Kirsti
@kst.bsky.social
Librarian. Geek. Music is life. I block early & often. “Always fight for the user, never for the system.”— Cory Doctorow.
Reposted by Kirsti
If you want to learn what SSPE is like, there are real stories from real people about the devastation measles can wreak even years later
The return of measles will mean the return of SSPE.
If you don't know what that is, read this. www.voicesforvaccines.org/what-measles...
If you don't know what that is, read this. www.voicesforvaccines.org/what-measles...
What Measles Did to My Family
My mom always told me that measles was what made my sister sick. I was 8 when she finally explained the whole thing.
www.voicesforvaccines.org
February 16, 2026 at 2:08 AM
If you want to learn what SSPE is like, there are real stories from real people about the devastation measles can wreak even years later
Friend is performing in a concert in N Seattle tonight. Wanted to try out a Thai place on Lake City Way but there was no bike parking *anywhere* for blocks, so now having dinner someplace with bike racks.
February 16, 2026 at 1:44 AM
Friend is performing in a concert in N Seattle tonight. Wanted to try out a Thai place on Lake City Way but there was no bike parking *anywhere* for blocks, so now having dinner someplace with bike racks.
Reposted by Kirsti
As federal immigration agents surge into communities and detain people, the number of habeas petitions — claims challenging those detentions — has increased.
We are tracking the historic rise in these cases, which are overwhelming the court system ⤵️
We are tracking the historic rise in these cases, which are overwhelming the court system ⤵️
Tracking the Historic Rise of Habeas Cases Filed by Detained Immigrants
ProPublica is tracking the historic rise in challenges filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal.
projects.propublica.org
February 16, 2026 at 12:00 AM
As federal immigration agents surge into communities and detain people, the number of habeas petitions — claims challenging those detentions — has increased.
We are tracking the historic rise in these cases, which are overwhelming the court system ⤵️
We are tracking the historic rise in these cases, which are overwhelming the court system ⤵️
Reposted by Kirsti
In the US, the resistance to progress on many things, usually has a component of "the majority of white US folk prefer the outcome of what the system was previously doing."🤷🏿♂️
As in, most white US folk don't want George Floyds. But they do want the ability to call the cops on random Black people.
As in, most white US folk don't want George Floyds. But they do want the ability to call the cops on random Black people.
February 16, 2026 at 12:40 AM
In the US, the resistance to progress on many things, usually has a component of "the majority of white US folk prefer the outcome of what the system was previously doing."🤷🏿♂️
As in, most white US folk don't want George Floyds. But they do want the ability to call the cops on random Black people.
As in, most white US folk don't want George Floyds. But they do want the ability to call the cops on random Black people.
Reposted by Kirsti
A neither good nor bad thing, is that systems that have been the same way for a long time, are often very resistant to change.
If they weren't resistant to change, they would have been changed already!
Often, driving change requires finding the buffer or dynamic that causes that resistance.
If they weren't resistant to change, they would have been changed already!
Often, driving change requires finding the buffer or dynamic that causes that resistance.
February 16, 2026 at 12:37 AM
A neither good nor bad thing, is that systems that have been the same way for a long time, are often very resistant to change.
If they weren't resistant to change, they would have been changed already!
Often, driving change requires finding the buffer or dynamic that causes that resistance.
If they weren't resistant to change, they would have been changed already!
Often, driving change requires finding the buffer or dynamic that causes that resistance.
Reposted by Kirsti
The New York Public Library's Schomburg Center released 100 Black Voices, an astonishingly good reading list featuring books selected by some of today's most celebrated Black writers, artists, and luminaries.
100 Black Voices: Books for Adults
This list—curated by the Schomburg Center’s Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division—features 100 books personally selected by some of today's most celebrated Black writers, artists, and luminaries. Discover a selection of 20 titles you can read right away, explore books in accessible formats, and learn more about the Schomburg Centennial.
www.nypl.org
February 16, 2026 at 12:41 AM
The New York Public Library's Schomburg Center released 100 Black Voices, an astonishingly good reading list featuring books selected by some of today's most celebrated Black writers, artists, and luminaries.
