Library Bear 📚
@adklibrarybear.bsky.social
Mama bear. Librarian. Outdoorsy. Leftist. Rather be hiking. 🏳️🌈☸️ 🧶📚Ask me for a book recommendation. She/her.
Profile pic: the face of a black bear happily munching some dandelions. Background pic: me the (human) bear under the total solar eclipse ☀️🌕
Profile pic: the face of a black bear happily munching some dandelions. Background pic: me the (human) bear under the total solar eclipse ☀️🌕
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TURNS OUT A VERY WIDE SPAN OF THE ELECTORATE HATES FASCISM, ACTUALLY. WHO COULD HAVE GUESSED.
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We know the names Sarah Beckstrom and Andrew Wolfe. Do we know Kevin Booker, Demetrius Alston, and David Warren Childs? All killed by DCPD last week, a police dept untethered by restraint since the start of the DC occupation. Our city is less safe, but it was never about that. tinyurl.com/2456cc46
After the DC National Guard Shooting Comes the Big Lie
West Virginia’s governor, Patrick Morrisey, is inventing reasons for the National Guard to occupy Washington, DC. We cannot let his outrageous fabrications take hold.
tinyurl.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
We know the names Sarah Beckstrom and Andrew Wolfe. Do we know Kevin Booker, Demetrius Alston, and David Warren Childs? All killed by DCPD last week, a police dept untethered by restraint since the start of the DC occupation. Our city is less safe, but it was never about that. tinyurl.com/2456cc46
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1) It's a lie that the Nat Guard is here to fight crime
2) It's a lie that DC was hell on earth before their arrival
3) It's a lie that military occupation makes a city safer. It actually just amps up the specter of violence
4) Truth? They want to occupy our cities. That's it. tinyurl.com/2456cc46
2) It's a lie that DC was hell on earth before their arrival
3) It's a lie that military occupation makes a city safer. It actually just amps up the specter of violence
4) Truth? They want to occupy our cities. That's it. tinyurl.com/2456cc46
After the DC National Guard Shooting Comes the Big Lie
West Virginia’s governor, Patrick Morrisey, is inventing reasons for the National Guard to occupy Washington, DC. We cannot let his outrageous fabrications take hold.
tinyurl.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
1) It's a lie that the Nat Guard is here to fight crime
2) It's a lie that DC was hell on earth before their arrival
3) It's a lie that military occupation makes a city safer. It actually just amps up the specter of violence
4) Truth? They want to occupy our cities. That's it. tinyurl.com/2456cc46
2) It's a lie that DC was hell on earth before their arrival
3) It's a lie that military occupation makes a city safer. It actually just amps up the specter of violence
4) Truth? They want to occupy our cities. That's it. tinyurl.com/2456cc46
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A college student complaining about a grade on a paper is not national news. Not even close. The details have minimal import outside the class itself.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
December 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A college student complaining about a grade on a paper is not national news. Not even close. The details have minimal import outside the class itself.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
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People need food. Market won’t provide it. Government should. It’s literally the whole point.
Turns out Mamdani's controversial proposal for government-run supermarkets isn't so novel. Other cities also are toying with the idea to bring fresh, affordable food to communities that do not have easy access to it. Good WSJ read (gift link)
www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
Inside Atlanta’s First Government-Funded Supermarket
The goal is for the store to become profitable without any government subsidy within three years.
www.wsj.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
People need food. Market won’t provide it. Government should. It’s literally the whole point.
My man talks with his mouth open & despite the fact that I tell my toddler not to do that 1000x a day, HERE IT TOTALLY WORKS 🤩🤩🤣
Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.
Some changes that they can look forward to:
Some changes that they can look forward to:
December 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
My man talks with his mouth open & despite the fact that I tell my toddler not to do that 1000x a day, HERE IT TOTALLY WORKS 🤩🤩🤣
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"Israel has “a de facto state policy of organised and widespread torture”, according to a UN report covering the past two years, which also raised concerns about the impunity of Israeli security forces for war crimes." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel has ‘de facto state policy’ of organised torture, says UN report
Committee highlights allegations including dog attacks and sexual violence, raising concern about impunity for war crimes
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM
"Israel has “a de facto state policy of organised and widespread torture”, according to a UN report covering the past two years, which also raised concerns about the impunity of Israeli security forces for war crimes." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Woman deported from Maryland shown on video being dragged in Ghana
Rabbiatu Kuyateh was detained this summer at her annual ICE check-in, her son said. She moved to the D.C. area 30 years ago as she fled civil war in Sierra Leone.
www.nbcnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:30 AM
🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
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🚨New Paper🚨 US doctors are paid very different amounts for treating different patients—even when providing identical services.
