@talesofyarn.bsky.social
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Today, the Alabama Educational Television Commission holds a public meeting to discuss severing ties with PBS. But, no public comment will be allowed. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Alabama public TV viewers fight to save PBS access after Trump cuts threaten partnership
Commission to discuss partnership at public meeting, while longtime members warn they'll withdraw support if PBS programming ends.
www.yahoo.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Today, the Alabama Educational Television Commission holds a public meeting to discuss severing ties with PBS. But, no public comment will be allowed. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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If CBP, Customs and Border Protection, is only supposed to operate within 100 miles of the U.S. border, what are they doing leading operations in Charlotte, North Carolina?
November 18, 2025 at 3:47 AM
If CBP, Customs and Border Protection, is only supposed to operate within 100 miles of the U.S. border, what are they doing leading operations in Charlotte, North Carolina?
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I suspect that many policymakers don't think women have interior lives.
+ women are not a special interest group! We are not homogenous! We are half the population!
That seems to be missing from the discourse every single time.
That seems to be missing from the discourse every single time.
November 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I suspect that many policymakers don't think women have interior lives.
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SNAP benefits will be gone, small businesses will suffer, insurance premiums will double, air traffic will be delayed/halted: All of these things are happening because when the gov't shutdown ends, the Epstein Files get released.
November 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
SNAP benefits will be gone, small businesses will suffer, insurance premiums will double, air traffic will be delayed/halted: All of these things are happening because when the gov't shutdown ends, the Epstein Files get released.
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The president of the United States thinks asylum-seekers come from mental asylums.
He says it in almost every interview where the topic of migration comes up.
How is this not 25th Amendment territory? How is he not an embarrassment to this entire country?
He says it in almost every interview where the topic of migration comes up.
How is this not 25th Amendment territory? How is he not an embarrassment to this entire country?
November 4, 2025 at 1:55 AM
The president of the United States thinks asylum-seekers come from mental asylums.
He says it in almost every interview where the topic of migration comes up.
How is this not 25th Amendment territory? How is he not an embarrassment to this entire country?
He says it in almost every interview where the topic of migration comes up.
How is this not 25th Amendment territory? How is he not an embarrassment to this entire country?
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Hi, I’m God.
Jesus and I agree that starving the poor so you can build yourself golden bathrooms and golden ballrooms is evil. Anyone who does that shall burn for eternity. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thanks,
God
Jesus and I agree that starving the poor so you can build yourself golden bathrooms and golden ballrooms is evil. Anyone who does that shall burn for eternity. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thanks,
God
November 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Hi, I’m God.
Jesus and I agree that starving the poor so you can build yourself golden bathrooms and golden ballrooms is evil. Anyone who does that shall burn for eternity. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thanks,
God
Jesus and I agree that starving the poor so you can build yourself golden bathrooms and golden ballrooms is evil. Anyone who does that shall burn for eternity. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thanks,
God
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If everyone is building *so much good software* with AI, where is all the good software?
May 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If everyone is building *so much good software* with AI, where is all the good software?
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If I'd kept my hat on during the national anthem, my dad would have slapped it off my head. But Trump is a draft dodger and a traitor, so of course that kind of thing doesn't matter to him.
May 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
If I'd kept my hat on during the national anthem, my dad would have slapped it off my head. But Trump is a draft dodger and a traitor, so of course that kind of thing doesn't matter to him.
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"Meanwhile, the space the loom inhabited is now occupied by a military-funded textiles project. The rooms require a security clearance to enter."
When RMIT decided to junk a rare, $160k weaving loom, a group of artists, teachers and students united to rescue it. The story of this loom felt like a snapshot of everything that’s wrong with how we treat arts and crafts in tertiary education, so I wrote this:
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
A new room for a doomed loom – and the battle to save Australia’s slowly dying crafts
When a rare weaving device was destined for the skip, a collective of artists, teachers and students united to rescue it. They bemoan how university course changes are replacing deep skills with compe...
www.theguardian.com
May 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
"Meanwhile, the space the loom inhabited is now occupied by a military-funded textiles project. The rooms require a security clearance to enter."
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Despite what President Trump said tonight, social security is not, in fact, rife with fraud. @wired.com’s
@davidgilbert.bsky.social broke it down last month.
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
@davidgilbert.bsky.social broke it down last month.
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
No, 150-Year-Olds Aren’t Collecting Social Security Benefits
Elon Musk claims to have found rampant fraud in the Social Security Administration. There’s a much simpler explanation.
www.wired.com
March 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Despite what President Trump said tonight, social security is not, in fact, rife with fraud. @wired.com’s
@davidgilbert.bsky.social broke it down last month.
