New — I wrote about how journalists proudly using AI to help them write their stories obscures the deeply human process that makes journalism a societal necessity, and one that feeds the soul of those who create it.
Hope you’ll give it a read. I promise I wrote the whole thing.
I just signed a @leadnowca.bsky.social petition: Tell the Canada Pension Plan: Divest from ICE. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
My story in the @heraldscotland.bsky.social
On how poet Kenneth White, who left his house in France to the local council on the proviso they use it for writers residencies, has had his legacy overturne
www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...
Petition against the move
www.change.org/p/non-%C3%A0...
CANADIANS!!!
Please fill this out and share it widely because HOLY SHIT. I struggle to drive on the freeway at night now because of the headlights.
I'm attending Bill C-12 Has Passed. What Happens Next? by @migrantrightsca.bsky.social
RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/bill-...
WOMEN👏DON’T👏WANT👏CHOCOLATES 👏FOR 👏VALENTINE’S 👏DAY 👏THEY 👏WANT 👏MERRIAM-WEBSTER’S 👏COLLEGIATE 👏DICTIONARY 👏TWELFTH 👏EDITION 👏
"The library is not meant to be a node in the just-in-time-economy that puts a rights-restricted copy of 'Abundance' in our AirPods. It’s meant to be an accessible portal to our government, the place we go to access shared knowledge and to make meaning with others."
— @shannonmattern.bsky.social
Please help us welcome Mason McIlroy, one of the newest members of the Kingstonist #NextGen Team, bringing #youth culture content to our readers in #YGK/#Kingston, #KFLA, and beyond the weeks and months ahead!
#Journalism #LocalNews
Details: www.kingstonist.com/news/introdu...
Oy es el Día Hinternacional de la Corrrección (se eligió este día por ser el del nacimiento de Erasmo de Róterdam). Felicidades a quienes os ganáis la vida con este noble y necesario oficio. Y un mensaje para quienes hacéis uso de sus servicios: pagadles bien y pagadles pronto.
I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation
Disabled people are particularly vulnerable to abuse under fascism.
ICE has been neglecting the medical needs of detainees.
One disabled immigrant, Rodney Taylor, needs our help.
He's a double amputee who's been in the country since he was two years old. He's being held in solitary:
He is the son of two powerhouse poets, community organizers, activists, and change makers, Amina Baraka and Amiri Baraka, both members of the Black Arts Movement of the mid 1960s to the mid 1970s. Amiri Baraka is often considered the founder of the Black Arts Movement.
The devastating, shortsighted attack on literature continues. List from Magic City Books. Who'd they miss? Note: the small publishers selected here for financial attack include (among other very worthy and important presses) @transitbooks.bsky.social, publisher of 2023 Nobel laureate Jon Fosse.
Necesitamos 25 donadores de sangre de reposición y 5 de plaquetas para Daniel Goldin Por transplante de hígado. UBICACIÓN: Instituto Nacional de Nutrición Calle Martín de la Cruz Acceso directo puerta 3 Para más información comunicarse al: (55) 1234- 0164
Fewer beans = great coffee if you get the pour height right. Pour-over coffee is made by flowing a strong, laminar water jet through a bed of ground coffee beans. arstechnica.com/science/2025...
#ICYMI
According to KEYS, more than 50 employers have registered for the event, so job seekers are encouraged to bring their resumes and be ready to network.
The #Kingston Job Fair takes place Wednesday. #YGK #KFLA #Employment #JobFair
Details: www.kingstonist.com/news/kingsto...
An extremely stocky and muscular ox, painted by George Garrard in 1813.
"they hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak"
our beef:
Primavera jacarandosa
Desde las asociaciones, colectivos y sindicatos de artes gráficas firmantes, solicitamos al Ministerio de Cultura y a su ministro, Ernest Urtasun, el cese de las subvenciones y de cualquier tipo de financiación mediante dinero público a Grupo Planeta.
🔴 COMUNICADO: arteesetica.org/comunicado-g...
This is *exactly* how the Musk Coup would have been covered by our news outlets if it was happening in another country.
Instead, all the American press can muster at the moment are euphemisms and sane-washing. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
In a bid to battle the robots and get more translation projects paid at rates that reflect my skill level and nigh-on two decades of professional experience, I've revamped my website/portfolio to kick off 2025:
👩💻 www.cmctranslations.com
🤖 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TII...
#humantranslation #noAI #xl8
#SaveThePCC
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Tuxedo cat walking gingerly on snowy deck with the early-morning sun shining down.
Como que esto sigue sin convencernos.
go.bsky.app/A2UpMn5
