Olde Scot
@oldscot1.bsky.social
arts, words, environment
Yearning for, working for: social progress, civility, maturity, education.
recent books read:
How Children Learn, John Holt
How Children Fail, John Holt
Yearning for, working for: social progress, civility, maturity, education.
recent books read:
How Children Learn, John Holt
How Children Fail, John Holt
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Charlie Kirk. What a weird guy. 🤣🤣
June 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Charlie Kirk. What a weird guy. 🤣🤣
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A radical Christian just murdered the speaker of a state house but the real worry is the theocratic muslim who said the bus should be cheaper
June 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
A radical Christian just murdered the speaker of a state house but the real worry is the theocratic muslim who said the bus should be cheaper
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“I have no doubt that, if judges must allow the Executive to act unlawfully in some circumstances, as the Court concludes today, executive lawlessness will flourish..."
@pemalevy.bsky.social unpacks KBJ's dire warning to the nation following today's Supreme Court rulings:
@pemalevy.bsky.social unpacks KBJ's dire warning to the nation following today's Supreme Court rulings:
“Disaster looms”: Justice Jackson’s warning for the country
The Supreme Court allows presidents to do what judges have ruled illegal.
www.motherjones.com
June 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“I have no doubt that, if judges must allow the Executive to act unlawfully in some circumstances, as the Court concludes today, executive lawlessness will flourish..."
@pemalevy.bsky.social unpacks KBJ's dire warning to the nation following today's Supreme Court rulings:
@pemalevy.bsky.social unpacks KBJ's dire warning to the nation following today's Supreme Court rulings:
Yes, this is what's happening. But, it's hard to know how 50 states, each with their own identity and history and attitudes, each built upon stolen or cheaply-bought land, could ever possibly unite in any real sense. The United States has always been a pipe dream built upon dust.
So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?
June 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Yes, this is what's happening. But, it's hard to know how 50 states, each with their own identity and history and attitudes, each built upon stolen or cheaply-bought land, could ever possibly unite in any real sense. The United States has always been a pipe dream built upon dust.
#books #GOP #fascism
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Everyone please start saving correct information. Sure, screenshot and archive. Beyond that, go old school. Encyclopedias? Dust them off. Libraries? Volunteer, give them solidarity, protect them. Books? Get them, read them, keep them. The crackdown on free thought has begun.
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Everyone please start saving correct information. Sure, screenshot and archive. Beyond that, go old school. Encyclopedias? Dust them off. Libraries? Volunteer, give them solidarity, protect them. Books? Get them, read them, keep them. The crackdown on free thought has begun.
March 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
March 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
#writers #writing #books #reading #AI #copyright #intellectualproperty #piracy
WRITERS. BE AWARE.
(and readers too.)
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WRITERS. BE AWARE.
(and readers too.)
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LibGen has pirated all our books and Meta is now using them to train its AI model with ‘high quality writing’. Because, you know, it’s free. This is so messed up. (All my books are on there).
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
#writers #writing #books #reading #AI #copyright #intellectualproperty #piracy
WRITERS. BE AWARE.
(and readers too.)
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WRITERS. BE AWARE.
(and readers too.)
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#protest #planet #environment #goodtrouble
media won't cover these fantastic people
🤔 cannot imagine why 🤔 /s
@planetoverprofit.org is very Good Trouble.
vids here www.instagram.com/pop4climate/...
please follow, support, join if you can 💙
media won't cover these fantastic people
🤔 cannot imagine why 🤔 /s
@planetoverprofit.org is very Good Trouble.
vids here www.instagram.com/pop4climate/...
please follow, support, join if you can 💙
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March 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
#protest #planet #environment #goodtrouble
media won't cover these fantastic people
🤔 cannot imagine why 🤔 /s
@planetoverprofit.org is very Good Trouble.
vids here www.instagram.com/pop4climate/...
please follow, support, join if you can 💙
media won't cover these fantastic people
🤔 cannot imagine why 🤔 /s
@planetoverprofit.org is very Good Trouble.
vids here www.instagram.com/pop4climate/...
please follow, support, join if you can 💙
#art #artist #beauty #oilpainting
amid the terribles we are living through, hang on to beauty
Gaston Sébire
Blick aufs Meer
oil on canvas
amid the terribles we are living through, hang on to beauty
Gaston Sébire
Blick aufs Meer
oil on canvas
March 20, 2025 at 12:54 PM
#art #artist #beauty #oilpainting
amid the terribles we are living through, hang on to beauty
Gaston Sébire
Blick aufs Meer
oil on canvas
amid the terribles we are living through, hang on to beauty
Gaston Sébire
Blick aufs Meer
oil on canvas
March 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
#SocialSecurity #Musk #DOGE
Money is circular. Social Security is earned. Recipients spend it back out into the economy. Many people I know won't be able to pay their rent or mortgage, keep a car going, eat properly. Big pins pulled out of the economy. Along with abusive cruelty, this is the goal.
Money is circular. Social Security is earned. Recipients spend it back out into the economy. Many people I know won't be able to pay their rent or mortgage, keep a car going, eat properly. Big pins pulled out of the economy. Along with abusive cruelty, this is the goal.
