Merryelireads
@merryelireads.bsky.social
📚Bookseller & Bibliophile📚
✒Recovering English Major✒
🗝Collector of Antiquities🗝
👵Grandma in Spirit👵
✒Recovering English Major✒
🗝Collector of Antiquities🗝
👵Grandma in Spirit👵
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if you haven’t done so already, now is a good time to block off some time each day/week/whenever you are able to educate yourselves on proposed legislation
write to or call *all* your representatives and use your voice against harmful legislation and in support of legislation you align with 💜
write to or call *all* your representatives and use your voice against harmful legislation and in support of legislation you align with 💜
February 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
if you haven’t done so already, now is a good time to block off some time each day/week/whenever you are able to educate yourselves on proposed legislation
write to or call *all* your representatives and use your voice against harmful legislation and in support of legislation you align with 💜
write to or call *all* your representatives and use your voice against harmful legislation and in support of legislation you align with 💜
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Elon could get a swastika tattooed on his forehead and his defenders will just say "no he is just really into Buddhism stop making everything so controversial" 🥴
January 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Elon could get a swastika tattooed on his forehead and his defenders will just say "no he is just really into Buddhism stop making everything so controversial" 🥴
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
January 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
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“Meta has claimed that they used publicly available material that was legally accessible under fair use doctrine,” but recently unsealed court documents disagree.
It sure looks like Meta stole a lot of books to build its AI.
It’s a grim week for Meta. The company formerly known as Facebook, and before that Facemash, “designed to evaluate the attractiveness of female Harvard students,” now encompasses Facebo…
lithub.com
January 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
“Meta has claimed that they used publicly available material that was legally accessible under fair use doctrine,” but recently unsealed court documents disagree.
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When TikTok comes back from the dead, know that it is a reanimated corpse.
Changes have been made. Get VERY CLEAR on those changes as you go back into now tainted waters.
Changes have been made. Get VERY CLEAR on those changes as you go back into now tainted waters.
January 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
When TikTok comes back from the dead, know that it is a reanimated corpse.
Changes have been made. Get VERY CLEAR on those changes as you go back into now tainted waters.
Changes have been made. Get VERY CLEAR on those changes as you go back into now tainted waters.
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My hope is that, instead of manipulating people into trusting Trump, all they’ve done this week is convince Americans that we can’t trust ANY OF THEM. 🤞🏽
January 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
My hope is that, instead of manipulating people into trusting Trump, all they’ve done this week is convince Americans that we can’t trust ANY OF THEM. 🤞🏽
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Seeing this message makes me never want to use TikTok again 🥹
January 19, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Seeing this message makes me never want to use TikTok again 🥹
For my fellow Americans, consider signing this petition so we can send a clear message to our government officials:
chng.it/Fm7btStYxp
chng.it/Fm7btStYxp
Have you seen this petition yet?
We the People Unite Together for Change
chng.it
January 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
For my fellow Americans, consider signing this petition so we can send a clear message to our government officials:
chng.it/Fm7btStYxp
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Trump being mentioned BY NAME in a popup that went out (twice) to every single active American user on tiktok is the funniest thing to me. We are truly living in a dystopia
January 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Trump being mentioned BY NAME in a popup that went out (twice) to every single active American user on tiktok is the funniest thing to me. We are truly living in a dystopia
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For Booksky 📚
❌ Goodreads: owned by Amazon.
✅ StoryGraph: black woman-owned, inclusive, has mood based recommendations!
❌ Audible: owned by Amazon.
✅ Libro.fm: supports local books stores.
❌ Goodreads: owned by Amazon.
✅ StoryGraph: black woman-owned, inclusive, has mood based recommendations!
❌ Audible: owned by Amazon.
✅ Libro.fm: supports local books stores.
January 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
For Booksky 📚
❌ Goodreads: owned by Amazon.
✅ StoryGraph: black woman-owned, inclusive, has mood based recommendations!
❌ Audible: owned by Amazon.
✅ Libro.fm: supports local books stores.
❌ Goodreads: owned by Amazon.
✅ StoryGraph: black woman-owned, inclusive, has mood based recommendations!
❌ Audible: owned by Amazon.
✅ Libro.fm: supports local books stores.
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Everything in this thread.
It isn’t about security or data protection. It just isn’t. Never forget that most people are on TikTok to see NEWS. Foreign sources of world events that they can’t control.
So, they found a way to control it.
So, they found a way to control it.
January 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Everything in this thread.
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Just so we’re all clear:
-Dems bend over backwards to Netanyahu’s every whim carrying through with financing a genocide, Bibi wants Trump to win and it costs Dems the election.
-At the request of Netanyahu, the Tiktok Ban bill is Revived under a Dem President, closer tying it to Biden moreso
-Dems bend over backwards to Netanyahu’s every whim carrying through with financing a genocide, Bibi wants Trump to win and it costs Dems the election.
-At the request of Netanyahu, the Tiktok Ban bill is Revived under a Dem President, closer tying it to Biden moreso
January 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Just so we’re all clear:
-Dems bend over backwards to Netanyahu’s every whim carrying through with financing a genocide, Bibi wants Trump to win and it costs Dems the election.
