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The Imad family in Gaza needs your help to survive. Please donate 💲 according to your ability or repost🔁 the post. #gaza #palestine 🍉 chuffed.org/project/1253...

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

I said some things early on, when people were deserting other apps for Bsky, about how ANY sufficiently big and popular social media app would be prone to the same sorts of corruption eventually and, well...

submitted 57 minutes ago • 1 comment

During the Holocaust, some people responded to calls to Free the Jews with statements that although they thought Hitler went too far, calling for equality and freedom for Jews was the same as calling for genocide against Germans. Those people were called Nazis. Free Palestine.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

there's a lot going on today but i do wanna reiterate: donating to a gofundme is not money laundering. you are not laundering money by donating. you can keep doing that.

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

Food for thought for defenders of capitalism: 1.1 billion people, nearly a quarter of the global urban population, live in slums or informal settlements. That’s roughly the entire population of the planet when Engels and Marx published The Communist Manifesto in 1848. Is this progress?

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Look, I know that this can't (and shouldn't) be done with everything, but increasingly I feel like the progressive end of the legal profession is just "no you can't do that" defeatism instead of working on creative ways to help activists and organizers do shit legally.

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pride is next week pride wasn't brought to you by delta air lines, microsoft, coca-cola or even the democratic party. it was brought to you by trans women throwing bricks at cops and lesbians taking care of gay men dying of AIDS during reagan. do not forget where we came from. now more than ever.

submitted 3 days ago • 42 comments

Only every activist, researcher, journalist, and academic who thinks about this stuff said exactly this would happen.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

"Fewer Staff means LOUDER SILENCE" Deaf, hard of hearing Ontarians & workers at the Canadian Hearing Society need your help ! Send a message here: cupe.on.ca/chs/ #solidarity with #CUPE2073: join their line in front of #Cherryhill Mall in #LdnOnt 10-2 weekdays. @londonlabour.ca @uwofa1.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"

submitted 3 days ago • 139 comments

Sometimes it's useful to just say "I'm overseas right now." Which sea that is might not be anybody else's business. Maybe there is a little sea in your bathroom or under your basement, and you can stand over it when a telemarketer calls.

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I want to thank everyone who donated and shared to help Alaa's family yesterday. I want you to meet her twin girls. They're adorable. They both have chronic illnesses. And they're rays of light in the darkness of a genocide. If you missed this yesterday, information on how to help Alaa is below.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

I don't get clocked as trans in Japan unless I talk about it (when meeting other trans folks) but I definitely get read as some sort of anomaly. I get lots of the following: 1. You're 45???! 2. Most foreigners are not so friendly! 3. How did you even FIND this place?

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

How it feels to talk about exchange rates while travelling

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So ok, here’s the deal. We’ve been skating on the fact that we had a massive summer wave last year, one of the biggest we’ve ever had. Since then, no new strain really took over, so people who got sick last year have been coasting on limited immunity to that strain. That’s about to change.

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

The Kyoto International Manga Museum is heaven for a certain sort of geek. (It's me. I'm him.) "The museum is a new kind of cultural facility that concurrently performs library functions and museum functions." That's what I study. Let's have more of these and preserve ones we have!! 💌

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Yesterday, the UN warned that 14,000 Palestinian babies in Gaza are at immediate risk of dying in the next 48 hours without desperately needed aid the Israeli government is blocking. 24 hours have passed with no action to end the suffocating siege on the people of Gaza.

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

You know what? Same.

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Remember that many vile interests seek to trick you into wasting your time on conflicts that don't matter. My enemy isn't a literary author, or a grimdark author, or a cozy author. My enemy is a censor.

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

It shouldn’t be radical to say that disabled people deserve the right to exist, but here we are.

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

I. Don't. Know. What. To. Do. - 6 very simple words that very few people will publicly admit.

submitted 11 days ago • 30 comments

I cannot emphasize this enough: Please do not use AI tools as therapy. Not only is it not a good replacement for actual therapy, but your chat logs could be shared with the government, and I don't think you need a reminder that especially right now in the US, that could put you in danger.

submitted 11 days ago • 15 comments

At one of the talks I was giving to college faculty last week I mused off the top of my head that the first handful of institutions that pivot AWAY from AI and promise a human/bespoke experience in their marketing will have a positioning advantage. Not everyone is looking for the AI-forward place.

submitted 12 days ago • 11 comments

Here's nine different reports from nine different reputable outlets detailing why Gazans need cash. So please stop assuming they're scammers because of it. Thanks.

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

I had no clue a Financier was a type of cake until this week. I prefer to imagine I'm literally eating the rich (specifically, some guy who works on Wall Street.) The cake is considerably more delicious, though. Not that I've made any direct comparisons.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

When I was a closeted, indoctrinated teenager, the internet was a window into the outside world that I desperately needed. People I met online decades ago became my friends, family, and creative partners. It hurts, seeing something that meant so much turning into The Big Disinformation Machine.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

I'm reading this one as "kids notice when the messages displayed in a house conflict with the behaviours of the people living in it," but I could be overthinking it! Simple comics that are open to interpretation are especially fun.

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Colorful Blue💙 Still practicing using my own color instead of copying the original pic! #bird #birdwatching #wildlife #illustration #art #digitalart #animal #animalart #original #avian

submitted 13 days ago • 82 comments

Shoutout to Whitney Plantation, who has always BANNED WEDDINGS at their location and allowed the entire facility and its grounds to be an indoor and outdoor museum. It also houses the genealogical records for over 100,000 enslaved people. You can search for your loved ones in its archives.

submitted 13 days ago • 30 comments

If you're reporting Palestinians On Here, you're not a leftist or a progressive and you're certainly not an anti-fascist.

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

Trying to socialize with neurotypical folks has often mad me feel like an outsider and like there is something wrong with me. But when I’m with neurodivergent folks, I feel like I’m actually welcome and understood which really demonstrates the saying ”find your people”

submitted 13 days ago • 18 comments

When the IT guy takes over my computer remotely

submitted 14 days ago • 227 comments

Using the full force of a graduate degree in library and information science to... construct an accurate search string for the specific Gundam my husband wants

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Hells Librarians🔥 #LibrarySky #ReadToLive

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