“My biggest fear is going to the hospital."

Pregnant immigrants are terrified ICE will show up outside the doctors' office or at the hospital. So they're skipping the care necessary to ensure a healthy birth.

Some experience dangerous complications as a result.

19thnews.org/2025/10/preg...

Fascinating story here.

Really want to encourage libraries - especially school libraries - to put no-AI content into your collection development policy. At the very least, if you have a clause in there about requiring accurate information, you can use that to weed out or prevent genAI purchases.

1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools.

Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.

Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.

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When another outlet does the story I did a year ago

1. Vehemently anti-LGBTQ+ Oklahoma education superintendent is finally out as of yesterday.

He appointed Libs of TikTok to the library board, and constantly worked against LGBTQ+ students.

Now, local businesses are literally throwing parties that he is gone.

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i just wanna put it out there that if you hear people using terms like "transgenderism" or "trans ideology" it is your responsibility to shut that shit down, especially if you are cis.

these are literal dehumanizing terms invented to describe the fact of trans people existing as nefarious. stop it.

Thank you ☺️

This is it.

Back from our southern CO road trip, where we got engaged!!! @jasonics.bsky.social 💙

A good scammer knows when the weather has changed. Activism is over, we’ve gone back to Christianity.

love cannot be stopped it is the inertia of existence itself

White House executive orders and legislation in many states have targeted the rights and protections of trans people. For some, that has meant increased financial worry.

Civil rights attorneys say that people listed on the “Charlie’s Murderers” website—who were subject to death threats and in some cases lost their jobs—may have a case for defamation

Honestly, you can't watch that clip and not think, "Wow, Kimmel made Trump look really stupid."

Reference librarian Eddie Kristan said lenders at the library where he works have been asking him to find books that don’t exist without realizing they were hallucinated by AI.

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Icymi new from me 🫠 s/o @giantlibrarian.bsky.social for putting this on my radar like two years ago. Sorry to report it's much worse now. Ty @404media.co & @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social for picking this up!

Oklahoma has a persistent teacher shortage, but that's not going to stop its GOP government from persecuting teachers who didn't sufficiently mourn a hatemongering podcaster with no connection to Oklahoma.

I spent the summer looking into the politics of inclusive classroom signage for @edsurge.com and how it's affecting teachers.

www.edsurge.com/news/2025-09...

An army of smaller social media accounts has taken up the cause of identifying—and in some cases doxxing—people they accuse of mocking Charlie Kirk’s death or simply speaking ill about his career, for example, by accusing him of promoting racist or anti LGBTQ sentiments.

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences:

www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

So why use AI at all? Why not just use human professionals from the start?

Because the tech lords view it as a temporary measure, until AI becomes acceptable enough that humans are no longer needed.

Then no one has jobs, or the income to buy their shit. But they don't care about that part... yet.

I don't think it's going to work...