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The Atlantic

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In recent years, experts have worried over an online crisis of “misinformation,” @cwarzel.bsky.social and Mike Caulfield write. But that term doesn’t begin to describe what’s really happening.

The Internet Is Worse Than a Brainwashing Machine

A rationale is always just a scroll or a click away.

www.theatlantic.com

January 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM

Mary Rokonadravu

@rokonadravu2.bsky.social

Officers used racist slurs to describe Black people, bragged about use of force, during the protests in 2020 in response to the murder of George Floyd at hands of police officers, used slurs against Mr. Floyd & mocked public outrage against racism in law enforcement.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/u...

California Police Department Agrees to Reforms After Federal Inquiry (Gift Article)

The Antioch Police Department was under investigation by the Justice Department after racist text messages between its officers were released in 2023.

www.nytimes.com

January 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM

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Tom Snarsky

@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

it’s good to be so clear for once

Eileen Myles

EILEEN MYLES
AN EXPLANATION
I have this compulsion to live no matter what that's why I did what I just did
yet everything in the universe seems sad eat a banana plastic jars of laxative my lap-top's gong
it's good to be so clear for once
I have no interest in the gaining media access panel. At exactly 2:30
it's where I'll precisely not be
I imagine, I understand a world based on positive inactions a glossy don't a fervant won't
if for a second I dread carrying the lug of my corporeality up the stairs, I think of sex or something like it not being dead and it's that as well as my books and socks and computer, battered knees and twisted ankles I swing over the shoulder of something strong up the 26 steps.
So now, having arrived home, having traversed an ocean of stone, New York, to be in the home of a simple idiot. To make a cup of coffee, black and strong, to be here in the early November afternoon and the drapes of the individual leaves are charming, like earrings, are like torn gloves on my good old tree. I have nothing more to offer you but stripes of light.

January 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM

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Joseph Fasano

@josephfasano.bsky.social

Last night was a dark one for me. Walking away from all of it, I lay down in the woods and sank into real despair. The sky broke open in the worst thunderstorm I've ever known. Somewhere in that storm I found this poem. It saved my life.

Testimony

My son, I have this story
to leave you:
once, on the darkest night of my little life,
when the old year was turning
to a new one,
I lay alone in the wilds of the pine trees
and I told the sky,
No one loves my chaos.
(I was young. I still believed
in fairness. I still believed, as the ruined
do, in truth.)
I don't know what you'll think
in your own time, but I—I believe,
my child,
that the monstrous storm that happened,
thunder and flood as I had never known,
I believe, Leo, that that was the God I love,
saying, If no one
knows you,
I do, I know you.
Look at this chaos of my wild heart.
You think it's easy
to love me?
For a trillion years I've been
lonely. Only
the boldest can hold me.
Sweet Jesus the love you'd have if you
were you.

—Joseph Fasano

January 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM

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Joseph Fasano

@josephfasano.bsky.social

I hope these words find you as the new year begins.

January 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM

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Joseph Fasano

@josephfasano.bsky.social

for you, for 2025

Sudden Hymn in Winter

What if, after years
of trial,
a love should come
and lay a hand upon you
and say,
this late,
your life is not a crime

—Fasano

January 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM

Mary Rokonadravu

@rokonadravu2.bsky.social

Best time to think, meditate, write, walk, run, swim.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Jan 2

“Because getting up early is a challenge, you might assume that one cost of doing so would be feeling less happy,” writes @arthurcbrooks.bsky.social. “The research says the opposite.” theatln.tc/NC7OXEYC

January 3, 2025 at 2:08 AM

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The Guardian

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Britain has a social care crisis. Here’s how Labour plans to fix it | Wes Streeting

Our National Care Service will meet the urgent needs of our generation – just as the NHS did when it was created in 1948 * Wes Streeting is secretary of state for health and social care Three sentences in Labour’s 1945 manifesto contained a simple…

www.theguardian.com

January 3, 2025 at 12:21 AM

Mary Rokonadravu

@rokonadravu2.bsky.social

♥️

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jan 3

‘They spread magic’: New Zealand’s ‘trail angels’ offer weary hikers food, showers and hope

A network of locals ready to provide a bed, a lift, or a box of chocolates to tired walkers along the Te Araroa trail has become a lifeline American hiker Donna Barkley was weeks into walking New Zealand’s longest hiking trail when her strength started…

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January 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM

Mary Rokonadravu

@rokonadravu2.bsky.social

More Republicans say public opinion should play an important role guiding science policy (55% vs. 44%). Democrats lean in the opposite direction: 59% say public opinion should not guide policy on scientific issues, while 40% say it should.

www.pewresearch.org/science/2024...

