Gabby
@books-and-baking.bsky.social
Adult Student + Future Librarian
Mom of 2
Sourdough Baker and Fantasy Lover
Mom of 2
Sourdough Baker and Fantasy Lover
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You know where you can go and not worry about breaking the economic blackout today?
Your local library! All those books and you won’t spend a penny!
Your local library! All those books and you won’t spend a penny!
February 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
You know where you can go and not worry about breaking the economic blackout today?
Your local library! All those books and you won’t spend a penny!
Your local library! All those books and you won’t spend a penny!
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ANYWAY, did you know there's an extension you can put on Chrome that will connect with your local library system and when you go look at a book, say on AMZ, it will tell you if that book exists in the library system and if it's available?
It's literally called Library Extension.
It's literally called Library Extension.
February 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
ANYWAY, did you know there's an extension you can put on Chrome that will connect with your local library system and when you go look at a book, say on AMZ, it will tell you if that book exists in the library system and if it's available?
It's literally called Library Extension.
It's literally called Library Extension.
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repeating myself a bit here but trump can issue an executive order but that doesn’t necessarily mean shit if it doesn’t have a firm statutory basis. if congress lays out in law what the duties of a particular official are, then no, the president can’t decide those duties are something else
Trump official announces that Trump has signed an executive order claiming that only the president can speak for “what the law is”
(This is not how the Constitution works)
(This is not how the Constitution works)
February 19, 2025 at 12:09 AM
repeating myself a bit here but trump can issue an executive order but that doesn’t necessarily mean shit if it doesn’t have a firm statutory basis. if congress lays out in law what the duties of a particular official are, then no, the president can’t decide those duties are something else
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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
clarksvillenow.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
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Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990.
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth
February 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990.
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth
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Do not mess with librarians. They let complete strangers borrow their books. For a living. Even the hardcovers. They are so much stronger than you know.
February 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Do not mess with librarians. They let complete strangers borrow their books. For a living. Even the hardcovers. They are so much stronger than you know.
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Fuck, when the object of my deepest political enmity, Mitch McConnell, is on the right side of history over unqualified power grabs, I can hear the band playing as the Titanic sinks.
February 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Fuck, when the object of my deepest political enmity, Mitch McConnell, is on the right side of history over unqualified power grabs, I can hear the band playing as the Titanic sinks.
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‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson
February 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson
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The YA publishing crisis isn’t that we need more mature YA books or a Mature YA label, it’s that we need more YA books published for teens of all ages and less YA books published as YA but also wanting to reach Adult audiences. Adults have plenty of books published for them.
February 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The YA publishing crisis isn’t that we need more mature YA books or a Mature YA label, it’s that we need more YA books published for teens of all ages and less YA books published as YA but also wanting to reach Adult audiences. Adults have plenty of books published for them.
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One way to resist? Read more, use the library, buy from local bookstores, post reviews, talk about the books you're reading, read banned books. Anything to do with reading, and books, they seem to hate. Stay educated, and continue reading.
#BookSky #ReadBannedBooks #ReadMoreBooks
#BookSky #ReadBannedBooks #ReadMoreBooks
January 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
One way to resist? Read more, use the library, buy from local bookstores, post reviews, talk about the books you're reading, read banned books. Anything to do with reading, and books, they seem to hate. Stay educated, and continue reading.
#BookSky #ReadBannedBooks #ReadMoreBooks
#BookSky #ReadBannedBooks #ReadMoreBooks
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Are you or your work in TB affected by recent US govt actions? Click 👇 to systematically document these experiences that waste US taxpayer $: stop-work, aid freezes, expiring medications,
unrealized waivers of exception. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
unrealized waivers of exception. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
February 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Are you or your work in TB affected by recent US govt actions? Click 👇 to systematically document these experiences that waste US taxpayer $: stop-work, aid freezes, expiring medications,
unrealized waivers of exception. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
unrealized waivers of exception. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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🔴CALLING ALL ARTISTS🔴
Christie's NYC is planning an AI art auction expected to bring in over $600,000 to creators who've used models trained on copyrighted material from non-consenting artists.
If you object to this, please sign and share this open letter.
openletter.earth/cancel-the-c...
