Schmalyson
@schmalyson.bsky.social
She/her, librarian/libarian
Lives near yinz
Lives near yinz
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Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
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its almost a month since lia smith, a trans woman who was in college sports until trump took office and banned her from competing, committed suicide
her death has a wikipedia page but has yet to receive an ounce of news coverage in
@nytimes.com
@washingtonpost.com
@apnews.com
@cnn.com
her death has a wikipedia page but has yet to receive an ounce of news coverage in
@nytimes.com
@washingtonpost.com
@apnews.com
@cnn.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
its almost a month since lia smith, a trans woman who was in college sports until trump took office and banned her from competing, committed suicide
her death has a wikipedia page but has yet to receive an ounce of news coverage in
@nytimes.com
@washingtonpost.com
@apnews.com
@cnn.com
her death has a wikipedia page but has yet to receive an ounce of news coverage in
@nytimes.com
@washingtonpost.com
@apnews.com
@cnn.com
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Łink banned, Sarah Kendzior banned. This site set for itself the incredibly low bar of "replicate the experience of Twitter in 2022" and it consistently fails to clear it
November 11, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Łink banned, Sarah Kendzior banned. This site set for itself the incredibly low bar of "replicate the experience of Twitter in 2022" and it consistently fails to clear it
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“And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur”, by Leonora Carrington, 1953.
November 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
“And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur”, by Leonora Carrington, 1953.
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Good morning to everyone but especially to Lady Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, whose judgement against Rudy Giuliani for defaming them and turning their lives upside down cannot be pardoned away by the president
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Good morning to everyone but especially to Lady Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, whose judgement against Rudy Giuliani for defaming them and turning their lives upside down cannot be pardoned away by the president
Me and the homie kickin' it on the balcony enjoying the evening breeze.
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Me and the homie kickin' it on the balcony enjoying the evening breeze.
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BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
GOSSIPING!!! Sir.
I could name the top 5 gossiping ass people I know and they are all elderly retired Black men with too much time on their hands. Please.
I could name the top 5 gossiping ass people I know and they are all elderly retired Black men with too much time on their hands. Please.
I'm not linking to that NYT piece today, but of all the horrible parts of it, this was the worst. This was an explanation of "female vices" in the workplace and LET ME JUST TELL YOU...
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
GOSSIPING!!! Sir.
I could name the top 5 gossiping ass people I know and they are all elderly retired Black men with too much time on their hands. Please.
I could name the top 5 gossiping ass people I know and they are all elderly retired Black men with too much time on their hands. Please.
I swear to God the only Black lady left who's gonna be able to do news is Oprah and that's strictly cause she'll own the network.
November 4, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I swear to God the only Black lady left who's gonna be able to do news is Oprah and that's strictly cause she'll own the network.
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Elaine Welteroth, former editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue and youngest editor of Condé Nast ever, and the 2nd African American to hold this position, changed Teen Vogue to be more politically conscious.
Traffic to TeenVogue.com: 2.7M to 9.2M visitors a year, print subscriptions jumped 535%
Traffic to TeenVogue.com: 2.7M to 9.2M visitors a year, print subscriptions jumped 535%
Ex-Teen Vogue editor Elaine Welteroth: ‘The headlines implied I was a token black hire’
Welteroth was just 29 when Anna Wintour made her editor-in-chief. Months later, the magazine shut down. What did she do next?
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Luckily for the rest of you she also doesn't pay attention to her phone unless she's at home. I love her, she is funny as hell.
My mom and her old lady friends talk on the phone so loud. I can't tell if the call she just got off was on speaker or not. It makes no appreciable difference.
November 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Luckily for the rest of you she also doesn't pay attention to her phone unless she's at home. I love her, she is funny as hell.
My mom and her old lady friends talk on the phone so loud. I can't tell if the call she just got off was on speaker or not. It makes no appreciable difference.
November 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
My mom and her old lady friends talk on the phone so loud. I can't tell if the call she just got off was on speaker or not. It makes no appreciable difference.
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Marcyliena Morgan, Founder of Harvard’s Hip-Hop Archive, Dies at 75
Her university’s vast collection of albums, scholarly essays and other ephemera helped establish rap as a course of serious study on a par with classical music
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/a...
Her university’s vast collection of albums, scholarly essays and other ephemera helped establish rap as a course of serious study on a par with classical music
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/a...
Marcyliena Morgan, Founder of Harvard’s Hip-Hop Archive, Dies at 75
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Marcyliena Morgan, Founder of Harvard’s Hip-Hop Archive, Dies at 75
Her university’s vast collection of albums, scholarly essays and other ephemera helped establish rap as a course of serious study on a par with classical music
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/a...
Her university’s vast collection of albums, scholarly essays and other ephemera helped establish rap as a course of serious study on a par with classical music
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/a...
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You cannot survive in times like this treating joy like a luxury you can’t afford. You will shatter. You will also make yourselves insufferable to be around and it’s impossible to build community that way.
November 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
You cannot survive in times like this treating joy like a luxury you can’t afford. You will shatter. You will also make yourselves insufferable to be around and it’s impossible to build community that way.
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quality Halloween posting from Pitt here imo
November 1, 2025 at 12:43 AM
quality Halloween posting from Pitt here imo
Ah, I see we have reached the time of the NBA season where they make the floors extra ugly.
November 1, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Ah, I see we have reached the time of the NBA season where they make the floors extra ugly.
At Valley View in Garfield right now if you know anyone who needs it.
October 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
At Valley View in Garfield right now if you know anyone who needs it.
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I think it’s awesome that something could have its first stone laid in 1882 and still be building towards the original goal
Four feet higher and rising: Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia becomes world’s tallest church
Antoni Gaudí’s masterwork is still under construction but now stands taller than Ulm Minster in southern Germany
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I think it’s awesome that something could have its first stone laid in 1882 and still be building towards the original goal
Wheweee well this brief Bluesky interlude brought way more transphobia into my day than necessary, that'll be enough of this for today. Ew.
October 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Wheweee well this brief Bluesky interlude brought way more transphobia into my day than necessary, that'll be enough of this for today. Ew.
Saying this about trans people is
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October 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Saying this about trans people is
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All the same losers giving the exact same loser advice they have been losing with for 3 decades.
For my newsletter, I took a deeper look at the electoral record of WelcomePAC, a centrist group that produced that 352 page document advising Democrats to moderate once again.
Turns out the campaigns they work for aren't winning. www.burnsnotice.com/fire-the-con...
Turns out the campaigns they work for aren't winning. www.burnsnotice.com/fire-the-con...
Fire The Consultants
The Democratic party must move on from the same old stale, carefully poll-tested politics and get back to solving voters' problems.
There are only three certainties in life: death, taxes, and Democra...
www.burnsnotice.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
All the same losers giving the exact same loser advice they have been losing with for 3 decades.
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We've collected a list of every local resource for food assistance we could find. These resources include pantries, free fridges, food banks, and free grocery programs by neighborhood or region:
With SNAP in jeopardy, here's where to find food assistance across Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh City Paper | News, Dining, Music, Best Of, Arts, Film
These resources include pantries, free fridges, food banks, and free grocery programs by neighborhood or region.
www.pghcitypaper.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
We've collected a list of every local resource for food assistance we could find. These resources include pantries, free fridges, food banks, and free grocery programs by neighborhood or region:
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Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
n.pr
October 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
Legendaric
Japan's sushi legend Jiro Ono turns 100 and is not ready for retirement
Japanese sushi legend Jiro Ono won three Michelin stars for more than a decade, the world’s oldest head chef to do so. “I plan to keep going for about five more years,” Ono said last month as he mark...
www.yahoo.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Legendaric
This has never been an issue for me as a WMB (white mom biracial) and I didn't understand it until my WMB baby cousin said "you're lucky you have your mom, my mom's racist ass had no business having Black kids" and all of a sudden I got it.
“This take might be too picante for the populace, but…”
October 27, 2025 at 12:15 PM
This has never been an issue for me as a WMB (white mom biracial) and I didn't understand it until my WMB baby cousin said "you're lucky you have your mom, my mom's racist ass had no business having Black kids" and all of a sudden I got it.