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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@butwait.bsky.social
Edutummler, Creampuff, Earper. Grateful to all who "learn out loud". Empowering purposeful networks. Pers. account. White settler, cis & queer. Daily haiku over at butwait.blogspot.com.
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I saw someone else's version of this list without alt text. Every community includes low vision, blind, and otherwise disabled folks who make extensive use of screen readers, so I've created a revised version that includes alt text.

Our fears are justified.

Alt text: bit.ly/theywilltry
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There are more people organizing and pushing back against the regime today than there were in the first term. There are more people in more places (rural towns and big cities across the country). I think it's really strange how resistant some people are to these facts. I wonder what's going on.
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Early registration for the 100% virtual Queer History South Conference on February 20-21, 2026 is now open! Visit invsiblehistory.org/qhs or the link in our bio to learn more, see the full schedule, and register. Early registration will be open until December 31.
November 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Yesterday's event recording is up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSZ9...
November 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Cool news!
a Friday surprise! my beloved book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, is now officially back in print AND ON SALE! #othernetworks if you know folks who have been trying to track down a copy, I'd love it if you'd repost shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...
Lori Emerson - Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook. Mexican Summer & Anthology.
Buy Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook by Lori Emerson on Mexican Summer & Anthology.
shop.mexicansummer.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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BREAKING: 30 young people were just arrested after blocking an ICE detention facility near Alligator Alcatraz.

ICE is kidnapping our neighbors on behalf of fascist billionaires. It's time for every single American to stand up to their intimidation tactics. Let's shut it down.
November 22, 2025 at 11:38 PM
“Nobody knows who’s liable if things go wrong"
“Insurers increasingly view AI models’ outputs as too unpredictable and opaque to insure, said Dennis Bertram, head of cyber insurance for Europe at Mosaic. “It’s too much of a black box.”

www.ft.com/content/abfe...
Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts
AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots
www.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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In a special project on extreme cold in prison, 27 PJP contributors in 17 states describe winter behind bars — and the small dignities that could make it more bearable.
What Extreme Cold Feels Like in Prison
Prison writers from across the U.S. describe how cold their prisons get in the winter — and what small dignities could make it more bearable.
prisonjournalismproject.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Tomorrow!
Next Monday, 11/24, two celebrated writers and scholars explore the craft and influence of Octavia E. Butler. Join @imaniperry.bsky.social and @tananarivedue.bsky.social for an evening dedicated to the revered SFF author’s luminous imagination. RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
November 24, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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For those of you not on tiktok, here are links from Instagram of the shorter videos to download & share:

www.instagram.com/reel/DRaNMha...

www.instagram.com/reel/DRaM4MW...

www.instagram.com/reel/DRaMocK...

If you see #ICELawlessness in your area, you have the right to record. Be save, though!
November 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
As we sometimes say in Quaker meeting: This Friends speaks my mind.
AI/LLMs are marketed as great tools to solve problems, get advice, create images & punch far above one's "weight class" to effectively communicate & persuade others.

They are in actuality anti-reality, anti-truth, anti-human multi-modal force-multiplier distortion weapons aimed directly at society
November 23, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Oh my goodness, please encourage the white and otherwise respectability-pilled protesters in your life to read Chapter 6 of Let This Radicalize You! It’s available to read for free through the generosity of @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and @prisonculture.bsky.social!
Protest, Power, and the Violence Debate
"We are told we are experiencing peace, so long as everyone is cooperating."
organizingmythoughts.org
November 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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While most songbirds have left the Rocky Mountains for the freezing times ahead - one special exception remains. The antics of American Dippers are so enjoyable, they make up for the lack of many other #birds.
November 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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This week, Omar El Akkad won a National Book Award for his best-seller, ‘One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.’

ICYMI: @mehdirhasan.bsky.social interviewed the author earlier this year to discuss his book on the Gaza genocide.

Watch the conversation: zeteo.com/p/one-day-ev...
‘One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This’
Mehdi talks to award-winning novelist Omar El Akkad on his new book about Gaza - and how so many have shamelessly looked away.
zeteo.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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I need $606 to pay the movers to escape my abusive family on Dec 1. Thanks to your reposts and donations, we have raised $394 of my original $1000 goal. Thank you so much! Please help me get away from financial and emotional abuse and into safety and security!
I gratefully accept tips, donations, whatever you want to call them

Cshpp $ThreeRaccoonsInACoat
Vnm @ Sarah-Moose-Moose
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November 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Anybody got an older but still works fine laptop they'd be open to passing along?
November 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Cancelling soon!
Spotify is helping ICE recruit more agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities. Stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops running ads for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
November 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
In this last month of shorter and shorter days here in Lenapehoking and Turtle Island, how about we all support some #trans joy?

www.transanta.com
Transanta
Send gifts to trans youth in need, safely and anonymously!
www.transanta.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Happy 67th Birthday to the Muppets!
#TheMuppets67
November 20, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Says Sherman: "I want to showcase what America has been and can be, rather than someplace that has completely ignored or destroyed Indigenous food systems.”
Meet the Writers, Chefs, Foragers, and Photographers who Helped Bring Sean Sherman’s ‘Turtle Island’ To Life - Racket
A dynamic Twin Cities team helped create Sherman’s latest cookbook.
racketmn.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Calling all artists!!!

I am highlighting your art in my posts! I need a cover image for my three wins post so I want to help highlight your work!

Today I used “The Library” by MacKenzie Kuck

Tomorrow, maybe it’s yours!
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November 21, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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BREAKING: 30 more Starbucks locations are joining the strike.

Starbucks workers in 25 cities are jumping into the week-long strike.

Now @sbworkersunited.org members at 95 stores in 65 cities have walked off the job.
November 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Friends, you could be part of a making sure our friend's escape plan succeeds!
Thursday greetings friends. I still need to raise $656 to fund my Dec 1 move back to metro detroit and away from my abusive family. Please help me raise money for the movers, I am disabled and I cannot do this alone.
I gratefully accept tips, donations, whatever you want to call them

Cshpp $ThreeRaccoonsInACoat
Vnm @ Sarah-Moose-Moose
Kofi Ko-fi.com/moosefriend
November 21, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Also, y'all know that pre-orders are important to the life of a book, right?

Go get you some!

bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
November 21, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Hey.

It's okay to be sad about the right decision.
November 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM