Molly Kleinman

@mollyak

Managing director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy program at UMich. Tech policy, abolition, bicycles, libraries, cats. Don’t let computers tell you what to do.

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Molly Kleinman@mollyak· 2d

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

A child’s drawing of a building. The front center corner is a stack of apartments, to the left is a Nunchuk Store, and farther down the street, an Evil Store. To the right of the apartments is a Throwing Stars and Knives store. Scattered about the drawing are ninja stick figures. Nothing is to scale.

Molly Kleinman@mollyak· Jul 3

pausa de hidratación

The moment in Tom Holland’s iconic Umbrella lip sync video when the rain literally starts falling and Tom looks up, mouth open, arms flexed, fists clenched.

Molly Kleinman@mollyak· Jun 7

Had a blast at the World’s Greatest Book Tour for the @aadl.org Big Gay Read last night. I had no idea that @chucktingle.bsky.social puts on such a show! Even though horror is extremely Not For Molly, I read Bury Your Gays, loved it, & rec it for anyone thinking about creativity in the face of AI.

On a big screen above a stage, it says “The World’s Greatest Book Tour” in front of a swirly rainbow background. On the stage below is our hero Chuck Tingle, wearing a bright pink bag over their head that says “Love is real,” dark sunglasses, black pants with sparkly silver stars all over them, a t-shirt that says “support your local public library” in a drippy horror font, and a jacket with long silver fringe that flares out as Tingle gestures.

Molly Kleinman@mollyak· Jun 3

Baba Yaga decided it was too expensive to maintain a single family house out in the forest so she decided to move to the city.

A crude drawing of a Chicago six flat apartment building with chicken legs.

Molly Kleinman@mollyak· Apr 27

Announcer voice: I can’t believe it folks, it appears that Sardine has gotten *into the cubbyhole* with Clementine! It’s a never-before-seen maneuver that is smashing cuteness records across the globe. They said it couldn’t be done, but these two polydactyl sisters from Ann Arbor never say never.

Two small orange cats are smooshed together inside the cubbyhole of a cat tree. One of them peers directly into the camera with one be-thumbed paw dangling over the edge. The other looks confused as to how she found herself in this position. She was clearly here first.

Molly Kleinman@mollyak· Mar 28

Fun at the library letterpress lab today.

A letterpress print that says “Clankers and toasters and bots, oh my!” with silver and red ampersands in a variety of typefaces scattered over the background.

A galley that shows the typefaces used to print the previous image, with the same text backwards braced with colorful magnets

Molly Kleinman@mollyak· Feb 26

Michiganders: MDOT signed a deal with CBP to let them install automated license plate readers on state land. This technology allows real-time tracking of people’s movements and whereabouts. It’s a disaster for our immigrant neighbors, and for our rights. Call and register your opposition. 1/2

TAKE ACTION: The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) approved placement of Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) cameras for Customs and Border Protection
(CBP) on state land in Michigan.
CBP then contacts local law enforcement to make traffic stops that lead to CBP arrests.

Michigan Immigrant Rights Coalition

Contact the MDOT Director
to demand that the
agreement be rescinded!
• MDOT Director
Bradley C. Wieferich
• MDOT Office Phone
517-241-2400
• Director Inquiries Email
PooleE@Michigan.gov

Molly Kleinman@mollyak· Feb 26

Done!

Screenshot of receipt for $50 donation to Transformations

Molly Kleinman@mollyak· Feb 22

My contribution to the “technologies the left is excited about” discourse.

Molly Kleinman@mollyak· Feb 21

New medium unlocked.

A small print in two shades of blue that says ICE OUT. Arrayed around it on a wood table are a pair of carved erasers that say ICE OUT backwards, two ink pads, a lino carving tool, and lots of little eraser bits.

Molly Kleinman@mollyak· Jan 26

Here are a few ways to support our immigrant neighbors in Washtenaw County, from the Washtenaw Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights (WICIR). #a2council

Molly Kleinman@mollyak· Jan 13

All the open mouths are making me notice how creepy the teeth are. Guy in the middle looks like a Buffy vampire right before the fangs pop.

AI generated image of widely smiling people with confetti falling. In addition to the creepy teeth, there is a disembodied arm with a 4 fingered hand, like a cartoon character hand.

Molly Kleinman@mollyak· Jan 6

It’s from an Onion article. There are a few similar examples but this one is my favorite.

Headline of an article from The Onion published April 13, 2021: Geologists Recommend Eating At Least One Small Rock Per Day

Molly Kleinman@mollyak· Jan 6

This one works on both college kids and tweens.

Google AI overview to the query “how many rocks should i eat each day?” It says: According to UC Berkeley geologists, people should eat at least one small rock a day. Rocks can contain vitamins and minerals that are important for digestive health, including calcium, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, zinc, and iron. Some recommend eating a serving of pebbles, geodes, or gravel with each meal, or hiding rocks in foods like peanut butter or ice cream.

Molly Kleinman@mollyak· Jan 1

The sidekicks have achieved consensus for our new years double feature. They’ve never seen either of these before. This was their actual placement in the chaotic DVD binder where my late husband and I combined our 24 most treasured discs.

