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Go read a book.

submitted 13 days ago • 404 comments

I am done with winter.

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🚨 Winter Storm Warning issued February 11 at 10:33AM CST until February 12 at 9:00PM CST by NWS St Louis MO 🚨 Additional Details Here.

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Popped outside to grab my water bottle from the car and said "holy hell, is it foggy!" Just then the City's NotifySTL alert came through! Great minds, Commissioner. If you haven't already signed up for emergency alerts, here you go! www.stlouis-mo.gov/notifystl/

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Recently downloaded the “No Thanks” app to get quick info on the political contributions of the brands and products I buy. You can search for a brand or even scan a barcode. Easy! apps.apple.com/us/app/no-th...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

American social media companies write the algorithms that determine what voters read; moderation systems are opaque; political advertising cannot always be tracked. Do European democracies, or any democracies, really have sovereign elections anymore? www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

submitted 29 days ago • 91 comments

A grim but essential memory: 80 years ago today Auschwitz was liberated. That there was an Auschwitz to liberate is unspeakably tragic. . . www.history.com/this-day-in-...

submitted 29 days ago • 685 comments

Gift link: “we may soon lose the ability to create tests hard enough for A.I. models.”

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

It actually is very important that you do things that you take pleasure in, regularly. That is part of how you survive the things that feel like they are going to destroy you.

submitted 33 days ago • 100 comments

My husband, a 40-year AIDS survivor, helped organize one of the first AIDS Candlelight Memorials in STL in the late 80's. This past weekend at the Gateway to Pride exhibit at the Missouri History Museum, we saw an original poster with HIS handwriting on it. We held each other tightly and wept.

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Gift link: “Every single aspect of human life across the broadest categories of human organization is being reoriented around the pursuit of attention. It is now the defining resource of our age.”

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

This came up in my family chat group so I thought I would share the gift link with y'all, too. Why You Might Suddenly Be Following Trump on Instagram and Facebook www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/t...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

To my new Bluesky friends (hi @lisadclancy.bsky.social and @kellidunaway.bsky.social 👋) my favorite feed is the Gift Links feed, which bypasses paywalls & gives you access to lots of major news articles. I subscribe to some outlets, but this is access to via gift links: bsky.app/profile/did:...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Nailed it, Kyle. 😅 #AllForCITY

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

It's really not about leaving the other platforms. It's about bringing people here and giving them more engagement than the other apps. That's what people want. Engagement. Takes nothing to offer it If there is a user on another app that you like, DM them and invite them here. Post and tag me

submitted 49 days ago • 1442 comments

If you think only billionaires can control social media, You are absolutely wrong. Social media is completely dependent on its users. Think about why you do or did use FB, ThreadsTik tok or Twitter. It's because they have enough users. Take away all the "normies" and they all are worthless

submitted 49 days ago • 1410 comments

Not all of St. Louis is closed. Soulard is not closed. Hammerstone's is open. Other places will be open as well because the owners and/or staff live in the nabe and just walk downstairs or walk up the unplowed street to work.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

During a winter storm, always grateful to live walking-distance to open grocery stores. Donuts make kids extra happy on a snowy morning 🍩. Thanks to all the workers who braved the icy roads!

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Perhaps a deeper understanding of social media, and how to use it, is needed. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

His post-presidency was seen by many as a model for future chief executives. Rather than vanish from view or focus on moneymaking, he established the Carter Center to promote peace, combat disease and tackle social inequality. #jimmycarter #carter www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/u...

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

This PR case is complex and fascinating. Gift link 🎁

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

just blurted out in class "yes, you have to cite where you got your info. in a world in which lying loudly is the only thing that seems to get rewarded, citing your sources is an act of resistance" and folks, I really believe that.

submitted 68 days ago • 215 comments

I’m trying to strike a balance between staying informed and keeping my sanity.

submitted 68 days ago • 1967 comments

Bringing my Christmas tradition over from the other site: It's the most wonderful time of the year -- it's #12DaysOfDarleneLove. Darlene Love performing the best Christmas song ever, "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)", on Letterman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBoSz61shOM

submitted 75 days ago • 4 comments

Sharing again for the Monday morning crowd! See this thread for three TT positions in English, History, and Anthro. All are part of a cluster hire to support the CODES program and Black studies at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

We’re hiring three TT faculty to teach in our CODES program! CODES is a gen ed pathway focused on community-engaged digital humanities methods designed for students who are Pell-eligible, among the first in their families to attend college, or historically underrepresented in their majors.

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

Libraries are so cute. Please get the Libby and Hoopla app on your phone and the Kanopy app for your TV. It makes the libraries so happy and you can access books, movies, magazines, audiobooks, tv shows, and joy. YOU GET FREE JOY

submitted 68 days ago • 332 comments

2025 is shaping up to be a beautiful year. At Pattan & Co. we've built a firm we're proud of with a team we believe in, and we've moved the needle for our clients in huge ways. If you're looking for communications, PR, digital and event support, take a look: pattan.co/about

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Every time I read the local news and see a teacher who was awarded a $250 grant for her classroom, I understand that she spent hours of her own time applying for it. Writing it. Going through a submission process. For $250. For her classroom…

submitted 75 days ago • 1180 comments

It’s 22 degrees outside and 2 out of 3 kids have opted for shorts today.

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

I've been involved in rescue ops here in Tulsa for years, though not nearly as deeply as many of my friends. This is a story worth your time if you love animals. No paywall. wapo.st/3ZGJHgI

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

Incroyable!

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Gift link 🎁

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Internalize the fact that FDR was a master propagandist and budgeted messaging into every New Deal project. Despite how it should work, great things do not sell themselves.

submitted 86 days ago • 67 comments

Does everyone know about Project Gutenberg? E-books for free. The world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for free. Digitized and diligently proofread by thousands of volunteers. Please share.

submitted 88 days ago • 14 comments

JOURNALISTS FLOCK TO BLUESKY “We have posts exactly the same on Twitter & on Bluesky & Bluesky is getting 20 times the engagement or more than Twitter. Seeing a social media platform that doesn’t throttle links really makes it clear how badly we were being limited” www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

submitted 87 days ago • 320 comments

Good luck getting your students to read a book. Or—even worse—a research article.

submitted 88 days ago • 2 comments

I’m still sitting in gratitude for you.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments