WHEN WE FREE THE WORLD is a powerful documentary film about manhood in the U.S., thru the lens of 70 Black male voices across 5 generations, from teens to 90-somethings. It explores manhood, fatherhood, history, education, violence in all forms, healing, hip-hop, mental health, and hope. #BlackSky

If you're at all interested, Mary Shelley's father, William Godwin wrote the novel CALEB WILLIAMS, a kind of proto-thriller which is also about the unjustness of power structures. He wrote several other novels, but this is the only one that has remained more or less constantly in print.

Rani Gaidinliu (1915–1993) was a Naga spiritual & freedom fighter, political leader who led a revolt against British rule in India. She was 16 when she was arrested & sentenced to life imprisonment, released in 1947 after India's Independence. Here she is in one of the coolest post stamps I've seen.

The way in which certain countries have made an enduring annual ritual of remembering two specific wars is also a way for them to ignore all the terrible, dubious wars since and their own disgraceful track record in them.

This did in fact age well.

one fun thing that happened at the meeting today is that i got to see the only manuscript chapters of Little Women known to exist 📚

What if instead of Cyber Monday (aka Daddy Bezos Day), we did a Support Indie Media Monday? What are your favorite indie publications? Who are some of your favorite freelance and indie reporters and commentators? Can we make this a thing?

This is someone who was reading fantasy when I was reading fantasy. Great thread. The thread *does* say, but I want to highlight: I read A LOT of fantasy and science fiction written by women in the 1980s and 1990s. Let's not forget this exists. You can still find it — and you should! #SFFLove

On Thursday Catholics will return to ICE for a prayer witness and Eucharistic procession outside of the ICE Field Office in Philadelphia as part of a national Catholic campaign calling people of faith to publicly demonstrate solidarity with migrant families, asylum seekers, and refugees: 1family.us

I am *very* glad that we covered WA voters’ complete rejection of anti-trans attacks by conservative candidates. In fact, standing against anti-trans attacks is correlated with Dem over-performance in swing districts!

Some things in the movie make more sense after reading the Wikipedia article on the events leading up the the siege of Otrar. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otrar_C...

Check online to see if your ballot has been counted, and if not, see if it's possible to cure. info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

At the Beacon to see a Kazakh movie about Gengis Khan's invasion of Otrar (in what was once the Persian Empire). I think I'm the only person here with 2 X chromosomes.

Reading for researchers: The original post in this thread features a perspective piece encouraging researchers to look at the role of emotion in the spread of disinformation. The one directly below is an empirical study showing how outrage fuels the spread of misinformation online.

If a word has some letters replaced with asterisks, this could confuse people. This includes people with cognitive and reading disabilities, and those learning the language. Screen reader users won't necessarily know what the word is meant to be, as it could sound like gibberish.

Just got a frantic call from my Greek grandmother, who was turned away at the post office trying to mail my kid a birthday present. Turns out the US’s de minimis change means they won’t ship anything to the US larger than a letter. www.elta.gr/en/epistoles...

Look at it like this: a $5 contribution gets +$41 in donations from matchers, then that now-$46 gets another +$46 in matches from LA Brian And that combined $92 all-up donation buys 3 full bags of groceries! 🔥 bsky.app/profile/nark...

*** 11th ANNUAL BULL CITY FOODRAISER FUNDRAISING THREAD *** It's that time again! 🦃 For the 11th year in a row, we need your help providing groceries to 5,100+ schoolkids! ➡️ GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/11th-annua... ➡️ PPGF: www.paypal.com/US/fundraise... (Plus other donation options in thread!)

Really helpful thread as I get ready for my ebike

If you are at #COP30 hear the Finnish story of increasing wind power on land, heat pumps (also at industrial scale) and the electrification of the public transport system. Be critical of land use, bioenergy and our weak efforts at reducing emissions in the burden-sharing sector (cars).

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It’s difficult to underestimate the extra burden that this is placing on our public libraries. For example, on a daily basis library workers are now filling the in-person/human service gap that billion euro banking institutions have abdicated from to maximise their profit margins.

Rauw Alejandro Celebrates Bomba, Puerto Rico’s Vibrant Folklore in ‘Besito en la Frente’ Film www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Bankrupting consulting firms may be the unexpected big win for AI that we will all root for..

I’ve been voting since I could. I’ve never seen it reduce harm in any meaningful way because the system is not designed for our wellbeing. Voting for a lesser evil as the thing I have to do on the regular to keep people safe is not acceptable to me. I demand better for us.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Kicking in the doors of daycares is a great way to turn wine moms into molotov cocktail moms.

Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons. "ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

There are a couple of friends I wish were still alive so I could share this with them.

Speaking of things that are giving me hope and life right now, this book feels so much more essential than when I first heard it was happening. I feel so grateful that this exists.

"So, 7 hours for sewing, 72 for weaving, 500 for spinning, or 579 hours total to make one shirt. At minimum wage - $7.25 an hour - that shirt would cost $4,197.25."

Dying laughing 🤣

@aarongoings.bsky.social - Do you know about this movie? Set in the logging communities of early 20th century Washington State.

article is a year old and im not sure if the exhibit is ongoing, but im still fascinated by it... THE BLACK HOME AS PUBLIC ART (an exhibit at ut austin) bustler.net/news/10036/t...

Come for the stories, stay for the limericks. bsky.app/profile/bisc...

If being straight is just natural, why are there so many rules?

just a tremendous irony here, given that adoptees are given fabricated documents making them “as if born” to their adopters, but intercountry adoptees do not have birthright citizenship. 🥚

Excellent to see pluralistic languages and welcome to country being shown and explained on Disney's Shipwreck Hunters tv show. Absolutely confounding to see local Indigenous language not translated in subtitles and listed generically as "foreign language". 100% sure they're not the foreigners.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

There we go. That's the one.

A friend's late Halloween party is tonight. I'm going as Yayoi Kusama's sticker room-- with stickers for friends to put on me.

lastly,

This frog

One of the books that's been really meaningful to me in the last few years has been Josh Tuininga's graphic novel "We Are Not Strangers", which was based on the real life story of his Sephardic great grandfather supporting Japanese American friends during the Incarceration.

That explains so much in my life

One takeaway from this excellent essay is that we can’t let news organizations get away with “critics say” framing anymore. Either name the critic and clearly explain their critique, or just write the biased oped you’re obviously dying to write.

Kudos to the @seattletimes.com for spelling with diacritical marks used in the Hawaiian language, the ʻokina and the kahakō. A few years ago, when I asked the NY Times to spell my affiliation as University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, they refused because it went against their style guide.

Oh, I'm thinking the Archdiocese of Chicago is gonna see them in court.

Rising Voices teamed up with Wikimedia Ireland Community for a one-day workshop to create a roadmap for the Irish language online.