More than 5,000 federal employees have received layoff notices. We’re working to ensure that the administration isn’t using state voter rolls to target registered Democrats for termination. More details soon.

This weekend's #ShakespeareSunday theme has been chosen by @lazarustheatre.bsky.social - FORGIVENESS & REVENGE!

Watch out for Hellsing’s secret weapon: Vampire Lord Alucard 🧛‍♂️

Panel is from Hellsing Deluxe Edition Volume 1 by Kohta Hirano, available wherever you buy manga: https://bit.ly/4gZN7SP

#DHhorror

Our good friends at @404media.co, @transjournalists.org and @themarshallproject.org have all been filing requests to find out what books are banned and where, so we decided it was time to hit the road and go on tour — a FOIAs tour. www.muckrock.com/news/archive...

@mediajustice.bsky.social did a deep dive on this - it’s definitely not a coincidence but Black + Brown communities are calling out decision makers + organizing against data center development all across the South 👏 mediajustice.org/resource/the...

The federal government is currently shut down. This is how it's affecting services across the country.

Instant buy

That unsettled feeling you get when you are served an all-too-accurate advertisement? Those are data brokers at work.

While it's creepy, there are some glimmers of hope for a more secure future. Read more in our digital security newsletter (and subscribe):

In 1996, Brewster Kahle wrote "Preserving the Internet" for Scientific American. Nearly 30 years later, it’s striking how many of his predictions about digital preservation came true—and how many challenges remain.

Let’s compare 1996 vs 2025 🧵

This is Eeyore. He led a sheriff's deputy to his grandma after she fell during their walk. We are awarding him the incredibly rare 15/10 (FB: OkaloosaSheriff)

Employees say their out-of-office messages were changed without their consent to include language blaming Democrats for the shutdown.

Everyone needs to see AI for what it is—a project that undermines truth & agency while transferring wealth from individual creators to Silicon Valley companies & VC’s. Rooted in exploitation of humanity & the planet, it’s a tool for the radical right to claim dominion & end representative democracy.

📢 The #InternetArchive is celebrating an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved by the #WaybackMachine. 🎉

Join us!
📆 Weds, Oct 22

🎟️ IN-PERSON: 5–10 PM PT (SF) ⤵️
www.eventbrite.com/e/1626438133...

💻 ONLINE: 7–8 PM PT ⤵️
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#Wayback1T

This is Zeus. He sometimes gets zoomies just like other dogs, but unlike other dogs, he has a pit crew. 13/10 (TT: zeuscampbell)

If you find your content removed under Meta’s policies, you do have options. Read on to learn more about how to navigate content moderation. eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Wikimedia Foundation joins the fight for library digital rights! 🎉

@wikimediafoundation.org has signed onto the 4 Digital Rights of Memory Institutions, affirming memory institutions' rights to Collect, Preserve, Lend & Cooperate in the digital age.

➡️ www.internetarchive.eu/2025/09/26/w...

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

Prosecutors must drop charges against two Cincinnati journalists arrested while covering a protest. The first jury trial begins Monday.

A coalition of rights groups and journalism professors explained why this case is so dangerous.

It’s been a while since we dropped our infamous Mother’s Day Ghildo, so we’re back with The Second Coming, just in time for Halloween!
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The official Ghost Glow-In-The-Dark “Ghilglo” 🍌 drops TOMORROW (Friday, September 26th) @ noon CST – exclusively on Rockabilia.
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Called it 💚

BREAKING: Amazon to pay $2.5 billion to settle FTC allegations it duped customers into enrolling in its Prime membership program.

Looks like The Rapture didn’t come this week after all, but something else IS coming Friday…#TheSecondComing

This had better be a glow-in-the-dark ghildo or I will be so disappointed in you

🎶 The music you love? Copyright shaped how it was written, recorded, shared, & remixed.

Jennifer Jenkins, author of MUSIC COPYRIGHT, CREATIVITY, AND CULTURE, joins James Boyle on the Future Knowledge #podcast to discuss.

🎧 Listen & subscribe ⤵️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm

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