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Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools.

Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.

Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.

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Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

jkr openly condemning palestine so once again if it isnt clear all transmisogynistic politics claiming to "defend real females" is ideologically the same kind of reactionary nationalism, heterosexualism, and turning "weaklings into soldiers" that zionism, hindutva, etc are

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

Good :) because if it can't exist without proper pay and permissions it shouldn't exist

In 2024, ALA tracked 821 attempts to censor library materials, targeting nearly 2,500 unique books. That’s 10× more than five years ago.
Join the fight for the freedom to read: UniteAgainstBookBans.org
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We Could Be Magic, Marissa Meyer

Go Luck Yourself, Sara Raasch

The Nightmare Before Kissmas, Sara Raasch

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow

Y'all, I am *begging* for the world to turn silencing your phone in the library into not just a social norm, but something about as rude as screaming in the middle of the room for no reason, with similar repercussions.

The Fake Mate, Lana Ferguson

losing my shit at tom clancy's daughter immediately setting this to her banner after seeing it

Accomplice to the Villain, by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Screenshot of an announcement from SESAME WORKSHOP. The Sesame Street library is coming to YouTube! Beginning in January 2026, YouTube will have the largest digital library of Sesame Street content, with hundreds of full episodes coming to the Sesame Street channels. Join us as we help children everywhere grow smarter, stronger, and kinder, one episode at a time.

Oh HELL yes

this is nightmarish and should alarm you no matter what your opinions on pornography are

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

a reminder

thought this was really beautiful

Making this tweak significantly changed things for me and it makes people laugh far more

I mean it, fellow Americans: call your reps about this. It seems small in the short run, but this is going to fuck up businesses, especially small ones, big time.

Lil Nas X speaks out for the first time since his arrest.

a huge point that decorum-obsessed Democrats are missing is that everyone I know is literally boiling with rage 24/7 watching their country fall to fascism and desperately want to hear a politician acknowledge that and say "I am also angry"

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"KPop Demon Hunters" is now the most-streamed movie in Netflix history (236 million views).
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Podcast cover for Episode #8 of "Future Knowledge" titled "The Library: A Fragile History." The design features portraits of the three guests—Abby Smith Rumsey, Andrew Pettegree, and Arthur der Weduwen—arranged in a grid. Surrounding them are collage-style retro-futuristic elements including a classical statue head, a vintage computer with the word "NEW" on its screen, a modernist observation tower, and abstract architectural shapes. The title uses bold, blocky typography, giving the cover a vintage sci-fi aesthetic.

From ancient archives to today’s institutions, libraries have been built, destroyed, & reinvented. Andrew Pettegree & Arthur der Weduwen tell the story in THE LIBRARY: A FRAGILE HISTORY on the Future Knowledge #podcast.

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