-At the request of Netanyahu, the Tiktok Ban bill is Revived under a Dem President, closer tying it to Biden moreso
-Dems bend over backwards to Netanyahu’s every whim carrying through with financing a genocide, Bibi wants Trump to win and it costs Dems the election.
-At the request of Netanyahu, the Tiktok Ban bill is Revived under a Dem President, closer tying it to Biden moreso
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you know what, idc if it seems silly to cry over an app; being on booktok has gained me immeasurable confidence, the BEST of friends & writer buddies; given me a love for reading and analyzing texts better and has just made me so happy. it is my little bff in an app & now im going to its funeral
January 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
you know what, idc if it seems silly to cry over an app; being on booktok has gained me immeasurable confidence, the BEST of friends & writer buddies; given me a love for reading and analyzing texts better and has just made me so happy. it is my little bff in an app & now im going to its funeral
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More & More I see why Malcolm X said don’t look up to these artists, actors, and more.
January 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
More & More I see why Malcolm X said don’t look up to these artists, actors, and more.
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Via @maketheroadny.bsky.social: If ICE shows up, know your rights.
“ICE does not have the right to enter your home without a valid warrant signed by a judge.”
maketheroadny.org/we-protect-us/
“ICE does not have the right to enter your home without a valid warrant signed by a judge.”
maketheroadny.org/we-protect-us/
January 18, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Via @maketheroadny.bsky.social: If ICE shows up, know your rights.
“ICE does not have the right to enter your home without a valid warrant signed by a judge.”
maketheroadny.org/we-protect-us/
“ICE does not have the right to enter your home without a valid warrant signed by a judge.”
maketheroadny.org/we-protect-us/
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Just FYI, administrative warrants (like the ones used by ICE) are not judicial warrants (used by cops, signed by a judge).
You do NOT legally have to open the door for an ICE officer with an administrative warrant *no matter what the ICE officer says.*
You do NOT legally have to open the door for an ICE officer with an administrative warrant *no matter what the ICE officer says.*
January 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Just FYI, administrative warrants (like the ones used by ICE) are not judicial warrants (used by cops, signed by a judge).
You do NOT legally have to open the door for an ICE officer with an administrative warrant *no matter what the ICE officer says.*
You do NOT legally have to open the door for an ICE officer with an administrative warrant *no matter what the ICE officer says.*
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Amazon, Meta, GM, Google, and Microsoft have donated millions to Trump's inauguration.
America's largest corporations and wealthiest executives are showering Trump's inaugural with cash for one simple reason: to ensure they receive another round of trickle-down tax cuts.
America's largest corporations and wealthiest executives are showering Trump's inaugural with cash for one simple reason: to ensure they receive another round of trickle-down tax cuts.
Big Firms and Billionaires Curry Favor With Trump By Giving Millions For His Inauguration Festivities
Apple’s Cook, Open AI’s Altman, Amazon, Google & GM Among Biggest Donors–All Could be Deeply Impacted by GOP Tax Legislation
4taxfairness.substack.com
January 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Amazon, Meta, GM, Google, and Microsoft have donated millions to Trump's inauguration.
America's largest corporations and wealthiest executives are showering Trump's inaugural with cash for one simple reason: to ensure they receive another round of trickle-down tax cuts.
America's largest corporations and wealthiest executives are showering Trump's inaugural with cash for one simple reason: to ensure they receive another round of trickle-down tax cuts.
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I want to delete Meta, but most of the authors and artists I love post there more than anywhere else— if not exclusively. All these publishers and companies still actively use it for promotions. 😭 I need to find the authors websites and sign up for whatever newsletters they have. ALL MY INDIE?!
January 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I want to delete Meta, but most of the authors and artists I love post there more than anywhere else— if not exclusively. All these publishers and companies still actively use it for promotions. 😭 I need to find the authors websites and sign up for whatever newsletters they have. ALL MY INDIE?!
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So it's dangerous for China to have the ability to access our data and manipulate us via social media apps.
But it's okay for America's billionaires to have the ability to access our data and manipulate us via social media apps.
Do I have this right?
But it's okay for America's billionaires to have the ability to access our data and manipulate us via social media apps.
Do I have this right?
January 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
So it's dangerous for China to have the ability to access our data and manipulate us via social media apps.
But it's okay for America's billionaires to have the ability to access our data and manipulate us via social media apps.
Do I have this right?
But it's okay for America's billionaires to have the ability to access our data and manipulate us via social media apps.
Do I have this right?
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Can 2025 be the year that we end forced prison labor? I think that’d be great.
January 18, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Can 2025 be the year that we end forced prison labor? I think that’d be great.
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‘They have no connection to the work they will manage, or no experience in the work they will manage, or no experience managing large bureaucracies like the bureaucracies they will manage.’
Eliot Weinberger on Trump’s cabinet nominees: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Eliot Weinberger on Trump’s cabinet nominees: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Eliot Weinberger · Incoming! They Came from Fox News
They vow to cut two trillion dollars from the federal budget – five times the combined annual salaries of all federal...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
‘They have no connection to the work they will manage, or no experience in the work they will manage, or no experience managing large bureaucracies like the bureaucracies they will manage.’
Eliot Weinberger on Trump’s cabinet nominees: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Eliot Weinberger on Trump’s cabinet nominees: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...