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House hearing on fake "kids safety" censorship bills happening right now. Call your lawmakers!!!!

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I don't mind the grey in my beard or the few coming in on my head. But I have one grey hair in between my eyebrows. I keep trying to pick it off and then realizing oh wait, that's attached...

Please educate your loved ones on the benefits of Libby and Hoopla.

Also: Library workers! Check out libro.fm and the PRH Audio app! Free audiobooks if you work in a library!

See if you can find any democracy, we’re all out.

Four panel comic. First panel has three people. One of them is wearing a MAGA hat and yelling at the person on the left. Second panel, the person being yelled up holds up his hand with a "+2 mental health block" caption. The MAGA dude disappears. Third panel, the remaining person who was uninvolved says "Typical lefty, blocking everyone who disagrees with..." Fourth panel, the person who was being yelled at initially holds up his hand with a caption "+2 Mental Health block" and the person who said "typical lefty" disappears.

Via @eastcoastitnotes.bsky.social.

World Central Kitchen head José Andrés confirms Israel has closed Gaza’s borders indefinitely and warns the NGO will run out of food this week. The group is currently cooking about 1 million hot meals a day.

World Central Kitchen head José Andrés confirms Israel has closed Gaza’s borders indefinitely and warns the NGO will run out of food this week. The group is currently cooking about 1 million hot meals a day.

Hey @democrats.org, Are we paying attention? Hmm...We want progressive candidates, with values, who will fight. You don't need to be Republicans just because that party has been lost to MAGA.

Woo, progress!

It’s actually Fewer Pauls

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

It's really hard to explain this to anyone who didn't grow up in the evangelistic Christian cult that is mainstream American religion, but when I tell you these people won't listen to logic & don't care about saving lives, in part because they want World war 3, I mean that quite literally.

This is how you push back on Republican liars:

OMG y'all, my #WIP just passed 25k! The last time I had a story this long was... 2011, maybe? #AmWriting

N.Y. Attorney General Orders Hospital to Resume Youth Transgender Care

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Mar 2 NYT
NY Atty Genl Leticia James orders NYU Langone Hospital to continue offering GAC to minors just 2 wks after it stopped, pointing out that it may be violating state anti-discrimination laws which bar treating a single class of patients differently.

Corvus, a mostly black cat, lying on her side next to me. She’s curled in a half circle, but her back legs are stretched out, one pressing against my leg and the other resting on top of it.

She’s got legs!

She knows… how to… use them?

Screenshot of the profile page for @craigthomler.bsky.social. He describes himself as an “entrepreneur into AI innovation” which should really tell you everything you need to know.

Saw some good folks arguing with this guy and I was like wtf who is this guy anyway, so I looked at his profile, and… yeah it’s okay to just block him.

Fair. It's better to cheer people when they get there then it is to dump on them for not getting there sooner. (Doesn't mean you suddenly have to be friends with them.)

Also circumstances matter? I'm not going to criticize people who shop at Walmart if it's the only option in their food desert.

Just saw someone say they’re getting off substack due to the Polymarket partnership, because betting on war crosses the line, and my only thought was “actively platforming Nazis didn’t cross the line?”

Yeah I know it has a snowball’s chance, but it’s something; get this shit on paper and keep shouting till it’s open season for taxing the rich.

A 3x3 grid titled "Is it a library? Alignment chart". Horizontal axis categories: Contents purist: Must contain books Contents neutral: Must contain information Contents rebel: Can contain anything Vertical axis categories: Curation purist: Must be managed by a professional librarian Curation neutral: Must be curated by someone Curation rebel: Can be managed by nobody Examples represented on the grid: Curation purist, contents purist: New York Public Library is a library Curation purist, contents neutral: A newspaper archive is a library Curation purist, contents rebel: A school information commons is a library Curation neutral, contents purist: A home bookshelf is a library Curation neutral, contents neutral: A Spotify playlist is a library Curation neutral, contents rebel: A zoo is a library Curation rebel, contents purist: A street library is a library Curation rebel, contents neutral: A PC downloads folder is a library Curation rebel, contents rebel: A junk drawer is a library

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That... would fucking suck, yeah.

I just looked it up and it came out 31 years ago, excuse me while I crumble to dust and blow away.

It's been a while since I saw it but I found it entertaining. No spoilers, but the first time Douglas and Bening meet in person is f'ing hilarious.

It's a Rob Reiner film. Michael Douglas as president, Annette Bening as an environmental lobbyist. Some good performances (Martin Sheen as Chief of Staff, Richard Dreyfuss as the scummy GOP candidate).

Thinking about him playing the White House speechwriter in The American President.

The frog congratulates you on surviving its trials and capturing it, and gives you the final clue needed to open the Forever Gate.

Ah I see, fair enough. I’ve read plenty of Seven Seas titles, so it definitely makes me nervous.

Is Media Do bad? I’ve never heard of them.

I love it when the little furry hunter-killer death machines i live with make little squeaking noises like someone just unexpectedly poked their ticklish spot

Also late Gen X here. We got to see a very short period of stability, marked by the national equivalent of a schizophrenic fever dream as culture. I think part of what folks miss about Gen X is that some of us saw how insane the US was when things were supposedly “good.”