MagicBear

With the $75 million Jeff Bezos spent to produce and promote the flop "Melania," he could have employed more than 180 @washingtonpost.com reporters for four years each.

(based on an average $105K annual salary/benefits/bonus package).

Priorities.

I use the Available Now filter in Libby *so* much for this. I also like their excessively-granular filters, which I can combine with it to often get a whole list of books I feel like reading that I can start on immediately!

Mine didn't turn off but thanks to this I did notice there's a new setting to disable haptics! It's not doing haptics yet on my device but seems like it might soon. Consider this my warning to 🦓 friends

#accessibility #a11y #hEDS

If I die, I want my remains to be scattered at the US Capitol. Do not cremate me.

If you don't use alt text, I don't know who the guy you're making fun of is

I really worry that because people tend to trust loud male voices over experienced feminine ones, the organizers on here who have been trying to provide reasonable, measured guidance are going to get drowned out by the wannabe cowboys.

The most important work is the work that you aren't hearing about.

There is good work happening.

On many fronts.

If you don't know (and why would you, based on law enforcement actions in the real world), almost all non-lethal munitions are supposed to be shot AT THE GROUND. Not even at people's legs or torsos, much less their faces.

There are no non-lethal weapons that are supposed to be aimed neck up.

the biggest reason anti-slavery laws got more headway and broader adoption in the northern states was because those states became less economically dependent on chattel slavery faster than the agriculture-led economies of the southern states

i.e., wealthy white people had less to lose there

Also, I would just like to point out (again):

They are already doing this.

They called in BOMB THREATS to majority Black precincts in Georgia in 2024.

This is not new, they're just talking about doing it out loud now, and more directly in more places. Pay attention to folks already fighting it!

This is action EVERY city in the country can take. If your hotels cooperate with ICE, goodbye liquor revenue.

It’s weird to me that democrats are demanding body cams (useless) but not demanding all the children in camps be released.

They could call it the Liam Act.

Why are they not doing such easy slam dunk work?

*taps the sign*

I've reread this like 3 times. Freed herself from slavery by running away, *went back a week later bc the slaver was talking shit, set his house on fire, and then escaped again is absolutely incredible queen shit

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post Cuts 30% of Staff, Laying Off More Than 300 Employees Including Amazon Beat Reporter The Washington Post, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is enacting layoffs that will eliminate "hundreds" of jobs.

"Those who were laid off include Caroline O’Donovan, the Post’s beat reporter covering Amazon"

California AG Bonta Files Groundbreaking Lawsuit Against Rady Children’s Hospital for Dropping Trans Youth GAC “If my child had a different diagnosis, they would likely have a surgery date tomorrow. But because of who my child is, the door was closed.”

For the first time ever, a state AG has filed a lawsuit to force a hospital back into providing gender affirming care for transgender youth.

Our writer, S. Baum, dove deep and spoke with families that helped make this happen.

You're going to want to read our latest, incredible story.

Sharing a reminder to anyone who could use it: be gentle with each other so we can be dangerous together.

Remember, it’s a marathon, not a race 💜

Pinned lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Aug 19, 2021 Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13) 0:02 / 0:10 lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 47m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

the owner just spent 75 million on a film that opened with a 7 million take

Hey I dunno who needs to hear this but if you are on your period right now you will almost certainly be in your ovulation window on Valentine’s Day.

take that information in whichever direction you need it

Illinois folks, check to see if this nonsense is on your ballot. I saw it on mine when looking at my sample ballot and immediately knew it was going to confuse the hell out of people.

Reminder that the Washington Post lost 250,000 subscribers, more than most outlets will ever have, after its decision not to publish an endorsement in the last election. www.npr.org/2024/10/29/n...

That kind of cowardice, not AI or whatever, is what's "drastically reshaping" readers' expectations.

tasty

Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds Findings suggest physical performance in trans women converges toward that of cis women over time

What's that you say!

It was all just fear pushing by bad faith groups and that trans women pose no threat to cisgender women.

www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

mobile-first solidarity

They made it harder to reorder slides on mobile once and when I got mad about it all my friends were like "why are you editing slideshows on your phone" smh

It's got like four times the processing power of my first desktop computer! let me do my little office work on it!

I love buying old books with notes in them, whether author signatures or gift notes. It's like I get to be a part of the little story the note implies! 💖

"Abolish the Police and then what?" while infantile and often asked in bad faith, is at least, on some levels, a real question

"Ablish ICE and then what?" Is not a real question. Clearly if ICE didn't exist tomorrow society would just objectively be more peaceful and would not in any way fall apart

SAY THIS SHIT LOUDER