Thank you to @authorsabb.bsky.social heroes @beccacoffindaffer.bsky.social and Ed Underhill, we have some slides that can be shared by anyone about this, with particular reps to target. Let's kill this bill in committee.
quitting my job and abandoning my family to devote myself full time to my passion: unsubscribing from political texts and emails
Today is the first day of Ramadan, the first day of Adar, Lunar New Year and Mardi Gras.
This means that for one reason or another, the majority of humans on the planet have a reason to eat fried food, and that is beautiful.
Go watch “The Librarians” right this very minute.
You’re going to be very mad. And you should be.
And you’re going to love librarians even more than you already do.
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🗃️ PhD request 👇🏻
Rockwell would have painted this.
Young Anton Chekhov, the playwright, looking super hot in his 20s
Wait, THIS is young Anton Chekhov? This? Good lord. Let that gun go off, daddy
Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum.
Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
The pivot to video is a tax on women's time and dignity, I will die on this hill.
Professional athletes are being advised not to leave the hotel or go anywhere without their passports while visiting Minnesota.
This is not a country that can safely host international events like the World Cup.
Boycotting is not even a political question anymore. It is a basic issue of safety.
The covers of five books by Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz, with the Humble Bundle logo. Supporting the MIss Major/Alexander J. Lee TGIJP Black Trans Cultural Center.
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An imagine explaining that OpenAI is Trump's largest donor
One more reason my soul shrivels up every time I hear someone say "I just used chatgpt to ____"
Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.
"bearing witness to events" literally just means recording what is happening so it cannot be elided or erased in the future, it does not mean you are required to watch execution videos as some duty, stop letting people who don't understand words tell you what to do
All the traits that you have been taught to value and look for in special individuals - courage, intelligence, strength - are actually collective traits. There is no genius or hero coming to save us from our problems. We solve them together or not at all. Socialism or barbarism.
It's a snitch app
You don’t just get to call yourself an archivist. There are ethics, training, apprenticeships involved in the creation of an archive.
You don’t just run around stealing anything you can get your hands on and then pretend you’re a saint and a conservator.
Dress rehearsal was great, team, but remember ⬇️⬇️⬇️
you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review
the new queen
I've gone to towns over an hour away to see a movie and I'll do it again.
Muppets comedy doesn’t require a huge production budget. It also doesn’t have to be cranked to 11 to deliver solid comedy beats *if* you can deliver them through strongly defined characters. You can watch this & instantly know & laugh at these character types in a sketch...
It is me! Let me tell you, being an ancient Roman gender historian focused on the dangers of income inequality and elite paranoia about social mobility from oppressed groups, esp. women & former enslaved folks, has never felt more unfortunately relevant!
Congratulations!
Jaysus. This is what we in D&D call an Overchanneled Fireball with Sculpt Spell: maximum damage to one fucknugget and *nobody else around him*.
Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:
As if artists don't have enough to deal with, Amazon has a "Buy For Me" program in beta which is scraping indie shops for their items and putting them up on Amazon (often incorrectly), for their "AI agent" to buy from the other site. It is NOT opt in, and there is no opt out.
