Matthew Noe

I am honored, and still a little lost for words, to share that I've been awarded the 2026 RUSA Isadore Gilbert Mudge Award! rusaupdate.org/2026/03/2026...

"In Gaza, the report found that Israeli authorities and forces continue to commit genocidal acts even after the so-called ceasefire agreement, with the intent to destroy the Palestinian people, in whole or in part." www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

"The union has argued that 3 percent raises fall below inflation and would amount to a pay cut." The union is right. 3 percent doesn't even cover the increase in insurance costs, much less help with increases in rent, groceries, etc. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Wtf

The same people who think eminent domain is the worst crime possible are always so quiet when private companies destroy public lands/goods.

This is the definition of bad faith

Yikes

An economy built on gambling and wealth for wealth's sake is not sustainable.

Anyone else remember the Gail Simone and Stjepan Sejic Lara/Diana crossover DC rejected? Am I exposing my age with this one?

I've been dealing with book bannings for over half a decade now, but this one is hitting me hard. I think it's the combination of blatant discrimination, dishonesty, and the fact that it's in my own neck of the woods. theauthorvillage.substack.com/p/banned-by-...

With almost every new viral bullshit I feel like I am thinking WHERE ARE THE DADS WHY ARE YOU HAVING KIDS WHEN YOU SO OBVIOUSLY HATE KIDS HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN HOW TO BE A PERSON

Had a rare chance to talk about graphic medicine with an undergrad class visiting the library today - and a few of them were even really into it and had great questions!

This book is so forking cute

Matt Peters reviews Lizard World by Terry Richard Bazes and Louis Netter, published by Black Panel Press www.graphicmedicine.org/comic-review...

Check out some amazing artists, including Graphic Medicine luminaries like @comicnurse.bsky.social, at this year's Non-Fiction Comics Festival! Takes place on November 14th at Fletcher Free Library in Burlington, VT - and as always, this is a free-to-attend event! www.nonfictioncomicsfest.org

Library folks: if COUNTER metrics reporting eventually lets you drill down into counting human access versus AI access... Will you weigh those counts differently? www.countermetrics.org/code-of-prac...

One day maybe I'll stop being upset that so many library collections are built on "automated" systems. Today is not that day.

When accidents happen: Trust stories from an ICU nurse #GraphicMedicine apps.bostonglobe.com/opinion/grap...

the contrast between seeing US democrats fall over themselves to embrace idiot transphobia all year and tonight seeing footage of the president embracing my (trans) congresswoman, Erika Hilton, at the election night party

This isn't the major problem here, but can we talk about how a tech CEO finds describing her daughter in three bullet points a huge task with too much complexity? This is a person who is supposedly qualified to operate entire companies. Who is paid ungoldly amounts of money and has power over many.

So X is straight up a financial scam company now?

#medlibs

They want to offload human connection to focus on... work. They're also selling AI as a solution to... labor costs. Yeah it's definitely fair to say there's no thinking through happening

I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.

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BREAKING: Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won an unprecedented fourth term, the country’s electoral court said, defeating challenger Flávio Bolsonaro, who sought to revive his father’s far-right movement.

BTW This is the same answer Gov. Andy Beshear made in the 2023 race when facing these attacks, and he won by 5% in R+30 Kentucky Its not that complicated, yall

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

Wolves Descend on Finnish Villages After Google Hacked Down 1,300 Acres of Habitat to Make Room for AI Data Centers futurism.com/future-socie...

No votes for transphobes.

I am so sad I can't be at UKY football games right now

We need to be way angrier than we are. I'm all for adopting the framing from the End Times Fascism book, namely that these people - the techbros - are traitors to the human race.

In 2005, Time Magazine did a cover story on “The Battle Over Gay Teens.” It’s the same handwringing we see now from “concerned” adults on behalf of young people. “Kids are disclosing their homosexuality with unprecedented regularity–and they are doing so much younger.” time.com/archive/6596...

Now that this is out in the open, I can say that a certain book I did for a certain publisher affiliated with one of these people had generative expand used on my cover art without my permission, and it wasn’t removed before publication

IT BEGINS

I can't I just fucking can't

The Democrats broadly and even to an extent institutionally turning against trans people in explicit terms is perhaps the most predictable piece of ugliness imaginable, but it still makes my fucking skin crawl. Segregated swimming pools all over again.

because it is relevant to my work, I have tried very hard to educate myself on how AI works, be fair and measured in how I evaluate it, and regularly test new tools to confirm or debunk my priors and tbh AI haters are just nailing it with less work like 99% of the time. keep at it folks