shalulah
@shalulah.bsky.social
Serial enthusiast. Curiouser and curiouser.
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Trump is attacking the Smithsonian museum, saying there’s too much focus on "how bad slavery was."
Authoritarians know that if they can convince us our country has never been wrong, they can make us believe our ruler is always right.
This is part of a larger plan. Watch: youtu.be/rEH7sF6pA4s?...
Authoritarians know that if they can convince us our country has never been wrong, they can make us believe our ruler is always right.
This is part of a larger plan. Watch: youtu.be/rEH7sF6pA4s?...
Why Does Trump Hate Sesame Street?
YouTube video by Robert Reich
youtu.be
August 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Trump is attacking the Smithsonian museum, saying there’s too much focus on "how bad slavery was."
Authoritarians know that if they can convince us our country has never been wrong, they can make us believe our ruler is always right.
This is part of a larger plan. Watch: youtu.be/rEH7sF6pA4s?...
Authoritarians know that if they can convince us our country has never been wrong, they can make us believe our ruler is always right.
This is part of a larger plan. Watch: youtu.be/rEH7sF6pA4s?...
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Friendly reminder that AI data centers are working overtime to help cook the planet. If the fires are scaring you— start using ‘-AI’ at the end of all Google searches to cut out any AI response to your query. Refusal is possible & responsible.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models
Experts working to benchmark resource use of AI models say new version’s enhanced capabilities come at a steep cost
www.theguardian.com
August 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Friendly reminder that AI data centers are working overtime to help cook the planet. If the fires are scaring you— start using ‘-AI’ at the end of all Google searches to cut out any AI response to your query. Refusal is possible & responsible.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
"Perhaps
the truth is that every song of this country
has an unsung third stanza, something brutal
snaking underneath us as we absent-mindedly sing
the high notes with a beer sloshing in the stands
hoping our team wins."
poets.org/poem/new-nat...
the truth is that every song of this country
has an unsung third stanza, something brutal
snaking underneath us as we absent-mindedly sing
the high notes with a beer sloshing in the stands
hoping our team wins."
poets.org/poem/new-nat...
A New National Anthem
The truth is, I’ve never cared for the National
poets.org
July 4, 2025 at 8:18 PM
"Perhaps
the truth is that every song of this country
has an unsung third stanza, something brutal
snaking underneath us as we absent-mindedly sing
the high notes with a beer sloshing in the stands
hoping our team wins."
poets.org/poem/new-nat...
the truth is that every song of this country
has an unsung third stanza, something brutal
snaking underneath us as we absent-mindedly sing
the high notes with a beer sloshing in the stands
hoping our team wins."
poets.org/poem/new-nat...
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Why I’m Not Celebrating the 4th This Year
The disappointment I feel toward friends and family who continue to vote for, and cheer on, those destroying my profession—public education and libraries—is overwhelming. These aren’t just “political differences.” (1/7)
The disappointment I feel toward friends and family who continue to vote for, and cheer on, those destroying my profession—public education and libraries—is overwhelming. These aren’t just “political differences.” (1/7)
July 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Why I’m Not Celebrating the 4th This Year
The disappointment I feel toward friends and family who continue to vote for, and cheer on, those destroying my profession—public education and libraries—is overwhelming. These aren’t just “political differences.” (1/7)
The disappointment I feel toward friends and family who continue to vote for, and cheer on, those destroying my profession—public education and libraries—is overwhelming. These aren’t just “political differences.” (1/7)
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I keep going back for pain samples
I don’t need. I have gallons of different
shades stored in the basement.
poets.org/poem/never-a...
I don’t need. I have gallons of different
shades stored in the basement.
poets.org/poem/never-a...
Never Admit Your Mistakes
I text my yoga teacher: I think I need
poets.org
June 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I keep going back for pain samples
I don’t need. I have gallons of different
shades stored in the basement.
poets.org/poem/never-a...
I don’t need. I have gallons of different
shades stored in the basement.
poets.org/poem/never-a...
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The IMLS is a kindred agency to NEH, and supports work across the humanities.
🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
March 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The IMLS is a kindred agency to NEH, and supports work across the humanities.
Priority mail art is proliferating
March 10, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Priority mail art is proliferating
This feels like an auspicious start to the morning...
March 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This feels like an auspicious start to the morning...
Upcoming show from the wild and woolly Wilgira! Experimento-jazz-punk for all!
March 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Upcoming show from the wild and woolly Wilgira! Experimento-jazz-punk for all!
Happy economic boycott day
February 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Happy economic boycott day
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See: why the goal isn't to shut down libraries when it comes to these attacks on library workers and on books.
It's to shut down PUBLIC libraries and turn them into for-profit institutions for the elite so the elite can pat themselves on the back about it.
They're not dumb. They're coordinated.
It's to shut down PUBLIC libraries and turn them into for-profit institutions for the elite so the elite can pat themselves on the back about it.
They're not dumb. They're coordinated.
There's an impulse to give these fuckers the benefit of the doubt--"oh, they're just too ignorant/dumb to understand what they're doing"--when the point is: they don't give the first fuck how anything works already, they're looking for how THEY can control things and profit from them, period.
February 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
See: why the goal isn't to shut down libraries when it comes to these attacks on library workers and on books.
It's to shut down PUBLIC libraries and turn them into for-profit institutions for the elite so the elite can pat themselves on the back about it.
They're not dumb. They're coordinated.
It's to shut down PUBLIC libraries and turn them into for-profit institutions for the elite so the elite can pat themselves on the back about it.
They're not dumb. They're coordinated.
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These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."
The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything
The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
February 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."
we are not IN their story even if we are IMPACTED by it. we have to keep writing and living OUR stories, the ones where justice and love and equality and material well-being and care and connection and freedom and safety and dignity and belonging and earth are at the center. ~adrienne maree brown
February 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
we are not IN their story even if we are IMPACTED by it. we have to keep writing and living OUR stories, the ones where justice and love and equality and material well-being and care and connection and freedom and safety and dignity and belonging and earth are at the center. ~adrienne maree brown
Open to All: A Century of Access at the Special Collections Library
May 24 - Nov 2, 2025
www.cabq.gov
January 28, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I feel like I'm lost in the Doldrums today 😢
Rest In Peace, Jules Feiffer. Died just shy of his 96th birthday, but he was still as vital as ever, plugging away on his next book. The way 2025's been going, I'm not surprised we lost our greatest living cartoonist less than a month into it.
January 22, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I feel like I'm lost in the Doldrums today 😢
David Lynch explains how to cook quinoa, from the Inland Empire special features 🐇
youtu.be/uSP-ewdJYJc?...
youtu.be/uSP-ewdJYJc?...
David Lynch on Cooking Quinoa
YouTube video by scaynes
youtu.be
January 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
David Lynch explains how to cook quinoa, from the Inland Empire special features 🐇
youtu.be/uSP-ewdJYJc?...
youtu.be/uSP-ewdJYJc?...
Finally I feel like someone understands the moss terror I felt in Portland. I went from "it's really green here" (coming from the desert) to "is the moss actually invading?"
Obsessed with these beseeching moss trees here in Portland.
January 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Finally I feel like someone understands the moss terror I felt in Portland. I went from "it's really green here" (coming from the desert) to "is the moss actually invading?"
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Tomorrow noon east-coast time, 9am Pacific: we'll be here to talk about beloved community, power, storytelling, and enter this next era of US history together, heads held high, friends held close. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf_y...
January 20, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Tomorrow noon east-coast time, 9am Pacific: we'll be here to talk about beloved community, power, storytelling, and enter this next era of US history together, heads held high, friends held close. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf_y...
I love watching those Criterion closet pick videos. So I decided to make a list of what my picks might be, for the day I get invited in...I can dream, anyway.
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
January 9, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I love watching those Criterion closet pick videos. So I decided to make a list of what my picks might be, for the day I get invited in...I can dream, anyway.
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Intrigued by the People’s Bookshelf at the National Library of Latvia. Each book in the collection has been donated by a member of the public and is inscribed by its former owner, telling a personal story relating to the book.
November 25, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Intrigued by the People’s Bookshelf at the National Library of Latvia. Each book in the collection has been donated by a member of the public and is inscribed by its former owner, telling a personal story relating to the book.