Christie's NYC is planning an AI art auction expected to bring in over $600,000 to creators who've used models trained on copyrighted material from non-consenting artists.
If you object to this, please sign and share this open letter.
openletter.earth/cancel-the-c...
February 8, 2025 at 1:54 AM
🔴CALLING ALL ARTISTS🔴
Christie's NYC is planning an AI art auction expected to bring in over $600,000 to creators who've used models trained on copyrighted material from non-consenting artists.
If you object to this, please sign and share this open letter.
openletter.earth/cancel-the-c...
Christie's NYC is planning an AI art auction expected to bring in over $600,000 to creators who've used models trained on copyrighted material from non-consenting artists.
If you object to this, please sign and share this open letter.
openletter.earth/cancel-the-c...
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February 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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"The Goose Girl" is a deeply weird fairy tale, involving identity theft and horrific punishment--let's consider some intriguing fresh takes on the Grimms' grisly original and its archaic assumptions!
reactormag.com/stolen-ident...
reactormag.com/stolen-ident...
Stolen Identities and Class Conflict: Six Savvy Retellings of “The Goose Girl” - Reactor
New perspectives on one of the Grimms' weirder tales...
reactormag.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"The Goose Girl" is a deeply weird fairy tale, involving identity theft and horrific punishment--let's consider some intriguing fresh takes on the Grimms' grisly original and its archaic assumptions!
reactormag.com/stolen-ident...
reactormag.com/stolen-ident...
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The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.”
Huge.
Huge.
Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the US. The decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders.
Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US
The Thomson Reuters decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders.
wrd.cm
February 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.”
Huge.
Huge.
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sorry, this is the gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...
Opinion | Trump’s War on D.E.I. Is Really a War on Civil Rights (Gift Article)
The genius of the right-wing crusade against D.E.I. is that the term is amorphous enough that it can mean many different things to many different people.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
sorry, this is the gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...
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"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation."
(gift link)
(gift link)
Opinion | Trump’s War on D.E.I. Is Really a War on Civil Rights
The genius of the right-wing crusade against D.E.I. is that the term is amorphous enough that it can mean many different things to many different people.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation."
(gift link)
(gift link)
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People who are telling you that there's a lot of fraud in Medicaid are lying to you in order to try to convince you to support taking healthcare away from children on dialysis.
Because the only way to convince enough normal people to harm disabled children is by lying.
Because the only way to convince enough normal people to harm disabled children is by lying.
February 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM
People who are telling you that there's a lot of fraud in Medicaid are lying to you in order to try to convince you to support taking healthcare away from children on dialysis.
Because the only way to convince enough normal people to harm disabled children is by lying.
Because the only way to convince enough normal people to harm disabled children is by lying.
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I think it's worth repeating plainly that a federal judge halted Musk's federal funding freeze nearly two weeks ago but funds are still very much being frozen in violation of the court order.
February 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I think it's worth repeating plainly that a federal judge halted Musk's federal funding freeze nearly two weeks ago but funds are still very much being frozen in violation of the court order.
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This is a really nice, simple distillation of the vital role NOAA and the NWS play and how private companies cannot replace what they do.
Why Private Forecasting Companies Can’t Replace the National Weather Service
NOAA and the NWS provide public weather data that private companies cannot recreate
www.scientificamerican.com
February 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
This is a really nice, simple distillation of the vital role NOAA and the NWS play and how private companies cannot replace what they do.
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in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?
Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.
February 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?
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Recent executive actions from the current administration undo crucial ocean conservation measures. ⬇️🧵⬇️
bit.ly/42Kyxth
bit.ly/42Kyxth
February 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Recent executive actions from the current administration undo crucial ocean conservation measures. ⬇️🧵⬇️
bit.ly/42Kyxth
bit.ly/42Kyxth
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A “stand up to hate” ad on Fox. Spectacular gaslighting
February 10, 2025 at 12:26 AM
A “stand up to hate” ad on Fox. Spectacular gaslighting
Taking a break from school work to get started on this! @kaysynclaire.bsky.social #booksky
February 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Taking a break from school work to get started on this! @kaysynclaire.bsky.social #booksky