Wil Weston
@wilweston.bsky.social
Librarian, PhD in Higher Ed. Admin., Geographer, hiker, comic book collector, doodler, vegetarian, vaccinated 🙌, & off-grid kook. Opinions my own. he/him/his
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This book has been so soothing. I have probably learned more about the foreign policies that shape the world just in the first three chapters than I have in at least the last 15 years of news media. 🙃 It's helped clarify a lot of the absolutely batshit nonsense of the current timeline. COMFORT READ
November 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
This book has been so soothing. I have probably learned more about the foreign policies that shape the world just in the first three chapters than I have in at least the last 15 years of news media. 🙃 It's helped clarify a lot of the absolutely batshit nonsense of the current timeline. COMFORT READ
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A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
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You're a high ranking government official and you shouldn't make things up.
Your 70% number is just a fabrication.
And it's TOTALLY not true that "every single" person you detained is here illegally. For instance, many were allowed in so they could apply for asylum.
Your 70% number is just a fabrication.
And it's TOTALLY not true that "every single" person you detained is here illegally. For instance, many were allowed in so they could apply for asylum.
November 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
You're a high ranking government official and you shouldn't make things up.
Your 70% number is just a fabrication.
And it's TOTALLY not true that "every single" person you detained is here illegally. For instance, many were allowed in so they could apply for asylum.
Your 70% number is just a fabrication.
And it's TOTALLY not true that "every single" person you detained is here illegally. For instance, many were allowed in so they could apply for asylum.
Yep, this… as a fellow old, I 2nd this.
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Yep, this… as a fellow old, I 2nd this.
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A victim of Trump's ICE Gestapo speaks out.
November 26, 2025 at 7:17 AM
A victim of Trump's ICE Gestapo speaks out.
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Some people don't know this so it's worth saying out loud that Public libraries are free to use. And even if you have never used a library, the librarians at your local library will be very happy to see you and help you get started.
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Some people don't know this so it's worth saying out loud that Public libraries are free to use. And even if you have never used a library, the librarians at your local library will be very happy to see you and help you get started.
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It's an easy commitment to make. One, it supports individual humans with money. Two, the work is better because there's an actual brain behind it that understands the context of the thing it's working on. Three, me making it a contract point makes it easier for other authors/writers to do the same.
I’m truly delighted to hear that it is part of your contract that all work on your books (art, editing, translation, etc.) must be done by humans. I greatly admire this commitment
November 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
It's an easy commitment to make. One, it supports individual humans with money. Two, the work is better because there's an actual brain behind it that understands the context of the thing it's working on. Three, me making it a contract point makes it easier for other authors/writers to do the same.
AI makes everything worse. And, very soon it is going to blow a mega ton techbro sized hole in the side of US economy.
Because so many fucking fools are buying and drinking the snake piss believing it is ambrosia.
Nope, just piss.
Because so many fucking fools are buying and drinking the snake piss believing it is ambrosia.
Nope, just piss.
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
AI makes everything worse. And, very soon it is going to blow a mega ton techbro sized hole in the side of US economy.
Because so many fucking fools are buying and drinking the snake piss believing it is ambrosia.
Nope, just piss.
Because so many fucking fools are buying and drinking the snake piss believing it is ambrosia.
Nope, just piss.
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This is such a good point. There is no good reason to use chatgpt for recipes, and yet tech cos are basically forcing it on people in order (it seems) swallow food blogging along with news and everything else
This is so funny because recipes can literally already be copied and reposted with no attribution or copyright. All AI does here is add statistical noise and make the stolen content useless. AI can’t even steal content without fucking it up.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
This is such a good point. There is no good reason to use chatgpt for recipes, and yet tech cos are basically forcing it on people in order (it seems) swallow food blogging along with news and everything else
Thread 🧵 is a recommended read.
This is fascism. This is censorship. This is homophobic and misogynistic.
If you support the banning of books — you are a fascist and a bigot. Full stop.
This is fascism. This is censorship. This is homophobic and misogynistic.
If you support the banning of books — you are a fascist and a bigot. Full stop.
1. In Tennessee, public libraries have closed for up to a week to facilitate a Trump-inspired book purge.
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge
One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes…
popular.info
November 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Thread 🧵 is a recommended read.
This is fascism. This is censorship. This is homophobic and misogynistic.
If you support the banning of books — you are a fascist and a bigot. Full stop.
This is fascism. This is censorship. This is homophobic and misogynistic.
If you support the banning of books — you are a fascist and a bigot. Full stop.
Reminder for the Holiday Season: Don’t shop at TARGET - it is a racist, homophobic, bigoted corporation run by bigoted executives that needs to be boycotted into bankruptcy.
An object lesson needs to be made and that is the COMPLETE shuttering of TARGET.
An object lesson needs to be made and that is the COMPLETE shuttering of TARGET.
November 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Reminder for the Holiday Season: Don’t shop at TARGET - it is a racist, homophobic, bigoted corporation run by bigoted executives that needs to be boycotted into bankruptcy.
An object lesson needs to be made and that is the COMPLETE shuttering of TARGET.
An object lesson needs to be made and that is the COMPLETE shuttering of TARGET.
