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Please buy books that are coming out this year.
Doesn’t have to be mine. But there is a stellar release calendar this year especially of Black writers and it would be a shame if one of the fascist victories was people not buying those books (from the indies that are in the fight with us). #BookSky
Doesn’t have to be mine. But there is a stellar release calendar this year especially of Black writers and it would be a shame if one of the fascist victories was people not buying those books (from the indies that are in the fight with us). #BookSky
January 30, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Please buy books that are coming out this year.
Doesn’t have to be mine. But there is a stellar release calendar this year especially of Black writers and it would be a shame if one of the fascist victories was people not buying those books (from the indies that are in the fight with us). #BookSky
Doesn’t have to be mine. But there is a stellar release calendar this year especially of Black writers and it would be a shame if one of the fascist victories was people not buying those books (from the indies that are in the fight with us). #BookSky
The quietest of rebellions happens at our desks every day …
Booooooo
Fellow writers: I am deeply saddened to share that if we want the rewards of having written, we must submit to the mortifying ordeal of writing
January 31, 2026 at 6:50 AM
The quietest of rebellions happens at our desks every day …
I do. I also remember that during several decades before this human rights volunteers on the border told everyone that what started w/ violating the rights of profiled “mexicans” (which really meant anyone brown including indigenous people) and it would be anyone next. Very few listened or helped.
Remember when they were chasing Haitians at the border with a rope like a modern day lynch mob?
The ICE agent who shot Renee Good was a former Border Patrol agent. And today's murder was committed by a Border Patrol agent. This is violence and impunity that border communities have known all too well for years.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
I do. I also remember that during several decades before this human rights volunteers on the border told everyone that what started w/ violating the rights of profiled “mexicans” (which really meant anyone brown including indigenous people) and it would be anyone next. Very few listened or helped.
Dionne Warwick is the only thing i miss about twitter
January 21, 2026 at 5:48 AM
Dionne Warwick is the only thing i miss about twitter
I keep running into similar messages on various gov websites. This one in particular is a site i use for two of my classes with projects that integrate learning how to find and use the data to complete the project. So much of our own data and information is being disappeared.
I went to go look for Census data this morning and.... y'all. #econsky
January 20, 2026 at 2:35 PM
I keep running into similar messages on various gov websites. This one in particular is a site i use for two of my classes with projects that integrate learning how to find and use the data to complete the project. So much of our own data and information is being disappeared.
Okay, I am only one episode in but it’s nice to see Lorraine Ashbourne in a lighter role. She hasn’t blackmailed, murdered or cheated anyone (yet).
January 19, 2026 at 2:29 AM
Okay, I am only one episode in but it’s nice to see Lorraine Ashbourne in a lighter role. She hasn’t blackmailed, murdered or cheated anyone (yet).
“Porque la historia enseña algo brutal: sacar al dictador es fácil; construir justicia después, no”
Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
January 3, 2026 at 3:41 PM
“Porque la historia enseña algo brutal: sacar al dictador es fácil; construir justicia después, no”
I don’t believe in much, but I do believe in the power of a dictionary! 😅
Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026.
Let's. Go.
Let's. Go.
January 1, 2026 at 5:47 PM
I don’t believe in much, but I do believe in the power of a dictionary! 😅
Happy holidays to all the librarians around the word that will face requests for nonexistent books in the coming year 🥂😌
#4 sounds like a lovely book but I didn't write it. Have had whānau up and down the country send me clippings lol
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
December 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Happy holidays to all the librarians around the word that will face requests for nonexistent books in the coming year 🥂😌
I’m not into reading challenges or book counts, but i did commit to my TBR pile for winter break & here’s where I am so far. I select books by their cover/title & shop almost exclusively from thrift and indie shop except for what I buy from rare book dealers or bookshop.org
#booksky #readersky
#booksky #readersky
December 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I’m not into reading challenges or book counts, but i did commit to my TBR pile for winter break & here’s where I am so far. I select books by their cover/title & shop almost exclusively from thrift and indie shop except for what I buy from rare book dealers or bookshop.org
#booksky #readersky
#booksky #readersky
Dedicating the next few weeks to reading some offline fiction. Started two new books last night! Still have some work projects (my own fault) but my TBR pile will be my focus. needing creative words to refuel me.
December 21, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Dedicating the next few weeks to reading some offline fiction. Started two new books last night! Still have some work projects (my own fault) but my TBR pile will be my focus. needing creative words to refuel me.
I might be alone on this, but I have no interest in seeing the photos of creepy crimey rapists. Just list the names and the crimes, then convict and be done with it. I don’t want a documentary or a podcast or any other form of media that gives them air space. #thefiles
December 13, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I might be alone on this, but I have no interest in seeing the photos of creepy crimey rapists. Just list the names and the crimes, then convict and be done with it. I don’t want a documentary or a podcast or any other form of media that gives them air space. #thefiles
Today I learned that patients have to “opt in” to AI being used for transcribing medical appointments, or you can’t see a doctor. So it’s not really ‘opting in’ is it??
December 11, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Today I learned that patients have to “opt in” to AI being used for transcribing medical appointments, or you can’t see a doctor. So it’s not really ‘opting in’ is it??
