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The polar bears need their Arctic winds. I, too, must keep my home chilly for a domesticated polar bear.

Looking forward to the Metadata Justice in Oklahoma Libraries & Archives Symposium, happening online Thursday. Sessions on reparative description, LCSH revisions, Indigenous subject headings, & more. Registration is free! library.uco.edu/mjoklasympos... #critcat

Kessa, a fat tabby cat, looking over her right shoulder

@thatandromeda.bsky.social this showed up in one of my discords and I got to tell people how you told me I wasn't sharing enough Kessa photos when we talked at C4L earlier this year

Kessa the tabby cat laying on her side, looking over her should at the camera

one of the ways you know this is a genocide is that the news is never "IDF wins a battle" or "IDF secures new territory"

it's just about dead Palestinians, all the time, every day

AI Refusal in Libraries: A Starter Guide - ACRLog This week I was on a panel at the Generative AI in Libraries (GAIL) virtual conference. Along with my fellow panelists Andrea Baer and Emily Zerrenner, I joined moderator Sarah Appedu to discuss the c...

New blog post on ACRLog, "AI Refusal in Libraries: A Starter Guide." Got a lot of comments during a recent presentation that people hadn't heard of the concept of AI refusal, so here's some places to start. 📚 acrlog.org/2025/06/11/a...

An instagram post by teewatterss that has a Twitter post saying “”he can’t keep getting away with this” and it’s just Pedro Pascal on a red carpet” overlaid on a picture of actor Pedro Pascal on the red carpet looking exceedingly handsome in a sleeveless tank.

Capitalism teaches us it’s wrong to rest.

Ableism teaches us being sick means we’ve failed.

Fascism teaches us that disabled people are expendable.

None of it is true. It’s ok to rest. In fact, for most of us it’s necessary.

Disability is not a moral failing and none of us are expendable.

I personally think everyone at Bluesky should be ashamed that this video even was made (I added the captions and their links are in the replies)

Niiiiiiiiice

New study reveals wealth inequality was never inevitable A recent study published in the journal PNAS is overturning traditional wisdom regarding the origins and inevitability of wealth inequality

A massive study of 50,000 households over 1,000 archaeological sites provides ample evidence that inequality is not a "natural" outgrowth of sophistication. Instead, it is a political choice. Which means, kids, that we don't have to choose it.
archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...

Some good news in higher education: Ft Lewis college (where Native students make up 40% of enrollment) has installed their first Indigenous President!

Man I’m just so fucking proud of all the people who didn’t give up and aren’t going to give up

The singular person that I know who fits that category does in fact love the show hahaha

It is a show that makes both Pittsburgh residents and medical professionals say "yeah that's accurate"

To me Rowling exists entirely outside of the “should we support/work with artists with troubling views?” debate. She doesn’t just *think* her opinions, she doesn’t just *say* them, she’s a relentless 24-7 activist whose whole mission in life is terrorizing trans people.

SPECIAL BULLETIN: RWU Resolution to Bring Brother Kilmar Home View this Email as a Webpage April 19, 2025 - The International Steering Committee (ISC) of Railroad Workers United passed a resolution to bring home Brother Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a legally protected immigrant and SMART Union member. Kilmar was deported by the Trump administration without due process to a Salvadoran mega-prison — despite holding legal protections still in place at the time of his apprehension by ICE.

Railroad Workers Union! campaignlp.constantcontact.com/em/111650903...

I got the eepies this morning and am struggling to get my day started. 😴😴

If you decide not to vaccinate your child because you subscribe to conspiracy theories about them causing autism, what you’re actually saying is that you would rather your child die than your child live with a disability. Your love for your child is conditional and you shouldn’t be a parent.

I fail to be surprised by anything but it is especially yuck when Non-Natives commercialize and profit from our tragedy as Natives.

Good morning Bluesky !

I have asthma. When you have an asthma attack, you can't pull in oxygen. It is terrifying. If feels like you're going to die.

An inhaler can help, but in a severe attack, it is not enough. You could die.

She is being tortured, and she may die.

Because she wrote an op-ed.

Suggesting the world is “post COVID” contributes to an unwitting shift in research priorities

Stop saying “post covid”. People are confusing the end of the public health emergency with the end of the pandemic.

The pandemic is not over. “During COVID” is now.

If we want to end it, we need to first acknowledge this fact. Then mask up, clean the air & develop better vaccines & treatments.

Major budget cuts proposed for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration The agency forecasts weather, manages fisheries, and researches the world's oceans, atmosphere, and climate. The proposed budget cuts would slash the climate work entirely.

The agency forecasts weather, manages fisheries, and researches the world's oceans, atmosphere, and climate. The proposed budget cuts would slash the climate work entirely.

A Himalayan cat laying next to a plastic cat skeleton

Egg sneezed and all her bones came out and now she has no bones.

It is what it sounds like. Apparently it has antiflammatory properties. Snail slime for your face. It is a thing.

It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.

I'm not going to stop saying this. We need to stop calling it "deporting." It may not always be fair or humane, but deportation has a process. And it means you're sent back to where you came from. These people are being trafficked and sold to slave prisons. Not deported.

It is now April 9, 2025. The largest tariffs on China of 104% have now gone into effect along with the rest of the tariff rates adopted by the White House. Good luck.

17 Montana Republicans Cross Party Lines, Defeat Anti-Trans Bill After Nonbinary Rep's Speech Representative Howell delivered a speech against SB164, a bill that would charge parents with child abuse for providing gender affirming care even if they were merely driving through the state.

1. Major victory in Montana.

17 Republicans crossed party lines after a strong speech from Representative Howell to defeat a bill that would have charged parents, even those passing through the state, with felony child endangerment for their trans youth.

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