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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 15:22:49 JST Aral Balkan

   Closing libraries is how you burn books without lighting a match.

   • Megan Lynch (she/her) (glightly@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 15:49:08 JST Megan Lynch (she/her)

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     @aral In "I Will Bear Witness, Volume 1" by Victor Klemperer, he notes how first books by Jewish authors were off-limits to people, then how he as a Jew was not allowed to check books out, then not allowed to read them in the Reading Room, then had bits of his personal library made verboten.

     If folks keep letting fascists fash, personal libraries become unavailable as well.

   • Sexybiggetje🐖 (martijn@ieji.de)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 15:49:20 JST Sexybiggetje🐖

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     @aral yes, but do you know about those cute little tiny libraries you can make at your home so neighbours can lend and give a book? Those can do small things for people. We have a few of them around my city 😍

     Aral Balkan repeated this.
   • Matty Roses (mattyroses@librarysocialism.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 15:49:24 JST Matty Roses

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     • Sexybiggetje🐖

     @martijn @aral currently working on a project to also aid distributed tool libraries as well - https://meansofp.org #meansofp

   • Mattias Schlenker (mattias@toot.bike)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 16:31:04 JST Mattias Schlenker

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     @aral I never thought Fahrenheit 451 would get this relevant anymore. https://archive.org/details/fahrenheit-451-1966-696p

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 16:31:56 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Mattias Schlenker

     @mattias Yep, definitely one that should be on everyone’s reading list.