Tony Corsentino
@notalegalrecord.net
Boring and useless. Librarian; abolitionist adoptee; bicyclist; Southerner in New England; erstwhile philosophy prof, current LIS adjunct prof. Cis. Trans rights are human rights.
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abolishing the private #adoption industry and ending the legal practice of plenary adoption—the irreversible rewriting of a child’s legal identity and falsification of their natal kinship relations—does *not* mean abolishing long-term custodial care for a child who needs it. +
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Here we go, pray for me
December 7, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Here we go, pray for me
here are Ranganathan’s 5 Laws of Library Science.
1. Books are for use.
2. Every reader their book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the reader.
5. A library is a growing organism.
they can be read as a directive for technical efficiency. i read them as an ethical commitment. 📚
1. Books are for use.
2. Every reader their book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the reader.
5. A library is a growing organism.
they can be read as a directive for technical efficiency. i read them as an ethical commitment. 📚
December 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
here are Ranganathan’s 5 Laws of Library Science.
1. Books are for use.
2. Every reader their book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the reader.
5. A library is a growing organism.
they can be read as a directive for technical efficiency. i read them as an ethical commitment. 📚
1. Books are for use.
2. Every reader their book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the reader.
5. A library is a growing organism.
they can be read as a directive for technical efficiency. i read them as an ethical commitment. 📚
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An important question everyone, parenting or not, should ask themselves is "Do I see a child as a means to an end?" Most people don't realize they've been conditioned to see children as objects - for status, power, wealth, labor, the future achievement of some goal, etc.
December 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
An important question everyone, parenting or not, should ask themselves is "Do I see a child as a means to an end?" Most people don't realize they've been conditioned to see children as objects - for status, power, wealth, labor, the future achievement of some goal, etc.
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It was asking my parents to turn off Fox News when we sat down to dinner that sparked the argument that ended with my dad's hands on my throat. Cult is a good description.
December 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
It was asking my parents to turn off Fox News when we sat down to dinner that sparked the argument that ended with my dad's hands on my throat. Cult is a good description.
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I also feel like personal regrets about parenting often have systemic causes due to our society's lack of support systems for people with children in general, but when these arguments happen it's always somehow about, "are children worthy of love?" instead of examining the system we live in.
December 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I also feel like personal regrets about parenting often have systemic causes due to our society's lack of support systems for people with children in general, but when these arguments happen it's always somehow about, "are children worthy of love?" instead of examining the system we live in.
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As a childless adult, there are benefits to being a childless adult just as there are benefits to being an adult with children, and which one is "better" depends highly on the individual. And I don't know why we're always yelling at each other as if there's some objectively correct answer.
December 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
As a childless adult, there are benefits to being a childless adult just as there are benefits to being an adult with children, and which one is "better" depends highly on the individual. And I don't know why we're always yelling at each other as if there's some objectively correct answer.
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public libraries can play a role in popular resistance to the reduction of culture to bitstreams, but it’s important to remember that public libraries have a mandate to develop their collections, and that means regular weeding. this is why resource sharing (i.e. ILL) is essential. 📚
public libraries can play a role in popular resistance to the reduction of culture to bitstreams, but it’s important to remember that public libraries have a mandate to develop their collections, and that means regular weeding. this is why resource sharing (i.e. ILL) is essential. 📚
Most public libraries are culling their physical media because it doesn’t circulate. If you want libraries to hold something, you need to check it out. Public libraries can’t just be warehouses for physical media you might want someday. Use it or lose it.
When we talk about physical media, we are often only taking about personal collections but a big part of shunning the current digital ecosystem is supporting your local library. Not just for print books and periodicals but for movies, games and other medias too. Get. A. Library. Card.
December 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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public libraries can play a role in popular resistance to the reduction of culture to bitstreams, but it’s important to remember that public libraries have a mandate to develop their collections, and that means regular weeding. this is why resource sharing (i.e. ILL) is essential. 📚
public libraries can play a role in popular resistance to the reduction of culture to bitstreams, but it’s important to remember that public libraries have a mandate to develop their collections, and that means regular weeding. this is why resource sharing (i.e. ILL) is essential. 📚
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Most public libraries are culling their physical media because it doesn’t circulate. If you want libraries to hold something, you need to check it out. Public libraries can’t just be warehouses for physical media you might want someday. Use it or lose it.
When we talk about physical media, we are often only taking about personal collections but a big part of shunning the current digital ecosystem is supporting your local library. Not just for print books and periodicals but for movies, games and other medias too. Get. A. Library. Card.
