NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month. This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory! Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

People, if you’re in a position to deny services to ICE/ICE cosplayers, CBP, US Marshals, bounty hunters - anyone abducting people or assisting in kidnappings - do it! Not one bottle of water, not one slice of pizza…and no restroom keys. No hotel rooms either. #OurStreets

A great overview on what to expect from the CDC vaccine meeting tomorrow and Friday. Pay special attention to the playbook at the end — every single one of those tactics is likely to be used and is easily recognizable if you know what to look for. yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/what-to-ex...

I got offered a LOT of money to host an official HP podcast and turned it down immediately. I’m assuming since I am not a podcaster that they have an extremely long list of people who have also said no to this. Dunno what‘s going on with the actors but the comics are holding the line lol

I remember my mother, who was then my Girl Scout leader, asking the troop: "When can you lose your American citizenship?" We made multiple good guesses until "The only way to lose your citizenship is to give it up" was revealed as the answer - as an example of something that made America great.

Still annoyed at @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social for not supporting this case but great result. maybe on the inevitable appeal…. bsky.app/profile/jare...

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

The Mapping Black Language project is working to document how Black Americans speak, and how their language shifts and varies—and they’re looking for people to interview

Rand Paul just posted this letter from the Coast Guard confirming that 1/4 of the boats they stop carry no contraband. The likelihood that Hegseth & Bradley ordered the murder of innocent civilians is very high.

A razor close finish in _this_ Tennessee district, of all places, is a God-awful night for the GOP. Don’t let anyone persuade you otherwise.

Link to strike fund in the next post

#DragonAscendant is the first English biography in over 130 years, on Japanese 17th century disaster bisexual warlord Date Masamune. From courage in battle to fame in the arts to emissaries sent to Rome, this story is now available end to end in one handy playlist! buff.ly/pBnXesk #Skystorian

#SaveSpeech if you're Canadian, you may have heard about a handful of bills that have free speech and anti-surveillance orgs worried, so ive made a cheat sheet of info about what makes each one worrying! We need to block these bills! please contact your reps! oncanadaproject.ca/findyourrep

started working on my sapphic Sámi women contribution for We've Always Been Here (a queer!) zine by @taplingzines.bsky.social 🥺 here's a crop of what is a much larger painting! I can't wait to get into this <3

firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now (copy paste-able in the alt text)

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

In designing a house, I would simply not enclose my foyer on all sides between my 1) imaginary gourmet kitchen, 2) Master Rûksm, 3) Huge Walk[indecipherable] Closet, and 4) Coat Bath. I would connect the foyer to the exterior of the house. With a door. But I am burdened with practicality and logic.

A Lab Test That Experts Liken to a Witch Trial Is Helping Send Women to Prison for Murder. Story via @propublica.org.

“Republicans will never allow articles of impeachment to be brought to the floor of the House of Representatives, and we know that's the case," Jeffries said at a press conference Monday. Okay but why not…….. try anyway?

NEW TWIST: data centers in farm country may accelerate nitrate contamination from agricultural sources with big implications for public health. Studies are needed to confirm or refute this finding. Lack of transparency, monitoring, regulations makes it tough. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Covid-19 has been linked to cardiovascular complications, but the long-term impacts, particularly for mild infections, are not well understood. A study in Nature Communications demonstrate an increased risk of cardiovascular disease after Covid-19, also among mild cases. #medsky #cardiosky 🧪

i spent a little while going through the AIDS quilt and picked out a few panels that stuck out to me for one reason or another. may the memories of all these beautiful, far too young souls be a blessing.

During promotional visits for her perfume lines, Taylor would quietly visit AIDS hospices. In San Francisco, she asked patients “if she could arrange to have their dogs walked; she asked if she could call their mothers for them or write letters for them.”

ICE raids are cruel, inhumane, and do nothing to serve public safety. My responsibility is to be the mayor to each and every person that calls this city their home. That includes millions of immigrants— of which I am one.

