Baharak Yousefi بهارک یوسفی 🍉

Travel across North America learn how the efforts of a new generation of digital librarians are returning indigenous knowledge to its rightful stewards. See The Map That Roared and much more in this digital story from LF intern Thomas Gagnon-van Leeuwen. www.libraryfutures.net/post/indigen...

"The auguries are raining down hard. Think or Sink. Comply or Die. Look Up or be Left Out. And so, with these not-so-gentle threats, it has come to pass that the Age of AI–Actual Idiocy, Actual Super Idiocy, Recursive Snowballing-Idiocy – is upon us..." -Arundhati Roy www.equator.org/articles/aru...

Fall colours, Sen̓áḵw, October 21, 2026.

THANK YOU, VANCOUVER! Last night, we made history in Vancouver by electing 12 COPE candidates to city council, school board, and park board as part of a progressive sweep that pushed out every person from Ken Sim’s team except one.

Ken Sim, Evicted. ✅

"ABC: zilch zero nada." LET'S GOOOO!!!

Here's a golden larch/distraction! #vanpoli

Pinks and blues. October 15, 2026.

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Walked past this on my way to vote this morning. The West End has spoken! #EvictKenSim

Vancouver deserves better than this petty Trump style smear campaign. A bunch of AI edited screenshots? Blog posts from 2008? Can’t attack my policies as a councillor? Pathetic.

A note to writers on AI scams in publishing and fraudulent emails purporting to be from our staff, well-known authors, or literary festival staff being sent to writers. Please note that any emails that are not sent from an arsenalpulp.com domain address are not legitimate.

BREAKING: Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx's charges are being thrown out. she said they did a public service "at considerable personal cost."

"Two authors have sued the city of Los Angeles over the Los Angeles public library’s (LAPL) cancellation of a Read Palestine Week event where the writers were scheduled to discuss their books featuring Palestinian stories." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"On September 11th, the change to 'Lake America' was approved and is now the valid heading for LCSH (Library of Congress Subject Headings)."

Here's a slightly expanded version of my earlier thread on the ridiculous "It's okay to use AI to get started" story that's so popular in higher ed discourse on research education these days.

Before sunrise, September 17, 2026.

Solidarity: the only way to win

Thrilled to have this article out in the world with @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social , a journal I’ve read closely for over a decade. It’s a career highlight to be published in it.

Please make it stop.

WILLIAM AZAROFF IS OUT OF THE RACE FOR MAYOR OF VANCOUVER HE HAS ANNOUNCED THE END OF HIS ONECITY CANDIDACY, AND EMBRACED PETE FRY

After the storm.

The clouds this morning.

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

said it for years: you don’t have to always mask. but if you masked in easy to do, non eating scenarios as much as you can bear, ie —planes —busses —trains —stores —movies —concerts —offices —HOSPITALS you’d be sick less, save lives & enjoy life much more

Everyday is a good day to join Tyee Builders/support @thetyee.ca! support.thetyee.ca?utm_campaign...

Libraries are still essential in the digital age. Some librarians are even helping patrons ditch AI and get off Big Tech. This week Hannah Cyrus and @flexlibris.bsky.social join @parismarx.com to discuss how libraries address people’s concerns about tech. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/338_...

RIP David Hockney 💛💜 (photos are of Joan at her Hockney exhibition back in 2020)

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It's okay to use citation software. It's okay not to. Using citation software isn't even a little bit like using Gen AI to write, read, or summarize (citation software is deterministic: same inputs, same outputs). These are actually easy things to know and understand and avoid Discourse about.

I am honoured, humbled, & so very grateful. Much love & gratitude to @ejmccann.bsky.social, @murmz.bsky.social, & Drs. McAllister & Pratt for their generosity & ongoing mentorship, & to the library workers who agreed to be part of this project. May we continue to learn from your brilliant work! ❤️

RIP Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026)

The University Health Network and the Toronto Public Library have joined forces to install mobile health clinics outside libraries, where they will provide primary care.

Worth a listen (from 2025): podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/k...

DATA CENTERS - dashare.zone ADMIN

SFU community members: please sign and share this petition demanding the university terminate its relationship with @hootsuite.com. The company's refusal to cut ties with ICE is abhorrent, and SFU needs to hear from us on this. docs.google.com/forms/d/1LpQ...

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

Generative AI is antithetical to the core values of librarianship and not grappling with that is a big issue, not just for librarians, but for anyone in the education field.

The third annual West End Duck Congress is underway. #WEDC2026

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I’ll be giving this online talk at SFU next week 👇

Goose Rorschachs on foggy Lost Lagoon. January 18, 2026.

Fog bank over the Salish Sea. December 31, 2025.