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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1. After the shutdown fight, Republicans promised Democrats a vote on extending enhanced ACA subsidies, which cover 20 million Americans.
Now, new reporting shows that Republican negotiators want to make a trans funding ban a requirement for the extension.
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Now, new reporting shows that Republican negotiators want to make a trans funding ban a requirement for the extension.
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Republicans Privately Pushing Anti-Trans Funding Ban For ACA Subsidy Deal After Shutdown Compromise
The proposal, which was first detailed in the Wall Street Journal, could harm transgender people even in blue states if it becomes part of the negotiated deal.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
1. After the shutdown fight, Republicans promised Democrats a vote on extending enhanced ACA subsidies, which cover 20 million Americans.
Now, new reporting shows that Republican negotiators want to make a trans funding ban a requirement for the extension.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Now, new reporting shows that Republican negotiators want to make a trans funding ban a requirement for the extension.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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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.
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November 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Thread. 🧵 Recommended read. 💚
I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
November 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Thread. 🧵 Recommended read. 💚
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November 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Mississippi has long failed to count and report all deaths in local jails that serve the state’s 82 counties, despite a federal requirement to do so. These often dangerous facilities operate virtually free of any state oversight.
Why No One Knows How Many People Die in Mississippi’s Jails
Mississippi has long failed to count and report all deaths in local jails that serve the state’s 82 counties, despite a federal requirement to do so.
buff.ly
November 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Mississippi has long failed to count and report all deaths in local jails that serve the state’s 82 counties, despite a federal requirement to do so. These often dangerous facilities operate virtually free of any state oversight.
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'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 AM
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
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How y’all feeling about this? I’m f*cking irate.
We’re not professionals? RNs in particular for me…..who do you think monitors for changes/care in the hospital because your MD isn’t at bedside? WHO do you think THEY depend on?
(Ps this was in Project 2025)
www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
We’re not professionals? RNs in particular for me…..who do you think monitors for changes/care in the hospital because your MD isn’t at bedside? WHO do you think THEY depend on?
(Ps this was in Project 2025)
www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
Nursing is no longer counted as a 'professional degree' by Trump admin
The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it implements various changes to student loans.
www.newsweek.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
How y’all feeling about this? I’m f*cking irate.
We’re not professionals? RNs in particular for me…..who do you think monitors for changes/care in the hospital because your MD isn’t at bedside? WHO do you think THEY depend on?
(Ps this was in Project 2025)
www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
We’re not professionals? RNs in particular for me…..who do you think monitors for changes/care in the hospital because your MD isn’t at bedside? WHO do you think THEY depend on?
(Ps this was in Project 2025)
www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
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How embarrassing for Chuck Schumer, Kirstin Gillibrand, Cory Booker, & NY Reps Grace Meng, Dan Goldman, Ritchie Torres, Greg Meeks, Tom Suozzi, & Laura Gillen, that even Donald Trump endorsed Zohran Mamdani before they did.😐
Corporate Democrats just love snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Corporate Democrats just love snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
November 22, 2025 at 3:51 AM
How embarrassing for Chuck Schumer, Kirstin Gillibrand, Cory Booker, & NY Reps Grace Meng, Dan Goldman, Ritchie Torres, Greg Meeks, Tom Suozzi, & Laura Gillen, that even Donald Trump endorsed Zohran Mamdani before they did.😐
Corporate Democrats just love snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Corporate Democrats just love snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Here is the list of Democrats in the pocket of the oligarchy or SO FUCKING DUMB as to not understand the word socialism and the types of socialism. Soc Secuity, socialism - Fire Dept & Post Office, socialism - Public Ed & Libraries, socialism.
@tedlieu.bsky.social
www.newsweek.com/full-list-of...
@tedlieu.bsky.social
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Full list of Democrats voting to condemn socialism as Zohran Mamdani comes to town
The House of Representatives voted on a resolution condemning socialism ahead of President Trump's meeting with Zohran Mamdani.
www.newsweek.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Here is the list of Democrats in the pocket of the oligarchy or SO FUCKING DUMB as to not understand the word socialism and the types of socialism. Soc Secuity, socialism - Fire Dept & Post Office, socialism - Public Ed & Libraries, socialism.
@tedlieu.bsky.social
www.newsweek.com/full-list-of...
@tedlieu.bsky.social
www.newsweek.com/full-list-of...
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Past is prologue.
In 1933, during the Great Depression, a group of wealthy businessmen tried to overthrow the US government and install a fascist dictator to protect their own interests.
And everything that led to it feels way too familiar right now.
This is not a history lesson, it’s a warning.
In 1933, during the Great Depression, a group of wealthy businessmen tried to overthrow the US government and install a fascist dictator to protect their own interests.
And everything that led to it feels way too familiar right now.
This is not a history lesson, it’s a warning.
November 20, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Past is prologue.
In 1933, during the Great Depression, a group of wealthy businessmen tried to overthrow the US government and install a fascist dictator to protect their own interests.
And everything that led to it feels way too familiar right now.
This is not a history lesson, it’s a warning.
In 1933, during the Great Depression, a group of wealthy businessmen tried to overthrow the US government and install a fascist dictator to protect their own interests.
And everything that led to it feels way too familiar right now.
This is not a history lesson, it’s a warning.