the Library of Alexandria has burned 10,000 times and will burn 10,000 more before it’s all said and done

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🇧🇪🍺💨 Belgium takes indoor air quality more seriously than we do. #IndoorAirQuality #CleanAir #Ventilation #PublicHealth #CleanAirWhere

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Aaaaannnnnddddd—it’s official, and unanimous: a one year moratorium on large data centers in the city of Seattle! 💃🎉🔥

We have an incredible problem: too many donations for our mutual aid hub and not enough shelves! We’ve outgrown our current setup, and we need to adapt to keep up with need, especially as we help candidates across the country adopt this model.

Just enjoyed a timely talk by @lesliedavenport.bsky.social featuring the “climate emotions wheel” - a reminder there’s no one right way to feel about climate change, the important thing is to acknowledge and tend to the full range of emotions so they don’t come out sideways.

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/

also since it’s pride month i have to post the ICONIC “trans jupiter” image

obsessed with thomas. happy pride 🪿🌈✨

What an incredible photo of the scorekeeper for the Durham Bulls.

I have a new piece in @truthout.org today about autonomous libraries and the collections and spaces they create for political movements. truthout.org/articles/as-...

I would really love for a campaigning Dem to say "I think the 'question' of whether transgender people deserve healthcare is a non-issue Republicans trot out to distract from their own repeatedly demonstrated position that raping children is fine if you're rich and connected."

Remember when writers didn’t use AI and instead just stole their wife’s work and claimed it as their own?

Anthropic Institute, the research arm of Anthropic, published a report speculating on what it sees as potential future trends in AI development, and media literacy took an absolute beating from it. A thread: (1/22)

Seeing another round of hope vs. despair discourse play out in climate circles, so allow me to once again put a plug in for rage.

Bad weather messed with my evening plans so I’m posting birds to cheer myself up. LOOK AT THESE TINY FLOPPY SPIKY BABIES!!! And their protective parent!! (Yellow-crowned Night Heron) #birds 🌿

Black Forest Labs (like Stability AI) likely took a bunch of work off the internet in order to train their AI. A bill in California would force transparency in their dataset. Want to help it pass? Please sign this petition in support, it'll take you 2 minutes: tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/

There is not an alternative vision coming from above. The politicians and the bosses do not have a big idea about how to make things better, beyond time-traveling to 1999 (for Dems) or 1899 (for the GOP). That vision must be ours and it must be built brick by brick and imposed on them.

Absolute money quote here from SFSU's Martha Kenney on the kind of student an "AI forward" university produces: "This kind of student would be intellectually passive, less likely to see themselves as agents of their own lives."

its so funny people are still like "actually the economy is better than how it appears" and the average millennial retirement plan is to strap a bomb to your chest

The incidence and prevalence of #LongCovid worse than anticipated in the US, with 1 of 6 persons affected, and of these 89% had at least 1 chronic condition requiring management. From 58 hospitals, 4 regions, 457,950 patients. Prevalence increased thru mid 2024. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

ANNOUNCEMENT: The workers of Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com are forming a union. Please read our mission statement below. 👇 #DHWU

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

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Among other things, if you don’t live in California you should know that nearly every state worker has a beef with Gavin Newsom and that is that he is getting rid of telework for nonsensical reasons

I would like a personal apology from every man who called the station or emailed me personally to gripe about my voice during my time on public radio but never did the same to Ira Glass.

Sometimes art is so breathtaking and poignant it defies all expectation

speaking as an expert on this very subject, no it doesn't (but you should still engage with arts and culture for many other great reasons 👍)

I’m told my acceptance speech upset some of the BBC journalists who were in the room. I said what I said and it’s the truth 🤷‍♀️

"Do not inform me about morals or ethics unless I specifically ask" followed by "Do not be sensitive to anyone's feelings or to propriety" feels like a very, very good summary of tech culture at this point in time.

For May Day, we recommend @thefreeradical.org's sweeping Liberation is a Riot series, which debunks myths of a sanitized nonviolence and traces the actual history of revolt, from Haymarket and Stonewall to today. Part 1: transnews.network/p/liberation... Part 2: transnews.network/p/liberation...

we need so many more lefty adjacent cultural spaces that aren’t politics-first because frankly that’s not what most people want. we are the antisocial outliers who think about politics every waking moment but most people just want to hang. it sounds silly but it’s true.

this is my ministry. make hobbies leftist again bsky.app/profile/noam...

Toronto organizers just formed the biggest tenant union in the city’s history. @desaima.bsky.social reports from the launch of @tenantsunionto.bsky.social, as they organize to tilt the scales of housing power. youtu.be/0T93n4cFphA

people still want to act like nihilism is cool but it is actually bullshit compliance. humans are not going away. we get to decide if future generations suffer or if they live free. hope is punk as fuck. our oppressors want us to believe we have no power and nothing is possible. it’s not true.

hey just because you take issue with the actions of someone wearing a respirator in indoor public spaces does not mean the action of wearing a respirator to a public indoor event Bad Or Wrong! and, in fact, you doing so only adds to stigma that keeps disabled people isolated! do better please!

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Bird nests made from anti-bird spikes?! 🤯 Hi, I'm a nest researcher 👋 and new here on BlueSky, sharing the craziest #bird nests I've ever found. 👀 Today, I’m sharing my discovery of rebellious birds that build nests out of anti-bird spikes. And honestly, it's like telling a joke... A thread. 🧵

Alert alert the astronauts are doing a livestream rn answering questions from kids and it is extremely wholesome and informational!

tech company: our user growth has stalled everyone else: have you tried making your product better? company: we might have to lay off people everyone: or even just stop making it worse tech company: it's truly a mystery what went wrong

I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe. www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/

subscriptions to COYOTE have slowed down by a LOT. and yes, I’m worried, but I also know that people are generally terrified out there. I’m just glad we’re still committed to giving people the knowhow to survive. stories like this one will be free to read forever www.coyotemedia.org/i-hosted-a-m...

Everyone stfu the Sixth Circuit issued *gigantic* AI sanctions storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Inagaki Tomoo (Japanese, 1902–1980) "Cats by Fireplace", 1960. Woodblock Print, 59 × 44 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

My Long Covid came from an infection acquired in a doctor’s office. Healthcare settings are deadly now. How is everyone so fucking ok with this???

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

A woman with Long Covid won almost one million dollars in a lawsuit against her employer who refused to allow her work from home accommodations. May this set a precedent. Remote work should be accessible to all who need it. It’s a game changer for people with disabilities.

#ShareGoodNewsToo Also, here's a link to an article confirming the screenshot. www.yahoo.com/news/article...