Dear Hayward fault, seriously, a quake the day before the anniversary?

#TIL that @drewscanlon.bsky.social is the blinking white guy and not ice dancer Charlie White 🤣. In my defense, I’m pretty sure I first saw this gif in ice-skating meme circles back in the day. But hey, he also bikes around the Bay! And is raising money to fight MS.

Felt that one! #earthquake #eastbay #didyoufeelit #elcerrito

I was lucky enough to be at a lunch w CA booksellers in spring 2014. The @greenapplebooks.bsky.social folks were telling me about this cool idea they had for "California Bookstore Day." Fast-forward 11 years and... happy Independent Bookstore Day, everyone! Go show your local indie some love. ❤️📚

I’m the news editor for Chrysalis, and I’d love to get pitches on news stories from trans youth!

Opening Bluesky just now, and the top three trending topics are Pope Francis, WrestleMania, and Pete Hegseth. Please tell me how to watch this epic matchup!

Hi... A beloved member of the Trans Nerd Meet Up community in San Francisco is going thru a rough time and urgently needs money to help with rent and bills. Please help as much as you can — anything helps! <3 And please spread the word! gofund.me/d7e1484a

@booker.senate.gov says plainly that he's doing this because he was challenged by his constituents to rise to the moment. Our calls and emails and faxes and protests, they can all matter.

Cory Booker has just broken Strom Thurmond's record for longest Senate filibuster ever, which stood for 68 years. Thurmond set it objecting to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Booker set it arguing against authoritarianism. May Strom's name be forgotten and his memory erased.

A poem a day, every day in April, plus 20 years of archives! So glad this is still happening. <3

jupiter wishes you a very happy trans day of visibility 🏳️‍⚧️

A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time: Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves. Q: Why are you running away? Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels. Q: But you’re foxes! Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.

Tufts friends, this is important!

Once again, one of the ways to understand what's going on right now is that the Federal government is doing LibsofTikTok stuff, finding individual posts they don't like and deciding that the person who said it needs to be punished.

If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford

Hey Californians, time to support trans kids here at home; call your assembly members and tell them NO on AB 89.

I want us to study the history of resistance to slave catchers right now. I want us to study how slave catchers worked, how they were sanctioned, who paid them, and why they did what they did, right now. I want us to study the hyperlocal and networked ways slave catchers were impeded. Right now.

This is a better shot of the size of the crowd at Powder House Square for Rumeysa Ozturk. Less than 24 hours notice.

A President who disregards Congressional appropriations unifying all federal payments under a single department run by his appointees alone would have total control of the federal purse, capable of punishing or rewarding individuals at will. "Anti-constitutional," as @jamellebouie.net says.

This EO is horrific and unconstitutional and the fact that it does not include a birth certificate as proof of US citizenship is a pretty strong signal about what they think of as the future for birthright citizenship.

WTF. So I've got "AI" stealing my work on one side, and meanwhile it looks like a widely circulated review of my novel was written by a chatbot, featuring COMPLETELY INVENTED SETTINGS, CHARACTERS, and PLOTLINES?

"we take safety very seriously" is the public agency equivalent of "bless your heart"

They're going to kill Libby and all your other library book reading apps, programs funded by Congress which the administration (and certainly not Elon or his teen Nazi psychopath goons) has no power to shut down. Maybe a day to call all your reps again and to demand action

I'm thinking about how two of my books were stolen to help but creative people out of work. I'm thinking about the publishers that have already signed AI contracts. I'm thinking about all the bookstores & authors that rely on Instagram for marketing.

Whenever you get on a plane in the United States, remember that your life is in the hands of air traffic controllers who are being intentionally traumatized.

I SURVIVED THE ST PATRICKS DAY EARTHQUAKE CENTERED NEAR DUBLIN OF 2025

Me: *looks at @hyounpark.bsky.social * was that just an #earthquake? H: "Huh?" earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Had a conversation with someone asking about being able to turn off their lights from in bed when they get rid of their Alexa/Echo, and I discovered to my delight that not only is The Clapper still a thing that exists, there is a BOB ROSS TALKING CLAPPER. www.acehardware.com/departments/...

"But I'm a citizen," you say. "This doesn't apply to me." It's a pretty short step from deporting lawful residents without due process to "show me your papers, you don't LOOK like a real American to ME" on the street.

FWIW for transportation reform advocates who think this stuff isn't connected to your issues (which it absolutely is), this woman was a doctoral student in urban planning.

Sitting in @soleilho.com's Food Writing course this morning discussing the politics and gendering of food as @hels.bsky.social posted this.

And it needs to be tall enough that large vehicles such as SUVs and "light trucks" are forcefully prevented from intruding. We already know heavyweight modern vehicles are more than what *jersey barriers* are able to cope with, let alone speed bumps or curbs.

And people wonder why the current US administration is being so hardcore about going after student protesters and educational institutions.

So many of the problems we find ourselves facing in modern society boil down to convenience, and the systemically-supported middlemen willing to exploit the human desire for convenience.

Also see: last month's desperate deadline to get your Kindle purchases backed up off-device; previous times Amazon removed copies of books you'd purchased from your Kindle library. (Friends who participated in the Amazon boycott last week: hope you're thinking about these kinds of things!)

The library and the post office are the only two systems we have that circulate things widely and to everyone, no matter who they are or what they believe. The library is the only one that, for now, is not forced to pay for itself at point of sale. Attacks on IMLS are attacks on every one of us.

I didn't see that #mundussinecaesaribus tees were being sold until they'd already sold out. (Did I frantically search Tuesday to try to buy one and only find ripoffs? Yep!) But I would TOTALLY BUY TWO (one for me, one for the classicist husband); anybody know how we get on a waitlist or something?

Some of his readers have asked Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social why his technology news site, Tech Dirt, has been covering politics so intensely lately. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w... I cannot recommend Mike's reply enough. It's exactly what readers need to hear, what journalists need to do.

I am exhausted by the argument that buying nothing for a day will do nothing. It is a low-stakes chance for people to decide for themselves whether they are willing to be mildly inconvenienced in solidarity with others. That is the point. It's Day 1 of a Couch to 5k. You're accountable to yourself.

If cargo is more your style, then the Aventon Abound and RadWagon 5 are both good budget options for shorter folks; @baer.bsky.social is my go-to for someone with a short-inseam, and she was able to use the Aventon Abound with reasonable comfort, and I think the RW5 will be similar or better.

“They are the cathedrals of our secular era. They are high among the great accomplishments of our civilization.” Love this @charlescmann.bsky.social ode to the power grid, the public water system, the food supply chain, and the public health system: www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...

Public, so it’s not going to be a full Instagram replacement for me yet, but worth testing :-) anybody else I know betaing it?

they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.

Last year we started a project to download and preserve public data. lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01... Since saving public data is in the news today — but is always needed — let’s talk about what you can do to help.

Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including: - Holocaust Remembrance Day - MLK Day - Juneteenth

1. The executive orders did *not* freeze federal funding. 2. The Monday OMB memo *did* freeze federal funding. 3. OMB rescinded Monday’s memo, thereby rescinding the funding freeze. 4. The EOs (which did not freeze federal funding) are still in effect—and, for these purposes, irrelevant. Sigh.

As with every serious/fatal ped or bicyclist crash, I’m just gutted by Sunday’s tragic but preventable incident where a 66-year old neighbor lost her life. When will we stop elevating driver speed & convenience over life? How can we build a future where 87-year olds have options besides driving?

no human, however media literate, can conceivably digest news at the pace it is being created by the white house

we're in a time where trust is eroding and information can help people make critical choices about their safety, their families, their jobs, and their lives. depending on AI to garner this information is unethical. LLMs are trained on information that isn't current, and it can just make shit up.

If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... They need to hear from you.