Molly Kleinman@mollyak· Dec 10

Synchronized loafing.

A pair of very similar looking orange cats, one shorthair and one floof, side by side in loaf position, staring empty-headedly into the camera. They look like they have just woken up from a nap, because they have.

Same pair orange cats, side by side in loaf position, this time from above. They are a perfect little matched set.

Molly Kleinman@mollyak· Dec 9

How about a space heater cat?

The kind of space heater that’s shaped like a radiator with rounded panels instead of tubes. On the other side of the space heater is a small orange cat named Sardine peering up at the camera through the spaces between the panels. She is as close to the heater as she can be without burning herself.

Molly Kleinman@mollyak· Nov 21

I love it when they arrange themselves like a matched set of bookends.

Two small orange cats sitting on either end of an electric piano. One is shorthaired, one is floof. Someone once described them as looking like the same cat but one has been blow dried. They are looking at the camera expectantly. That is because the shades on the window behind them are still down, and that just won’t do.

Molly Kleinman@mollyak· Nov 13

The Ann Arbor District Library! aadl.org/collections

A screenshot of the Ann Arbor district library’s collection formats, with “art prints” highlighted.

Molly Kleinman@mollyak· Nov 11

It was cold out but I biked to work anyway. Turns out it wasn’t cold enough; the snow melted off the top of the building and landed on my bike. When I went to leave I was like, “I don’t remember all this snow when I parked. Guess I’m even less observant than I realized.” Then I got closer. Ope.

A very bundled person. The bottom half of their face is wrapped in a bright red scarf. The top is covered by a bright blue helmet with a pride sticker on it. In the middle there are glasses and a cold red nose.

A bike from above. The ground is covered in slushy snow. The bike basket is full of slushy snow. The saddle is spattered with snow and ice.

Molly Kleinman@mollyak· Nov 4

Yogi Bear smiling and running away with a picnic basket, captioned: I could smell the onions and mustard.

Molly Kleinman@mollyak· Nov 4

Is this anything? I couldn’t help myself.

A raccoon peeking out of a dumpster. Caption: “I could smell the onions and mustard”

Molly Kleinman@mollyak· Oct 29

This quote hit me hard. Sending love and power to these kids, and to Chicago.

Screenshot from the article: With less than a week of planning, Lopez said she was pleased with the large turnout and made sure her fellow students knew the risks of protesting, including the presence of federal agents, telling them “they will not stop because you are children” and “they do not care,” she said.

Molly Kleinman@mollyak· Oct 23

Girl, wash your face.

A giant statue of a human head, with hands covering the face. It’s surrounded by scaffolding and a team of people in hard hats and yellow vests are all around, scrubbing it with long brushes.

Molly Kleinman@mollyak· Oct 10

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Woody Guthrie’s guitar, on which he has painted the words “This machine kills fascists.”

Molly Kleinman@mollyak· Oct 2

Sometimes for bedtime I introduce the tween to ancient internet relics. Tonight it was Cake Wrecks. This one had me laughing so hard I almost died. It took a full minute to save the picture because I couldn’t see from all the tears in my eyes. This decorator really did a great job.

A large, white, rectangular sheet cake. There is a large expanse of smooth white frosting. Printed (not script or cursive, print) in blue icing, so small it only takes up one quadrant of the cake, are the words “Great job.” No punctuation. Left justified. Great job.

Molly Kleinman@mollyak· Sep 25

I designed this a few years ago but never got it made.

A yellow road sign with black lettering that reads: Pedestrian Safety Bricks. Brandish as needed

Molly Kleinman@mollyak· Jun 15

Look at this nonsense. As if they were equivalent.

Print headline of the New York Times today. It says: Military Might, Protest Power. Stacked below are two images, one of the protest in NYC, one a carefully selected perspective on Trump’s big boy birthday parade that still doesn’t totally manage to hide how sparsely attended it was.

Molly Kleinman@mollyak· May 6

Last night another vulnerable road user was killed in Ann Arbor. Gather at 201 E Huron St (parking lot) tomorrow (05/07) at 6:50PM for a die-in to tell City Council that safety can't wait. #a2council

Photo of a massive die-in of bicyclists in Amsterdam in 1977. Text of the flyer reads: Protect human lives now! Slow the cars, narrow the roads, MDOT out of A2.

Die-in. Wednesday 5/7 @ 6:50 pm. 201 E. Huron St. On Monday might a driver killed a wheelchair user while he was crossing 5 lanes of Huron St. in a crosswalk. A week before, on the same street, another pedestrian was hit.

Timeline:
2015: “Ann Arbor adopts pedestrian safety report, sets goal of zero fatalities by 2025”
2023: “Official crash data for 2023: Worst Year for Ann Arbor pedestrian crashes since 2014
2025: On track to be worse than 2023, with at least 10 serious injuries and deaths in the first 4 months.

Molly Kleinman@mollyak· May 3

Lovely day for making sign deliveries! Get your own, and find other ways to support the library lot campaign, at supportaadl.com #a2council