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just four more days! please help

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

Made it to Friday but at what cost

Indiana lawmakers are once again trying to weaken child labor laws: Bill sponsored by business owner would enable employers to hide child labor violations Coordinated, industry-backed campaigns to weaken child labor protections continue to target state legislatures in 2026. Yesterday, the Indiana Senate passed a bill to completely eliminate requirements...

The Indiana House and Senate have both passed a bill to completely eliminate requirements for businesses to document the employment of child workers.

If this bill becomes law it would enable employers to hide child labor violations, according to @epi.org.

Donate to Help Seth Bridge the Gap to Her First Paycheck, organized by SA H On February 6th, 2026, I quit a job that was destroying my will to live. O… SA H needs your support for Help Seth Bridge the Gap to Her First Paycheck

hello! i made a gofundme to help tide me over between now and when i get my first paycheck in ten days. please donate, please share.

gofund.me/91bb69fef

Help out a friend!

i don't get my first paycheck from my new job for another two weeks and my account is overdrawn. please help

www.paypal.me/SAHershman

venmo: SAH32

another Rent Fundraiser.

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good news: this should be the last one as long as things go as planned; should be moving into a much more affordable living situation april 1. until then though we still need help to stay Housed.

thank you.

#MARequest #HelpSky #transcrowdfund

I’ve watched a very smart child try to encode what chaptgpt thinks is “human” so that her class assignments don’t get flagged for plagiarism.

I’ve heard expert professionals admit to self-editing so they don’t “sound” like an llm.

This is the kind of cultural flattening that accelerates fascism.

Just saw the NBC piece on her and her kids. She’s amazing!

Good news alert: Just want to shout out Elana Meyers Taylor, the most decorated Black woman in the Winter Olympics, who won her sixth medal and first gold tonight, AND is also one of the only 8% of hearing parents who learn to sign for her deaf kid. Badass through and through.🥇

I’m at the weird intersection of academia (unionized adjunct) and professional writer (long-time freelancer/independent with in-house experience.) I’ve been asked recently to stop using certain words and phrases in my writing because the stakeholders don’t want ppl to think a chatbot wrote it.

I’m shocked

A graphic saying that if you buy Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders in audiobook via Libro.fm, your purchase will directly benefit booksellers facing emergency financial, medical, and mental health service needs.

Booksellers are total heroes who keep us falling in love with reading. They are vitally important to our communities.

So I'm delighted that for the next 2 days sales of the audiobook of Lessons in Magic and Disaster via @libro.fm will benefit BINC, which helps booksellers in need 🥰

libro.fm/binc

If you have access to PBS streaming services, please watch "the librarians" by Independent lens. A powerful documentary of how the moms for liberty tried to destroy school library content. Libraries changed my life as a kid, I was so proud of these librarians.

Ew a MAHA commercial

To recap:
—Finland’s women’s hockey team got norovirus
—4th place American finisher in big air snowboarding had a broken arm
—there’s a skater who can’t feel below her knee
—Lindsay Vonn tore an ACL a week ago
—Alyssa Liu almost missed her contribution to the team because of a J.D. Vance motorcade

I love the Olympics

How does one deal with an existential crisis and also an impending possible giant snowstorm

A graphic with confetti falling from the top, with the cover for The Golden Boy's Guide to Bipolar by Sonora Reyes, with a Shneider Family Book Award Honor Book sticker on the cover. Beneath, it reads "Schneider Family Book Award Honor HarperCollins Children's Books"

I was so nervous to put this book into the world because it's so personal to me. I wanted nothing more than for Cesar to be seen and loved in all his messy, vulnerable glory. I'm so freaking proud to have been awarded a Schneider Family Book Award Honor. Thank you, thank you, thank you

We are celebrating Jess Callans today! OLLIE IN BETWEEN was just named a Stonewall Book Award Honor Book. This tender coming of age story belongs on EVERY bookshelf ➡️ tinyurl.com/2hau35vf

Woods and words cover

Huge congrats to @sarahackerman.bsky.social for a Stonewall Honor for WOODS & WORDS! #kidlit #alayma

Congrats Stonewall winner @dirtbagqueer.rocks!!!

Wikipedia at 25: What the web can be - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

I just set up a recurring donation to @wikipedia.org. As the information environment grows increasingly totalitarian, Wikipedia is more important than ever, and it's under existential threat. Imagine losing it.

h/t @anildash.com

www.anildash.com/2026/01/15/w...

Publishing for Minnesota Silent auction 'Publishing for Minnesota' hosted online at 32auctions.

Feel helpless? Want to do something to help the brave folks in Minnesota? If you're a writer, teacher, book club, there are great items to bid on here: www.32auctions.com/organization...

My god, what have I done?!

Pay James Wylder using PayPal.Me Go to paypal.me/JamesWylder and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

Coming off of Covid, and haven't been able to work. Getting back into making many happy or gripping things for everyone, but if you want to help with gas and groceries while I dig into work, it'd be wonderful.
www.paypal.me/jameswylder

Just gonna drop this lawsuit that is still ongoing between the New York Times and OpenAI showing literal plagiarism and verbatim copying. They also recently sued Perplexity for the same issue. www.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

IU DID IT!!!!