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Angela Pashia, ACC

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Leadership coach with a dozen years experience as an academic librarian. I help library leaders confidently manage change and conflict, so that you can feel good about going to work. https://angelapashia.com https://leadwithcuriosity.org/

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Angela Pashia, ACC @angelapashia.com · 18d

Have you been wondering about the buzz around professional coaching in libraries?

katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

What a Professional Coach Brings to the Library

Curious about coaching? A coach with a focus on libraries explains how it works.

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Rebecca Schoenkopf @wonkette.bsky.social · 8h

welcome to the Resistance, led by Teen Vogue, the dictionary, and airports.

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 10h

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

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Corey Brotherson - ready for my close up--NOOO TOO CLOSE! @coreybrotherson.bsky.social · 10h

All of this. JFC.

And I suspect AI bros think that what they're offering with AI on-demand TV and movies is an 'adult', cinematic version of early LEGO, not understanding that the reasons kids loved LEGO was because it did the opposite of AI and the fun of it was
actually
using
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imagination

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 12h

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior.
To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also.
Sick.

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Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Happen Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Screenshot includes an AI generated image of what looks like a human cross between Daenaerys Targaryen and Marilyn Monroe on the back of a dragon.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 15h

If you're happy the 20 Israeli hostages are home (as I am) but silent on the 10,000 Palestinian hostages still languishing in Israeli prisons without charge or due process of law—then you'll have to stop pretending its hostage taking you were ever upset about.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2d

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Trish, Goblinbrarian 🎃📚💻🇵🇭🇺🇲 @trishgreen.bsky.social · 1d

Meet reviewer number two.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 1d

“I asked chat GPT”

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 22h

They always start with free speech. It sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? Free speech? And they can use it to shut down anyone who criticises them, because it’s all “free speech”

After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls”

And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 22h

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

Ultimately, the death of US manufacturing is about this attitude. It's easy to say "buy american or stfu" because virtue signaling is free. But it's hard to actually sustain a business because many Americans simply don't want to pay what it costs to produce things ethically in this country

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 1d

This. Anyone who tells you otherwise hasn't been in this long enough to know the reality of this in their bones or they are selling something. Possibly both.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

That fire comes from love, but sometimes, we need a moment to self-regulate, so we don't lose ourselves in it. If this moment is stretching you out or burning you up, please take care of yourself. Fortify yourself, honor your needs, and maintain your relationships. There's a lot more of this ahead.

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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 1d

Not just elections. I still think back on doing traffic safety for a small march in a northern suburb of Denver and having the cops literally redirecting traffic back at us. When one of us went to ask them to stop actively endangering ppl, the cop said "can't, we've been defunded."

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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sq🎃🎃ky from:me @skeet.best · 2d

jokes aside, can you imagine how you would handle it if you asked a human assistant "did you make all this up instead of actually doing any of the work", and that person responded to you with "good catch"

Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 2d

girl are you chatgpt because your KPIs are crazy

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Shared row data file with GPT5 to analyze, the result KPIs were crazy, so I naively asked, and innocently it responded.
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Did you make up these numbers?
Good catch - I wasn't able to actually open and parse your CSV file yet,
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1d

Hey let me issue a challenge

If you are shocked about immigration and where we are and why you don’t know

And every pundit you follow is so shocked

Check how often your face pundit cites and actual immigrant

Then ask why that hasn’t changed if their still shocked

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 1d

With the holidays upon us, don't give to Salvation Army. Not even change. It's a scumbag "charity" run by anti-gay zealots.

Habitat for Humanity is great. Your local Food Bank is great.

So many "charities" are for-profit scams. Use Charity Navigator to vet them. www.charitynavigator.org

Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 2d

Fun fact about the Salvation Army: they use a form of substance use treatment called work therapy. Oh, and by treatment, I mean they have people who have been convicted of drug charges work for their stores & warehouses in exchange for room, board, around a $1 a week, and minimal actual therapy.

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Angela Pashia, ACC @angelapashia.com · 1d

And on and on. And on.

Angela Pashia, ACC @angelapashia.com · 1d

Yes, every person who got a RIF notice on Friday is important, and we need to understand the impact.

But every single story needs to highlight that this is a petty little bully's tactic to punish the Democrats for trying to protect your ACA subsidies. He WANTS to hurt YOU. The cruelty is the point.

Angela Pashia, ACC @angelapashia.com · 1d

IDGAF how many studies have proven that there's no link between tylenol and autism.

RFK and his cronies are acting like the clowns who used to try to "cure" left-handedness. Instead of recognizing and accommodating normal human variation, they're choosing to harm people for being different.

Angela Pashia, ACC @angelapashia.com · 1d

When we waste energy countering their claims with evidence, we let them retain control of the narrative.

We need to point out what they're doing with their narrative.

Angela Pashia, ACC @angelapashia.com · 1d

And that's what I appreciate the most about the interview at the top of this thread - Bray very clearly points out that this is all a rhetorical device used to manipulate viewers.

We ALL need to get better at reclaiming the narrative.

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Angela Pashia, ACC @angelapashia.com · 1d

It just boggles my mind every single fucking time that I hear anyone go along with the demented lie that "antifa" is a bad thing.

Anti-fascism is a good thing!!!

Fascism is the bad thing!!!

And letting them twist the narrative is just another concession on the path toward fascism.

Angela Pashia, ACC @angelapashia.com · 1d

For a while there, it seemed like people were starting to understand that it's not enough to just "not be racist".

You have to be actively anti-racist, to work to break down racist structures.

Likewise, if you are not antifascist, then you are aiding and abetting fascism.

Neutrality is a lie.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

MSNBC from last night.

Debunking the right's obsession with Antifa

Rutgers University History Professor Mark Bray joins The Weekend: Primetime to share why he and his family fled the U.S. over safety concerns amid the Trump administration's broad attacks on Antifa. H...

www.msnbc.com

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 1d

Bar associations need to start disbarring. There's immediate precedent with Giuliani. To the point @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social has repeatedly made, a polity that allows elites to repeatedly lie, obviously and with impunity, is not sustainable. Feels like the legal profession is at the same juncture.

Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 2d

The case against Comey is beyond weak. The case against James is worse. It is based on a lie, and they know they're lying because exculpatory evidence that contradicts the indictment had already been presented to a grand jury in another jurisdiction. Everyone involved with this needs to be disbarred

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.”

By @megomatz.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 2d

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Some Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 2d

lots of people still don’t believe Team Trump want to crash the economy, likely because it’s hard for normal people to think like sociopaths

Sarah Kendzior is smart to invoke memories of 1980s corporate raiders. That should give many Boomers and some Gen X food for thought. We remember that crap.

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 2d

On strikes, boycotts, and rethinking leverage when the government WANTS the economy to collapse:
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

Quotes from here: https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon-artists-your-questions

https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon-artists-your-questions

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