street. "This marks a significant moment in our city's history, and we are deeply honored that Mayor-elect Mamdani has chosen to take the oath of office using one of the Library's Qur'ans," said Anthony W. Marx, President and CEO of The New York Public Library. "This specific Qur'an, which Arturo Schomburg preserved for the knowledge and enjoyment of all New Yorkers, symbolizes a greater story of inclusion, representation, and civic-mindedness."

Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as NYC's first Muslim mayor on a Qur'an from the personal collection of the great Afro-Boricua intellectual Arturo Schomburg—as well as Qur'ans owned by Mamdani's grandparents. www.nypl.org/press/schomb...

A painting of a street scene, with drops of rain falling in dash-like diagonals. Various figures populate the scene, most of them on the sidewalk. A tall building with rows of windows appears at right. A man pushes a cart along the street

A fitting scene for this morning's weather in NYC: Jacob Lawrence, "Rain," 1938

I was diagnosed with diabetes 38 years ago today. I live a mostly normal life interrupted by the 1 zillion decisions I have to make about my health every day. I'm lucky. Today and always, everyone deserves unfettered access to the healthcare they need. mutualaiddiabetes.com/donate/

‘You gotta give ​‘em hope,’” Miller says. ​“I think about the zines we have from all over the country and all over the world, where folks are able to say, ​‘This is going on in my life, this is what’s going on in my scene — how we’re surviving, how we’re thriving and how we’re pushing back.’” 💖 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

Dictionary day is finally here! The first new print M-W in more than 20 years

ilu Merriam-Webster

In a society, survival is collectivized

There’s no society without that

Excited to finally announce the release of my first ever book, and the first ever book from we here press. It is a pocket-size guide to my archival theories and experiences in the form of essays- some you may have heard in part as lectures, some which are unpublished until now.

www.weherepress.org

I was glad to learn tonight about the @sealibrary.bsky.social project, which reminded me of these 👇 ⚓️🌊📚