@davidsherman.bsky.social
Archivist, Esperantist, Citizen
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All right, I’m going to make coffee, but I will leave you with this: one of the most radical acts of resistance both to fascism and to Covid right now is to wear a mask. Build communities around wearing masks, etc. Get vaccinated do what you can to protect yourselves and others in your life.
November 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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This is could well be a historic midterm for Democrats.

Don’t waste it on centrists who won’t come through when it matters. Run vocal progressives.

You won’t end Trumpism without anti-corruption crusaders and warriors for social and economic justice who believe in taxes & big, universal programs.
Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵
November 15, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"

guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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like, why would any democrat compromise with the GOP right now? you have a once in a millennium upper hand. every member of trump’s admin who opened that file is complicit. go after them. open investigations. have hearings. say it on the news every night. do something other than roll over for once.
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Study of >11,000 children with atopic dermatitis (eczema) shows that COVID vaccination has additional benefits including:

✅ Fewer COVID infections
✅ Fewer other infections (pneumonia, ear, skin)
✅ Less allergic reactions (asthma, food anaphylaxis)

🔗 buff.ly/Pg6Abgq

#medsky #pedsky 😷🧪
November 12, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Trump's ICE is deporting our immigrant neighbors. If you see #ICE, call the LUCE Hotline as soon as possible!

We need to do all we can to protect & support our #immigrant families who make our #communities strong. Please share this information! #ImmigrationMakesUsStrong

www.lucemass.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Jen 40 novaj Esperanto filmoj en la 7a Usona Bona Filmo Festivalo
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
La 7a Usona Bona Film-Festivalo! / The 7th American Good Film Festival! - YouTube
youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Every so often I think about the two grads students in my old lab who had to sort through hundreds of thousands of seafloor images to find ecologically interesting regions. One built this super sophisticated machine learning algorithm that was, honestly, very very impressive.
November 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Why can't all the Dems open the house. A quorum is currently all the Dems +2. Declare the Speakership abandoned. Open the house. Why is this not happening already? there are ways to play offense. Let the Repubs cry "you can't do that!" for a change.
November 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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There had better be trials. And not just for the low-level thugs carrying out these orders, but for everyone up the chain of command.

If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics.

It’s trials w real punishments.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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En novembro mi donos du retajn prelegojn pri Esperanto-muziko.

Ĉi-vendredon la 7-a: Esperanto-Muziko 1887-1987: eventaservo.org/e/a59cd3

Mardon la 18-a: La "Unuaj" en Esperanto-Muziko: eventaservo.org/e/esperantom...

Ĉiuj estas bonvenaj!

#Esperanto #EsperantoMuziko
November 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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The USDA is the fail safe for SNAP.

They have a contingency fund to ensure it’s covered in the event of a shutdown.

They’re refusing.

Grocery stores stepped up to try and help by offering discounts to any SNAP recipients and the USDA told them they had to stop.

Starvation as a policy choice.
November 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Reporter: SNAP is so stimulative to our economy. There are lots of rural stores where 60% of their sales are SNAP sales. So that rural store might have to shutter its doors. This is our collective struggle. All of us do better when people experiencing hunger do better. All of us lose when they don't
November 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Internet Archive's 1 trillion milestone was recognized in the Congressional Record ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/31/s...
blog.archive.org
October 31, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Why is it that every disappeared US citizen is not front page news? At the very least we should have a little box with a count of the number of citizens who have been taken away and are not locatable and a link to a story with photos & min-bios, just as we used to do with military casually figures.
In Portland, Oregon, masked ICE GOONS abducted and vanished US citizen Gonzalo Catalan last week. Tragically, his family remains unaware of his whereabouts and has not received any communication from him as of today.
October 30, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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It's Black Speculative Fiction month!

All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own.

1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a...

2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2
October 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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A reminder that you can donate to Wikipedia to keep human-sourced knowledge accessible.
October 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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If avoiding a painful and disfiguring rash - and potentially permanent nerve pain and nerve damage - isn’t enough for you, multiple studies have also shown that shingles vaccination can lower dementia risk, possibly up to 20%
In the US: If you're 50 or older (or 19/older & immunocompromised), please get vaxxed against shingles. It's no joke.

"With more than a million infections a year, herpes zoster affects nearly 1 in 3 adults and is now recognized as a systemic inflammatory event...

www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Shingles Vaccination Linked to Vascular Benefits
Several observational analyses suggest higher cardiovascular and dementia risks in those with and without HIV who get shingles and lower risks with vaccination.
www.medscape.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Honestly at some point you have to start doing psyops with these people:

Have Obama announce that he will seek a third term tomorrow. Then watch all the con law “scholars” and Fix News MELT DOWN trying to explain why he can’t but Trump can. (It’s like Newsom taking over his social media persona)
Q: One theory on how you might try to serve a 3rd term is that you could run at the vice president

TRUMP: Yeah, I'd be allowed to do that. But I would rule that out because it's too cute.
October 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM