GOP blocks plan to prepare North Carolina counties for ballot seizures, ICE at polls Millen pointed to recent events in other states, including California where a sheriff seized over 650,000 ballots, as well as rhetoric from various Trump administration officials suggesting federal de...

🚨BREAKING: The Republican majority on the North Carolina State Board of Elections voted Wednesday to block a proposal that would have prepared local officials for scenarios involving federal agents at polling places and attempts to seize ballots. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I long for the day and time when I don't have to create a login, and thus give away my gotdamn personal information, in order to browse products, jobs, a muthafuckin' menu...

Correct response

FFS 😑

Trust me, disabled people feel this hostility acutely.

Listen to Carolina, a farm worker and UFW member in Delano, explain the union’s efforts with the @aclu-norcal.bsky.social to stop the racist raids by Border Patrol on communities like hers.

“Why don’t you want to have a conversation about AI?”

“I broke into your house and stole your shit and now I just want to talk.”

'“Laid-off workers are now moving into a category that is long-term unemployment. The unemployment checks have stopped. They’re having trouble with healthcare,” said WellFed co-founder and program director Rebecca Ferguson-Ondrey...'

Incredibly misleading @newsweek.com headline, bothsidesing so hard it would make @nytpitchbot.bsky.social blush.

The premise is false.
Californians & Virginians had the chance for voters to decide whether or not they approved redistricting.

Texas & FLA gave voters NO such chance.

A notice posted in many libraries: "Nervous about asking? As a library, we’re not here to judge, we’re here to help.” The notice lists various sections of the Dewey Decimal System – A Guide to Library Collection Call Numbers: Abortion - 363.46 Abuse - 362.76 Alcohol - 362.29, 613.81 Anxiety - 152.46, 155.5, 616.85 Body Changes - 612.6, 613.04 Bullying - 303.69 Cancer - 616.99 Child Custody - 343.73 Cutting/Self Harm - 616.85 Depression - 616.85 Divorce - 306.89 Drugs - 362.29, 613.8 Eating Disorders - 616.85 HIV/AIDS - 616.97 LGBTQIA+ - 306.76 Loss of a Parent - 306.87, 155.9 Mental Illness - 616.89 Post Traumatic Stress - 616.85 Pregnancy - 306.87, 618.2 Rape - 362.88 Self-Esteem - 158.1, 305.23 Sex - 613.9 STIs - 616.95 Suicide - 362.28, 616.85

NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK

Most libraries still use the Dewey Decimal System & Call Numbers.
Library patrons are able to use call numbers to find even sensitive-topic subject matter, without library staff help (see sample selection in photo below).

➡️ HAPPY EARTH DAY! April 22nd
(Dewey: 333.7 & 363.7)

Sacrifice your job for the glorious AI future How tech CEOs use the threat of job loss to distract from how AI is really used against workers

Perplexity’s CEO is just the latest tech leader to tell the public their jobs will be sacrificed on the altar of the glorious AI future.

It’s a compelling narrative, but it distracts us from the real impact of AI: not to take the human out of the loop, but to take away their power and cut their pay

To Fight Heat, NYC Sets 2040 Tree Canopy Deadline, With Riskiest Areas First How the plan will be funded is unclear. The Mamdani administration has not earmarked money for its tree-expansion initiative.

trees as cooling infrastructure! this is a fascinating story from @smaldo.bsky.social:

Seems like we need to revise & refine personality rights in the very least. Also expand PII protections. Of course, our data is a hot commodity, so... 😑

obviously I had to look up the bill

part of it would ban people from exposing their "private area" which is defined as "the genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or female breast below the top of the areola, where nude or covered by an undergarment"

or covered? so you can expose something not exposed?

DHS is moving to lock 1000s of people in massive detention warehouses. On Sat. April 25, take to the streets in Downtown #Norfolk to oppose the Trump administration's attack on due process rights. Part of a nationwide day of action. #ICEout

Details: www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

Ai remix feature in privacy settings on TikTok turned on

I am so upset right now, TikTok quietly added a feature which turns on an AI feature on all the TikTok’s you have already posted to allow Ai to remix and make content of your TikTok’s and I didn’t know, you must go to privacy settings on your TikToks to turn it off yourself, want to warn others 💔

Again, where the fuck have AAPG, GSA, and AGU *been* in raising alarm about this shit?

All three geological and geophysical professional societies have *direct interests* in at least getting the public aware of what an absolute disaster the targeting of civilian energy infrastructure is.

Also, wish there was an opt-out option on the TV ads post-voting.

Worlds Beyond Number: The Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One, Book One (Original Soundtrack), by Taylor Moore 2 track album

PRE-SALES are now LIVE for the soundtrack to Book One of The Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One from @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social

Buying the album during pre-sales helps us IMMENSELY, and you immediately get two of my personal favorite tracks, "Carrow" and "Sarazmir"

COME PARTY WITH US <3

The M35 Mako from Mass Effect, seen midair (about to plummet and bust that right front wheel) on the moon, with the Earth in the background.

@worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social At The Well: Science Fiction - Episode 2 (Fireside Chat) giving Mass Effect some love was just the dopamine hit I needed today.

One thing I appreciate about Bluesky is the community free pass on typos and such because we all know and share that pain.

Giving Tim Heidecker infowars is the first, but not the last, instance of The People's Joker becoming real life

A sip from a smooth rye cocktai maybe?

A drunk Mrs. Shellhammer from the movie Miracle on 34th Street. She is on the phone talking about Kris Kringle.

Report on State of US Libraries Exposes Trump Attacks and Record-Breaking Book Ban Efforts Book bans "were part of a well-funded, politically driven campaign to suppress the stories and lived experiences of LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC individuals and communities," said an American Library Association leader.

Last year's book bans "were part of a well-funded, politically driven campaign to suppress the stories and lived experiences of LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC individuals and communities," said an American Library Association leader.

🪶 🤖 WEEKLY SCHEDULE 👕 ✨

It's an extra-special week as Sam Riegel's epic 24-hour charity LIVE stream kicks off this Wednesday, before a BRAND NEW Darrington Brigade one-shot arrives this Thursday evening as part of our 24 hours of chaos for a cause!

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hard same

over the past 60 years, courts have used qualified immunity to excuse all sorts of egregious police abuses--saying 'maybe they didn't know they couldn't do that!'--and whittle down our constitutional right to be free from such abuses into nothingness

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/zorn-...

Naming my security company after the giant evil eye that, crucially, was too distracted to see the actual threat sneaking in

Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3