Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever:

www.404media.co/nih-archives...

Today at the “Stand up for Science” demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial.

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin

Before Sister Rosetta Tharpe, it was guitarist, bassist and vocalist Memphis Minnie (1897 – 1973) who helped shape the sound of modern pop music and recorded around 200 songs #womensart

True luxury is found in the simplest moments.

I keep reading that this is a place for kinder people, but gentle souls have always been among us. We just couldn’t hear them anymore. Perhaps our gathering here is proof that we missed those voices. What a wonderful thing to believe about ourselves. It can be a bold move to choose kindness.

A must-read: Patrick Chandler Brown — named after the PCB chemicals dumped in his community — purchased the plantation where his great-grandfather was enslaved and is in the process of transforming it to serve farmers like him

Huge influx of neuroscientists migrates to Bluesky
www.thetransmitter.org/community/hu...
#Neuroscience

Reconnecting with the Twitter homies on Bluesky

I've been thinking about this poem by Langston Hughes recently and although it was published in 1931, it remains relevant as ever.

#books #reading #booksky #poetry

A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.

Holy shit, 17M users in another ... *checks watch* 30 seconds at this rate. bcounter.nat.vg

this is what escaping twitter felt like

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
🚶🏻‍♀️🚶🏻‍♀️🚶🏻‍♀️

Pablo Neruda
#poetry