Kirsti
@kst.bsky.social
Librarian. Geek. Music is life. I block early & often. “Always fight for the user, never for the system.”— Cory Doctorow.
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Ages ago, Sociological Images wrote about this. It included an overhead view of the distance between the bus stop & the main entrance.
Anyone who can't walk more than a full block carrying all their purchases (and possibly kids) is going to need to drive.
thesocietypages.org/socimages/20...
Anyone who can't walk more than a full block carrying all their purchases (and possibly kids) is going to need to drive.
thesocietypages.org/socimages/20...
November 24, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Ages ago, Sociological Images wrote about this. It included an overhead view of the distance between the bus stop & the main entrance.
Anyone who can't walk more than a full block carrying all their purchases (and possibly kids) is going to need to drive.
thesocietypages.org/socimages/20...
Anyone who can't walk more than a full block carrying all their purchases (and possibly kids) is going to need to drive.
thesocietypages.org/socimages/20...
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MLK, a whole reverend, has a day and a street in almost every city named after him here and yet everyone knows they don’t mean that kind of Christian.
The Ohio House voted to pass a bill that would require public schools and public universities to teach the positive impacts of Judeo-Christian religion on American history during Wednesday’s House session. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/19/o...
Ohio House passes bill to mandate schools teach positive impacts of religion on American history • Ohio Capital Journal
The Ohio House voted to pass a bill that would require public schools and public universities to teach positive impacts of religion on American history during Wednesday’s House session.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:40 AM
MLK, a whole reverend, has a day and a street in almost every city named after him here and yet everyone knows they don’t mean that kind of Christian.
It's only the Welsh seals who can sing in 4-part harmony. Scottish & Irish seals can't.
Incredible footage has been captured of seals hauntingly singing in a cave in west Wales.... This is believed to be a world first where seals have been recorded singing in harmony.
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 AM
It's only the Welsh seals who can sing in 4-part harmony. Scottish & Irish seals can't.
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That story about how Kash Patel is using SWAT teams to do his security and take care of his girlfriend made me think about how one of the roles of Pinochet’s security detail was to protect the dictator from flying fruit.
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 AM
That story about how Kash Patel is using SWAT teams to do his security and take care of his girlfriend made me think about how one of the roles of Pinochet’s security detail was to protect the dictator from flying fruit.
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Salish Sea-area folks, here's one for us to take care of! He has disabilities so needs a particular kind of home, but sounds like he would be good for a quiet, solo-pet setting.
Ready to add a little purr to your life? Say hello to, Kain, located in Sultan, WA.
Learn more: https://www.petfinder.com/cat/kain-78053761/wa/sultan/pasados-safe-haven-wa167/
Learn more: https://www.petfinder.com/cat/kain-78053761/wa/sultan/pasados-safe-haven-wa167/
November 24, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Salish Sea-area folks, here's one for us to take care of! He has disabilities so needs a particular kind of home, but sounds like he would be good for a quiet, solo-pet setting.
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If you can afford to donate to the pirate site, you can afford to buy my books
November 24, 2025 at 5:56 AM
If you can afford to donate to the pirate site, you can afford to buy my books
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Look, I am very small potatoes as an author. I make too little in royalties to live off them. But I can tell you the reason I got to write my 2nd book was bc the sales of the 1st were very good. That's what else you're eating into by pirating, our ability to keep writing what you claim to love.
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Look, I am very small potatoes as an author. I make too little in royalties to live off them. But I can tell you the reason I got to write my 2nd book was bc the sales of the 1st were very good. That's what else you're eating into by pirating, our ability to keep writing what you claim to love.
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I'd never heard of this site until tonight. Both my books are on there. Did you know my publisher offers one of three lowest royalty rates in the entire industry? And that I didn't get an advance? Literally all I make is from royalties. Royalties I don't earn when you pirate my book.
I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me.
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕
November 24, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I'd never heard of this site until tonight. Both my books are on there. Did you know my publisher offers one of three lowest royalty rates in the entire industry? And that I didn't get an advance? Literally all I make is from royalties. Royalties I don't earn when you pirate my book.
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Engaging in malicious compliance to teach interfaith political organizing during the Civil Rights Movement and reading Letter from a Birmingham Jail to highlight King’s criticism of southern white Christians for abandoning their Black co-religionists.
The Ohio House voted to pass a bill that would require public schools and public universities to teach the positive impacts of Judeo-Christian religion on American history during Wednesday’s House session. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/19/o...
Ohio House passes bill to mandate schools teach positive impacts of religion on American history • Ohio Capital Journal
The Ohio House voted to pass a bill that would require public schools and public universities to teach positive impacts of religion on American history during Wednesday’s House session.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Engaging in malicious compliance to teach interfaith political organizing during the Civil Rights Movement and reading Letter from a Birmingham Jail to highlight King’s criticism of southern white Christians for abandoning their Black co-religionists.
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For ebooks $2.99-$9.99, pretty much everyone pays around 70%. Amazon math is a little tricky over $9.99 for independent authors, but most of us know how to price so we get the proper royalty.
For under $2.99 it varies a lot more, but assume 35-40% range.
For under $2.99 it varies a lot more, but assume 35-40% range.
November 24, 2025 at 4:49 AM
For ebooks $2.99-$9.99, pretty much everyone pays around 70%. Amazon math is a little tricky over $9.99 for independent authors, but most of us know how to price so we get the proper royalty.
For under $2.99 it varies a lot more, but assume 35-40% range.
For under $2.99 it varies a lot more, but assume 35-40% range.
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I did a thread a few weeks ago of "authors link your stuff" & one of my author friends who is one emergency away from being homeless had a massive spike in downloads on Anna's Archive from people *who follow me* complaining about how they are poor & should be allowed to steal from other poor people
November 24, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I did a thread a few weeks ago of "authors link your stuff" & one of my author friends who is one emergency away from being homeless had a massive spike in downloads on Anna's Archive from people *who follow me* complaining about how they are poor & should be allowed to steal from other poor people
Don't be a dick. Don't pirate authors' works. If you truly can't afford it, ask your library to buy it & borrow from them.
"Fuck Amazon, it's not like they aren't screwing over authors!!"
Amazon pays me 70% royalties on ebooks. You downloading my shit from Anna's pays me *nothing* you dumbass little shit.
"I'm so poor" - And? A bunch of you are steal from my poor friends who are struggling to buy groceries, too.
Amazon pays me 70% royalties on ebooks. You downloading my shit from Anna's pays me *nothing* you dumbass little shit.
"I'm so poor" - And? A bunch of you are steal from my poor friends who are struggling to buy groceries, too.
November 24, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Don't be a dick. Don't pirate authors' works. If you truly can't afford it, ask your library to buy it & borrow from them.
Ooo!
It's TOMORROW.
Imani Perry and Tananarive Due discuss a titan of Afrofuturist fiction, Octavie E. Butler, and her masterwork,
"Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy". My favorite is"Dawn"
Mon, Nov 24 from 6- 7pm EST
Online, Free
Imani Perry and Tananarive Due discuss a titan of Afrofuturist fiction, Octavie E. Butler, and her masterwork,
"Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy". My favorite is"Dawn"
Mon, Nov 24 from 6- 7pm EST
Online, Free
Next Monday, 11/24, two celebrated writers and scholars explore the craft and influence of Octavia E. Butler. Join @imaniperry.bsky.social and @tananarivedue.bsky.social for an evening dedicated to the revered SFF author’s luminous imagination. RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
November 24, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Ooo!
Got to recommend Parable of the Sower to one of the bike store employees when I picked up my ebike today.
November 24, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Got to recommend Parable of the Sower to one of the bike store employees when I picked up my ebike today.
celebrating picking up my ebike with a pot of "besos de cacao" (black tea with cacao nibs) & chai molasses cookies from Friday Afternoon Tea.
November 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
celebrating picking up my ebike with a pot of "besos de cacao" (black tea with cacao nibs) & chai molasses cookies from Friday Afternoon Tea.
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‘REMOVED : BLACK ERASURE IN BOSTON’, a feature length doc by Sabrina Salvati shows history of structural racism perpetuated against Black Americans in Boston.
Recent efforts by @mayorwu.boston.gov to demolish and privatize White Stadium in Franklin Park is how gentrification is alive in Boston.
