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Union Market District Turkey Drive Let's deliver 150 turkeys to Ward 5 families. It’s time for the 12th annual Union Market District Turkey Drive! We’re partnering with Harvey’s by Soko and Council member Zachary Parker to collect dona...

Let's deliver 150 turkeys to Ward 5 families.
It’s time for the 12th annual Union Market District Turkey Drive! lacosechadc.app.neoncrm.com/campaigns/un...

Not to be THAT dictionary, but…

It’s ‘per se,’ not ‘per say.’
It’s ‘dog-eat-dog world,’ not ‘doggy-dog world.’
It’s ‘hunger pangs,’ not ‘hunger pains.’
It’s ‘one and the same,’ not ‘one in the same.’
It's 'buck naked,' not 'butt naked.'

María Corina Machado of Venezuela wins the Nobel Peace Prize Opposition activist María Corina Machado of Venezuela has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel committee praised her as a key figure in unifying Venezuela's political opposition.

BREAKING: For her work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela, María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

Not sure I’m in the right mindset for this kind of reading.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Famous Last Words: Dr. Jane Goodall (2025) Dr. Jane Goodall connected humanity and nature in unprecedented ways. In this deeply personal interview, she shares her final message with the world.

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Today!

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

this exists it is called thinking

POV: you've just been thrown off a balcony by the beatles (Beatles are looking down and delighted that you are splat on the ground)

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Writer friends, the goal is clear.

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of July!

‘THE SECRET AGENT’ has won 2 Cannes prizes:

• Best Actor (Wagner Moura)
• Best Director (Kleber Mendonça Filho)

Julia Parsons, U.S. Navy Code Breaker During World War II, Dies at 104 Soon after her officer training in Washington, she was recruited to a classified code-breaking team. She kept her work secret for decades, even from her family.

Julia Parsons, a U.S. Navy code breaker during World War II who was among the last survivors of a top-secret team of women that unscrambled messages to and from German U-boats, has died at 104.

Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent abuse survivors, dies by suicide Other Epstein victims credited Giuffre with giving them the courage to speak out.

I don't even know what to say. What do you say to something like this? So deeply cruel and inhumane and enraging.

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🗓️ Sat, May 17 – Panel on the future of interpreter training, including AIIC USA’s own @mirnasoares.bsky.social, Kilian G. Seeber, Jibola Sofolahan, Amanda Forsythe, Maha El-Metwally, Gillian Misener, moderated by Denise de Vasconcelos. 📢 Register:
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Sometimes when we borrow words from other languages, English can become delightfully redundant.

Opinion | The Tech Fantasy That Powers A.I. Is Running on Fumes (Gift Article) A.I. is just what we need in the post-fact era: less research and more predicting what we want to hear.

This piece from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social starts with a bang and just gets better and better. Gift link.

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

Arrasada

Will try this soon!

Just no

I hope Brazil will make history tonight.

California is partnering with 21 Brazilian state governors on solutions to protect the environment and cut harmful pollution.

We're establishing a formal communication channel to share successful approaches to clean transportation, climate adaptation, forest management & more.

Bambino a Roma: Ficção by Chico Buarque Leque de impressões de uma infância vivida e imaginada, Bambino a Roma tem nas memórias de Chico ...

Que maravilha de livro! Como ficção e memórias podem ser a mesma coisa…

The 51st News need 142 new paid members to keep things going. Totally worth it!

On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.

Artwork by Bisa Butler is a portrait made by the medium of a quilt. The subject is a young black boy resting his chin on his hand giving an expression with pursed lips and one eye brow raised. The portrait is composed of vibrant colors of fabric so that the boy's body and highlights are made of blues, greens, and purples. His hair and shadows that give depth to the portrait are black. His suit is made of prints containing orange, pink, yellow. His shirt is white. The background is horizontal zig zags of orange and cream. The composition of the quilt looks like a painting.

In celebration of #BlackHistoryMonth, here is work from one of my favorite artists, Bisa Butler!

This is a QUILT! Check her out, and a little about the significance of quilts as a medium here:

www.artic.edu/exhibitions/...

No one can stop us celebrating the things that make our hearts sing!