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Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 16m

Comrades, I’m inclined to tell you a story from my organizing days. In 2018, I was one of hundred of union organizers who had the privilege to assist with a nine-day, statewide, unauthorized teachers’ strike to save their schools from a critical staffing shortage. Buckle up, it’s a good one. 1/x

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Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 12h

This is why archives need funding support. There is knowledge in analogue media that we are racing against time to preserve.

#digipres #archives #library #DigitalPreservation 📚

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 2h

People think the first thing Gutenberg printed was the Bible. This is false. The first things he printed were a political prophecy, propaganda about the Turks’ threat to Christendom, & a popular school text. If you want a parallel to AI, that’s it: making $ from conspiracies, racism, & school slop.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 11h

really nice piece on this btw from @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

"The Printing Press Democratized Knowledge": When Slogans Masquerade as History — Sonja Drimmer

The phrase is said so frequently it seems, like the mechanism it celebrates, to mechanically replicate itself.  It's become a favorite catchphrase among tech boosters of any sort (see my post on...

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 1h

Etah.

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 1h

It’s maybe not shocking that the institutions closest to fact—district judges, juries—have proven most robust against an onslaught of lies, but it’s to journalism’s eternal shame that it has behaved like the political institutions and not the honest ones.

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1h

unlike the rest of these folks (and unlike appellate judges and supreme court justices), the job of a district judge is essentially to see what's in front of them

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1h

It's very striking how clearly they seem to see what's right in front of their faces in way that so many others -- law firm partners, university presidents, members of congress, and on and on -- refuse to.

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 1h

Haircut optional but preference given.

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 1h

Don't call it racial apartheid tho!

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1h

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Israel’s Olympic gold medalist can’t marry in the country, his mother laments
Artem Dolgopyat is not considered Jewish according to Orthodox practice, as only his father is Jewish; with no civil marriage option, his only outlet is marriage abroad

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 1h

Mood. I want wallpaper that will kill you if you lick it.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 5h

Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 5h

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 1d

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the Nobel Peace prize committee meeting."

James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 1h

A deeply funny book about economics.

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 1h

For my money she was just a snob.

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 1h

"He recalled pictures of them in the Times' society pages, getting in or out of sleek black coaches and not smiling very much, in case the money escaped." Terry Pratchett

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 1h

Anti-Catholicism is pretty much the animating energy for the entire Gothic genre. If you like screeds against papists, it's the genre for you!

Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 2h

literally this weird anti catholic rant has taken up more space than the shipwreck, evil painting, and madhouse scene combined. this author really hates monasteries

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 2h

a woman in a leopard print shirt is making a funny face and saying `` that 's hot '' .

Alt: a woman in a leopard print shirt is making a funny face and saying `` that 's hot '' .

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2h

This has been the entire thing for months. It's better if Democrats start saying so in public.

Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 7h

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2h

Anyone who voted to pass the NDAA today devoid of the amendments proposed to reign in the deployment of troops to US cities but somehow still full of anti-LGBTQ riders— thus supplying nearly a trillion dollars to an occupying army, will be remembered in history books as having helped end democracy.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 2h

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 6h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 2h

Much like Frankenstein!

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 2h

A timeless classic.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2h

I know Susan Stryker wrote like the trans essay on Frankenstein thirty years ago but it's ringing so real in 2025

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 2d

No poetry but in novels.

dead manu walking @profchander.bsky.social · 2d

students said they weren’t really poetry fans but loved novels, so i wrote down a line they picked out from jane eyre, scanned it, noted the metrical substitutions and internal rhymes. reader, they took pictures of the chalkboard.

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