March 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
#SocialSecurity #Musk #DOGE
Money is circular. Social Security is earned. Recipients spend it back out into the economy. Many people I know won't be able to pay their rent or mortgage, keep a car going, eat properly. Big pins pulled out of the economy. Along with abusive cruelty, this is the goal.
Money is circular. Social Security is earned. Recipients spend it back out into the economy. Many people I know won't be able to pay their rent or mortgage, keep a car going, eat properly. Big pins pulled out of the economy. Along with abusive cruelty, this is the goal.
March 19, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (08/1842–03/1924 Publisher, journalist, civil rights leader, suffragist, abolitionist. Editor of the Woman's Era, the 1st National Newspaper published by & for Black women. With Julia Howe and Lucy Stone formed the American Woman Suffrage Assoc. (AWSA) in Boston(1869).
March 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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For those of you who can,
Please support your local bookshops.
They pay their taxes and support our communities.
And don't squander profits on big boy toys.
@bookcornerhx.bsky.social
@kennysbookshop.bsky.social
@bookshop-org.bsky.social
@forumbooks.bsky.social
Please support your local bookshops.
They pay their taxes and support our communities.
And don't squander profits on big boy toys.
@bookcornerhx.bsky.social
@kennysbookshop.bsky.social
@bookshop-org.bsky.social
@forumbooks.bsky.social
March 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
For those of you who can,
Please support your local bookshops.
They pay their taxes and support our communities.
And don't squander profits on big boy toys.
@bookcornerhx.bsky.social
@kennysbookshop.bsky.social
@bookshop-org.bsky.social
@forumbooks.bsky.social
Please support your local bookshops.
They pay their taxes and support our communities.
And don't squander profits on big boy toys.
@bookcornerhx.bsky.social
@kennysbookshop.bsky.social
@bookshop-org.bsky.social
@forumbooks.bsky.social
#music #protest #resist #resistance
LET'S WORK TOGETHER.
The great Wilbert Harrison reworked his "Let's Stick Together" to this social protest stand. Hear the words. Hear the call.
"Come on now people let's get on the ball."
Let's GO.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wSV...
LET'S WORK TOGETHER.
The great Wilbert Harrison reworked his "Let's Stick Together" to this social protest stand. Hear the words. Hear the call.
"Come on now people let's get on the ball."
Let's GO.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wSV...
Google Search
www.google.com
March 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
#music #protest #resist #resistance
LET'S WORK TOGETHER.
The great Wilbert Harrison reworked his "Let's Stick Together" to this social protest stand. Hear the words. Hear the call.
"Come on now people let's get on the ball."
Let's GO.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wSV...
LET'S WORK TOGETHER.
The great Wilbert Harrison reworked his "Let's Stick Together" to this social protest stand. Hear the words. Hear the call.
"Come on now people let's get on the ball."
Let's GO.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wSV...
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#DOGE #Musk #abuse #heartbreak
I won't give specifics, but my work often involves people who were already having some life struggles. Just finished a phone call from one whose life is being destroyed, as we speak, by DOGE. 💔 Thank you, bluesky peeps, for the solidarity. Helps keep me going. 💔
I won't give specifics, but my work often involves people who were already having some life struggles. Just finished a phone call from one whose life is being destroyed, as we speak, by DOGE. 💔 Thank you, bluesky peeps, for the solidarity. Helps keep me going. 💔
March 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
#DOGE #Musk #abuse #heartbreak
I won't give specifics, but my work often involves people who were already having some life struggles. Just finished a phone call from one whose life is being destroyed, as we speak, by DOGE. 💔 Thank you, bluesky peeps, for the solidarity. Helps keep me going. 💔
I won't give specifics, but my work often involves people who were already having some life struggles. Just finished a phone call from one whose life is being destroyed, as we speak, by DOGE. 💔 Thank you, bluesky peeps, for the solidarity. Helps keep me going. 💔
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'Poppy' c.1852 by Anna Atkins, UK pioneer in botany and photography whose photographs created by cyanotype process were among the first ever to be published #womensart
March 19, 2025 at 6:23 AM
'Poppy' c.1852 by Anna Atkins, UK pioneer in botany and photography whose photographs created by cyanotype process were among the first ever to be published #womensart
Picked this up on the way out of my local bookstore today and was happy to hear it's been flying out the door.
March 19, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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The employees who attempted to stop Musk staffers at the U.S. African Development Foundation have been placed on administrative leave “effective immediately.” The email also stated that during the administrative leave, USADF employees are prohibited from
March 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The employees who attempted to stop Musk staffers at the U.S. African Development Foundation have been placed on administrative leave “effective immediately.” The email also stated that during the administrative leave, USADF employees are prohibited from
This must be expanded to weeks until the Nazis resign and the EOs are voided. And there's restoration of fed jobs, data and funding. And all election deniers are fired so we can call for new elections 🔥‼️🔥‼️🔥‼️
March 18, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
freedom.press
March 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.