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BOB from the Future/Library @anstett.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Birthday 🎂

"There is something you don't know..... I am not left handed either...."

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 1d

Not a game: Cards Against Humanity avoids tariffs by ditching rules, adding explanations arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

Not a game: Cards Against Humanity avoids tariffs by ditching rules, adding explanations

You absolutely, definitely cannot play it.

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M 🍂🎃 @wildroothearth.bsky.social · 5d

BTW you should be downloading important documents onto a flash drive so it can be read on your phone, Kindle, tablet, or whatever. Just assuming it will always be accessible on websites is foolish at this point.

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BOB from the Future/Library @anstett.bsky.social · 3d

How do you explain to someone that you can see what is not there?

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 3d

The neurons that let us see what isn’t there

A standard optical illusion triggers specific neurons in the visual system of mice.

arstechnica.com

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BOB from the Future/Library @anstett.bsky.social · 6d

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BOB from the Future/Library @anstett.bsky.social · 6d

All for a Paladin of the Library

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BOB from the Future/Library @anstett.bsky.social · 8d

Sigh... just .....

Malinda Lo @malindalo.bsky.social · 8d

This is a very bad ruling for all of us who value the First Amendment.

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M 🍂🎃 @wildroothearth.bsky.social · 8d

☹️

www.irishtimes.com/world/2025/1...

Jane Goodall, primatologist and global activist, dies aged 91

Scientist turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment

www.irishtimes.com

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 9d

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 10d

Let me get this straight.

They are going to kill the E-Rate because it is TOO SUCCESSFUL at what it is meant to do, which is provide necessary access to the internet in our forcibly online society to those who would otherwise struggle to get online.

How... evil.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Too much unsupervised internet access?
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said in a statement that the FCC's authority to fund the Wi-Fi initiatives had ended by the time the Biden FCC voted. He said the E-Rate wasn't meant to provide children with unsupervised access to the internet.

"The FCC also failed to demonstrate that these funding decisions would advance legitimate classroom or library purposes. I dissented from both decisions at the time, and I am now pleased to circulate these two items, which will end the FCC’s illegal funding unsupervised screen time for young kids," Carr said.

Republicans in the Senate and House introduced measures to overturn the Biden rule earlier this year, also calling it partisan overreach because federal law states that the E-Rate program is meant to provide discounts for broadband services only to "school classrooms" and libraries.

In May, the Senate voted 50-38 along party lines to overturn the 2024 expansion. A similar bill introduced in the House in February has not been considered.

Many don't have access for homework, telemedicine, online banking, etc.
The Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition, the American Library Association (ALA), EdLiNC and the Homework Gap Coalition signed onto the joint letter to the FCC.

"Lack of access to home broadband is a daily problem for students trying to succeed in school, people looking for jobs, rural residents relying on telehealth, and for Americans without digital skills to file their taxes and set up online banking," Helmick said in the statement. "Policymakers should welcome the eagerness of local libraries and schools to be part of the solution."

E-books are on the line as Congress considers future of library funding
The letter provides examples of school districts in rural areas with lengthy bus commutes, such as Farmington Municipal Schools in New Mexico, that have put Wi-Fi on buses so students can complete homework on their up to two-hour ride home.

The letter also stresses that both of programs are already subject to E-Rate’s filtering requirements in accordance with the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA), ensuring that users do not have unfettered access to obscene or harmful material.

It also notes that allowing the program to cover lending hotspots and extending Wi-Fi to school buses fits alongside other modifications made to the E-Rate program that aren't explicitly allowed under the federal law, such as supporting internet access in administrative offices, parking lots and library bookmobiles.

Sarah D. Wire covers how rea

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BOB from the Future/Library @anstett.bsky.social · 10d

Sorry for your loss

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H (エイチ) @therealhanamaru.bsky.social · 11d

Gotta participate in this year's -tober challenge

SLEEPTOBER 2025 COMING IN CINEMA NEAR YOU

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David Ziggy Greene (Jam bookshop) @jambookshopuk.bsky.social · 29d

Got distracted by life stuff but really need to push this again.

