Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her)

I do not think we should have a death penalty. I don't think it is any kind of deterrent. I think it's barbaric. I think it makes us all worse people. All of us. And we just don't have to do this to ourselves. We could abolish it, and we should.

I just saw someone admonishing someone trans to shut up about trans rights because there are concentration camps in the US, and you know who I see overwhelmingly and disproportionately on the front lines standing up against concentration camps? Trans people.

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For something completely different, qwhaet the FUCK is this??? Not sure what these eldritch horrors are, but they sure as shootin’ ain’t Bluey and Bingo. youtu.be/I0YWGgZBiYc?...

Book bans have already changed the conversation. Now some leaders are questioning whether libraries themselves deserve public funding. We explored this troubling shift & why defending the freedom to read means defending the libraries that make it possible www.freedomtoreadproject.org/beyond_book_...

My local community theaters have started using genAI. I’ve seen it for advertising (that I know of) and I hate this reality so. much. #BlockGenAI

The amount I won't be buying anything like this is all of it

Hi all. Carlos Ernesto Guerra Cruz, who is currently following the asylum process in the Denver area, was detained by ICE. His family is in desperate need of help, both to get legal assistance and to survive with the loss of his income. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

NEVER FORGET the debt we all owe to the Miccosukee Tribe, without whom it would still be open. And never forget that Indigenous sovereignty and all our safety and flourishing are forever intertwined.

An incredible euphemism here for “the government is doing illegal discrimination”

That's a whole lot of not products released by this company that only loses money.

Excuse me, they are RETIRING PUBLISHER???? What the EVERLOVING HELL, @microsoft.com!???!! One of the few relatively functional, dependable applications y’all had left. I guess it fits your new mission of enshittifying everything y’all make.

This is how I feel whenever other librarians say they use AI to generate book recs. Why would I outsource the fun part of my job to a plagiarism machine that’s going to make stuff up? #BlockGenAI #LibrariansAgainstAI

My friend gave me some jams, so I “If you give a mouse a cookie”d hard. #baking #adventuresinbaking

I just finished #Yaga yesterday and am so excited to see how they adapt it. Thankful that Heated Rivalry/Hudson got so big, because I might not have found out about it otherwise. It’s so sharp and weird and funny.

I haven't sold a book on Amazon since one copy of Frostburn on 2/17. If you'd like to boost my self-esteem, here are some options: Tikka Chance on Me books2read.com/u/mKKrNv Kick at the Darkness books2read.com/u/4Xrqqv Frostburn books2read.com/u/47aYWq Nobody's Bargain books2read.com/u/bxD0no

They were already blocked in the “Trump Enablers” list, but I reported them for violence—> human trafficking 😇

People of color > me on this so if they correct me, listen, but Say Her Name is reserved for Black, Brown, and Indigenous women BECAUSE they suffer state violence but will never be remembered the way Renee will. Renee died horribly. Her whiteness will guarantee a legacy women of color DO NOT GET.

The guy who first dressed as Portland Frog, a major symbol of our protest and then other national protests, has been arrested while peacefully protesting. Prints of this painting by Simran Gleason are being sold to support his defense. www.simrangleason.com/prints/p/por... #pdx #protest

"shitting on ai makes you sound like a Luddite" oh okay, thank you! Luddites were cool as hell

The financial instability of The NewsHour is a civic crisis. PBS’s flagship nightly news broadcast can’t fund a weekend broadcast or keep its last bureau — Phoenix — open.

Reading Ari Baran’s Delay of Game and they’re just bros! Who just really want to win a cup for their best buddy! And also maybe suck each other’s dicks for good luck! And just like. Keep it bros and not be weird! These oblivious sweet traumatized chuckleheads are making my heart hurt.

And just in a practical sense, don’t discount the mental health benefits of Doing Something. Just—and please listen to Grandma Liz here, who has been Doing Activism for a very long time—let go of the expectation of seeing results. This fight is endless. There are gains and losses. But it still helps

this is such an important thing to recognize and call out the fascism is mostly done being nice at this point, but it got here through well dressed men politely asking questions while the rest of us were scolded for pointing out where those questions led

The sleight of hand is getting people to agree that there are kinds of people who should be punished, surveilled, treated as lying or incompetent until they prove otherwise.

Statements like this? Are why minorities don't trust White people politics. Because it communicates that if the switch-up is juuuust right, you'll trade our interests for whatever you think is worth more. After all, "there are no permanent friends and no permanent enemies, only permanent interests."

I may never leave the cottage again. #HeatedRivalry

"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."

It. Doesn't. Actually. Understand. A. Single. Word. Of. What. It. Is. Fed. It just chops up sentences and calculates how often words follow each other. That's it. Nothing more. It can't summarize material for you because it doesn't understand that material.

I really do not care if the guy who has raped kids is from my political party. My moral philosophy is that you don't rape kids, and there is nothing you can do that earns you a get-out-of-raping-kids-free card.

The thing that really gets me is back in 2014 I think bigots in NC tried to pass a bathroom ban & it blew up in their faces & when these same people came back with "fairness in sports" too many people took them seriously when it was an obvious change in tactics!

Man the universe is wild. Same time one door shut another 'door' called us. We have an offer for a mini-van for 6k, if we can raise it ASAP. 🌠 Anyone wanna participate in a Wintermas miracle? 🕯️ A vehicle is the only chance we've got of making it. 0/$6,000 Will keep track nightly in this thread.

Thank you to everyone who called today. I know calling feels useless sometimes. But without these calls, even more Ds might have folded and the future would become even worse. This isn't the only way we fight, but these calls still matter.

A former immigration judge alleged to DOJ that Trump fired her bc of her sex & national origin DOJ said equal employment opportunity laws don't supersede Trump's removal powers under Article II this is literally a claim to constitutional power to discriminate ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

I'm not sure I've ever seen anything with a larger disconnect between the executive class and the general public than AI - there have been cases where executives want to push something they know is unpopular, but on AI it's like the backlash hasn't penetrated their bubble at all

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

Impeach him the second you get a majority, imo. Let this guy lay it all out.

YESSSS. I’ve been missing this — and the hater’s guide to Anthropologie’s $45 sticks or whatever — so so much since Gawker ended. Genuinely, thank you for your service @drewmagary.bsky.social. defector.com/the-2025-hat...