LibAimee

Share a TV show that raised you.

2-3 hours a day, 5 days a week the first 5 years of my life.

The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents | Fortune Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”

Now THAT's a headline.

"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"

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2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From! This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

If you’re buying Girl Scout Cookies, here are some Trans and Nonbinary girls you can buy from✨

www.erininthemorning.com/p/2026-trans...

While I tend to agree, I have to wonder how many who did work in them dish out nasty behavior years later under the guise of, "Well, I had to put up with it" or "It's just part of the job."

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders.

Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.

It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.

That’s it.

You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.

Malcolm X looking past the camera

Today marks the day Malcolm X was assassinated and his words about Black women still rings true:

“The most disrespected person in America is the Black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the Black woman.”

Conservative Georgia town pushes back against ICE detention center: ‘We are Americans after all’ Social Circle, a mostly Maga town, builds strange bedfellow coalition against plans to convert warehouse

"The Social Circle city manager was contacted by ICE...

“They asked me to turn on the water,” he said of a 1m sq ft warehouse nearby that the government plans to use for locking up as many as 10,000 detainees.

“I told them I’m not going to do it,” he said...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

My drawing for Year of the Horse. I was a horse girl growing up, so I have a bit of experience drawing them already. It was only around 2008 that I actually tried drawing people.

#90sanime #animeart #eglfashion

Open licenses like Creative Commons, GPL, and Copyleft have license terms that you are legally obligated to follow in order to use the licensed content. LLM/GenAI companies refuse to follow the license terms even for something really open like a CC-BY license.

The conclusions about student cognition aren’t the interesting part for me so much as the money being spent on youth surveillance that isn’t leading to better learning outcomes. Teachers are being laid off, schools & libraries are closing, books are being banned.

Please use alt text in images.

1> It increases accessibility for visually impaired users.
2> It improves search functionality.
3> It enables people to mute image-related content.
4> It reduces the frequency of scolding in replies.

One of the Queer History South attendees made an Indigenous Zine LibGuide, so just wanted to share this resource for others who may be on the lookout for intersectionally queer zines, as zines have long offered a creative form of resistance that may be particularly helpful with increasing fascism! 👀

The absolute refusal to connect American history to American current events is one of the weirdest expressions of modern racism.

Page 34: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct."

Correct.

Rep. Jody Barrett (Left)
Sen. Mark Pody (Right)

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

This sort of thing is why people are understandably not coming to the US. I would be really surprised if the expected international crowds arrive for the World Cup, at least at the US venues. Maybe some diehard fans will come. But the risk is just too great.

Are y’all seeing what’s happening in Georgia?! The State Election Board just confirmed that Elon Musk’s PAC sent out partially pre‑filled absentee ballot applications — an actual election violation. This feels like the tip of the iceberg.

We’ve been convinced for so long that we’re supposed to look like teenage boys with breasts, completely hairless, without a wrinkle or a mark on our skin. And it was a bunch of pedophiles telling us that.

The damage done to women and girls is incalculable.

What makes me sick, gluten, isn't required to be disclosed on food or medications.

It is actually wild to think about how rare it is to have agency over what you consume. Our lives are dictated by algorithms. Streaming services & chain bookstores push items they deem “better” or “marketable”. In a library, our only qualifier to recommend titles is if we think YOU would like it

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:

Our funding depends on usage.

So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

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Bringing my FREE STUFF thread over.

Lots of archives, national film institutes, nonprofits and others have made collections of silent films available for free, no signup needed.

I have the links

Third American death linked to ice uncovered by Newsweek While the 23-year-old's death was reported in March 2025, it was not made clear that a federal agent fired the fatal shot.

“A federal agent fired shots through the driver’s side window”.

Sound familiar?

That’s exactly how Renee Nicole Good was killed.

This 23 year old lost his life and ICE’s involvement was covered up for a year.

They’re killing people and hiding the evidence.

now Trump will claim he's lowering prices as we head into the midterms and the press will cover that as if it's true.

My fellow library consultants, are you interested in a quarter chat? I'm thinking discussions around best practices, trends, how to handle wild clients, etc. I know there are several orgs that do stuff that have dues. I'm thinking just an informal Google Meet or something.

Screenshot from a video featuring Jason Reynolds, a Black man with dreads wearing a backwards ball cap and holding a microphone.. Caption reads: "but in libraries, I actually think it still maintains a certain level of integrity."

"Is it still important to have Black librarians in libraries?"asks Rodney Freeman Jr. a librarian at UNC. Jason Reynolds replies. Freeman is making a documentary: Are You a Librarian?The Untold Story of Black Librarians. #BlackHistoryMonth

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