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a close up of a barbie doll with a surprised look on her face .. Alt: a close up gif of a barbie doll with a surprised/disgusted look on her face

Wow, I sure am excited to spend my Sunday at the Michigan Democratic Party convention!

Wait. You’re sure? You’re positive? Darmok AND Jalad at Tenagra? Okay. I’m putting some things together now.

[cough] #a2council [cough]

End townships.

Friendly neighborhood librarian here. Yep, you can check out books from Hatcher, Shapiro, etc. In fact, you can have that book delivered to the Taubman Health Sciences Library if you don't want to come down to central campus. Use "get this" in the catalog to request delivery.

big 2025 #a2council vibes

Black and white scan of the title page of the book The Modern Novel: Some Aspects of Contemporary Fiction by Elizabeth A. Drew. At the lower left corner of the title page, you can see two fingers of the person who scanned this book caught while flipping pages.

Never gets old finding one of these easter eggs in @hathitrust.bsky.social!

"This contract is not the end of the conversation,” [CU Boulder Provost Ann Stevens] wrote. “It is the beginning of a more structured and inclusive one.”

This is the kind of shit admin says when fully in the throes of Boss Brain Parasites. Toxoplasmosis for the ladder climbers with no morals!

We've reached the part of the academic year when I just want to go read my book.

Librarians select, acquire, describe, circulate, and preserve information. Selecting books for a school library is a job that people are trained to do.

Censorship is a labor issue, an attack on the agency and autonomy of library workers.

Instructure is promoting a vendor who sues their own customers. It's not just me. Proctorio also sued a student from Miami University, which uses Canvas.

Instructure is encouraging customers to "discover the answer" to "how AI should fit into learning" by reading an article by Proctorio. Shameful.

This has never, ever, ever worked in workers’ favor in the history of labor automation and it’s incredibly foolish and self-destructive to think you’ll be the exception.

What do we think it means that all the ads in the subway are for generative AI tools and discount GLP-1s? Are we cooked, as the children say?

IT'S HAPPENING, FELLOW MICHIGANDERS 🚨✋🚨

Generative AI will never be able to do research like a PhD student. It will never have that level of self doubt or the urge to take up unrelated hobbies.

Blent County? (is this anything?)

The "I should buy a boat" meme (cat reading a newspaper) but it reads "I should buy another bike."

me, reading the news of late...

Selfie in front of an illuminated LA metro sign.

Metro never did us wrong.

This was actually the second time we’ve done such a trip (last time was two years ago), and I’m thinking we should make this an annual thing.

We did this trip entirely with public transit, and if you want to talk to me about that, I have approximately 47 hours’ worth of thoughts I could share.

View of the Hollywood hills from the eleventh floor of a hotel in Koreatown.

Los Angeles isn’t real, but it’s still a rather nice place to visit when your seasonal affective disorder is making you want to [REDACTED].

hey guys quick question. does anyone know what’s going on. with anything

Press Conference to Protect Local Decision-Making YouTube video by Michigan Municipal League

Listen to these chucklefucks. The worst thing they can imagine is their neighbor's house burning down and it being replaced by a duplex. They are going all in on preserving a system that perpetuates racist and classist inequities and this is their nightmare scenario?

youtu.be/CU-cdM_PUnk?...

American Library Association employees forming union with AFSCME Joining the wave of union organizing among cultural workers, employees of the primarily Chicago-based American Library Association (ALA) announced they are forming their union with AFSCME Council 31.T...

As proud as I’ve ever been to be a member of the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social!!

afscme31.org/news/america...

A pair of blue adidas running shoes in the dirt overlooking Los Angeles.

If you lost your shoes, they’re at the Mt Hollywood peak in Griffith Park in Los Angeles. cc @juliewbee.bsky.social

Screaming, crying, throwing up. Has anyone told this guy about the garage door/forged city letterhead incident? #a2council

a group of people are walking down a street with the words let 's go lesbians ALT: a group of people are walking down a street with the words let 's go lesbians

This is a hockey post.

It was as if a headline from The Onion had come to life.

Back in the days when a bunch of us were tweeting through truly unprecedented levels of #a2council insanity (ex: "deer lives matter," CM Hayner's stairs, meetings going until after the bars closed), a next-level stunt like this would have caused our bingo cards to spontaneously combust.