Friendly reminder that DuckDuckGo and firefox are both options for browsers/search engines. They even let you disable AI results and overview and DDG automatically searches in private mode. Just a thing that I was thinking about. time.com/article/2026...

Google Shifts to AI Search, Heralding Major Change in How People Use the Internet

The company's sweeping AI overhaul of Search could reshape how billions of people find information—and impact the publishers and businesses who depend on them.

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I'm participating in #kidlitforceasfire for the third year in a row. Please check out this fundraiser! All proceeds go directly to helping evacuate a family in Gaza. This year I'm donating 5 signed copies of Age of Defiance, but there are a bunch of great items www.32auctions.com/KidLit4Cease...

Third Annual #KidLit4Ceasefire Fundraiser

Silent auction 'Third Annual #KidLit4Ceasefire Fundraiser' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Two years of war and horror have left Sama'a exhausted and her family worn down. Even a small donation helps. chuffed.org/project/157569

Help Baha and his family rebuild their home and meet their d

Lying on my back feeling helpless and powerless, I decided to tell you my story from the beginning.

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🚨 GEORGE GALLOWAY: "The massacre of 167 girls, aged 7 to 12, at a school in Iran is the greatest atrocity committed by the U.S. since the Vietnam War." "It's the largest mass killing of schoolgirls ever recorded in world history." #iran #UnitedStates #Israel #australia #canada #eroupe #highlights

i wish our politics was more "this guy wants to enact this public transportation plan vs this guy who wants to this public transportation plan" and not "this guy wants to ignore all actual problems vs this guy who wants to put you in a concentration camp."

you have to be loudly pro-pornography and you have to never shut up about it. you have to become the "they want to take away your freedom of expression vis-à-vis cocks and boobs" person to everyone you know. i'm sorry to say it but it's just how it is right now

The most disturbing part is knowing ICE left a little girl alone and didn’t care. Annabella was six years old when her dad was detained by ICE while he was picking up their food order. She stayed inside, waiting. He never returned to her that day. 1/2

alysa liu!!!

Today we are launching a new intitative of Stand With Minnesota—KeepMNHoused.com, a rent-relief campaign backed with a $1.5 matching fund from the Wilson Foundation. Thousands of MN families are at risk of eviction because of the ICE occupation’s lasting impacts. We can keep them housed.

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

ACLU@aclu.org · 8mo ago

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

I cannot attend the function I am *sounds of something being devoured violently in the woods*

I’m going to be signing books at @allthetropesbooks.bsky.social on February 8th with 3 other very cool authors. Be sure to come by and see us #atl #booksky

I took a close look at the latest Department of Homeland Security AI use case inventory, which details over 200 applications across DHS component agencies, including CBP and ICE. DHS is rapidly deploying these tools in US cities, while increasingly engaging in violence and defying court orders.

DHS AI Surveillance Arsenal Grows as Agency Defies Courts

A Department of Homeland Security AI inventory contains details on new tools used by ICE and border patrol agents in Trump's deportation campaign.

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One small thing you can do today: ICE is ramping up in Maine. Food For All is delivering meals to 300 families that can't leave their homes. They need $7k a day to continue operations. The Culture Study community is raising enough to cover a day—join us? Donate directly: givebutter.com/Scx87A or

Food Delivered With Dignity

In the current environment we need to raise a $7,000 a day to sustain our operations

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I’m going to be signing books at @allthetropesbooks.bsky.social on February 8th with 3 other very cool authors. Be sure to come by and see us #atl #booksky

President Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum ordered content at national parks that “inappropriately disparage” the U.S. to be reviewed and potentially removed.

The slavery exhibits at the President’s House have been removed following Trump administration push

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Will you accept this Vampire for my February Postcard Club piece? ♥️😌

"There on the battlefield, where souls dance between this and that world, you might see them. The Death Collector."

As a wine mom-adjacent wine aunt I feel like admitting wine moms are terrifying bad asses that you're afraid of is just going to further embolden them

Kate Ross@kateross.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Ladies you “Zumba-ed” too hard!

Would someone who's read Riding Nerdy be interested in taking a look at the first few pages of book 2 and giving me some feedback about it?

If you're taking to the streets to protest, know your rights.

Today's In This City, Where it Rains blurb is from @clhellisen.bsky.social, brilliant author and artist, who also did the very cool moth art pictured!! Gothic horror novella out Feb 3rd from @lunapress.bsky.social! Order links etc: linktr.ee/lyndseycroal...

"The issues" are not immutable. Americans do not come out of the womb arguing about trans girls in Division III volleyball. The issues are what you make them. The issues are what you're loudest about. Create the conversation around these murderers' war crimes, don't equivocate, and don't let up.

Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 9mo ago

And, you can also change the narrative yourself, by leading the public. Public pressure absolutely moves politicians. Sitting around waiting for others to take this seriously is failing. Making something the story and making the public care about it is the job of a politician.

Both in Philly: Uncle Bobbie’s www.unclebobbies.com Harriett’s: www.oursisterbookshops.com

Uncle Bobbie's Coffee & Books | Independent and Black-owned bookstore | 5445 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19144, USA

Uncle Bobbie's is an indepedent and Black-owned Coffee Shop and Bookstore located in the heart of the Germantown section of Philadelphia. Cool People. Dope Books. Great Coffee.

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