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Aimee Knupsky

@aknupsky.bsky.social
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Cognitve psychologist. Friends of the Library President. Queer bibliophile and coal patch kid. @bookchantment on Instagram

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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 24/09/2026
The @npr.org folks cover the drastic changes in funding at NIH with helpful graphics Read the whole thing www.npr.org/2026/09/24/n...
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Under Trump, NIH funding disruptions have evolved. Here's what the numbers show
Stories of science funding being cut, labs shutting down and scientists losing jobs have flooded the media under Trump's administration. These six graphics show how those changes have affected U.S. bi...
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Tom Resing @tomresing.com · 24/09/2026
If you have concerns about AI, read this The AI Con. @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social know what's going on behind the sparkles and magic wands. #BookSky app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/1520...
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Review by resing - The AI Con
If you have concerns about AI, read this book. Emily Bender and Alex Hana know what's going on...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
ICE are currently chasing and kidnapping immigrants in New Bedford, Massachusetts, a town that is at this point probably most famous for being the starting point for Ishmael’s journey in the great American novel Moby-Dick, which portrays a multiracial crew including many immigrants, working together
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Powerful plea today from my colleagues on the Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board, urging Pennsylvania to join most of our neighboring states in blocking local cops from working with ICE under 287(g), in which police terrorize our immigrant communities www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...
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Pennsylvania’s shameful contribution to President Trump’s immigration crackdown | Editorial
Gov. Shapiro should seize the opportunity to counter a cruel attack on the state’s communities.
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Aimee Knupsky @aknupsky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Vibes
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Pennsylvania Capital-Star @penncapital-star.com · 21/09/2026
After vowing to spend $20 billion on data centers across Pennsylvania, Amazon is now quietly reaping the rewards of a controversial, yet lucrative state tax exemption, records show. From @capitalandmain.bsky.social
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Pennsylvania’s Amazon data center boom is fueled by a lucrative tax break • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
After vowing to spend $20 billion on data centers across Pennsylvania, Amazon is now quietly reaping the rewards of a controversial, yet lucrative state tax exemption, records show.
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Tallgirl6234 @tallgirl6234.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now, for wheat is wheat, even if people think it is grass in the beginning.” - Vincent Van Gogh
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Lyndon @iamlyndon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s that time of year again!! Did you remember? 😂 Earth, Wind & Fire - September #NowListening #MusicSky #Music youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk?...
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Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)
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Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 21/09/2026
NOW: Just arrived at the intersection of Research Blvd and Anderson Lane—near where ICE shot & wounded 29-yr-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez earlier today. Between 300-500 people still holding intersection here. ICE is reportedly not letting Garces Perez’s family access him at the hospital.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Facts worth repeating: It would be cheaper to pay the ~40,000 or so people employed by the coal industry $1M a year to do nothing than to pay for the health damages (not including climate change) caused by burning coal in the U.S. publichealth.hsc.wvu.edu/news/story?h...
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Counting up the costs of coal
Regular readers know that WVU’s Dr. Michael Hendryx has done work on that issue (subscription required), reporting that:
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Aimee Knupsky @aknupsky.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
No one twirls like Steven Colbert...remember the Get Lucky montage? ♥️
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Colbert's Get Lucky
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Aimee Knupsky @aknupsky.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I hate all the gambling shit. Almost as much as the AI shit.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
All we can expect when trying to scale up AI systems is diminishing returns and devastating environmental damage. Calls for `slowing down’ can conveniently hide the diminishing returns, while still convincing people that the tech is “all powerful”.
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 18/09/2026
TODAY: Nathan Munn on AI’s creepy infantilization of the people who use it. “The dulcet tones and primary colors of these interfaces work to gently persuade you to abandon your judgment, question your own abilities, and hand over your higher processes” flaminghydra.com/r/59016c24?m...
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Thinking partner
Metal machine thinking repudiated by Nathan Munn
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“How can we afford that?” This is ~1/4 of four years of student loan debt relief under Joe Biden, while debt/GDP was falling, & we simply are not having the same sort of conversation now as we did then: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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BanmarNJ @banmarnj.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
‘Clear retribution’: dismay as key Alzheimer’s study cancelled amid Trump attacks on science Participants in Pittsburgh may never learn the results of their cognitive tests – and funding cuts that target ‘DEI’ have the potential to delay vital diagnoses
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‘Clear retribution’: dismay as key Alzheimer’s study cancelled amid Trump attacks on science
Participants in Pittsburgh may never learn the results of their cognitive tests – and funding cuts that target ‘DEI’ have the potential to delay vital diagnoses
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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I feel like we are so used to living in a time of madness that we can't grasp just how insane the Kennedy Center dispute is. Trump took something that was running just fine and destroyed it because he couldn't put his name next to the murdered president whose memorial it is. That's completely nuts.
