Megan Westerby
@meganwesterby.bsky.social
Over-thinker extraordinaire.
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An incredible piece of writing, a gift of a sort I had not known it was possible to receive
sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...
'Cloud Dancer': A Measured Response
Regarding Pantone's decision, and so on, and so forth
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
An incredible piece of writing, a gift of a sort I had not known it was possible to receive
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Here’s my go-to article that provides a good, concise overview of one of the main culprits in the privatization of libraries: Library Systems and Services.
fullertonobserver.com/2022/03/08/d...
fullertonobserver.com/2022/03/08/d...
Opinion: Do Not Outsource Library Services - Fullerton Observer
Update: The Observer received the letter below from retired Children’s Services Librarian Janine Jacobs after she learned about a proposed presentation to the Library Board of Trustees from a private...
fullertonobserver.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Here’s my go-to article that provides a good, concise overview of one of the main culprits in the privatization of libraries: Library Systems and Services.
fullertonobserver.com/2022/03/08/d...
fullertonobserver.com/2022/03/08/d...
TRUTH
I will say over and over again that us library folk need to be louder in our support of the Post Office. Because guess what—if they start thinking of USPS in terms of“making” or “losing” money, libraries won’t be far behind.
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
TRUTH
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Come for the b-roll of people excited for sales, stay for the 2 seconds of this guy mugging for the camera
November 29, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Come for the b-roll of people excited for sales, stay for the 2 seconds of this guy mugging for the camera
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One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.
Judge bars Trump from immediately cutting funding to the University of California | CNN Politics
The Trump administration cannot immediately cut federal funding to the University of California or issue fines against the school system over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimina...
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November 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.
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This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have tried, it’s just that even success required overshoot (ie, missing the target). And because it’s been framed as a “game over” threshold, media coverage of 1.5 has contributed to the idea that climate action is now pointless. That is not, and will never, be true.
November 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have tried, it’s just that even success required overshoot (ie, missing the target). And because it’s been framed as a “game over” threshold, media coverage of 1.5 has contributed to the idea that climate action is now pointless. That is not, and will never, be true.
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Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response
November 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response
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10% of Meta's 2024 ad revenue came from outright frauds and scams; the platform shows consumers 15 billion ads for fraud and scams every single day. This doesn't even include agitprop and AI slop.
the existential collapse of this monumental pile of shit company simply can't come quickly enough
the existential collapse of this monumental pile of shit company simply can't come quickly enough
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
10% of Meta's 2024 ad revenue came from outright frauds and scams; the platform shows consumers 15 billion ads for fraud and scams every single day. This doesn't even include agitprop and AI slop.
the existential collapse of this monumental pile of shit company simply can't come quickly enough
the existential collapse of this monumental pile of shit company simply can't come quickly enough
Cough cough pointing out that @nkjemisin.bsky.social illuminated this truth in fiction better than any poll or think piece ever could.
(If you haven’t read The City We Became, tonight would be a great night to get a copy)
(If you haven’t read The City We Became, tonight would be a great night to get a copy)
November 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Cough cough pointing out that @nkjemisin.bsky.social illuminated this truth in fiction better than any poll or think piece ever could.
(If you haven’t read The City We Became, tonight would be a great night to get a copy)
(If you haven’t read The City We Became, tonight would be a great night to get a copy)
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This is metal as hell and they should send it out as a scream emanating from the mouth of a demon
October 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
This is metal as hell and they should send it out as a scream emanating from the mouth of a demon
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Even if we took what the indictment claims at face value (and you shouldn't)... this would be complete fucking nonsense.
Stephen Miller: "What James Comey did is truly one of the most severe assaults on our freedoms and liberties that has occurred in the whole history of this nation."
September 27, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Even if we took what the indictment claims at face value (and you shouldn't)... this would be complete fucking nonsense.
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If you’re wondering why real incomes are collapsing, here’s one reason:
“.. almost 14% of workers are getting no raises.”
(via MetLife)
“.. almost 14% of workers are getting no raises.”
(via MetLife)
September 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
If you’re wondering why real incomes are collapsing, here’s one reason:
“.. almost 14% of workers are getting no raises.”
(via MetLife)
“.. almost 14% of workers are getting no raises.”
(via MetLife)
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there is a certain irony around tech bros who believe that the work of writers is largely worthless, while also claiming at the same time that they desperately need to use that written work - without compensating human authors - so they can make a bazillion dollars off LLM products.