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
@davidgilbert.bsky.social broke it down last month.
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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Can't find the pattern, but these are clever and very much on topic! @monttricot.bsky.social 🧶 Love the yarn choice (mondoCanuckian!)
March 3, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Can't find the pattern, but these are clever and very much on topic! @monttricot.bsky.social 🧶 Love the yarn choice (mondoCanuckian!)
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The year I was 5 only me and one other girl from our main friend group survived a measles outbreak.
No prizes for guessing why.
Half my kindergarten class didn’t make it to first grade.
But now we have public health campaigns that keep us all up to date, for free.
Viva el Peru carajo
No prizes for guessing why.
Half my kindergarten class didn’t make it to first grade.
But now we have public health campaigns that keep us all up to date, for free.
Viva el Peru carajo
The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.
February 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The year I was 5 only me and one other girl from our main friend group survived a measles outbreak.
No prizes for guessing why.
Half my kindergarten class didn’t make it to first grade.
But now we have public health campaigns that keep us all up to date, for free.
Viva el Peru carajo
No prizes for guessing why.
Half my kindergarten class didn’t make it to first grade.
But now we have public health campaigns that keep us all up to date, for free.
Viva el Peru carajo
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NBC went beyond kissing the ring and kissed the ass. No faces of colour allowed-who’s next?
All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.
February 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
NBC went beyond kissing the ring and kissed the ass. No faces of colour allowed-who’s next?
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MAGA are now above the law
February 26, 2025 at 11:47 AM
MAGA are now above the law
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Anyway guess I’m keeping my iphone
💥 UPDATE: Apple shareholders voted today by a margin of about 98-2 percent to uphold diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) — @droste.bsky.social reports.
Costco shareholders voted by the same margin on an identical anti-DEI proposal brought by the same shareholder activist group, NCPPR, last month
Costco shareholders voted by the same margin on an identical anti-DEI proposal brought by the same shareholder activist group, NCPPR, last month
February 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Anyway guess I’m keeping my iphone
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Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous.
I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them.
🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:
I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them.
🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:
There’s a sort of Trump apologist, a relatively small but loud subset, who probably don’t realize or intend to be, but are so attached to a previous hyperbolic claim that they deny anything important changed.
-US was already an oligarchy
-US was already fascist
-Biden gave Israel a blank check
-Etc
-US was already an oligarchy
-US was already fascist
-Biden gave Israel a blank check
-Etc
November 15, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous.
I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them.
🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:
I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them.
🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:
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“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character- that is the goal of true education. “ - Martin Luther King, Jr.
February 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character- that is the goal of true education. “ - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Trump's promise to dismantle the Education Department will likely be more costly for red states than blue.
Trump states, on average, use more federal funding in their education apportions than states that voted for Vice President Harris. www.axios.com/2025/02/05/t...
Trump states, on average, use more federal funding in their education apportions than states that voted for Vice President Harris. www.axios.com/2025/02/05/t...
Trump-voting states have more to lose if Education Department dismantled
States that voted for Trump receive more federal education funds than those that voted for Harris.
www.axios.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Trump's promise to dismantle the Education Department will likely be more costly for red states than blue.
Trump states, on average, use more federal funding in their education apportions than states that voted for Vice President Harris. www.axios.com/2025/02/05/t...
Trump states, on average, use more federal funding in their education apportions than states that voted for Vice President Harris. www.axios.com/2025/02/05/t...
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Once, I had a small business hand-dyeing yarn. I Just got an email from a Canadian supplier from way back then, talking about the impact tariffs would have on pricing if they go into effect tomorrow. On both sides of the border, small businesses, as well as consumers, are going to be hurt by Trump.
February 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Once, I had a small business hand-dyeing yarn. I Just got an email from a Canadian supplier from way back then, talking about the impact tariffs would have on pricing if they go into effect tomorrow. On both sides of the border, small businesses, as well as consumers, are going to be hurt by Trump.
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My quilt about women’s reproductive rights has been banned from all American Quilters Society shows this year. It’s been part of a traveling show with SAQA. My artist statement is too long for here. It’s on my website: laurashaw.net/quilts#/your-mother
#quiltsky
#quiltsky
January 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
My quilt about women’s reproductive rights has been banned from all American Quilters Society shows this year. It’s been part of a traveling show with SAQA. My artist statement is too long for here. It’s on my website: laurashaw.net/quilts#/your-mother
#quiltsky
#quiltsky
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My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread
November 19, 2024 at 6:51 PM
My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread