Reposted by emily boyntonInternet Archive @archive.org · 07/10/2026📖 Papiamento is the native language of Aruba, Bonaire, & Curaçao, but smaller languages can disappear online as English & Spanish dominate. 📚 Read Peter Scholing's essay THE WIND-BLOWN LANGUAGE: PAPIAMENTO in VANISHING CULTURE, FREE: archive.org/details/vani... 🧵 414735
Reposted by emily boyntonBookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores. 2854653345
Reposted by emily boyntonJohn Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 06/10/2026As a Catholic, like Alito, I think it's so important for you to know how little—how absolutely not at all—your marriage (or your LGBTQ identity) impacts my religious liberty. In fact, refusing to acknowledge your marriage (or your LGBTQ identity) is a grave affront to your innate human dignity.abcnews.comAlito calls same-sex marriage a 'decisive' turn 'against religious liberty' in new bookA new book by Justice Samuel Alito presents his view of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the country with a focus on religious freedom. 29662134
Reposted by emily boyntonMatt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026the tech industry is about to invent books 574216354218
Reposted by emily boyntonshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of america can sort of say ‘ugh, look at these cities.’ but we are holding a lot of your people who you failed to love and take care of.” 👏 👏 👏 461934439
Reposted by emily boyntonMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026a play in four acts 23876118
Reposted by emily boyntonAnne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 5030981088
Reposted by emily boyntonRose/T.A. Summers @rosepetals1984.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Going in tandem with Alex's post, I always post this video with Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop talking about the concept herself, especially since she wrote the book about it. She was talking about children and reading, SPECIFICALLY. youtu.be/_AAu58SNSyc?...youtu.beMirrors, Windows and Sliding Glass DoorsYouTube video by Reading Rockets 13121
Reposted by emily boyntonMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026🚨 BREAKING: Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa has filed an official request to inspect unredacted communications between Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and Elon Musk after roughly 1,400 pages released last year were heavily redacted as “intimate and embarrassing.” 13986122802
Reposted by emily boyntonCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Hahaha. I love this. Every step a blinking "scam" sign and yet 110911
Reposted by emily boyntonIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'm categorized as an AI subscriber, because I'm subscribed to the 3 TB tier of Google Drive and and they literally just changed the name of the plan to "Google AI Plus." Those "AI subscriber" numbers are 100 percent juiced and phony, and you're a sucker if you believe otherwise. 52791837
emily boynton @heyemily.bsky.social · 24/09/2026maybe turn the covid conscious lesbian bar into a haunted house for october 010
Reposted by emily boyntone.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 14/09/2026I just love how basically every user interface is primed to make you butt-dial some generative AI feature or another 1334836
Reposted by emily boyntonMara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Flock is trying to recruit ARTISTS on job recruiting sites. I saw this while helping an artist friend look for part-time jobs and nearly vomited. “Visual storytelling” — What in the Leni Riefenstahl is this shit? 441217326
Reposted by emily boyntonPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026It's not about "fairness in women's sports" any more than it was about "ethics in gaming journalism." 22035430
Reposted by emily boyntonGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I was unfamiliar until recently with the story of Father Mychal Judge, a gay priest who became the first recorded casualty of 9/11 while administering last rites in the lobby of the North Tower. There is an effort to canonize him, which would make him the first openly gay saint in history.thelettersfromleo.comFather Mychal Judge, Gay Franciscan Killed in the North Tower, Could Be 9/11’s First SaintThe first recorded death at Ground Zero would become the first known gay person canonized a saint in the Catholic Church’s history. 9671143
Reposted by emily boyntonSteve Flack @vitaminsteve.com · 11/09/2026that’s it, we’ve peaked. Call it a day, go start your weekends. 14557831279
Reposted by emily boyntonJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...404media.coWe Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training FacilityWe placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. 12537912365
Reposted by emily boynton404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:404media.coWe Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training FacilityWe placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. 15162253913
Reposted by emily boyntonPatrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 06/08/2026Aaron Swartz deserves more justice and reconsideration than almost anybody in this century 142211660
Reposted by emily boyntonStefanos Chen @stefanoschen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026The M.T.A. finished this nearly billion-dollar MetroNorth project almost $200M under budget and years ahead of schedule. Can it do the same with some of its big-haul projects? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/n...nytimes.comAn M.T.A. Project Is Under Budget and Finished Early. No, Really. (Gift Article)The authority has long been panned for construction overruns and delays. It hopes a Metro-North Rail Road project could change that reputation. 117724
Reposted by emily boyntonSusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 06/07/2026Roses are red the reflecting pool is noxious 52351529
Reposted by emily boynton🦋🍂Linzy is testing a hypothesis @ohmyfandoms31.bsky.social · 02/07/2026The handwriting an apology letter is so good. 10/10 perfect use of Catholic guilt. 120633
Reposted by emily boyntonClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/07/2026let us not forget that in March, he called in journalist Gareth Gore for a private meeting to get all the way into Gore's research on Opus Dei. Gore didn't reveal details of what Pope Leo said, but he writes extensively here about what HE said and the horrific stories of abuse he sharedncronline.orgGareth Gore: What I told Pope Leo about my research into Opus DeiJournalist and author Gareth Gore shares what he said during his audience with Pope Leo XIV March 16: "By putting on record what information I shared with the pope in the meeting, nobody can now turn ... 51525176
Reposted by emily boyntonJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 01/07/2026The collective journalistic freakout over someone disliking a cafeteria sandwich at Oberlin or some Yale students asking their peers to be less racist at Halloween has generated far more copy and uproar than multiple universities illegally firing faculty for nonconservative speech they disliked.insidehighered.comU Tennessee to Pay Millions to Prof Fired for Kirk CommentsThe University of Tennessee System will pay $1.9 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a former professor who was fired for comments she made about the late conservative pundit Charlie Kirk, Knox New... 42971812
Reposted by emily boyntonDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Tens of thousands celebrated Budapest Pride, the first since Viktor Orbán’s ousting.pbs.orgTens of thousands march in the first Budapest Pride since Viktor Orbán was voted outSaturday's Pride march came a little more than a year after Orbán's nationalist-populist government passed legislation and a constitutional amendment to outlaw the event, drawing criticism from human ... 34212754720
Reposted by emily boyntonDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/06/2026It is core to the nature of reactionary politics that its adherents *always* conceive of themselves as aggrieved victims, no matter how much power they amass. It's a permission structure for their own lawlessness & violence. 342998638
Reposted by emily boyntonMicah @rincewind.run · 27/06/2026uruguay out, cabo verde in how can you not love the world cup 1734812
Reposted by emily boyntonNew York Magazine @nymag.com · 26/06/2026For the Manifesto Library at Livraria Lello in Porto, Portugal, Dua Lipa curated 100 books that “challenge power, censorship, exclusion, and dominant narratives.’thecut.comDua Lipa Is Opening a Library for Banned BooksFor the Manifesto Library at Livraria Lello in Porto, Portugal, Dua Lipa curated 100 books that “challenge power, censorship, exclusion, and dominant narratives.’ 082
Reposted by emily boyntonLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 26/06/2026Kids have less spaces to do physical activity & use their knowledge to solve problems which is why I wanna bring back the power hour of Global Guts & Legends of the Hidden Temple but open one up in every city. I want kids all over battling for the Aggro Crag & answering history & geography for Olmec 21496130
Reposted by emily boyntonIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 25/06/2026We love the Gross Reflecting Pool story because it is a Groverhaus 331485353
Reposted by emily boyntonAmy @lolennui.bsky.social · 12/06/2026guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one. 363252144861
Reposted by emily boyntonThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/06/2026“I had the right papers and everything.” Omar Abdulkadir Artan would have been the first Somali to referee a World Cup game. Instead, he was denied entry to the U.S.nyti.msSomali Referee Says His World Cup Dream Is Dashed After U.S. Denies Entry“I had the right papers and everything,” Omar Abdulkadir Artan said in his first interview since he was turned back. He would have been the first Somali to referee a game in the tournament. 2012448
Reposted by emily boyntonpublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 09/06/2026my mayor muslim my bagel jewish my church's irish knicks in five-ish 116015
Reposted by emily boyntonDefector @defector.com · 09/06/2026Washed-up clown Spencer Pratt will not be the mayor of Los Angeles: defector.com/washed-up-cl...defector.comWashed-Up Clown Spencer Pratt Will Not Be The Mayor of Los Angeles | DefectorSpencer Pratt will not be the mayor of Los Angeles. There should be no need to utter this sentence, much like “You do not have to swallow a rhino whole, tonight” or “Human shit will not rain down… 211814
Reposted by emily boyntonMarie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 08/06/2026The US is hosting the World Cup and just turned away Africa’s top referee at the airport 3 days before kickoff because of where he was born. Omar Artan had a valid visa. He had a historic assignment. They didn’t care. Disgraceful. #USDemocracy #Pinks newrepublic.com/post/211508/...newrepublic.comTop African Referee Barred From Entering the U.S. For World CupOmar Artan was set to become the first Somalian to officiate a World Cup match. He was denied entry to the United States on Monday at Miami International Airport. 40750122560
Reposted by emily boyntonSarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 04/06/2026What a staggering loss. RIP Marjane Satrapi.nytimes.comMarjane Satrapi, Author of ‘Persepolis,’ Dies at 56 4871219
Reposted by emily boyntonCatsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 04/06/2026RIP Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026) 3351702127
Reposted by emily boyntonWuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Happy Pride 🌈 3452541642
Reposted by emily boyntonElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Peter Thiel is heading to his spiritual homeland of Argentina, following in the historical footsteps of thousands of other deeply problematic men with the exact same haircut. 20166331031
Reposted by emily boyntonMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/05/2026my firm take is that any man loudly worried about fertility rates is a fucking creep 1906719984
Reposted by emily boyntonKim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 26/05/2026The absolute bare minimum effort we *should* be seeing from electeds anywhere. “I ran up and put myself between the ICE officers and the crowd, and that’s when they started to shoot at us with the pepper balls — as well as using the pepper spray — and were tackling people." 8819189
Reposted by emily boyntonReuters @reuters.com · 22/05/2026Exclusive: Starbucks scraps AI inventory tool across North America reut.rs/3Pu0MrXreut.rsExclusive: Starbucks scraps AI inventory tool across North AmericaStarbucks terminated an AI program workers used for automating certain inventory counts this week, nine months after deploying it across its North American stores, according to an internal newsletter reviewed by Reuters and two people with direct knowledge of the situation. 614642
Reposted by emily boyntonJosh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Fortunately, there are numbers to multiply by that are bigger than two. 411731178