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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

my main issue with ai is that i would personally see a larger ROI if those trillions of dollars were spent on healthcare or public transit or schools or road repairs or SNAP or free childcare or free school lunches or EV charging stations or public libraries or housing or clean energy or broadband

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I like when someone writes a post that says “When even the librarians are getting angry…” My sense is that librarians are usually angry.

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mk @mlkurcz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It’s heartbreaking to know we could save ~100000 lives and more than $1 trillion, and we just don’t.

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WheatNOil @wheatnoil.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Fine. This is why getting vaccinated helps protect others as I (a doc who is definitely not an immunologist) would explain to my dumb (complimentary) hockey buddies over a few beers. (Note: I have not had beer. I’ve had whiskey. Tonight, a Japanese Toki Suntory whisky.)

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 03/08/2026

Yeah I actually hate ai *and* capitalism. I can do both.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/07/2026

It’s always weird to me when people point out as a gotcha that sites have trackers. Are you raw dogging the web in 2026? That’s on you bro.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 22/07/2026

Every time. It's literally every fucking time these people are so eager to push the fear-hype of "Rogue AI" that they're willing to completely obfuscate the fact that a system was in fact given tools/capabilities & a set of instructions *By Humans*, & did not, thus, autonomously initiate anything. …

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This is why I won’t read your Substack, people.

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This is a great, real thing. None of that altNPS shit. Spot the differences: real utility, real names, no numbers station secret spy cosplaying, no merch.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Amnesty International put out a report called "The Growing Threat of Anti-Rights Organizations in the UK". It included a number of "gender critical" organizations threatening trans people. JKR threatened to bankrupt them, so they retracted it. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mafq8...

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mk @mlkurcz.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Chicago style, no hot dog, remove the sport peppers before eating RIP Portillo’s veggie dogs: I don’t want a plant-based hot dog, I want toppings and a pickle

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

According to the most rigorous studies, 10.8% of college men perpetrate at least one rape before graduation. This statistic always comes to mind when I see men in power reacting with disgust to the idea that one of their peers could face even a shred of accountability.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

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To the Trans Girl Who Just Lost at the Supreme Court: So Did I 26 Years Ago

A letter to Becky Pepper Jackson about her trans sports case defeat at SCOTUS yesterday

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mk @mlkurcz.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The way the whole room burst out laughing was amazing 😂 Some people could never be librarians- and that’s ok, but know that we pros weed for excellent reasons!

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Anyone who says these positions - which merely recognize the basic humanity of other people - are extreme positions is saying that there’s some people they’d like to kill, preferably at a distance, by paperwork and someone not making a living wage.

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Universal human rights - including for trans people, women, Palestinians, Jews, disabled people, immigrants, Black and brown people - is not an extreme position. Eliminating death from poverty and a broken healthcare system is not an extreme position.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 23/06/2026

This statement is extraordinary and it makes me feel both sick to my stomach, knowing what has happened to him, and deeply sorrowful.

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mk @mlkurcz.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Helpful! Especially for someone playing less attention to coaches across the league. Also hopeful! That list of coaches per team made me think of @hockeyviz.com shift charts. Has anyone made something similar tracking coaching movements over the years?

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J. Anderson Coats (she/her) @jandersoncoats.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Graphic novels turn kids into lifelong readers. They challenge readers, transform reluctant readers into readers, they bring joy. They boost vocabulary, increase reading comprehension for brains that take in information differently. They tell a story. Graphic novels are real reading, real books ✨📚😊

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Maria W. Norris @mariawnorris.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The connection between misogyny and extremist violence is clear and well-researched. And yet, not a single counterterrorism intervention in the whole history of the War on Terror has addressed this. 5\

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Maria W. Norris @mariawnorris.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Hi, expert on far-right extremism here, a history of domestic violence and misogyny is one of the strongest predictive variables for violent extremism, especially on the right. We've been raising the alarm on this for DECADES but no one cares.

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Omar @tictactomar.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Nylander and Knies were Leafs fans that night (via youtube.com/watch?v=EpsA...)

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

People who do not have children were once children and are thus capable of giving good parenting advice

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Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

THIS IS AMAZING. PEOPLE WANTED TO HEAR THE BANNED MUSIC SO BAD THEY LEANED AGAINST THE CHURCH WALL TO HEAR IT.

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Alison Macrina @flexlibris.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

we heard you hate AI, so at LFP we've been making resources for turning off AI features across the web. but we also don't think AI problems can be solved at an individual level, so we included some of our fav tools for community resistance as well. more to download free at libraryfreedom.org

LFP avoiding AI flyer. Screen readable PDF at https://libraryfreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/lfp-avoiding-ai-popular-websites.pdf

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/05/2026

Trevor Project released its annual LGBTQ youth mental health report. The results are shocking. 40% of trans youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year. Trans youth who wanted hormones but couldn’t access them were nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide than those who could.

Key findings from The 2025 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People include:

36% of LGBTQ+ young people seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year, including 40% of transgender and nonbinary young people.
1 in 10 LGBTQ+ young people attempted suicide in the past year.
44% of LGBTQ+ young people who wanted mental health care in the past year were not able to get it.
90% of LGBTQ+ young people said recent anti-LGBTQ+ laws, policies and debates caused them stress or anxiety.
LGBTQ+ young people of color attempted suicide at higher rates than their White peers, and nearly a third (32%) also experienced racial or ethnic discrimination, in addition to anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination.
Transgender and nonbinary young people who wanted hormones but couldn’t access them were nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide than those who could.
Over half (59%) of LGBTQ+ young people ages 13-17 experienced bullying in the past year, and those who did reported significantly higher rates of attempting suicide in the past year than their peers.
LGBTQ+ young people who reported living in very accepting communities attempted suicide at less than a third of the rate of those who reported living in very unaccepting communities.

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Jack Phoenix (a comics librarian) @comicslibrarian.com · 23/04/2026

Today is Take Action for #libraries Day in the US, part of National Library Week, and World Book Day. 📚 Today is a perfect to contact Congress and tell them to oppose the dangerous HR 7661 and support the freedom to read.

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 21/04/2026

Library workers are a special kind of civil servant. Our mandate is to give you and everyone else free access to some of the best things you can have: learning, self-enrichment, community, contemplation, fun, and simple peace and quiet. the best way to appreciate us is to come use us. 🙂 📚

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.” Originally made as a screen print in 1990, we now offer this thought-provoking poster digitally printed on heavy cover stock.

A vertical screen print style poster in red, yellow and black, featuring the quote by Dom Helder Camara: "When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." The edges of the poster show a packed village with small houses, and a road leading to skyscrapers in the far background. A red sun in the upper right shines its long yellow rays across the image.

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E z r a @bruit.eurosky.social · 19/04/2026

YOU LIKE PEOPLE YOU LIKE BOOKS BE A LIBRARIAN (may 1945)

a poster with a drawing of a person wearing a dress and another wearing pants under a sign that reads "your future"

it's an ad for the Uof T library school, the caption reads "you like people you like books be a librarian"

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Chicago Boycotts Fascism @teslatakedownchi.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

We won. Tesla Chicago is closed. Their new location is in a ghost town. They sacrificed visibility to thousands/day--& proximity to the other luxury car dealerships--to get away from us, because we'd turned their brand ambassador location into a liability. Organizing works. @teslatakedown.com

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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Glorious Sunrise. This morning in Chicago on the last Sunday of March 2026.

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Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Occupation is strongest when it is normalized. They are not trying to terrorize you (unless you’re a target) at the airport because the point is to normalize their presence and occupation.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 25/03/2026

I'm not sure we have a more explicit example of an artist who said "hey, if you give me any money I will definitely go hurt this small group of people with it, so.... money please??" Some situations have nuance. She smashed all nuance with a sledgehammer years ago.

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Abolish social media @webstarvancity.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Heroes don't wear capes anymore - they wear pink headbands now.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/03/2026

Emily Tucker, the Executive Director of @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social, remains stellar and GOATed. medium.com/center-on-pr...

I was not surprised to learn that I Georgetown, like most American colleges and universities, has succumbed to the pressure to appear part of the “AI” in-crowd (and to the temptation of the resources being made available to those in that crowd). But even though everything I have done in my professional life has been in some way based on the expectation that institutions will tend towards corruption, corrosion and capture, when I think about what this particular instance of that phenomenon signifies for you, the students of Georgetown, I feel very sad and angry. And I decided that the best thing to do with that sadness and anger would be to write to you all directly about why this decision by your university, which may seem on the surface to be an example of garden variety corporate thoughtlessness, should disturb you deeply, and provoke you to fight back.

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

We need to think bigger than ‘what if we leave the causes in place then try to mitigate the problems?’

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13/03/2026

“Defund was ineffective” yeah that’s why a new US President at the height of their political capital decided they had to respond directly to it, even before addressing the guy who tried to have half of Congress killed.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13/03/2026

“Fund the police” was Biden’s *applause* line in his first joint address to Congress. It was written to echo LBJ saying “we shall overcome” in his joint address as a lifeline to a movement under attack. I really don’t bring it up enough.

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