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Amyreg
@amyreg.bsky.social
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Children's librarian, mother of 4, You'll hear about lefty politics, SPN, Covid safety and how we do not value fanworks creators enough and need to be giving them both kudos & accolades.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Cal Lane, Canadian trained welder and metal artist, transforms common tools and also industrial steel products into intricate sculptures #WomensArt
Photo of two spades against a white surface, the metal blade part has been cut into lace like patterns
November 26, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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thefourthvine.bsky.social
This is a fantastic idea. Overload the glurge with even more glurge!
monjinator.bsky.social Monj @monjinator.bsky.social · 11h
Someone should be setting up counter content farm networks that just post inane things like “my grocery list: motor oil and live snakes” or “the best pizza topping is straight pins” and see how loud we can make the AI Summaries and inane ChatGPT requests scream
November 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
amyreg.bsky.social
It’s 3 babies now. In Kentucky. likely more places soon. Whooping cough is a terrible way to go 😭😭 Vaccinate. Your. Kids.
elizabethjacobs.bsky.social Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 11h
Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham has just been named as the principal deputy director at the CDC.

Abraham’s accomplishments include banning the health department from promoting vaccines and overseeing the concomitant explosion of whooping cough in the state, which has killed two babies.
Louisiana Department of Health officially ends all vaccine promotion, events WWNO - New Orleans Public Radio | By Rosemary Westwood f in Published February 14, 2025 at 12:18 Louisiana Surgeon General shares vaccine info after 2 babies die from whooping cough WWNO - New Orleans Public Radio | By Rosemary Westwood f in Published March 28, 2025 at 4:31
November 26, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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lameposting.bsky.social
I think Demonschool is a good video game but I think Brandon’s approach to how staff worked together and were credited REALLY deserves a lot of attention. Video game crediting is a stupid black box and transparency will help average people understand these roles.
nathangrayson.bsky.social Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 11h
demonschool credits all 145 people who touched the game over the course of its multi-year dev cycle AND explains what exactly they contributed. the rest of the games industry, which commonly omits people from credits entirely, should be taking notes
November 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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shannonvallor.bsky.social
somebody who is good at the economy please help them budget this, their bullshit factory is dying
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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maggietokudahall.bsky.social
Libraries are free for you to use, serve the public good, are great, support creators financially and, I cannot be clear enough about this-- ARE FREE FOR YOU TO USE-- so pirating books makes you kind of an asshole, not some Marxist revolutionary.

If the book you want isn't there *request it.*
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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emorwee.bsky.social
Highly recommend setting aside some time to read the full investigation into Oregon's AI-fueled toxic drinking water crisis by @rollingstone.com and @thefern.org

It’s one of the most important pieces of accountability reporting I’ve seen this year
‘The precedent is Flint’: How Oregon’s data center boom is supercharging a water crisis | Food and Environment Reporting Network
In the spring of 2022, Jim Doherty kept having the same conversation with folks at the only grocery store in Boardman, his eastern Oregon hometown, or at the grain depot where he picked up food for…
thefern.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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stateofstlouis.bsky.social
Good evening. 🌱 Alstroemeria www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/... bouquet, week three.

Buying fresh flowers for someone special? Highly recommend these. Just keep snipping the ends, providing fresh water every 5 days and they'll last weeks. They come in a variety of colors.
Purple and yellow lily-like flowers in vase
November 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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bloomsgreens.bsky.social
🌱 I need a scream room in the upside bonkers world. Ugh!

Anyway, here are some blanket flowers; still in bloom in late November. I’ll have to plant more of this for next year.🤞
Grid display of the gallarda in bloom.
November 26, 2025 at 1:31 AM
amyreg.bsky.social
Making even a pauper’s living as a writer or artist is brutal. AI steals from them. Pirating is rampant. Buy a book. Leave a review. Let them know their work matters to YOU
moryan.bsky.social Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 6h
I try to make a point to mention that when I give talks lately (& mention it in BID). I am not trying to demoralize folks. Just try to reinforce the idea that the structural problems in creative professions are NOT YOUR FAULT. If you have to do something else to pay bills, that is not *your* fault.
November 26, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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runwithskizzers.bsky.social
This is why we all freak out about theft btw, bc just a few copies can make an actual, real difference. you would be surprised at how few copies someone needs to make it onto a bestseller list
alyssaharad.bsky.social Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 7h
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
blipstress.bsky.social violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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gonebabygone.bsky.social
I really hope we learn exactly how stupid the Bolsonaro rescue efforts were in my lifetime
November 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
The Secretary of Defense, ladies and gentlemen
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
amyreg.bsky.social
lolsob--no wonder these yahoos are cancelling the monthly employment reports
November 25, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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roryblank.bsky.social
Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
a cheese grater that, if viewed from the correct angle, appears to have a friendly, stupid face, an example of Pareidolia
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
amyreg.bsky.social
Horrific injustice--deported to Ghana after 30 years in US at her annual ICE checkin--then kidnapped to Sierra Leone the same country she fled from decades away.
November 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
amyreg.bsky.social
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November 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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newsjennifer.bsky.social
Sinclair is already too big. Plus, the last thing communities need is even more local TV stations spewing lies, conspiracy theories and hyper- partisan, pro trump propaganda.
apnews.com/article/sinc...
Broadcast giant Sinclair makes bid to buy out EW Scripps for $7 per share
Sinclair has submitted a bid to buy out E.W. Scripps for $7 per share, in a deal that could bring further consolidation across America’s local TV news landscape.
apnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
amyreg.bsky.social
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badideas.bsky.social Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 1d
Holy fucking shit the YouTube channel that barfed out the AI Charlie Kirk anthem is now making deepfakes of Usha Vance converting to Christianity
An AI generated Usha Vance sings about Jesus while in the YouTube comments someone writes ‘this is so beautiful I only wish it was real and not fictional’
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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gadyepstein.bsky.social
“We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders,” the masked ICE agents told them www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/i...
"I asked for their names. They didn't give me their full names," Hestmark recalled of the agents. "They didn't show me their badge numbers. They didn't remove their masks. They simply said, 'We have a warrant for his arrest, and they handed me a QR code, and they put my husband in handcuffs. And they took him and said I couldn't follow." "She was just stunned," Paul said. "She kept asking what was wrong, what did we do? We'd done everything right." "We kept asking them if there was something we could do, if there was any way we could keep her from being separated from the family," he continued. We’re just trying to figure out what's happening, and they're just telling us, I'm sorry. We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders."| • "I had to take my baby, our baby, from his crying mother's arms," Paul said. "We were completely shocked, and I feel like we were tricked," Hestmark said. "We went through every possible legal and appropriate channel. We followed the advice of our lawyer. We were told that our case was straight forward." "He just wanted to be part of this country and for us to start our future together. And he wanted to do it… "Tom isn't in the system. I can't find him," Hestmark said. "I can't call him. I can't put money into his account. The lawyer doesn't know how to proceed because he hasn't been charged with anything." Both said their spouses were able to call them Thursday night, and they believed they were still being held in the basement of the federal building as of Friday afternoon. "She said that she was scared. She was anxious, missed her baby. She just wants to come home," Paul said. "She said the agents themselves were in the detention down in the basement of the federal building, saying, What are we doing here? These aren't the sort of people were supposed to be arresting.” "They hadn't given him anything to eat or any information," Hestmark said. "They gave him a mat and a foil blanket to sleep on." As she was detailing his arrest Friday afternoon, Bilger called Hestmark again from detention. She said he told her they had moved him to the Otay Mesa Detention Center and back but he hadn't slept and still hadn't been processed. "My wife's alone and terrified," Paul said. "My baby doesn't have his mom to hold him. I can't work right…
November 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
amyreg.bsky.social
Yes what the actual fuck??
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Is it a 'masculine value' to melt down about some new fake shit every week?
His memo to the House and Senate Armed Services committees argues the Scouts have strayed from their mission to "cultivate masculine values."
November 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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cop-watcher.bsky.social
Is there interest in ordering another round of these stickers? 👀
a sticker on a utility pole with a few raindrops on it. A city skyline out of focus and a park in the background. the sticker has a white background with a black outline that’s reminiscent of a street sign. in highway gothic font it say: PART OF BEING NICE IS BEING MEAN TO FASCISTS in the center is a black power fist icon moving up and to the left. a “POW” cloud sits around it with yellow in the middle and a red outline to show some action.
November 25, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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kristadb1.bsky.social
anyway I opened Canva for the first time in six months and wow, it's gone to shit
November 25, 2025 at 1:25 AM
amyreg.bsky.social
Wtf—30 HOURS and charges??
pressfreedomtracker.us U.S. Press Freedom Tracker @pressfreedomtracker.us · 1d
Freelance photojournalist @davedeckerphoto.bsky.social was arrested while reporting on an immigration protest outside an ICE facility in Miami on Nov. 22.

He was held in custody for 30-plus hours and released with charges of trespassing and resisting an officer.
Photojournalist arrested at Miami immigration protest, gear seized
Freelance photojournalist Dave Decker was arrested by Miami-Dade Sheriff’s deputies while documenting anti-deportation protests outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement …
pressfreedomtracker.us
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM