rachel

oh no…who said that? 🙄

absolutely breathtaking levels of “reframe punching up as punching down” are emerging in AI discourse. fighting back against AI is us against billion dollar tech companies, yet they are pulling out so many wild rhetorical tricks to make it seem like the anti-AI movement are the powerful bullies here

Library works as well! I was nineteen working the circ desk and was expected to de-escalate situations.

i think bluesky needs to decide what they're making. if they're making a protocol, like some of their developers say, they should shut down the social media app that's causing them so many problems. if they're making a social media app, they have to engage with it like adults.

Any Coloradan with a cell phone will soon be able to access banned books for free. This #BannedBookWeek, we have a lot to lament. Though some book bans have been stalled or swatted down in the courts, stealthy removal campaigns continue. At home and abroad. But as Haylee May of C…

Thanks to the administrators at Anythink public library, Coloradans will soon have free access to a whole digital library of banned books.

Another Judge Chips Away at Library Patron First Amendment Rights A District Court judge rules that neither library patrons nor authors have First Amendment rights when it comes to library collections.

This week, a judge ruled that library users nor authors have First Amendment Rights when it comes to public school libraries.

The judge said a 1st grader could "just buy the book" removed from their school library.

Your rights are being taken from you.

bookriot.com/parnell-vs-e...

the point of having a comms team, just so everyone is clear, is not only to write better statements than you (which everyone arrogantly thinks they don't need) but also to give others the power to take your phone away when needed, because this is patently embarrassing at this point.

I don’t like the vibes that have been going on on here, but I don’t wanna go to threads and I love Tumblr but it’s still Tumblr

Nooooo :( I knew it was over, but I was still holding out a little bit of hope

lol wow I loved all of those songs 😭 Coney Island is one of my faves.

ME! and London Boy are right there.

ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

comic book authors: we invented the punisher as a cautionary tale about vigilante crime fighting
the director of the fbi: at long last, we are implementing the ethos from the classic comic book the punisher

i have personally despised bari weiss for a long time, her book was incoherent garbage, and to see her rewarded with the plum of the profession while the smartest people i know are scraping for dollars is gross as hell

I like TTPD more 😭

The CEO of this place is on day two of a public meltdown.

Sen. Bernie Sanders: If we do not make changes and fight back effectively, you're going to see 15 million Americans lose their health insurance through the cuts in Medicaid and the ACA. That's what's at stake.

Fun fact: Even if federal money *was* being spent on Medicaid coverage for undocumented immigrants (it isn’t), the money wouldn’t be “going to illegal aliens.”

It would be going to *healthcare providers*…ie, hospitals, doctors, etc.

Medicaid enrollees don’t receive the money.

Medicaid money has gone to hospitals to reimburse them for medical services after they followed the federal law signed by Ronald Reagan in 1986 that says hospital emergency rooms have to treat everyone, regardless of their ability to pay.

I just got a call from my rheumatologist. Because of the changes to Medicaid, which no longer reimburses telemedicine appointments, I can either pay out of pocket or drive two hours away every three months, which is not possible for me most of the year due to my work schedule.

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

Massive Fire After Explosion at Refinery in Manhattan Beach El Segundo - The refinery involved in the blast has been identified as Chevron Products Company in El Segundo.

South Bay folks, close your windows and mask up. If you're driving, set air to recycle. The Chevron refinery in El Segundo just blew up.

citizen.com/-OacL7_yVyF5...

I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

welcome to Bluesky! 💙

AUTHORS: It’s time to submit your claims for the Anthropic copyright settlement.

1. Look yourself up here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

2. File your claim here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Form asks for ISBN and copyright reg # for each work. Can find in step 1.

Another Judge Chips Away at Library Patron First Amendment Rights A District Court judge rules that neither library patrons nor authors have First Amendment rights when it comes to library collections.

Another reason we can't "just get private bookmobiles to schools to get kids banned books" is that this isn't about the books. It's about the fundamental rights to democratic spaces that represent a whole community.

Right now, judges are chipping away at *our* rights.

bookriot.com/parnell-vs-e...

RIP CBS News. Seriously. It's not about whatever views or ideologies Weiss holds. She's done original "reporting" on explosive topics and been caught using slippery methods that wouldn't pass even basic standards tests. And as her reward, she gets to run a news organization with a revered history.

Reminder that if you are annoyed by Taylor Swift and her fans, you can mute her name and save yourself annoyance instead of being a cranky bitch tomorrow

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits