Fascinating choices all around then. Thank you!

That sounds like truly a nightmare to accomplish. Did he just eliminate the e from words normally spelled with an e or did he somehow only use words with no Es in them? Also, haven’t heard of this one but sounds like French language, is E as pervasive in Fr as Eng? I have questions!

“Defectors must have a place in the progressive movement” my brother in Christ you have a place and it’s way at the back of the line. If you have truly changed you will not come around here giving advice to everybody who has been fighting *you* for the rights of women and minorities until yesterday.

this is how Utah's Congressional map deals with Utah's largest city, cracking it through to the middle into 4 different districts in order to deny it Congressional representation to make sure Dems get 0 seats

Data Colonialism: AI Data Centers on Indigenous Land The artificial intelligence industry’s data center boom is the latest chapter in a long history of environmental racism and resource exploitation in vulnerable Native communities, says Oglala Lakota a...

The artificial intelligence industry’s data center boom is the latest chapter in a long history of environmental racism and resource exploitation in vulnerable Native communities, says Oglala Lakota and Northern Cheyenne activist Krystal Two Bulls, the executive director of Honor the Earth.

Latest insane Islamophobic legislation comes from Geneva, Switzerland, where new rules dictate that women at public pools must wear, "one-piece or two-piece swimming costumes whose maximum length is above the knees and which leave the arms bare”.

So, women MUST show arms and legs. That's freedom!

Apparently today is Earth Day? I almost never remember to track these things. Anyway, Happy Earth Day. Try to remember to do a little for the earth every day of the year though. And remember, things are improving. We brought back the whales. What else can we save together?

People of Bluesky, I come to seeking help with research once more.

If you were between the ages of 12 and 15 in 2005:
- did you have your own mobile phone?
- what access did you have to the internet/what websites/messaging services etc were you using?
- was your family poor/middling/well off?

A very special Happy Earth Day to everyone posting AI generated "happy earth day" graphics. Amazing job. You definitely get it.

Unpopular opinion: we on the left need to stop responding to criticisms with "No True Scotsman" fallacies. "Only liberals are racist/transphobic/ableist/welcoming Tucker Carlson/etc" is problematic because anticapitalist politics aren't actually a panacea. They're just a tool.

Cannot underscore enough that this was done to trans people first, which set the precedent that politicians can destroy medical care that both doctors and patients deem necessary for survival.

"Whaaaaaa whaaaaaa whaaaaa! They did what *we* did. Only better. NOT FAIR!!!"

Black-and-white photo of a small white kitten sitting on top of a car looking at the camera. There are some houses and powerlines visible in the background so it looks like this was taken in a driveway in a suburban neighborhood.

This is “Mittens” in 1955. 🥹 Photo from my collection.

Truly we all bow to the master. But also. At least it wasn’t the E key? 😆

Got a notice Netflix was raising their fees AGAIN, and finally got mad enough to actually cancel my membership like I’ve been saying I was going to for at least 6 months. 14 years of nonstop subscription & im done w their nonsense. I don’t even use it myself, I only kept it for my son.

Yep, I’m constantly using stuff I learn in my day job with my side projects. Same other way around though too, I learn stuff on the side I can apply to day job. It all works out.

Yessss. This would be like my 4th archives project not counting day job. Granted, one of them I haven’t done anything with in over a year because I haven’t had the spoons. But still.

Might start working on yet another archives project in my so-copious free time lol. I have a PROBLEM, I want to be involved in ALL THE ARCHIVES MUWAHAHAHA! All your archives are belong to me!!

Make a one page encouragement zine Collect notes of kudos to keep you going on doubtful days

I love this idea for a zine: "All the lovely messages and comments I’ve saved over the years—small acts from others that probably took seconds to write—have buoyed me during times of doubt."
open.substack.com/pub/cyoo/p/m...

A large, bright pink azalea bush in a yard at the corner of a gray-green house.

My azalea, she gorgeous. 😍
#bloomscrolling #photography #phonepic

Big Yikes!! That’s so frustrating!!

Usually. I feel it is a personal affront to be forced to work on my own birthday. Even if I’m not doing anything special, birthday days are for splurging on a cake & resting & maybe going out to dinner with my family.

Girl, the solution to "the system is exploiting and replacing us" isn't "get a new system that can exploit and replace us". What are we even doing here? You can't fight for women if you're fighting for the technology that will run them out of the workplace.

I’m old enough to remember when NPR did their annual recitation of the Declaration of Independence in 2017 and a bunch of Trump voters called it anti-Trump propaganda because we live in hell

We really have to talk about how AI and EdTech are being foisted off as "solutions" or "accommodations" for students with disabilities as a first-line remediation of disability services offices at unis. Does the student with the disability really come out ahead here? Do other students? The prof?

ICE is not about immigration.

ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on peaceful streets.

Abolish ICE.

A bright red flower with wrinkled petals fronts the beginning of a pomegranate fruit.

Pomegranate bloom with fruit beginning to form.

I did not plant this. It just started growing in the back yard so I watered it.

I love this dark purple tulip, name escapes me for now 🌱

🌱 good morning🌞 so nice to have flowers in real time again💚

Good morning. Happy Thursday everyone 😊💙🦋🌱