librarypunk

There has to be a more succinct way of writing that

gonna become the single-issue “cigarette machines in libraries” advocacy guy

Bibliotheca showed off Romi, an interactive robot that helps patrons find and check out books and recharges on a traditional power outlet

You put this in my library I'm gonna beat this robot scab to death

The Polari prize first book Longlist with crosses over books by Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Ciara Maguire to show they've withdrawn

The polar prize award Longlist with crosses over books by Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth to show they've withdrawn

UPDATE: 10 of the 24 longlisted authors have now withdrawn from the Polari Prize.

First Book:
Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Ciara Maguire

Main award:
Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth

Judging panel:
Nicola Dinan, Bob Hughes

It's far simpler than this.

They don't want "local control" at ALL. That "local control" is really just authoritarians telling the local what it is they, the authoritarians, control.

When I say “technology” I mean the codex

Meanwhile, here in Maine, AI crawlers have rendered the server that manages our statewide interlibrary loan unreachable by legitimate attempts to pass through requests/information

Again, but louder: the server can’t be reached by libraries and the folks trying to use them BECAUSE OF AI CRAWLERS.

Hands Off Russia 1919-1920 Hands Off Russia 1919-1920 In early May 1920, in London's East India Dock a ship called the Jolly George was found to be loadin...

09-08-1920 UK: The TUC and the Labour Party agree to move a resolution for a general strike if Britain declares war on Soviet Russia. ourhistory-hayes.blogspot.com/2010/11/hand...

LOVE & CONTROL "A clear, direct, forthright and highly inspirational exposition of the Church's teaching on love and marriage, sexual morality and Christian self-mastery in the service of true love" -The Month CARDINAL SUENENS

No wonder you Catholics are freaky

I have SO much garbage the director wont throw out until someone who is going to pick up books comes by. Even though they are straight up garbage. And their vehicle definitely won't be big enough.

A green dumpster

It hungers for books

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They want to automate teaching for the same reason they want to send college kids to Black districts for a couple years and not have time to become part of the community: to undermine a stronghold of Black unionism

I think we’re on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the “learning loss” of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.

Massachusetts police training materials accidentally tell truth, more at 11

I'm starting to understand its logic but it's still ugly

YouTube video by Reelblack One Gil Scott Heron - Whitey On The Moon (1970)

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I'm once again struck at the zeal for the US to pursue reparations for any group of people other than Black Americans.

subject: nuclear power plants

A reddish rabbit runs into the side of a grey-brown rabbig it was chasing

The grey-brown rabbit turns on the red one

the grey-brown rabbit lands a bite on the side of the reddish rabbit!

Something you might now know about Vancouver Island is that it is covered in feral cottontail rabbits. they are *everywhere*. and this morning i was witness to BUNNY VIOLENCE

you can also invite him to be on your podcast and play the long game

Steal time at work with podcasts today!

Florida warns schools of ‘divisive’ online platform used to catalog books Beanstack is used by more than 40 Florida school districts to catalog books in classroom libraries, log the time students spend reading and offer parents a way to see what titles are available in t…

Florida book banners going all in on attacking Beanstack is really fucking embarrassing and really fucking shows how much they've just killed any semblance of expertise or knowledge.

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Fascism acts as a phoenix for the state and capital in crisis, destroying everything in fire and blood in order that a new beginning might be possible. But if we get stuck gaping at the fact they want to do that we miss the fact that the process is HARD and the dudes doing it right now are BAD at it

Why are people moving to D2L it's so ugly. I haven't learned the features yet so maybe that redeems it but it looks like crap.

Fuzzy Lumpkins from Powerpuff girls

Bro I'm sorry! I want to draw but I haven't learned who Fuzzy Limpkins is yet! My hands seize up and my pen dries out!

Literally just ban Gruzzy Flumpkin. You’re disrespecting Kickswitch Boggers. Great tools like Scrunch II and BagelProject.

And like a couple years ago