Sara K-M
@sarakm.bsky.social
Educator, librarian, loud laugher, queer. She/they
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I truly adore this list and want to add the @qtlibrary.org to the mix – we're building a physical home for a treasure trove of 3,200+ queer + trans books, far too many of which fall in the category of "banned" – your gift goes a long way in making this possible! Happy Holidays! Happy Holigays, even!
How to Support the Freedom to Read/Anti-Book Censorship Work Through Your Holiday Giving.
Y'all, this post was a fun one to write and to highlight so many organizations doing *great* work.
bookriot.com/gifting-with...
Y'all, this post was a fun one to write and to highlight so many organizations doing *great* work.
bookriot.com/gifting-with...
How to Support Anti Book Censorship Work Through Holiday Giving: Book Censorship News, December 5, 2025
In addition to gifting a banned book, what can you do to help someone get excited and engaged in the fight for the freedom to read?
bookriot.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I truly adore this list and want to add the @qtlibrary.org to the mix – we're building a physical home for a treasure trove of 3,200+ queer + trans books, far too many of which fall in the category of "banned" – your gift goes a long way in making this possible! Happy Holidays! Happy Holigays, even!
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Every use-case people think they "need" and LLM for is actually papering over a different issue. The teacher using ChatGPT to write narrative reports bc the demand is unreasonable & overwhelming *actually* needs more support and/or compensation or a reduction of demand. It's a LABOR issue.
December 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Every use-case people think they "need" and LLM for is actually papering over a different issue. The teacher using ChatGPT to write narrative reports bc the demand is unreasonable & overwhelming *actually* needs more support and/or compensation or a reduction of demand. It's a LABOR issue.
We just got a button maker at work and I just decided what I'm putting on my first button
Libraries are really THE place to find out without fcking around all that much tbh
December 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
We just got a button maker at work and I just decided what I'm putting on my first button
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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
“The Omnilert system did not detect a single blue potato chip bag as a threat,” the report stated. “The perceived threat was based on the student’s hand movement, including its position and angle.”
www.thebanner.com/education/k-...
www.thebanner.com/education/k-...
a man says okay but that 's worse in front of a woman
Alt: Chidi from The Good Place saying "okay but that 's worse. You do get how that's worse, right?"
media.tenor.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:54 AM
“The Omnilert system did not detect a single blue potato chip bag as a threat,” the report stated. “The perceived threat was based on the student’s hand movement, including its position and angle.”
www.thebanner.com/education/k-...
www.thebanner.com/education/k-...
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It’s officially happening! I’ll be leading a table in some garden-themed games. Here’s some of the beautiful art from Mycelia, a game all about cultivating and identifying mushrooms. 🍄 🍄🟫 🎲
Join for games, some QT company, and maybe even get the library (or yourself) a book while you’re there!
Join for games, some QT company, and maybe even get the library (or yourself) a book while you’re there!
November 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM
It’s officially happening! I’ll be leading a table in some garden-themed games. Here’s some of the beautiful art from Mycelia, a game all about cultivating and identifying mushrooms. 🍄 🍄🟫 🎲
Join for games, some QT company, and maybe even get the library (or yourself) a book while you’re there!
Join for games, some QT company, and maybe even get the library (or yourself) a book while you’re there!
I'm noting an absence of any regret about the content of those messages.
The only reason he didn't keep emailing with Epstein is because Epstein got arrested. This man should not be anywhere near a classroom.
The only reason he didn't keep emailing with Epstein is because Epstein got arrested. This man should not be anywhere near a classroom.
Larry Summers discusses his “statement of regret” for his disturbing messages to Jeffrey Epstein with Harvard students
November 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I'm noting an absence of any regret about the content of those messages.
The only reason he didn't keep emailing with Epstein is because Epstein got arrested. This man should not be anywhere near a classroom.
The only reason he didn't keep emailing with Epstein is because Epstein got arrested. This man should not be anywhere near a classroom.
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My friend @jakestepansky.bsky.social is building out the @qtlibrary.org, a Boston-based LGBTQIA+ lending library, and needs your help to resource their space and fund their mission 🏳️🌈📚🏳️⚧️
If you’re able, support them here:
If you’re able, support them here:
secure.givelively.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
My friend @jakestepansky.bsky.social is building out the @qtlibrary.org, a Boston-based LGBTQIA+ lending library, and needs your help to resource their space and fund their mission 🏳️🌈📚🏳️⚧️
If you’re able, support them here:
If you’re able, support them here:
Ingenious feedback form. No matter how long you actually wait, Eversource can claim that people only wait up to an hour.
November 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Ingenious feedback form. No matter how long you actually wait, Eversource can claim that people only wait up to an hour.
You love to see it
BREAKING: Book banning extremist group “Moms For Liberty” LOST ALL 31 of their races.
Moms for Liberty is now 0-59 in contested school board races since 2023.
This is what happens when communities have had enough and say NO to book bans!
Moms for Liberty is now 0-59 in contested school board races since 2023.
This is what happens when communities have had enough and say NO to book bans!
November 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
You love to see it
Subscribe to @404media.co for the solid reporting, stay for the side-eye www.404media.co/whats-the-di...
What’s the Difference Between AI Glasses and an iPhone? A Helpful Guide for Meta PR
Meta thinks its camera glasses, which are often used for harassment, are no different than any other camera.
