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the law is on the books but it would take all their resources to enforce it.

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Handy - nay, VITAL - guide from @uvalibrary.bsky.social to repositories hosting rescued US government data. Never thought we’d find ourselves in such a situation, but…interesting times, hey? 📚

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This level of individualism is not compatible with society.

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i've been saying this that this is all deliberate (esp with dismantling the DOE). people who can't think critically can't think of themselves and are thus easier to control and keep impoverished. it is so so dystopian, i could go on forever abt this shit

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Zines are truly having a moment!! Library workers, now's a great time to start your own zine workshop series, tabling event, or zine club! Ask me anything.

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Nothing to add here, @hiphopprez.bsky.social.

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The fact that many Americans cannot recognize fascism unless it looks exactly like Nazi Germany is very dangerous.

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We recently did a report @libraryfutures.bsky.social on neo-censorship and the weaponization of the term “pornography” in digital educational contexts. This is an extremely in-depth look at this subject, and offers a number of ways to take action. www.libraryfutures.net/censorship

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Load your guns. Sharpen your knives. Cover reveal: 03.08.25 Release: 03.15.25 kiennas.itch.io

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I hate the bullshit talking point that trans people shouldn’t be in the military because tax dollars shouldn’t be used for their transition. Um, yes the fuck it should. All trans people deserve free and accessible gender affirming care because all people deserve access to free healthcare.

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It's funny how centrists insist that "suppressing the voices of right-wingers will only make them louder" but seem to have no trouble suppressing the voices of leftists and LGBTQ people

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This coup is class war and race war, as this fantastic conversation makes clear.

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Don’t give away more than you have to. johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com

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There is a reason why, historically, scholars and educators are the first to be aggressively targeted in any oppressive movement. If you are a well read, learned person, you are able to see through the bullshit without much effort.

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Breaking: 10 NYT writers think trans rights are the least important and attacks on the trans community aren’t that bad. Least surprising news ever.

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A kid died from measles last week. A totally, completely preventable death. That child was a victim of conspiracists, and it’s easy to call those folks dumbasses and keep it moving. But the truth is that there’s a massive, deliberate push to dumb down America. www.jphilll.com/p/the-deadly...

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For the new followers.

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just so we're clear about why the billionaires and republicans are so anti-social security, it's because they want you to work until you die never get paid a living wage, accumulate debt, never have the breathing room to save, no failsafe, eternal labor they don't give a shit about the budget

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While Hollywood may get GLAM-med up for the Oscars tonight, library community members hoping for cameos in one Best Picture nominee by their favourite (or least favourite) library building may be disappointed. To help, here is a selection of Brutalist library buildings across Canada 1/10

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My favourite episode is the one where Poirot gets a shoulder-mounted cannon.

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Split/Party's review standard of "begin from the assumption that the game in question was made to the best of the designer's skills, capabilities, and resources" is the standard everyone should be using tbh

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We're so screwed. This is the consequences of the race to the centre. A politics devoid of ideas, values, or really any substance at all.

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This is truly terrifying. CBP seized a foreign national at the border before she even entered the US much less committed any crime. All her papers were in order. They took her passport and she has been in “pre-deportation detention” for over 20 days, for trying to enter the US legally.

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think of alt text as an opportunity rather than a chore

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DRM and big tech's war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too. 🔗 www.404media.co/the-digital-...

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It’s never too late to start masking. It doesn’t matter how many covid infections you’ve had, any infection delayed or prevented is a good thing. You’re also helping protect others when you mask up. You’re breaking chains of transmission. You’re saving lives.

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Kinda important.

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Alot of folks are convinced that the default state of being a human being, the standard human being if you will, is being a straight white guy and that any deviation from that is either a societal experiment gone wrong, a draconian conspiracy, or a crisis of unimaginable proportions

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AI is a prejudice replication machine. Bog body is found, without a head. So, no idea about hair colour. Enter AI: It's in Ireland, so it must be a readhead. @archaeologynews.bsky.social: you should stop using this.

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Masking is real care toward accessibility we can do now, for others (rather than only in response to personal risk), that determines who can participate in our community. Disappointed folks don't at least mask @ public events & don't see this as an ask to act on your stated accessibility values.

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The idea that US standing globally plummeted with that White House meeting is hilarious. It plummeted to "openly genocidal apartheid evil" over the last two years globally. That meeting just got it to plummet in the remaining like 25 Western countries that used to have shared interests with the US.

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A constituent asks Senator Roger Marshall (R, Kansas) why DOGE is firing so many veterans and the man just runs away. I’ve seen some pathetic behavior in my life but this might get first prize.

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The Covid pandemic accelerated this. It supercharged the idea that there are entire groups of people who are not worthy of protection. Not worthy of life. Acceptable losses. If we don’t start acknowledging that and changing the narrative, the hate and division will only continue to grow.

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Just so we're clear was it not a crisis when it was the other way around?

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the “ouch” in “touch” is really just there as a warning

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SEVERAL folks have theorized that the extended “behind-the-scenes footage and backer credits” segment on the new FN eps might be bad for YouTube metrics. Friday Nights is not “content” in that way. YouTube is just a hosting platform, not another producer who gets to dictate pacing and runtime.

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The Pacific Rim engineers that spent weeks building a 30-foot bowie knife for a mech suit to draw from its ankle sheath must have been muttering “Hell yeah” the whole time

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This does not mean no flu shots in the US next year - not by itself, anyway. The WHO picked and published their recommended strains as always. This year. It’s an A/H1N1, an A/H3N2, and a B/Austria (+ a B/Phuket for quadrivalent shots). US manufacturers can* still use the WHO guidelines.

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"One thing I would recommend is if you’re going to cancel your subscription to the Washington Post, don’t entirely remove those dollars from the news space. Take that money and at least invest it in an organization or a publication that you think is aligned with your values."

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These "rehab" work centers already exist and are blatantly for the exploitation of free labor in very dangerous conditions. You don't need to think about what they could be: you can see what they are already. Their expansion and existence is extremely dangerous. revealnews.org/article/they...

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I'm lucky that my #LongCovid is relatively mild, but this perfectly describes my experience with my autoimmune tissue disease and the exhaustion I feel not just from the disease but from having to agonize over every choice & be so careful with myself. longcovidmd.substack.com/p/recovery-f...

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CDC data shows the flu vaccine, on average, saves more than 5,000 lives per year. So yes, the RFK, Jr. and the Trump administration are planning mass murder.

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Looking through the source code of the Command & Conquer games that EA just released github.com/electronicarts. Some fun stuff in the comments.

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They're searching the landfill but, remember that it took years of protests and the voices of Indigenous people around the world begging for them to finally search the landfill. If a single white woman was potentially in the landfill they would've immediately begun the search to bring her home.

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Lives up to the hype.

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📣 New zine! "Radical Books That Aren't a Slog : Leftist Book Recommendations for Newly Radical Folks." If you're a baby leftist looking for a place to start imagining new possibilities, here's 17 books to get you started! violetbfox.info/radicalbooks/ 📚

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Clay recently disclosed that one person is responsible for 94% of all objections and appeals. He does not qualify as a parent or legal guardian, but after HB 1285 was supposed to limit him to one objection per month, he found a parent willing to submit his “book reports” to get around the limit.

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