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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 4h

Pretty much my entire path in librarianship is thanks to social media, at least in part

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 5d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 4h

Hey friends, it's not queerbaiting if Chris, aka Peacemaker, a bisexual, has feelings for a woman. It's not schroedinger's queerness. He's still queer even if he's in a het relationship. Of all the complaints I've seen about S2, this one makes me the angriest.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 6h

There's still time to delete this

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 6h

You really, really do want to buy the quality gloves, boots, etc. whenever possible.

The Vimes Boots Theory.

Look it up.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 9h

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

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Representative Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 10h

For generations, the federal government funded research that leads to medical breakthroughs & even cures.

But Trump’s massive cuts at NIH and beyond will make our country sicker, poorer, and worse off.

Like many of you, this is personal for me.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 12h

I know it is a minor thing in all of this but why, WHY, does this weird right-wing aesthetic always involve wet and shiny looking people?

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 2d

Gamers’ brains are so cooked dude. The woman on the right is gorgeous and beautiful. Straight gamer men literally can’t find normal women attractive anymore.

Designed With
Gamers In Mind Designed With
Activists In Mind

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 14h

This close to becoming a hermit by the sea with no internet

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 16h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 15h

I'm fully in "I'll believe it when i see it" mentality

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 17h

This has been *confirmed*: so not only did this make it through dozens of levels of decisions where no one spoke up to say "this is unethical and looks like shit", it's also so bad it was instantly spotted by thousands of people like me who in a split second said "hey that looks like shit".

Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 1d

Someone tell me Disney didn't just use a bunch of fucking AI slop for the new Wonder Man show

Wonder Man screenshot featuring merchandise which appears to be decorated with AI slop.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 15h

It's mean, but as @gabbsnoe.bsky.social said, "they deserve to be alone."

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 15h

They used... probably the equivalent of 2 days worth of energy and water for the average westerner... to get to a sentence so basic and generic autocomplete on a brand new cellphone could've spit it out.

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 23h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 15h

EV's are a bandaid on a massive structural and cultural problem

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 1d

If cars are so bad for our health, our cities and the planet, why can’t we quit them? Three new books argue it’s time to really try.

‘Car Brain’ Is Making the US Unhealthy and Dangerous. EVs Won’t Fix It.

A trio of new books argue that we need to confront the full range of costs that car-based living has imposed on our cities, our health and our society.

bloom.bg

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 15h

Nah, y'all on your own ✌️

A sticker on the wall of Miss Worcester Diner that reads

I NEED MATT TO KEEP ME HAPPY

MATT CHARETTE * THE TRUER SOUND

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

They cannot talk about the shutdown without lying.

There is no connection between troop payments and federal employee layoffs. Zero.

They are paying the troops with multiyear R&D allocations within DOD. This is also illegal by the way! But completely disconnected to the layoffs.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

WELKER: During the 2019 shutdown when Trump was president, no federal workers were laid off. Why are these firings necessary?

VANCE: Who do we care more about- federal bureaucrats or the troops getting the payment they need?

WELKER: But layoffs are a priority?

VANCE: They have forced us to choose

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 16h

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 1d

So... anyone else worried about AI bots' potential impact on dementia?

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine being this bad at running a government

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 1d

(I mean...)

Tattoo on my left arm of the Moon and the lyrics

i am not your autumn moon, i am the night

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 1d

Drop a song that you must sing out loud whenever you hear it, if you'd like.

youtu.be/nqtO7-bE23E?...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

🧵 regarding the shutdown:

The Democrats aren’t being clear enough about this but we can be: this shutdown is about saving lives.

If we don’t reverse the Medicaid cuts (and the ACA subsidies on insurance bought through the exchanges) that Republicans made this year, people will die.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 1d

😂✊️

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder than in the Worcester budget, the Library is not even 1% of the spend.

We've fallen to about .74%.

I'd love it if you emailed your Councilor *and* the City Manager to ask that the library budget be bumped up.

Staffing. Programs. Collections. New tech. We can do more with more.

#WorcPoli

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 1d

They don't even bother to lie badly anymore.
I suppose that's the final humiliation

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