Library Bear 📚
@adklibrarybear.bsky.social
Mama bear. Librarian. Outdoorsy. Leftist. Rather be hiking. 🏳️🌈☸️ 🧶📚Ask me for a book recommendation. She/her.
Profile pic: the face of a black bear happily munching some dandelions. Background pic: me the (human) bear under the total solar eclipse ☀️🌕
Profile pic: the face of a black bear happily munching some dandelions. Background pic: me the (human) bear under the total solar eclipse ☀️🌕
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TURNS OUT A VERY WIDE SPAN OF THE ELECTORATE HATES FASCISM, ACTUALLY. WHO COULD HAVE GUESSED.
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The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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"COVID-19 infection during pregnancy increases the risk of preterm birth, preeclampsia, and stillbirth."
NEW: A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other neurodevelopmental diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.
Amid Confusing CDC Guidance About Vaccines, Study Highlights New Risk of COVID-19 During Pregnancy
A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.
www.propublica.org
November 28, 2025 at 12:31 AM
"COVID-19 infection during pregnancy increases the risk of preterm birth, preeclampsia, and stillbirth."
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"Elon Musk is personally responsible for the deaths of at least 400,000 children" is a stat that should be cited every time he and his pervert fanboys start yapping about birth rates
Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 29, 2025 at 1:05 AM
"Elon Musk is personally responsible for the deaths of at least 400,000 children" is a stat that should be cited every time he and his pervert fanboys start yapping about birth rates
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Which probably sounds like a strange comparison, but helping out at the preschool often feels like reliving Occupy.
There is ALWAYS a logistical crisis that requires fast thinking, often a conflict to break up, always a need to be moving around meeting needs.
There is ALWAYS a logistical crisis that requires fast thinking, often a conflict to break up, always a need to be moving around meeting needs.
November 29, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Which probably sounds like a strange comparison, but helping out at the preschool often feels like reliving Occupy.
There is ALWAYS a logistical crisis that requires fast thinking, often a conflict to break up, always a need to be moving around meeting needs.
There is ALWAYS a logistical crisis that requires fast thinking, often a conflict to break up, always a need to be moving around meeting needs.
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Kids are the only thing keeping me from losing my mind, honestly.
You HAVE to put down the phone sometimes, you HAVE to put one foot in front of the other, you HAVE to make it through the day and hold it together.
The only experience I can really compare it to is sustained street protest.
You HAVE to put down the phone sometimes, you HAVE to put one foot in front of the other, you HAVE to make it through the day and hold it together.
The only experience I can really compare it to is sustained street protest.
I feel like it is very hard to function on a daily basis if you think too hard about how many things in the US are completely falling apart and/or actively being destroyed right now, which is one upside to being recently laid off
November 29, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Kids are the only thing keeping me from losing my mind, honestly.
You HAVE to put down the phone sometimes, you HAVE to put one foot in front of the other, you HAVE to make it through the day and hold it together.
The only experience I can really compare it to is sustained street protest.
You HAVE to put down the phone sometimes, you HAVE to put one foot in front of the other, you HAVE to make it through the day and hold it together.
The only experience I can really compare it to is sustained street protest.
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Fresh off the needles last night! Finished in between cooking different bits for the holiday meal. Learned the Icelandic Bind Off, and it is now my favorite bind off.
Fabulous yarn from @isasaxonists.bsky.social
#Showmeyourknits Indie Week #knitsky 🧶
Fabulous yarn from @isasaxonists.bsky.social
#Showmeyourknits Indie Week #knitsky 🧶
November 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Fresh off the needles last night! Finished in between cooking different bits for the holiday meal. Learned the Icelandic Bind Off, and it is now my favorite bind off.
Fabulous yarn from @isasaxonists.bsky.social
#Showmeyourknits Indie Week #knitsky 🧶
Fabulous yarn from @isasaxonists.bsky.social
#Showmeyourknits Indie Week #knitsky 🧶
This is def horrifying, but to be clear: I am not sure why we’re surprised the Nazis are behaving like Nazis. Whose mind are we trying to change with the “he should feel bad for being a war criminal” gambit?
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This is def horrifying, but to be clear: I am not sure why we’re surprised the Nazis are behaving like Nazis. Whose mind are we trying to change with the “he should feel bad for being a war criminal” gambit?
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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
This. I don’t have a lot in common with a 20 yr old West Virginian. But she was harmed by the regime as directly as my immigrant family is being, & I really, really hope people realize this. Violence is bad. The first violence done against her was putting her in DC.
Those poor National Guard kids, man. National Guard isn't something you join because you want to kick down doors, it's something you join because you want to go to college.
November 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This. I don’t have a lot in common with a 20 yr old West Virginian. But she was harmed by the regime as directly as my immigrant family is being, & I really, really hope people realize this. Violence is bad. The first violence done against her was putting her in DC.
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
Omg this rules
Omg this rules
November 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
Omg this rules
Omg this rules
Your regular reminder that book banning is the cornerstone of fascism: www.commondreams.org/news/tenness... 📚
Librarians and Publishers Alarmed as Tennessee Libraries Shut Down for GOP 'Book Purge' | Common Dreams
Librarians, publishers, and civil rights groups are sounding the alarm as public libraries in Tennessee have begun shutting down to carry out a state government-mandated purge of children's books with...
www.commondreams.org
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Your regular reminder that book banning is the cornerstone of fascism: www.commondreams.org/news/tenness... 📚
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At Indigenous Day of Mourning, Plymouth, organized by www.uaine.org, my family gathered w/ thousands of people to say: from turtle Island to Palestine, colonialism is a crime!
