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Struggle requires imagination. Pete Railand's new print features a quote from Octavia Butler, created using a small lino cut as the starting element with hand written text. Light blue French Paper. justseeds.org/product/othe...

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you don't have to acknowledge the legit use cases for AI when you hate on AI. you can just hate. the legit use cases will be fine

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Anaphora Poetry and Publishing Conference, June 28th from 11 am - 4 pm, at the East 38th St. Branch. Made possible by Friends of the Library through gifts to the Indianapolis Public Library Foundation!

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Also throughout the day: 11:30am-1:30pm Block Printing Workshop with artist Jager Palad 2:00pm-3:00pm Open Mic; sign up to perform at the open mic the day of the event in person! An open zine making station for folks to work on pages for Anaphora Issue 4. #zines

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Anaphora Poetry & Publishing Conference June 28th 11am-4pm at the East 38th Street IndyPL Branch We are looking for tablers who specialize in poetry zines. Applications for vending are open! Apply through the link until May 31st. #zines docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Latino Zines: Celebrating Our Cultures and Communities Free event via Zoom, Tuesday at 4:00 pm Eastern. #zines

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Now it's the professors using ChatGPT. Students aren't happy about it. I talked to professors. I talked to students. I read the scathing reviews on Rate My Professors. Here you go: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...

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Lilacs are in full bloom (right on time) for the Lilac Festival in Rochester, New York 🏙️💜✨ #thisisroc 📸: Dan Allen Photography #roc

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MoCon 2025 was about as perfect a MoCon as one could hope for! Let me give you an overarching picture of what Mo*Con is about: imagine a “Barcon” (where folks hang out in the bar between being on panels) as a conference. [Let's see if I can sum it up in 10 pics]

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Etel shows the fuck up for her community.

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#zines

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Zuck: The average American has three friends

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So then who's it for? 'Cause the general population doesn't know how to do that. Certainly not the guy running his small business out of my library who told me he doesn't need a lawyer anymore to assess his contracts because he just runs them through AI. He'll lose his shirt learning the hard way.

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Had my first library patron (he won't be the last) tell me excitedly how he doesn't need a lawyer to review his business contracts anymore because he just runs them through this "new tool" that tells him if they're legal. Sweet Lord.

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Something I learned from interviewing survivors of abuse and institutional betrayal is that by being willing to identify a problem, you are often treated as the problem. The institution will try to get rid of you instead of the problem. To me, this also speaks to the way the left is treated broadly

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Look, I love these sites & I get how politics works & why they're doing it, but every single one makes exactly the same error universities have been making for years: Research DOES NOT JUST MEAN STEM. Look around. If you think we also don't need social science & humanities research, look harder.

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THE KNIGHTS OF THE BRETON COURT has a special promo going at Kobo. It's priced at $5.99 USD / $5.99 CAD from 4/18/25 to 4/21/25 in the US and Canada. Here's the direct link to it: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

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The year is 2069 in Great Britain. Due to NHS cuts,the waiting list for an appt at a gender identity clinic is now 300 yrs. But they are fools. For you have learned the secrets of immortality. And you will get to the end of that list, even if it means waiting another millennium. #zines #ttrpg

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Speaking of zines and radical ideas… if you live in the Midwest, check out MONKEY WRENCH ZINE FEST on May 4th! A RADICAL ZINE fest. Indianapolis has a reputation as an apathetic city but there is a vibrant, militant underground! So proud to be a part of organizing this!!!

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New issue of Critcatenate now available featuring all the critical #cataloging news I could find this month. 📚 come for the yelling about bad #LCSH decisions, consider volunteering for one of the many committee opportunities! cataloginglab.org/2025/03/31/c... #critcat

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BREAKING: We're suing the Greenville Public Library in South Carolina for systematically censoring books about the LGBTQ community. Alongside @aclusc.bsky.social, we're fighting to protect our freedom to read.

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"Oftentimes I see people asking if this is the end of America. The thing with this empire is that capital expands and absorbs crisis because it is in fact built on crisis." --Saint, A Love Letter From the End of the World. #ZineOfTheWeek #Zines

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There's something hilarious about a room of librarians who can't get the projector to focus right but are expecting to be experts on AI.

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Zine pals, patrons tell me my collection's too heavy. What are your favorite happy zines? #zines

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Is he sure he wants us there? 'Cause I don't think he wants us there.

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This is IndyPL's stance, too. Except they wrapped it in corporate-speak BS about how we respect diversity and protect circulation records.

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