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Anne Elias

@woodsfern.bsky.social

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Union organizer, instructional designer, library worker, gardener. Weather, nature, abandoned places. Abortion is healthcare. Lebanese/Irish. Free: Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Hawai’i...

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Anne Elias @woodsfern.bsky.social · Aug 26

This. A young person dies by suicide at the blatant encouragement of an Ai chatbot, and that parent company, OpenAI, has contracted with the 2nd largest teachers' union to provide guidance on Ai in schools?! It's outrageous. As an AFT member, I repeat my calls for @rweingarten.bsky.social to resign.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Aug 26

OpenAI is one of the monstrous companies @rweingarten.bsky.social has partnered with to push "A.i." into schools. INTO SCHOOLS.

Tell your schools HELL NO TO "A.i."

www.chalkbeat.org/2025/07/08/o...

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 1d

This is the 2nd anniversary of the start of a genocide that made Gaza the most dangerous place on earth for children— that has raised a mirror to the rot at the core of our world.

Never has it been clearer that none of us are free until Palestine is free.

inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

On Parenthood and Genocide

A new mother and scholar of forced displacement writes about Israel's mass murder of Palestinian children in Gaza.

inthesetimes.com

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Anne Elias @woodsfern.bsky.social · 23h

This is awful news for their over 500 employees (cancelled severance and insurance). More info here: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Cyberpunk Librarian @cyberpunklibrarian.bsky.social · 1d

Baker & Taylor appears to be shutting down. A post on the r/libraries subreddit from an employee of B&T breaks the news and there appear to be other employees in the comments confirming the situation.

From the Libraries community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the Libraries community

www.reddit.com

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 1d

“By 2028, an average family in the region will be paying around $70 a month extra on their electricity bills because of forecasted data center growth”

I'm once again asking why ratepayers are subsidizing AI titans?

www.eenews.net/articles/dat...

Data center boom sparks sticker shock for PJM ratepayers

New analyses show that costs passed on to utility customers to guarantee future electricity demand are rising rapidly.

www.eenews.net

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 1d

Just saw a women's sports creator refer to "the MNBA" for the first time and I am howling

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Anne Elias @woodsfern.bsky.social · 2d

Democrats: Hey, what didn't work the last time? We should do that again.

JFC.

Lexington Herald-Leader @kentucky.com · 2d

“This is a different race, it’s a different year, it’s a midterm,” McGrath said, comparing 2026 to her 2020 run for U.S. Senate.

‘Battle-tested’ Amy McGrath launches second Kentucky U.S. Senate bid

“This is a different race, it’s a different year, it’s a midterm,” McGrath said, comparing 2026 to her 2020 run for U.S. Senate.

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Anne Elias @woodsfern.bsky.social · 2d

I won’t discount that concern. So many people require syringes for various medical needs. Like, it’s pretty common. But, every refill, I have to explain guage, ml, etc. I’m baffled.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 2d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 2d

David Montgomery throwing touchdowns the Lions are so fucking back

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 3d

I have been saying for a few years now that people really need to take a seriously long look at the center of that venn diagram where the circles are marked "AI Culture" and "Disregard For/Violation Of Consent." The whole "AI Actress" situation is more of why.

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Anne Elias @woodsfern.bsky.social · 2d

Not a complaint, just an observation: I have to do B12 injections at home, syringes are never included with my liquid vials. I can't drink this stuff, but after 4 years, and 3 pharmacies, they all seem totally bewildered when I have to ask specifically for syringes for my prescription. 🤷‍♀️

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Unchained Malady 🎃👻⸆⸉ @unchained-malady.bsky.social · 2d

‬20 yrs ago, after reading too much Harlan Ellison and Stephen King (and then finishing off a bottle of wine by myself), I wrote a short story for a college project about a subculture that anthropomorphized their everyday appliances during a Captain Trips style worldwide quarantine (🧵)

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Calvinboo Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 3d

Listen, I reallt want you to hear this. Anything that requires others to suffer for someone else to benefit…is not a disability aid.

You need to sit with this, for real, because I don’t doubt that you do benefit from having support for your dyslexia. that doesn’t excuse something like gen ai

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Anne Elias @woodsfern.bsky.social · 3d

Unsurprisingly, the second independent autopsy showed that Trey Reed was murdered. He was lynched, and police are engaging in a coverup. Justice for Trey and his family.

Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s what we know about the lynching Trey Reed:

1) he was hit on the back of the head, and had multiple contusions.

2) he was strangled manually and then hung from the tree

3) he had an altercation with 4 white students in defense of his sister, who had posted something about Charlie Kirk

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 3d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Anne Elias @woodsfern.bsky.social · 3d

Turkish journalist/activist reporting that they beat Great Thunberg in front of the other Flotilla abductees: (Google translated) Global Sumud Flotilla activist Ersin Çelik upon arrival in Istanbul: "Israeli soldiers dragged Greta Thunberg along the ground and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag."

Karlos Malaventura @malaventura.bsky.social · 3d

El activista Ersin Çelik de la Global Sumud Flotilla a su llegada a Estambul: "Los soldados israelíes arrastraron a Greta Thunberg por el suelo y la obligaron a besar la bandera israelí."

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FREE ŁINK @lindli.bsky.social · 4d

This is a common belief in Maine, and seems to cross ideological lines

Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 4d

I’m in a hotel bar listening to a slightly inebriated state senator from Maine explain how he believes China is taking over the American cannabis industry.

The other people at the table are arguing that Amazon is much more dangerous. The senator is adamant about China.

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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 4d

Some lady appointed to high ranking position for first time ever, good job Eamonn for staying married to her while she insists on doing things.

Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 5d

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 5d

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel

A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 6d

I can’t begin to tell you how damaging “the world isn’t fair, get used to it” line has been to every child’s psyche growing up and therefore has led to a world that stays unfair. If we teach children to get used to an unfair world, we are destroying the possibility of a better world.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Anne Elias @woodsfern.bsky.social · 5d

We’re watching the Detroit/Cleveland baseball game, and a Guardians fan sitting directly behind home plate is throwing extremely obvious N*zi salutes.

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 6d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 6d

Chicago, Illinois, 2025:

"They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van."

"They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other."

"I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'"

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

abc7chicago.com

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Anne Elias @woodsfern.bsky.social · 6d

I am aware of what Related Digital's website says about water, sound, air pollution. I'm sure other data centers make similar claims to appease communities. As farmers lose federal support, Michigan land becomes more susceptible to quick purchase for development.