@marchek.bsky.social
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A library's entire board of trustees was fired and replaced because they refused to ban one of my books. It's so terrible. www.randolphhub.com/article/news...
Commissioners vote 3-2 to dismiss Library Board of Trustees
<p>How the Library Board voted to handle a controversial children's book led to a majority decision by commissioners to dismiss the whole board.</p>
www.randolphhub.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
A library's entire board of trustees was fired and replaced because they refused to ban one of my books. It's so terrible. www.randolphhub.com/article/news...
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Ohio! (positive)
An out nonbinary candidate just won a seat in their ruby-red Ohio town by 13 votes. They didn’t believe it, either.
thebuckeyeflame.com/2025/12/09/g...
thebuckeyeflame.com/2025/12/09/g...
An out nonbinary candidate just won a seat in their ruby-red Ohio town by 13 votes. They didn’t believe it, either.
Gie May thought their race would help show Wadsworth that other candidates existed besides Republicans. Turns out, voters wanted more than that.
thebuckeyeflame.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Ohio! (positive)
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Yo. YOOOOOOOO.
Eileen Higgins becomes Miami’s first Democratic mayor in 30 years
In stunning upset victory, Higgins also becomes first woman in post and first non-Hispanic candidate since 90s
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Yo. YOOOOOOOO.
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December 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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The John Adams Society began quietly excluding women from membership this semester, former and prospective affiliates told The Crimson. It is now effectively functioning as a single-sex organization.
@abbysgerstein and @JackBReardon report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
@abbysgerstein and @JackBReardon report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
‘For the Reinvention of Man’: How a Conservative Debating Society at Harvard Pushed Women From Its Ranks | News | The Harvard Crimson
The John Adams Society began quietly excluding women from membership this semester, former and prospective affiliates told The Crimson. It is now effectively functioning as a single-sex organization.
www.thecrimson.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The John Adams Society began quietly excluding women from membership this semester, former and prospective affiliates told The Crimson. It is now effectively functioning as a single-sex organization.
@abbysgerstein and @JackBReardon report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
@abbysgerstein and @JackBReardon report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
I was supposed to make a vegan gingerbread for the office party on Wed. I used the correct margarine and egg replacer and then because I'm tired and on autopilot I added a real f'ing egg 🤬
I don't have the time or ingredients to start again so we'll be coming up with a plan B tomorrow.
I don't have the time or ingredients to start again so we'll be coming up with a plan B tomorrow.
December 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I was supposed to make a vegan gingerbread for the office party on Wed. I used the correct margarine and egg replacer and then because I'm tired and on autopilot I added a real f'ing egg 🤬
I don't have the time or ingredients to start again so we'll be coming up with a plan B tomorrow.
I don't have the time or ingredients to start again so we'll be coming up with a plan B tomorrow.
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AI is not ensouled. None of it. Just because the people using it are creative and capable of projection and yearning does not ensoul a machine, a text prediction engine, or even a fictional character (and AI is as a concept a fictional character created by tech assholes).
December 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
AI is not ensouled. None of it. Just because the people using it are creative and capable of projection and yearning does not ensoul a machine, a text prediction engine, or even a fictional character (and AI is as a concept a fictional character created by tech assholes).
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Let me just say: I have run more than a dozen marathons and an ultramarathon and I have worked 13-hour days in a cornfield in the scorching-ass sun, and none of those things broke me like breastfeeding.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Let me just say: I have run more than a dozen marathons and an ultramarathon and I have worked 13-hour days in a cornfield in the scorching-ass sun, and none of those things broke me like breastfeeding.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
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I know more than one person who has been hospitalized with shingles and if I could have gotten someone to give me the vaccine I would already have it.
December 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I know more than one person who has been hospitalized with shingles and if I could have gotten someone to give me the vaccine I would already have it.
Please pray that on this cold, dark, windy night I do not exhaustedly get on the wrong express bus to the Bronx. . . again.