How much less are physicians paid for treating non-White patients?
In @jamahealthforum.com, we offer the 1st national estimates. (1/7)
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
How much less are physicians paid for treating non-White patients?
In @jamahealthforum.com, we offer the 1st national estimates. (1/7)
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Payments to Physician Practices and Incentives to Serve Different Racial and Ethnic Groups
This study measures disparities across patient racial and ethnic groups in per-visit payment to physician practices from health insurers and other sources, adjusted for visit content, geographic marke...
jamanetwork.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
🚨New Paper🚨 US doctors are paid very different amounts for treating different patients—even when providing identical services.
How much less are physicians paid for treating non-White patients?
In @jamahealthforum.com, we offer the 1st national estimates. (1/7)
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
How much less are physicians paid for treating non-White patients?
In @jamahealthforum.com, we offer the 1st national estimates. (1/7)
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Fam I’m taking a “go through old closet shit” day & I found a full-on medieval style heavy woolen cloak 🤩🤩 with a satin inner layer & gorgeous broach. It was a graduation present for high school bear. Partner suggested I donate it. BLASPHEMY.
December 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Fam I’m taking a “go through old closet shit” day & I found a full-on medieval style heavy woolen cloak 🤩🤩 with a satin inner layer & gorgeous broach. It was a graduation present for high school bear. Partner suggested I donate it. BLASPHEMY.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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today is the first time since 1988 that the united states is not observing world AIDS day
in fact, per STAT, the state department has forbidden federal employees AND GRANTEES to not utilize any funding to promote or commemorate this day
in fact, per STAT, the state department has forbidden federal employees AND GRANTEES to not utilize any funding to promote or commemorate this day
December 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
today is the first time since 1988 that the united states is not observing world AIDS day
in fact, per STAT, the state department has forbidden federal employees AND GRANTEES to not utilize any funding to promote or commemorate this day
in fact, per STAT, the state department has forbidden federal employees AND GRANTEES to not utilize any funding to promote or commemorate this day
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About 100 #ArtAdeventCalendar posts already and close to 95% have AltText. Let's keep that up.
Make it easy on yourself and go to Settings and enable Require Alt Text.
It's not "required" because you can do whatever but if you're not using it, you'll find far fewer people share your work.
Make it easy on yourself and go to Settings and enable Require Alt Text.
It's not "required" because you can do whatever but if you're not using it, you'll find far fewer people share your work.
December 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
About 100 #ArtAdeventCalendar posts already and close to 95% have AltText. Let's keep that up.
Make it easy on yourself and go to Settings and enable Require Alt Text.
It's not "required" because you can do whatever but if you're not using it, you'll find far fewer people share your work.
Make it easy on yourself and go to Settings and enable Require Alt Text.
It's not "required" because you can do whatever but if you're not using it, you'll find far fewer people share your work.
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NEW: Portland releases ‘community surveillance database’ of ICE/DHS vehicles, made searchable for anyone to use. The database was compiled from careful community research. Notes agents have been observed swapping plates.
ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybei...
ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybei...
PDX ICE/DHS License Plates
Community-driven database of verified ICE/DHS license plate sightings in Portland. Each entry has at least 2 verified sightings. Search, filter, and export data for community safety.
ipfs.io
December 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
NEW: Portland releases ‘community surveillance database’ of ICE/DHS vehicles, made searchable for anyone to use. The database was compiled from careful community research. Notes agents have been observed swapping plates.
ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybei...
ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybei...
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Kneesvember 2025 Day 20
November 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Kneesvember 2025 Day 20
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Introducing December's #yarnclub colorway "Ira's Velvet Curtain". This luscious colorway is based on the 1st Black Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge who became a world renowned actor in the 19thc. This month is merino/silk w/ handpainted gold leaf. Abt 15 steps to make this month's but worth it. 🧶
November 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Introducing December's #yarnclub colorway "Ira's Velvet Curtain". This luscious colorway is based on the 1st Black Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge who became a world renowned actor in the 19thc. This month is merino/silk w/ handpainted gold leaf. Abt 15 steps to make this month's but worth it. 🧶
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As Stoppard wrote, and as I contemplate often: “I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.”
