VeeApr 5, 2025
#introduction
Mastodon is my digital hygiene compromise, I'm still spending too much time online but now #bloomscrolling instead of doomscrolling. #mosstodon changed for ever the way I'm hiking.
I try to be deliberate in boosting beauty, from #pottery to #squirrel to #hopepunk because I believe we as a species cannot function on anger and fear alone.
Also #RightToRepair #TransRightsAreHumanRights #FightForLibraries #SmashPatriarchy and many more.
One day I'll manage a #MardiPatisserie !
AndrocatJun 21, 2024

We are all under attack.

The attack by publishers on the Internet Archive is an attack on humanity itself.

Publishers must not be allowed to refuse the public access to lending books.

This is a battle they already lost long ago.

Libraries are a thing. Publishers just have to live with it.

But they aren't satisfied, are they?
The greedy pigs.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/06/20/500000-books-have-been-deleted-from-the-internet-archives-lending-library/

#fightforlibraries #libraries #library #capitalism

500,000 Books Have Been Deleted From The Internet Archive’s Lending Library

If you found out that 500,000 books had been removed from your local public library, at the demands of big publishers who refused to let them buy and lend new copies, and were further suing the lib…

Techdirt
Show threadBrent, in a jarMar 25, 2023
@knittingknots
#FuckBigPublishing #FightForLibraries #BreakUpMonopolies