December 8, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Please pray that on this cold, dark, windy night I do not exhaustedly get on the wrong express bus to the Bronx. . . again.
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Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
Important notice: AI-generated archival references
www.icrc.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
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People don't understand what is meant by "literacy" and the "literacy crisis".
Literacy isn't just not being able to physically read. Many people know how to see words and say words, which is basic reading. Literacy is being able to infer the correct information from what you read.
Literacy isn't just not being able to physically read. Many people know how to see words and say words, which is basic reading. Literacy is being able to infer the correct information from what you read.
October 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
People don't understand what is meant by "literacy" and the "literacy crisis".
Literacy isn't just not being able to physically read. Many people know how to see words and say words, which is basic reading. Literacy is being able to infer the correct information from what you read.
Literacy isn't just not being able to physically read. Many people know how to see words and say words, which is basic reading. Literacy is being able to infer the correct information from what you read.
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"I'll burn down your house" - legally actionable, boring, common
"I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you
"I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you
December 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM
"I'll burn down your house" - legally actionable, boring, common
"I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you
"I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you
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Live in New York?
Paying too much for healthcare?
Want guaranteed coverage for medical, dental, hearing, vision, long term care and prescriptions — with no copays, premiums or deductibles?
Click to tell your legislators to pass the NY Health Act 👇🏻
nyhcampaign.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/peti...
Paying too much for healthcare?
Want guaranteed coverage for medical, dental, hearing, vision, long term care and prescriptions — with no copays, premiums or deductibles?
Click to tell your legislators to pass the NY Health Act 👇🏻
nyhcampaign.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/peti...
Protect our healthcare by passing the New York Health Act | Campaign for New York Health Powerbase
nyhcampaign.ourpowerbase.net
December 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Live in New York?
Paying too much for healthcare?
Want guaranteed coverage for medical, dental, hearing, vision, long term care and prescriptions — with no copays, premiums or deductibles?
Click to tell your legislators to pass the NY Health Act 👇🏻
nyhcampaign.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/peti...
Paying too much for healthcare?
Want guaranteed coverage for medical, dental, hearing, vision, long term care and prescriptions — with no copays, premiums or deductibles?
Click to tell your legislators to pass the NY Health Act 👇🏻
nyhcampaign.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/peti...
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If you're looking for a payroll service, and are looking at Wave, DO NOT.
Look anywhere else. Hiring a necromancer to resurrect an accountant from 1902 is a better choice.
They
1. Failed to pay my state withholding taxes
2. Failed to file returns
3. AFTER TAKING THE MONEY FROM MY ACCOUNT
Look anywhere else. Hiring a necromancer to resurrect an accountant from 1902 is a better choice.
They
1. Failed to pay my state withholding taxes
2. Failed to file returns
3. AFTER TAKING THE MONEY FROM MY ACCOUNT
December 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
If you're looking for a payroll service, and are looking at Wave, DO NOT.
Look anywhere else. Hiring a necromancer to resurrect an accountant from 1902 is a better choice.
They
1. Failed to pay my state withholding taxes
2. Failed to file returns
3. AFTER TAKING THE MONEY FROM MY ACCOUNT
Look anywhere else. Hiring a necromancer to resurrect an accountant from 1902 is a better choice.
They
1. Failed to pay my state withholding taxes
2. Failed to file returns
3. AFTER TAKING THE MONEY FROM MY ACCOUNT
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Nice to have an actual leader stepping up.
Watch this to get a handle on the visual difference between an actual warrant signed by a judge and the crap ICE waives around and lies about.
Your safety and the safety of your neighbors depends on it.
Watch this to get a handle on the visual difference between an actual warrant signed by a judge and the crap ICE waives around and lies about.
Your safety and the safety of your neighbors depends on it.
Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
December 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Nice to have an actual leader stepping up.
Watch this to get a handle on the visual difference between an actual warrant signed by a judge and the crap ICE waives around and lies about.
Your safety and the safety of your neighbors depends on it.
Watch this to get a handle on the visual difference between an actual warrant signed by a judge and the crap ICE waives around and lies about.
Your safety and the safety of your neighbors depends on it.
I HAVE BEEN DEEMED ELIGIBLE TO VOTE IN THE UPCOMING UNION ELECTION AT WORK!!!
www.instagram.com/metunion?igs...
www.instagram.com/metunion?igs...
December 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I HAVE BEEN DEEMED ELIGIBLE TO VOTE IN THE UPCOMING UNION ELECTION AT WORK!!!
www.instagram.com/metunion?igs...
www.instagram.com/metunion?igs...
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Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.
www.dailynebraskan.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
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I wouldn't necessarily have predicted that this one story would get to me more than many others, but I feel heartsick.
Every married woman who takes her husband's last name has changed their legal name. Legal name changes aren't a matter of opinion - Rachel is her name.
Every married woman who takes her husband's last name has changed their legal name. Legal name changes aren't a matter of opinion - Rachel is her name.
They went in and replaced Rachel Levine's name with her deadname in her official portrait- during the shutdown- because they are cowards and the cruelty is the point www.npr.org/sections/sho...
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
www.npr.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I wouldn't necessarily have predicted that this one story would get to me more than many others, but I feel heartsick.
Every married woman who takes her husband's last name has changed their legal name. Legal name changes aren't a matter of opinion - Rachel is her name.
Every married woman who takes her husband's last name has changed their legal name. Legal name changes aren't a matter of opinion - Rachel is her name.
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Nazi shit. Right here. Right now.
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Nazi shit. Right here. Right now.
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This so obviously violates the constitution that I feel like taking it up can only mean bad things.
Overturning birthright citizenship will create stateless people pretty much immediately. After that, it will be a path for yanking away citizenship of non-white people and any and all dissidents.
Overturning birthright citizenship will create stateless people pretty much immediately. After that, it will be a path for yanking away citizenship of non-white people and any and all dissidents.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court will decide whether President Trump's birthright citizenship order violates the Constitution.
The Supreme Court will decide whether Trump's birthright citizenship order violates the Constitution
The Supreme Court has agreed to take up the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s order on birthright citizenship.
bit.ly
December 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This so obviously violates the constitution that I feel like taking it up can only mean bad things.
Overturning birthright citizenship will create stateless people pretty much immediately. After that, it will be a path for yanking away citizenship of non-white people and any and all dissidents.
Overturning birthright citizenship will create stateless people pretty much immediately. After that, it will be a path for yanking away citizenship of non-white people and any and all dissidents.
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"the USPS is a miracle. it's in the constitution. for the price of a single stamp you can send a letter across the country, from Hawaii to Maine. Trump is trying to take that away from you. He's attacking Christmas cards and wedding invitations. It's un-American and it has to stop."
February 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
"the USPS is a miracle. it's in the constitution. for the price of a single stamp you can send a letter across the country, from Hawaii to Maine. Trump is trying to take that away from you. He's attacking Christmas cards and wedding invitations. It's un-American and it has to stop."
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Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge’s name was good upon ’Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was dead.
December 2, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge’s name was good upon ’Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was dead.
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I realize everyone knows this, but you'll note that what he saw was two survivors trying to flip a boat over.
Which is a thing literally fucking anyone in a shipwreck would do.
The other stuff he said was fanfic he made up about them.
Which is a thing literally fucking anyone in a shipwreck would do.
The other stuff he said was fanfic he made up about them.
Q: What did you see in the second strike?
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
December 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I realize everyone knows this, but you'll note that what he saw was two survivors trying to flip a boat over.
Which is a thing literally fucking anyone in a shipwreck would do.
The other stuff he said was fanfic he made up about them.
Which is a thing literally fucking anyone in a shipwreck would do.
The other stuff he said was fanfic he made up about them.
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This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
December 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.