I've spent my entire life being told that everything I do is useless, mocked and being told no one should be paid for "underwater basket weaving," and now they're like, "I must steal all the underwater basket weaving lore because it's imperative for my survival"
Eat farts, my dudes.
Eat farts, my dudes.
September 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
there is a certain irony around tech bros who believe that the work of writers is largely worthless, while also claiming at the same time that they desperately need to use that written work - without compensating human authors - so they can make a bazillion dollars off LLM products.
This one’s for anyone who has ever sent a postcard or knows what deadstock is or uses a ballpoint pen or wishes their mailbox brought them joy
...including a new project I’m building with the brilliant @meganwesterby.bsky.social. THE POSTMASTER will deliver serialized stories to your off-line, real-world, please-could-there-be-something-other-than-junk-mail mailbox. Get on the early access signup list at gideongranger.com
Gideon Granger
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gideongranger.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
This one’s for anyone who has ever sent a postcard or knows what deadstock is or uses a ballpoint pen or wishes their mailbox brought them joy
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...including a new project I’m building with the brilliant @meganwesterby.bsky.social. THE POSTMASTER will deliver serialized stories to your off-line, real-world, please-could-there-be-something-other-than-junk-mail mailbox. Get on the early access signup list at gideongranger.com
Gideon Granger
Subscribe below, if you wish
gideongranger.com
September 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
...including a new project I’m building with the brilliant @meganwesterby.bsky.social. THE POSTMASTER will deliver serialized stories to your off-line, real-world, please-could-there-be-something-other-than-junk-mail mailbox. Get on the early access signup list at gideongranger.com
I truly appreciate that she dropped the album announcement THEN the engagement announcement.
August 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I truly appreciate that she dropped the album announcement THEN the engagement announcement.
August should be a national holiday
August 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
August should be a national holiday
Every single time I’m in an email anything and hit ‘f’ to forward and it doesn’t work I long for telnet
August 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Every single time I’m in an email anything and hit ‘f’ to forward and it doesn’t work I long for telnet
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"gig workers call ICE on their immigrant coworkers who they view as competition" is a pretty concise summary of the 21st century, cybourgeoisie class warfare as a way to discipline labor.
sourcenm.com/2025/07/11/r...
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Resentment against Albuquerque ‘deliveristas’ may have sparked viral Walmart ICE arrest • Source New Mexico
Source New Mexico spoke with the family and friends of the man captured on video being violently arrested by ICE. They fear he has an untreated head injury.
sourcenm.com
July 12, 2025 at 4:47 AM
"gig workers call ICE on their immigrant coworkers who they view as competition" is a pretty concise summary of the 21st century, cybourgeoisie class warfare as a way to discipline labor.
sourcenm.com/2025/07/11/r...
sourcenm.com/2025/07/11/r...
I have three good tickets to MCR this Friday in Seattle if anyone is looking — not gonna be able to make it.
July 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I have three good tickets to MCR this Friday in Seattle if anyone is looking — not gonna be able to make it.
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Perfectly explained, impeccably executed, hilariously animated
June 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Perfectly explained, impeccably executed, hilariously animated
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It feels particularly wicked, I have to say, to snatch day laborers in a place where you can see dump trucks roll up and down the streets, throughout the workday, to clear the wreckage from a wildfire that destroyed thousands of homes.
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June 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
It feels particularly wicked, I have to say, to snatch day laborers in a place where you can see dump trucks roll up and down the streets, throughout the workday, to clear the wreckage from a wildfire that destroyed thousands of homes.
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i think most white americans who have never been Policed don’t realize that you are always already a criminal.
the second anyone with institutional power believes you to be, needs you to be, or wants you to be a criminal you are and always have been.
the second anyone with institutional power believes you to be, needs you to be, or wants you to be a criminal you are and always have been.
the last few days has been a reminder that people really want to believe that not only is there this real thing called a “criminal,” and that if they need to, anyone can just prove they aren’t one
do people not realize that the past four decades of US policing legislation PR and practice have made the allegation that someone is a “gang member” entirely subject to the whims of the state
April 17, 2025 at 2:10 AM
i think most white americans who have never been Policed don’t realize that you are always already a criminal.
the second anyone with institutional power believes you to be, needs you to be, or wants you to be a criminal you are and always have been.
the second anyone with institutional power believes you to be, needs you to be, or wants you to be a criminal you are and always have been.