Reposted by Kirsti
#BHM Day 15: Black Pilgrims on the Road 🧶
The figure at the heart of this colorway is a Black knight shown mid-journey, riding with purpose rather than spectacle. He appears in the late-15th-cent travel account of Arnold von Harff’s travel account, a record of pilgrimage routes,
1/6
#yarnsky
The figure at the heart of this colorway is a Black knight shown mid-journey, riding with purpose rather than spectacle. He appears in the late-15th-cent travel account of Arnold von Harff’s travel account, a record of pilgrimage routes,
1/6
#yarnsky
February 15, 2026 at 10:21 PM
At The Beacon Cinema to see Cyd Charisse in The Band Wagon on a semi-large screen.
Fred Astaire is also in it but I care much more about Cyd Charisse. 😆
Fred Astaire is also in it but I care much more about Cyd Charisse. 😆
February 15, 2026 at 9:57 PM
At The Beacon Cinema to see Cyd Charisse in The Band Wagon on a semi-large screen.
Fred Astaire is also in it but I care much more about Cyd Charisse. 😆
Fred Astaire is also in it but I care much more about Cyd Charisse. 😆
Reposted by Kirsti
Recently in one of the education sessions the doctors I work with run, they brought up how many children used to die from measles each year.
2 million. 2 MILLION children used to die every year, worldwide, from measles.
That is the world anti-vaxxers want, and it is evil.
2 million. 2 MILLION children used to die every year, worldwide, from measles.
That is the world anti-vaxxers want, and it is evil.
February 15, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Recently in one of the education sessions the doctors I work with run, they brought up how many children used to die from measles each year.
2 million. 2 MILLION children used to die every year, worldwide, from measles.
That is the world anti-vaxxers want, and it is evil.
2 million. 2 MILLION children used to die every year, worldwide, from measles.
That is the world anti-vaxxers want, and it is evil.
I'm crying. You're crying. We're all crying.
This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our neighbors.
youtu.be/uoU9Img_B40
youtu.be/uoU9Img_B40
Welcome The Stranger
YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office
youtu.be
February 15, 2026 at 7:33 PM
I'm crying. You're crying. We're all crying.
Reposted by Kirsti
While MLPS was a victory, moral and tangibly, for ICE resisters, don't call it 'a retreat.' The dystopia is just getting started
Thousands of new agents. 150 new offices in every state. And the nationwide gulag archipelago. The fight has just begun
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
Thousands of new agents. 150 new offices in every state. And the nationwide gulag archipelago. The fight has just begun
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
No, ICE isn’t ‘retreating.’ It’s loading up to invade your town. | Will Bunch
A much-hyped ICE pullback from Minneapolis is a blip in a looming nationwide surge of arrests, concentration camps.
www.inquirer.com
February 15, 2026 at 6:25 PM
While MLPS was a victory, moral and tangibly, for ICE resisters, don't call it 'a retreat.' The dystopia is just getting started
Thousands of new agents. 150 new offices in every state. And the nationwide gulag archipelago. The fight has just begun
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
Thousands of new agents. 150 new offices in every state. And the nationwide gulag archipelago. The fight has just begun
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
Reposted by Kirsti
Today is the last day to get your hands on Feb's monthly yarn or roving colorway: Petals & Presence. The story of our figure of inspiration was one I really enjoyed researching bc she was a little outside my area of expertise. Twas a win win bc I learned so much along the way too! 🧶
#yarnsky
#yarnsky
February 15, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Today is the last day to get your hands on Feb's monthly yarn or roving colorway: Petals & Presence. The story of our figure of inspiration was one I really enjoyed researching bc she was a little outside my area of expertise. Twas a win win bc I learned so much along the way too! 🧶
#yarnsky
#yarnsky
I laughed so hard! 🤣
February 15, 2026 at 7:10 PM
I laughed so hard! 🤣
After measles immunization campaigns, child mortality goes down-- not just for measles but for a bunch of other diseases! Because getting rid of measles protects kids' immune systems. Look up "immune amnesia." It's freaky.
Measles is one of those nightmare diseases that, if it hadn't been killing people for hundreds of years, people would ABSOLUTELY be pushing conspiracy theories about right now. It's too nasty in too many different directions to seem natural. But oh, boy, it sure is.
February 15, 2026 at 7:03 PM
After measles immunization campaigns, child mortality goes down-- not just for measles but for a bunch of other diseases! Because getting rid of measles protects kids' immune systems. Look up "immune amnesia." It's freaky.
