Welcome to the public domain, A FAREWELL TO ARMS (1929) by Ernest Hemingway. 💔📖 This classic novel of love and loss is set against the backdrop of World War I. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/w... #InternetArchive #PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay

Since 2004, Internet Archive has collaborated with a group of libraries and research organizations on the End of Term Web Archive. 💾 Learn more about the effort: eotarchive.org

Congrats "THE WAYBACK MACHINE" by Diego Diaz & Can Sark (57s clip)⁠ Honorable Mention of the Internet Archive's 2025 Public Domain Day Film Remix Contest.⁠ ⁠ Explores the Internet Archive & the near-infinity of copyright. More: https://archive.org/details/2025-public-domain-day-film-contest

-Introducing the concept of co-regulating -modeling healthy self regulation - Giving them sensory and somatic alternative regulating tools to try

One of our biggest preservation projects to date: partnering with Aruba on Collecion Aruba, which provides free access to historical materials and cultural treasures—available on archive.org. More projects like this are possible with your support: https://archive.org/donate/?origin=blsky-eoy2024

America circa 2024 in two headlines

Side steppung the Luigi of it all. Its more than just the insurance industry that desperately want to make an example out of him to discourage dissent of the system. If the USA moves to universal healthcare employers lose one of their biggest bargaining chips: workers wont have to stay for insurance

This year, we worked swiftly to save legacy media sites Vice.com and MTVNews before decades worth of valuable journalism could be erased. These sites are now searchable on the Wayback Machine! Help us in saving these resources:: https://archive.org/donate/?origin=blsky-eoy2024

Another factor in selecting a Luigi Mangione jury. If the Feds seek the death penalty, they’ll be entitled to a “death-qualified” jury. Jurors who won’t say they’d impose death in an appropriate case will be excluded. That will skew the panel deciding his guilt. Doesn’t apply to the state case.

Health insurance leaders allegedly pressured the DOJ into bringing federal charges against Luigi Mangione. Top 3 DOJ officials all collected paychecks from healthcare companies before serving in government.

Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄🎉

Here's every device/version used, including a sweater by @spacecoyotl.bsky.social and a pin from @fangamer.com!

At the scene of the Amazon strike: The NYPD has now erected barricades to allow Amazon contractors to enter and leave the distribution center, helping Amazon break the picket line.

A federal judge has struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing so-called “harmful” materials to minors

Greene County, Miss., has seen the state’s first case of the bird flu in commercial poultry since spring 2023 after a commercial breeder’s chicken flock tested positive for H5N1 avian influenza, the Mississippi Board of Animal Health reported on Dec. 23.

Nonprofit Explorer is one of our most popular databases @propublica.org. Now, we've added the ability to find nonprofits that auditors have flagged as having serious financial or control deficiencies as well as organizations that have reported significant theft: www.propublica.org/article/prop...

NEW: When you sign up for Disney+ & Uber, you’re tricked into signing away rights you never knew you had. Buried deep in your terms of service is a “forced arbitration clause.” It takes away your right to bring corporations to court — and lets them get away with harming you. youtu.be/IEXT-TrKGNA

Yo y'all really be in relationships with people y'all don't like. That's crazy and I want y'all to do better in 2025

For years, former Black Panthers have feared that the FBI is still keeping tabs on them decades after its notorious COINTELPRO program. Malik Rahim had never been able to prove he was targeted. Now, government docs show he was correct.

Explaining to my three year old that Elmo has to go away because he wasn't providing enough value to shareholders. My son turns to me and says "while I personally enjoy Sesame Street I understand that corporations must put their obligations to shareholders above consumer demands."

The WITCH HEAD NEBULA

Vanishing tech is one of the oddest problems in historical preservation... the 20th century saw a mass proliferation in means to record so much of existence from every day ordinary to the epic yet that evidence of events is vanishing for myriad reasons... which is why the Internet Archive matters.

No paywall: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Major health insurance companies take down leadership pages following murder of United Healthcare CEO

Being poor is expensive.

New vid from from @propublica.org's Corey Johnson: At least 10 gun industry businesses secretly handed over customers’ names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcjW...

"The contest between incumbent Justice Jim Kitchens and Senator Jenifer Branning represents more than a judicial race – it embodies the system that imprisoned (Curtis) Flowers for over two decades," Duvalier Malone writes.

I think people saying that bluesky is boring don’t know how much of a good thing that is. You should be so bored by social media that you return to your daily tasks, not doomscrolling and raising your blood pressure over pixelated morons.

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Hey guys!! I'm late to my own party because I'm catching up with work, but Dagger to the Heart is finally available to read on Webtoon!!! 🎉🎉 This is a passion project for me and I really poured my heart into bringing everything to life. I hope you enjoy it!!!! 💗💗💗 t.ly/xI1Eu

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Apparently there's some hot takes going around and I'm feeling spicy so... Reading = interpretation of text Listening = interpretation of sound. Human brains have two separate parts dedicated to the intrinsic ability to interpret and create language. There is no such area for the ability to read.

Testing out this starter pack thing by making one for Black Tech peeps. go.bsky.app/2RAbS3g

Some genuinely terrible people whining about the "block culture" here on Bluesky is how you know the block culture is working, keep blocking those genuinely terrible people, folks, soon the only people they'll be able to bother here is each other

Betty BOOP. #art

Currently reading this. There are so many "good" quotes to pull from it. And by "good" I mean "oh shit we have to do something about this before it's too late".

🧵WHAT IS HAPPENING ON VALENCIA AND HOW YOU CAN HELP: #ArtistsForValencia We’re a group of artists mostly from Valencia, where recent TORRENTIAL RAINS and FLOODS from the DANA storm have devastated entire neighborhoods, leaving many people with nothing. Please share! + info:

#Vote #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024

When I’m sharing art or something here I feel like an animal crossing villager sharing the cool bug I caught

Now that this app is becoming more popular, there has unfortunately been an influx of right wing accounts I highly recommend subscribing to this blocklist if you want to avoid this type of content bsky.app/profile/did:...

looking for a way to find any #Procreate or #ClipStudioPaint brushes/materials shared on BlueSky? check out the “Procreate Brushes & More” and “CSP Brushes & Assets” feeds to find new materials to try or have your own stuff featured using any of the tracked tags for either feed. links below! ⬇️

hey babe, wake up. new version of the research paper by @martin.kleppmann.com & @pfrazee.com about bsky just dropped arxiv.org/abs/2402.03239

@breezycheezyart.bsky.social whats good nerd?

Omg ive only been here for like 2 minutes and its already so much better here holy shit! THERE'S A MOD SYSTEM!! #BlackSky where my people at?