December 8, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Today, just a few days from end of semester, I gathered all my 20+ library books to be returned. I’m ahead of schedule. Now I just need to drag two bags of books up that darn hill 😅
December 8, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Today, just a few days from end of semester, I gathered all my 20+ library books to be returned. I’m ahead of schedule. Now I just need to drag two bags of books up that darn hill 😅
whale
dolphin
pelicans
coyotes
javelina
dolphin
pelicans
coyotes
javelina
in the wild = I was minding my business and came across/was stunned by this animal
November 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
whale
dolphin
pelicans
coyotes
javelina
dolphin
pelicans
coyotes
javelina
I called Clippy “early ai” the other day and my students lost it 🤯
I don’t know what they thought it was that was running it, maybe they imagined a muppet?
I don’t know what they thought it was that was running it, maybe they imagined a muppet?
I can‘t believe that we‘re willingly handing over crucial parts of our workforce, data management and even education to a criminal version of Clippy
November 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I called Clippy “early ai” the other day and my students lost it 🤯
I don’t know what they thought it was that was running it, maybe they imagined a muppet?
I don’t know what they thought it was that was running it, maybe they imagined a muppet?
I am running out of places to acquire supplies for a functional life in this hellscape.
Boycotting what I can on one hand and then losing options for supplies to VC on the other 🫠
Boycotting what I can on one hand and then losing options for supplies to VC on the other 🫠
Private equity firm Sycamore Partners bought Walgreens.
Now Walgreens has stopped giving most workers paid vacation on Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays.
Private equity takeovers are a disaster for workers, and customers.
Now Walgreens has stopped giving most workers paid vacation on Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays.
Private equity takeovers are a disaster for workers, and customers.
November 15, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I am running out of places to acquire supplies for a functional life in this hellscape.
Boycotting what I can on one hand and then losing options for supplies to VC on the other 🫠
Boycotting what I can on one hand and then losing options for supplies to VC on the other 🫠
And often ignores two things: that faculty and staff had to pivot online with virtually no prep time, and that faculty and staff ALSO lived through the effects of the pandemic. It’s not like we were sitting in a safe bunker watching from a safe space - we were there too.
when faculty complain about students, I want to ask them if they factor in pandemic trauma + COVID itself.
Then I recall that we are all pretending that the pandemic is over, and no one needs to worry about COVID anymore, and that I might explode if I have to talk about this once more and keep quiet
Then I recall that we are all pretending that the pandemic is over, and no one needs to worry about COVID anymore, and that I might explode if I have to talk about this once more and keep quiet
Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
November 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
And often ignores two things: that faculty and staff had to pivot online with virtually no prep time, and that faculty and staff ALSO lived through the effects of the pandemic. It’s not like we were sitting in a safe bunker watching from a safe space - we were there too.
I would like to see this in print
November 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I would like to see this in print
Maybe we don’t need the imaginary monsters today they are walking around kidnapping people off the street, and others are both real and virtual real time monsters of a tool that claims to be intelligent.
NEW VIDEO: If monsters reflect the fears of the societies that create them, how might the fears of our world today manifest in monstrous form?
youtu.be/SqE75IlZK9k
youtu.be/SqE75IlZK9k
There Will Always Be Monsters
YouTube video by Andrewism
youtu.be
November 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Maybe we don’t need the imaginary monsters today they are walking around kidnapping people off the street, and others are both real and virtual real time monsters of a tool that claims to be intelligent.
What an extractive and appropriative waste. I hope Baldwin’s ghost and all his ghost friends haunt the techbros forever and they never have a peaceful sleep.
James Baldwin parceled out into AI-selected therapeutic memes, stylized via a typewriter interface: the “people-centered” AI future made possible through $500M in philanthropic funding. Without such technological advancement, we’d have no other means of accessing Baldwin quotations!
Can the James Baldwin Typebot Tell Us the Meaning of Life?
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:21 AM
What an extractive and appropriative waste. I hope Baldwin’s ghost and all his ghost friends haunt the techbros forever and they never have a peaceful sleep.
The number of times I have just walked out of a store for being treated like a thief just for walking in the door 😒
more often than not I will also walk out if I have to have a personal shopper with a key standing next to me the whole time 🙄
more often than not I will also walk out if I have to have a personal shopper with a key standing next to me the whole time 🙄
can't believe outlets are running moral-panic headlines again based on flimsy anecdata from the *same* trade group (the national retailer federation) and sponsored by the *same* anti-theft company (sensormatic) that had to retract this *same* "study" just two years ago for being bogus.
Retailers Dealing With Increasing Levels of Theft and Violence
Report emphasizes importance of preventive measures, coordination with law enforcement
progressivegrocer.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The number of times I have just walked out of a store for being treated like a thief just for walking in the door 😒
more often than not I will also walk out if I have to have a personal shopper with a key standing next to me the whole time 🙄
more often than not I will also walk out if I have to have a personal shopper with a key standing next to me the whole time 🙄
Just ordered my coffee from a small roasting co and given the shipping costs it had better last me the entire winter 😣 (given the economy too!)
November 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Just ordered my coffee from a small roasting co and given the shipping costs it had better last me the entire winter 😣 (given the economy too!)
Developing exhibit of Black history in the southwest and I am in my element with ideas firing 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 It’s not often that I get to flex creative storytelling ideas (between academic bureaucracy and grading). I love my students, but this is some type of fun i haven’t had in a while
October 31, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Developing exhibit of Black history in the southwest and I am in my element with ideas firing 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 It’s not often that I get to flex creative storytelling ideas (between academic bureaucracy and grading). I love my students, but this is some type of fun i haven’t had in a while