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Mom, nurse, crazy dog lady. Eat the rich. SW MN, SE SD
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Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
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Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.

Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.

This is great news. 📚
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Not just sitting on it until now, but expressly paywalling *this part* and not all the bamboo nonsense!

These are all just completely awful people
November 22, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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neither of these people should ever work in journalism again and New York magazine should reexamine everything she ever wrote

RFK should, of course, never work anywhere at all
November 22, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Notice Mamdani charmed Trump on live TV without backing down on any stances. He didn't water himself down, he didn't even take back calling Trump a fascist. Moderates would say butter him up, or try to appear more right-wing. Voters can see through that—and evidently so does he!
November 22, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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okay so here’s the actual bad part of the article

“oh it never affected my coverage” horse and also shit

and what the fuck is Lizza doing sitting on this while RFK takes a buzz saw to American health so he can sell substack subscriptions

ghouls, the lot of them
November 22, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Five hours apart
November 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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How many of our favorite books from 2025 have you read?

💙📚 #booksky

bookriot.com/best-books-o...
Best Books of 2025
Picking the best books of the year was no easy task, but we sure had a lot of fun doing it. We present you with our picks for the best books of 2025!
bookriot.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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So excited to see Automatic Noodle on @bookriot.bsky.social's best books of 2025, along with great new work from @charliejane.bsky.social, @aeosworth.bsky.social, Lee Lai, @khanwong.bsky.social, @kimberlylemming.bsky.social and more!! bookriot.com/best-books-o...
Best Books of 2025
Picking the best books of the year was no easy task, but we sure had a lot of fun doing it. We present you with our picks for the best books of 2025!
bookriot.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Getting health advice from strangers on social media is a minefield.
If you are ill enough to require psychiatric treatment, you need information about risks and benefits from serious discussions with your doctors, not from biased and subjective scare stories online.
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Let’s be clear: under no circumstance, no circumstance, should anyone with any concerns about their mental health take advice from any other place than a qualified clinician. Not a forum, even one w those purporting they are qualified. Not any other SM space. Certainly not AI.
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Calm down. It’s not like this president sent a bunch of scumbags to hang his own Vice president.
November 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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This isn't a body shaming post, it's a post to show how unreliable Grok is, over at the other place.
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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November 20, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Please sign and share if you can.
Boots: get krill pills off the shelves!
They're destroying the Antarctic food chain for omega-3 pills. But there's an easy fix.

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Boots: get krill pills off the shelves!
They're destroying the Antarctic food chain for omega-3 pills. But there's an easy fix.
act.weplanet.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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hoot hoot hooray
November 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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🚨BREAKING: A pregnant woman and many children are among at least 23 Palestinians Israel has killed in a series of attacks on Gaza City & Khan Younis, Al Jazeera English reports citing hospital sources.

According to reports:

▪️ A family of 5, including a pregnant woman & her children, were killed...
November 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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for @theguardian.com, i spent two weeks aboard the groundbreaking neoliner origin, the world's largest wind-powered cargo ship, on its inaugural transatlantic voyage.

hurricane-force winds, dolphins and sea sickness ahoy!

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

with support from @boellus.bsky.social
Onboard the world’s largest sailing cargo ship: is this the future of travel and transport?
The Neoliner Origin set off on its inaugural two-week voyage from France to the US with the aim of revolutionising the notoriously dirty shipping industry
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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ABC Mary Bruce deserves a Pulitzer Prize for asking the Saudi Prince this question:
November 19, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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#Charlotte'sWeb
Charlotte spun her web to save a life — that’s the damn point.

🕸️ Brave. Kind. 🐷

🤬 ICE is evil, incompetent, & missing the message of this antifascist classic. World-class fuckwads.

Read Charlotte’s Web.
Borrow her courage — save lives, raise hell & roast ICE.
Granddaughter of ‘Charlotte’s Web’ author criticizes use of book title in DHS immigration crackdown operation | CNN
In the popular children’s book “Charlotte’s Web,” the title character, a spider, uses her web as an instrument of good to help secure the freedom of Wilbur, a pig on her farm.
www.cnn.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.
MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.
fortune.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Fox News credulously reports that "the Saudis now say their investment pledge in the US will be increased to $1 trillion." THE ENTIRE GDP OF SAUDI ARABIA IS $1.1 TRILLION, so this is total nonsense.
November 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Five bucks to the first reporter to say “Hey, you know what, Mr. President? Go fuck yourself.”
Trump in response to an Epstein question: "ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should take a look at that."
November 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Jesus Christ. This is monstrous. Absolutely sickening. The journalists in that room should walk out en masse.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM