Matt
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I met with my agent while I was in NYC and asked him how the tariffs would impact book publishing.
"Where does the majority of our wood pulp come from?" he asked.
"Canada."
"And where is the majority of US books printed?"
"China."
Sigh.
"Where does the majority of our wood pulp come from?" he asked.
"Canada."
"And where is the majority of US books printed?"
"China."
Sigh.
April 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I met with my agent while I was in NYC and asked him how the tariffs would impact book publishing.
"Where does the majority of our wood pulp come from?" he asked.
"Canada."
"And where is the majority of US books printed?"
"China."
Sigh.
"Where does the majority of our wood pulp come from?" he asked.
"Canada."
"And where is the majority of US books printed?"
"China."
Sigh.
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Important information from the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library - Central Library team on the impact of President Trump's executive order targeting libraries:
April 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Important information from the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library - Central Library team on the impact of President Trump's executive order targeting libraries:
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What the actual fuck:
March 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
What the actual fuck:
Russell Vought is as anti-American as one can be, and The Heritage Foundation is nothing but guys in suits that wear white hoods on weekends.
March 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Russell Vought is as anti-American as one can be, and The Heritage Foundation is nothing but guys in suits that wear white hoods on weekends.
You know it's Spring in Hamburg when the entire town smells like manure.
March 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
You know it's Spring in Hamburg when the entire town smells like manure.
Primary Chuck Schumer
March 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Primary Chuck Schumer
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Sometimes the simplest picture really does say so much.. so well.
March 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Sometimes the simplest picture really does say so much.. so well.
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There’s no reason to have a Democratic Party if it won’t go to the mat to save the Department of Education. It’s a fundamental belief that children in America deserve better futures. It’s tremendously simple. You cannot continue funding a government that would close this.
The Department of Education will begin sweeping layoffs tonight with about half of its 4,400 employees expected to be let go, sources tell CNN.
Read more: cnn.it/41IhB4h
Read more: cnn.it/41IhB4h
March 12, 2025 at 12:42 AM
There’s no reason to have a Democratic Party if it won’t go to the mat to save the Department of Education. It’s a fundamental belief that children in America deserve better futures. It’s tremendously simple. You cannot continue funding a government that would close this.
As a special education teacher, and actual human being who is capable of empathy, this gives me such a gut-wrenching feeling of offense and anger.
McMahon: I'm so ignorant and ill-informed that I don't even know what IDEA stands for yet I definitely know which 1,800 Department of Education employees need to be immediately fired.
March 12, 2025 at 12:57 AM
As a special education teacher, and actual human being who is capable of empathy, this gives me such a gut-wrenching feeling of offense and anger.
Jokes my students will never get #1.
In one class, I have a Brayden, 2 Aidens, and a Jayden.
When I take attendance I sound like Jerry Lewis.
In one class, I have a Brayden, 2 Aidens, and a Jayden.
When I take attendance I sound like Jerry Lewis.
March 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Jokes my students will never get #1.
In one class, I have a Brayden, 2 Aidens, and a Jayden.
When I take attendance I sound like Jerry Lewis.
In one class, I have a Brayden, 2 Aidens, and a Jayden.
When I take attendance I sound like Jerry Lewis.
Historians will probably call the period of 1991-2025 something like The Triumph of Globalization. Whatever comes next will no doubt be much darker.
March 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Historians will probably call the period of 1991-2025 something like The Triumph of Globalization. Whatever comes next will no doubt be much darker.
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This is NOT what I had in mind when I voted for the man who pretended to work at McDonald's for a day and then drove around in a dump truck. I thought he would continue doing those things, thereby providing valuable services in my community
March 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This is NOT what I had in mind when I voted for the man who pretended to work at McDonald's for a day and then drove around in a dump truck. I thought he would continue doing those things, thereby providing valuable services in my community
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We're gonna move fast and break things. Sometimes we'll make mistakes. If we remove the wrong organ we'll put it back in. We are disrupting surgery
March 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
We're gonna move fast and break things. Sometimes we'll make mistakes. If we remove the wrong organ we'll put it back in. We are disrupting surgery
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Think we’ve forgotten about the time that Elon was booed so badly by fans of Dave Chapelle (of all people) that he locked himself in his office and Twitter employees considered calling the cops to do a wellness check.
What I’m saying is we can go harder.
What I’m saying is we can go harder.
