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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 1d

hell yeah

Cover of the classic children's book Frog And Toad Are Friends.

Drawing of Toad, a brown toad, sitting on a bench, dressed in a green jacket and slacks. He is reading a book to his friend Frog, a green frog dressed in a brown jacket and slacks. They are surrounded by green plants and mushrooms. There is a silver Caldecott Medal in the corner.

Text has been altered from original. It reads
Fiftieth Anniversary
Frog and Toad Are Antifa
by Arnold Lobel

Commemorative Edition

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

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Find Me A Therapist

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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 1d

“what a ridiculous game to care about, to watch, to enjoy” good. blog.

That game stands out in my memory because the Phillies got wrecked by the Brewers. But-but!!-they got destroyed so badly that people left early and Rob Thompson put WESTON WILSON (outfielder) in to pitch, and he didn't give up a run! | cackled in the stands. What a ridiculous game to care about, to watch, to enjoy. Weston Wilson! It felt ludicrous to have that much fun at a game they lost.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 2d

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 2d

I’d like to amplify others’ pleas to *please* acknowledge and build upon the work of librarians and other organizers — @heykellyjensen.bsky.social, @tasslyn.bsky.social, @everylibrary.bsky.social, et al — who’ve been tracking *all of this* and developing expertise for YEARS.

404 Media @404media.co · 3d

Help us investigate book bans across the USA.

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

🔗 www.404media.co/help-us-inve...

Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

www.404media.co

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 3d

You don't get to advocate for a thing and not notice the power-hoarding people who also like that thing. I struggle with people who do not seem to care who they are in coalition with or to at least think about what might happen if those people's vision happens instead of theirs.

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Emma Molls @emmamolls.bsky.social · 2d

about once a week, I hear a person in power explain, to those they have power over, that it is a “really hard time to be a leader.” Sure, of course it is. But it is a really hard time to be led! Terrible leaders currently control the things that most impact our lives!

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SB @stephestellar.bsky.social · 2d

This is bad news in so many different directions 📜 📚
www.dailytarheel.com/article/26e4...

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3d

Without comment.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

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SB @stephestellar.bsky.social · 2d

Hahahahahaha. Yes, the dead body one for max coziness, ta

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SB @stephestellar.bsky.social · 2d

my favorite parish priest was a guy who REALLY COOKED once a year on "scandalous wealth" - that phrase is seared into my brain

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 3d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 3d

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

Credit where credit is due. The Democrats' message that the GOP shut down the government because they want to throw millions of people off healthcare has broken through. Two of my cousins who are NOT AT ALL tuned into national politics told me that this is why the government is shut down.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2d

There's a social media trend of people attempting to run marathons with zero training and a take that really resonated with me is doing this means that you never really fail. I think the AI people have a similar mentality. They want to be able to say they have done a thing without doing it

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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SB @stephestellar.bsky.social · 3d

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James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 3d

"Why Independent Museums and Emerging Technologies Are Essential to Preserving History, and Protecting Truth" www.usatoday.com/story/specia...

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 4d

My professional timeline right now is made up of four distinct silos wrt the principal global threat/challenge we face, in roughly this order:

1. AI

2. Russia

3. China

4. Climate

I'd reverse the order and eliminate the silos.

But most notably, Trump II has no plan for dealing with any of them.

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SB @stephestellar.bsky.social · 3d

I don't understand this but I assume (only an assumption!) I understand it as much as the SDSS dean understands SILS

Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 3d

SILS is one of the top library schools in the country. Not good.

Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 3d

Breaking: We’ve talked to multiple individuals who have confirmed that UNC-CH is merging SILS (library and information science) and SDSS (data science and society). Announcement will be tomorrow morning. Faculty were not consulted.

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SB @stephestellar.bsky.social · 3d

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Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 3d

Stan Ahalt (data science) will be the dean of the combined schools. The current library school dean is getting some AI position.

michael scott is sitting in front of a window with his eyes closed and his hand on his chin .

ALT: michael scott is sitting in front of a window with his eyes closed and his hand on his chin .

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SB @stephestellar.bsky.social · 3d

It's great that they are only leaving behind erosion but it is really messing with my surfing time 😭

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 4d

Was there a memo to all Atlantic tropical cyclones this year or something where they were all told to avoid the US

National Hurricane Center map of the Atlantic showing Tropical Storm Jerry to the east of the lesser Antilles with a projected path skirting the islands to the north before swinging further north and then east out to sea

Map of the Atlantic showing all tropical cyclone paths for 2025, with most of them following the same general path where they appear scared to come anywhere near the US

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 3d

I, however,
Have such meagre power,

Clutching at a
Moment,

While you control
An hour.

But your hour is
A stone.

My moment is
A flower.

-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.

I have done so little
For you.
And you have do little
For me.
That we have good reason
Never to agree.

I, however,
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 4d

She's not anonymous (can't speak to her salary).

Her name is Camille Zapata

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4d

As the Trump administration dramatically reshapes the U.S. public education system, ProPublica’s reporters are investigating how these changes affect people across the country.

Help us track developments at schools and colleges in your area 👇

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SB @stephestellar.bsky.social · 3d

That's a really wonderful way to celebrate and also grow 🥹🥹

Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 3d

It's MacArthur day! It's MacArthur day!

I have a little ritual where, every announcement day, I watch the video, read the Fellows' bios, and ask myself how I'm being creative in my own work. Just a nice push to think outside the box.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ3K...

Meet the 2025 MacArthur Fellows

YouTube video by macfound

m.youtube.com

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 3d

Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 4d

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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