Skeletor leans over, hands placed on a ledge, looking down below. Caption reads: I will only focus on what is beneficial for me.

#DailySkeletor #affirmation

Yes

DHS Creating Smart Glasses for ICE to ID People in Real-Time The Department of Homeland Security is developing smart glasses for ICE, according to budget documents.

"The glasses would be only one more addition to the rapidly expanding surveillance state under the Trump administration, which is collecting massive amounts of data on people and organizations in the U.S.”

newrepublic.com/post/209309/...

Hand-knitted jumper, on display at the National Library of Scotland

What every well-dressed librarian is wearing @natlibscot.bsky.social

This administration is stuck in 1984 in more ways than one.

Do these guys know what decade it is?

Does Chris know *why* coal stopped being the dominant source of energy?

Is he getting paid by the coal industry somehow to ignore reality?

The Battle Over Funding Imagination Library Grows: Book Censorship News, April 17, 2026 What is the Imagination Library and why are states across the US removing it from their state budgets?

The Battle Over Funding Imagination Library Grows.

What is the Imagination Library and why are states across the US removing it from their state budgets?

bookriot.com/dollys-imagi...

You know what's not good for soldiers? Dying of the flu because they weren't vaccinated.
(Also being sick for 3 weeks if they don't die.)

Talking Trans History with a Trans Legend — Assigned A conversation between Assigned Media and trans historian Susan Stryker.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Apr
I interview historian/sage Susan Stryker for Assigned Media after publication of the third edition of her landmark book, "Transgender History: A Resource for Today's Struggle—and Tomorrow"

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Been trying to organize the fam for a Daggerheart game for a while & we finally did a character creation session.
Teen is doing a Clank Seraph
Tween is going human murderhobo
I...keep drawing a blank. I've had tons of character ideas but now...I got nothing.

A brown leather notebook standing upright on a table

A close up of a sparkly dark blue notebook, depicting a golden magical circle

A close up of a lined paper pages

We've got a little sale going on all available notebooks in our shop! Handy leather sleeves that last a lifetime, ready to slip around a fresh new notebook every time you fill one up 📚️
That includes our sparkly Galaxy notebooks! ✨
#ttrpg #notebook

The IMLS Propaganda Machine Is In Full Swing The agency overseeing U.S. libraries and museums is now full-on regime propaganda.

Don't forget that PragerU is who crafted the 14 million dollar "Freedom Trucks" project from the IMLS. They stole that money from us, the taxpayers, for a propaganda project.

buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

Well this is terrible

Introducing the Digital Archives of Edgar Snow - LibCal - UMKC University Libraries The Digital Projects team invites you to an international virtual presentation sharing our project to make the Snow Archives available online to researchers across the globe. ...

If you’ve ever been curious about what I do at work, I’m doing a virtual reading room tour & show-n-tell at this event at 8PM CST: libcal.library.umkc.edu/event/166584... #thatarchiveslife #archives #libraries

Book cover for Shut and Read by Cook

This new book looks good. I love books on books

Editors should not upload manuscripts to AI without permission, says Authors Guild The Authors Guild (AG) in the US has warned editors not to upload submitted manuscripts to consumer-facing AI systems.

Ooooh, this is gonna be a mess

www.thebookseller.com/news/editors...

7. So the pattern should be clear: Donald Trump puts on his “No more Mr Nice Guy” act on Sundays to impress futures traders, but Iran keeps squeezing oil flows during the week, panicking regular Wall Street traders. By the end of the week, all Donald Trump can do is lie.

6. There’s another thing about pretending to win. Trump has bullied Iran into surrendering on Sundays, but on the previous Fridays, he has acted like it already has. Again, this is for investors watching the week’s events, especially the fact that Iran’s behavior hasn’t changed.

5. Speaking of pretending to win, that’s why Trump issues his threats on Sundays. It’s the day when futures markets open. Investors want the Iran war to end. With his Sunday threats, the president strings them along, giving them just enough hope to prevent oil prices from soaring for the week.

It is really challenging to work in ethics with this administration in power.

Screenshot from Palia: the player's arm is seen with a blue bee (a bumble in game) on the player's wrist. The Bumble is wearing a tiny crown.

I took a long hiatus from Palia & am catching up. Finally got ranching up to lvl 9 to get my First Bumble and she's blue!

Skeletor leans over, hands placed on a ledge, looking down below. Caption reads: I will only focus on what is beneficial for me.

#DailySkeletor #affirmation

The Sift: AI versus doctors - The News Literacy Project A cancer patient declines treatment after consulting with an AI tool, a daily newspaper in Pittsburgh is saved, and a Pink Floyd-related rumor is debunked.

⚠️ Recent studies of leading AI chatbots found that they give misleading medical advice half of the time & misdiagnose over 80% of early medical cases. In one case, a man in Seattle died of cancer last year after delaying care based on faulty advice from Perplexity AI.

Read more in The Sift ⤵️

It is fundamentally dishonest and completely delusional to be going around saying "ah, someone is not technically correct about their reason for disliking AI! AI skepticism is therefore very much like the anti-vax movement!" Go fall in a hole

Wild to keep hearing anti-AI sentiment described as an "echo chamber" by people who pretend there's never been a coercive dogshit marketing campaign actively pissing people off about it for two years or any no-opt-out half-baked shovelware making everyone's PCs and phones worse

The Librarians with Joyce Vance Get tickets for the virtual screening of The Librarians

Get ready to feel activated TOMORROW for our informative online watch party and conversation on Kinema and leave with tools to battle against book bans in your own communities!

💪📚Celebrate National Library Workers Day (04/21) with THE LIBRARIANS and get tickets now!

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The Librarian's Wish by Aminata Coote

Oh! I know this one. Is it a full staff? #collectiondevelopment amzn.to/3QPhHoW

Our personalised avatars speaking in speech bubbles. The content of the bubbles is pretty much what's on the text of this post!

The Study of Comics in Academia
May 30, 6 PM EDT
I'll be moderating a panel for @cartoonist.coop Nib & Ink Digital Comics Festival, with @neilcohn.bsky.social @scottmccloud.bsky.social @nsousanis.bsky.social - geeking over the developments in comics studies.
nif.cartoonist.coop/event/the-st...

For whom exactly, Kevin?

We're hiring a fundraising manager! If you have business development or non-profit fundraising experience, consider joining our team!

Extremely proud that, in a field that struggles with funding and stability, we're offering a competitive salary with benefits!!