November 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM
At Indigenous Day of Mourning, Plymouth, organized by www.uaine.org, my family gathered w/ thousands of people to say: from turtle Island to Palestine, colonialism is a crime!
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Cannot emphasize this enough.
If you shop on Black Friday, shop only at small biz, minority owned biz, women owned biz, or support independent media.
Do not give Big Box Retailers your money! #WeAintBuyingIt
If you shop on Black Friday, shop only at small biz, minority owned biz, women owned biz, or support independent media.
Do not give Big Box Retailers your money! #WeAintBuyingIt
November 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Cannot emphasize this enough.
If you shop on Black Friday, shop only at small biz, minority owned biz, women owned biz, or support independent media.
Do not give Big Box Retailers your money! #WeAintBuyingIt
If you shop on Black Friday, shop only at small biz, minority owned biz, women owned biz, or support independent media.
Do not give Big Box Retailers your money! #WeAintBuyingIt
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ICE is kidnapping people on Thanksgiving.
If you think they can be reformed, ask your family how they would feel if they never saw you today.
If you think they can be reformed, ask your family how they would feel if they never saw you today.
November 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
ICE is kidnapping people on Thanksgiving.
If you think they can be reformed, ask your family how they would feel if they never saw you today.
If you think they can be reformed, ask your family how they would feel if they never saw you today.
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I hope that everyone except fascists & collaborators have a good day however you choose to spend it!
Let us also keep in mind that the USA was and remains a genocidal, settler-colonial state; that we are on stolen land; and that Indigenous people persist & thrive.
Let us also keep in mind that the USA was and remains a genocidal, settler-colonial state; that we are on stolen land; and that Indigenous people persist & thrive.
November 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I hope that everyone except fascists & collaborators have a good day however you choose to spend it!
Let us also keep in mind that the USA was and remains a genocidal, settler-colonial state; that we are on stolen land; and that Indigenous people persist & thrive.
Let us also keep in mind that the USA was and remains a genocidal, settler-colonial state; that we are on stolen land; and that Indigenous people persist & thrive.
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This Thanksgiving—observe the National Day of Mourning.
From 1819 to 1969, US Govt stole tens of thousands of Indigenous kids—forcing them to convert to Christianity & stripping them of their identities. Resistance was met with violence. Sexual abuse was rampant.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/thanksgivi...
From 1819 to 1969, US Govt stole tens of thousands of Indigenous kids—forcing them to convert to Christianity & stripping them of their identities. Resistance was met with violence. Sexual abuse was rampant.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/thanksgivi...
Thanksgiving and the National Day of Mourning
As injustices upon Indigenous Americans perpetuate, we must act to counter that systemic oppression
www.qasimrashid.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This Thanksgiving—observe the National Day of Mourning.
From 1819 to 1969, US Govt stole tens of thousands of Indigenous kids—forcing them to convert to Christianity & stripping them of their identities. Resistance was met with violence. Sexual abuse was rampant.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/thanksgivi...
From 1819 to 1969, US Govt stole tens of thousands of Indigenous kids—forcing them to convert to Christianity & stripping them of their identities. Resistance was met with violence. Sexual abuse was rampant.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/thanksgivi...
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On this day, Indigenous people and allies confront the settler-colonial narratives of “Thanksgiving,” observing it instead as a National Day of Mourning.
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
On this day, Indigenous people and allies confront the settler-colonial narratives of “Thanksgiving,” observing it instead as a National Day of Mourning.
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I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
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Typewriters are still around on Mumbai's sidewalks, outside big government offices. Affidavits, stamp papers and notaries.
If you come to Mysore, I'll show you the street where to find them.
#Mumbai #Mysore #travel #typewriters
If you come to Mysore, I'll show you the street where to find them.
#Mumbai #Mysore #travel #typewriters
November 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Typewriters are still around on Mumbai's sidewalks, outside big government offices. Affidavits, stamp papers and notaries.
If you come to Mysore, I'll show you the street where to find them.
#Mumbai #Mysore #travel #typewriters
If you come to Mysore, I'll show you the street where to find them.
#Mumbai #Mysore #travel #typewriters
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Not good enough that our government has gone full blood and soil, we're exporting it elsewhere
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
U.S. to Press Europe and Other Allies on ‘Mass Migration,’ Document Says
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Not good enough that our government has gone full blood and soil, we're exporting it elsewhere
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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the requirement is, of course, “be white” amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
Trump says Haiti no longer meets requirements for TPS. Haitians have to leave
The Department of Homeland Security said TPS for Haiti ends Feb. 3, 2026, affecting over half a million people who may face return to gang-controlled Port-au-Prince.
amp.miamiherald.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
the requirement is, of course, “be white” amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
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The leaves are changing and so is City Hall.
November 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The leaves are changing and so is City Hall.
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It hits different when they're arresting white women. They signed up to terrorize Black and brown people.
“We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders,” the masked ICE agents told them www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/i...
November 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
It hits different when they're arresting white women. They signed up to terrorize Black and brown people.
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.