November 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
As Stoppard wrote, and as I contemplate often: “I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.”
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picturing a measuring cup of lawyers and having to pour out a bit of lawyer so I have less
November 30, 2025 at 3:29 AM
picturing a measuring cup of lawyers and having to pour out a bit of lawyer so I have less
No srsly why are these fascists the biggest dumbass failsons alive
Ok I know I know I know I know this is so not the point
but it’s
“Fewer lawyers”
but it’s
“Fewer lawyers”
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 30, 2025 at 3:59 AM
No srsly why are these fascists the biggest dumbass failsons alive
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The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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"COVID-19 infection during pregnancy increases the risk of preterm birth, preeclampsia, and stillbirth."
NEW: A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other neurodevelopmental diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.
Amid Confusing CDC Guidance About Vaccines, Study Highlights New Risk of COVID-19 During Pregnancy
A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.
www.propublica.org
November 28, 2025 at 12:31 AM
"COVID-19 infection during pregnancy increases the risk of preterm birth, preeclampsia, and stillbirth."
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"Elon Musk is personally responsible for the deaths of at least 400,000 children" is a stat that should be cited every time he and his pervert fanboys start yapping about birth rates
Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 29, 2025 at 1:05 AM
"Elon Musk is personally responsible for the deaths of at least 400,000 children" is a stat that should be cited every time he and his pervert fanboys start yapping about birth rates
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Which probably sounds like a strange comparison, but helping out at the preschool often feels like reliving Occupy.
There is ALWAYS a logistical crisis that requires fast thinking, often a conflict to break up, always a need to be moving around meeting needs.
There is ALWAYS a logistical crisis that requires fast thinking, often a conflict to break up, always a need to be moving around meeting needs.
November 29, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Which probably sounds like a strange comparison, but helping out at the preschool often feels like reliving Occupy.
There is ALWAYS a logistical crisis that requires fast thinking, often a conflict to break up, always a need to be moving around meeting needs.
There is ALWAYS a logistical crisis that requires fast thinking, often a conflict to break up, always a need to be moving around meeting needs.
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Kids are the only thing keeping me from losing my mind, honestly.
You HAVE to put down the phone sometimes, you HAVE to put one foot in front of the other, you HAVE to make it through the day and hold it together.
The only experience I can really compare it to is sustained street protest.
You HAVE to put down the phone sometimes, you HAVE to put one foot in front of the other, you HAVE to make it through the day and hold it together.
The only experience I can really compare it to is sustained street protest.
I feel like it is very hard to function on a daily basis if you think too hard about how many things in the US are completely falling apart and/or actively being destroyed right now, which is one upside to being recently laid off
November 29, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Kids are the only thing keeping me from losing my mind, honestly.
You HAVE to put down the phone sometimes, you HAVE to put one foot in front of the other, you HAVE to make it through the day and hold it together.
The only experience I can really compare it to is sustained street protest.
You HAVE to put down the phone sometimes, you HAVE to put one foot in front of the other, you HAVE to make it through the day and hold it together.
The only experience I can really compare it to is sustained street protest.
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Fresh off the needles last night! Finished in between cooking different bits for the holiday meal. Learned the Icelandic Bind Off, and it is now my favorite bind off.
Fabulous yarn from @isasaxonists.bsky.social
#Showmeyourknits Indie Week #knitsky 🧶
Fabulous yarn from @isasaxonists.bsky.social
#Showmeyourknits Indie Week #knitsky 🧶
November 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Fresh off the needles last night! Finished in between cooking different bits for the holiday meal. Learned the Icelandic Bind Off, and it is now my favorite bind off.
Fabulous yarn from @isasaxonists.bsky.social
#Showmeyourknits Indie Week #knitsky 🧶
Fabulous yarn from @isasaxonists.bsky.social
#Showmeyourknits Indie Week #knitsky 🧶
This is def horrifying, but to be clear: I am not sure why we’re surprised the Nazis are behaving like Nazis. Whose mind are we trying to change with the “he should feel bad for being a war criminal” gambit?
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This is def horrifying, but to be clear: I am not sure why we’re surprised the Nazis are behaving like Nazis. Whose mind are we trying to change with the “he should feel bad for being a war criminal” gambit?