Help me raise at least £1000 for the Bumblebee Conservation Trust‬ by to draw 1000+ bumblebees in as short of time as I can (around 3 hours)

If more is raised, I'll draw #bees to match the amount.
www.justgiving.com/page/1000bum...

Drawing 1000 bees for Bumblebee Conservation Trust

Help David Ziggy raise money to support Bumblebee Conservation Trust

www.justgiving.com

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Maija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social · 12d

#SciArtSeptember 24 - Numbered

The kakapo is one of the few species on the planet whose population is known exactly. After nearly going extinct, they have been intensively protected and managed for decades.

After the recent death of Lisa, who was at least 50 years old, there are now 238 kakapos.

Illustration of a kakapo - a large, moss-green flightless parrot with an owl-like facial disc. The bird is sitting on the arm of a person. Kakapos have little fear of humans, as they are all tracked and regularly checked, and also naturally fearless, since they evolved in the absence of terrestrial predators.

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Cara N. Delaney 💖💜💙 @caradelaney.bsky.social · 12d

Every now and again I peek at my former publisher's website to see just what kinds of books they had in their queue before mine that made them miss every single deadline until I terminated the contract.

Surely, it must be many, for their operations to stall this badly.

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Cara N. Delaney 💖💜💙 @caradelaney.bsky.social · 12d

Three. They've published THREE books since I asked for my rights back three years ago. Nothing after 2023.

There's your lesson: When things start feeling off, just bounce. Having your rights and no contract is better than having a contract but no rights, and no book on the horizon either.

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BSonblast @bsonblast.bsky.social · 12d

- Per a report by Yale University's Humanitarian Research Lab, RSF has nearly completed building walls around the besieged city.

- The berms now stretch "for over 68km around Elfashir, leaving only a 3-4km gap before the city is fully enclosed". (Sudan Tribune)

#KeepEyesOnSudan

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BOB from the Future/Library @anstett.bsky.social · 14d

Have to hold on tight to keep your hands inside of the ride at all times.

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BOB from the Future/Library @anstett.bsky.social · 14d

My avatar
A glass of wine
My quote

"We do not stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing"

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15d

Curse of private equity.

After US hospitals were acquired by private equity firms, patient death rates in the emergency depts rose by 13% compared with similar hospitals.

PE cut staffing, wages, investment; hiked profits.

People killed for profit.

Yet UK handing healthcare to PE.

Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over, study finds

The increased deaths in emergency departments at private equity-owned hospitals are most likely the result of reduced staffing levels, researchers say.

www.nbcnews.com

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Marshall Julius 🚀 @marshalljulius.bsky.social · Jul 28

Welcome to Jurassic Pork 🦕🥟🦖
#Delicious #Dinosaur #Dumplings

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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 15d

Disgraced former GOP lawmaker who served time for insider trading & then was pardoned by President Felon said that he plans to run for a seat from #Florida because he was "lonely" and missed getting invitations to fundraisers & galas. www.rawstory.com/chris-collin... via @rawstory.com

Felon Republican wants to run again because he's 'lonely' without 'fundraisers and galas'

A disgraced former Republican lawmaker who President Donald Trump pardoned after he served time for insider trading said that he planned to run again because he was "lonely" and no longer received inv...

www.rawstory.com

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 15d

Yes

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 15d

So just to be clear: The US is propping up Argentina’s economy, and now Argentina can eliminate its export taxes, so it can sell tons of soybeans to China, so China isn’t forced to buy soybeans from the US, so the US can pay subsidies to keep our farmers solvent.

www.reuters.com/world/china/...

China expands Argentina soybean buying to 20 cargoes, traders say

Chinese importers kept up a hectic pace of Argentine soybean purchases after the South American supplier's move to abolish export taxes temporarily made its prices competitive, traders said on Wednesday.

www.reuters.com

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BOB from the Future/Library @anstett.bsky.social · 16d

Excellent

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