Optimistic realism. Great thread.

good tweet

You represent public libraries, @libbyapp.com. Please know that everyone who is giving you negative feedback right now FUCKING ADORES PUBLIC LIBRARIES. And the people who most love libraries also hate "A.i." and don't want it in our books. Stand up for us and change this terrible policy.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

This entire thread is utterly delightful.

The relevant fact about Nazis is that they rather famously did not *start out* committing genocide and starting wars, but it *was* the natural endpoint of their stated goals.

I have decided to pair every angry post I make with a concrete action. Join me? Yesterday after watching the despicable behavior of our elected officials towards Zelenskyy, I donated to Ukraine's military effort directly: u24.gov.ua?utm_source=s...

A worthwhile thread of fact checking

It will take every single one.

I can only imagine what Carrie Fisher would let rip in her beautifully, brutally direct way.

Just a reminder that Republicans in Congress have the power to impeach, convict, and remove the President AT ANY TIME and every day they wake up and choose to be cowards and traitors instead.

Beautiful and succinct

In praise of complexity and beauty and all the times they're the same thing. Gate's poem is here. www.davidgatepoet.com/store/p/0vcw...

And these are the billionaires you want running our government?! Billions in wasted money, over and over again. (Making a bad bet in business is not of itself a bad thing. Making repeated bad bets year after year is. It's bad leadership and foolish behavior.)

My nervous system would just like a moment to scream into the void. Thank you.

Reup, for @petebuttigieg.bsky.social's easy linking. Trump Fired Inspectors General Who Identified $183.5 Billion in Waste, Fraud, and Abuse www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/12/t...

"may the forest be with us all" I am dead in the best way. Thank you all for your service!

How many times have I read or narrated this?! Never once did I want to experience it live.

A perennially important reminder

Even if I can't read them all, worth it to check out books like I did in childhood: the max at any given time 😁

At. Gunpoint. Musk is telling duly appointed and security cleared government officials that they will be shot if they don't turn over to Musk sensitive information to which he has no right. In any other country, we'd call it a coup.

"American media would be more clear-eyed about the rise and return of Donald Trump if it was happening overseas in a foreign country, where we’re used to foreign correspondents" www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

It was absolutely meant to be all. This is why raising your voice matters.

To instrumentalize what my sister is saying below: every time someone says DEI say “you mean civil rights?” Every time someone says they are against woke reply “oh so you’re a segregationist!” Words have meaning! Don’t allow that nonsense to stand.

Good morning #booksky Just a friendly reminder that Audible, owned by Amazon/Bezos, supports the tech giant. Libro.fm offers an alternative, letting you buy audiobooks while supporting independent bookstores. Choose where your dollars go and align your listening with your values.

In the years ahead, there will be so much pressure to be casually cruel. To value cruelty, celebrate it, normalize it, excuse it. Choose to be the opposite of that. Compassion has always been radical, but even more so when cruelty soaks into the bones of the culture and corrupts it.

This is horrifying. Especially because what THEY decide is the "appropriate" length of time for your surgery has nothing to do with what your doctor understands it should be.

No local shops is the oligarchs' plan. Resist. Buy local.

Theory: one of the reasons the #StarSpangledBanner is so hard is because it was written before contemporary pop existed, so its huge range and other attributes were more for a choral/classical singer. But today we only ever want to hear it done in a pop styling. Either way, it's brutal.

This is EXCELLENT advice.

A repeat thought, Bluesky, & a Librarian told you this so it must be true 🤣 Audiobooks definitely count as reading (as well as listening). If you've played through an audioook, its perfectly fine to describe that as "I have read [x]" All other forms of assistive software count as reading too 💙📚 👍

This was such a lovely read today. An excellent reminder of one of the best parts of childhood - and why it is so incongruous with the adult world I grew up into here in America. yalereview.org/article/chri...

The Weekend Retreat was such a cool project to be a part of! Thanks for featuring it, Brian!