Audry T. ~ she/her

Secret pop up libraries proliferate. False walls in basements hide print editions. Ebooks are emailed through secret reader circles disguised as eporn. Bots are generated to fake out the Netflix regime's "big ratings".

The written word has become the secret weapon of the anti-AI liberation front.

The masses have returned to reading the book version instead.

Cool Bird Alert

Holds audiobooks 1 Sarah Wynn-Williams Careless People Careless People A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism A MEMOIR Sarah Wynn-Williams 13 HOURS ~4 Weeks Manage Hold Play Sample Placed 21 Aug You are 52nd in line (started: 483rd). 29 copies in use. 277 people waiting in total. 10 people waiting per copy.

An explosive memoir charting one woman's career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people who made them. From trips on private jets and encounters with world leaders to shocking accounts of misogyny and double standards behind the scenes, this searing memoir exposes both the personal and the political fallout when unfettered power and a rotten company culture take hold. In a gripping and often absurd narrative where a few people carelessly hold the world in their hands, this eye-opening memoir reveals what really goes on among the global elite. Sarah Wynn-Williams tells the wrenching but fun story of Facebook, mapping its rise from stumbling encounters with juntas to Mark Zuckerberg's reaction when he learned of Facebook's role in Trump's election. She experiences the challenges and humiliations of working motherhood within a pressure cooker of a workplace, all while Sheryl Sandberg urges her and others to "lean in." Careless People is a deeply personal account of why and how things have gone so horribly wrong in the past decade - told in a sharp, candid, and ut- terly disarming voice. A deep, unflinching look at the role that social media has assumed in our lives [text cut off at this point]

Still on hold on the U.S. library system's app for the audiobook of CARELESS PEOPLE. Honestly, I'm glad hundreds of people have read and are waiting to read this book about tech bros, Trump, and the other shitweasels destroying America.

Free with local library card: libbyapp.com/interview/we...

Looking at a rainbow hot air balloon from under on the ground. The sky is blue with no clouds.

Clear blue #Sky
#BlueSkyArtShow
#ArtAdventCalendar #OnlyBeautifulThings
#EastCoastKin #Photography
#HotAirBalloon #BalloonFestHV

Nothing sends terror into the souls of local MAGA and Moms for liberty like normies showing up for local politics. When they say things like "Trans witches from Satan's bedroom are going to feast on your children's dreams" and normies say "Haha, no." local politicians side with normies regularly.

I'll say again: we are oddly selective about the government services about which we will say, they operate at a loss.

We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money

Why the labor movement backs the Target boycott For a long time, Target—that popular mega-store that seemed to hit just the right combination of low prices and of-the-moment swagger—was everyone’s darling, the go-to spot for everything from groceri...

As the holidays approach, customers are not having Target's abandonment of DEI and their commitment to the Black business community. The Target boycott that began earlier this year is renewed and gaining momentum. www.peoplesworld.org/article/why-...

ICE Arrest Data Shows Many Immigrants With No Criminal Record In high-profile operations, more than half of those arrested had no criminal record, an analysis shows.

Trump's claim that ICE is only going after violent and dangerous criminals is false. Instead they've terrorized communities and caused kids to stay home from school, all while less than 30% of those they've arrested have been convicted of a crime.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

In Congress, He Said Tariffs Were Bad for Business. As Trump’s Ambassador to Canada, He’s Reversed Course. Pete Hoekstra once testified that “the market should dictate the price of steel, not the government.” But he now champions the Trump trade policies that are being linked to job losses in his former Mi...

After 99 years, Michigan clockmaker Howard Miller is shutting down. The culprit: Trump's tariffs.

"If the federal government had said, ‘Oh, it's a 10% tariff, constant,' … they might've worked things out," an employee said. "But no. It's just chaos."

By @annaleighclark.bsky.social

ICE Agents Released an Attack Dog on a Man: Report The latest horrific development in Trump’s war on immigrants occurred in the state of Washington.

Toledo-Martinez answered a knock at his door to find a federal immigration agent posing as a construction worker, who claimed to have hit his car.

He went outside and another agent released the dog, which bit him repeatedly. Now Patty Murray calls for his release.

newrepublic.com/post/204073/...

Every program relating to the science of climate change is next. All of them, all across America.

This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.

Anyone who says “be normal” betrays that they have an implicit value system of who is considered normal and who is not, and when you have that, you will always value some people and traits over another. They will always replicate hierarchies of power in the long run.

Screengrab from Britbox streaming app. Text: The Other Bennet Sister Yule Log with watch and watch list buttons. Illustrated image of a very cozy room with a fireplace and old-fashioned chairs with a fire that is flickering at center.

Okay soooo Mary, the other Bennet sister, has been yule logged? Bit passive-aggressive of Elizabeth.

A shelter received a donation of stuffed toys and let each dog pick 1.
How selfless. They each only pick 1.

Emilita insists on decorating the Christmas tree from the inside out.

So do I, Clyde. What a view!

National parks fee-free calendar drops MLK Day, Juneteenth and adds Trump's birthday The Trump administration, which has railed against what it describes as "woke" policies, removed MLK Day and Juneteenth from next year's list of fare-exempt days for visitors at dozens of national parks.

The Trump administration, which has railed against what it describes as "woke" policies, removed MLK Day and Juneteenth from next year's list of fare-exempt days for visitors at dozens of national parks. n.pr/48oR7tq

(takes notes like my TBR list isn't already a hundred miles long)

What a way to kick off #DragonAgeDay!

This was an incredible amount of work and it has turned out to be absolutely gorgeous. I hope it's as much fun for #DragonAge folks out there to read as it was for us to write...

Update. He is using his telepathic powers on me.

Sadist: a person who takes pleasure in inflicting pain, punishment, or humiliation on others.

Use in sentence: Megyn Kelly is a fucking sadist.

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

The Democrats we have to choose from as candidates are the candidates because Americans volunteered for their campaigns and donated to their efforts to get elected and helped amplify them.

If you aren't doing these things yourself, YOU are the reason you don't have a candidate you want to vote for.

America will be bankrupt and become what we used to condescendingly call a "third world country" by the time these jokers are done fleecing us.

Currently a phrase rather than full poetry:

Sic semper Tyrannis

Thus always to tyrants ( by which is meant that tyrants are always overthrown)

This is how my local paper in the swing state of Nevada covered it: Huge picture, AP story with nary a hint that this was weird or corrupt.

As low as Trump’s approval ratings are, they’d be much lower if he didn’t have the help of large swaths of the media

Utah lawmakers are planning to convene in an unexpected special session this Tuesday. Why? To move the filing deadline for congressional candidates, to give the GOP more time to appeal the ruling that created a Dem seat.

www.abc4.com/news/politic...

A southern, or Cape giraffe stands small in the frame amongst lush green trees that are taller than it and surround it in a blanket of leaves.

#ArtAdventCalendar
Dec. 6
They are more than 5.5 meters tall and often tower above their surroundings. But in the forests they call home, giraffes are not always the tallest things around!
This is a Southern, or Cape Giraffe in a lush forest area of Kruger National Park, SA.
#Mammal