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Leaflet Publications: blogging on Bluesky — version 0.1 is here!

✅ now: make publications, add posts, publish to Bluesky
🗓️ soon: subscribing, commenting & other social features

Try it: leaflet.pub/home

We'd love your feedback & ideas for how we can make this great!

I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

Fuck ICE

whoever figures out a way to bundle independent journalism subscriptions will be a hero

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the city’s largest daily newspaper, will shut down on May 3 after nearly 240 years of operating. The shutdown follows a three-year union strike and ends Pittsburgh’s last remaining daily print product.

Read the full story: www.poynter.org/business-wor...

scanned a few of my keepers from that afternoon to share with y'all. mostly just getting a feel for how to meter the instax film when there are very bright highlights in the scene.

Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.

Conveniently, just before the midterms.

A group of trampers (hikers) meanders across a grassy hillside with the rocky volcanic hills of the Banks Peninsula ahead of them. Canterbury, NZ

Today I spent a few hours walking 12km through a chunk of the Banks Peninsula with 24 other people and am feeling far better for it, after a week of moping around the house feeling isolated and unenthused.

Tell Congress: Support discharge petition to force vote on ACA tax credits Contact Congress today!

Mike Johnson is big mad that we forced through a petition and forced a vote on releasing the Epstein files.

So let’s do it again. This time to restore the ACA credits he stole from us:

Strengthen Colorado’s AI Act Powerful institutions are using automated decision-making against us. Fortunately, workers, patients, and renters are resisting. The Colorado AI Act is a good step in the right direction. Still, EFF

Colorado enacted a limited but crucial step forward against automated decision-making: the AI Act of 2024. We oppose weakening or delaying this law, and support strengthening it. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Can the Government Read My Text Messages? Can the Government Read My Text Messages?

Learn how governments are able to read certain text messages, and how to ensure your messages are end-to-end encrypted on Digital Rights Bytes, our site dedicated to helping break down tech issues into byte-sized pieces. www.digitalrightsbytes.org/topics/can-...

When you ask ChatGPT a question, you're in control of the information you're sharing, EFF’s Lena Cohen told @USAToday.com, but “when you're using the Atlas browser for day-to-day tasks, it's easier to forget that all of your activity could be sent to OpenAI."
www.usatoday.com/story/tech/...

“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving

This Week In Techdirt History: October 12th – 18th

Five Years Ago This week in 2020, Ajit Pai put the final bullet in net neutrality and decided to move forward with unconstitutional rulemaking on Section 230, while Clarence Thomas joined the brigade of opposing 230, and Congress introduced yet…

It costs ~$70 to produce a year’s supply of insulin.

Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $18,000 in 2025. A 25,714% markup. That isn’t inflation or supply chain—It’s corporate greed.

Now—California will sell insulin for $11. Make this nationwide!

Kazakhstan's Mangystau plateau, near the border with Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, at sunset. Layers of ancient salt deposits resemble fjords of white, pink, red and orange icing spilling into a vast gray plane

In an obscure corner of Kazakhstan, the remains of an ocean millions of years old have created probably the most surreal landscape on earth -- as captured by photographer Daniel Kordan

mymodernmet.com/daniel-korda...

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

Jane Goodall reaches out and touches a small monkey.

Jane Goodall was my first childhood hero, as I loved animals as a kid and was inspired by her story. I still remember the National Geographic specials about her. RIP.

AOL ends dial-up internet service, marking the end of an era AOL, formerly America Online, introduced many households to the World Wide Web for the first time when its dial-up service launched decades ago.

AOL, formerly America Online, introduced many households to the World Wide Web for the first time when its dial-up service launched decades ago, rising to prominence particularly in the '90s and early 2000s. https://to.pbs.org/48HSOlZ

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

Physically, I’m here. Emotionally and mentally, I am also here and this is all really starting to add up.

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

YouTube video by Josh Johnson This Kind of Freedom Will Leave You Speechless

Great great great @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social on the whole Kimmel thing and the importance of fighting for free speech.

I will note that even though the first 30 minutes don't seem to be about Kimmel, they're (1) hilarious and (2) set up the Kimmel stuff... www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tYd...

The dawn of the post-literate society And the end of civilisation

open.substack.com/pub/jmarriot...

Navy Set to Unplug Critical Hurricane Satellites this Week Abrupt termination of satellite data by U.S. Department of Defense sends forecasters scrambling for a fix on the brink of the busiest stretch of the hurricane season

If you think I've forgotten about the hurricane satellites, think again. The Navy is permanently unplugging them this week, on the brink of the busiest stretch of the season. There's so much more to this story, and I have the latest scoop. ⬇️

Celebrities are dying to distract us from the fact that they don't matter

Report shows Manatee deaths are on the rise in Florida The report says 477 manatees have died already this year, compared to 565 in all of 2024.

A new report from the #Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has raised concerns about the number of manatees dying around the state -- the number is rising again. www.mysuncoast.com/2025/07/23/r...

#Florida's largest parent organization, @FloridaPTA , joins lawsuit asking for release of federal education funds.
“With school underway and no alternative path for timely relief, legal action has become the only remaining option to protect our students.” drive.google.com/file/d/14974...

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