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Sam
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Just a little library guy
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hbomberguy.bsky.social
We're almost out, we just have to hold on for a few more years and we can fix things
Graph of childhood blood lead levels
April 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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shaunvids.bsky.social
the figureheads of the UK anti-trans movement are (mostly? almost all?) cishet people, & the overwhelming majority of lesbians support trans people, going by polls. but the first group think they get to decide what a lesbian is
wearequeeraf.com QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · Apr 19
👨‍⚖️ The UK Supreme Court just redefined what a lesbian is

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Perhaps most concerningly, the Supreme Court adopts extremely transphobic rhetoric concerning transfeminine lesbians. The Court concludes that a lesbian “must be a [AFAB] female who is sexually oriented towards (or attracted to) [AFAB] females”. The Court concludes that female here cannot include trans women, as the “concept of sexual orientation” would be “rendered meaningless”, and in its opinion, wrongly affect the composition of lesbians as a group. The Court claims this would lead to an “inevitable loss of autonomy and dignity for lesbians”. It points to evidence from gender-critical groups like the LGB Alliance and The Lesbian Project to make this argument. They claim the inclusion of trans women is having a ‘chilling effect on lesbians’ to associate in lesbian-only spaces. The vast majority of lesbians reject this claim.
April 19, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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mattbinder.bsky.social
didn't take much for these guys to go from "big government is bad" to "what's the big deal if you're abducted by the government and trafficked to Mongolia"
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry @pegobry_en Let's say you're a US citizen and ICE grabs you off the street and puts you on a plane to Mongolia. Don't you just go to your consulate, give them your name, date of birth, etc., they make you a new passport, and you fly home? They do this all day for tourists who had their stuff & ID stolen, there are procedures. I mean obviously it sucks to have that happen to you but it's not like your life is over or anything. And the government should definitely write you a nice check as an apology. 3:13 PM • 4/16/25
April 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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greyson.bsky.social
Wow, this is a much stronger stance than the Canadian gov't funding agencies have taken before, and as much as it seems like a little more work as a researcher, it seems like a good step as a librarian and a citizen. We need to ensure access to outputs from publicly funded scholarship!
matthieuboisgontier.com Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · Feb 26
🇨🇦New Tri-Agency open access policy: "Agency grantees & chairholders must deposit their article in a Canadian institutional repository at the time of publication [...] preprints deposited under an open license will be accepted as compliant with this policy." science.gc.ca/site/science...
Draft, Revised Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications
Preamble The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (...
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February 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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katestarbird.bsky.social
This video is profoundly disturbing. But it should remind us that the focus on the danger of “deepfakes” was misplaced. Trump rose to political prominence (~2015/2016) alongside a visual meme culture. Generative AI allows him to take that kind of visual propaganda to a whole other level.
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Feb 26
This was just posted on President Trump’s Truth Social account.
February 26, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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lily-is.online
Announcing my new show, TS TV: A Twin Peaks Podcast.

My friend & collaborator Sadie, an expert in all things David Lynch, guides me through my first watch of Twin Peaks. We recap, analyze, speculate & get sooo gender about it

Our intro episode is out everywhere! CHECK IT OUT ❤️‍🔥 art19.com/shows/tstv
Lily & Sadie in a dark room with red curtains. Sadie, wearing a brown suit with a black & red tie, stares into the camera. Lily, in a black dress, whispers something into her ear. Big text reads "TS TV", with a subtitle "A Twin Peaks Podcast"
February 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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codyjohnston.bsky.social
Thank you sir, excellent point.
February 20, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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h1twom4n.bsky.social
Under my administration, all birds get hats, yes they do folks
February 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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shaunvids.bsky.social
look how well the poor are doing in our economy. our economy has lots of poor people, but they're doing well, compared to if things were worse. relatively good, our economy, for all the poor
February 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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abeba.bsky.social
years have passed and google hasn’t still corrected pronunciation of Māori place names on google maps but the corporation is managing to implement change the on gulf of mexico within days

maps are political

www.renews.co.nz/why-google-m...
Why can’t Google Maps pronounce Māori words? The long and the short of it is Google hasn’t built a voice platform to support te reo Māori or Māori pronunciation. And the people in Aotearoa who have started to build this technology haven’t heard from Google. The rise and fall of ‘Say It Tika’ In 2017 the ‘Say It Tika’ (Say It Right) campaign by Vodafone and Google was launched. It asked New Zealanders to correct Google Maps’ pronunciation of Māori place names across the motu. In just two weeks, more than 67,000 corrections were pinned across a digital map of New Zealand. The plan was for Google Maps and Vodafone to work with linguists and use this data to correct Google Maps’ pronunciation once and for all. The problem? Google never actually had the technology to do this. Google apologised for dropping their end of the deal, but Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori (Māori Language Commission) chief executive Ngahiwi Apanui says he hasn’t heard from the organisation since.
January 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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wapplehouse.bsky.social
There’s a particularly evil strain of liberal/progressivism that is rooting for things to get worse in Gaza simply so they can do an “I told you so.” At any point in time Biden could’ve actually flexed US muscle and said knock it the fuck off but he just kept adding fuel to the fire. Own it.
January 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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antlervel.vet
CROW ON MST3K: He makes Ted Danson look like Gavin MacLeod!
ME AT 13 YEARS OLD: haha
December 7, 2024 at 4:59 AM
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lily-is.online
The idea of “social murder” is super useful, and we need to get comfortable using it. Engels is the best, man - reading him feels like finally acknowledging the obvious reality everyone wants you to ignore
Engels on 'Social Murder' When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another, such injury that death results, we call that deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call this deed murder. But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or the bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live - forces them ... to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence - knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual ... Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845 [1967]), p. 126 (Panther Press)
December 5, 2024 at 4:42 AM
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freecialis.bsky.social
this is so perfect youve gotta think it was intentional
One former Cigna executive recalled how the US health insurer used to frequently face threats when claims were denied. “We’d have times when you’d deny proton laser therapy for a kid with seizures and the parent would freak out,” said the former executive. Another industry executive said: “What’s most disturbing is the ability of people to hide behind their keyboards and lose their humanity.”
December 6, 2024 at 2:57 PM
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librarypolicy.bsky.social
Federal funding is sustaining critical programs in libraries nationwide, including Houston Public Library's Career Online High School!

Thanks to a federal grant from IMLS via the TX State Library & Archives, Houston PL can help even more students succeed: www.theleadernews.com/education/ho...
Houston Public Library receives $75,000 grant to expand Career Online High School Program
The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) has awarded the Houston Public Library (HPL) a $75,000 Special Projects Grant to expand its Career Online High School Program. The funding
www.theleadernews.com
December 6, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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librarypunk.bsky.social
140 - Metadata Related to Indigenous Peoples of the Americas feat. Katherine and Brandon

This week we’re interviewing Brandon and Katherine on metadata related to indigenous issues, but we of course stray into many other topics.

www.librarypunk.gay/e/140-metada...
140 - Metadata Related to Indigenous Peoples of the Americas feat. Katherine and Brandon | librarypunk
This week we’re interviewing Brandon and Katherine on metadata related to indigenous issues, but we of course stray into many other topics.  Katherine: https://linktr.ee/katwitzig  Brandon: bcastle [a...
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December 6, 2024 at 7:03 PM
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h1twom4n.bsky.social
Saw a guy on X who endlessly debates people with attached reaction images of his own AI sexy lady looking smug and it was my last straw really
December 6, 2024 at 1:12 AM
zoworm.bsky.social
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Girlfriend meme template for “DDC Girlfriend” that says “Aww babe, you accidentally treated LGBT people like human beings,” “Very into Christian study,” “What do you mean I support the marginalization of non-Western countries?” “let’s hang out at the non-fiction section of North American public libraries,” “Resistant to change,” “supports colonialism,” and “I don’t know what you’re talking about when you speak politically correct to me.”
December 3, 2024 at 9:33 PM
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lily-is.online
"Combat Liberalism" implies the existence of something ridiculous like "Peacetime Liberalism"
December 3, 2024 at 9:11 PM
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jphillll.bsky.social
People these days just don't understand that one man can work 28,000x harder than everybody else
moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · Dec 3
Jeff Bezos makes over $14,000 in the span of time that a worker earns 50 cents.
December 3, 2024 at 4:10 PM
zoworm.bsky.social
Is it comforting to know moral panics have always been occurring and this one isn’t special or incredibly disheartening :) Depends on the day
contrapoints.bsky.social Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social · Dec 2
My new Tangent “Satanism” discusses satanic panics from blood libel to witch trials to 80s ritual abuse to internet conspiracy theories, as well as the origin of the concept of Satan, and the fairly short history of actual Satanic religions. Up now on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/117044...
Tangent: Satanism | ContraPoints
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December 3, 2024 at 8:41 PM