Emily Ellet would love to narrate your YA sci-fi

You represent public libraries, @libbyapp.com. Please know that everyone who is giving you negative feedback right now FUCKING ADORES PUBLIC LIBRARIES. And the people who most love libraries also hate "A.i." and don't want it in our books. Stand up for us and change this terrible policy.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.

Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!

This entire thread is utterly delightful.

Do you honestly believe that we'll have elections in 2026?

The relevant fact about Nazis is that they rather famously did not *start out* committing genocide and starting wars, but it *was* the natural endpoint of their stated goals.

UNITED24 - The initiative of the President of Ukraine UNITED24 was launched by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the main venue for collecting charitable donations in support of Ukraine. Funds will be transferred to the official accounts of...

I have decided to pair every angry post I make with a concrete action. Join me?

Yesterday after watching the despicable behavior of our elected officials towards Zelenskyy, I donated to Ukraine's military effort directly: u24.gov.ua?utm_source=s...

A worthwhile thread of fact checking

It will take every single one.

Deeply honored, thank you so much! (Also, excellent gif!)

So glad you're enjoying it! It's one riveting series, I agree!

I can only imagine what Carrie Fisher would let rip in her beautifully, brutally direct way.

You could also hear the celebrities squirming (they've been shockingly, appalling silent during this coup).

A truly fantastic speech

Just a reminder that Republicans in Congress have the power to impeach, convict, and remove the President AT ANY TIME and every day they wake up and choose to be cowards and traitors instead.

Beautiful and succinct

In praise of complexity and beauty and all the times they're the same thing.

Gate's poem is here. www.davidgatepoet.com/store/p/0vcw...

And these are the billionaires you want running our government?! Billions in wasted money, over and over again. (Making a bad bet in business is not of itself a bad thing. Making repeated bad bets year after year is. It's bad leadership and foolish behavior.)

My nervous system would just like a moment to scream into the void.

Thank you.

Trump Fired Inspectors General Who Identified $183.5 Billion in Waste, Fraud, and Abuse - emptywheel The lawsuit by eight of the Inspectors General Trump fired on his fourth day on the job -- who claim they've identified $183.5 billion in potential waste, fraud, and abuse during their tenure as IGs -...

Reup, for @petebuttigieg.bsky.social's easy linking.

Trump Fired Inspectors General Who Identified $183.5 Billion in Waste, Fraud, and Abuse

www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/12/t...

"may the forest be with us all" I am dead in the best way. Thank you all for your service!

Amen.

How many times have I read or narrated this?! Never once did I want to experience it live.

A perennially important reminder

Even if I can't read them all, worth it to check out books like I did in childhood: the max at any given time 😁

At.
Gunpoint.

Musk is telling duly appointed and security cleared government officials that they will be shot if they don't turn over to Musk sensitive information to which he has no right.

In any other country, we'd call it a coup.

Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now

"American media would be more clear-eyed about the rise and return of Donald Trump if it was happening overseas in a foreign country, where we’re used to foreign correspondents"

www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

Ahhh thank you so much! @jennyholi.bsky.social wrote a GREAT one!

It was absolutely meant to be all. This is why raising your voice matters.

To instrumentalize what my sister is saying below: every time someone says DEI say “you mean civil rights?” Every time someone says they are against woke reply “oh so you’re a segregationist!” Words have meaning! Don’t allow that nonsense to stand.