December 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Most public libraries are culling their physical media because it doesn’t circulate. If you want libraries to hold something, you need to check it out. Public libraries can’t just be warehouses for physical media you might want someday. Use it or lose it.
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Lost and arrested: How a series of disastrous events led a former foster youth into ICE custody.
lapublicpress.org/2025/11/lost...
lapublicpress.org/2025/11/lost...
Lost and arrested: How a series of disastrous events led a former foster youth into ICE custody
A failure to appear in court for a traffic citation four years ago led to youth advocate Axel Pecero’s arrest by Burbank police — and subsequently brought him to the attention of ICE.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Lost and arrested: How a series of disastrous events led a former foster youth into ICE custody.
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libby does though so be careful out there
December 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
libby does though so be careful out there
omg “i envy childless people” discourse online is sooo toxic. particularly when it shifts—as it too often does—into a debate over whether kids suck
December 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
omg “i envy childless people” discourse online is sooo toxic. particularly when it shifts—as it too often does—into a debate over whether kids suck
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But you had time to make this stupid ass video?
Describing a child-free life as a “perpetual vacation” is the kind of delusion only a sleep-deprived parent could believe in. They are so miserable and ALWAYS complaining. Enjoy your choices, I certainly am.🩷
Describing a child-free life as a “perpetual vacation” is the kind of delusion only a sleep-deprived parent could believe in. They are so miserable and ALWAYS complaining. Enjoy your choices, I certainly am.🩷
December 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
But you had time to make this stupid ass video?
Describing a child-free life as a “perpetual vacation” is the kind of delusion only a sleep-deprived parent could believe in. They are so miserable and ALWAYS complaining. Enjoy your choices, I certainly am.🩷
Describing a child-free life as a “perpetual vacation” is the kind of delusion only a sleep-deprived parent could believe in. They are so miserable and ALWAYS complaining. Enjoy your choices, I certainly am.🩷
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Well, we already have foster-to-adopt films that melt the hearts of the A-parents when the child(ren) call the parent(s) mom or dad...
December 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Well, we already have foster-to-adopt films that melt the hearts of the A-parents when the child(ren) call the parent(s) mom or dad...
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It takes a certain kind of racism - the kind we are seeing in spades - to combine panic over immigration being too high with panic over birth rates being too low.
December 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
It takes a certain kind of racism - the kind we are seeing in spades - to combine panic over immigration being too high with panic over birth rates being too low.
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Not only is capitalism isolating and debilitating us it produces ‘care’ which only mocks and minimizes us when we express distress and suffering or seek comfort and/or help for said suffering.
‘Suck it up, buttercup,’ might not be the best way to approach this
‘Suck it up, buttercup,’ might not be the best way to approach this
December 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Not only is capitalism isolating and debilitating us it produces ‘care’ which only mocks and minimizes us when we express distress and suffering or seek comfort and/or help for said suffering.
‘Suck it up, buttercup,’ might not be the best way to approach this
‘Suck it up, buttercup,’ might not be the best way to approach this
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I Noreen farwana
I have three young children who need health and nutritional care. We lost everything in two years, even our dignity. My innocent children go to sleep hungry, I can't I need $600 to even provide a loaf of bread for my children.
Contribute here 🙏
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I have three young children who need health and nutritional care. We lost everything in two years, even our dignity. My innocent children go to sleep hungry, I can't I need $600 to even provide a loaf of bread for my children.
Contribute here 🙏
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Emergency Relief for Mohammed, Yassin and Baby Ghaith
Hello friends. My name is Todd and I am a close family friend of Noreen, her husband Khalil and their three children currently in Khan Younis, Gaza, in Palestine. The humanitarian crisis has bore down...
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December 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I Noreen farwana
I have three young children who need health and nutritional care. We lost everything in two years, even our dignity. My innocent children go to sleep hungry, I can't I need $600 to even provide a loaf of bread for my children.
Contribute here 🙏
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
chuffed.org/project/emer...
I have three young children who need health and nutritional care. We lost everything in two years, even our dignity. My innocent children go to sleep hungry, I can't I need $600 to even provide a loaf of bread for my children.
Contribute here 🙏
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
chuffed.org/project/emer...
i’m thinking that i should avoid sharing any videos beyond the ones i shoot of Mako freaking out at the neighborhood cat on the other side of the sliding glass door
December 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
i’m thinking that i should avoid sharing any videos beyond the ones i shoot of Mako freaking out at the neighborhood cat on the other side of the sliding glass door
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Hello Bluesky! I am a recovering academic whose ADHD hyperfixation is picking up new historical fiber arts. When I'm not stitching, I'm writing or playing video games.
October 20, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Hello Bluesky! I am a recovering academic whose ADHD hyperfixation is picking up new historical fiber arts. When I'm not stitching, I'm writing or playing video games.
i am immediately suspicious of sentimentalist saviorism propaganda, and i know it’s only a matter of time before someone cooks up a bullshit video purporting to show an “orphanage” in which children heart-meltingly “choose” their “forever parents” 🥚
thank you Aleigh Mac for the thorough debunking.
thank you Aleigh Mac for the thorough debunking.
Yeah, I mean, I'm critical of any video nowadays that is trying to elicit an emotional response, especially when it's asking for subs at the end. It's weird that all the people seem to end up with the dog they want. And shelters are overflowing, where are the rooms full of people wanting to adopt?
December 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
i am immediately suspicious of sentimentalist saviorism propaganda, and i know it’s only a matter of time before someone cooks up a bullshit video purporting to show an “orphanage” in which children heart-meltingly “choose” their “forever parents” 🥚
thank you Aleigh Mac for the thorough debunking.
thank you Aleigh Mac for the thorough debunking.
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Anyway, it's getting harder and harder. Fortunately/unfortunately, I have a hyper-vigilant bullshit detector, probably as a side effect of being neurodivergent. I've spent a lot of time in my life trying to learn how people (and animals) act, so it stands out to me when they're computer generated.
December 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Anyway, it's getting harder and harder. Fortunately/unfortunately, I have a hyper-vigilant bullshit detector, probably as a side effect of being neurodivergent. I've spent a lot of time in my life trying to learn how people (and animals) act, so it stands out to me when they're computer generated.
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What is that metal thing against the wall to the right of them?
December 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
What is that metal thing against the wall to the right of them?
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Especially these obviously pure-bred dogs. The kid with the headphones at the end triggered the radar hardest for me, but the best way is paying attention to the background, because no one is focused there. I went back and found a few things. The chair legs are pretty good, but check these out:
December 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Especially these obviously pure-bred dogs. The kid with the headphones at the end triggered the radar hardest for me, but the best way is paying attention to the background, because no one is focused there. I went back and found a few things. The chair legs are pretty good, but check these out:
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I'm pretty AI-hostile and I'm 100% hostile to Silicon Valley venture capitalism. Nevertheless I came *this close* to launching a project with a friend to co-write a novel using AI.
My story, my edits; my friend drives the AI.
But then my guardian angel, silent for the last 65 years, spoke up. 1/
My story, my edits; my friend drives the AI.
But then my guardian angel, silent for the last 65 years, spoke up. 1/
December 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I'm pretty AI-hostile and I'm 100% hostile to Silicon Valley venture capitalism. Nevertheless I came *this close* to launching a project with a friend to co-write a novel using AI.
My story, my edits; my friend drives the AI.
But then my guardian angel, silent for the last 65 years, spoke up. 1/
My story, my edits; my friend drives the AI.
But then my guardian angel, silent for the last 65 years, spoke up. 1/
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...not that the white cops I worked with were at all racist BUT...
When I worked for the City of Oak Park (MI), on this day in history, a pasty-white fellow cop would always say, "Happy Pearl Harbor Day, you fuck!"
When I worked for the City of Oak Park (MI), on this day in history, a pasty-white fellow cop would always say, "Happy Pearl Harbor Day, you fuck!"
As we mark #PearlHarborDay, it’s worth remembering those whose suffering faded from view: Japanese Americans in Hawaii, many of whom were detained, displaced or denied full redress after the outbreak of war.
Their incarceration remains one of WWII’s most overlooked injustices.
Their incarceration remains one of WWII’s most overlooked injustices.
The overlooked story of the incarceration of Japanese Americans from Hawaii during World War II
When US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, he paved the way for the incarceration of Japanese Americans on the mainland and Hawaii
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December 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
...not that the white cops I worked with were at all racist BUT...
When I worked for the City of Oak Park (MI), on this day in history, a pasty-white fellow cop would always say, "Happy Pearl Harbor Day, you fuck!"
When I worked for the City of Oak Park (MI), on this day in history, a pasty-white fellow cop would always say, "Happy Pearl Harbor Day, you fuck!"
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This is a key part of 18th century citizenship thinking: that the sovereign owes protection to the infant (to the powerless), regardless of their parentage And on account of their vulnerability.
December 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
This is a key part of 18th century citizenship thinking: that the sovereign owes protection to the infant (to the powerless), regardless of their parentage And on account of their vulnerability.