If you're a writer, you may need to start adding language to your contracts about post-publication "editing"
This post from two years ago came into my notifications as someone just liked it. Clicked through and found that the piece I wrote has since been 'enhanced' with additional breathless and chatty text by an "SEO Content Copywriter", though it could equally have been done by ChatGPT.
Tomorrow is the centenary of the birth of puckish Italian polymath Italo Calvino. I had a good deal of fun revisiting some of his books for this little guide on where to start reading him:
February 15, 2026 at 6:56 PM
If you're a writer, you may need to start adding language to your contracts about post-publication "editing"
Reposted by Kirsti
Good Morning ☀️ 🏜️ Growing up in Michigan, this is NOT what I thought the desert looked like…
February 15, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Good Morning ☀️ 🏜️ Growing up in Michigan, this is NOT what I thought the desert looked like…
Reposted by Kirsti
You only need to visit one to know for sure. Go during visiting hours and see what these families are being put through. I met a woman holding a 4 month-old baby whose husband is inside, and two people whose family member is missing. Just gone. ICE doesn’t know where he is anymore.
February 15, 2026 at 2:07 PM
You only need to visit one to know for sure. Go during visiting hours and see what these families are being put through. I met a woman holding a 4 month-old baby whose husband is inside, and two people whose family member is missing. Just gone. ICE doesn’t know where he is anymore.
Reposted by Kirsti
This is called a community college and if we funded them properly we wouldn't need private individuals to offer these kinds of services.
Schools across the country are offering courses and retreats for people 50+ who want to reinvent themselves and embrace lifelong learning and discovery.
Need a new path in midlife? There's a school for that and a quiz to kickstart it
Schools across the country are offering courses and retreats for people 50+ who want to reinvent themselves and embrace lifelong learning and discovery.
n.pr
February 15, 2026 at 3:07 PM
This is called a community college and if we funded them properly we wouldn't need private individuals to offer these kinds of services.
Did Paul Duane leave Bluesky?
February 15, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Did Paul Duane leave Bluesky?
@e-van-every.bsky.social - Something to try on your visit?
Ireland's mysterious non-boozy football drink
Donegal's Football Special has been north-western Ireland's favourite underground non-alcoholic drink since the 1960s. And now the top-secret recipe is taking the nation by storm.
www.bbc.com
February 15, 2026 at 6:27 PM
@e-van-every.bsky.social - Something to try on your visit?
Reposted by Kirsti
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
Corporate suits have never understood.
I got to hear an interesting story about the production of the 2000 movie Groove, which is about a bunch of different people attending a rave one night in San Francisco.
The film was created by a bunch of people in the Bay Area rave scene. when the filmmakers tried to get funding...
The film was created by a bunch of people in the Bay Area rave scene. when the filmmakers tried to get funding...
February 15, 2026 at 6:24 AM
Corporate suits have never understood.
Reposted by Kirsti
A thing folks often forget about Revolution-era America is there were pockets of Catholics who’d effectively had their faith suppressed *in America* and, also, French Huguenots who were only here because Catholics in France massacred thousands of them and threw their bodies into the Seine River.
This is your regular reminder that the idea that Christianity is a thing uniform beliefs that everyone within “Western Civilization” believed and agreed on is a fiction that just ignores centuries of Christians killing each other and fighting literal wars over their different beliefs.
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
www.state.gov/releases/off...
February 15, 2026 at 2:49 AM
A thing folks often forget about Revolution-era America is there were pockets of Catholics who’d effectively had their faith suppressed *in America* and, also, French Huguenots who were only here because Catholics in France massacred thousands of them and threw their bodies into the Seine River.
Reposted by Kirsti
The Hague for every person involved in this
A 10-year-old boy recounted fleeing Thursday morning as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation began near his school bus stop in Lindenwold, New Jersey, saying, "We all were scared."
"We were all scared," says child who ran as ICE operation unfolded near New Jersey school bus stop
Dylan, who is a U.S. citizen, told CBS News the day seemed normal — until he heard his classmates suddenly start shouting "ICE."
cbsn.ws
February 15, 2026 at 3:09 AM
The Hague for every person involved in this