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Stephanie Leary @sleary.bsky.social · 8h

I love that you’re creating this path!

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 9h

A woodcut of a bird beside the text "holy shit i hate all of this"

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Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · 9h

A Texas District Has Just Banned Students from Secondary School Libraries | Book Riot

A Texas District Has Just Banned Students from Secondary School Libraries

In order to ban books from its libraries, New Braunfels Independent School District has just closed its libraries to middle and high schoolers.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 9h

This will work fine on neurodivergent folk, I’m sure…

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9h

Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃

PainChek is one of these behavioral models, and it acts like a camera‑based thermometer, but for pain: A care worker opens the app and holds a phone 30 centimeters from a person’s face. For three seconds, a neural network looks for nine particular microscopic movements—upper‑lip raise, brow pinch, cheek tension, and so on—that research has linked most strongly to pain. Then the screen flashes a score of 0 to 42. “There’s a catalogue of ‘action‑unit codes’—facial expressions common to all humans. Nine of those are associated with pain,” explains Kreshnik Hoti, a senior research scientist with PainChek and a co-inventor of the device. This system is built directly on the foundation of FACS. After the scan, the app walks the user through a yes‑or‑no checklist of other signs, like groaning, “guarding,” and sleep disruption, and stores the result on a cloud dashboard that can show trends.

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Stephanie Leary @sleary.bsky.social · 1d

“Unless they invent digital god and completely transform the entire global economy, like, really pretty soon, they’re inevitably going to run into some hard accounting realities.”

Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

open.substack.com

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Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 1d

dude was responsible for how so many of my memories of childhood afternoons spent staring idly at vhs covers look like. rip to a fucking legend

Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1d

Heartbroken that, per his social media accounts, Drew Struzan has left us. His poster and album art was quite simply shorthand for imagination for countless young people.

E.T. Adventure poster, 1990. I still have one of these hanging in my childhood bedroom.

Star Wars Special edition triptych, 1997. I remember seeing all of these in the paper as each film was re-released and just felt a burst of energy those mornings.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 1d

I now cry every time I watch this or hear it.

Also, remember, this is now under the Tom Holland rule and must be reposted every time you see it.

Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 1d

Remember this: Try.

youtu.be/wQd4JdFP0d0?...

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re a parent of a child with a disability, you’re worried about how your family will be impacted by SpecEd Department of Education layoffs and you want to talk to a journalist about it, please DM, email (sluterman at 19thnews dot org) or Signal (slooterman.18).

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Stephanie Leary @sleary.bsky.social · 2d

They don’t mix well, either.

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Angela Avera Selter @artemiskick.bsky.social · 4d

Morning Glory’s natural #Glow for today’s #BlueSkyArtShow.

#iPhonePhotography #Macro #BloomScrolling #EastCoastKin

Macro image of a purple morning glory flower. The throat is creamy white, illuminated by the morning sun shining from behind; white specks of pollen are on the deep purple trumpet.

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Stephanie Leary @sleary.bsky.social · 3d

I see the appeal of becoming a surly bog witch more and more every day

Stephanie Leary @sleary.bsky.social · 3d

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Stephanie Leary @sleary.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, this turned out exactly as I thought it would.

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the idea slumlord✨ @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 3d

“Publisher didn’t register copyright”

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 3d

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

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 3d

"The chancellor approved it"

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 3d

If Mario can dress as a frog and fight tyrants then so can you.

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Stephanie Leary @sleary.bsky.social · 4d

Replace Jared Leto with Tig Notaro and we’ll talk.

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 4d

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 4d

I’m not trying to give @pbs.org ideas for raising money—but I am. I would buy women’s fit T-shirts of all my favorite childhood shows. Reading rainbow, 321 contact, square one, zoobiliee zoo. I feel like two generations will run to donate even more money for shirts with Levar Burton on them…

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kim-mn.bsky.social @kim-mn.bsky.social · 4d

IMLS’s new team decided that nearly all of the $14.1 million allocated to the Nat'l Leadership Grants for Libraries(in 2025) is going to 1 recipient, the U.S. Semiquincentennial Co.

So instead of our taxes going to support our libraries, we're paying for a UFC fight on the white house lawn.

skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 4d

It's October 2025 and the federal government is shut down.

So what's currently going on at the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)? Well, a lot of money seems to be "missing," among other things.

buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

The Current State of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (October 2025 Edition)

Grant money that should be going to library projects is going to state-sponsored propaganda, among other IMLS updates.

buttondown.com

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Stephanie Leary @sleary.bsky.social · 4d

This, too, is eugenics.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 4d

⚠️ USAToday reporter confirms the office in charge of special education funding has been “decimated”:

Zach Schermele
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NEW: The Education Dept. layoffs continued overnight, w/ the main office in charge of special ed funding being
"decimated," as one person described.
"They cut just about everyone that works with IDEA funding," said another.
"I'm not sure how these programs exist moving forward."
10:21 AM • 10/11/25 • 2.1K Views

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Stephanie Leary @sleary.bsky.social · 4d

Austin, I KNOW you still know how to be weird.

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 4d

Portland does not own the patent on inflatable animal costume protests, come on people

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Jenét Morrow @jenetallday.bsky.social · 4d

Once again, if your library has Hoopla, check to see if their plan includes TV shows and movies. If so, you'll have access to Acorn TV, MHz Choice, AMC and BritBox shows and more.

Jenét Morrow @jenetallday.bsky.social · Feb 6

On a budget? A reminder to check to see if you have access to Kanopy and Hoopla through your library. Hoopla has ebooks, music, movies and TV shows. A lot of AMC and Acorn TV shows on that platform. And Kanopy has a kids section with unlimited "borrows". #library

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 4d

"President Trump continued to describe Portland as a city on fire Friday even as residents enjoyed the first fall rain and the lone demonstrator at the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement building was dressed as a pink Care Bear."

Sometimes there is a good sentence or two in the NYT.

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Reverend Jesus "Ł" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 5d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Stephanie Leary @sleary.bsky.social · 5d

I didn’t realize this is coming out so soon! I LOVE the book. This looks like great fun.

Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · 6d

The trailer for ‘HEATED RIVALRY’ starring Connor Storrie & Hudson Williams.

It follows a pair of leading Major League Hockey players who harbor a secret: Away from their rivalry on the ice, they are secretly lovers.

Premieres November 28 on Crave.

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🎃 a frightful hoxgoblin 🎃 @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 5d

Higher Ed in 2025 is opening your mailbox to see that your institution has sent you:

1. A Center for Teaching and Learning call to integrate AI into your classroom; and

2. An Office of Academic Integrity email encouraging you to crack down on students who use AI to cheat.

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