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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"We can’t fact-check our way out of this. We can’t AI-detect our way out of this. Because the problem isn’t that people can’t tell real from fake. The problem is that people don’t want to tell the difference when the fake confirms what they already believe"
www.readtpa.com/p/fox-news-r...
www.readtpa.com/p/fox-news-r...
Fox News Ran AI-Generated Racist Videos as News, Then Tried to Cover It Up
The fake videos featured Black women with "seven baby daddies" complaining about SNAP cuts. Even if they'd been real, this would still be journalistic malpractice.
www.readtpa.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
"We can’t fact-check our way out of this. We can’t AI-detect our way out of this. Because the problem isn’t that people can’t tell real from fake. The problem is that people don’t want to tell the difference when the fake confirms what they already believe"
www.readtpa.com/p/fox-news-r...
www.readtpa.com/p/fox-news-r...
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New awareness campaign
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New awareness campaign
If you can't figure out this thing that the overwhelming majority of athletic organizations *had already figured out* then maybe you shouldn't be governor
gavin newsom says he wants to pass legislation banning trans people from playing sports in california
October 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
If you can't figure out this thing that the overwhelming majority of athletic organizations *had already figured out* then maybe you shouldn't be governor
I wasn't sure what to expect, but... that was not it. 😳
Open the page. Scroll down to the timeline. Go through the timeline.
It’s… shocking
It’s… shocking
The White House Building
Every president since John Adams has occupied the White House, and the history of this building extends far beyond the construction of its walls. From the Ground Floor Corridor rooms, transformed from...
www.whitehouse.gov
October 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I wasn't sure what to expect, but... that was not it. 😳
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They got Claudine Gay out of the Harvard presidency over a footnote.
Ngl, seeing “you’re holding the nazi tatted racist white man to impossible standards” as a Black woman, aka the demographic ACTUALLY held to impossible standards, pisses me off deeply. The bar is so low for them and they still can’t clear it, but we’re “ideological purists” for pointing that out.
October 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
They got Claudine Gay out of the Harvard presidency over a footnote.
"We need to work 996 so we can show people how efficient AI can make them"
There’s a bunch of research demonstrating that shorter hours and work weeks don’t harm productivity even vs. the 40-hour week, so it’s funny that the people who consider themselves the most rational evaluators of fact alive still just want to dominate their workers for purely ideological reasons
The grind culture that birthed many Big Tech companies from Google to Amazon is back.
As the AI race heats up, startups are promoting hardcore cultures like “996,” or working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week.
As the AI race heats up, startups are promoting hardcore cultures like “996,” or working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week.
October 21, 2025 at 1:44 AM
"We need to work 996 so we can show people how efficient AI can make them"
My most charitable comparison is with QR codes. There was a big push around using them in the 2010s, but you had to download a separate scanner, they weren't that reliable, and the use case wasn't entirely clear. Now, I find them useful *in certain circumstances* (but they're not the end-all be-all)
Generation before me, it was Second Life.
For my cohort, we we talking about makerspaces and 3D printers as if they were going to change every library.
My students have now gone through blockchain, NFTs, and now AI as the thing we MUST get on board with.
For my cohort, we we talking about makerspaces and 3D printers as if they were going to change every library.
My students have now gone through blockchain, NFTs, and now AI as the thing we MUST get on board with.
October 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
My most charitable comparison is with QR codes. There was a big push around using them in the 2010s, but you had to download a separate scanner, they weren't that reliable, and the use case wasn't entirely clear. Now, I find them useful *in certain circumstances* (but they're not the end-all be-all)
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If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.
October 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
Recently finished @sophiegilbert.bsky.social's Girl on Girl which contextualizes the culture of the late 90s/early 00s, and what led to and surrounded the push to extreme exposure, especially for women. Highly recommend
Also useful for understanding why so many women in their 40s are full of rage
Also useful for understanding why so many women in their 40s are full of rage
I think a lot of people don’t realize how insanely pervasive and coercive the early 2010s “the only way to make it as a young writer is to publish insanely confessional, raw online essays about your darkest secrets and trauma” culture was.
October 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Recently finished @sophiegilbert.bsky.social's Girl on Girl which contextualizes the culture of the late 90s/early 00s, and what led to and surrounded the push to extreme exposure, especially for women. Highly recommend
Also useful for understanding why so many women in their 40s are full of rage
Also useful for understanding why so many women in their 40s are full of rage
So excited for this! Please help spread the word 📚
NEXT WEEK: We are honored to be hosting @kimmtopping.bsky.social for a digital author talk about their inspiring debut book "Generation Queer," a collection of stories about 30 young LGBTQIA+ leaders shaping our world 🙌
RSVP now over on Eventbrite 👉 https://loom.ly/seCXr2A
#BookSky
RSVP now over on Eventbrite 👉 https://loom.ly/seCXr2A
#BookSky
October 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
So excited for this! Please help spread the word 📚
Not only did I have phone numbers memorized, I had the numbers for the family calling card memorized -- a 9-digit phone number AND a 16-digit code
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
October 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Not only did I have phone numbers memorized, I had the numbers for the family calling card memorized -- a 9-digit phone number AND a 16-digit code
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
October 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
I've never seen an episode of 90210, or anything on Nickelodeon
Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?
I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
October 6, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I've never seen an episode of 90210, or anything on Nickelodeon