March 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Think we’ve forgotten about the time that Elon was booed so badly by fans of Dave Chapelle (of all people) that he locked himself in his office and Twitter employees considered calling the cops to do a wellness check.
What I’m saying is we can go harder.
What I’m saying is we can go harder.
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i'm proud to announce that i'm running for president in 2028 on a platform of letting the richest man in the world and a bunch of pedophile nazi goblins destroy everything you love for no reason
March 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
i'm proud to announce that i'm running for president in 2028 on a platform of letting the richest man in the world and a bunch of pedophile nazi goblins destroy everything you love for no reason
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Trump Signs Executive Order Making Official Language Of U.S. Remedial English
Trump Signs Executive Order Making Official Language Of U.S. Remedial English
WASHINGTON—In a move designed to promote unity and establish efficiency at the federal level, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday making the nation’s official language remedial Eng...
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February 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Trump Signs Executive Order Making Official Language Of U.S. Remedial English
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There's a reason that AI is so beloved by fascists right now—like fascism, it tempts us to abandon the complexity of the world for the simplicity of power, & to give up the need to do the difficult but necessary work to understand the world by allowing some authority to impose its own understanding
Even though I've turned this "feature" off, this ghostly prompt shows up every time I start a new document in MSWord and each time if fills me afresh with anger that, if my mood is wrong, edges towards rage. If I smash my computer display seeing someday, I blame @microsoft.com CEO Satya Nadella.
February 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
There's a reason that AI is so beloved by fascists right now—like fascism, it tempts us to abandon the complexity of the world for the simplicity of power, & to give up the need to do the difficult but necessary work to understand the world by allowing some authority to impose its own understanding
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This is the coolest thing I've read this week. www.sciencealert.com/we-finally-k...
We Finally Know Why Ancient Roman Concrete Was So Durable
The ancient Romans were masters of building and engineering, perhaps most famously represented by the aqueducts.
www.sciencealert.com
February 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This is the coolest thing I've read this week. www.sciencealert.com/we-finally-k...
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Musk has ordered all federal employees to tell him what they did last week by midnight Monday or be fired.
They are supposed to write to the address below, but I’m sure they wouldn’t mind notes from other citizens asking for redress.
You can write to hr@opm.gov
#RadioFreeAmerica
They are supposed to write to the address below, but I’m sure they wouldn’t mind notes from other citizens asking for redress.
You can write to hr@opm.gov
#RadioFreeAmerica
February 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Musk has ordered all federal employees to tell him what they did last week by midnight Monday or be fired.
They are supposed to write to the address below, but I’m sure they wouldn’t mind notes from other citizens asking for redress.
You can write to hr@opm.gov
#RadioFreeAmerica
They are supposed to write to the address below, but I’m sure they wouldn’t mind notes from other citizens asking for redress.
You can write to hr@opm.gov
#RadioFreeAmerica
It was.
Extremely highly recommended.
Extremely highly recommended.
I just started this, and if the first couple of chapters are any indication, this is going to be a thoroughly great read.
Book cover! (I don’t think this counts as shameless self-promotion because you can’t pre-order it yet except in India and Australia. So just old-fashioned self-promotion then.)
February 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
It was.
Extremely highly recommended.
Extremely highly recommended.
Will it ever stop snowing here in the 716?
It's snowing just enough to be a nuisance, but not enough to really accumulate.
It's snowing just enough to be a nuisance, but not enough to really accumulate.
February 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Will it ever stop snowing here in the 716?
It's snowing just enough to be a nuisance, but not enough to really accumulate.
It's snowing just enough to be a nuisance, but not enough to really accumulate.
This is true, and the legacy of our time will be partially defined by a media which drove to the middle rather than drove to the truth.
Trump rode to political prominence on birtherism and spent the last month of his campaign claiming that Haitians were eating cats.
The rise of authoritarianism in America *must* be understood as a misinformation crisis.
The rise of authoritarianism in America *must* be understood as a misinformation crisis.
There's also seemingly no acknowledgement of a massive right-wing propaganda machine stirring this sentiment up. Where it does exist it's largely a manufactured, tribal outrage, it's not actually regular people getting so offended they go fash over this stuff. That's important.
February 20, 2025 at 1:44 AM
This is true, and the legacy of our time will be partially defined by a media which drove to the middle rather than drove to the truth.
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Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions
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theonion.com/historians-p...
February 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions
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theonion.com/historians-p...
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Yes thank you @judysquirrels.bsky.social
February 10, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Yes thank you @judysquirrels.bsky.social