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Molly Jeffery, PhD MPP @mollyjeffery.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Really powerful details about the federal courts in Minnesota during Metro Surge. The Clerk's office was staffed 16-hrs/day, 7 days/week to make sure habeas petitions were processed timely. I am so grateful to them. They were working with no extra pay to protect our neighbors and the rule of law.
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Trump’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns (Gift Article)
In a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.”
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Startling speech by a city council member after newsroom cuts at the Lexington, KY Herald Leader. Urge you to watch, listen and learn of the bond that a good newspaper can create without losing its independence. Owner: Hedge fund Chatham Asset Management kiesow.net/how-to-talk-... via kiesow.net
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How to talk about the local news crisis: We are all worse off.
Last week, McClatchy rolled out the latest round of destructive cuts to its local reporting staff. The cuts themselves are barely newsworthy within the industry at this point, though the futility of '...
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Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
More raiding of the Interior budget to destroy and deform DC. MAGA sets its sights on the jewel of DC. The libraries and museums of the Smithsonian gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/a...
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Trump Administration Outlines Plan for Signs Outside Smithsonian Museum (Gift Article)
In a letter, the Interior Department detailed what it hoped to convey on 12 signs to be installed outside the National Museum of American History.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Trump’s EPA will no longer limit pollution from gas and coal-burning power plants. Reminder: Trump took millions of dollars in donations from Big Oil, and his EPA chief Lee Zeldin is cozy with the coal industry. Is there anything this regime won’t destroy to please its bankrollers?
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Trump's EPA repeals pollution limits on fossil fuel power plants
The Trump administration is eliminating limits on climate-warming pollution from the nation's fossil fuel power plants.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 15/09/2026
"The escalation of ICE and CBP attacks in Minnesota, as well as Los Angeles, Memphis, New Orleans, and Chicago, was less about capturing undocumented workers than about generating terror within those cities. They targeted cities with either Black mayors or progressive Democratic mayors."
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Robin D. G. Kelley: What We’re Experiencing Right Now Is Fascism
Technologies from Israel have turbocharged surveillance by ICE, Border Patrol, and the Department of Homeland Security.
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Typebar Magazine (Issue 11 Out 10/26) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: Coyote vs. Acme — a movie with cartoon anvils comedy pratfalls — is a surprisingly profound riff on The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas www.typebarmagazine.com/the-ones-who...
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The Ones Who Walk Away from Albuquerque
Coyote vs. Acme, Omelas, and suffering.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, ‘I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.’”
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
ICE and Oklahoma state police are illegally arresting and detaining Ukrainian truck drivers who are here legally via TPS. tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
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Truck drivers who fled Ukraine war are being jailed by ICE in Oklahoma
Many believed they had proper paperwork but have been ensnared by inconsistent immigration policy and a federal push for deportations. Most remain in custody at Oklahoma prisons.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026
Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.
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Rachel Hall-Clifford, PhD, MPH, MSc @rahallclifford.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Every day is opposite day.
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E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants
Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
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Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Stunningly good points from soup to nuts here, everyone teaching in higher ed needs to read this www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...
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Students as Conscientious Objectors to Gen AI (opinion)
We should listen to them—and treat their objections with respect.
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Aimee Knupsky @aknupsky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Had a great time with a crowded theater for MST3K, the RiffTrax Experiments, Sting of Death. How grateful am I that I had the Satellite of Love (I mean Syd's Olive Loaf) growing up. And made a new retired librarian friend. ☺️♥️
Close up picture of movie ticket stub for MST3K, the Rifftrax experiment #1: Sting of Death. Next to button that says Support Your Local Library or Die by My Sword.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026
All of a sudden we're not talking about the widely popular bipartisan opposition to massive data center buildouts. I wonder why 🤔
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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lauralee47.bsky.social @lauralee47.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“A federal appeals court on Friday struck down an order from the Trump administration that forced a coal plant in Michigan to stay open past its scheduled retirement date — dealing a blow to President Trump’s efforts to promote the coal industry.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/c...
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Court Strikes Down Trump Order to Keep an Aging Coal-Burning Plant Running (Gift Article)
The 64-year-old Michigan power plant was set to retire. Then the Trump administration intervened in a way that overstepped its authority, a court ruled.
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Aimee Knupsky @aknupsky.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"the “rogue” frame (offers) up fantasies of a machine getting smarter. My worry is the intelligence that is retreating: the human intelligence that builds, deploys, and adopts these systems into workflows, but hides behind the results—and pins the blame on a system from nowhere."
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Aimee Knupsky @aknupsky.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
G*d damn it.
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haversack @hsack121.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is way past due, leave the whales alone.. Iceland to propose whaling ban, leaving Norway and Japan isolated www.nbcnews.com/world/europe...
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Iceland to propose whaling ban, leaving Norway and Japan isolated
Fin whales, the primary target of Iceland’s whaling industry, are classified ⁠by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as vulnerable.
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Rivka @rivka-otter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I feel like I’m losing my mind. The president of the United States is promising $5000 payouts if his party wins the midterms, and the discussion in the media is “but what about the deficit” rather than “vote buying is illegal”?
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Aimee Knupsky @aknupsky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"we are simply incapable of imagining ourselves on the other side of a profound change, because the present self doing the imagining is the very self that needs to have died in order for the future self being imagined to emerge."
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 08/09/2026
After Nebraska adopted an algorithm to assess the needs of people with developmental disabilities, more than 900 had their home care slashed—leaving families terrified their loved ones could be forced into institutions. A preview of what could soon be coming nationally after Trump’s Medicaid cuts.
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A secretive computer algorithm is taking caregiving money away from disabled people
After Nebraska used a new interRAI tool to slash Medicaid funding for nearly 900 people, NBC News uncovered the hidden logic behind some of the cuts.
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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
In Budapest 🇭🇺, the 1956 Hungarian Revolution Monument starts with isolated pillars and finishes as a singular, powerful wedge—perfectly mirroring how citizens can come together to form a unified movement. Cor unum et anima una. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Architecture Hub©
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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"I met with Border Patrol, and they sat him down and shook his hand. And then his voice broke. Through tears, he said: ‘They shook my hand and they said, ‘Welcome to the United States,’ and yesterday they arrested me.’"
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Inside Trump’s Nightmare for Haitians in Springfield: ‘We’re Following Our Orders’
The most urgent moral test in all of Trump’s America today is happening in a small Ohio city – and we as a country are failing it miserably.
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Aimee Knupsky @aknupsky.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“.. it’s our immigration policy that took his life,” Pastor Carl Ruby of the Central Christian Church in Springfield said at a news conference Tuesday, calling on Republican lawmakers to speak out and “put an end to the shackling program before other people end up taking their lives.”
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An Ohio college student died in an apparent suicide. His family says he felt ‘humiliated’ by his ICE ankle monitor | CNN
Pierre Damas Bel was killed Monday after he stepped into traffic on Interstate 70 near Springfield, Ohio. The Haitian immigrant’s family says he was distraught over being bullied for wearing an ICE an...
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Cassandra @historycass.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gift article for a giant. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...
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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
TODAY: Protesters in #Danbury are demanding #ICE get out and to shut down operations. The Danbury community is not backing down. 62 fathers, sons, brothers, mothers, daughters, sisters taken in 4 days. 60+ businesses shut down & the community marched from the Library to the Green. #Connecticut #CT
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 02/09/2026
The Kennedy Center took down a sculpture known as "Blue" Wednesday, the latest change to the cultural and performing arts center that stirred some pushback in President Donald Trump's second term. to.pbs.org/4qOC3N8
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PHOTOS: Kennedy Center disassembles 'Blue' sculpture from its grounds
The sculpture, a tall, blue stick figure poised in action — as if to kick a ball or, from a different angle, having just kicked one — was designed by sculptor Joel Shapiro and installed in 2019.
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Aimee Knupsky @aknupsky.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"And so I go into the woods. As I go in under the trees, dependably, almost at once, and by nothing I do, things fall into place,” he once wrote. “I enter an order that does not exist outside, in the human spaces. I feel my life take its place among the lives –
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Wendell Berry, US author, farmer and environmentalist, dies aged 92
Author and Kentucky native, who celebrated the farming world of his home state and warned of the excesses of industrial society, died at home
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Aimee Knupsky @aknupsky.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"On July 30, Bel posted a 20-photo Instagram carousel highlighting his awards, diploma, plans to study neuroscience at Wright State University, soccer team, and the electronic monitor around his ankle.
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Aimee Knupsky @aknupsky.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Reading is not dead. It's not too late. It's never too late to support a love of reading and learning. We can't give up or give in to AI cognitive offloading. Our children deserve to keep reading so they can imagine and build new ways of being in this world. ♥️
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