Reposted by Linda Oakleaf Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality. 4151861331
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities 207126043133
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf Thatch @thatchspace.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Found this gem via @doctorow.pluralistic.net newsletter. Its a nice read by @deadparrotbbs.com@deadparrotbbs.com over on Mastodon Why Plain Text Is Still One of the Best Technologies We Have deadparrotbbs.com/why-plain-te...deadparrotbbs.comWhy Plain Text Is Still One of the Best Technologies We HavePlain text is portable, inspectable, searchable, easy to back up, and remarkably resistant to obsolescence. Its simplicity has helped it survive decades of... 0196
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf 🎃 Dustin Gore-Killer 🔪 @george-miller.org · 07/10/2026Speaking as someone who is actively in chemo, the only appropriate response is to say "That really sucks and you should do exactly what you want to do and no more than that." 131
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf Jamie Ager @jamie.agerforcongress.com · 30/09/2026I had a good visit in Canton for a meet and greet with folks there. This town has been through so much since Helene. Every time I'm here I'm reminded how much strength and resilience is in this community. Thank you to everyone who came out to talk with me. #NC11 #WNC #WesternNC 1142
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 13/06/2026The goal isn’t to replace the work of humans. It’s to make a case for its devaluation. 91112297
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Grow your own oak tree #12 Over 50 million years the Genus Quercus has evolved into 500 species on 5 continents including deciduous & evergreen varieties 90 are in North America, but only 2 in Britain as there are no weather extremes to trigger variations, & a recent ice age 713219
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf LifuX @lifux.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This is why the internet was invented... #LifuX #Dogs #Dogsofbluesky 301929520
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Friday morning, I was gardening when I checked my phone. A request had gone out for help. For 25+ hours, ICE had been laying siege to a quiet neighborhood in Frederick, MD. Community members were afraid, some didn’t want to leave their homes. ICE vehicles seemed to be lurking on every corner. 3520351028
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 05/09/2026I kid you not, our paper on spatial apartheid was reviewed by apartheid itself. Literally, the (extremely famous) journal sent it to white South African reviewers who pointed out all these "papers" written by white South Africans DURING apartheid, that we failed to cite. 4812211
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026A five million year old fossilised oak leaf found in St Bauzile, France and a recently fallen oak leaf 738157
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf Cat Rambo @catrambo.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Eeeeeeeeeeeee my story is finally out. I wrote this in the midst of heartache and it’s one of my best. 2424
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 17/08/2026If you're wishing you could go back to school for linguistics, here's your annual reminder that Crash Course Linguistics @thecrashcourse.bsky.social exists! I worked on it with linguists @superlinguo.bsky.social and @jessgrieser.com, host Taylor Behnke, @complexly.org and @thoughtcafe.bsky.social!youtube.comWhat is Linguistics?: Crash Course Linguistics #1YouTube video by CrashCourse 323579
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 15/08/2026I’m so tired of genAI apologists telling me I only hate it because I don’t understand it. I hate it *because* I understand it, you absolute toenail. 713686988
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf ⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️🅱️🅰️🎮 @purestinnosense.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026AI interviews are really dehumanizing.. it's like "we couldn't be bothered to actually speak with you. We'll just have Siri do it for us." 154
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I put Humans need to take rest periods on the general action list. 06417
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 01/08/2026Are you saying the DOJ withdrew that pool vandalism indictment… upon reflection? 533151851802
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 27/07/2026Then you perceive the body of our kingdom How foul it is, what rank diseases grow, And with what danger, near the heart of it. 641093
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Recasting higher education as vocational training is some bullshit. The fact there aren't more jobs specifically calling for people who have studied humanities, social science, critical theory, etc, doesn't mean that there isn't work that benefits from those studies, esp. the work of being human. 518936
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf Utah News Dispatch @utahnewsdispatch.com · 13/07/2026President Donald Trump has signed an executive order shrinking Utah's Bears Ears National Monument to about 121,000 acres and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument to about 182,000 acres.utahnewsdispatch.comPresident Trump shrinks Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante — again • Utah News DispatchPresident Donald Trump signed an executive order to again shrink Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah. 11118
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf zellieimani.bsky.social @zellieimani.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Having debt doesn’t mean you’re financially irresponsible. Sometimes it means you’ve already paid back what you borrowed and still owe more. 023546
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 08/07/2026This “good enough” attempt at graphic design…isn’t.404media.coWe Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me." 3245
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 04/07/2026It could be one more weird anomaly in this unending cycle of what the fuck. 07019
Linda Oakleaf @lindao.bsky.social · 24/06/2026So cute that you can't even tell that she recently stole 1/2 a stick of butter off the counter. 010
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 15/06/2026We are excited to announce the launch of Murmurations: A Trans and Gender Diverse Library Journal! 110957
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 22/06/2026🚨New data: In the 8 months after H.R. 1 enacted the deepest SNAP cuts in history, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by 4+ million (-10%) nationwide. In just the 13 states with available data, 800,000+ fewer kids are receiving SNAP. www.cbpp.org/research/foo... 13466271
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 20/06/2026Me: its time to open up this pit! Construction Contractor: please, no 1223445986
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf Nicki Washington, Ph.D. @drnickiw.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Happy Juneteenth! 0239
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Okay. The writers are just getting lazy now 1081382
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf John Breen @breen.tech · 12/06/2026I’m getting tired of that Mr Roger’s “look for the helpers” quote. I am one of the helpers, and I’m telling you that there are not enough of us 137984
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 31/05/2026America came out of me too and made a rapist President 10711121
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 30/05/2026"On my way home from work, I don’t pick up food my child actually likes. Why would I? We have gross food at home, and I enjoy preparing it for maximum disgust."buff.lyMy Typical Day According to My Thirteen-Year-Old“I wake before dawn to coordinate with my vast network of parental co-conspirators. Our agenda this morning is straight fire, as the youth would say, beginni... 57512
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Donald Trump is sending the Justice Department after a woman he raped. 22854782063
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 26/05/2026They can’t make threats and force you to do stuff you don’t want to do if they’re unconscious or dead. 17413
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf WheelieWilf @wilfnetherton.bsky.social · 23/05/2026I didn’t think dystopian society would be so meh. Clippy was a warning we all missed. 0316
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Normalize being a try hard 🫵 261260100
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 15/05/2026If someone put Nico in one of these boxes I might … well, I might be denied bail after. The idea makes me hurt. If you live in NY, you better call your representatives, or I don’t even know you. www.npr.org/2026/05/14/n...npr.orgNative kids with disabilities were held in wooden boxes. Sweeping reforms are comingState officials in New York say the Salmon River district's special education program confined young children with disabilities in wooden boxes. Parents weren't notified. 31446147
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents. 9235461779
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf The Onion @theonion.com · 12/05/2026Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation 4468051680
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Supreme Court rules Black voters had no rights which the white man was bound to respect 7661250
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf 𝙰𝙲𝚄𝚃𝙴 𝚆𝙴𝙴𝙳 𝙿𝚂𝚈𝙲𝙷𝙾𝚂𝙸𝚂 𓁣 @bzvowell.bsky.social · 24/04/2026𝚂𝙾 𝙵𝚁𝙴𝚂𝙷. 𝚂𝙾 𝙲𝙻𝙴𝙰𝙽. 241935707
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Everyone knows about North Carolina's annual Sexiest Collard Farmer Contest? The 2024 winner is Patrick Brown of Brown Family Farms. There's a calendar too, apparently. www.collardsonly.com gardenandgun.com/articles/mee... 12650178
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 09/04/2026I mean, I just generated six hallucinations about me in as many minutes via Googles AI Overview, you can tell your bosses that podcast is full of shit 1857672
Reposted by Linda Oakleaf Dave @flowstateneworleans.com · 09/04/2026First you make #prison conditions bad enough for people that they try to burn themselves alive by starting electrical fires in the cells they are locked into. Then, to stop them from doing that, you make conditions worse for them.wndu.comIndiana State Prison removing outlets from cells after second inmate hospitalized in cell fireD-cellhouse outlets are being removed from the Michigan City prison after the IDOC says inmate tampering caused the fire. 014