Public Trust in Scientists and Views on Their Role in Policymaking

Americans’ trust in scientists is slightly higher than it was last year, but remains lower than before the COVID-19 pandemic.

www.pewresearch.org

January 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM

Mary Rokonadravu

@rokonadravu2.bsky.social

Overall, 48% Americans say public opinion should play an important role guiding policy decisions about scientific issues; 51% say public opinion should not play an important role because scientific issues are too complex for the average person to understand.

www.pewresearch.org/science/2024...

Public Trust in Scientists and Views on Their Role in Policymaking

Americans’ trust in scientists is slightly higher than it was last year, but remains lower than before the COVID-19 pandemic.

www.pewresearch.org

January 3, 2025 at 1:56 AM

Mary Rokonadravu

@rokonadravu2.bsky.social

76% of Americans express a great deal or fair amount of confidence in scientists to act in the public’s best interests.

Communication is seen as an area of relative weakness for scientists.

www.pewresearch.org/science/2024...

Public Trust in Scientists and Views on Their Role in Policymaking

Americans’ trust in scientists is slightly higher than it was last year, but remains lower than before the COVID-19 pandemic.

www.pewresearch.org

January 3, 2025 at 1:55 AM

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Granta

@grantamag.bsky.social

‘A cup is an open mouth / You kiss each day’

Three poems by Huang Fan, translated by Margaret Ross.

granta.com/huang_fan_th...

New Year’s By the Sea, Spinning Top and Cup | Huang Fan | Granta

‘A cup is an open mouth / You kiss each day’ Three poems by Huang Fan, translated by Margaret Ross.

granta.com

January 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM

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Kristen Renee Miller

@kristenmiller.bsky.social

If, like me, you want independent publishers like Sarabande defining the next thirty years of literature, I invite you to give generously in support of our mission (hint: it's not to be the first publisher on Mars). To the future, friends! 🥂

www.sarabandebooks.org/donate

Kristen Renee Miller @kristenmiller.bsky.social · Dec 30

What I do know is which of the two of us has spent every moment of the last thirty years building a better future for authors. I know which of us understands that a diverse, thriving field of independent curators-not monopolization-is the best way to cultivate literature. ✨✨

Kristen Renee Miller @kristenmiller.bsky.social · Dec 30

DID YOU KNOW Sarabande and Amaz*n are birthday twins?? 👀While we were celebrating 30 years of Sarabande in 2024, another book-world powerhouse hit the 30-year milestone, too.
Maybe you've heard of them.
Is Amaz*n our evil twin? Who's to say?

December 30, 2024 at 7:18 PM

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BK. Titanji

@boghuma.bsky.social

Someone shared this with me, and I think it's beautiful. That's what I wish for everyone I love and appreciate in this New Year 2025, that your life is filled with an abundance of real luxuries. ❤️

January 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM

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Technology Connections

@techconnectify.bsky.social

I know that there's a lot of tech industry folks on this here website, and I would just like to remind all of you that the world actually functioned before the computer.

January 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM

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Daniel Rolph Author

@danielrolphauthor.bsky.social

Here’s the deal: Make reading your hobby this year. It’ll expand your mind, grow your perspective, and if you grab a library card, you’ll be supporting authors too (yes, in places like the UK, AU, NZ, and Canada, libraries pay authors!). Reading isn’t just fun—it’s a win for everyone.

January 2, 2025 at 2:48 AM

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Cats of Yore

@catsofyore.bsky.social

Little ghost! 👻 Photo from my collection, 1964.

Black and white photo of a shorthaired pretty little white cat standing on a lawn in front of a white clapboard building. It’s looks like it might be meowing as the mouth seems open. Its tail is up and it has a happy, relaxed air about it.

January 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM

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God

@thegodpodcast.com

Hi, I’m God.

Bluesky is now over 26 MILLION users.

Congrats, Bluesky!

January 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM

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Reason Magazine

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"Our libraries and bookstores are critical spaces for learning, exploration, and connection. By striking down these provisions, the court has safeguarded the right of every Arkansan to access ideas and information without fear of censorship or prosecution."

Arkansas can't jail librarians for giving kids 'harmful' books

Portions of an Arkansas law that would have subjected librarians to criminal charges for letting kids check out books deemed "harmful to minors" were

reason.com

January 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM

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The Guardian

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The death of the middle-class professional spells danger for Labour | Gaby Hinsliff

Graduate pay is falling – and an aggrieved generation could join white-collar workers in supporting Reform UK What does it mean to have a middle-class, white-collar professional job? It used to feel like a promise, a guarantee of a life that might not…

www.theguardian.com

January 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM

Mary Rokonadravu

@rokonadravu2.bsky.social

"Space is getting crowded. Last year, the European Space Agency estimated that there were more than 14,000 tons of material in low Earth orbit. And more of these objects are falling back down to Earth, without breaking up on re-entry as they are expected to."
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/w...