Recent efforts by @mayorwu.boston.gov to demolish and privatize White Stadium in Franklin Park is how gentrification is alive in Boston.
REMOVED: BLACK ERASURE IN BOSTON | FULL DOCUMENTARY
YouTube video by Sabby Sabs
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
‘REMOVED : BLACK ERASURE IN BOSTON’, a feature length doc by Sabrina Salvati shows history of structural racism perpetuated against Black Americans in Boston.
Recent efforts by @mayorwu.boston.gov to demolish and privatize White Stadium in Franklin Park is how gentrification is alive in Boston.
Recent efforts by @mayorwu.boston.gov to demolish and privatize White Stadium in Franklin Park is how gentrification is alive in Boston.
One of the struggles I have with Spouse & Kid is that they have very different ways of interacting with people than I do. I love being able to invite lots of people to my house for parties & holidays. I wanted a 3-bedroom place so we could host exchange/international students.
November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
One of the struggles I have with Spouse & Kid is that they have very different ways of interacting with people than I do. I love being able to invite lots of people to my house for parties & holidays. I wanted a 3-bedroom place so we could host exchange/international students.
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Incidentally, have you ever looked up “American Think Tanks” on Wikipedia because there are really a lot of them, and most of them seem to be based around pushing right wing politics in various ways
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
List of think tanks in the United States - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Incidentally, have you ever looked up “American Think Tanks” on Wikipedia because there are really a lot of them, and most of them seem to be based around pushing right wing politics in various ways
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
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maybe Thanksgiving is a meal where everything evolves into dessert. like crabs.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
maybe Thanksgiving is a meal where everything evolves into dessert. like crabs.
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When the sun was setting, but before the clouds got gorgeous, the light would sometimes catch on the birds' undersides and wingtips and I almost died of happiness. #birds
November 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
When the sun was setting, but before the clouds got gorgeous, the light would sometimes catch on the birds' undersides and wingtips and I almost died of happiness. #birds
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Today, a #WomenInSTEM thread dedicated to engineers
Li Fu Lee (1904 – 1985) was a Chinese engineer and teacher known for being the first Chinese woman to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Her attendance starting in 1925 was reported by numerous media outlets.
Here at the MIT's radio experiment station, 1925
Her attendance starting in 1925 was reported by numerous media outlets.
Here at the MIT's radio experiment station, 1925
November 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Today, a #WomenInSTEM thread dedicated to engineers
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At www.landgrabu.org you can search by nations affected, universities benefitted, or land parcels themselves.
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
At www.landgrabu.org you can search by nations affected, universities benefitted, or land parcels themselves.
"Today, more than 500,000 acres unwillingly donated by tribal nations to land-grant colleges remain held in trust for at least 12 universities. In fiscal year 2019 alone, those lands produced more than $5.4 million in revenue for colleges."
Since we're posting about American ag schools & extension services, it's a good time to revisit the astonishingly vast and excellent work that Bobby Lee, Tristan Ahtone, and their team did with the Land-Grab U project.
You can trace every US land-grant parcel sale to the people it was stolen from!
You can trace every US land-grant parcel sale to the people it was stolen from!
Land-grab universities - High Country News
Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.
www.hcn.org
November 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
"Today, more than 500,000 acres unwillingly donated by tribal nations to land-grant colleges remain held in trust for at least 12 universities. In fiscal year 2019 alone, those lands produced more than $5.4 million in revenue for colleges."
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Ag science supported by the Extension Service took food costs as a percentage of income from over 40% in the early 20th century to around 10% by the end.
the economic success of the U.S. is significantly built on the land grant universities and in particular their excellent agricultural science tradition.
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
November 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Ag science supported by the Extension Service took food costs as a percentage of income from over 40% in the early 20th century to around 10% by the end.
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That turkey will either give you a quest, or a curse, and it could go either way.
Friend: You're just paranoid. There isn't a turkey stalking you.
Me: Maybe you're right.
Turkey hen on my roof: *just standing there, menacingly*
Me: Maybe you're right.
Turkey hen on my roof: *just standing there, menacingly*
November 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
That turkey will either give you a quest, or a curse, and it could go either way.