Today, I'm kicking off the Emergency Trans Meal Fund (in beta). In short, if you're a trans hungry person in dire straits, I want to order your dinner. (Limit: 2 per week). Blog with more info: www.patreon.com/posts/announ... Form to request a meal: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Wanted to post these questions here too for my fantasy inclined followers 🤓 Any insight on this would be super appreciated! Regardless of culture, I’d love to hear what you guys think on this

I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30. Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50. I’m 58 now. HIV treatment works. Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex. Ensure HIV treatment for all. End HIV stigma. #WorldAIDSDay

On this day 70 years ago Rosa Parks demonstrated the kind of courage and integrity, in refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, that MAGA leaders and followers can’t fathom — which is why they fear it. We can’t *demand* courage, but we can honour it.

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

“Trish Carter-Goodheart, a Democratic candidate and citizen of the Nez Perce Tribe, spoke plainly: Racism and discrimination remain real and persistent … When the conversation hit a nerve, [the GOP senator] abruptly stormed out, shouting: ‘Why don’t you go back to where you came from?’”

Posting has started from the DMBJ Calendar Project! Pages will be posted daily from the 1st to the 12th, with the full calendar download available on the 12th Daily updates and page links ⬇️ www.tumblr.com/dmbjcalendar #dmbj #盗墓笔记 #dmbjcalendarproject

People on social media may use the term 'memory-holed' a lot but that's because we're trying to draw attention to things like this. Almost everyone I know was against the Iraq war at the time, but it has been memory-holed, because the current custodians of history would prefer it to be forgotten.

ALL you have to do is just not use it, tell these companies you aren't using it, and make fun of people who do. We need a mass collective effort to make genAI extremely uncool, lame, embarrassing, cringe. Everyone needs to react to it with a MOUNTAIN of hostility until they run out of steam.

This! You DON’T HAVE TO USE IT! It’s so easy NOT to use it. They can’t force us to use it. stop rolling over & saying “Well, you just have to get used to it. You can’t stop it”… how’d that work for <insert absolute garbage tech or even any insidious, violent movement (like the NF or N*zis) here>?

Also, complain long and loud, when GenAI screws up your interaction with a company - obtaining/using their products, contacting customer service, whatever. Do this direct and on social media. Employees may well be unable to push back against directives to use this garbage without risking their jobs.

I'm looking for participants for my master's study about transmasc/trans men fans of manga and anime! Please fill out my 10-minute survey: form.jotform.com/253308772919... #transmasc #t4t #ftm #nonbinary #transresearch #transsurvey #nonbinarysurvey #transresearchbytransrsearchers

*looks to camera*

When a travelling doctor questioned why a patient had been receiving dangerous cancer treatments for 11 years, he set off a chain of events that would divide a city and implicate a beloved oncologist in a string of suspicious deaths. (Published Dec. 2024)

If anybody wants to share this on other sites, like tumblr or reddit, it's cool! I'd appreciate a link-back and if you'd let me know so I can see the post, but mostly I have seen people asking "Who do I contact?" and I wanted to get some ideas out there. Also accepting more contact info!

Okay, I spoke with someone, like I do. Amazon Customer Service (1-888-280-4331 in the U.S., [email protected]) directed me that they did not decide what content went up when I called to complain about the AI dub on Banana Fish and other anime. They directed me to contact "the publisher."

missed painting this guy, decided to spend part of my day off doing so🥺 #wwx #guolduart #魔道祖师

What a great headline

“This is what corruption looks like,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett said about a firm with ties to Kristi Noem secretly working on a DHS ad campaign. “They’re stealing money from the American people’s pockets and depositing it into their bank accounts.”

paulette goddard did not put up with chaplin all those years for people to be disrespecting her name

i just go to dio's arrest in the phantom blood manga and nobody fucking told me this post was literally what happened

PJM is the regional grid serving 67 million customers in 13 states

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important. We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

Translation: "If you don't use AI then the guys using our chips can't pretend to make money and can't pay the loans they took out to pay for the original loans they took out for all the money they're not making and it all falls apart and we can't sell chips to fuel the money they're not making."

data centers are driving up electricity prices for households — and price relief may not be coming anytime soon… Residential retail electricity prices in September were up 7.4%, to about 18 cents per kilowatt hour, according the Energy Information Administration... www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/a...

Americans experiencing rolling blackouts over AI is some pure 1980s uncut cyberpunk dystopia