Join @edrabinski.bsky.social & Karen Snow & Billey Albina & me for a free webinar, "Critical Cataloging & Librarianship Today: Ethics, Power, and Possibility" on Tuesday April 14th. Part of the Womack Lecture Series sponsored by @fresnostatelibrary.bsky.social. 📚 #critcat
Finally! Scoured Lopez Island Romney ready to be combed & spun -- six-inch locks of varied browns with sun-bleached tips.
This is going to be really nice yarn
#fiberprep #handspinning
Rolling along on my NZ parrots cross stitch. One more bird to go + backstitching
#crossstitch #WIPWednesday
Take 10 minutes this week and engage in one of the suggested activities to help the IMLS. Still. Again.
bookriot.com/the-enshitti...
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Remember: this is $20, supports a library in a city under attack by the federal government right now, and it makes Matt Yglesias mad 😹
"No bookstore that PW has reached out to has been as adversely impacted as @loyaltybooks.bsky.social, which specializes in diverse and intersectional literature ... Sales are down 65% since August 11."
you can shop at Loyalty at loyaltybookstores.com or through Bookshop bookshop.org/shop/loyalty
CLIR is now accepting applications for Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices! Grants from $50K to $300K support the digitization of rare materials that center on underrepresented communities. Initial apps due Oct. 20.
🌐 www.clir.org/2025/08/auv4...
Chat GPT is not your lawyer, your doctor, your librarian, your accountant, your therapist, your lover, nor your friend.
All of those roles require a level of complex judgement that a word calculator is not capable of.
When did spinsters spin?
Amy Erickson has a handy blogpost explaining how the ubiquity of spinning wool and other textiles in medieval and early modern England related to the marital status meaning of 'spinster': www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/06...
For #NationalPigeonDay, photographs taken by Dr Julius Neubronner’s ingenious "pigeon camera", circa 1908. More pics, and the story, here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dr-julius-neubronner-s-miniature-pigeon-camera
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The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters.
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
New blog post at ACRLog: Targeting Books for Removal at U.S. Military Libraries acrlog.org/2025/05/11/t.... I talk about how painful it is that LCSH are being used for this dirty work. #critcat 📚
More than a hundred libraries on federally recognized tribal lands across the country were notified that their congressionally appropriated grant had been terminated midcycle.
Those communities are at risk of losing their local libraries and the history they hold.
Really pretty with the colors peeking out!
May be getting my hands on local colored Romney x Wensleydale raw fleece??? Really curious about what it is like, hoping to get some photos soon -- sounds dreamy
#fiberprep
#sheep
Yayyyyy! Excited to dive into this & see what I can do with yarn! (& gather lichen responsibly)
#dyeing
#fiberprep
#handspinning
#handspun
No matter how you voted in last year's election, no one voted to destroy the Postal Service. But the new administration plans to break up the Postal Service and sell it off to private corps. Here's what you need to know + how you can help save the public Postal Service.
Link Love: Tariff-ying Future
(*Featured image from Selvedge by Donovan Beeson on Patreon) Last week, Paper & Pencil (the Chicago-based stationery shop) posted about the new tariffs and how they have been directly affected. Because the tariffs are changing day-by-day, some vendors might receive a…
I got to meet the Suffolk! His name is Bruce & he's a yearling:
#sheep 🐏
Finished blocking crocheted swatches for the 4 (!)(I know 🙃) fleeces I bought last month. Black Shetland, silvery-grey-tan Romney, brown Shetland, white Suffolk
#handspinning
#handspun
Hundreds of students and graduates who have protested or shown support for Palestine have had their visas revoked by immigration officials since US President Donald Trump took office for a second time, with several also arrested.
Here's what we know aje.io/f193q0
This is really the only thing that settles my brain right now (and keeps the doomscrolling away)
... going to tackle this 7.5lb Romney ram lamb next! I have a new setup for drying outside so that should speed things up
#fiberprep
#handspinning
#handspun
If you're going to watch Murderbot on Apple TV, consider adding it to your watchlist. It's kind of like pre-ordering a book, it tells the streaming service that you're there for our show.
Link for US viewers: tv.apple.com/us/show/murd... (You can also search for it on the app.)
Forbidden soup -- scouring the last batch of brown Shetland! You know it's a fresh fleece when you find green grass VM
#fiberprep
#handspinning
#handspun
