When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

100 DAYS UNTIL HALLOWEEN, THIS IS NOT A DRILL

We now have a website. udm14.com

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million.

How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65

Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

Your Library's Hoopla Digital Collections Are Breaking Their Budget If you've noticed changes to the digital materials you can borrow from your library, that's because that access is costing libraries way more than ever before.

“Hoopla, knowing how popular their service was, saw an opportunity to increase prices while keeping their services and offerings the same.”

Book Riot breaks down yet another of Hoopla’s problems—the cost.

bookriot.com/library-hoop...

Apparently, allowing Americans to file their tax returns for free is a bad thing. A big gift to the Big Tax lobby and a big middle finger to Americans.

6 comic panels of "Why Use Alt Text?" Slow Internet Alt text is shown in place of unloaded images (Drawing of a web browser with words in the frame where a picture should be) Findability Alt text helps to search content (Drawing of a web browser search field Screen readers Alt text is read out to people using text-to-speech software (Image of alt text on a black screen) Translation Alt text can be translated (Drawing of a browser with an image with words in a non-English language) Readability Text in images can be made legible (Drawing of a cartoon with a speech bubble where the words in the bubble are very hard to read) Disambiguation Description helps clarify intent (Drawing of a duck that could also be a rabbit with text saying "my pet duck" )

Jesus that's bleak.

Goblin Mode
Kobolde Style
Bugbear Gestalt
Hobgoblin Whole Deal
Githyanki Modus Operandi
Hill Troll General Approache to Thinges

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.

We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

Some of you

GOOD NEWS: A federal court temporarily halted President Trump's order to freeze all federal funding, including grants for public health, education, and safety.

Trump's order would have devastating consequences for communities in every corner of the nation. Our leaders must block it for good.

Breaking: The Handbasket is first to report catastrophic OMB funding memo Posted on Bluesky earlier this evening, other major outlets have since confirmed.

“There’s still this idea that news is only ‘real’ once it’s confirmed by big corporate outlets. After all, could one woman with absolutely zero institutional backing in leggings and a sweatshirt in her NYC apartment really be the one to break such an important story? Now we know the answer is yes.”

Just sawe a signe for a local businesse offeringe a "self servyce dog wasshe" and methoughte well that ys askinge a lot of the dogges

Thank you this. It's embarrassing enough to be from a deep red state without should-be allies saying we deserve whatever happens to us.

As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

Facebook is taking down posts from the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska sharing how off-reservation members can obtain tribal IDs to protect citizens from ICE. Facebook is marking it as “misinformation.”

A two-panel image from the television program 30 Rock. In the top panel, Liz Lemon says "What a journey, huh?" In the second panel, her boss, turns to say "Lemon, you've marked 2 progress."

In honor of Twitter's continued slow-motion implosion, recycling my best Ironsworn meme.